Greetings, here is our very special list for the day because when you're an anime character you just find it hard to stick to one. Come on don't tell me you've only got one waifu or husbando out there not when some characters can relate to your dilemma. Today I'll be counting down my top 10 favorite harem anime. There's a lot of them but these are the ones that I think you should really check out. While you're making a guess as to which title will top the list.
10. Rent-a-Girlfriend
Genres: Comedy, Romance, School, Shounen
IMDb Rating: 7.4/10
Seasons: One Season (Eps 12)
We start off with a recent addition Rent-a-Girlfriend still fresh on everyone's mind is this rom-com starring Kazuya, unfortunately, his happy days come to an end when his girlfriend dumps him. Angry at the outcome he decides to strike back at the world by using an app to rent his replacement girlfriend. When said rental girlfriend turns out to be Chizuru. Event flags get triggered which include a couple squabble a collapsed grandmother and lots and lots of misunderstandings. All this culminating in Kazuya declaring Chizuru to be his legitimate girlfriend. Finding themselves in a whole new web of misunderstandings just how long can they keep up this facade of being in a relationship. Fake relationships, misunderstandings, and heaps and heaps of comedy make Rent-a-Girlfriend a fun watch. The main character does have his share of criticisms but I finally find the girls enjoyable to follow and in the harem anime, you know who the main attractions are right.
You can Watch it on Crunchyroll
9. Haganai: I don't have many friends
Genres: Ecchi, Comedy, Harem, Romance, School
IMDb Rating: 7.1/10
Seasons: Two Seasons (Eps 12 each)
In our ninth, spot we have another comedy series. This time it's early 2010's hit series Haganai. Hasegawa Kodaka is a transferee who looks to make good impressions and some friends unfortunately for him. His expression and blonde hair get him labeled as a delinquent. So now that plan falls flat on his face even before it begins. However, as fate would have it he finds someone just as big of a loner as he is who spends her time talking to her imaginary friend. The duo then decided to form the neighbors club. A club tailor-made for people who have no friends and a way for them to learn social skills joining them are the cast that you'd expect to find in harem rom-com anime. The popular daughter of the school; chairman the trapping, the pervy freshman and much more will these social losers ban to get their act together or will to join the club just implode from the eccentricities present lots of edgy fun hijinks and comedy. Those are the first things that would come into mind when talking about this show Haganai does have its genuinely touching moments in between those over-the-top antics and I found myself thoroughly entertained when I first watched it. Has it aged well now into the new decade? Well, there's only one way to find out and that's to watch it and its second season.
You can Watch it on Netflix
8. To LOVE Ru
Genres: Harem, Comedy, Romance, Ecchi, School
IMDb Rating: 6.6/10
Seasons: Season One (Eps 26), Season Two & Three (Eps 12), Season Four (Eps 14)
Moving past the comedic school harems temporarily we start moving on to the supernatural ones and we start off with To Love Ru. Confessing is hard it really is it takes a lot of guts to confess and that's just something that Rito Yuuki just can't find despite being haplessly in love with Rito just can't spit it out. But wait it gets worse when one night the naked Lala Devolu crashes into his bathtub you see Lala happens to be the princess of an alien empire and she'd like nothing more than to marry this guy to avoid a political marriage. From then on things start to spiral out of control with more and more girls coming into the picture making Rito's confession to Haruna borderline impossible. Full of slapstick humor and a healthy dose of lewd moments. Tunaru is a winner for me, you won't find a shortage of sexy or cute girls in the show. That's helped to find the edgy genre in this heyday. I have to preface this and say that the anime is quite episodic and filler-ish but at the end of the day, it's mindless entertainment that counts and I find the show very satisfying in that regard.
You can Watch it on Crunchyroll
7. Strike the Blood
Genres: Action, Harem, Vampire, Fantasy, School
IMDb Rating: 7.1/10
Seasons: Season One (Eps 24), Season Two (Eps 8), Season Three & Four (Eps 10)
Up next is Strike the Blood. In a world ruled by three almighty vampire progenitors, there exists a fourth one. A thing of legend a vampire so powerful that he keeps the balance of the world in check. No, you wouldn't expect someone like him to be an ordinary high school boy right. Neither does Kojo Akatsuki but his identity as the fourth progenitor does attract a lot of unwanted attention to his grin fearing his capabilities. The lion king organization sends a personal watchdog the apprentice sword Shaman Yukina. However, mishaps and their shared awkwardness would bring the two together into alliance and deep friendship that's a good thing because they're gonna need every bit of power to defend Itogami Island against numerous supernatural threats. Meanwhile, the duo also has to deal with the suedes of girls that just seem to gravitate towards Kojo. A personal favorite of mine in the early 2000s Strike the Blood is your typical, simple and formulaic popcorn entertainment show full of action and eechi. A lot of cool powers some genuinely enjoyable character dynamics and a plot with a surprising amount of layers make the show a fun show to unwind.
