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Oct 22, 2017 4:02 PM
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Hey guys, does anyone else think that a harem goes to a point where there are TOO many partners for the main protagonist to mingle with? Need to ask for a friend. :D
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Oct 22, 2017 4:03 PM
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Yes, after three I get really annoyed.





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Oct 22, 2017 4:04 PM
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>Need to ask for a friend. :D
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sure lol

to give you a benefit of the doubt, no fiction like anime is unlimited
Oct 22, 2017 4:04 PM
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5's the limit, 6 becomes excessive.
Oct 22, 2017 4:06 PM
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Well, if you are talking irl harem then yes. There is a limit. In anime as well but it depends on the author.
Oct 22, 2017 4:07 PM
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Ask Rito Yuuki that lol. The say that three is a crowd, though.
Oct 22, 2017 5:04 PM
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If they can pull it off, then I wouldn't put a ceiling number. It's just a matter of actually pulling it off and making sure none of the girls are left off to the side too much.

I think 6 or 7 would be a good upper limit in most cases, and 3 is probably the absolute ground floor for what could even constitute a harem to begin with so I'd usually want a bit more than 3.

Oct 22, 2017 5:11 PM
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Well if you are having thoughts about how many girls you can cram in one anime just look at this one, and tell me how many did you count...


Oct 22, 2017 5:11 PM
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If every single creature with a vagina isn't in the main character's harem, I feel revolted tbh.
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Oct 22, 2017 5:12 PM

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As someone who loves harem anime I doubt think I ever said to myself man that show got too many bitches in it. But I guess harem authors know to not over do it.
Oct 22, 2017 5:16 PM

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to love ru :D the ending is annoying tho
Oct 22, 2017 5:20 PM

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In anime, a harem is just 3 or more having romantic feelings towards the same person. There is no limit to how many more than 3.

The only limit would be in how many episodes in the series, and how well the story fleshes out all the individual relationships with the harem.
There could be 100 in a harem, but if you can't flesh out all 100 relationships in 12/24/whatever episodes, then there are too many in the harem for that story/series.
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One is the limit. Harem's are stupid. If there's one main partner and then other characters who are also attracted to the MC I'll understand, but if there's a bunch of girls trying equally hard to fuck the MC, then the show is just unrealistic and stupid. If the story is good or if it's the trashy show of the season that everyone's watching ironically, I'll watch a harem, otherwise, it's a waste of time.
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hArEmS nEvEr NeEd Or HaVe A lImIt My DuDe
Oct 22, 2017 5:53 PM

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The limit is when every child born in the next generation has your DNA.

That said, for a story, anything past 2 love interests is probably struggling to get decent screentime and proper development/maintainence of relationship for characters.
I'm not a lolicon, you're just projecting your tendency to lewd 2D characters.

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I believe harems are mostly for lonely people, why would you ever watch anything so shallow(like To Love Ru or whatever), are you like 12? Most harems tend to have girls with 0 personality, if you want to watch anything with interesting girls, just watch Orange Is The New Black.
Oct 22, 2017 6:47 PM

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To quote Katte ni Kaizou, if you go far enough, no one can say anything.
Oct 22, 2017 6:48 PM

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Ehhh, IMO idc long its still good. It doesnt bother me, im not picky
Oct 22, 2017 6:51 PM

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June10 said:
I believe harems are mostly for lonely people, why would you ever watch anything so shallow(like To Love Ru or whatever), are you like 12? Most harems tend to have girls with 0 personality, if you want to watch anything with interesting girls, just watch Orange Is The New Black.
Tbh brother, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. Some peoples feeling might have been affected by your careless words. :/
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AlphaPredator said:
June10 said:
I believe harems are mostly for lonely people, why would you ever watch anything so shallow(like To Love Ru or whatever), are you like 12? Most harems tend to have girls with 0 personality, if you want to watch anything with interesting girls, just watch Orange Is The New Black.
Tbh brother, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all

I'm just saying my opinion bro, nothing wrong with expressing myself. If you're insulted, it's your problem, not mine.
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June10 said:
AlphaPredator said:
Tbh brother, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all

I'm just saying my opinion bro, nothing wrong with expressing myself. If you're insulted, it's your problem, not mine.
Hey, are you picking a fight with me brother?
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June10 said:

I'm just saying my opinion bro, nothing wrong with expressing myself. If you're insulted, it's your problem, not mine.

So does this mean I have the green light to call people who complain about harems being shallow try-hard intellectuals insincerely demanding depth they probably don't understand to compensate for a lack of self-confidence in their own intellect?

Oct 22, 2017 6:57 PM

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according to islam, 72 is the limit xD
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Manaban said:
June10 said:

I'm just saying my opinion bro, nothing wrong with expressing myself. If you're insulted, it's your problem, not mine.

