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Jul 22, 2023 12:28 PM
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Am I the only one who thinks this show is a weird fantasy about incel getting a harem? Yes, I know how the "unwanted harem" trope works, but I feel like the anime went way too over the top with the obsession with the protagonist's chastity.
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Jul 22, 2023 2:16 PM
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Welcome to the harem genre. Although this one isn't about a incel. This guy just doesn't want anyone. He just wants a respectable life without any luxury.
Jul 22, 2023 2:31 PM
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Nah, even for a harem this shit is fucking awesome. It’s hella entertaining too.
Jul 22, 2023 3:01 PM
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W type of harem is back babyyyy
Jul 22, 2023 3:32 PM
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I think this is pretty refreshing actually. This guy has a confident and self-possessed personality instead of the typical harem MC who gets a stroke-level nosebleed just from a girl smiling at him. And I also enjoy how he actually explains himself to the other girls whenever he gets caught in your typical harem “looks dirty but is just a ridiculous misunderstanding” situation instead of just being like “uh-wait-ehhhh”
Jul 22, 2023 3:35 PM
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RobertBobert said:
Am I the only one who thinks this show is a weird fantasy about incel getting a harem? Yes, I know how the "unwanted harem" trope works, but I feel like the anime went way too over the top with the obsession with the protagonist's chastity.

I don’t think it’s quite right to classify this guy as an incel. Incels are guys who want a girl but think that the reason they can’t land one is bc women just don’t know what they’re missing as opposed to acknowledging their own potential flaws. This guy doesn’t have anything against women, I think his vendetta is more against lustfulness, or as he calls them, “worldly desires”. He’s simply come to the albeit extreme conclusion of “I don’t have to worry about lust if I never have to interact with women”
Jul 22, 2023 3:36 PM
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I think this is pretty refreshing actually. This guy has a confident and self-possessed personality instead of the typical harem MC who gets a stroke-level nosebleed just from a girl smiling at him. And I also enjoy how he actually explains himself to the other girls whenever he gets caught in your typical harem “looks dirty but is just a ridiculous misunderstanding” situation instead of just being like “uh-wait-ehhhh”
Well, in the pursuit of virginity, this show almost reaches the level of those borderline hentai, where the female MC must be a virgin at the same time and get all types of hentai tropes.
Jul 22, 2023 3:39 PM
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RobertBobert said:
Tangerine7225 said:
I think this is pretty refreshing actually. This guy has a confident and self-possessed personality instead of the typical harem MC who gets a stroke-level nosebleed just from a girl smiling at him. And I also enjoy how he actually explains himself to the other girls whenever he gets caught in your typical harem “looks dirty but is just a ridiculous misunderstanding” situation instead of just being like “uh-wait-ehhhh”
Well, in the pursuit of virginity, this show almost reaches the level of those borderline hentai, where the female MC must be a virgin at the same time and get all types of hentai tropes.

Well let’s be honest, no matter what the promise of the story is or how much the characters seem to dislike the situations they end up in, we all know what we’re watching and what’s going to be displayed
Jul 22, 2023 3:46 PM
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RobertBobert said:
Tangerine7225 said:
I think this is pretty refreshing actually. This guy has a confident and self-possessed personality instead of the typical harem MC who gets a stroke-level nosebleed just from a girl smiling at him. And I also enjoy how he actually explains himself to the other girls whenever he gets caught in your typical harem “looks dirty but is just a ridiculous misunderstanding” situation instead of just being like “uh-wait-ehhhh”
Well, in the pursuit of virginity, this show almost reaches the level of those borderline hentai, where the female MC must be a virgin at the same time and get all types of hentai tropes.

Once again, welcome to harem genre.
Jul 22, 2023 3:48 PM

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Polvo_Aranha said:
RobertBobert said:
Well, in the pursuit of virginity, this show almost reaches the level of those borderline hentai, where the female MC must be a virgin at the same time and get all types of hentai tropes.

