Thread:Arima no megane/@comment-25787298-20160921170135/@comment-27247962-20161125195248

What's the reason, you should know, otherwise what is the point off keeping you from traversing new horizons?

Shokugeki sets itself apart from everything i've ever seen. A cooking manga pushing itself to one of the best manga's out there. I've never seen someone capable off making something like professional cooking, so intense & breathtaking. Although there's ecchi, it fits the delicious off the dishes the writer wants to convey to his readers as physically as possible. So the ecchi especially in this case, makes the manga shine in a certain way that isn't just to tingle your sexual senses. And on the harem topic. I've read lots of harem's and I never really understand why half off them are labeled harem. People like you who skip mangas when they see the harem tag, miss out on great mangas, while the tag isn't even that correctly represented...

A harem to me is more then one girl falling head over heels with the MC & being constantly showing affection, being clingy & fighting between each other to get his attention.

While I feel this definition would be more appropriate looking at the abundance of Harem manga. Harem: A genre that indicates you can expect multiple female characters in the lead from time to time who interact with the MC. This interaction doesn't necessarily indicate a romantic undertone, but can just indicate respect, idolizing or looking up to or just a hard earned friendship between these female characters & the MC.

It's not a manga where the Ecchi has as purpose to highlight the harem, as is it's purpose with most other Ecchi/Harems.