anime

it looked bad

It was pretty bad

I want to compile a big spread sheet with every one of these animes

Have a column for the hair color and personality of each main heroine

The number of members of in the harem

Whether or not the sister is in the harem

If there is that quite girl short girl with blue hair or not

If the mc is openly op or some secret op mc who hides his power

Is it a normal magic highschool or an all girls highschool

Is there a blonde/white haired best friend but also rival to the heroine who also kisses the mc before ep 3

Etc

is the main girl a princess/high noble

Of course

Is the mc a royal of another nation or heir of some powerful, or are they like some peasant who was just blessed with opness and harems

I make the sheet public so you all can add to it

what's the minimum amount of girls needed for it to be a harem

4 or more?

does the ratio between guys/girls also impact the amount of girls needed

I'd say 3

Two is just a love rivalry

Usually when there are three or more it's a he fucks all of them sorta thing

Actually one exception

If it is 3 but one is a sister

That doesn't count

but the girls all have to 100% wanna fuck him for it to count, right?

Has to have at least two non relatives that want to fuck him

Eh

There can be platonic members of the harem

The shy childish friend that just wants to support the mc but is unknowingly lewd with them and it makes the rest of the harem jealous

so what about shows like oregairu and toradora where it's obvious it's only really about one guy and one girl, but 2 other girls also try to get in there

do those count

There is most often a heroine that is obviously the actual love interest

If they actually get involved sure

But if not then not

It's vague

Variety is hard

I wish they were all direct copy pastes

Then this would be easy haha

do the girls have to actually fight over the guy or not by the way

because if not then i guess toradora doesn't really count because they're more trying to sacrifice their own chances at love with the mc to help the other

even though they all want him

I would not call toradora a harem

Yeah

probably similar to oregairu not really sure

Thats just a love triangle or love square now

yeah

The topology is important

Harem are like love stars

i can't wait to see what your sheet reveals about all the similarities

there has to be way too many to count

They are all the same

I know

There are tons of shows

Some may be a stretch

twintails is almost always the tsundere

Irregular at magic highschool

Sao

Kinda fits

sao has its harem moments

but isn't specifically about that

iirc

Also all the 48 episode plus long ones that are more eof shonen trash then harem trash

i didn't watch much of that show tbh

yeah shonens don't really count

They have magic highschool shonens

But usually don't have harems

I don't like shonens like at all so I don't usually watch those

But I know they exist

i think shonens are more love triangle-y than harem

like there's obviously going to be enough characters that all want to fuck the mc

but only like few that matter

For sure

We have to focus on the magic highschool harem trash

this is what i wanted to be having a conversation about at the start of a weekend

Here's my problem with most psuedo-harems

The 1st girl is always trash

Or at least isn't as good as other girls

And if they only end up with 1, it's never satisfying

It's a genre built to blue-ball you