Once again, welcome to harem genre.
Dude, if you're trying to provoke me into arrogantly remarking that you shouldn't be talking about the harem genre to someone who's watched twice or three times as much anime as you, you'd be close to the mark.
Jul 22, 2023 5:06 PM
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Are you new to this…?
Jul 22, 2023 5:15 PM

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Isekai-Enjoyer said:
Are you new to this…?
Yes. After all, this is exactly what you would expect from a person with 1300+ watched shows who started watching anime twice before you.  What exactly in my post led you to the conclusion that I have not watched harems before? Just because I found one show's premise ambiguous?
Jul 22, 2023 5:17 PM
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RobertBobert said:
Isekai-Enjoyer said:
Are you new to this…?
Yes. After all, this is exactly what you would expect from a person with 1300+ watched shows who started watching anime twice before you.  What exactly in my post led you to the conclusion that I have not watched harems before? Just because I found one show's premise ambiguous?

Because this show is exactly as every other harem ever made, yes.

If you have watched this much anime, then I can only assume you haven’t read that many manga on the genre.

Because really, this has been done a million times before.
Jul 22, 2023 5:23 PM

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Isekai-Enjoyer said:
RobertBobert said:
Yes. After all, this is exactly what you would expect from a person with 1300+ watched shows who started watching anime twice before you.  What exactly in my post led you to the conclusion that I have not watched harems before? Just because I found one show's premise ambiguous?

Because this show is exactly as every other harem ever made, yes.

If you have watched this much anime, then I can only assume you haven’t read that many manga on the genre.

Because really, this has been done a million times before.
Yes? Okay, name me 2-3 harems from the past where MCs are obsessed with their sexual purity and have to defend themselves against compulsive sexual situations. Exactly in this form, and not any ecchi, where the protagonist tries to avoid a senseless lewd.
Jul 22, 2023 5:29 PM
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RobertBobert said:
Isekai-Enjoyer said:

Because this show is exactly as every other harem ever made, yes.

If you have watched this much anime, then I can only assume you haven’t read that many manga on the genre.

Because really, this has been done a million times before.
Yes? Okay, name me 2-3 harems from the past where MCs are obsessed with their sexual purity and have to defend themselves against compulsive sexual situations. Exactly in this form, and not any ecchi, where the protagonist tries to avoid a senseless lewd.

Wait, this part was your issue?

Bro, this is actually pretty original from this show. And if anything, it’s mostly a virtue of his.

And well, this is still pretty common, except that most of the time it’s the MC just wanting to do it with the girl they love or something. The results are nonetheless about the same every time.

Yuki Rito and even Raku from Nisekoi are some of them.
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Isekai-Enjoyer said:
RobertBobert said:
Yes? Okay, name me 2-3 harems from the past where MCs are obsessed with their sexual purity and have to defend themselves against compulsive sexual situations. Exactly in this form, and not any ecchi, where the protagonist tries to avoid a senseless lewd.

Wait, this part was your issue?

Bro, this is actually pretty original from this show. And if anything, it’s mostly a virtue of his.

And well, this is still pretty common, except that most of the time it’s the MC just wanting to do it with the girl they love or something. The results are nonetheless about the same every time.

Yuki Rito and even Raku from Nisekoi are some of them.
So, you still couldn't meet my condition, instead literally naming characters who just want to avoid lewd and who literally have no issues with the female gender, just obsessive love interests? Q.E.D.
Jul 22, 2023 5:41 PM
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RobertBobert said:
Isekai-Enjoyer said:

Wait, this part was your issue?

Bro, this is actually pretty original from this show. And if anything, it’s mostly a virtue of his.

And well, this is still pretty common, except that most of the time it’s the MC just wanting to do it with the girl they love or something. The results are nonetheless about the same every time.

Yuki Rito and even Raku from Nisekoi are some of them.
So, you still couldn't meet my condition, instead literally naming characters who just want to avoid lewd and who literally have no issues with the female gender, just obsessive love interests? Q.E.D.

The protagonist of this anime doesn’t have any issues with the female gender either?

The hell you on? Bro just wants to be a sage.

If anything, he’s ten times less annoying than the usual random teenagers we always get in manga.
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Isekai-Enjoyer said:
RobertBobert said:
So, you still couldn't meet my condition, instead literally naming characters who just want to avoid lewd and who literally have no issues with the female gender, just obsessive love interests? Q.E.D.

