Battle Harem consolidated thread

I agree. Though I completely understand why some people might prefer one show over another and I respect their opinion.

>>139743843
Lead girls a cutes

Antimagic was the most fun, Rakudai had the most creative direction, Asterisk had the best ED.
I never got past 3 episodes for all 3 shows.

>>139743843
That pic is more heartwarming than anything that happens in all 3 shows.

Asterisk is plain-salted popcorn.
Rakudai is cheesy popcorn.
Antimagic is an assorted clusterfuck of different flavors.

I love popcorn.

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>>139743843
Stella was a high-grade semen demon. Everything else about these three series was shit.

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>>139744299

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I like the trend of almost every actively translated harem LN getting anime adaptations.

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>Battle Harem consolidated thread

I know I'm late to the party but is IS invited?

Laura is best.

Rakudai should have gotten a 2nd season, not asterisk.

And the other anime is pretty shit.

>>139744528
No.

Threadly reminder that Stella should have never existed in Rakudai. Would have improved the show ten fold.

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>>139744561

>>139744528
I guess. As is Mahouka, I guess.

I just didn't find any picture with more main girls. Besides, I haven't watched IS because I was told it doesn't ultimately progress anywhere. But I won't deny that some people may get fun from it, and won't deny them that fun.

>>139744648
Stop being so passive you fucking faggot.

>>139744573
Who would have been the main female lead then?

Shizuku's unlikely, the dojo owner's daughter is episodic.

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>>139743843
>tfw there's no image of last season battle harem

>>139744690
No romance. Just a 10/10 bromance between shark teeth delinquent and Ikki.

>>139744679
Hey, I specifically made this thread so that people can discuss several shows and have fun.

This means that I can't shit on some show I dislike since I'd be a hypocritical cunt.

>>139744739
>This means that I can't shit on some show I dislike since I'd be a hypocritical cunt.
There's nothing wrong with that.

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>>139743843
I like your guts anon

has anyone there actually checked out the world break bds? did they fix anything at all?

>>139744818
Why fix? The awful and stiff animation, made it all the more fun.

>>139744648
I started watching IS recently because I get some kind of weird satisfaction from watching stuff like this, even though they only range from bad to mediocre.
>>139744724
>shark teeth delinquent

he was so great

>>139744701
Which one is that? I am collecting battle harem academy animes for research.

>>139744836
i agree, but it would be worth a rewatch

>>139743843
I watched all three of these, and I feel kinda sad that this pic makes me think "Julis, Stella, and what's-her-name from AntiMagic". I can never remember her name for some reason.

>>139744767
Probably, but I still have a self-image to maintain. Besides, I don't have a strong opinion about IS since I never even watched it.

>>139744724
While that is certainly appealing, I actually like the Rakudai romance line. As long as they keep it faithful and don't add any extraneous girls it will be fine.

>>139744987
To be honest I feel like this sentiment is broadly true for the animes themselves too.

>>139744690
Honestly, most battle harems should discard the harem part. I know it's a big part of the appeal, but at the same time the two parts never integrate that well.

>>139745229
It's why romcom school harems are far better than their battle harem counterparts most of the time. There's no chuuni bullshit to bog down the harem shenanigans.

>>139744910
That's not a battle harem just a regular harem.

>>139745229
I've seen a good idea in the previous thread that they should rip off Ranma and have love triangles out the wazoo with several male characters and female ones, and the main character should be the lynchpin.

But that necessitates making relevant non-MC male characters, and shows in this genre run from this like fire, for some reason.

Can anyone offer an explanation as to why, by the way?

I have my own idea (several males would by necessity require differing levels of hierarchy, therefore one of them would be more extraverted and energetic than the others, therefore male viewership would feel alienated) but I'd like to hear your opinions.

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>>139743843
>and finally get along?
This is false flagging. This thread was posted in the hopes that opinions clashing would lead to shitposting wars. no one on /a/ wants to get along.

>>139745486
Imagine the NTR bait.

>>139745611
I am not quite following. All this needs is not making all relevant girls desire MC's dick. There could still be 2-3 girls after him.

How exactly is NTR relevant here?

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Bahamut has best girl Luno-chan.

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Polite reminder that if you want to take part in a playtest of an Asterisk-ish tabletop RPG, feel free to leave an email or skype ID I will be able to contact you with.

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>>139743843
Now that the dust has settled remember Mio sold more BD's and LN's than those girls in the fall season.

>>139746782

Literally who? No, really, who's that? Google fucks up on that picture for me.

>>139746940
That's Mio from Shinmai Maou no Testament. She actually earned her S2 compared to Julis.

Is Shinmai Maou decent? The summary talks about a demon contract going the wrong way, which sounds way better than anything else i've read.

>>139744987
Ouka a best

>>139746561
Did that ever take off or is that what the playtest is for? I'm curious but I don't plan to play much, maybe just watch/read.

>>139747602
That would be why I don't remember; Ouka is kind of a weird name. Thanks anon.

