Harem Anime: A History 

Not to mention that it's also done fantastically! Sucks that he had to give it a quick chop ending, but UQ holder has been nice in a sort of alternate universe/time line epilogue way.

I know and the transition was pretty good as well

@@mrmxypltk I'm glad it's taken as an alternate timeline epilogue, because I can't stand it... it was fine until the protag revealed his Mary Sue nature and just stole Kiliplo Astrape in a perfect usage of Magia Ereba in his first try because of hula hoops... And I can't believe that's a sentence that makes sense...

I thought the faux romcom harem parts in Negima rather added to the experience; I didn't find UQ Holder nearly as interesting when I tried to read it - it just came off as regular shounen manga. The way Ken Akamatsu had to contort Negima's story to fit both genres at once is a recipe for originality. ("The school is under attack by giant robots! And they wield clothes-disintegrating laser beams! But this is serious world-threatening business! But nobody gets hurt and also there's cheesecake!")

@@Elyandarin Let's not forget the way they solve the problem - let's make an army of middle school kids, but we'll tell them it's all an attraction using CG!

This Genre was always a bit 'Oof', but recently, it spirlas out of control. How cringe.

@@slevinchannel7589 no not"oof"and it doesnt spiral out off control and of course its NOT cringe either so wrong answer.

It's Harem anime all the way down mr dude.

*Kingdom of Predators plays*

@@shikigranbell7608 That's not a counter argument your just giving another opinion which is just as valid as his lol I think its out of control as protag is basically so clueless they must be aromantic

Yeah, that perfectly sums up Ranma in one sentence. stil tho Ranma such perfection

@@MouseGoat We all knew the conclusion as soon as they met. The rest is just paradoxically interminable chaos as we wait for the author to come to the conclusion when the money dries up.

It feels hollow after a while. Ukyo was clearly a better match since she showed real concern and understood him the best. The others mostly focused on themself.

@@molybdaen11 Only Kodachi is a worse match for Ranma than Akane. If a murderous, honorless, manipulative, self centered sadist like Shampoo is a better match for your main character than the primary heroine, then there is a serious problem with that heroine.

@@Noplayster13 I think the point was he has to work through Her personal problems xD

I ship them hard

There was always so much drama involved when Ryoga was on screen. I wonder what would happened if he had an assistent to find his way?

@@molybdaen11 but then what would the plot do

Ranma is best Girl xD

Nice

Who are you? Identify yourself

This man watches too many Yoitube videos

18 i think

What about Louise?

@@ReaIHuman If you really pay attention he's only on a few very big channels which he comments on daily.

Good notalgia, and its pretty progresive regarding gender

I remember a white lion advertisement

My Pokemon VHS tapes had Ranma and Kimba commercials before the episodes. That was nice.

It was also in the back of all the old pokemon comics

I forgot, they also had commercials promoting...themselves. It had Ash yelling something like, "Not one, not two, but THREE! FULL! EPISODES! That's THREE times the adventures! THREE times the Pokemon! THREE times the FUN!"

Exactly. I was all over the harem animes as a teen. Definitely more female characters to the trad shonen one girl in the group troupes. But now I can watch my nostalgic favs but they are soooo cringe 😬. Really hard to watch when you understand a little to much troupe and pervert for pervert sake they can get.

i started watching ranma on a whim, and i am genuinely blown away by how entertaining it can be. it almost feels like a parody of the concept of harems, i know they weren't really a thing at the time of release but it feels like the show uses the harem aspect for actual comedy rather than wish fulfillment fantasies!

Tenchi and Ranma were some of my earliest exposure to anime. Loved them both. I remember watching some episodes on Tenchi out of order, seeing that the girls all had super powers, and wondered, "So, do they ever do super hero things? Or do they just hang around this house."

Yep. ranma is my favorite anime just because it is so funny.

This is an unpopular ship. Female Ranma x Ryoga.

I think it'd be more accurate to say Clannad is a harem anime and it crushed my soul

Need to give credit to Clannad. Yeah.