The protagonist of this anime doesn’t have any issues with the female gender either?

The hell you on? Bro just wants to be a sage.

If anything, he’s ten times less annoying than the usual random teenagers we always get in manga.
I asked you a clear question, expecting you to back up your thesis after you arrogantly humiliate me. But in response, you literally want to tell me that a teenage boy avoiding an overly obsessive girl is analogous to a virgin monk obsessed with chastity. May I leave this without comment?
Jul 22, 2023 5:47 PM
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RobertBobert said:
Isekai-Enjoyer said:

Because this show is exactly as every other harem ever made, yes.

If you have watched this much anime, then I can only assume you haven’t read that many manga on the genre.

Because really, this has been done a million times before.
Yes? Okay, name me 2-3 harems from the past where MCs are obsessed with their sexual purity and have to defend themselves against compulsive sexual situations. Exactly in this form, and not any ecchi, where the protagonist tries to avoid a senseless lewd.

Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou, Kanojo mo Kanojo and Osananajimi ga Zettai ni Makenai Love Comedy are three I remember.
Jul 22, 2023 5:50 PM
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RobertBobert said:
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The protagonist of this anime doesn’t have any issues with the female gender either?

The hell you on? Bro just wants to be a sage.

If anything, he’s ten times less annoying than the usual random teenagers we always get in manga.
I asked you a clear question, expecting you to back up your thesis after you arrogantly humiliate me. But in response, you literally want to tell me that a teenage boy avoiding an overly obsessive girl is analogous to a virgin monk obsessed with chastity. May I leave this without comment?

Humiliating you…?

Bro take your meds. Saying someone seems new to anime when they aren’t is barely an insult. Let alone an humiliation.

Internet people can be scary…
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Isekai-Enjoyer said:
RobertBobert said:
So, you still couldn't meet my condition, instead literally naming characters who just want to avoid lewd and who literally have no issues with the female gender, just obsessive love interests? Q.E.D.

The protagonist of this anime doesn’t have any issues with the female gender either?

The hell you on? Bro just wants to be a sage.

If anything, he’s ten times less annoying than the usual random teenagers we always get in manga.
just let him be bro,he's probably an incel as well,he knows best about this kind of anime
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Yes? Okay, name me 2-3 harems from the past where MCs are obsessed with their sexual purity and have to defend themselves against compulsive sexual situations. Exactly in this form, and not any ecchi, where the protagonist tries to avoid a senseless lewd.

Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou and Osananajimi ga Zettai ni Makenai Love Comedy are two I remember.
Are you kidding me? In the first show, the MC is LITERALLY trying to avoid deadly overly obsessive girls, and in the second show, the MC is trying to get rid of the girls who are preventing him from becoming a couple with his waifu. Are you deliberately naming shows that only reinforce my belief that you don't know what you're talking about?  None of these shows has MCs who are virgins obsessed with trying to keep their virginity and sexual purity. It doesn't even discuss morality.
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Is this serious? Are you guys arguing about a Japanese cartoon that is intended to be purely entertainment without even a commitment to reality? It really seems like the otaku community has dropped a lot these last few years.
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The protagonist of this anime doesn’t have any issues with the female gender either?

The hell you on? Bro just wants to be a sage.

If anything, he’s ten times less annoying than the usual random teenagers we always get in manga.
just let him be bro,he's probably an incel as well,he knows best about this kind of anime
Mmmm, go direct insults. All the way I like.

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I asked you a clear question, expecting you to back up your thesis after you arrogantly humiliate me. But in response, you literally want to tell me that a teenage boy avoiding an overly obsessive girl is analogous to a virgin monk obsessed with chastity. May I leave this without comment?

Humiliating you…?

Bro take your meds. Saying someone seems new to anime when they aren’t is barely an insult. Let alone an humiliation.

Internet people can be scary…
Yes. Because you literally used a stupid reason to name a person with more experience than you as a newbie, and then you couldn't even partially justify it.
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RoberthLucasOdaS said:
Is this serious? Are you guys arguing about a Japanese cartoon that is intended to be purely entertainment without even a commitment to reality? It really seems like the otaku community has dropped a lot these last few years.

