Yeah it was fun in the beginning, after all who never thought about being transported to another world where you ate a big hero with swords and magic?
But what the hell, I’m pretty sure there’s more isekai now than other genres/settings. It’s gotten to a point that if I see the tag I just move on.
I agree with most of your comment, but first off, polyamoury is a valid relationship structure. Now, I agree that isekai harems are boring and unhealthy, but you don’t need monoamoury to fix the problems with them. You could have a compelling and healthy polyamorous relationship with basically the same amount of writing effort as a compelling and healthy mono relationship.
Second, I fucking love asexual protagonists and Dr Stone fits all the bills in your comment except for the fact that Senku’s only love is science. Dr Stone is also cool because while a couple of characters get ideas about pursuing a relationship with Senku, they are all immediately disabused of these notions when Senku does something callous and unromantic. For example Senku wins the village’s tournament to marry the priestess, and the priestess thinks she’s going to have to get used to being Senku’s wife, and then he uses antibiotics to cure her pneumonia and unceremoniously asks for a divorce. The anime is 100% aware of harem tropes and entirely subverts them. Nobody gets led on, there are no awkward romantic moments. It’s not perfect, but it’s really good.
I have nothing against the harem situation, it’s fantasy, and since magical fantasy women never have issues other than the “I’m not good enough for MC” arc and are literally just there to provide some function in the main character’s life then it’s fine.
I just would like people to have opinions about what they want.
Re zero did a pretty good job of that. Obviously the main character is head over heels for the main female protagonist, but he also stated that if he were to run away from everything, which is valid because he’s only advancing the plot by dying horrifically over and over again that he would gladly take rem with him and be perfectly content with her.