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Quit it with the self-hate, it's not like you have to watch anime in your smoking room while drinking fine wine with your pinky out. Ecchi/harem is fun, what are your favorite series and why?

>>67203

>There used to be more each season

Not entirely correct. I think we still have plenty ecchi, but like everything else, there are hits and misses

>but I’d be lucky to find one and there doesn’t seem to be one this season.

I guess that anime about the imouto LN lews author classifies, but it's utter garbage.

>>67215

Which one is this? It looks retarded enough for my tastes

>>67203

>I admit that I have garbage taste in anime. One of my favorite genres is ecchi/harem

I'd have thought that I'd be the same but in practice I don't like it that much. I think it's just that I haven't been watching good ecchi/harem anime, because I've only seen things like Hajimete no Gal and DanMachi.

>>67248

Those don’t have much in terms of ecchi/harem. Maybe try something like Kiss x Sis. It’s pretty lewd and just stops shy of being outright hentai.

I also like comfy harem anime where the girls decide to live with the MC and make him food and annoy him or they stay in the same dorm room.

I guess Hidan no Aria was also ecchi/harem

>>67205

I like them because having multiple females fight over a guy is appealing on a primal level. I like the slapstick comedy and just the absurdity of them. It takes me away from the daily routine and the drama of life with some light-hearted easy watching.

is it wrong to group all ecchi that isn't outstanding as 'ecchi series' and the outstanding ecchi as 'x genre series with ecchi'?

>>67203

>I admit that I have garbage taste in anime

We need more humble anons like you.

If it were another post-Rebbit cuckchanner making this thread they'll push more garbage as if it's the God's greatest gift.

>>67215

That white-haired girl has always been a Tsundere and interested romantically to the MC for quite a while. What separates her from other Tsunderes is that she fakes her emotion perfectly most of the time.

>>67238

Ore no Kanojo to Osananajimi wa Shuraba Sugiru.

It's just another mediocre harem anime in the 2010s.

>>67260

Good answer.

Harem anime are just like fast food, they're not a product of haute couture, but still are enjoyable, cheap and abundant.

I was thinking that a cool plot line for an ecchi harem anime would be where the MC has latent superpowers that are triggered by sniffing girls farts. So there are demons attacking the world and a secret underground organization of fiber-eating girls fights the demons when they discover our MC, a normal high school student. They fart in his face and fights demons himself with fiber power.

>>67392

>Rokujouma

Oh this looks good, thanks for the recommendation. I’m always looking for new ones to watch.

I like that trope in anime, where for some reason the MCs parents are away and the girls decide to move in. Hidan no Aria was like this, but they move in to his dorm room. Kore wa Zombie desu ka also has this trope

>>67203

>One of my favorite genres is ecchi/harem

>create harem situation

>either don't resolve the romantic cluterfuck or have the hero choose the shittiest heroine

Why do they even bother?

>>67393

It's honestly the best harem story around. The progression is natural, everyone goes from antagonists, to uneasy allies, to friends and finally the girls start to conspire together to get MC to fall in love with all of them. It also helps that the MC is actually competent, has a personality and life outside of the story and won't let the females walk all over him.

Be careful though, it's a slow burn, the first six volumes or so are fairly generic until you start to see the bigger picture coming together.

>>67520

>Why do they even bother?

To make us feel emotionally invested in the story. Even if that emotion is SHIMMERING RAGE

>>67521

>MC is actually competent, has a personality and life outside of the story and won't let the females walk all over him.

Well dangit, now I have to watch this one too. My backlog is increasing faster than I can watch it.

>>67533

>MC is competent

As much as I like harems, this is my one gripe about MCs. They are most of the time absolutely dim witted and weak perverted autists. They only rarely have spurts of machismo, but often end up getting their asses kicked and end up being protected by the girls. Or where they are perverts but for some reason when the situation arises they cower at a sexual scene, demanding that the girl put her clothes on.

There are some rare exceptions to these, though like Hagure Yuusha no Aesthetica.

>>67550

Shinmai Maou no Testament, by the same author as Hagure Yuusha no Aesthetica also features a no-nonsense hero, though a tad more autistic since it takes him a while to get horny enough to lewd the girls, though at the very least the story goes as far as depict these sex scenes.

Madan no Ou to Vanadis is another one where you can actually see why the girls would be attracted to the protagonist. He might be shit with a sword or spear, but he's a god with a bow, on top of being a pretty good strategist and politician, and fairly attractive. Pity no one competent is translating either this or Shinmai.

Tsuyokute New Saga (also not being actively translated - I'm starting to notice a pattern here) is also good, with the hero traveling back in time in a Dragon-Quest-like fantasy world to prevent the demon lord from winning. It's quite obvious the author put a lot of thought into making the hero behave logically (he has to be one of the rare time travelers that sits down and writes shit down so he won't forget).

Chronicle Legion – The Road of Conquest (also not being actively translated) is another example (this time from the author of Campione!) where the protagonist is both competent and unashamed to be intimate with the heroines.

Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari is another good example of a very competent protagonist, though this one is deep in the autism spectrum and it's only near the end that he figures out he's got the whole female cast hot and bothered after his seed.

I'd argue High School DxD also counts, if only because the protagonist is upfront about his goals, though the author has the bad habit of making the good guys behave like shonentards and never learning from their previous experiences.

>>67553

Thanks man good recs. I can understand the weakfag protagonist part since this genre seems to appeal to the otaku, but I do like seeing guys not be too omega male. There seems correlation to whether a female VA plays the protagonist versus a male

>>67553

Are these mangos or animus?

>>67521

I’m halfway through the series and it’s pretty good. I’m liking the retarded magical girl and the autistic space princess

>>67203

>But sadly this genre seems to be dying, perhaps due to SJWs or perhaps due to genre snobbery

I'd say it's the latter; I haven't heard any angry reactions out of ecchi for a while. It's not like there's a major shortage of ecchi since we've had plenty of it in the past few years, but I suppose it has to do with the tired isekai trend currently dominating the industry.

>>67742

As long as harem remains just one long blueballing session it should die a miserable death. Either committing to a harem ending or don't even bother.

Are there any ecchiharems that shouldn't have been outright hentai?

>>67416

What are some animus with yuri harems?

>>67745

>Is there any anime with a proper, non-"implied" harem ending?

Shinmai with the OVA is pretty explicit about it. Tenchi Muyo GXP ends with the protagonist getting abducted from his wives and "raped" by his mistresses. War on Geminar has the protagonist declare the flying castle a sovereign state populated by him and dozens of women all wanting his child. Tenchi Muyo would likely have ended that way (and actually does in the doujin stuff written by the original writer). Dual! Parallel Trouble is heavily implied to end in harem since he goes off into space with all the females IIRC.

Now that I look at it, most of the anime are Tenchi Muyo spinoffs. It's a pity the harem genre decided to opt for the Lova Hina approach instead of Tenchi Muyo. There would be a lot less suffering if more harem shows took their cues from the story where the protagonist fucking marries all the women and gets them pregnant.

>>67754

>There would be a lot less suffering if more harem shows took their cues from the story where the protagonist fucking marries all the women and gets them pregnant.

This truly is the worst timeline

>>67385

>paying to stream your own stuff

Anon, just use webdav. Granted, the UI isn't as nice.

Reminder that Eromanga-sensei is high art.

There is an ecchi harem this season apparently but no one talks about it and many seem to hate it… Conception.