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>BDs had a few extra details
>The one time Takeru's armor wasn't CGshit they turned it back into CG
Why damn it, why

>>139747335
Sex sells.
There really doesn't need to be anything else.

>>139744179
I watched all three untill the end and I still have problem to tell which one is the anime with the correspondent title.

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>>139747387
It's a pretty decent series. The MC is pretty alpha and knows how to keep a harem and side bitches seperate. Just go into the series knowing the nurse side bitch is both God tier and best girl in the series.

>>139743843
35 was terrible. zero redeeming features after all was said and done. rakudai is terrible too. asterisk isn't much better but at least the art is good. too bad it dropped the ball at the end of the first cour as this tournament arc is boring as fuck

>>139747387
First season was decent enough and entertaining. Second season was utter shit and the show essentially turned into Bleach with tits.

>>139747669
I have a rough draft and a pile of notes, so the playtest is basically to see what works and what doesn't. It didn't take off YET, but I have about two prospective players. I will probably make a thread if it pans out into something interesting.

>>139748459
>zero redeeming features
Had the best OST and voice cast.

>>139748688
>voice cast.

nope. names are meaningless when the roles/lines they perform are trash

>>139748688
>best OST
>AntiMagic
Nope, that honor belongs to Asterisk with the S1 ED "Waiting for the Rain"

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Would it hurt battle harem LN authors to try and change their formula a little?

I mean, once you've seen one series, you've seen them all.

>>139748688
Asterisk has a better VA ensemble. i hate 35's MC's voice. that guy is a shittty seiyuu

>>139748721
Compared to the other 3 that season, it still had the best.

>>139748800
>Hating Hosoya
I don't know where to start
>>139748777
I could barely remember any tracks from s1 of the show itself to be honest so I can't really agree with that.

>>139748825
are you shitting? aside from ryoko shiraishi the primary cast is made up of fucking nobodies. completely unmemorable performances too. ooka in particular had a terrible voice

>>139748899
I never knew Iori Nozomu and Itou Kanae were small time.

And you speak as if the other shows had any better performances.

>>139748777
Literally WAITING FOR THE RAIN is the only noteworthy thing about Asterisk's soundtrack.

AntiMagic had a fuck fantastic OST in general that nearly rivaled K's OST that season. Not even mentioning CALLING CALLING.

>>139748688
>Shinichiro Miki
>Nakata Jouji
>Tsuda Kenjiro
>Kouji Yusa
>Rikiya Koyama
That and Satomi Arai out of nowhere.

>>139748777
Rakudai's OST was better.

Waiting for the rain was the best ED though.

>>139748781
>>139744648
Mahouka doesn't really follow the typical Battle Harem formula. Strike The Blood is pretty much Dengeki's only popular Battle Harem.

>>139746561
B-but I don't want to post an email or skype ID here.

I'm honestly not sure how anyone can say Asterisk is "best" for any reason other than "I liked this girl best" or "I liked the plot formula in Asterisk more". From the standpoint of quality in Art Direction, Script, Themes, Setting and Character Growth it was far outshone by Rakudai, especially when you can break them down almost exactly episode by episode, side by side.

Perfectly reasonable to like Asterisk more due to preference of basic presentation, but if you're making an actual assessment of quality it's either ignorant or dishonest to say it wins out.

>>139743843
Sure, but they are not equal. Antimagic > Asterisk > Rakudai

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>>139749415
Rakudai had its fights salvage its ass from a mediocre romance. I generally agree it was better though, S1 of Asterisk was criminally boring.

>>139749493
You say mediocre, I say realistic to be honest. The way that Stella and Ikki's romance progresses (awkward, stumbling with stupid drama) is pretty in line with how teenage romance goes. Even ignoring that, it's almost disgusting how unique it in that it's a romance in an Anime that ACTUALLY RESOLVES QUICKLY.

>>139748781
Based infographics anon, time to add Hundred here.

>>139749493
Touka vs Shizuku was the fight of the season.

>>139748781
The thing about Japanese authors and publishers is that they stick to something that is familiar with them, as well as the audience they're aiming for. By being more experimental, they risk actually not being able to bring in readers due to "the readers not being able to relate". Not only are they traditionalist wimps, they also never bother writing things that they themselves would actually like (a lot of actual great authors primarily wrote for themselves on the other hand).

It's the big difference between Japan and everywhere else, they stick to their predetermined formulas and rarely stray away, even if they or their audience don't like it.

>>139749739
It was really impressive for a jobbing fight.

But I always enjoy duels more without too many abilities.

>>139748781
Where's Shinmai Maou?

I don't see how anyone can enjoy any of these shows, they were all copypaste to me.
I always end up dropping them because of the lack of creativity in them,

>>139749493
As a self-contained story, Rakudai was actually quite good. You're literally getting what's on the cover. It's an underdog story about a failed knight's rise to glory. It had a satisfying albeit very fucking cheesy conclusion. But hey, that's enough for me.

