After this ch 129, it should be pretty clear: two chicks fight for the protagonist and they go to the amusement part together.
He has a loli girl master who is playful with him in general and shows him some affection. The two girls from before even give him some fit for the master giving him a kiss.
His friend's sister trains him and they have some chemistry.
And after all of these he has a girlfriend too.
Oh, and he can summon his own upgradable loli.

While I had fun with the late Akiradesu arguing for the addition of the tag before the time was right, I'm very much inclined to agree with this. At the very latest, the time just before the class prez was kidnapped had enough female attention and romantic affection directed at Jeehan to classify this as Harem.

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If it takes until ch129 (and 3 years) to be harem, that doesn't really count as a genre

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Arguably so. The harem trapping should now stick for a whole arc or two. That would properly count as a main narrative descriptor. Write a request in a year or so.
None could argue about a lack of content by then. Shrug.

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A fair point. Despite going on for a while now, the harem trappings might be discarded pretty fast as well, depending on where the story goes, and it did take a good while to get there.

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lambchopsil is absolutely right on this.

Think about the effect of tagging this under the harem genre. The moment you tag a title as something, whatever it is, you're sending other readers to that title specifically for that content.

Do you seriously think it's reasonable to send people to this title for harem content? Harem content that doesn't exist for over one hundred chapters? That really seems like a good idea?

If you were a "gender bender" fan, would you think you'd been well advised on a title tagged as such but nobody crossdressed until chapter 129? I'll bet you'd think you'd been mislead, right? Hell, I bet you wouldn't even make it to the point where you got to the content you were looking for that was supposedly there if it took that long to get to it.

This one already carries the Harem Subtext category tag, which seems much more reasonable given the circumstances and still gives potential new readers a heads-up on that facet of the work without promising them a full-blown harem story that.....yeah, doesn't really exist, right?

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Vocal genres can very much change over time. Especially if we are talking about a seasonal web comic as here. The audience apparently liked gradual changes, so they could very well “stick”. The accepted harem subtext tag is already telling... Patience you must have, my young Padawan, as this debate could very well turn into a non-issue!
A theoretical A Song of Ice and Fire manga (a comic exists) or a chronologically published Berserk (i myself got a genre change approved) wouln´t earn a vocal MU Fantasy genre, and a bunch of others, if one could only judge by how they started, but history will judge the narrative as a whole. Wolfsmund or even Dragon Ball are perfect example of how drastically deferent a narrative can look over time.
Changes in the publication form or a sudden introduction of R-rated content is another matter! Why doen´t the manga have a Drama genre though?


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Yup, agreed........and, if in another three years or so, when you'd (maybe) then have roughly 300 chapters where half contained actual harem content......yeah, then you'd have a basis to consider it. Not now, and not even any time remotely soon.

You just shouldn't send people to read content that is barely a fraction of the percentage of the overall story.

Its not harem, but actually romance (with readhead fire girl)
Should add romance tag
Harem means the protagonist has some girls and he is in a relationship with more than 1 girl (but the only one he actually likes is readhead)
Thats why it should have romance tag

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