So does this mean I have the green light to call people who complain about harems being shallow try-hard intellectuals insincerely demanding depth they probably don't understand to compensate for a lack of self-confidence in their own intellect?
Excuse me sir, i don't really understand what is going on here but can you please calm down. We are civilised individuals
Oct 22, 2017 7:03 PM
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Monogatari would be a good example for having a ton of members and "PLOT" while still having a compelling plot
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AlphaPredator said:
Manaban said:

So does this mean I have the green light to call people who complain about harems being shallow try-hard intellectuals insincerely demanding depth they probably don't understand to compensate for a lack of self-confidence in their own intellect?
Excuse me sir, i don't really understand what is going on here but can you please calm down. We are civilised individuals

absolutely not, we're on AD

there is no being civilized, only this:


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June10 said:
I believe harems are mostly for lonely people, why would you ever watch anything so shallow(like To Love Ru or whatever), are you like 12? Most harems tend to have girls with 0 personality, if you want to watch anything with interesting girls, just watch Orange Is The New Black.


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Gather round children. I will tell you the tale of Kentaro Yabuki, who was most heinously NTR'd by his whore of a wife.

There is this person called Nakamura Ine who is quite famous on the Nico Nico website (a large Japanese online community somewhat like Youtube), who turned out to be a minor (last year in high school) and also insinuated that he has something going on with a Kashiwagi Shiho.

- Now this Shiho was the wife of Yabuki Kentaro, the author of To-Love-Ru. She met Yabuki when he was looking for assistants, seduced him and ended up becoming his wife and gave birth to a daughter.

- But she hardly did any house work, neglected her daughter, and spent most of her days in front of a computer spending time in Nico Nico etc.

- January 2009, when Yabuki was sick with flu and bedridden, she kidnapped her own daughter and disappeared, and it turned out that she left her daughter at her parents' place while she was doing this and that with Ine.

in a nut shell:
Essentially, he had to end the manga to prevent his ex-wife from making a third custody and money grab for his daughter, after she illegally wiped his bank accounts out, stole the laptop he used to create the manga, and blackmailed him for custody of his own daughter after kidnapping her. Even now she is claiming rights to the Haruna character and all profit made from the anime, manga, and merchandise.


Not to mention she cheated on him on multiple occasions and using yabuki's credit card etc for her expense, leaving their daughters in the house while going out with her "boyfriend", and later after she was discovered cheating by yabuki, she demand those absurd claims

crazy i know

- February 2009, Yabuki 'begged' Shiho to return for the sake of their daughter, and Shiho did return to Tokyo, but few days later she dropped out once again with the girl, this time taking a notebook computer and Yabuki's credit cards. Yabuki later stopped the cards, but a large sum of money was already taken out.

- Yabuki looked for them everywhere, but to no avail. March 2009, Shiho demanded a divorce on the grounds of personality clash and a large chunk of Yabuki's assets, but when the evidence of her infidelity was discovered on her computer, she then changed her stance and demanded money in exchange for the custody right of the daughter.

- Realizing it would take over a year to settle things, Yabuki accepted her conditions and got the daughter back.

- Haruna Sairenji was based on Kashiwagi Shiho, and there is a reason why her role was reduced dramatically since volume 13, and Yui getting more prominent. And apparently Shiho has sued/demanded more money for the character of Haruna recently.

- A comment of Yabuki's while this was all happening:
[While I was working hard on a manga that was focused on taking young girls' panties off, another man was taking my wife's panties off.]

- Following the dispute over Haruna's character right, Yabuki feared his daughter getting hurt by all the debacle, so he accepted Shiho's demand yet again and ended the series prematurely.
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AlphaPredator said:
Hey guys, does anyone else think that a harem goes to a point where there are TOO many partners for the main protagonist to mingle with? Need to ask for a friend. :D
Honestly bro, as a Mormon I have like 62 wives and trust me its a hard life. So I would say go watch actual good romance film like The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (2011). Good day my man
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AlphaPredator said:
Hey guys, does anyone else think that a harem goes to a point where there are TOO many partners for the main protagonist to mingle with? Need to ask for a friend. :D
Honestly bro, as a Mormon I have like 62 wives and trust me its a hard life. So I would say go watch actual good romance film like The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (2011). Good day my man
Brother, how hard is it in actuallity though?
Oct 22, 2017 7:14 PM