>>139749866
I don't really watch them to take seriously. I mostly watch them if anything turns out different.

>>139749925
It's the cheesy thing that sort of ruined it for me. It still was the best from that season as far as adaptations go.

>>139749925
But see the whole thing was cheesy and uninspired, that is what makes extremely mediocre to me.
>Meh/shitty Romance
Check
>Meh Plot
Check
>Meh Overall
Check
It was just so lackluster in so many areas.

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>>139749866

>>139750561
This is true.
Color Wars Blue Hair was garbage while Blue Hair from Blade Dance was cute

>>139749379
Then send it to [email protected]

>>139749617
Just my opinion, but I think you're forgetting the first two episodes.
>in line with how teenage romance goes
>omg baka you saw me in my undies im a princess i hate you
>20 minutes later
>it's.. it's not like i like you. and you won the duel so im your slave and i'll wash your back and rub my boobs against you
Yea man, totally realistic, a genre of it's own.
I literally cringed and jumped ahead on scenes like that, and shit like the mall kidnappers make her get on her knees.. with no clothes!
It was forced garbage for a few eps till they cooled off on going over the top, even for a cookie cutter harem.

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How are you liking IS: Charlotte's Version, anon?

>>139751986
Painfully obvious and a few years too late.

>>139752075
>few years too late
For what? Charlottefags?

>>139751573
Looking back at it, that was the most unrealistic shit ever.
She literally wanted to start fucking him moments after the duel. How forced is that? The progress during the first few episodes was just awful.

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>>139752446
Even MioxBasara had a more realistic build up. It took the entire first season for her to decide she wanted the dick.

Stella was ready to fuck Ikki by episode 2

>>139752800

Lots of anons wanted to give Stella the dick after seeing just a couple pieces of artwork.

It's not uncommon to want to bang someone you find attractive.

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>>139752446
I dunno, maybe about as forced as Ayato being the one to wield a cursed sword that nobody else can control, but he's supposed to be lowly-ranked, despite people declaring him the strongest in the school?

Admittedly, it was unrealistically fast, but that's half the premise of teenage romance series.
I'd rather that than episodes and volumes of will-he-won't-he that demonstrates how frustratingly detrimental a heavy harem aspect is to a story.

>>139753118
That's fine that it was unrealistic but when people say this romance is realistic, they must be crazy.
The whole situation is unrealistic as it gets.
I understand that it works in the context of a shitty harem romance but when people say Rakudai was good because of its romance, I can't help but disagree.
>>139752942
But see, there's a difference of growing to like someone and love someone. Stella practically loved Ikki in moments

>>139744403
Kili and Vritra best grills

>>139753450
She was a princess that has not interacted with another boy or others at a friendly level being more isolated almost all her life. That and Ikki is attractive.

>>139755148
Are you serious mate?
I said love and like. She loved him in moments.
Big difference.
By episode 2 she loved him.

>>139755148
It took intense foreplay and 12 episodes for Mio to fall in love with Basara. Stella fell in love with Ikki in 2.

>>139749460
Haven't seen Asterisk yet but I liked Antimagic and Rakudai about equally

I like Rakudai a bit more though, I love me some swordsmanship.

Especially the demonic kind

Asterisk had a great ED and the second song from the OP release was great. Antimagic was garbage but had a great fucking OST and Lapis. I never finished Rakudai but nene was good.

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>>139755996
>Nene was good
excellent taste

Now that it's finally over can we all agree AntiMagic is the worst battle harem of that season?

The dialogue was terrible; the story was nonsensical; the seiyuu's only had one emotion: angry; Mari wasn't even that cute.

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>>139745742
Lisha is better.

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Rakudai would have been REALLY enjoyable if it wasn't for Stella, Anti Magic was okay got pretty boring towards the end.

I couldn't muster the courage to watch 3 in one season to didn't watch the other.

Thought the middle one was the girl from Phantom World this whole time...
Man these shows are entertaining/good time sinks once around but they really don't have much memorable to place them apart.

>>139755943
Funny because that's what Antimagic's MC is

>>139756641
Anyone is better than a homo.
>>139756396
Never stop with this meme

>>139757539
Oh?

I should probably pick up the novels honestly, I have Rakudai downloaded

>>139757332
>Thought the middle one was the girl from Phantom World this whole time
Literally no one in PW looks like that

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>>139757860
Antimagic's MC comes from a fucked up family. Males are born with souls of demons with bodies of humans while the reverse applies for females and they're usually a host for a demonic flesh monster. The only reason they're sword-autists are mostly because it's an effective method of discipline.

Antimagic thankfully has plot outside of tournament settings.

Reminder that the last episode of Antimagic really existed and was not a figment of your nightmarish imagination.

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>>139758011
I'm more angry that episode 9 exists.
What need was there for filler for a fanservice episode that was full QUALITY

>>139758011
Jokes on you I watched it via rawstream and never downloaded it subbed so its in a weird limbo state of only sort of existing.

