Show is fun (so far? can it be for a whole cours?), with an amusing application of Tetsuya Takeuchi's animation philosophy. Being written by an Old nerd means that they can tell this whole Villainess genre is kinda made up, but it knows where it actually pulls from with the bleeped explanation

The contrast in this case doesn't come from someone trying too hard - if anything, the protagonist is a very earnest middle-aged man. But watching a modest nerd move with so much swag and then place him in control of a pompous ojousama is the same type of funny mismatch they already animated before