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Bakarina
I'm reading the manga for "Common Sense of a Duke’s Daughter", which has a bunch of bishies devoted to the MC but also one very obvious capture target. (The protagonist of the otome game is, of course, a vapid villainess. Clichés!)
There's practically a subgenre for that specifically for the Shinsengumi. A lot of the anime adaptations do forego having a vapid player avatar and just have the pretty boys sit around sipping tea. There's one of those this season. But there's an assload of them out there.
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I can't get into Bakarina. All the supposed consequences are too far off, so it's just a neurotic person ranting about what could happen if she were a completely different person, like if Quantum Leap was about a random nobody and Sam was a neurotic paranoid. I also can't shake the icky feeling that it's still a power fantasy where she has all the advantanges, except this time it's knowing everybody's deepest, darkest secrets, not to mention the future, but everything in the writing and direction just romanticizes what she's doing. It's also not like she's running into any blocks like causing what she's trying to prevent or causing something worse as normally happens in these kinds of Quantum Leap/Minority Report/Law and Oracle setups.
Other then that I guess I can't really think of any female protagonist who have an actual reverse harem like her.
Also I don't really know how to phrase the question in an intelligent or respectable manner but is there a anime or manga which comes the closest to the concept of a girl's power fantasy if they exist? I am really curious, don't mean to offend anyone
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
The daughter entered to gain her freedom.
Can't recall the name, but it got an anime.
Couple direct examples. Tons more if we remove the requirement for a character to be reincarnated/transported into another world.
https://myanimelist.net/anime/33966/Yume_Oukoku_to_Nemureru_100-nin_no_Ouji-sama
https://myanimelist.net/anime/34209/Meiji_Tokyo_Renka
There are a fuckload of the 'satire' power fantasies in both genres where the character is an omnipotent god but it's supposed to be funny because they either don't want it or are clueless. People mentioned a few in the last couple pages. They pretty much have de facto harems too, or at least a cabal of characters in love with and slavishly devoted to them, just not outright wanting to ride their dicks.
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38790/Itai_no_wa_Iya_nano_de_Bougyoryoku_ni_Kyokufuri_Shitai_to_Omoimasu
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37393/Watashi_Nouryoku_wa_Heikinchi_de_tte_Itta_yo_ne
There are plenty that are entirely female characters, but they tend to be fanservice things, either straight up T&A (Freezing, Queens Blade, Senran Kagura, Ikkitousen, etc), or the more yuri bend (Granbelm, Kannazuki no Miko, Noir, etc). Nanoha or Symphogear probably fit the bill. Warning though. First two seasons (of both) are great. Third season on though, the writing and action falls straight off a cliff. Also, in both, the few regular men in them clown all over the superpowered women constantly, which is especially bad in Symphogear, so... not exactly great girl power.
Did the incest vibe ramp up in Drakengard 3? There was that significant instance of it in Drakengard 1’s story, but IIRC, the only place it went was for one of the parties involved to go “oh hell no” immediately upon learning what the other was thinking.
And I barely recall much about Drakengard 2’s story other than Nowe being apocalyptically stupid, but he had no living family.
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
If I recall, the incest themes in Drakengard 3 are entirely in the background lore and consist only of the fact that
I remember seeing a quote from somewhere that Drakengard was about villains being heroes while Nier (Gestalt/Replicant) was about heroes being villains, or something along those lines
but yeah, the main characters in Drakengard 1 are exceptionally horrible, like literally pedophiles, cannibals and serial killers. They're saving the world, though! Wooo.
It is less helpful than you think to answer someone’s question with your cute nickname for something and nothing else
https://www.crunchyroll.com/my-next-life-as-a-villainess-all-routes-lead-to-doom/episode-1-i-recalled-the-memories-of-my-past-life-794619
The show was the 1st result on google for “Bakarina”, so I’m pretty sure that’s the official or widely-popular nickname. Kinda like how “Hagaren” gets you Fullmetal Alchemist, or “Konosuba” gets you God’s Blessings Upon This Wonderful World.
because there are a lot of titles in the romance-genre-style with a male harem, but not really any in the fantasy-video-games-genre.
So I'm a Spider, So What is a power fantasy isekai with a female protag but she doesn't have a harem.
Noir was the first title that came to my mind when i thought about female power fantasy but it's more complex than that.
ed: it's probably also a lineage thing because fiction with male harems mostly comes from romance novel/manga/VN traditions,
whereas isekai-game-fantasy has a different and very particular lineage compared to traditional fantasy that features isekai, like spirited away or whatever.
But in this case, the nickname leads to exactly the same thing as if the response had been “All Routes Lead To Doom”, so I don’t get what the issue is. It quickly gets you to the info, so I would say it does work to introduce it. A link to the Wikipedia article or a quick summary would be better, sure.
As for Konosuba, I suppose that is officially used, but that’s I imagine because it was so widely used as a nickname. Also, I just like occasionally remembering that the full name of that show is as hilariously garbage as most other light novels.
A KonoTuba.
Ha ha.
Ah ha.
the nicknames thing is a long held pet peeve of mine so sorry if i come off aggro but it really flared up here cause i thought this also
Yeah I've seen the first episode of My Life as a Villainess and it took me a couple takes to realize they were talking about it.
man that was such a good show
Gal & Dino ep2:
Steam
how are the light novels? i've liked the two episodes i've seen so far and i've never read a light novel, so could be interesting.
Not in ending D they aren't....
But in D2 and D3, they really are trying to save the world. Especially in D3, albeit through horrible means.
They are good, but after the first "season" is over you feel that the author gets a case of Kubo syndrome aka "Ok, now what?" so the following novels are less good.
Well that’s because of timeline shenanigans. Drakengard 2 follows off of Drakengard’s Ending A, whereas Nier follows off of Ending E.
Volume 9 is coming out in Japan in a couple days while J-Novel Club just started on the 6th so maybe it will improve. But if you are interested it is one of this months catch up titles for J-Novel Club members and part of their stay inside promo is a code for a free month of membership.