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@endoftheline said in Hate on what you Love. Let's air our grievances.:
Another good example is the idiot brigade in Trapped in a Dating Sim where they get into a round of positive affirmation harem commentary, but Maries usually horrified negative reactions are interspersed with the commentary keep it from getting stale by introducing distance to the comments. Alternatively, the idiot brigade starts playing off each other's affirmation into a new round of positive affirmation on a tangentially related topic keeping the round-robin commentary fresh.
That has been amusing, seeing just what idiocy her reverse harem will talk themselves into doing this time trying to please her. They're like kids digging up her garden to bring her flowers.
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@HarmlessDave I admit, I have to love what that series did with Marie specifically. She's easily my favorite character in the series and I love how the author got over his "I hate sisters" fetish in continued characterization.
... At least in that series. Then in the next one he hates sisters again.
In fairness, the sister trope just doesn't work for me, or I'd suspect for most westerners.
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@TopChop12 There have been a few that are sort of isekai but not really, The Lost Fleet is a good one, the first six books are pretty good. It's not so much an isekai but more of a man out of his time, he remembers what everyone else has forgotten.
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@KopiCAT You get that with Mushoku Tensei a lot, the girls have defined roles in the household but in the end do whatever Rudy wants. It's even hinted that yuri stuff happens because Rudy wants to watch Sylphy and Roxy play with each other, even though they have no interest in doing so otherwise. Eris is prob the only exception, he can't get her to do anything except with him because she takes over during sex and doesn't want to share.
You can argue that medieval societies would raise their daughters to be submissive and obedient to their husbands, and that a woman should hold on to a powerful man no matter what. Why the trope of a young girl being repulsed by a fat husband is so dumb, to people who don't get enough food a fat man means he eats well, so a woman would find him very attractive. In a society where harems are the norm, why should it be surprising to find the girls ok with it?
Problems show up in Harems when everyone gets older, the girls get fat from age and childbirth, and the husband brings in a young girl to add to the harem. Of course, the older wives are upset because they know they are being replaced and won't be nice to the new girl. At least in anime this is presented as a dick move by the man and makes him out to be a selfish ass. I see Rudy doing this eventually, he's just that selfish.