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Imho, one person is the limit #teammonogamy
Oct 22, 2017 7:17 PM
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no, the more girls, the more potential fap material, the dude is irrelevant
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no, the more girls, the more potential fap material, the dude is irrelevant
Hi brother, you have a very simple yet effective standpoint about my question
Oct 22, 2017 7:24 PM
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The Mc's bank account. Remember these are guys that spend $200 on a girl they are not even going out with.
Oct 22, 2017 7:45 PM
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AlphaPredator said:
EcchiKingMamster said:
no, the more girls, the more potential fap material, the dude is irrelevant
Hi brother, you have a very simple yet effective standpoint about my question


i just lol'd irl, that i do..

your signature is disturbing xD
Oct 22, 2017 7:48 PM
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Does your friend need this information for an animu test?
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Valaskjalf said:
according to islam, 72 is the limit xD

It is as long as you can treat all of them equally. Also only 4 wives at a time. If they want more then they will have to divorce one. Pl
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according to islam, 72 is the limit xD
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Does your friend need this information for an animu test?
My friend actually needs this information for a visual novel he is trying to create.
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AlphaPredator said:
xFiremimix said:
Does your friend need this information for an animu test?
My friend actually needs this information for a visual novel he is trying to create.


Oh. Is that true? Cool.

I think the typical limit is 5 (if we are talking about vn games).
Oct 22, 2017 8:27 PM

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No, especially if they end up with all of them in a believable scenario then it gets bonus credit.
Oct 22, 2017 9:02 PM

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I don't really mind as long I don't find any of them annoying. It can be countless for all I care, but as long it isn't annoying, its fine for me at least.



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Hell no. There are no limits to pleasure XD
Oct 23, 2017 12:47 AM

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There is no limit, but I would say about 15 or there will be too many characters(not just harem member). as long as every girls are different and there are enough episodes for them, that's okay to introduce more. Like TWGOK and Tolove. But if an anime try to introduce 10 harem member in like 12 episode, it probably flops.
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If every single creature with a vagina isn't in the main character's harem, I feel revolted tbh.


Another dumb harem fan who thinks all the girls have to fall in love with the MC. This is why harem is trash.
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According to my boy, Kamijou Touman, there is isn't:

Remember there are too about 10.000 Misaka clones

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To quote Katte ni Kaizou, if you go far enough, no one can say anything.
This too.
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June10 said:
I believe harems are mostly for lonely people, why would you ever watch anything so shallow(like To Love Ru or whatever), are you like 12? Most harems tend to have girls with 0 personality, if you want to watch anything with interesting girls, just watch Orange Is The New Black.


ahem...
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Gather round children. I will tell you the tale of Kentaro Yabuki, who was most heinously NTR'd by his whore of a wife.

There is this person called Nakamura Ine who is quite famous on the Nico Nico website (a large Japanese online community somewhat like Youtube), who turned out to be a minor (last year in high school) and also insinuated that he has something going on with a Kashiwagi Shiho.

- Now this Shiho was the wife of Yabuki Kentaro, the author of To-Love-Ru. She met Yabuki when he was looking for assistants, seduced him and ended up becoming his wife and gave birth to a daughter.

- But she hardly did any house work, neglected her daughter, and spent most of her days in front of a computer spending time in Nico Nico etc.

- January 2009, when Yabuki was sick with flu and bedridden, she kidnapped her own daughter and disappeared, and it turned out that she left her daughter at her parents' place while she was doing this and that with Ine.

in a nut shell:
Essentially, he had to end the manga to prevent his ex-wife from making a third custody and money grab for his daughter, after she illegally wiped his bank accounts out, stole the laptop he used to create the manga, and blackmailed him for custody of his own daughter after kidnapping her. Even now she is claiming rights to the Haruna character and all profit made from the anime, manga, and merchandise.


Not to mention she cheated on him on multiple occasions and using yabuki's credit card etc for her expense, leaving their daughters in the house while going out with her "boyfriend", and later after she was discovered cheating by yabuki, she demand those absurd claims

crazy i know

- February 2009, Yabuki 'begged' Shiho to return for the sake of their daughter, and Shiho did return to Tokyo, but few days later she dropped out once again with the girl, this time taking a notebook computer and Yabuki's credit cards. Yabuki later stopped the cards, but a large sum of money was already taken out.

- Yabuki looked for them everywhere, but to no avail. March 2009, Shiho demanded a divorce on the grounds of personality clash and a large chunk of Yabuki's assets, but when the evidence of her infidelity was discovered on her computer, she then changed her stance and demanded money in exchange for the custody right of the daughter.

- Realizing it would take over a year to settle things, Yabuki accepted her conditions and got the daughter back.

- Haruna Sairenji was based on Kashiwagi Shiho, and there is a reason why her role was reduced dramatically since volume 13, and Yui getting more prominent. And apparently Shiho has sued/demanded more money for the character of Haruna recently.