The anime community has always been like that lmao.
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RobertBobert said:
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just let him be bro,he's probably an incel as well,he knows best about this kind of anime
Mmmm, go direct insults. All the way I like.

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Humiliating you…?

Bro take your meds. Saying someone seems new to anime when they aren’t is barely an insult. Let alone an humiliation.

Internet people can be scary…
Yes. Because you literally used a stupid reason to name a person with more experience than you as a newbie, and then you couldn't even partially justify it.





Whatever makes you sleep better.
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RobertBobert said:
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just let him be bro,he's probably an incel as well,he knows best about this kind of anime
Mmmm, go direct insults. All the way I like.

Isekai-Enjoyer said:

Humiliating you…?

Bro take your meds. Saying someone seems new to anime when they aren’t is barely an insult. Let alone an humiliation.

Internet people can be scary…
Yes. Because you literally used a stupid reason to name a person with more experience than you as a newbie, and then you couldn't even partially justify it.
you are 30 and still bragging about how much anime you have watched,you definately an incel🤣
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RobertBobert said:
Polvo_Aranha said:

Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou and Osananajimi ga Zettai ni Makenai Love Comedy are two I remember.
Are you kidding me? In the first show, the MC is LITERALLY trying to avoid deadly overly obsessive girls, and in the second show, the MC is trying to get rid of the girls who are preventing him from becoming a couple with his waifu. Are you deliberately naming shows that only reinforce my belief that you don't know what you're talking about?  None of these shows has MCs who are virgins obsessed with trying to keep their virginity and sexual purity. It doesn't even discuss morality.

I named a third one later. Also, trust me: all those just remained virgin because they really wished to stay that way.

Remain pure is a quite common japanese way of thinking. One of the reasons of their low birth rate.
Jul 22, 2023 6:02 PM

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It's one thing to have a delusional argument over elements of the genre, but it's another thing to jump to arrogant conclusions about people you're seeing for the first time. And then complain about the fact that they call you for jumping to conclusions.

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Is this serious? Are you guys arguing about a Japanese cartoon that is intended to be purely entertainment without even a commitment to reality? It really seems like the otaku community has dropped a lot these last few years.
You sound like people in any fandom don't argue about the smallest details of their favorite movie, TV series, game, or even book. Don't make me tell you about Aragorn's pants.
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While he does want to be "voluntarily celibate" he is not in fact an "incel" as the term is most commonly applied. So, that's a resounding no. 
If you reply back to me and I never respond, I lost interest and don't care. Sorry about that.
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@SatanfromSEA Provocation + insults + labeling + gaslighting - I don't think you're the kind of person who can reproach anyone with anything here.

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Are you kidding me? In the first show, the MC is LITERALLY trying to avoid deadly overly obsessive girls, and in the second show, the MC is trying to get rid of the girls who are preventing him from becoming a couple with his waifu. Are you deliberately naming shows that only reinforce my belief that you don't know what you're talking about?  None of these shows has MCs who are virgins obsessed with trying to keep their virginity and sexual purity. It doesn't even discuss morality.

I named a third one later. Also, trust me: all those just remained virgin because they really wished to stay that way.

Remain pure is a quite common japanese way of thinking. One of the reasons of their low birth rate.
Right now you're just taking things out of context to match your attempts to squeeze them into the right conditions.
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RobertBobert said:
@SatanfromSEA Provocation + insults + labeling + gaslighting - I don't think you're the kind of person who can reproach anyone with anything here.

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I named a third one later. Also, trust me: all those just remained virgin because they really wished to stay that way.

Remain pure is a quite common japanese way of thinking. One of the reasons of their low birth rate.
Right now you're just taking things out of context to match your attempts to squeeze them into the right conditions.

You are the one who started complaining about this being an incel dreaming and ended complaining about the guy wanting to remain chaste. That is going from 8 to 80.

Do you actually know what "incel" actually means?
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Polvo_Aranha said:
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@SatanfromSEA Provocation + insults + labeling + gaslighting - I don't think you're the kind of person who can reproach anyone with anything here.

Right now you're just taking things out of context to match your attempts to squeeze them into the right conditions.

You are the one who started complaining about this being an incel dreaming and ended complaining about the guy wanting to remain chaste.