Yeah, Clannad was a surprising gut punch when I first watched it, but it was all worth it in the end.

I feel exactly the same about Monogatari. Harem shows are....... good, actually?

@@owenmaleski2203 Yep only thing in 59 years that has actually made me cry. Luckily As I paid full attention and have full background to realize everything going on from the very start I was lifted to heaven in final episode. And then amazed how every thing tied together. People only watch After Story they can't even get the ending better to watch the movie which takes out the multi universe Sci Fi Fantasy mixed with Shinto of the story. Clue Stein's Gate stuff going on but powered by spiritual forces. Very deep. On a simpler level why no both twin's route in Virtual Novel and of course no all the girls route with optional mom addition.

Seriously, tried to erase all of that and it all came rolling back in. My original break from harem was thanks to a soda can batlle anime off of Sekirei, and after the second episode I just "nope", closed my computer and stopped watching anime that wasn't already syndicated in the US for a few years.

Trying to find the good stuff that hadn't already made it to american tv was like trying to pan for gold after the gold rush ended. There was so much garbage. Just endless piles of it.

Washington along with Panthro is why I had an interest in technology. Plus something about that hairstyle of long, cape like hair was really attractive/appealing to me. SSJ3, Jairya, Lilly's mom from Pokemon, etc.

I agree, to this day I regret selling my OG laserdisc of Tenchi Muyo OVA, that I got from a friend whose parents often went to Japan. That was my first "real anime", not counting the ocassional Robotech, Speed Racer and Star blazers one could rarely see on TV in the 80s and early 90s.

This is similar to something like Bunny Girl Senpai, where the protagonist immediately hooks up with one girl and explicitly has no interest in any of the others, but it's nevertheless clearly a harem anime because most of the secondary cast is cute women/girls and he's bringing them home all the time, each one gets an arc, at least one of them is falling for him, etc. Going back farther, same exact deal with Kanon. In some cases, as with Air, I'd arguably call it a harem anime even though there are no romantic connections in the show at all, period, because it still has the structure of one.

"so is Araragi with Senjougahara" Ok it has been years and I dropped it after Nise but I remember Araragi perving and stuff with several girls (granted, he never goes hard on Tsubasa, since that would require him actually *doing something*)...

@@RbDaP Yeah araragi definitely fools around with other girls, but he never crosses a certain line and he's very upfront when it comes to state who he truly loves. This is very different from the typical indecisive oblivious harem protagonist that always tries to avoid the subject whenever the girls try to make him take a decision.

@@JannPoo i suppose it's a way of seeing it. At least to me, it doesnt register like that just by watching the anime (and again I dropped after finishing Nise

Indeed. Especially as the author mentioned Akamatsu's A.I. Love You, which to me always appeared to be a rather blatant copy.

Kind of insane 🤔

@@rolan.r call culture what you want 🤔

I meannnnn 🤔

@@BonsaiPop can't argue with that

Hui I live your videos featuring unique and great animes??

Yep Akumatsu got Done Dirty as Fuck Also Negima got more Shounen after 60 chaps

Not that uq holder isnt a harem, but its more about he world that the harem, that stays important as well,its just smaller. But its more action, and rest, but konomaru, and kirie are are a harem. Plus allthe others wanting to date him.

UQ Holder was a good watch for me, definitely enjoyed the world.

@@ghostphantasm JC Staff fucked up the Material

I know the closest we got were those OVA’s but they were more best hits from the manga more than us seeing the actual story.

The reason High School DxD is so great is that even if you strip (pun not intended but welomed) away the harem and ecchi parts of it, you still get a pretty decent shonen battle anime.

Yes very deep

I can only imagine how long they took to make the foley to accompany those physics.

High school DXD was basic AF. OP MC goes brrrrr and all the girls like him for no particular reason whatsoever. Yuuki Kaji was the same generic MC he always plays with no depth or intrigue. What a waste of time.

