It wouldn't surprise me, although that means they're reading/viewing a series past their pay grade, so to speak.

It does to a degree explain for their illogical and immoral reasoning as wel as the animosity towards Yuka that they often display.

A most impressive feat. Alas not in a good way.

Indeed. And the stuff they make up on fics turns my stomach.

Looks like you too have problem children! (yk)

I'm almost too afraid to ask but got any examples?

I recall one that might've been the way Gohan describes.

It started out alright, with the intriguing premise that adult Kouta gets to go back in time and save the pup. It actually had some cleverness, like when Kouta opposes the bullies with adult tactics and thinking (as opposed to the way a child would fight, angry and panicked) and pulls back when he realizes he is actually hurting them. Kaede is instantly grateful, even naming the pup Kouta. Then it goes off the rails. Kouta wants to stay in Kamakura, to which his father agrees and even offers money to help put him up while the family returns to Hokkaido. Later, despairing of Kouta's closeness to Kaede, young Yuka drowns herself, which I wasn't sure was a 'get rid of Yuka' moment or a 'time travel has consequences' moment. I know kids have more unchecked free time in Japan, but I just couldn't see Kouta's father being quite that accommodating. Again, the author might have intended something well-thought out, but that one concept took me out of the story.

Another one, likely just the author biting off more than they could chew, involved Kouta being replaced by young Peter Parker. It never went past the first few chapters.

Indeed. Such story went down the rail very quickly, to the point the author rebooted the story altogether.

Glad to hear that, sorry for them. I had forgotten another story-killer. When a school official found out what was going on, she was exceedingly kind to Kaede and wanted the pup 'adopted' by the whole school. NO. Not when so much of the premise was bound up in the cruelty she found there, with no indication this official was taking a risk by doing these nice things.