Pathetic MCs

- sickly as a child
- still a hermit even after recovery

- virgin + late bloomer
- falls in love with girls who are already taken

- lone survivor of a family suicide
- left to deal with millions of dollars of debt
- prostitutes himself
- gang-raped
- eventually "bought" in the end

CH 1-3: "Illumination"
- hasn't had sex in sixteen months
- hobby is drinking alone
- has a crush on his male childhood friend, despite being straight(?)
- gets involved with a one-night-stand, who tells the childhood friend about it
- thinks personal relationships are a hassle

- he and his mother get exiled from the village for having telepathy
- forced to wrap his hands until he becomes normal
- mother dies, leaving him alone
- returns to the village, gets shooed out
- then gets captured and used as a human sacrifice

- 26 year old virgin
- focused entirely on academic achievement at the detriment of socialization
- virtual shut-in + no friends + disliked
- pathologically shy + gullible
- accidentally goes to a gay parlor and falls in love with a host

- lazy + no life skills + good-for-nothing
- otaku
- no friends + low communication skills
- shitty novelist + hands in work late
- negative + troublesome
- 27 year old virgin

- a pitiful gay 29 year old virgin with no relationship experience
- unattractive + bland + timid
- gets caught masturbating with a police officer's shirt

- 26 year old gay virgin
- beaten up and outted by his crush in high school; bullied until graduation
- obsesses over gay porn star
- blackmailed by look-alike coworker
- socially inept + pitiful + mumble
- disliked by co-workers
- no friends

- attempts suicide, but is almost immediately persuaded out of it
- heartbroken
- outted as gay and bullied by classmates
- loses virginity to a 40 year old man