
People keep yapping harem this harem that, but is It even harem? Like, I get that there's a bunch of women characters, but that's It. Other than the sword empress the other women don't flirt with him or anything? They're just normal characters that happen to be women, I didn't even realize It was supposed to be a harem(is It even?)
People are legit exagerating fr
I hate harem btw, It's the reason I can't stand watching animes like konosuba and other isekais
I just dont think this one is the same tho
My opinion

Well... there's mainly 2 kinds of harem. The normal one where mc have usually 3 to 5 woman in love with him and either competing or sharing and... the collector harem.
In this one theres less "romance" but the women are still interested in mc in one way or another. And even if they are only interested as friends authors still stuf a buch of ambiguous or "lucky" situations to use those women as fanservice. And in those most characters around mc are female. There's few man that interact with him, to the point anything that can have a human figure/image ends up being female. Just like his weapon... and maybe that owl in the future.
One prime example of collector harem is "the max level hero has returned". Mc isn't romantically interested in anyone for now, theres only one girl that's openly in love with him. But... 98% of people that surround him are female. Including his weapons and a homunculus.
Also... I hope I'm wrong but I read spoilers that he'll have 5 people he's in charge of and they'll all be female...
But honestly, just looking at the sword empress is enough to discourage me... cuz let's be honest, she is just as bad as the girls from those isekai harems you mentioned.
I'll keep reading for now because I still have hopes for it and I like satan... ...yeah that sounds bad... anyway... ISTG that if he meets the "real" satan and he ends up being a she... that's when I'll drop this.
Since i've seen multiple people confused, i'll copy-paste my explanation on why the title is "The perks of being a villain";
She transmigrated into a transmigration novel, so the original story the pink haired girl was the MC and Fredia was a villain, in the novel some girl gets transmigrated into Fredia and becomes the MC instead, so Isabela + their family becomes the villains of the second version, then OUR girl gets transmigrated into Fredia instead and is now the MC.
So there are three versions of the story
1.The original novel
2.The novel our Fredia read
3.The current story
Tldr; In the original novel that the original transmigrated girl read, Fredia is a villaness. After she transmigrated she became the MC instead and her family are the villains.
OUR Fredia read the second version of the story, with the transmigrated girl as the MC.
Hope this helps
Many thanks, i totally forgot all of it
thanks for this i was confused on why she’s supposed to be a villainess but actually had an MC role for the previous story