I really don’t like harem anime. Not only because most of them are the same with barely any variation (bland nice guy protag gets a bunch of girls interested purely for the fact that he is a Nice Guy, cue shenanigans and/or panty shots), but mostly cause the primary conceit of all of these shows is that all these women have literally nothing better to do with their lives and free time other then lusting over this bland dudes dick.
And don’t give me crap that it’s actually about “love” or whatever, the illusion these shows are selling is: “Hey you! Even if you’re terribly bland and have no outstanding skill or personality traits, chances are a lot of girls will want to fuck you!” Every single one, every single time.
It’s demeaning to the females characters on the show, implying that, again, they have no greater aspirations then to “get dat D”, it’s demeaning to the audience, and it’s just fucking stupid any way.
Not too mention 99% percent of these shows don’t have the balls to actually go anywhere beyond the realm of the “accidental boob grab”, I mean come on! If you’re going to be a shameless male fantasy, go whole hog with it!
Like, say what you want about High school DXD and Monster Musume, at least those two shows know what they are and use it to their advantage. Like, DXD has a protag with an actual personality, he’s loud, he’s brash, he’s a shameless pervert, plus he’s really smart, and the kind of women he meets would probably be attracted to one of those traits or another. Plus! He’s a male teenager with a personality that would make sense for a horny little asshole like him, it fits him and makes him interesting to watch and relate too far more then any vanilla low carb fuckstick self insert “audience surrogate” ever could be.
And Monster Musume goes all the way with it’s fanservice, to the point where it’s actually a little funny sometimes, plus there’s some interesting world building regarding the monster girls and their biology…kinda.
So, yeah, don’t care for harem shows…or harem fics for that matter, just give me one relationship to focus on thank you, quality over quantity after all -_-