Do you actually know what "incel" actually means?
I didn't complain about anything in this thread, I just created a semi-serious thread about the vibes it gave me. If it's so personal to you that you're ready to switch to showdown at some point, then I'll just refuse to continue this shit.
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You are the one who started complaining about this being an incel dreaming and ended complaining about the guy wanting to remain chaste.

Do you actually know what "incel" actually means?
I didn't complain about anything in this thread, I just created a semi-serious thread about the vibes it gave me. If it's so personal to you that you're ready to switch to showdown at some point, then I'll just refuse to continue this shit.

I just made a joke about you don't know that much about the harem genre, about roasting the genre itself, and you took that as an insult.

You looks like the one in this thread taking things too seriously, not accepting the fact that you actually don't know that much about this subject.

All you complained... I mean, "felt" about this anime is quite common, believe or not. The only difference is the guy actually wants to remain pure on purpose (by the way, the exact opposite of being an incel) instead of chickens out or get too nervous to continue.
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I wouldn't say this is "an incel getting a harem" since for that the MC needs to be an incel first, he is intentionally celibate, so he isn't an incel.
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Oh, so you literally decided to start bombarding me with scarecrows in order to make me make excuses and thereby put me in a passive state and distract from the fact that none of you could argue your position after my questions? Great, as promised, I'm just going to stop responding to these classic attempts at harassment in an attempt to cover up a completely failed argument (although I have to admit that you have the audacity to keep accusing me of not knowing and/or trying the roasting genre, while have I watched more harems than you'll ever be able to and even have a couple of these shows in my favorites, really impresses me). Goodbye.
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I wouldn't say this is "an incel getting a harem" since for that the MC needs to be an incel first, he is intentionally celibate, so he isn't an incel.
Maybe. But it doesn't matter anymore, as a couple of kids just killed this thread in an attempt to accuse me of not knowing and hating the genre just because I called them out for not being able to argue my position. Having Mahouka in my favorites, yes.  It's like blaming the girl with Yuri on Ice in favorites for hating BL after she said that Yaricchin is too lewd.
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RobertBobert said:
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I wouldn't say this is "an incel getting a harem" since for that the MC needs to be an incel first, he is intentionally celibate, so he isn't an incel.
Maybe. But it doesn't matter anymore, as a couple of kids just killed this thread in an attempt to accuse me of not knowing and hating the genre just because I called them out for not being able to argue my position. Having Mahouka in my favorites, yes.  It's like blaming the girl with Yuri on Ice in favorites for hating BL after she said that Yaricchin is too lewd.

Guy, just chill out. You are taking it too personally. Just because someone doesn't agree with you, that doesn't mean they are wrong and just want to offend you.
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Maybe. But it doesn't matter anymore, as a couple of kids just killed this thread in an attempt to accuse me of not knowing and hating the genre just because I called them out for not being able to argue my position. Having Mahouka in my favorites, yes.  It's like blaming the girl with Yuri on Ice in favorites for hating BL after she said that Yaricchin is too lewd.

Guy, just chill out. You are taking it too personally. Just because someone doesn't agree with you, that doesn't mean they are wrong and just want to offend you.
Am I taking this too personally lol? You literally tried to use one of the most pathetic tactics when you accused me of roasting the genre just because you failed to argue your point. Although I not only defend the genre on a regular basis, I even have a couple of his shows in my favorites. You could not argue your point of view and simply decided to expose me as an ignoramus, although my experience in it is many times higher than yours. And do I take things too personally? No, YOU taking this shit too personally, trying to label a person just because you couldn't beat them in an argument.

This is my last reply to you at all as I'm tired of hearing people try to completely erase my experience and repeated attempts to defend the genre in front of the haters just because I ruined their attempts to look like experts.
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Guy, just chill out. You are taking it too personally. Just because someone doesn't agree with you, that doesn't mean they are wrong and just want to offend you.
Am I taking this too personally lol? You literally tried to use one of the most pathetic tactics when you accused me of roasting the genre just because you failed to argue your point. Although I not only defend the genre on a regular basis, I even have a couple of his shows in my favorites. You could not argue your point of view and simply decided to expose me as an ignoramus, although my experience in it is many times higher than yours. And do I take things too personally? No, YOU taking this shit too personally, trying to label a person just because you couldn't beat them in an argument.

