YMMV / JK Haru is a Sex Worker in Another World

• Diagnosed by the Audience: Chiba seems to lack the ability to actually empathize with other people, and treats them more as props in his life than as people in their own right. In the manga, he rants endlessly about anime at length, and doesn't notice Haru's bare minimum of interest as part of her profession.
• Shallow Parody: The story attempts to mock a common type of isekai story for the male demographic—that is, the adventurer isekai—but the setting and characters bear only a superficial resemblance to most tropes that the satire doesn't work as well as it wants to:
  • Narrative purpose aside, most Isekai settings do not explicitly glorify cultures that subjugate women and often have the main character or allies speaking out against vile treatment; or, if they are obligated to participate in morally questionable practices, the main characters will try to be as "good" as the position will allow. Haru's observation that her new world isn't fair to women is something that many Isekai protagonists point out themselves.
  • In a lot of Isekai settings, women are often both physically and politically powerful. This does often serve the narrative purpose of having such women fall for the protagonist and make him look better, but it is still very different from the situation in JK Haru.
  • Chiba's entitled attitude is meant to represent the worst type of Otaku, but his desperate pursuit of Haru, who he knows to be a prostitute, is odd. Otaku culture glorifies purity and loyalty in women while condemning any deviation from this ideal. So Chiba, who could be with any woman he wants, would be expected to reject any contact with such an "impure" woman. The Madonna-Whore Complex is criticized in the story, but through other characters.
  • While Chiba is parodying isekai protagonists, he is closer in role to an isekai side character; in particular, he resembles the "entitled Isekaijin" archetype that often pops up in more self-aware works in the medium, such as Motoyasu from The Rising of the Shield Hero or Heronia Inderon of An Observation Log of My Fiancée Who Calls Herself a Villainess, who often embody all of the criticisms normal readers would have with isekai main characters without the actual focus reincarnator of the work having those flaws themselves (or not having them as unsubtle as this character would). Even if it were an isekai that wasn't satirizing the genre, he would still be an annoying, entitled foil to the main character to make them look better.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: The vast majority of Haru's problems are caused by Haru herself. Being the narrator, she never really acknowledges them, preferring to focus on the faults of others so she doesn't have to acknowledge her own. Most, if not all of her underdog status is gone after it's revealed that she had cheats since the beginning, and knew about it all along. This means that in retrospect, Haru could have improved her own life or the world around her with the immense power she has been given, but never tried to do that until after Shequeraso got raped to death.