Technically speaking I suppose its tagged NTR (if it is), and has a NTR in the title, but the title has a revenge part, it suggest the MC is to NTR bullies in revenge for defiling his girl. But I would say that over-all thus far it sucks in the NTR department on both fronts hehe.
For most cases, NTR means Netorase or Netorare, while Netori is technically also a part of it. But in the last 2-3 years people started to differentiate. Mostly here in the west, but im pretty sure like in this manga or that one with the milf hunter manga (which is shit by the way), or that one Isekai "NTR" manga, it only get plastered in as to bait as much people as possible as this fetish is pretty much consumed there. However, netori (as what the MC wants to do here but fails) is mostly accepted while netorase and netorare shunned for obvious reasons. Im also sure this was taken in account from the author hence he also put the "revenge" into the tittle... but as you said, both of them sucks no mater from wich angle you try to look at it here.
We already have blackmail - question is to what it will lead. Her being defiled more, or it being some kinds of "push" for either MC with his revenge, or maybe raped CHF to actually talk with someone like police or MC?
Blackmail in the sense of dumb plot/sex scenes for the FMC/LI. As for your second question only the future will tell. He would be a total dumbass to ruin/sacrifce her more then he already did since there wont be any coming back for this character, but also make the handful remaining people even more upset. But you never know, I never look it from a logical perspective since we deal here with some authors who dont take this into consideration, let alone their own established characters and behaviours. Im probably bias here, but I say this from experience after reading a bunch of disapointing stuff.
Not sure about sympathizing with females in NTR stories. Fans always bash haters, and say that you should just enjoy the awesome art/sex scenes. Nobody really talks about girl, cause 99% cases the rape/blackmail is borderline retarded "hentai logic", like I have a photo of you kissing a dude, so let me make you my sex slave and destroy your relationship with the guy anyway, cause we all know you will fall in love with my dick/sex. Like those stories are either for people to insert themselves into cucks to feel sad, or into NTRing dudes to feel like they are the big deal that can sex-out girls from their loves. Nobody really gives a fuck about girl as long as she is good looking and sex scenes are drawn nice
. No clue on the non henti side of stories - I personally hate NTR mostly for its stupid premises in henti side so I don't really go into those on my own. Only by mistake if tags failed me, or I failed to check them
. Also haters of NTR never really sympathize with female chars either, they always bash them for being retards for letting themselves be swayed to having sex, then letting themselves being photo/filmed while doing it to the have more blackmail and never ending cycle, never opting for a better solution - talking with their love interests, or police/something. They mostly whine that good art/nice looking girls are wasted on trash NTR stories - part of me thinks so too. There isn't a lot of good vanilla out there, and artists love to NTR often characters from normal animes/etc too.
I think the same. But what I mean to say with sympathizing with a broken/tainted LI is that the common, cheap tropes are used to force some bullshit in like NTR but also hope that it would be still accepted. Obviously not, even less of a chance for a Harem setting as you already mentioned people will doll pile on her alone because of that fact alone and no one will care what dumb excuses the author tried to pull
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I mean the title and the colour starting page may suggest a harem, but a harem of "stolen/NTRed" girls. So if the story has typical henti NTR logic in it, all stuff including stolen girls fucking their original love interests would be kinda in place. As some NTRs stories actually even have the NTRing dudes make the girls go and fuck their original love interests, to destroy them mentally even more, cause they always are "betas" with small dicks/lame sex abilities, and the girl "thought to love their master dick" can't no longer feel satisfaction from sex with their ex-lovers. Which I suppose is used as a "seal the deal" - to show the girl she is already far gone beyond saving, next to breaking the ex-lover part.
It was marked and promoted as Harem on all sites back then. But after backlash the tags got removed as they dont align well, to say very very mildly. But yeah, it was going into a Harem-ish type of build up... but a vey messy and boring one. My opinion on this is the target audience didnt liked it and left as the story continued. I dont think people have that big of a problem if the Harem members got claimed by being stolen from their original partners. Heck, im a fan of this and this manga had this premise to some point. But it all depends how its executed and the fucker failed it so hard it still baffels me how of a retard you have to be to dissapoint the mejority this early on but also make them disinterested.
I dont think the story will go this far as the girls after being taimed by MC will go back to their boyfriends to fuck...or as I mentioned, the author is a real retard. However, what you described im very well aware of that trope as its very much used in many hentais. And I dont think even if this happens, it will have no effect at all for the readers, perhaps make then even more angry. The only scenario I see here is a live-cuckshow for the douches one by one, and this will be very tame as this manga dosent show full ecchi scenes. Which is kinda important if you have a "revenge" based story with the main focus on "stealing" their girlfriends.
From the way I see it, even IF it stays safe (which is very very unlikely), people like me had much time to think things trough and come to the conclusion that when even in their own best scenarious you cant fix this manga or that the revenge wont outweight the negatvies compared to the not-yet existing possetives (as they also take to much for it to happen), they simple left as what are the chances for this failed author make it worthwile.
He fucked up by the setting alone, as MC dont seduce them, he forces them to love him, kinda like he breaks them but that dosent sit well with many people, hence his prior work got more backlash as he put more and more pointless torture on the LI.
And the other we only have the girlfriends of the douches, which is not much but also not worth while since they are either used goods, have a unlikeable character or are uninteresting. Wasted potential by fleshing the douches more out (as this would make the revenge much better) but either giving them a crush, a sister or mother for every one of them.