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1 - You CAN state your opinion (and anyone can disagree with it), and you can even tell fat people how they should feel about this or that (something you DID), but freedom of speech also means I can disagree with you and point out that you are not the world wide referee for fat people subjects, even if you feel entitled to be it. On the same way that's not my place as a "white" male how non-white women should feel about racism and sexism, even because not everyone from those groups will agree on what is or isn't problematic. Once you do that you are always silencing the own group's thought of it. And please, don't compare comedy videos featuring fat people to domestic violence.
2 - The PV message would be "being fat is not ok" is the girl wasn't fat anymore when it ended and she got the guy... She was still fat, just better dressed, more confident on herself and acting less ackward. This is actually very, VERY common (and very common in Japan with the whole otaku subculture): A person that can't really socialize or date someone because they have poor social skills and blame their appearence on it.
3 - And nops, you don't know how is it like to be a fat person because you were called fat once or twice on the same way I don't know how is it like to suffer with sexism because I was sexual harrassed once or twice (and yeap, I was, 2 weeks ago the last time). Once people start looking disgusted at you in public, once you can't buy clothes because stores don't sell stuff that fit your body, once strangers bash and bully you based on what are you eating, once someone you are not even interested in tells you "if you lose 2 or 3 kg I would date you", once those stuff happens to you daily or almost daily, you don't know how is it to be discriminated against for being fat.
4 - Again: The "acting weird" thing (that is just overacting) is very common in japanese humour, the facial expressions and poses the girl did during the video aren't that different from japanese comedy shows or humour scenes on animes and mangas.
5 - Even if the PV is based on sitcoms and rom-coms, it still is a japanese produced by and for japanese people, and this can't be ignored just because you feel entitled to ignore cultural context. Unlike American (and now European) culture, Japanese culture don't believe on the "you are born special" thing, they believe effort is the only way to get your way (and that's why I compared Superman to Goku). The girl on the video isn't just some "fat and beautiful special snow flake", she needs to get out of her confort zone to get the confidence to go after the guy she likes. It's pretty clear on the video she started exercizing to get "fit and beautiful" for the guy, but she gets confident enough to do it without losing weight.
6 - Starting a character as a strawman for easy laughts and flashing them out with the advancement of the narrative to make them sympathetic, likeable and releatable is a common narrative structure. The girl, who starts lazy and sedentary gets the viewer cheering for her more and more as she overcome her obstacles and stop caring about changing for the love of others and starts loving herself. You can take the "bad" parts out of the video context all you want, they are still part of a narrative, they still go from point A to point B, and you can't analyse the video intention ignoring either point A or B.
And I'm not saying your opinion is irrelevant, I'm saying you are not spokeperson for fat people and has no right to tell them/us how to feel about anything on the same way I have no right to tell women how they should feel about this or that. Limit yourself to state your opinions as opinions.
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