/lit/ - Literature

>>22063422
Actually, Blue Core also counts, although there's no action until late into the story

>>20994436
>Paranoid mage not having teenage mc and "girls" and the useless drama that comes with it makes such a huge difference
Paranoid Mage's previous work, Blue Core, was literally a harem Litrpg. And it was actually a better story than Paranoid Mage, so that's that, I guess.

>>20518748
>Isnt this just another story which falls under the "harem fetish story" category? Perhaps i remember it wrong, but i dropped it when a girl got on his rape chair (but it was 100% okay, she liked it!) and every male character was evil, while every female character was either in need of rescue or suddenly really interested in the little dungeon core. But i dropped it quite early to be fair.

The 'rape chair' is probably the most questionable the story gets, but the dungeon being 'blue' (meaning it binds with its partner instead of raping hundreds of people) is part of the premise, and people call Blue Core 'consentacles' a lot. There isn't really that much sex in it, and while it does look like a harem from the side view, as a person that read a lot of harems I don't think Blue Core is one, even if at the end there are three wives. There aren't any real harem dynamics, no focus on 'acquiring' new mates (the dungeon doesn't even want to have new ones), sex is very sporadic and mostly serves the plot. I think the author even said the story would have been better if he didn't write it with NSFW elements in mind.

The focus of Blue Core is one: rationalistic exploitation of magic and science to create things not seen before and craft weapons to make the world tremble. There is a significant element of 'kingdom building,' but it's mostly the dungeon getting more and more powerful with its resources. Admittedly, the erotic elements were really compelling to me, but I don't think they are a problem if you aren't reading for them, likely not even the main readerbase was focused on them.

Trust me in this: this isn't a Harem fetish story, it shares almost no elements with typical harem stories aside of slight emphasis on NSFW aspects and more than one 'partner.' It would be a shame if a story as good as Blue Core got relegated to 'another Harem story,' especially now that it's finished and available polished on Amazon.