the conducting of his vengeful schemes against them. Oh no, we gotta have this freak, who is obsessed with the jekyll and hyde juxtaposition of our main character thus implying we're supposed to make the same connection. Which is kind of over-assuming, don't you think?
For a character like Joro, I think it's much more logical for him to shift to this "bag the spare" plan than to have come up with a complex vengeance scheme. (As he sort of eludes to in his one-sentence consideration of "revenge," the best he would probably do is be mean to the girls, let them know how little he thinks of them.
Now, there's always the chance that the rest of the show turns into a cat-and-mouse battle of wits between Joro's machinations and Stalkbrarian's machinations. I'm not super-hopeful for it, but...could happen.
I mean, at this point, I don't think I have any clue what this show is going to be about. So...maybe it will.
But to your other point about Jekyll/Hyde: 100% agreement. It's such an unnecessary reference--not to make off-hand, like when she finally gets him to drop his facade ("I want to talk to Mr. Hyde" is a good line, in my opinion), but to have it so obviously be a kind of framing of his character is overwrought. Because, no, I didn't jump to "He's like two separate peeeeeeople!!!" when he showed his true colors. If he were more two-faced, I wouldn't say, "Wow, he's just like the Roman god Janus!!!" I would just say, "Geez, he's two-faced, huh?" He's a misanthropic douche who is selfishly posing a nice guy to get a girl to like him. You don't need to get highfalutin about calling him such. He's utterly recognizable as a character without invoking literary canon.
This author's portrayal of women is just the worst so far.
Is it? Himawari and Cosmos are character archetypes who are basically just narrative devices, at the moment. You said they're stupid, but I didn't find them to be anything particularly more than exaggeratedly awkward for comic effect. It's trope-y, as people are fond of calling it, but I don't think it's anything to write home about when Sun is in a similar camp: little more than a narrative device (for now).
And then there's Joro and Stalkbrarian, who are two sides of the same a**hole coin.
Is anyone coming out looking good, so far?
But what makes this actually poor writing here is the fact that both of their sequences being set up with tall blonde sports-kun, are identical, and that's just uncreative and not really that clever, unlike the rest of the show.
I'm not quite ready to throw it into the "bad writing" category, just yet. But the author is treading on veeeeery rough ground with the repetition. I've mentioned it already, so I'll just paraphrase, here: it's either an instance of being too cutesy, or it's indicative of a larger problem with the overall writing.
I'm hoping it's just a running gag that overstays its welcome (because of bad execution) rather than a sign of the level of storytelling prowess we can expect from the author.
I think sports-kun is more smarter than he lets on.
Oh, buddy...that grammar...
(Sorry--I just found it hard to resist pointing out in a sentence that is literally about being smart.)
But to your theory: I would be absolutely shocked if that turned out to be true.
Now, it's possible that, because this was at the start of the first episode, this is another thing we, via Joro, are meant to misinterpret (because it looks like he's just hinting that Himawari likes Joro), but I have a hard time suspecting Sun of being any kind of strategic manipulator, here.
I suppose he could be part of Stalkbrarian's plan, a secret conspirator hoping to help them get together, but...he'd have to turn out to be a real prick, too, if that was the case. One way or another, whether he's screwing over his supposed best friend or toying with Himawari and Cosmos, he's being needlessly mean to someone for...some kind of selfish goal, I assume.
But, like I said before, I haven't got a clue where this is going. So...maybe!