Ranma 1/2 never stood a chance
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Well, the Japanese have double-standards in fiction too.
Men getting unnecessarily abused for comedic effect was typical in Takahashi's pre-Rinne works. Actually, I would think that's the case for a lot of shounen/seinen gag manga that have some lewd sprinkled throughout.
Ranma was particularly bad about it with her. And with it being the big named cliched harem series everyone copied it reached its ultimate head with Love Hina was is nearly unwatchable with the extent it goes with Naru.
Its pretty typical across the genre in general, but Akane is one of the examples where its an already extreme case made more blatant because the series is 95% filler and as such she never changes or cuts back on it.
It would be like if in Inuyasha, Kagome continued to use the cursed Sit command for the entire series as much as she does in the initial dozen episodes. As she doesn't, it does seem even Takahashi realized you can't keep that same dynamic going forever, regardless of both series having little other plot development.
I would say that LH is Akamatsu-sensei's worst work, but I haven't read UQ-Holder yet to make that call. (AI was underdeveloped story-wise, Negima was good)
Negima was good, though the cast was a little too large and it felt a lot of them got less time than deserved. I haven't seen his other stuff to have an opinion.
Love Hina is just a particularly egregious thing because of the sheer extreme it goes to with the "man breathes, the girl who 'loves him secretly' breaks his fucking spine." So much so that the only thing seperating it from Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro, a series made to parody that exact thing with over the top violence, is the lack of gore.
And unfortunately the reverberations of Love Hina are still felt in most harems, and plenty of regular shows too. Naruto being a famous example of trying to pull it off with Sakura, but people being so sick of it that they literally bullied the author into picking a different girl in the end.
Hinata is best girl and her relationship with Naruto purified Nanashi's (of Nagatoro fame) pitch-black soul, so it's a net positive.