>>139757948
>HAHA TIME FOR A TOURNAMENT AR-
>Haunted suddenly appears and massacres everyone
>tournament arc abruptly concluded

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>>139758011
What were they thinking?

>>139758145
Not to mention arcs for male characters

Saving from ninth page

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>>139759795
Let it die
We're going to have the same discussion every Saturday and Monday.

>>139758011
>anime original ending force no season two
It's too bad with how all the cool stuff happens afterwards. Yanagimi knows how to push my buttons.
>I like tonfas
>he includes tonfa
Truly a mad man.

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>>139756641
Krul is better.

Is Bahamut worth watching? I'll be having several hours without internet tomorrow, might as well download it if it's not utter shit.

>>139743843
Anti-Magic was the most despair inducing one, and thus the one I remember the most out of the three.

>>139747996
The fuck, why? Why do this?

>>139763323
>despair
HAUNTED HIJACK LOL

>>139755943
But Takeru is better than Ikki with the sword, like way better. Come back when Ikki gets a nuke sword.

>>139756396
I admire your determination to shit post anon, never change.

>>139758145
Haunted is truly the best boy.

>>139763493
Haunted is best director!

anti-magic has the best source material of the 3 as it's the only one to have a plot besides muh tournament or muh shitty romance/harem antics. however, it has a shit adaptation

asterisk has the best adaptation, but the source is average when it comes to characters and action. the tournament is muh but at least makes some sense.

rakudai's adaptation is only a step above anti-magics, and the source as a whole is ridiculous. from the shitty romance to the muh japan won ww2 timeline to jobbing of side characters who would make better MC's. the only saving grace was how the action looked, in spite of how brokenly hax and asspully every fight was. oh yeah and shark boy deserved to be in a better series.

Adaptation-wise: Asterisk > Rakudai > Taimadou
Harem: Asterisk > Taimadou > Rakudai
MC: Taimadou > Asterisk > Rakudai
Main Girls: Julis > Ouka > Stella
Best Girls: Mari > Shizuku > Kirin
Plot: Taimadou > Rakudai > Asterisk
OP: Asterisk = Taimadou > Rakudai
ED: Asterisk > Taimadou > Rakudai
OST: Taimadou > Rakudai > Asterisk
Animation: Asterisk > Rakudai > Taimadou
Battles: Rakudai > Asterisk > Taimadou
Fanbase: Taimadou > Asterisk > Rakudai

>>139764443
Asterisk having the bets harem, are you drunk? Plus Ouka is way better than Julis.

>>139764489

>Kirin
>Ernesta
>Slyvia
>immortal chinese loli
>Claudia
>Vampire twins
>Flora

Asterisk harem is pretty god-tier, Taimadou one is too, literally.

>>139764443
> rakudai having a plot
> shizuku over kirin
> juils over ouka, not being tied

everything else is ok

>>139764443
Why not go deeper?

Include Fafnir, Shinmai, World Break and whatever else I forgot.

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>>139764489
Asterisk' harem includes the awesome side characters, so it can't be helped.

Ouka might have been better before second cour of season 1. Now Julis takes the lead with her recent showing.

>>139764595
Sorry man, I didn't think the Loli and Ernesta were part of the harem.

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>>139761259
I personally didn't watch it despite being hyped for it since I'm a fan of Kasuga Ayumu. I ended up browsing the threads for images that caught my eye and just reading the discussion.

>>139761259
the adaptation is shit but the girls are nice, even the incredibly average first girl lisha

>>139764595
I hope Julis' crazy childhood friend joins, never enough of silver hairs.

>>139759864
I love Dirk. He seems like he has quite the stories to tell and relevance. Plus he can't be beaten by the act of punching in the face either since he manipulates rather than fights.

>>139765448
Dick Ebinweenie is the best Asterisk character, hands down.
A complete scumbag, because that's the only way he can achieve anything.

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>>139764595
Always remember the SMnK harem outsold your favorite battle harem of the fall season.

>>139765999
So did Utapri, witness how much I care.

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>>139743843
I'M STILL MAD

>>139765999
>next dxd they said
>getting outsold by born which sucked ass
sex sells, news at 11

Is anyone even watching Hundred this season?

Is it actually like Infinite Stratos or no?

>>139766161
Why don't you spend 20 minutes to find out instead of asking us to form an opinion for you?

>>139766161
It's almost 100% IS. I don't even feel like watching it because it actually feels like rewatching IS. I'll probably keep watching though and just lurk the threads when instead if I decide to drop it.

>>139765506
Best male characters, anyways. The path to greatness is a lonely one and often requires sacrifices and he's that guy.

>>139766289
So far Hundred doesn't have cgshit. And I know it's the same generic garbage but for some reason I feel it's better than IS and Asterisk.

>>139766094
Highschool DxD is probably the most popular battle harem, how could it not outsell Shinmai, regardless of how shitty Born was?

