Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-8.30.81.2-20180404230255/@comment-26018514-20180405015645

"It Began with a Death March" is a somewhat refreshing Isekai in that unlike most Isekai where the plot pretty much focuses on "complete the quests, fight the monsters, complete the game/escape..." the MC is a game designer who wants nothing to do with such things, and is more interested in discovering lore/Food, helping the people he can without being labelled the hero, enjoying his surprise vacation, and learning how to essentially break the game without wrecking everything...

He has a harem... but only in the spirit of "women he is responsible for/wards". Many people keep misjudging the fact many of them are technically his "slaves", but if you actually pay attention the very first girls he "buys" cannot become recognized as their own masters without racial discrimination of the kind that would likely result in their re-enslavement/death and the second set actually includes a character under similar circumstances who after attempting such nationwide change as abolition of slavery was apparently hit back by whatever limiters/meta-protection the world has to be cursed into slavery by the state, so his caution in not attempting such lofty social changes is actually warranted.

So in short, His harem is essentially a bunch of kids he treats as his daughters, and an oversexed lolli who would be the MC of a more typical harem anime herself(who he rather quickly turns down at the least until her physical age reaches her actual mental age, and unlike typical "white knight" virgin MC's he does actually utilize Brothels and love hotels with older women not in his harem.

That said, it is most definitely a power fantasy.