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Originally Posted by Strahan
The interspecies thing wasn't what made me think it was weird. It was the fact that they are there against their will. Usually the harem protags will collect aren't formed of people who were kidnapped. Surprising, really, as you see slave harems pretty regularly. I guess buying/owning people is less problematic for Japanese fantasy writers versus using force to subdue them heh.
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It's because the one who took their freedom and forced them into slavery (the bad guy) is not the MC but someone else. This firstly makes it easier for the audience to swallow and secondly makes it more reasonable for the girl to have positive feelings towards him, since he isn't really responsible for her bad situation and starts on neutral relationship with her, not hostile.
Incidentally, the same logic can be applied there. Ignoring whether the loss of freedom is a big thing for the girls or not (believe it or not, for most of human history freedom was not a right but a rare privilege), the MC is not the one responsible for their situation, but the one that pulled them out of horrible situation and did everything he could to make it decent for them.
Btw. everyone seems to be applying modern logic to the girls, but depending on emancipation of the society they might have MORE freedom to pursue whatever field they want to now than they used to in human society.