Market Research for 2nd Serial
🕑 Added 2025-10-18 02:41:13 +0000 UTCHello! I am chipping away at various story things and realized, hey, I can do market research. So, for my next project, which is a romance, I'm thinking of having a lot of love interests. Maybe poly, maybe harem, definitely lots of people kissing each other. I have... ideas for this one. Otome isekai, bad ends galore, a spicy blend of horror and romance.
Would the cast of love interests being mixed gender instead of all-women influence your decision to read it? How many bisexuality enjoyers do we have here?
Comments
Kaoticice
Strong preference for poly over harem. Strong preference for only yuri
Hues Of Blue
I'm bi af. Bring on the bi harem indeed!
Morgan
My fellow bi girls out numbered again...
Gothic Catalyst
POLY YURI!
Anonymous
I don't agree with any of the options: I'd prefer full yuri, but would still read it if it had some male love interests.
Flaming Cat
Why would the 'one male' "have to be the MC"? I see no reason that the (theoretical) guy(s) couldn't be secondary characters. (Theoretical because ~40% of the patrons have made it clear that that would be a dealbreaker so it probably won't happen)
NeverSayNether
Voted for the first one, but that’s not to say I don’t like pure yuri. I like the idea of having complicated relationship webs to berate the protagonist with, so what easier way to confuse things than to introduce an outside element? It’d also be interesting to see, say, cis straight man in a room full of saphhic tropes — and more specifically how that difference could cause friction and isolation in the non romantic sense as others might more easily exclude them. They could be, say, a side character, plot important but not romantic important — a checkov’s gun of a person that’ll hang on the wall until it’s blown out into the open as collateral damage to plot shenanigans. (If you can’t tell im have my own WIP with a character with this role, so I kinda word vomited. Sorry!)
Lucy Severine
Poly Yuri please! I voted option 3 but I don't mind too much as long as it's not cis guys specifically lol
ProbablyLemonade
Seconded on this. I voted for option 3 but I would still read it if it was a mixed gender bag
TheLord999
I took option 3 but do as you want (tho if it bi I probably won’t read it much)
Valkyrie Rose
poly yuri poly yuri poly yuri!!!
darkmuch
There can only be 1 male, and it would have to be the MC. I’ve tried m/m. It’s just not for me. Yuri’s fine ofc ( I’m here aren’t I?)
Ani-Momo
POLY YOU SAID!? I'm good with either~<3 hype hype hype hype
jeprose
I voted for the middle option, but I do have a slight preference for a female cast, but it's not a deal breaker. Also agree with the other comments on poly.
Crows Danger
strong preference for poly, not in the "everyones dating everyone" sense but in the "not a harem" sense, at least
DMG
I'd be happy—even a little happier—with a bi harem, with the assumption that means that at least a few men will be kissing each other. Strictly F/F + F/M would rank lower for me—in a big group romance I want swords to cross.
V0lcano
I'd read it either way, but would skip smut parts involving male characters.
elijah pickett
I like poly way more than harem. One is inherently much more healthy than the other. (IMO)