>>139766161
Funnily enough I didn't finish any of the 3 in the OP (I think i dropped them all at around 6), but i'm enjoying hundred. It's probably because I think the girls are cuter

>>139764595
And they're all gunning for Ayato?
That I wasn't aware of

>>139767220
somes anons swore it would out sell dxd because muh more not-sex. but they forgot that dxd also has a plot besides PLOT

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>>139767437
You posted this already

>>139766091
I don't quite follow..?

>>139767913
There were threads with Rakudaifags, Asteriskfags and Taimadofags discussing which series was the best one.No one reached a conclusion and it's still unanswered.

>>139768017
Rakudai and Asterisk got decent adaptations but their threads teared each other apart while the one with the best fanbase got the shittiest adaptation

>>139761259
Best character designs and voice acting of any of the shows discussed here.

>>139767429
DxD has a much more cohesive plot. It was never going to outsell DxD, but it was popular enough to outsell the other generic battle harems that aired in the fall season.

>>139768109
>better than anti-magic
anon please

>>139768233
*voice acting

>>139768282
Bahamut's voice acting was just standard harem series though. What was good about it?

>>139768311
i was saying anti-magic was better. it had hosaya and fucking kotimine. winner by default

>>139768233
>>139768282
It has good VAs, but their performance was shit.

>>139768541
As opposed to Bahamut's VA whose performances were just as mediocre?

>>139768541
>there performance was shit
>implying a bad hosayo or kotomine performance isn't still cream of the crop

nice meme.

you aren't the same anon that said their default emotion was anger are you?

>>139768638
more so. only good performance was krul's VA and celes'

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>>139767066
>>139766289
>>139767313
Expectations of this?

>>139768100
>Antimagic
>best fanbase

Antimagic threads were decent only because no one cared for the show.
Asterisk threads were only bad because of Rakudaifags shitposting.
Never really been to Rakudai threads, but I assume they're similar to Asterisk threads, with Antimagic hijacking and all.

If anything, Antimagic has the worst fanbase, thinking that the series and the fanbase are superior when they're just as shitty as any other harem show/fanbase.

>>139769295
I want to lick White's scar.

>>139770095
Not him but
>No one cared for the show
That doesn't seem to be the case
>Asterisk threads were only bad because of Rakudaifags shitposting.
And because no one actually talked about the series in there since not too many things happened worth discussing.

Rakudai threads actually suffered as much as Asterisk threads with Shizuku vs Stella. But that entire season was practically Stella vs everything

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Post cuties.

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>>139770407
Best thing out of Asterisk S1

>>139770216
You want the virus too anon?

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>>139770407

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I'm going to cum inside Kiseki!

>>139770095
Antimagic had the advantage of decent source material Asterisk source material isn't really as fun when compared and Rakudai just has bad shit.

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>>139771002
She is a demon and a degenerate, not your waifu.

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Cute.

>>139771002
I never understood the appeal of lewdposting. Can someone please explain it to me?

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I hope we'll be talking more about anal sex in upcoming Asterisk/Hundred threads.

>>139771082
No homos allowed

>>139771198
Where's the pic from?

>>139771199
>Luno
>Homo

Get a load of this faggot.

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>>139771073
Don't worry anon, I'll share half her burden! We'll have lots of cute babies together.

>>139771261
Bahamut
>>139771281
Stop being ironic, fag

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>>139771261
Bahamut.

>>139771198
Will Yoruka's ass be responsible for an increased wave of analposting in all battle harem threads from now on?

>>139771487
Hundred's larger proportions might change that.

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>>139771137
I want to cum inside you, anon!

>>139771418
Oh wow. You know, sometimes it's such a damn shame that nobody ever does hentai with story. Like, imagine bahamut or something, but the MC actually rails his chosen girl on-screen. After the romance developed to that point, of course. And then they go and have some more adventures together. And then fuck some more.

You could probably even compartmentalize the sex into OVA-style interludes which would not impact "clean", TV-broadcastable continuity.

>>139771067
pretty much this

>>139771569
B-but I have a girlfriend... Can we just be friends first?

>>139771574
Lux is allergic to the female body or has some deep-seated fear of it.

>>139771067
I don't think I've read a better battle harem LN than Antimagic tbqh.

>>139771632
Is her name Krul? Does she already cum inside your ass?

>>139743843
>Now that the dust has somewhat settled, can we agree that all three shows had some strong and some weak points, agree that all three can be fun, and finally get along?
yet chivilry wasn't a harem.

name 3 or more girls after ikki's cock. you can't because there wasn't. there was Stella and imouto. That is a LOVE TRIANGLE. furthermore, the MC choses the Girl in episode 4. and they remain a monogamous couple the rest of the way.

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>>139771686
>I don't think I've read a better battle harem LN than Antimagic tbqh.
Say stuff like that people definitely think it's some overrated shit

But I can't deny it's highly entertaining

>>139771686
>tbqh
Don't sully the antimagic fanbase like that.