Highschool DXD gets way too much credit for its "great story and characters". It's literally only great by outright hentai standards or by generic harem isekai standards. By any remotely sensible standards is thoroughly mediocre.

Wait for real wow okay name every single chick in your Harem

​@@jameslazaridis4180 I won't write their names for privacy reasons, but I can give you a quick rundown: - Childhood Best Friend was, well, a friend since elementary school, though we got a lot closer in high school as some of my other longtime friends changed schools. She also had a newsboy cap that she wore constantly. - Nerdy Girl wore glasses, loved math and was in a whole bunch of clubs with me, so we did a lot of work together (including me being a key part of her charity project club). - Pixie Girl was always super hyper and loved pink things and glitter, but she also had other quirks, like loving dissections. She also had a whole character arc where I and some other friends figured out that her very annoying extreme-girlyness persona was something of a façade she made to try and be liked, and we helped convince her to just be herself. - Tomboy was another longtime friend who wasn't very feminine (really short hair, cargo pants, etc) and had an abrasive-but-in-a-likeable way personality that she got from her cop mom. She was a behind-the-scenes-at-theater type of person, if that makes any sense. - Shy Artist tended to be very quiet, but she was very good at drawing, and we bonded a bit working together at a summer camp. - Newcomer was a few years younger than the others, but we'd had a class and later a theater production together and got along well. She had a bubbly but mischievous personality, and a noticeably larger chest than the others, which I only bring up as further evidence that this was an anime. For the record, I didn't actually date any of them (we were just friends) but I WAS actually shipped with them. A lot. And I was kind of the only guy in this social circle. There was also the time I asked Nerdy Girl to prom as a friend (which was the climax of a VERY convoluted arc about who I was going to ask), and then an extremely anime miscommunication happened because Childhood Best Friend and Nerdy Girl have the same first name, spelled differently. It was a wild time.

@@michaelramon2411did they confess or do you just suspect them to have a crush on you

@@nou5382 ​ @nou5382 One of them did calmly ask if I wanted to try a relationship beyond friends after we had lunch one time and I said no, and we went on with our friendship like nothing had happened. (Years later, she started dating girls, so probably for the best.) The main issue was not so much that I was in a love pentagon as it was that we were surrounded by lots of opinionated shippers. In particular, one girl shipped me and a friend HARD, to the point that whenever she walked into a room and saw us talking, she would go "Hey guuuuuys" in this weird voice. Eventually, she realized that this was killing whatever shred of a mood there was, so she instead would respond to that situation by slamming her hand over her mouth and walking back out of the room, which still just brought attention to her and made it all weird. Fangirls, man.

I had seven and they all only referred to me as 'master.' The main three worked tirelessly to recruit more. If I wasn't such a prude I would have started a relationship with all of them but it all fell apart when I finally slept with one and made her my girlfriend even telling the others I was 'monogamous' so stop following me around serving me. It was very freaking weird and gave me some messed up ideas about women that took me over a decade to unravel and actually find a partner I could share a life with as an equal.

wait, do you hae any evidence of the Re:zero starting as a Zero no tsukaima fanfic? If so could you share it please?

I need to know if this is true...

@@matheusnunes234 I swear I anwered This comment....maybe because the comment included the link where it was said it was deleted Here ir goes.From wikipedia: "In the late 2000s, the light novel series The Familiar of Zero (Zero no Tsukaima) spawned a number of fan fiction on the website Shōsetsuka ni Narō ("Let's Become Novelists"), also known as Narō. Tappei Nagatsuki initially began writing The Familiar of Zero fan fiction on Narō, before building on its isekai ("other world") concept to write his own original web novel series on Narō, called Re:Zero, which began serialization in 2012." From what is said, Is like how Rick & Morty original started as a Back to the Future parody. Apparently Tappei at first wrote Familiar of Zero fanfics, eventually reworked some stuff or that inspired him to make his own type of isekai, and according to other trivia i heard of, Tappei already had Created Emilia for something else (what else? i don't know. maybe it was one of his OC for said fanfic, a DnD character, who knows) and then thought "it would be interesting seeing this girl's story". And thus, he eventually created Re:Zero and published it as a web novel on 2012

@@ianr.navahuber2195 That's really cool, could you send the link but disguise it as not a link?

