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To be fair though, their world, or rather the continent(?) country(?) they live in is primarily into legalized slavery, it's not a surprise that most of the characters will brush with the concept since it's a key part of their culture.Runey don't mistake any of this with being a hater, I like Harem Hotel, but I would like to get some clarification on a couple of things you said.
It seems weird to me that you say the story is not about slavery but all the main characters except F&E have direct ties to the overall slavery story focus. Lin is obvious; as is Maria; Ashley is looking for a slave that impacted her life; Autumn is in line to be the new 'pope' of her religion that seems to be instrumental in the elf slavery; Kali's story line focuses on her father who is making slave 2.0 from the elf slaves; lastly Android is a robot that are effectively a slave that is making a new race of robots (I wager that's going to intersect with Kali's storyline). This is not including 5/9 side characters and other reoccurring characters that are also involved in the slavery focus.
Right now it seems like the better way to encapsulate the overarching story would be "Changing the world by getting rid of slavery". But that's still a story about slavery.
I guess in the next few updates we could discover that there was an error and Maria is not a half-elf, Ashley imagined Mrs Rin, Autumn's story line never goes into the slavery aspect (which would be kinda plot-holy), Kali's dad's elf 2.0 project fails and we don't get the whole "are robots slaves" direction for Android, but that would be a really weird overall direction.
But I think Lin is the key story of slavery here. While Ashley is looking for her slave "mom", her core story is about her struggles as a poor kid and her depression, like Kali's is about her being born a rich girl and the responsibility that comes with that, and the Twin Clones being about, like Runey, said, Greed.
Most of F&E's scenes aren't slavery, they're about them always fighting over you. And Shir-01 (android, sorry it's just I named her and it's easy to forget it's a custom named character), is about her existence, while the questions of elf slavery and human acceptance comes into play, it's still mainly about her being a new species and how she'll be treated while using humans' treatment of elves as comparison for what her fate might be.
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