CoolitzHubertXVI said:For me, it's important for any Anime, LN, or Manga to feature depictions of romance involving male characters other than one MC, as it gives hope to many single people in real life when watching shows with Multiple Couples.
hubert, my sweet summer child, this is starting to go down a bad route, i can already feel it ._.
CoolitzHubertXVI said:
In contrast, harem shows where only one male gets all the benefits would induce feelings of hate and jealousy in some viewers/readers. It's like as if you see the MC as a rare chosen one, who is someone that most of us who are commoners and nobody mob characters in real life can never hope to reach.
"How should we solve a pretty huge non-issue of making people less jealous of a harem MC?"
"I know! Let's add two males with harems!"
simply astounding hubert
you've made up a problem that doesn't exist with pretty much anybody except for you and are trying to solve said problem in a way that's the equivalent of trying to put out a fire by dumping gasoline on it, bravo
what about when you start getting jealous of the second one for having a harem too whenever you don't and instead of just one rare special boys it's two rare special boys that are stealing all of the ladies from out beneath every other guy? are you going to ask for a third with his own harem too? so on and so forth, rinse and repeat, until we reach your idyllic golden age of equality where every fucking guy on the planet has a harem?
CoolitzHubertXVI said:
But with Multiple Couples or Double Harem groups, we can self-project as the 2nd guy, and feel able to say with confidence to the 1st guy, "So what if you have luck with the ladies ? I too have my own luck with ladies now."
I mean I won't lie this just sounds sad more than anything ._.
You don't need to prove yourself to a goddamn anime character, especially not by projecting as a second character just so you can look at the first like that
You wouldn't be the second MC, the second MC would be the second MC, he has the harem and not you, you won't ever be able to tell the first guy anything along those lines and the second MC having a harem doesn't equate to you having more luck with the ladies yourself in any way whatsoever, I'm sorry, even if he's about as interesting as a gray crayon he likely isn't a straight up audience surrogate and he's his own character and you wouldn't benefit in any way whatsoever from it, the hypothetical 2nd MC existing does not change anything at all whatsoever
ngl, this just makes it seem like you're A) not actually healthily indulging in these shows and that doing so is damaging to your psyche and B) you're not just tossing out thoughts or ideas on how to make the shows themselves better, and are instead just trying to add more characters to try to compensate for feelings of inferiority to harem MCs somehow
Might sound harsh and all and I'm not setting out to be a dickhead to you by saying that, believe it or not, but...Hubert, my man, come on now, be realistic for a moment here |