@@frecio231 kinda makes want to read cross over of these shows now 😂

Just half? Not depressing enough.

True but Evangelion doesn’t have an anime adaption where it’s just about kids playing with toy models

@@BlueBlazeKing It did have a CG chibi gag anime, though.

I'm looking at you, *IRON-BLOODED ORPHANS*

@@BlueBlazeKing Gundam Build Divers Re:Rise: “Hold my alien planet beer”.

Well I've gotta know how that story goes, if you don't mind telling.

​​@@nathanfake9163he's lying. EDIT: actually I just looked him up and he happens to be a filthy furry. Which is worse than lying imo.

​@@yurigagarine6998 your opinion is trash

Best girl in that show, though.

I was in the middle of a house full of sleeping people and had to take a break to keep myself from screaming and waking everyone up. Oddly enough, I did end up rolling on the ground giggling to myself for thirty seconds.

Lol, I was like WTF when I heard that

He wasn’t wrong

God , I just commented on the same thing. I fucking lost it for a second.

Wait timestamp?

I love the Tenchi Muyo series. And yeah I kind of agree it set the tropes for a Harem anime, and none have really touched it sense. I think one reason why is that Tenchi himself was aware of the lunacy around him and tries to ignore it. Eventually he full on embraces his chaotic life.

It really is incredible how well it holds up, especially the original OVAs, compared to 99.9% of the things it inspired.

@@supersasukemaniac Plus Tenchi originally was more of a troublemaker and somewhat rebellious in the OVA. It wasn't until Universe where he became more of the typical harem protagonist.

Ironic considering that it's more than 2 decades old and it shits on most modern harem writing.

@@mothersbasement I think what separates it from most of modern harem anime is that, while it's female cast does stick to their tropes, they're not so set in stone that they don't break out of them. Like we're not surprised someone as soft-spoken as Ayeka starts acting as rough as Ryoko because we're shown that she has that tomboy side too.

Nice!!

We all agree that Tenchi Muyo is 100 times better than Love Hina.

Truck-kun speaks facts..... When will you be taking me thi truck-kun? 🥲

Of course you'd say that, since you're constantly isekai-ing people into them XD

I see someone's watched 6 hours of Action Button.

The moment I heard it, I got a flashback to Action Button's 6 hour review

@@Vesperitis Three times…per video.

Oof

@@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick Watch them all 5 times and you'll be able to experience the past, present, and future simultaneously.

FINALLY someone said it! it has always been so unreasonable that it's the guy's fault for the girl walking in on HIM! tsunderes make me hesitant when i watch a romcom in general.. maybe that's the one icky bite i felt when i was watching ranma

To be fair when Ranma was new that wasn't as...wide spread (?) of a thing, at least not in the US (but back then your anime options were substantial smaller) i found the first few episodes wonderfully different (around that time American cartoons where rescue rangers, dark wing duck, basically Disney if I recall) and Akane's over reaction i could, in part, write off as also being angry at their parents, Kuno, a sister that would sell her virginity if she could get away with it, etc. That said, I thought it worked for Ranma but got over used and old really faster pretty much everywhere else. Although I did love the male protagonist solution to the situation in chivalry of a failed night (creepy factor aside). It was the first time I had seen one try to avoid the inevitable beating that way.

