Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-104.183.122.16-20150803060404/@comment-29602226-20181006020653

@GreebleClown,

I mentioned those reverse harems because I think a gender-swapped MGE would be very similar to them.. The regular MGE is very similar to one of those isekai harems with elves and beastgirls, and the gender-swapped MGE would be similar to a reverse-harem isekai...

There is another sub-genre of isekai in which the japanese girl reincarnates not as the heroine, but as the villainess of the story, and they lampshade how stupid those harems are...

In one of them, "Fiancée’s Observation Log of the Self-proclaimed Villainess" the isekai'ed girl confesses everything to the prince on their first meeting, and tells him that she won't get in the way of their (the prince and the heroine's) love, and the prince is like "So you are saying that me and all my high-ranking friends are going to fall SO madly in love with some floozy who flirts with every attractive man she meets, engaged or not, that we will accept to share her as her reversed harem?! That can only be mind contro!"

In "Otome Game no Hametsu Flag shika nai Akuyaku Reijou ni Tensei shite shimatta..." the iseka'ed  girl reincarnated as villainess tries to save her life by being nice to everybody (so she won't be punished at the end of "the game"), and unwillingly usurps the role of protagonist and becomes the focus of the harem without even realizing it... not just the original harem members fall for her, but the heroine, her love rivals, several secondary characters and the villains all fall in love with her, but she is so dense she doesn't realize it...