>>139771686
agreed, the only battle harem ln that's kamachi tier

>>139771640
Now I imagine a battle harem series where this thing is literally true. Female touch leaves horrible gashes and aggravated burns on the MC, as long as it's not reciprocal love.

I sometimes wonder what would such a series be like if /a/ co-wrote it, as a gestalt entity.

Russian /a/ wrote a LN once, but it never went past v1. Was a SoL thing about cute robot meidos doing cute robot meido things.

>>139771739
>rakudai
>not a harem
>this meme again

who is ayase, edelweise and sara for 500 please

>>139771739
let me guess, SAO also isn't a harem too right?

>>139771739,

I wanted to mention that, but I thought that people would go

>muh Rakudai not harem fanboys

and basically have an adverse reaction polarly opposite to what you said. I guess one just can't win at trying to peacefully coexist sometimes.

Also doesn't the dojo owner's daughter lust after him? I thought she did.

>>139771763
Sorry.

>>139771751
>tfw we will never get to read haunted vs onii-sama

>>139772030
She does but she never becomes relevant ever.

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>>139770407

>>139743843
fighting game cross-over fucking when

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>>139772248
>yfw you main Haunted

>>139772093
>never becomes relevant
>shows up multiple times after the anime

as if being relevant or not stops you from being a haremette anon

Did battle harems kill the harem genre?

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>>139772433
No
Harem still sells

>>139772030
anti-magic fags and asterisk fags are perfectly capable of co-existing as seen last season. even some rakudai fags can too, just not the ones who think it isn't a harem and is better by default, even when it's plot is as bare bones as it gets

>>139772312
When the tournament setting discards a character after their respective arc, they really can't show up that much to be relevant.

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>>139772303
>Stacking HP
>Nacht
>Belladone Garden
Can't imagine how fun that would be

>>139772601
again being placed in the backgrounds means nothing, she's still a haremette, that's just the authors way of having his cake and eating it too

>>139772691
True but I don't she ever shows up again to interact with Ikki other than to cheer from the side lines

>>139768100
It was part of Haunted's plan, the despair was part of the true Anti-Magic experience.

>>139771002
Go away you semen demon-lover.

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>>139772958
>tfw literally who director is haunted
>tfw you get to experience first-hand despair from a shitty adaptation and krytyk pussying out as the series was reaching its climax

>>139772635
Onii-sama would be the best with Nuke Gun and Double Witch Hunter mode.

>>139748781
Jesus christ, I've actually watched the majority of these.

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>>139771574
You pretty much described SMnK.

>>139773074
Instant main but Kyouya sounds fun too

>>139773054
"muh i can't break the law by pirating anymore now that they're watching."

god i that hypocritical bullshit these trans keep pulling. fuckers need to learn how host shit off US servers

>>139773240
Kyouya would be great, specially since you would have to rush down to beat the opponent's fast once you start using Nero's full poison to boost Kyouya and his HP starts dropping like nothing.

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>>139772995
Kiseki is the cutest and the semenest!

>>139772113
The cutest.

>>139773299
Or stay ranged with decent zoning options

I just wanted a Sakamoto Mata ED2.
Its still ok.

>>139773133
14 here. I really need to finish Isekai Seikishi Monogatari though.

>>139773263
What confuses me is that he said he might be willing to translate it himself for practice and to share amongst family and friends.

Which goes against his previous justification of not wanting to go against the wishes of the rights-holder (not that they actually explicitly expressed those wishes) because he'd still be distributing translations in some form.

>>139773423
Bah, you mode change and use the poison and the tonfas and go all 'KUSANAGI!' on your enemy. Staying ranged is for pussies.

>>139773442
>Mata
>Japanese for "crotch"
Freudian slip much?

>>139773487
Takeru might have the biggest moveset in the game in close combat.

>>139773487
STANDING HERE

>>139773543
I REALIZE

>>139773492
You got me. I love cock.

>>139773591
YOU'RE JUST LIKE ME
TRYING TO MAKE HISTORY

>>139773444
aka he's a hypocritical faggot, which doesn't surprise me given his yp licensing dick riding.

>>139745486
To add to this, harem MCs are usually very static characters. I see that being a consequence of some kind of inner virtue or strength. MC sees a naked girl and freezes. He blue-screens. Why? Because he is so unlikely do have done that on purpose that he doesn't even remember to run away. He is worthy to have those girls because he will choose not to take advantage of them.

I think it works fine, but two of these guys would show off how boring they really are.

Magika no Kenshi anime when?
I want my semen demons animated.

>>139751986
Emile is actually trapception, right?

>Hundred
>Bahamut
>Fafnir
>Blade Dance

Fucking hell, is Infinite Stratos it's own genre now?

>>139772541
Does it sell LNs though

Will it get us more Oda Nobuna though

>>139773540
Takeru is a shoto-clone without a fireball, but then he goes God-Hunter and he has 10 seconds to nullify all enemy-specials and spam the nuke sword.