Now, as someone who DOES enjoy tsundere characters, I completely agree with this. If you want the main guy to get beat up by the girls, at least give us a plausible reason as to why they do so. Love Hina is one of the worst offenders, cuz Kentaro is the most innocent guy you could imagine, and they STILL feel the need to kick the shit out of him for accidentally falling into the bath, but in Highschool DxD fx. the main guy is very much a perv, so he deserve it when he gets beat up. Actually,I will say, Monster Musume has kinda cracked the code on having an innocent mc, but also having him get beat up, cuz there it's more a case of the girls not really knowing how to control their own strength and how fragile a normal human is compared to them. Hell, there's even an entire episode dedicated to the fact that he might be close to dying due to injuries he's gotten from them xD

Getting violently buried under a heap of school desks or one-shotted through the roof from indoors doesn't seem to faze Ranma any. Without Ranma being a masochist. BTW, perhaps "Ranma One of Two," is a better translation that translates the funny-funny in the title: that Japanese expresses fractions as number ratios...

@@megamage911 monster musume is one of the best ways of combining the different tropes into one, and it fits together so well that, regardless of who you are, it's almost guaranteed you'll take a liking to the personality of one of the girls. Be they the clingy and doting Miia, the tomboyish but innocent Papi, the regal and refined Meroune, or even the stoic and calm Cerea.

It's nice to see I'm not alone. I genuinely get put off more series via them being harem wish fulfillment than I'm drawn in by, especially when one of the check-boxes for one of the girls to fill at least half the time is literally "seems or is underage."

@@whiteraven181 Anime will anime, I guess.

For me, the most important thing is that the main character is not an empty shell for the viewer to project themselves onto.

Basically harem is only good when it is overshadowed by a good story, but that never happens because what writer would ruin a good story for no reason.

Read girl from random chatting it is a pretty good harem story. Although, It is a manhwa.

It’s called being fightsexual , though some of them are more fightcurious

That line really is *Ranma 1/2 in a nutshell* xD

5:13 Okay I am relieved it’s not just me writing this stuff after all! XD

@@BlueBlazeKing basically a Full Contact Fiancé and several Battle Bachelor(ette)s

@Joseph Douek Ah yes, the opposite of sapiosexual: morosexual.

Boobie dragon holds a special place on my heart.

@@TheOneTrueEfrate Oppai Dragon is Vegeta of Harem anime. He doesn't always win, but when he does he wins BIG.

I would love to see Ranma redone but taking a bit more nuanced approach with side arcs actually changing the situations of characters and time advancing. By the end of season 4 everyone is still in the same grade despite there being two different sets of winter episodes many episodes apart? Would love to see things like what Nabiki would do to try to get out of the house, presumably to get into a business college. Or some exploration of what Sune Tendo does to get income. So many interesting things that could happen with the characters that is never explored. Would probably have to keep it in the same time period because cell phones with map features would make Ryoga's problem easily solvable.

lol

Ranma manga had about as close to a canon ending as you're gonna get. I didn't read InuYasha, and bailed after 2ish seasons of anime, but any closure she gave it was likely in-service to the Next Generation manga that's now being animated. Similar deal with Cardcaptor Sakura, although there at least, CLAMP already had a long history of interlocking their stories and messing around with prequels/sequels.

​ @mandisaw The _Inuyasha_ manga had a proper ending. It just wasn't animated until much later, as the original anime got cancelled. And the ending was not "in-service" to the "next generation manga," because _Yashahime_ wasn't conceived until a few years ago, was conceived as an original anime that is now being adapted into a manga, and Takahashi had little to do with it beyond character design and the original _Inuyasha_ setting and characters.

Thanks for making clear that Inuyasha and Ranma have proper endings in the manga versions. In Ranma case, its was always meant to be more a comedy/action than anything else, so I always feels the ending was just on par with the tone.

The disrespect to my boi Otto, tho.

@@papersonic9941 Yep

If anything, Subaru is the tsundere to Julius.

@Llecder But then I wonder why he mentioned Satella. You don't actually see her in Season 1.

Nah bro, different strokes for different folks

The world-building is wild as fuck, even in the primary Archie comics, because canonically magic and the supernatural exist (Sabrina the Teenage Witch and her stuff) but we don't interact with it because none of the main characters in Archie are clued into the masquerade.