- A comment of Yabuki's while this was all happening:
[While I was working hard on a manga that was focused on taking young girls' panties off, another man was taking my wife's panties off.]

- Following the dispute over Haruna's character right, Yabuki feared his daughter getting hurt by all the debacle, so he accepted Shiho's demand yet again and ended the series prematurely.
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And... This story didn't have anything to do with the OP. I feel bad for him but in my opinion, To-love-ru is that shallow and full of fan-services. The MC is not even likable and is a wimp. I am a fan of his previous work Black cat and was disappointed that he turned to drawing ecchi harem.
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Kuma said:


ahem...
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Gather round children. I will tell you the tale of Kentaro Yabuki, who was most heinously NTR'd by his whore of a wife.

There is this person called Nakamura Ine who is quite famous on the Nico Nico website (a large Japanese online community somewhat like Youtube), who turned out to be a minor (last year in high school) and also insinuated that he has something going on with a Kashiwagi Shiho.

- Now this Shiho was the wife of Yabuki Kentaro, the author of To-Love-Ru. She met Yabuki when he was looking for assistants, seduced him and ended up becoming his wife and gave birth to a daughter.

- But she hardly did any house work, neglected her daughter, and spent most of her days in front of a computer spending time in Nico Nico etc.

- January 2009, when Yabuki was sick with flu and bedridden, she kidnapped her own daughter and disappeared, and it turned out that she left her daughter at her parents' place while she was doing this and that with Ine.

in a nut shell:
Essentially, he had to end the manga to prevent his ex-wife from making a third custody and money grab for his daughter, after she illegally wiped his bank accounts out, stole the laptop he used to create the manga, and blackmailed him for custody of his own daughter after kidnapping her. Even now she is claiming rights to the Haruna character and all profit made from the anime, manga, and merchandise.


Not to mention she cheated on him on multiple occasions and using yabuki's credit card etc for her expense, leaving their daughters in the house while going out with her "boyfriend", and later after she was discovered cheating by yabuki, she demand those absurd claims

crazy i know

- February 2009, Yabuki 'begged' Shiho to return for the sake of their daughter, and Shiho did return to Tokyo, but few days later she dropped out once again with the girl, this time taking a notebook computer and Yabuki's credit cards. Yabuki later stopped the cards, but a large sum of money was already taken out.

- Yabuki looked for them everywhere, but to no avail. March 2009, Shiho demanded a divorce on the grounds of personality clash and a large chunk of Yabuki's assets, but when the evidence of her infidelity was discovered on her computer, she then changed her stance and demanded money in exchange for the custody right of the daughter.

- Realizing it would take over a year to settle things, Yabuki accepted her conditions and got the daughter back.

- Haruna Sairenji was based on Kashiwagi Shiho, and there is a reason why her role was reduced dramatically since volume 13, and Yui getting more prominent. And apparently Shiho has sued/demanded more money for the character of Haruna recently.

- A comment of Yabuki's while this was all happening:
[While I was working hard on a manga that was focused on taking young girls' panties off, another man was taking my wife's panties off.]

- Following the dispute over Haruna's character right, Yabuki feared his daughter getting hurt by all the debacle, so he accepted Shiho's demand yet again and ended the series prematurely.
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And... This story didn't have anything to do with the OP. I feel bad for him but in my opinion, To-love-ru is that shallow and full of fan-services. The MC is not even likable and is a wimp. I am a fan of his previous work Black cat and was disappointed that he turned to drawing ecchi harem.


nah, my point is that harem always made by manchild for manchild, but hey, who am i to judge, i am not even rate TLR that high, but discrediting whole genre is just ignorant... and Rito is like least problem... he is caring, he can do lot of things, he is brave, and will put his life above others, and wimp? if he was a wimp, he wouldn't saving lala to begin with... rito infact best waifu in the whole TLR franchise (oh wait, riko is exist, so yeah)...
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One is the limit. Harem's are stupid. If there's one main partner and then other characters who are also attracted to the MC I'll understand, but if there's a bunch of girls trying equally hard to fuck the MC, then the show is just unrealistic and stupid. If the story is good or if it's the trashy show of the season that everyone's watching ironically, I'll watch a harem, otherwise, it's a waste of time.


The idea of looking for realistic staff in a fictional world is even more stupid imo. We watch anime for things that won't happen in our ordinary life, right?
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Harem stuff only good in videogames. In animes and mangas they are just annoying.
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To-love-ru is that shallow and full of fan-services.


You are right.
And I am so glad that I was born shallow enough that I can fully embrace harem masterpiece like tolove-ru.
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My fav harem only have 9 member. You can see it on my sig except the one in far right who is mother of one harem member.
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