Apologies if this sounds dumb I'm not an anime expert. I saw this post and checked out Ragna crimson.

Now I overall like it(after 2 episodes) but there a couple things that left me a bit confused.

1 - what's up with the head patting in the first episode and generally this kind of hyper infantilized Leo? I've never met a 12yo that acts like that, I understand this is fiction but what is the point exactly? Should I feel endeared? Because it did the opposite, creeped me the fuck out. Is there a name for this? (so maybe I can avoid it in the future)

2 - the whole discussion about getting more power, I feel it's a recurrent theme in the few anime I watched and I already thought it was cringe when goku was doing it in Dbz.. I would have expected this to be gone after more than 20 years.. Do Japanese people feel... Powerless? Like it's that a thing?

Thank you