>>48892247Naota meets a girl completely unlike anyone he's ever met before. The meeting complete knocks him head-over-heels, leaving him dazed and putting all kinds of strange thoughts into his head. He is forced into a fight between Haruko, who wants to iron his brain so that he'll stop thinking and go along with anything she says, and Amarao, who wants Naota to leave Haruko and have nothing to do with her.
The whole show is full of metaphors, if you want to look. Naota getting jealous of his father, thinking he'll steal Haruko away. Mami - the girl he initially liked - only interested in the "ideal" Naota, not caring about the regular him and instead in his older brother (older, suaver, rich, successful) or in Canti.
Heck, look at the entire baseball episode.