@@nathancarter8239 not sure if canon but crossovers with punisher and tmnt also exist

@@nathancarter8239 there was even an issue where sabrian genderswapped the whole town but no one noticed

The Archie Predator fits in there somehow

Well he does do it with everyone eventually. I think so anyway. I dont remember that what DXD EX was.

He actually becomes rather intelligent by the end of the Light Novel through sheer hard work and studying.

He actively wants a harem and work towards it.

@@TankHunter678 is the series finished or still ongoing

@@mosark6554 The light novel is done last I checked. Issei is a successful business owner, got married and had kids with all of the girls (who all were basically their mother's powers on steroids because apparently him being the father boosted the mother's side), and is basically under the thumb of all of his wives. Of course there is hints of Issei and crew having more adventures but the main story is done.

He also skipped Neptunia a franchise with the same character designer and a yuri harem

Yes! And Love Hina is the most hilarious manga you can read

It's not an opinion it's a fact!

This might be a cliche to say, but the manga is SO much more funny, especially later on once it passes the anime ending. It has an official English translation and localization. Cannot recommend it more.

I wholehartedly agree.

Why would I? You're right? Ayeka and Ryoko have stupid amounts of personal crap they bring into everything, Sasami's too young. Mihoshi's an idiot and Kiyone's just kind of there. Washu's interesting, can be reasoned with, clearly WANTS that man and the worst baggage she shows is that she had a child before and lost it due to political maneuverings and would rather not have that in her life. Bang on. Sign me up.

@@MagicalMaster Sasami is centuries old I do mean many, don't worry when he gets her pregnant it with the much more mature female she shares her spirt with . And at least it the same when he marries the ship/rabbit it does have and adult form I will admit I was floored when I l learned even it has his kids. And I do love Washu and a short stack except those few times she shows she does have a tall form also which is hot. The fact that she's and avatar for one of the creator goddesses and that additional bonus.

I always viewed it as a proactive self-defence. Someone's inevitably going to call you that in the comments and you kind of take the wind from them if you make fun of yourself yourself.

That'll happen when you finally get your own place. You gotta grow up a little.

Self-deprecation is *okay* but it grows tiring and it reeks of insecurity that also gets tiring

Is being a hentai historian in a greasy library much better?

@@RegalPixelKing Literally YES

Modern harem starts in the early 90s, but partly for business reasons. Merchandising became a huge, overwhelming part of the business model starting in the mid-80s into the 90s. More characters means more character-items - from posters, pins, and artbooks to image albums & drama CDs with the various seiyuu/VAs. Essentially harem takes the sentai model and applies it to narrative-driven anime/manga for even greater scale. It cannot be overstated how much merch Rumiko Takahashi has pushed - I think only Yoshiyuki Tomino (Gundam) and Akira Toriyama (Dragonball & Dragon Quest char designer) have her beat on the all-time merch sales charts.

Toonami for the win! \o/

Came here to say this. It made me feel funny inside and I wasn't quite sure why at the time. It also was a big influence into like aggressive, crazy girls like Ryoko.

@@NATA5II Ah, Ryoko. My first anime crush.

Little did my teen brain know that i was watching harem history in the making

Nah its def a harem lol, but one that has so much spice 😭😭. I still love it for the story and characters tho. Its prob one of the best representations of a harem....with some exceptions in regards to "content" 😳

@@anontob i always wondered why the Harem tag was missing and assumed that the website forgot to put it . But now I know why . Monogatari is something else . It created fetishes which were not even though to have been possible.

Monogatari is somewhat every genre and at the same time no specific genre

Monogatari is undeniably a harem. Like, seriously, it has 1 actual relationship and 3 girls crushing on Koyomi (1 noticeably younger than him, another both younger and older simultaneously) within two "seasons" of the LN.

@@voidembracedwitch If you go by that, then i can name a lot of anime/manga that are harem then but aren't told as such. Code geass, steins gate, chainsaw man, no game no life, and might as well also include death note, a silent voice and fruits basket.

that show is got such a big heart, the lead guy really cares for everyone and hes not a loser either

Manga is 10/10

This Genre was always a bit 'Oof', but recently, it spirlas out of control. How cringe.

