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You still have yet to realize, I have never said it did happen. I have said it could have. The only one trying to claim if it did or not, is you. I have said it is not outright said. But in many cases the author did want to say it outright but wasn't allowed to. Or they left hints to point you at a conclusion. Taking not of potential hints the author leaves is part of reading comprehension.You are correct in that I am adding a opinion as a fact. But that's because I'm not trying to head-canon relationships that weren't shown in the pages of the manga itself. You are correct, we can't say 'it didn't happen', but just because we didn't see it happen, that doesn't mean we can say that it did. ("The absence of evidence, is not the evidence of absence", does not apply.)
As far as the manga depicts, nothing happened.
And again, just because you bathe together naked with someone, aren't the least bit perturbed by either of you being naked in said bath, doesn't automatically mean your are in some kind of relationship. What are we, teenagers with raging hormones that go ape shit just because a bare boob is in full view?? It's perfectly possible for people to have absolutely no reaction to someone of the opposite sex naked before them! It happens in real life in Japanese mixed bathing, and being Japanese themselves, it's probably what the author or artist is depicting, just a average interaction between two people, whom happen to be naked in a bath.
If this is true that the web novel did in fact depict the MC in various relationships with the numerous female characters, then yes, 100% I am entirely wrong about this not being a harem. But I haven't read the web novel, and am basing my opinion entirely on the manga itself. There was no harem in the traditional, or non-traditional 'Japanese dense MC' manner in this manga.
And yes, I have read plenty of harem mangas, it's just one of the tags I actively subscribe to. From the slop, to the pure, to the mature, I've read hundreds of titles. There is MC dense where it's plainly obvious to us, the readers, that a number of females are actively pursuing the MC but he always has some kind of misunderstanding, and then there is this title where the MC shows absolutely no romantic interest at all to anyone except Sakura in the entire run of the manga.
If just the fact that the MC interacts with a number of different female characters, and there is the ever so slight wording which might, might show an inkling of interest towards the MC, then a manga like Ogami Tsumiki to Kinichijou should also be tagged with harem, as the MC there has also interacted with plenty of female characters, some of whom have had very positive views of the MC during and after thier interactions, to the point that a reader could say "Yes, she is romantically interested in him!"
And something I didn't feel the need to point out, the harem tag, the author has the MC as sexually active, yet also put on that tag. That very much points to that yes he is with more than one girl, but its just not the focus.
And yeah turns out that conclusion was correct, based on the WN.
Also no one will take you seriously if you have leave hysterics like that out of no where "
craziness. You clearly never have been to Japan. And know very little about mixed bathing. Mixed baths are pretty much entirely dead, and have been for a few generation. The only ones who go in are elderly, men or families in reserved baths. You will not see a single women in there that isn't ether related to you, or 60+. And current generations are generally too embarrassed to go into them. Even when they were more in use, people still react, avert their eyes, blush a bit. We are not talking some straw man of them being raging monkeys. We are talking about being a normal man, if a girl you are close to is naked, your eyes will get drawn to them, there is curiosity, so men will glance and then stop themselves and avert their gaze. Their is uncertainty of making sure you don't offend. Him not reacting at all would typically mean he has already seen her naked quite a bit enough that he isn't curious any more. That he has no worry about her getting mad at him looking to much. That level of relaxed is that of no ambiguity in their relationship, no mixed signals. That screams couple, not two close friends.raging hormones