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Feb 7, 2023 1:43 PM
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As you may know (depending on your experience with the genre) most harem anime is essentially a lie - it's only harem in name, meanwhile the protagonist will either end up with only one of the girls or never even touch one of them. So why all the drama? There's a certain and a fair way to select a winner among the girls:


What do you think?
Feb 7, 2023 1:50 PM
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I think main character should marry one and keep the others as lovers, it shouldn't matter who he picks
Feb 7, 2023 1:57 PM
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I think a good solution is when there are multiple endings, one for each girl, like in
Feb 7, 2023 1:57 PM
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I think the main character should just give up the harem and commit to his sister instead
Feb 7, 2023 2:00 PM
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Protagonist get rich, own a period pads factory, and get along with the girls about loving them all.
-Shizuna- said:
As you may know (depending on your experience with the genre) most harem anime is essentially a lie - it's only harem in name, meanwhile the protagonist will either end up with only one of the girls or never even touch one of them. So why all the drama? There's a certain and a fair way to select a winner among the girls:


What do you think?


This way of deciding does not seem happy... I think.
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Feb 7, 2023 2:03 PM
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this strategy assumes the protagonist is able to function like an actual human being when in the presence of a naked women spoiler: they won't





just do the chad grisaia route with actual harem ending ez peasy
Feb 7, 2023 2:34 PM
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Th normal way they already conclude, that is already enough. But well, there are many ways to conclude those series, and that one in the post is horrible.
Feb 7, 2023 3:17 PM
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A great big orgy with all the girls and the guy.
Feb 7, 2023 3:43 PM
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I guess it just helps feed the fantasy of potential relationship outcomes if the main character has a wider variety of girls to choose from. If people get attached to a certain girl's personality and how they interact with the harem protag, they may hope that those girl's will have a chance over the likely winner. Plus, it makes a romance series more interesting and worth investing into if there's more competition rather than having one girl that you know the MC is going to eventually end up with. I know some people don't like the idea of having to pick one girl out of a whole selection. But that seems like the most reasonable outcome to me personally. With having multiple love interests, you'd have to devote time to each of them equally just so no one has hurt feelings over a particular girl getting special attention. And to me, that's just overwhelming and exhausting. So, I prefer one girl being chosen.
Feb 7, 2023 3:45 PM

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The real solution is for a ntr villain to take the harem since Mc kun never chose a girl.  
Feb 7, 2023 4:00 PM
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If the series ends with only one girl winning, then it shouldn't have the harem tag, that's just a love triangle with extra steps. A series should only have the harem tag if the protagonist actually has a harem.
Feb 7, 2023 4:07 PM

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TheBasicAnimeFan said:
If the series ends with only one girl winning,  then it shouldn't have the harem tag, that's just a love triangle with extra steps. A series should only have the harem tag if the protagonist actually has a harem.
Yes, this is the ultimate fucking truth and I hate when people call non-harem as if it were harem

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Feb 7, 2023 4:24 PM

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Authors are too scared to go with all the girls at once, and tend to stick with a formula that they know it wouldn't fail on them.

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Feb 7, 2023 6:11 PM

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The girls turning to love each other, that's how it would come to conclusion. Or like @rohan121 said, it's required a real Gigachad to solve such indecisiveness.
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Feb 7, 2023 6:19 PM

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I think they should give every girl her own ending with the MC aired as OVAs (maybe even R-18 OVAs). Selling them separately would also give us some interesting data on which girl's ending gets the most sales.
Feb 7, 2023 6:56 PM

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Just do it like Shinmai Maou where by the end of the story, the MC has 8 wives and they are all pregnant 
Feb 7, 2023 7:29 PM
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simple - mc ends up in a relationship with all the girls
everybody realizes they are in love with one another
we get boy x girl and girl x girl actions  (would have nothing against even if they include one more male character to add some extra spice in the mix)
Feb 8, 2023 12:35 AM

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The MC tells them:
If you all love me, you should be able to share me equally, between yourselves. If you won't or say you can't, then I will remain only your friend, forever.
Feb 8, 2023 7:05 AM

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I do not watch anime or read harem manga. At all. But yeah, this shit is fookin gratingggggggggggggggggggggggggggg. Unfortunately, humanity is very eccentric and weird, so we must suffer.

Edit: pero~ at the end
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The one which is the favourite your wife, the others should be lovers. Maybe bulding a really big family could work


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Feb 8, 2023 7:15 AM

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Easy, he dates one, eternally bonds another, frequently molests a 3rd, emotionally toys with 2 others, and all while lusting after his younger sisters on the side. 
Feb 8, 2023 12:20 PM

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In my opinion I think the best way to conclude a harem anime is the male lead getting all the girls. But most harem anime isn't finished.So we have to go by the source material if we want to know how it ends.
Feb 8, 2023 12:57 PM
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Best way to end harem anime is either kill of all the girls or reveal that main MC is gay. Polygamy is bad, Bible states that.
Feb 8, 2023 2:38 PM

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The only proper way to conclude a harem is with a nice boat.
Feb 8, 2023 2:54 PM

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The harem ending works well if the harem isn't full of worst girls aka 98% of the time.


Feb 8, 2023 4:23 PM

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Go all the way or go home.

HAREM ENDING ALL THE WAY
Feb 8, 2023 4:30 PM

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i hate a hate anime but definitely harem ending is the only thing that makes sense for the trope 
Feb 8, 2023 4:45 PM
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I think Harem should definitely have a winner or winners. I think most people dislike harem because they. (meaning the anime adaptation)very rarely get an actual conclusion.

That's why I love Clannad. season 1 is Harem shenanigans and at the end the MC chooses a girl and then season 2 shows them as a couple it's the After Harem story.
Feb 8, 2023 5:20 PM
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True harem ending with the mc married or in a relationship with all or most of the harem

Hopefully with a fast forward with him his wives and children happy life
Feb 8, 2023 5:23 PM

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BrickHARDmeat220 said:
I think Harem should definitely have a winner or winners. I think most people dislike harem because they.  (meaning the anime  adaptation)very rarely get an actual conclusion.

That's why I love Clannad. season 1 is Harem shenanigans and at the end the MC chooses a girl and then  season 2 shows them as a couple it's the After Harem story.


Clannad isn't really a harem though. the other girls don't hang around and compete for Tomoya's affection. No, after their story arc is complete they pretty much go into storage and only appear briefly once in a while. Its a totally different animal.
Feb 9, 2023 10:39 PM

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I personally dislike polygamy end that allows multiple wives, so I prefer to either choose only one or have multiple endings available.



Feb 9, 2023 10:54 PM
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Easy, he dates one, eternally bonds another, frequently molests a 3rd, emotionally toys with 2 others, and all while lusting after his younger sisters on the side. 
Hmm, I wonder where I've heard that before...
Feb 9, 2023 10:59 PM

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I did actually have this question in my mind for years. In my opinion, I think the mc should just marry all of them like that one individual from
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Idk if this is an unpopular take but I do want that to happen in all harem anime.....
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