>>139772541
I wouldn't consider Steins;Gate as a harem.
I mean some of the relationships between the characters can be romantic but it's mostly friendships that they work on throughout the series.

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In the year 2122, humanity has entered a new age of peace.

National disputes of the old, once solved through violence, are now determined through battles between "SPers" (pronounced espers), utilizing full-dive virtual reality technology to enter the global network system known as the "Fourth Concept Hardware Actualized Network" to fight in virtual representative matches with weapons created from their words, "Materialized Electronic Message Entities".

MC, a student at the SPer Candidacy Academy, is known as "For Another Generation" due being unable to use anything but the most outdated Materialized Electronic Message Entities. However, his life is irrevocably changed one day when the heroine, one of the school's elite "Named Ones", challenges him to a match with her pride on the line.

>battle harem about battles between battle harem fandoms
>Rakudai, Bahamut, Antimagic, Asterisk, Hundred all have their own schools with cosplay uniforms

>>139774453
I can't throw enough money at the screen for this.

>>139774287
>Spam
One slash but that's usually enough
There are at least a dozen Double Edge style techniques too.

>>139774587
Don't you know, if you burst cancel 4 frames into the Nuke Sword, you can do a second one if you are fast enough. They will totally patch it out next game,but it's why God-Hunter is banned from competitive play.

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>>139774368
why are anime girls so cute when they're eating?

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>>139774845
It's a mystery.

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>>139774989
either way, guess it's time to highjack this thread

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>>139764489
I think that's debatable, but Julis is continuing her awesome streak this season. Since she will have more development than Ouka now, it's inevitable she will end up better.

>>139775099
That still remains to be seen

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>>139775099
>no Ouka and LM animated
>several threads won't be derailed with "Ouka was right/wrong" debate

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What does /a/ think is the most generic battle harem?

My vote is Absolute Duo

>>139772030
>Also doesn't the dojo owner's daughter lust after him? I thought she did.
never happened. somehow i think people forget she stabbed him in the back and tried her hardest to cheat her way through their fight. their relationship was never boy girl, but student teacher, only her father shipped them

>>139775447
Hundred, airing this season.

>>139743843

No, no, we can't. We must combine ALL Battle Harem shows together into a blender in order to create the ULTIMATE BATTLE HAREM.

The problem is coming up with a Gary Stu MC that is bland enough to handle it.

>>139775447
hundred is pretty fucking generic

>>139775672
It can only be Emiya Shirou.

>>139775447
Absolute duo had the potential to be great. If you have a harem lead as good as Julis and none of the other members even come close then you shouldn't make it a harem. Completely ruined it.

>>139775672
I kind of want a picture of all the Battle Academy Harem MCs posing together to see if I can actually tell which one is from which.

>>139775745
The other Asterisk harem members are great, though, they're just not great harem members. And they don't even lust after MC much anymore. Kirin and Saya got their own special episode.

>>139775776
Hard mode: just mugshots.

>>139775745
>The MC was such a faggot that the translator dropped it

>>139775809
Sorry anon, I meant Julie, not Julis.

>>139773442
no you dont

i watched half of it and dropped it last year. finished the rest recently and it only got worse

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>>139775776
Well we've got a starter.

>>139775940
There's another one of those floating around somewhere but the only MC I remember from it was the World Break MC because of his dumb hair.

>>139766091
>Expecting to a generic haremshit wins against others
You're funny anon.
capcha: pasta.

>>139748781
I need to watch some actually good anime but I'm missing some from this list so I guess more battle harems it is

Who am I kidding I love them

>>139775478
>only her father shiped them
>her reaction
>her getting wet during their training sessions
>never happened

ikki didn't give a shit that she cheated because muh she's a good person at heart.

>>139775099
Come back when Julis has a better arc that gives her more depth than Laugh Maker gave Ouka.

>>139775745
I feel that if they had Daughterzoned Julis properly it would have been better, just a dad protecting his cute daughter and fighting for revenge.

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So we've had the straight MC, and the pervy MC, what's next?

Can we have a double-reverse trap MC?

>>139776408
I'm surprised how much depth they gave LM too, with the whole Insect Cage backstory and being raised as Mimulus and Sage's adopted sister.

>>139776408
I don't think that's the best argument to use. After all, LM's development was done pretty bad in the anime.

>>139776542
How about a MC that doesn't want the harem or doesn't want anything to do with anyone? Like gives no fucks about the harem's or the world's problem but the girls still keep trying to persuade him into liking him?

>>139776408
>>139776609
I think he means overall.
If the Asterisk adaptation is to believed as faithful adaptation, it still might show something for it.

>>139776599
That's what made the arc so good, Ouka was wrong. LM being who she is made the thing very grey and more interesting.

>>139776609
I am talking about the novels.

>>139776639
Mahouka excluding the sister

>>139745486
>Can anyone offer an explanation as to why, by the way?
It's harder to make a story like that that doesn't suck. I know that most battle harems still end up sucking, but I think that's why authors still write them. It's easy and it sells.

