What's the ideal harem size?

What's the ideal harem size?

Only one girl

There is no upper limit.

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Let's just get this out of the way.

If you watch harems, then you are the cancer that is killing the industry.

It feels good

The kind of harem where you have a girl for each 2D archetype, and that's a lot of girls.
Be it tsundere, imouto, ara ara nee-san/mom, ojou-sama, busty blonde foreigner,...

700 waifus and 300 concubines a la King Solomon

Mines a pretty good size

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this is the correct answer.

maybe like 40

One is ideal
Two is workable if they're sisters or some shit, but is still pushing it
Anything past that is completely unsustainable and devoid of romance

A handful

A 1:4 ratio of shotas to lolis.

Are you guys stupid?

Absolute madman size

They are cucks

4 is best probably

You can fuck one with your dick, while the other sits on your face. Then you use both your hands to satisfy the other two, or they could suck your balls and lick your ass

Oh I remember this.
So many great girls!
Kanon
Kazuha
Kaguya
Hikaru
Koyuki
Kanae
MIyabi
Shinobu
a non Tsundere Mio is fine too for her body

>What's the ideal harem size?
Argument of greed comes into play here.

Anything that is seen as nothing more than numbers will never end. If you desire a multitude of women, then you will never be happy.

There is a reason why mankind abandoned polygamy in favor of monogamy

Harems are fun to watch but it is never good in the long run

3 to 5

oppai

I prefer the 3 version where they all are on doggy-style and you fuck one while fingering the others.

>you will never be the lone shota in a milf super sentai team.

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Actually polygami was not abdoned.
There are still places where it exist, everything else is just a social construct.
If you want the human sepcies to survive on a selected group of people you will always chose a bigger number of women than men.
Logic demands that you will never chose an equall amount of male to females or a lower amount of women.
Also women statistically profit from polygamy if they are allowed to chose their partner themselfs.

One waifu and your own personal breeding factory.

My nigga

>There are still places where it exists

What do these places all have in common besides polygamy?

They all are third world countries.

Yeah, today it exists only in shitholes and for good reason
Survival is not about quantity but quality. Polygamy may provide more children but monogamy not only concentrates the resources unto a single child, but also allows him to be showered with love from both parents, which makes him grow better and wiser

Look. Even shitholes like Mexico have smarter people than oil-rich middle east

The size of your family tree.

0 males
0 females
1 billion robots.

2 wives is the ideal amount of pussy. if you get tired of one girl. you can just switch to the next for a few days. plus since its only 2 they're relatively easy to support with the average job as long as you don't have too many children. Anything more than 3 women requires some of them to get their own job unless you're a richboy.

This absolute madman

In terms of giving them prominent screentime and development so that no one feels left out at any point in the story, 4.

3 main girls that you establish near the start of the series. A 4th one to spice things up later on. You can add some extra fluff girls but they probably won't receive much focus.

You make the assumption that one is the result of the other, which is not the case.
If we talked about how they treat humans in general in those areas it would be a different thing.
Aside from that those places you call out were much more advanced scientifically and socialy then us despite polygamy, at those time we were infidel shit holes shitting on streets and reeking like garbage, thinking bathing would be bad for us and stuff like that.
The reason those places are now shit holes and not we anymore is not because of polygamy but because radical fuck tards.

That map is completely wrong.
I cannot believe Americucks have an IQ higher than 50 or so

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The woman that gave birth to you

see As said your example actually has no correlation to polygamy in regards to the society and past proved that polygamy is no reason for less success.
The reason these places are shitholes is radical shit tards being incharge of everything.
Sorry to bother your christian monogamic dream, but humans are also just animals (and no we are not related to penguins).

But if every man just fucked their mothers the world would go into radical population decline. How do you continue the cycle?

The point is that there is a reason why the best places in the world has already evolved past such an immature concept of family and rearing.

Mankind evolved to be monogamous out of biology, not society. Polygamy on the other was the complete opposite and it is dying out for good reason
>In any species, there are three main aspects that combine to promote a monogamous mating system: paternal care, resource access, and mate-choice;[3] however, in humans, the main theoretical sources of monogamy are paternal care and extreme ecological stresses.[2] Paternal care should be particularly important in humans due to the extra nutritional requirement of having larger brains and the lengthier developmental period.[31][32][33] Therefore, the evolution of monogamy could be a reflection of this increased need for bi-parental care.[31][32][33] Similarly, monogamy should evolve in areas of ecological stress because male reproductive success should be higher if their resources are focused on ensuring offspring survival rather than searching for other mates.

tl;dr
Harems are good only in porn because of the cheerleader effecty
But keep it out of some real romance

For a comedy harem, 4 to 5 allows for the best variety of archetypes, designs and characterization without cast bloating.

