Kids like the show because it has a young protagonist who fights using swords and gets girls.
Adults don't like the because it's cliché and doesn't make sense.
Then there's me. I think the author of the manga hates the kind of people who would wait in line for days just to get a new game. The author avatar MMO designer designed a game which that kind of no-life, socially inept, overweight, weak loser would be terrible at: one where they were actually in the game with their real bodies. Then he trapped 5000 in there to die. The MC and his girlfriend are fairly normal, and have other reasons for wanting to spend their time away from real life. That's why they ended up doing well.
So it's actually social commentary on the type of people who play Red.
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