This is my last reply to you at all as I'm tired of hearing people try to completely erase my experience and repeated attempts to defend the genre in front of the haters just because I ruined their attempts to look like experts.

I started making fun and agreeing with you at some points. You killed your own thread by turning it into an argument because you can't accept the fact you don't know everything and some people might not agree 100% with you.
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Am I the only one who thinks this show is a weird fantasy about incel getting a harem? Yes, I know how the "unwanted harem" trope works, but I feel like the anime went way too over the top with the obsession with the protagonist's chastity.

I don’t think it’s quite right to classify this guy as an incel. Incels are guys who want a girl but think that the reason they can’t land one is bc women just don’t know what they’re missing as opposed to acknowledging their own potential flaws. This guy doesn’t have anything against women, I think his vendetta is more against lustfulness, or as he calls them, “worldly desires”. He’s simply come to the albeit extreme conclusion of “I don’t have to worry about lust if I never have to interact with women”
I agree to an extent, it is more accurate to claim it might pander to incels. There is a key difference between having a main character as an incel, and having a narrative pander to them, or overall difference between having a main character be  ___ versus pandering to those who are ____.
Ex. Anime that try too hard to have an "alpha male" as its main character in my opinion panders to those who are the exact opposite of being an "alpha male". Characters about people making friends may appeal to people who do not have that active of a social life, and all that.

Series like Rising of the Shield Hero have a pretty significant portion of the fanbase be men who see Malty as representative of the women in their lives if not women in general, and Raphtalia as what women should be like; except that they identify with Naofumi because they think they are like him, when in fact they are a bit too close to being like Idol Ranbier or The Spear hero.
@RobertBobert 

To be fair, I understand why one would think Temple to an extent panders to incels. The whole idea the main character has is avoiding women as if they were the problem. They are not. The idea of viewing women as temptresses neglects the responsibility of his own potential horniness.

It is quite frankly a bit sexist, but maybe he will grow up to be a good person who comes to terms with worldly desires. I am thinking that maybe that is the purpose of the show, to have the main character not be such a prude.
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PeripheralVision said:
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I don’t think it’s quite right to classify this guy as an incel. Incels are guys who want a girl but think that the reason they can’t land one is bc women just don’t know what they’re missing as opposed to acknowledging their own potential flaws. This guy doesn’t have anything against women, I think his vendetta is more against lustfulness, or as he calls them, “worldly desires”. He’s simply come to the albeit extreme conclusion of “I don’t have to worry about lust if I never have to interact with women”
I agree to an extent, it is more accurate to claim it might pander to incels. There is a key difference between having a main character as an incel, and having a narrative pander to them, or overall difference between having a main character be  ___ versus pandering to those who are ____.
Ex. Anime that try too hard to have an "alpha male" as its main character in my opinion panders to those who are the exact opposite of being an "alpha male". Characters about people making friends may appeal to people who do not have that active of a social life, and all that.

Series like Rising of the Shield Hero have a pretty significant portion of the fanbase be men who see Malty as representative of the women in their lives if not women in general, and Raphtalia as what women should be like; except that they identify with Naofumi because they think they are like him, when in fact they are a bit too close to being like Idol Ranbier or The Spear hero.
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To be fair, I understand why one would think Temple to an extent panders to incels. The whole idea the main character has is avoiding women as if they were the problem. They are not. The idea of viewing women as temptresses neglects the responsibility of his own potential horniness.