Most comedy harems see an appalling drop in quality after they go beyond 5, because the cast becomes too large to maintain a stable dynamic and balance screentime. new characters end up either competing with old ones for screentime, invading an otherwise stable scenario and destabilizing it, or being completely redundant and all-but replacing a member of the old cast.

Most harems become trapped in this paradigm where their only good, interesting or funny arcs are character introductions, and so they're forced to continuously introduce new characters just to have something to write about, until the cast becomes bloated and they have to find an excuse to sideline old characters (which alienates their fans) in favour of palette-swap replacements and create the mid-story cast replacement paradigm that marks the death knell of a harem series.

5 gives you space for the token tsundere, the submissive fat pig slut (megane optional) the imouto, the token loli and the down-to-earth normalfag that constitutes the direct competition for the tsundere. Optionally, one of these can be substituted for the goofy comic relief class-clown character or merged into the kuudere archetype.

Generally the paradigm is 4 main girls and a 5th that is either an occasionally-appearing side-character, or primarily outside of the main love situation and just there to shake things up and keep things exciting.

No, just not mindless sex crazed degenerates.

>there is people who actually think harems are good and take them seriously
Wow.

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Why is continuity important?

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4 ALWAYS., Maybe 5 if you're pushing boundaries.

1 of the harem is always childhood friend aka the worst character so that leaves us with 3 others to choose from which is gravy.

Just one is fine, op. See pic related.

is this a real character? from shiny days or something?

Between 3 (the minimal to be a harem) and 9 which is the max number where after that girls starts to become too derivative or forgotten.

Since 6 is right in the middle of the sequence i would say this is the perfect number, just enough to have a flavor for everyone but not enough to make some of the girls get overshadow'd, also even number so no girl gets to stay in the front in the promo images and make it obvious who will "win"

For the main harem, 4-5 is probably the best. But I think you can get away with 9-10 girls if you had them separate into groups.

I have like 200 waifus. I lost count anyway.

Exactly five. All the good harem eroge have 5 heroine routes.

I'm gonna go ahead and say 2-3. Two to three days a week for each of them, one to yourself and/or your male friends.

Plus the smaller the group, the more of your time to go around, thus they'll be more willing to share, and it increases the chances of your haremmates actually getting close to each other, allowing for peaceful coexistence and MAXIMUM HAPPY.

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Best

Strip battle days 2

5

Two

Tsundere girl who meets the MC in the first episode
Perfect housewife like childhood friend who still loses to the tsundere.
Kuudere cunt who has no chance at winning but has a vocal minority of fans.
Tomboy or trap.

>MAXIMUM HAPPY.
Alright i feel ya man

>forgetting the women who had you inside her for 9 months, whose vagina you came out of & tits you sucked

100 Yandere girls who are into BDSM

You talk about evolved, but bring in romance which is a social construct.
Human biology is actually polygam.
Hell the human male actually gets less and less interested in the same female the more often he it had sex with it.
The human female developed to seek a partner that raises her children and takes care of her, but to seek a physicaly superior male for procreation.

Where in hell do you take your shit from.
The cherry picked quotes from the bible your pastor tells you.

In no way the human has evolved to a monogamus animal.

Your use of reaction faces to emphasize your point only makes this seem even more desperate.

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3 is the perfect amount.

Bitch harem.jpg

>any of those three
>bitch
You don't actually interact with girls a lot, do you?

4.

More than that is too greedy and you wont be able to give your waifus the attention they deserve.

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Talk about "no personality" -the list

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As many as one wants.

Nice quads Muhammad

One of each archetype

Hopless Osananajimi
Genki
Mature and serious ara ara
Gentle one who gets embarrassed a lot and is somewhat slow in the head
a loli

Do you not realize polygamy exists in the USA?

Quads speak the truth.

You can combine 2 of them and you end with 4 girls.

Well yeah I guess, technically childhood friend can be any type except a loli. I just made a distinction because childhood friend never wins

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>romance
>real
Kek

See

Whatever size it wants, so long and Mc and main girl are actual lovers and the rest are just really friendly.

>and the rest are just really friendly.
It isn't harem then.

If you can't love them all equally you don't deserve shit. You're just not man enough to do it, probably a beta or manlet or both.

Why are they jewish?

>Pic not related

Kazuki loves everybody in his harem though. The slow growth of how intimate he gets with his harem is one of the best parts of that series.

Magicians powered up by jew gods

Best is two. Bigamy is best.

Great premise

2-3: your wife and 1 or 2 daughters

>not including his mother

Weak

All of them.

4

1 for the fucking
1 for eating
2 for fisting

I can see a pattern here

The shitposting over the uniforms would be amusing if this ever got an anime.

God bless these righteous men

>Revy
>Xenovia
>Iowa
>Ryuko
>Hotaru
My nigga.