I can relate to.this comment to much
lol this is the perfect description!
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fax. usually I can't stand MCs with trash personalities. I usually drop after like 4~6 chapters. this, I'm genuinely enjoying
Also not only women his rizz work on guy too LMAOOOO
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And yet that's how you want the guys to be treated. Besides, the girls are just token strong. They are still your classic harem girls. Harem leads having a 2-in-1 harem and army is not new at all. Have seen the type several times before. This is copy paste traditional harem. The girls have no motivation other than getting into the guy's pants. They have no agency at all. They exist just to be in love with him. All their interactions with the MC are nothing but fanservice for those into hetero-romance. Just like his interaction with the guys is shameless fanservice for the BL crowd. Didn't think I'd say this but if I had to read a harem at all, I'd prefer the older heavily sexualised ones. At least, they were honest about what they were doing instead of acting holier than thou and pretending that your MC is better than those from the other harem while you are writing the exact same thing. Every moment of this story is just pure pandering to the fantasies of various sub-demographics that would follow a work like this.
Sure, the character concept was interesting. But in order to write a proper story, you have to trust that your audience can get over themselves and pay attention for longer than two pages. You have to slowly and patiently build up the world, have it make sense irrespective of the MC, and then put your MC in and write his story so that it is coherent with that of all other characters. But when all you are doing is fullfilling your cohort of 12 year old fanboys/fangirls' delusions of grandeur, of course, your first priority is going to be to come up with something that you can make the MC do or say that would make the audience go crazy and then write a situation which can serve as a stage for him.
I just got it. This isn't harem. This is reverse harem but everyone is gender swapped. This MC is exactly the kind of "I don't care about romance. But, I have guys going crazy for me and I love that. I'm gonna collect them all and relish the sexual tension with all of them but remember they are just my guy friends. I am so not like the other girls. I am so above all this sexual attraction and all. My relationships with all these guys that are in love with me is something more meaningful. I am not just playing hard to get. You must believe it because I say so. " MC that reverse harems have been loving more and more.
I don't have a great opinion of romance in general. Within that genre, I have less issues with harem compared to reverse harem because they tend to be more self aware of the two and don't take themselves too seriously. You can often laugh at their ridiculousless and you know that the author and the rest of the audience is right there with you.The latter on the other hand, especially their audience, seem to be convinced that they could seriously bring in a Pulitzer.
Definitely not something I would voluntarily choose to watch anymore, but if I was forced to pick one between these two options, I'd prefer traditional harem.
I cannot believe i enjoyed a scummy protagonist x harem but i really did. Harem mcs and this mc both look at their mls/fls as objects, but the difference is other harem narratives tend to value the sexual fantasy of the fl/ml (i.e. big boob type, small boob type, loli-bait type, shota-bait type, tan skin type) which as a woman, feels tiring and dehumanizing to see that so saturated, where as this mc values the fls strengths, achievements, potential and the narrative genuinely makes them feel strong/OP. Their clothing isnt overtly sexual or overly revealing.. it's normal even.
And i even feel that if the girls didnt initiate it, he wld genuinely accept them as platonic allies as long as it guarantees his safety. He unfortunately (/fortunately) suffers from W Rizz and he's like a bard from dnd rolling a 20 in charisma to charm the dragon.