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Is there any VN you feel like did a harem route more realistically?

hey guys i just got sent a contract

as long as you do jihad you get a harem of 72 virgins

worth it?

Realistically?  Harumade Kururu's true ending... Draculius's true ending, Nanairo Reincarnation (if you play it, you'll get what I mean).  However, all three of those have special circumstances that intervene to make it both a necessity and a possibility.  There are also some VNs where the protagonist will end up with two heroines (usually due to some psychological dependence issue) that make sense.   In addition, there are also a number of chuunige where the main heroine remains by the protagonist's side even after he chooses another, and those can be considered to be so in a way (Comyu and Ayakashibito are obvious examples of this). 

 

Most VNs with harem endings are either nukige or moege that are almost nukige.  For every thirty harems in VNs, there is one that makes sense.

 

Oh, and the mecha-con one makes sense, if you accept the psychotic setting.

Nice, short and to the point. I couldn't agree more with most of what you said, except maybe the third rule, where you seem to imply that a man needs the permission of his kids to get married.. Which sounds pretty weird to me. Other than that, 9/10, cuz no mention of Arabs

Mmm... what I am saying with the children is basically an extension of the rule that you have to be able to pay for the children you have.  Health care, food, education, etc. 

 

Also, part of the point was to say that West never really abandoned harems, it just  made them go underground, like homosexuality before the last few decades of the twentieth century.  The Arabs aren't a good example because most Westerners don't think there is any solid common ground with them, which makes it hard to empathize... whereas most of the people here at least have some exposure to Asian culture (duh) and ancient culture (possibly). 

 

Edit: Yeah, it is a manipulative way of doing things, but it is the truth (about the way a lot of people over here think).  It takes a lot of contact with rl Arabs to get over a lot of the prejudice, and most people just aren't that open-minded (sadly).  I used to live next door to a Kuwaiti family (that mysteriously had two grown women and one man living together with four children... three from one woman, one from the other) that changed my mind, but that is an experience that most Westerners don't have the benefit of.