To sum things up / clear the garbage, baits et cetera:

Two definitions:

From wikipedia:

"Harem, hāremumono (ハーレムもの?), broadly, is an ambiguously-defined subgenre of anime and manga characterized by a protagonist surrounded, usually amorously, by three or more members of the opposing sex and/or love interests"

From mangaupdates:

A series involving one male character and many female characters (usually attracted to the male character). A Reverse Harem is when the genders are reversed.

Is there a male character? YES
Many female characters? YES
Are they attracted/interested in male character? YES

The hell is that?

I've read the manga 3 times, and i do not support your claim that it's a harem manga,
Even if he got female friends(3) so far, And they arn't even on the screen that much,

I've not removed the tag, but i would if i saw it.

Undeniable a harem? Dude he isn't even romantically involved with them, yes he is interested but they haven't really been shown to be interested in him. Only the sister but that is more of a teasing from her.

Akiradesu, back up your claim, else I'm gonna lock the genre field so you CAN'T add harem

A just ruler amongst tyrants

I don't care either way, but it Is pretty obvious that the author is setting things up for a harem route... Considering the type of writing so far, the author seems like the type to use fanservice and other instant-gratification plot-devices. And since 3 girls are interested in, or somehow closely attached to the main character by now, I really doubt the author does NOT intend to use them for harem/fanservice.

As I said, I don't care either way, but don't feel silly once it does become a harem.

You can wait for it to actually happen before allowing the tag to be added, though.

Until it develops more, I wouldn't put the harem tag in. Certainly possible and the situation is slowly setting up for it.

I think you should let the story expand a bit more before saying its a harem or not.

I know it's in its 44th chapter, but the story progresses kinda slow, and some of his gaming abilities does induce his recent abilities to create a harem.

[img]http://i.imgur.com/woQGxwm.jpg[/img]

Even here you can see the potential on how this ability may evolve.

So I think we should give the series more time before claiming it to be in the harem genre or not because of its story growth pattern. When the author decides to explore the romance in the series a bit more, then it will be best decided where The Gamer stands as a genre.

[img]http://i.imgur.com/CVYhjTy.jpg[/img]

The loli-nuna witch gives him her contact details for him to call her. He'll call her to get stronger abilities.

I mean, it's a story of character that continues to level up in life when involved in different circumstances, And now that his mother won't be around to interfere with his life, things should get pretty heated up.

So give it some time before concluding something as a genre. Because I'm sure that in some series a particular genre is born after a considerable amount of chapters.

Taking picture out of content, is a very strong way to prove a point to someone who hasn't read it, when obviously the whole content proves that he does not have any romatic feeling for her neither does she for him.

As i said before most of the female char are subs characters with no real romatic or attached feeling to the MC

As people in the comment section already said, IT*S way to early to put a harem tag cause female characters are appearing.

Since we're taking things out of context:

[img]http://s30.postimg.org/dt00o75kd/gamer_excerpt.jpg[/img]

SO TRUE IT WILL TURN INTO A YAOI HAREMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

or is it a reversed harem ?!?

Now to be serious went did any romance happen 😕
no romance = no possible love = no multiple love = no harem
unless the author plan to turn this into a smut or a hentai and I don't see that happening

Maybe there will be romance in the future but there is none for the moment.

There are three girls without secondary love interests, that have fallen for him or having mild romantic interest in him already.
Also harem doesn't imply expression of physical affection only, since affection can be expressed in a platonic way as well and can be rather pure. Taking into consideration, that they (people in the romantic 'whirlpool') are mostly young people with no prior romantic experience, and that Han Jee-Han is rather innocent and shy about certain things, further justifies the lack of 'action' while still maintaining the air of harem.

Oh, and not to forget, a comic doesn't have to be infested with sexual desire, like To Love-Ru is for example, to be a harem.

I hope this will help us reach an understanding.

Regards,

Akiradesu.

The hell is that?

Quote from Vudoodude

Since we're taking things out of context:

[img]http://s30.postimg.org/dt00o75kd/gamer_excerpt.jpg[/img]

That is a very good way to take things out of context wink

But back to the topic, seriously, no, a harem tag shouldn't be added, it wouldn't be an exaggeration that I was shocked when I saw this topic here. I mean, I can't even sense much of a romance in the manhwa yet(the nuna is just teasing him, she wasn't serious), how can it even turn into a harem 😕

Are you seriously comparing To-Love-Ru to the Gamer? For starters it is an entirely different type of genre and the girls are actually interested in the MC, and atm no female characters have fallen or are really interested in Han Jee-Han, yes they have blushed, yes a certain loli grandma has shown interest but that was merely her thinking he was cute, there was no romantic thing going on there. The sister is just teasing him and atm the other two girls don't even know him well enough, one blushed because he made a perverted comment about her doing "anything" to repay her dept and the other is just thankful he healed her for a moment for giving her the opportunity to hold a cat. The series has a potential to become a harem but atm it is not,

Are you seriously comparing To-Love-Ru to the Gamer

Read how it is compared before ranting:

comic doesn't have to be infested with sexual desire, like To Love-Ru is for example, to be a harem

To add, there's rather weird perception of romance/affection among people. If someone isn't sticking her breasts in your face doesn't mean she isn't interested in you.

EDIT:

"Harem, hāremumono (ハーレムもの?), broadly, is an ambiguously-defined subgenre of anime and manga characterized by a protagonist surrounded, usually amorously, by three or more members of the opposing sex and/or love interests"

The hell is that?

Quote from Akiradesu

"Harem, hāremumono (ハーレムもの?), broadly, is an ambiguously-defined subgenre of anime and manga characterized by a protagonist surrounded, usually amorously, by three or more members of the opposing sex and/or love interests"

By that definition, a lot of manga will fall under harem.

Are you saying that Acchi Kocchi is a harem since Io is constantly surrounded by females who are all(or at least mostly) romantically interested in him?

Same goes for Gate - Jietai Kare no Chi nite, Kaku Tatakeri since Itami is surrounded by a few other females who doesn't have a secondary love interest?

Just to quote a few from my reading list; Since I can't think of anything that can be even near harem by that definition in my reading list that isn't already tagged harem.