- Feb 26, 2021
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I'm not sure why a struggle has to involve male competition.A lot of my opinions are well received, but sometimes I can totally MISS THE MARK. This post I made was totally disliked:
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I'm thinking that overcoming some struggle, to get the girl, would make things more interesting? If the struggle shouldn't be male competition, then what trials and obstacles should the Harem lover have to go through, in order to get the girl?
Are you Harem lovers down for male competition, or can you do without it?
There's this game called Corruption; you go around mind controlling the women, but you're essentially eliminating your competition through mind control, so there is actually some kind of male competition, in some small degree. You've acquired a great power over competing males, and you get the women that way.
Do you want to be challenged in order to get a full blown Harem? If so, in what ways? If not, then you want a more relaxed setting?
I personally prefer male competition, but without seeing male faces. They're just there as meaningful obstacles that will make the reward sweeter.
A harem in and of itself is an extraordinary situation. I generally like stories where the MC helps the women through tough situations or saves their life. A lot of isekei anime has the MC like buying slave girls that are fodder for creeper dudes or corrupt cults/evil organizations. But that's not really male competition to me.
Male competition is more like MC is, say a gentle soul and his competition is more athletic so MC has to train and prove to the girls he's an alpha - yeah I'm not interested in that.
I'm not really into creepy shit like mind control, but probably an option for "helpful" mind control would be interesting. For example, hypnosis was experimented with to treat people addicted to smoking. So like - hypnosis to make a person less inclined to be an ass.
I think the main appeal of a harem for me is an MC who can help and provide for the people he cares about. Either financially, physically, magically, whatever. He doesn't have to be The Chosen One but being at least mostly chad goes a long way.
MC's who are afraid of girls, get flustered all the time like a 12 year old who think girls have cooties, or gets bullied - no bueno.
MC's who are clueless that a girl likes them or are totally unaware of a dangerous situation that they should plainly be aware of - no bueno.
Mary Sue MC's - no bueno. The girls and other characters should all bring something interesting to the story, not everything has to be solved by the MC.
By the way, it's not only male competition that I prefer to avoid - it's also female. I don't ever want to be a third wheel to a girl/girl relationship. It's odd porn logic that a female relationship "doesn't count" the same way a male one does. They're different, but not that different. The human ego likes to be #1 - so all participants in a relationship need to feel like they're important.