Harem anime and manga stories have been seeing their unwritten rules be fundamentally overwritten, challenged and iterated upon in the past few years, and not all the changes are functionally sound. Harem stories have always been changing, but are now less concerned with working within a close space and are too focused on thinking outside the box. There is merit to innovating within constraints of unwritten rules of a genre and that artistry is slowly being forgotten for the sake of more drastic measures. Mayonaka Heart Tune is now one of the forerunners of this emerging market of quote-unquote “progressive” harem manga that already has an upcoming anime adaptation. Yet every chapter spent reading it, I could not match the same degree of excitement that others layering on heaps of praise seem to find here. Continue reading →
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