You can Watch it on Crunchyroll
6. Date A Live
Genres: Sci-fi, Harem, Comedy, Romance, Mecha
IMDb Rating: 7/10
Seasons: Season One & Three (Eps 12 each), Season Two (Eps 10)
Next in line Date A Live. Spirits, special beings that exist and bring about disasters. There two ways to deal with them, option number one eradicate them with military force, option two date them, and make them fall in love. That spile basically tells you what you need to understand about this show. Unluckily, the contender this time is Shido who gets forcibly recruited in the organization Ratatosker led by her Kotori he learns that he has the power to deal with the danger posed by spirits. A really easy way that doesn't involve any direct fighting all he has to do is to date the spirits and make her fall in love and seal the deal with a kiss with such a unique ability Shido finds the fate of the world resting on his shoulders and it's all up to his romantic power to save the day. Cute girls' supernatural powers and a bit of fan service is a tried and tested formula and Date A Live is a testament to that the premise might make it seem to be one of those weird Japanese series. However, Date A Live really went the extra mile and actually come up with a rather dark and serious plot that managed to weave together unexpectedly deep lore and lore and a lot of twists. It's really something genius that only Japan can come up with and that's what makes this one of my favorite harems of all time.
You can watch it on Crunchyroll
5. High School DxD
Genres: Comedy, Demons, Ecchi, Harem, Romance
IMDb Rating: 7.6/10
Seasons: Four Seasons (Eps 12 each)
Why not make it three in a row for supernatural action-like novel harems. Let's cap the chain off with a series that's left its mark on the genre High School DxD. There are many words to describe the Issei Hyoudou but the most prominent and accurate of them would be probably perverted. Dreaming of one day having a harem of his own things seem to be looking up for him when he gets asked out on a date by a beautiful girl. The first date never pans out just ask Issei who likewise had to endure a dead by his date. Luckily for him, Riaz Gremeri, the school's prettiest girl and a devil finds him and revives him as her servents while subsequently recruiting him into the school's occult research club. Now in his second life, Issei must learn to fight and survive in the brutal world of angels and devils where danger lurks in every corner. And don't forget to mention the lewd moments with new comrades too.
You can Watch it on Crunchyroll
4. The World God Only Knows
Genres: Comedy, Harem, Romance, Supernatural
IMDb Rating: 7.4/10
Seasons: Three Seasons (Eps 12 each)
Next, we take a look at The World God Only Knows. Kemar Katsuragi is known as the god of conquest. The famed personality who can conquer any girl's heart in visual novels. In reality, he wants nothing to do with the world of romance girls and all that sort of stuff. After all, 2D is king, and who needs romantic partners when you have waifus who would never betray you. Thanks to his overconfidence he gets roped into a brand new mission with the demon Elsie as his guide he gets tasked with retrieving runaway spirits who've escaped from hell and want nothing but trouble. The only problem is that he can only do that by conquering the hearts of heart of girls.
You can Watch it on Crunchyroll
3. The Quintessential Qunituplets
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
IMDb Rating: 7.8/10
Seasons: Two Seasons (Eps 12 each)
Fuutarou Useugi is a poor, antisocial ace student who one day meets the rich transfer student, Itsuki Nakano. They argue but when Uesugi realizes he is to be her tutor, he tries to get on better terms. While trying to do so he meets four other girls. Those other four girls are the sister of Itsuki and he finds out that they are quintuplets and he is to tutor them all. To his surprise, all five of them are failing and he has to work really hard to teach them, and even sisters don't make his work easier. But he doesn't give up and make girls like him one by one and slowly even girls start to fall for him, all five of them.
You can Watch it on Crunchyroll
2. Nisekoi
Genres: Harem, Comedy, Romance, School
IMDb Rating: 7.2/10
Seasons: Season One (Eps 20), Season Two (Eps 12)
Who could forget the good old days when this sitcom was the talk of the town. No there maybe you consider the waifu awards and how they turned the community upside down. If so then you probably need no introduction to the story of Raku Ichijou. Raku Ichijou is heir to the yakuza dreams of nothing but living an ordinary life as fate would have it life for him is nothing close to ordinary in addition to having vague memories of a girl whom he made a promise to he also runs into Chitoge Kirisaki from The Beehive gangs. To prevent an all-out gang war between the Beehive and the Yakuza. The two are forced into pretending to be lovers, problem is Raku has the hots for another girl, Kosaki Onodera who seems to be a really suspicious candidate of the promise girl from a past whose memories. Well, what do you know must be tough being Raku?
You can Watch it on Funimation
1. Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend
Genres: Harem, Comedy, Romance, Ecchi, School
IMDb Rating: 7.5/10
Seasons: Two Seasons (Eps 12 each), A movie
Coming in number eight is Saekano. I don't know about you but when I was a school, I once dreamt of being a game developer something could have struck you and inspired you to get going despite game dev being an audacious goal for most people. From Otaku protagonists, Tomoyo Aki that spark comes from a fateful encounter with a girl determined to make a game featuring her the Moya recruits his school's top creators artists Sawamura and novelist with aha for his project. Of course, things aren't as easy as they seem, and to compound, to the rough start of the project the Moya finds out that the girl he idolized is none other than Magoo MacArthur his boring classmate for those attuned to otaku culture and with an interest in the creation process of media psycho knows a really fun watch it may not be shirobako or girlish number but the humor endearing characters and character dynamics do their job in carrying this show beyond. My initial expectations with the movie having just come out to wrap the series up. Now's the best time to pick the show up and watch you all the way to its conclusion.
You can Watch it on Crunchyroll
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