>>139776542
Lazy MC. Doesn't pursue relationships because it's too much effort.

Tsundere tries her usual routine and he brushes it off because he doesn't really care.

>>139776673
>>139776693
The ranking posted in here is based off the anime though. Just saying.

>>139776609
Even if we go only by the anime, Ouka's arc that takes her from a crazy maverick that only wants to kill heretics and has her grow into someone who is willing to give a fair trial even to witches and wants to protect her friends while still wanting revenge is way better than what Julis had in S1.

>>139776542
Gay MC that eventually falls for the trap.

>>139776782
Ouka is basically a Kyouya who got saved.

>>139776776
Oh, I didn't actually see the post quoting back to it.

>>139776901
Well Ouka never had a rival to fight against like Kyouya did. Plus Ouka tried to save Kyouya multiple times because she understood that.

>>139776754
>>139776639

So 8-man with a real attitude?

>>139776783

That's radical anon. I've been writing just that story. Except the trap was a girl pretending to be a boy, so he ended up not loving her after all.

>>139775313
We had lots of that anyway, threads were 95% LNfags and we actually ended up discussing a surprising amount of stuff.

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>>139776408
Having more depth isn't everything. Besides, Julis' depth is solid enough as it is now. Flora just showed up in the anime so the next few episodes is going to explore more of Julis' depth anyways. You'll see sides to her she hasn't shown before on top of a better understanding of where she is coming from with her noble goals.

>>139775920
I watched it for the dark elf 2 years ago iirc.
I only remember that she was cute in that bed scene and nothing else.

>>139776950
By character parallel, Kyouya shows how both Takeru and Ouka would have ended up if they respectively stayed an edgy asshole and vengeance seeker. The comparison is fair.

>>139777064
This is true, I wish Kyouya and Ouka could have gotten a proper fight to really explore those parallels.

>>139777113
No point in them fighting really, I think. They're similar but even she mentioned that the people she fights to avenge are gone while Kyouya's is still "alive"

>>139774335
Alot on that list isn't even harem anyway.

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>>139776076
This one?

>>139779139
I only recognize the Fafnir one.

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>>139779139
Basara must be telling those losers how it feels to have both a harem and a God tier nurse as a sex slave.

>>139779139
Who are the two on the right?

>>139779647
Isuca and Absolute Duo.

>>139776142
If you want to go with muh better source shit, it was actually because training to be soldiers means not getting that kind of benefit in actual combat.

>"In the first place, there is nothing just about an enemy, nor anything fair about combat. As student knight, that is par for the course in our battles. [...] We only need to defeat the enemy in front of us."

>Ikki was very aware of this. That was why he had not exposed Ayase Ayatsuji's rule-breaking in order to win by forfeit, or criticize her for cowardice when they had fought, even though as a friend he lamented her actions. He disdained foul play, but neither did he reject it per se, and thus would not ask for fairness from an opponent. He was not a sportsman. He was a warrior.

>>139780436
>besides the point

it's all amount to the same thing anon

>>139775447
The Absolute Duo OP was pretty good

Did anyone get the Taiamadou OST? It was the best part of the anime but I only managed to get the OP and ED both pretty damn good but that OST mang, I need it.

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>>139782093

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>>139782302
Dozo
https://mega.nz/#F!AFNnWaYJ!AfieKq0BWf_xDRB5AFRT4A

>>139782381
Why has no-one made a creditless version of this yet? Has no-one uploaded them?

>>139782675
God bless your sweet heart anon, you've made my night.

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>>139782756
it's out there somewhere

My vote is for Arata as best harem MC

>>139744701
Wasn't there only like one and it sucked ass?

>>139783292
There was Bahamut and Luck&Logic the latter of which I'm not entirely sure was a battle harem or not.

Bahamut had cute girls and a cute MC at least. Leagues better than Hundred.

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>anons who fall for the main girl

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>>139783409
The majority of main girls turn out to be shit or just boring.

>>139783409
Normally I agree, but Julis is best Asterisk.

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>>139783534
I support this.

>>139772541
So what are those top 5?
I only recognize SAO, I am a pleb.

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>>139783409
>implying this isn't the best hundred already

>>139783743
One of them is "My little anon can't be this new!"

>>139743843
Rakudai had some cool fights, an Antimagic had a good chemistry between the characters, even between the harem members.
Asterisk was bland from the beginning to the end of the first cour.

>>139783409
But Enju was pretty good.

>>139766091
Did you watch the same series as i did? Stella won HARD, thats what makes rakudai special to me, i really don't get why your lumping it in with asterisk and antimagic

>>139776542
Wasn't that whats his name from bahamut? He was a trap for like 2 or 3 episodes?

>>139776754
Then everyone will rage about ''no-winner'' shit

>>139768017
the image itself implies however that they were all bad so it doesn't matter.

>>139776783
>Akhibara set abalze
>Otakos on suicide watch

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