Girls Who Wanted to Be Chosen - Oneshot
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They seem like very good friends
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VERY good friends
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although its not the best im surprised that this got 7.81 rating
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Most harems,if they last long enough,end like this,one winner,typically the very first interest they show us and/or the very first interest the main protagonist meets.
The second option that can find is actual harem endings,the smarter option,where each interest is securely part of the main protagonists' intimate affections,a lot of the higher tier ecchi series and up go this route.
The third option,a rarity but the smartest options,is the polyamorous ending,everyone loves eachother with no hierarchy on who gets to be with the main protagonist since they have many options,a bit more often in single gender settings due to ease of connection.
The reality,though,is that the true vast majority of harem series don't last long enough,they end quickly with a vague notion of who's ahead,they end abruptly because they're novel adverts,they end because they were cancelled through one way or another,and that's all before we take into account the scanlators who may not have even finished the scanlation that far...or it was part of the massacre.
However,as this lovely lil' oneshot shows,the story after a winner occurs is actually a lot more interesting due to how many harem rom-roms exist,there'll always be at least three interests,which means at least two left overs who now have to deal with the damning reality they've found themselves in.
And as "Too Many Loosing Heroines!" has shown,there's more then one romance battle occuring when you have a school full of hormonal teens.
There's also that slew of series where a loosing interest gets taken up by someone else,someone who actually only wants them with no competition,some even have all the loosing interests latch onto a new main protagonist who then has to figure things out.
The overlaps with coming of age and character growth focused series also spawns from these experimentations,some even have "harem"s where's actually just entangled feelings compounded by a lack of life experience,the real resolution shows them becoming actual solid friends.
Speaking of friends,the highly related trope is that the childhood friend rarely wins,unless it's the highest tier of ecchi,if not straight up pornographic,where she gets banged at least once,even then,she might get tossed aside.
So there's plenty of ways to work with the harem trope and it's many related aspects,it's now simply a matter of finding them and hoping they're fully scanlated,maybe adapted into an animated series with more then just season,the adaptation itself covering the whole story,and is successful enough to not be forgotten...oh,I can feel the 'Nam flashbacks kicking in already...
We have zero idea on that.
Was she the cool type?,energetic type?,cray cray?,dishonest?,scheming?,traumatised?,patient?,no idea.
What we can guess,though,is that she was either the first interest to show up in the "main story",the first to be shown on screen,or was shown to have known the main protagonist at some point in his past.
And therefore railroaded her way to victory after 12/120/300 chapters in the comic,who the Hell knows in the novel series,may or may not have been shown in the animated adaptation,maybe they're from a visual novel or a game,it all came down to her and no one else.
Not that the sporty friend and childhood friend care anymore,for now they have each other.
History will remember them as the best of friends,always together in everything they do from this point onwards.
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...Now that I think 'bout it,I wonder if there's a lesbian series that isn't a oneshot(I know of one other oneshot where two competing lasses become eachothers' favourite asses)which starts off like this...
May I ask what that oneshot was? Sounds like something I'd enjoy.
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Lemme see if I can find it again...
...so either I didn't see it on MangaDex or it's been tagged funny...
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Well thanks for trying nonetheless. There's also many things I remember reading but can't find anywhere
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IKR.
What I do is that it was two...pages or panels,the first where the two girls are bickering about each others' interference when trying to pursue the boy,the second where,after some time,they start blushing at eachother(I think holding hands)whilst using the same excuse.
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as an ex harem watcher
"wow the dude is so lame and boring, the girls are better off with each other than him"
now im a yurifag
"wow the dude is so lame and boring, the girls are better off with each other than him"
now im a yurifag
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I don't think this is exactly what you were thinking of but Ore no Kimochi ha... ~Osananajimi Triangle~ is a oneshot about a guy who thinks that two girls are pursuing him when they actually aren't. The Fourth Heroine is another oneshot about a girl in a stereotypical romcom plot finding a different way to make romance bloom
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