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Originally Posted by Nukerjsr
I find that...rather odd just because of the males who are usually in those situations. They are either dramatic, over-the-top main characters with amazing talent or they are the loser-like everyman who you just don't care about. It doesn't make sense why you would want to follow them because the girls in those series tend to be more dynamic and interesting. Especially with the later.
In a harem series...why do you suppose only the women of the series appear on promotional posters and scans? Why does the show seem to focus more on the eccentricities on the girls more than the male lead himself? It's like...why do we need a man in that equation in the first place?
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It's not odd at all, because the male protagonist is not meant to be an object of desire, but rather a self insertion. The girls are more interesting and they are the object of desire, but the male lead is needed because that's the point of view of the audience.
Not surprisingly, moe-loli-bishojo anime always targets to the Otaku, who are adult male with no social life whatsoever. They truly are the "male lead".
But when it comes to yuri, well, there really isn't any actual yuri anime. Yuri as a genre is a manga thing: Yuri Hime, Yuri Hime S, and Tsubomi are the only manga magazines publishing yuri. Other than that, there are a few yuri manga being serialized in seinen magazines (Girl Friends and Sasameki Koto for example) and yuri one-shots appears regularly in shoujo manga magazines.
IIRC the readership of yuri manga in Japan is estimated to be 60% male, 40% female, and not all these girls/women are gay. On the other hand, not all the male readers are Otaku, which is the reason you don't see any anime adapted from these manga.