It is quite frankly a bit sexist, but maybe he will grow up to be a good person who comes to terms with worldly desires.
I didn't say anything about pandering or that the MC is literally incel. The whole idea of the thread was that anime gave me such vibes. But I didn't even try to take it that far.  Although I wouldn't be surprised if there are people outright blaming the show for this, like Genshin Impact used to be called pedo-bait just because of the very fact that there are loli characters in it. Not even sexualized.
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Tangerine7225 said:

I don’t think it’s quite right to classify this guy as an incel. Incels are guys who want a girl but think that the reason they can’t land one is bc women just don’t know what they’re missing as opposed to acknowledging their own potential flaws. This guy doesn’t have anything against women, I think his vendetta is more against lustfulness, or as he calls them, “worldly desires”. He’s simply come to the albeit extreme conclusion of “I don’t have to worry about lust if I never have to interact with women”
I agree to an extent, it is more accurate to claim it might pander to incels. There is a key difference between having a main character as an incel, and having a narrative pander to them, or overall difference between having a main character be  ___ versus pandering to those who are ____.
Ex. Anime that try too hard to have an "alpha male" as its main character in my opinion panders to those who are the exact opposite of being an "alpha male". Characters about people making friends may appeal to people who do not have that active of a social life, and all that.

Series like Rising of the Shield Hero have a pretty significant portion of the fanbase be men who see Malty as representative of the women in their lives if not women in general, and Raphtalia as what women should be like; except that they identify with Naofumi because they think they are like him, when in fact they are a bit too close to being like Idol Ranbier or The Spear hero.
@RobertBobert 

To be fair, I understand why one would think Temple to an extent panders to incels. The whole idea the main character has is avoiding women as if they were the problem. They are not. The idea of viewing women as temptresses neglects the responsibility of his own potential horniness.

It is quite frankly a bit sexist, but maybe he will grow up to be a good person who comes to terms with worldly desires. I am thinking that maybe that is the purpose of the show, to have the main character not be such a prude.

I think Kurage's scene in episode 2 shows that this actually is the whole point of this show.
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You must be new to the harem genre because this is the bare minimum standard for it back then
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You must be new to the harem genre because this is the bare minimum standard for it back then
Oh, do you also want to bring me a couple of shows with a similar protagonist, and when you fail, accuse me of hating the genre? Dude, I've watched more harems than you anime in general.
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To be fair, I understand why one would think Temple to an extent panders to incels. The whole idea the main character has is avoiding women as if they were the problem. They are not. The idea of viewing women as temptresses neglects the responsibility of his own potential horniness.

It is quite frankly a bit sexist, but maybe he will grow up to be a good person who comes to terms with worldly desires. I am thinking that maybe that is the purpose of the show, to have the main character not be such a prude.
Except, that's not the case here at all? He thinks he's cursed by his family's genes because his father was a no-good playboy. Yes, the joke is that he's not cursed, he just has zero self-control, but your interpretation is just wrong. He isn't treating women as if they're the problem or anything to do with them being temptresses, the problem is his own, and this is made very clear, he's not denying his own responsibility whatsoever. 
If you reply back to me and I never respond, I lost interest and don't care. Sorry about that.
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Dude overthinking about it.
I'm here just for some booba.
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RobertBobert said:
TheUnkovvn said:
You must be new to the harem genre because this is the bare minimum standard for it back then
Oh, do you also want to bring me a couple of shows with a similar protagonist, and when you fail, accuse me of hating the genre? Dude, I've watched more harems than you anime in general.

You know, when everybody say the same thing to you, you should start considering you might be wrong, not everyone else.
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I appreciate that you are so desperate that you started to appeal to the majority and demand that I agree only because you are not the only one who arrogantly judges the knowledge of the strangers, but no. P.S. Not to mention the fact that this time I did not see the answer to my question again, but okay.
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Except, that's not the case here at all? He thinks he's cursed by his family's genes because his father was a no-good playboy. Yes, the joke is that he's not cursed, he just has zero self-control, but your interpretation is just wrong. He isn't treating women as if they're the problem or anything to do with them being temptresses, the problem is his own, and this is made very clear, he's not denying his own responsibility whatsoever. 
Fair enough, but the idea of "pandering to ___ without having said character be ___" is still relevant here. Naofumi is not an incel, but the narrative Shield Hero panders to incels regardless of the author's actual intention. Likewise, Temple could fall into the same trap by having the narrative frame women as being intrusive into his celibate lifestyle regardless of the "actual" narrative context. Or rather, it may not be the main character treating the women as temptresses, but the narrative itself.

Or in short, terrible and stupid people can enjoy the same anime that we do in the same way that one guy who read Berserk walks away thinking Griffith is the ultimate victim.
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