YMMV / If It’s for My Daughter, I’d Even Defeat a Demon Lord

• Audience-Alienating Ending: Many western fans were outraged that the series ends in a similar manner to the equally infamous Bunny Drop with Dale marrying a grown up Latina. These fans hated the ending since they originally enjoyed the series for a being a cute story of a hero bonding with a little girl he sees as his adopted daughter but got disgusted that it turned into a Wife Husbandry story where Latina suddenly says she never saw Dale as a father figure but as a love interest. The novel's handling of this development— that nobody treats Dale as Latina's primary caretaker even when young, Dale becoming immortal to match her lifespan and Latina being much older than she looks— did little to please these fans. Because of this, most fans recommend to only watch the anime, as, much like the Bunny Drop anime, it stops after volume 3 and thus avoids the squicky ending entirely.
• Catharsis Factor: Fans cheered when Dale goes out of his way to defend Latina from her Sadist Teacher to the point that he had her not only fired, but also excommunicated.
• Memetic Mutation: Reverse grooming. Among western fans, the joke goes around that Latina was molding Dale from a pseudo parental figure to her husband, not the other way around.

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