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Nagasarete airantou seems like a generic harem manga to me.
I'm actually pretty surprised no one mentioned it.
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1 guy gets blown of his ship and turns up on an island without any male population (the males once had a 'males only' party on a boat and drowned) and all the girls want him. It's also impossible to get of the island because of the currents.
and hey,
do NOT mess with Suzuka
but it basically follows Love Hina's premise. One guy in a dorm living with girls right down to the hole in the guy's room leading to the main girl's room. What i don't like about Suzuka is how the ecchi parts were presented to the reader, as though it has no connection to the story. Take away the ecchi part and the story will go on just fine. Unlike in Love Hina where the ecchi moments are intertwined with the story seamlessly.
Its not enough to show almost naked girls at random, e.g. what's the deal with the 2 girls in Suzuka who always go to the protagonist's room just to get drunk?
Yeah, that annoyed me about Suzuka. In fact Suzuka isn't a manga that I would read a second time...it'd just be too frustrating. Love Hina I plan on reading a third time pretty soon though ^^.
Anyways, back to the original thing we're talking about, the general situation that the guy has in Nagasarete airantou is basically the general situation for half of all harems out there. Something THAT generelized isn't unoriginal, it's simply guideline.
Ugh...I guess that doesn't make much sense. What I'm trying to say is that...
You're making the argument that for example a shounen in which -> the main character is bullied, then gains enormous power, loses someone close to them, and ends up overcoming obstacles <- is generic.
However that's not generic, that's just the general guideline that most shounens use. And guess what? It's effective, and damn entertaining to read.