Just having a harem is not enough, he needs to be acknowledged by background characters too.
ITT: Main characters that are canonically popular with girls
Matthew White
Noah Morris
Jose Morgan
Well, he has good looking, charismatic personality, muscle body and comes from a semi-rich family, of course he is popular
Owen Roberts
Lots of MCs seem kinda good looking but are not canonically though.
Isaac Russell
He was? Didn't it take him getting that vamp bod to get popular in the last year of high school?
Animeonly though, so maybe I'm completely off the mark here.
Caleb Jackson
Mason James
Brandon Miller
Isaiah Hill
>Lots of MCs seem kinda good looking
The difference is Araragi actually looks manly while most other MCs look like faggots.
Brayden Bell
Araragi is more famous than popular, he is in one of the school legends for constantly being seen in bizarre unexplainable situations, being a weirdo and only having relationships with the most unapproachable girls. In the same way math was also one of the school legends for her scenes in school (the class wasn't empty like the anime makes it seem).
Ian Bailey
Araragi is canonically good looking though. Every girl at some point comments on his nice his body is, even the ghost of a dead woman.
Cameron Wright
We're never shown background characters in monogatari. They're all shadows.
Levi Lewis
Is this the reason why girls too like Monogatari?
Asher Morris
Juan Morris
Based
Leo Phillips
>that necklace
made me laugh
Kevin Thomas
>Hanekawa's face
Every time.
Bentley Bailey
>acknowledged by background characters too.
monogatari has no background characters
Lincoln Mitchell
Every single girl in town wanted to fuck him, some even RAPED him in their routes.
Ryder Turner
He is the exact type I'm not talking about, 10/10 fujo bait turbo Chad but in the story he is not acknowledged as much.
Jack Cruz
Yup so background that you only hear their voices but they do talk him up in Hanamonogatari.
Jose Lewis
Tyler Garcia
This isn't even half of the girls he's charmed.
Easton Ross
He took it too far and tried to get Cat even after an arc where he cheated on his girlfriend and left her to almost get killed if Cat didn't rush to her rescue. Then only helped his girlfriend because he got the "kill oddities in one hit sword" from his loli slave. His girlfriend is pretty based though, she made out with Cat as revenge. He tried to get Cat to live in his bedroom after rejecting a relationship with the prospect of marriage (though if you're thinking he is monogamous, remember he just got back from swearing himself to his loli slave and almost letting his girlfriend get burned alive that only Cat was stalling). Cat rejects his proposal and then Cat and his girlfriend have a month of "bonding".
When you get down to it, the dude is a pretty terrible boyfriend, no wonder Cat and Crab go on private "dates" together without him.
Hudson Rogers
He was already "popular" in a "whoa dude keeps to himself what a legend" before
Then he got nominated to vice-whatever, started getting it on with the sick girl and got stalked by Kanbaru, so he got pretty famous
Camden Hill
he only charmed one girl though
Ian Stewart
He was loyal to one girl only, you mean. That doesn't change the fact that a ton of girls were thirsting for him.
Ethan Edwards
Xavier Scott
Asher James
Bonus points for not being a virgin too?
Samuel Torres
Brayden Diaz
I see some good reviews I'm going to check this anime out.
Justin Ward
Landon Carter
She was this thirsty way back then. It scares me to even think about her state now that she's steadily approaching cakehood, on her way to becoming the perfect wine auntie.
James Howard
Kevin Cooper
she wishes
Isaiah Smith
my man kazuya
Isaiah Thompson
Yeah tan-blond-eyeless-san is an absolute hit with the ladies.
Henry Perez
Araragi is sexy af. I say this as a completely straight man I would suck his dick dry
Jack Perez
Sure buddy
Zachary Scott
Good look while still looking like a self insert MC at the same time. 10/10 design.
Benjamin Ortiz
actual perfect design, can look goofy and sexy.
Jonathan Long
Quite literally every woman in this wants his dick
Levi Perez
He's legit one of two male characters I've ever been attracted to. Him and Izumi Miyamura from Hori-san to Miyamura-kun. Although part of Miyamura's appeal is that he's supposed to be sort of feminine in look (super thin, incredibly long eyelashes, etc).
Grayson Gonzalez
Daniel Lewis
plus chad and 10-incher
Jace Brown
Shirogane from Kaguya
Ryan Long
Wyatt Price
Araragi is a scrawny manlet. He may look "manly" by anime standards but not manly by real world standards.
Gavin Allen
I actually thought this thread was going to be about characters that are popular with real girls
Adam Green
Canonically Kaito has a group of fangirls along with almost every female thirsting for him
Carson Wood
Ryder Nguyen
Battler is often called handsome by females.
David Cruz
This ugly son of a bitch is fucking super thick milfs
Tyler Johnson
In the LNs set in college where Araragi is now relatively less fucked in the head there are suddenly way more background characters than before. He also made a friend (female, of course) who he values dearly simply for being the first person he's befriended through normal means and not some oddity-related bullshit in ages.
Caleb Bailey
i think ill watch/read whatever this is from just for this cutie
Xavier Turner
He went to a prep school but was the closest thing there to a delinquent basically, alongside the stuff the other user said.
John King
>chadvaro
>ugly
Sebastian Watson
Fits perfectly
Colton Adams
You gotta admit he's usually making faces and doesn't try to be that presentable
Brody Edwards
The big three of the Nerima Wrecking Crew would all be top-level Chads if they weren't autistic
Adam Long
He's essentially ideal ottermode, except for the times where they forget how to draw that and either make him a skelly or tinytrip
not classically manly so much as a prettyboy
Christopher Taylor
I remember him discussing that with Shinobu once. Basically Shinobu told him, his harem is not formed because of some magical allure from his half vampire powers but just because he's kinda hot and a giga ultra Chad
Dylan Price
based
Juan Rivera
Hunter White
>not classically manly so much as a prettyboy
Too short and not broad enough. Most bishounen are tall guys with wide shoulders. Araragi is essentially your typical average harem lead in terms of body type who is occasionally drawn more defined.
Juan Ortiz
The peak of the male body is Sasuke
Michael Parker
Based and punchlinepilled
Cameron Wright