Don't forget your ABCDs!

@@Vesperitis Ah... That's right. There's 4 things. Three out of four ain't bad and on the upside my sister's lunches are quite delicious.

You should.

This. Even early Fushigi Yuugi painfully echoes Takahashi's style & tone, up until Shit Gets Real. Luckily Yuu Watase found her own style/tone, and was able to riff on harem themes (positive & negative) in her own way, in later works.

Yeah QQ is amazing, I love it so much and was sad when the manga ended and all the girls are great. My only gripe is the bride didn't get as much development as I'd like and it's all kinda dumped in at the end but eh no show is perfect

Oh my god someone else had El Hazard on VHS. I was given the entire collection of The Wanderers by my cousin as a child. In fact, most of them are still in a basket across the room. Annoyingly, I think the only one I'm missing is the first one.

The mangaka says darling has blank eyes to be more immersive. I say it's because there's so much chaos in his day to day life, that he's just on autopilot all the time.

Hehe. Butt.

It is true. It is a series that deserve a second anime just to have the moms enter the picture and not just because it is an excellent ecchi show. The manga has gone on too long, though in many aspects.

I watched the anime and it's good, but it does suffer from being old.

After finishing ranma 1/2 i was LIVID. The ending pissed off 15y/o me for months and I vowed to never read another Rumiko Takahashi story again….. and then i was introduced to Rin-ne and i fell fast and hard!! UGH 😑

True but that’s more of a Takehashi thing. She can right amazing stories but until Inuyasha she couldn’t write an ending.

Not sure InuYasha is a good example of her writing an ending. Took her a couple of decades to get there...

@@Mirality Sure it took a while but we did get an ending

Good for him.

Actually, another Tenchi series beat the OVA to the punch. GXP ends with Seina getting 8(9) wives.

@@Gyrono Oh, I didn't count that one since they kidnapped him just before the wedding and it wasn't clearly shown what happened afterwards. And then the wedding sort of happened off camera.

I think "In Another World With My Smartphone" ends with the protag marrying all the nine girls in his harem, and "Girlfriend Girlfriend" is about a guy and his two girlfriends who are also eachothers girlfriends and then a third girl comes in too I think, so there is some more poly stuff out there.

@@Renni_Jay That's good to know! But, is it in anime form? 🙂 I mean the endings. I think I saw the first one but the first season ends with an open ending.

Speaking as a fan of maburaho, who also realizes that it's shit, I would also love to see this. Its okay to like shitty things. You just have to be able to be honest with yourself, and admit that they are shitty.

@@mrmxypltk True because this is really a show meant to turn your brain off and just enjoy

Definitely helps that it's less about wish fulfillment and more about the wacky hijinks that ensue when your typical chaste protagonist is lusted over by damn near everyone in a world where everyone is some kind of martial artist.

Seriously, a manga that is purely about platonic friendship between boys and girls would not just be novel, but incredibly healthy.

@@Vesperitis This could give the MC some nice character development, as even though he can't fall in love (and at first he tries to and then learns he's aro/ace), he's happy to help others, but also learns that he still can have friends. (here's kinda a little twist though, he will end up with someone that he loves platonically, or...maybe he doesn't. Who knows?) Do I have too many ideas for this story? Most likely, but it's interesting to think about.

It's not exactly what you're describing, but Chobits almost goes through that pattern. Except for Chi, basically each of the protagonist's potential love interests grow and get together with the person they actually love due to their involvement with the protagonist.

King of the Hill had an episode like this with Bobby as the school counsel and the girls fawning over him.

@@wdcain1 I haven't watched King of the Hill, but I'll be sure to check it out.

I tried to get into Negima because it sounded like it had an amazing story and fights, but I hate skipping parts of a series and the beginning was just too uncomfortable for me. All these girls enthusiastically chasing after their teacher who LOOKS LIKE A CHILD was just more than I could take.

I enjoy how the girls are used in a way to explore how biology influences the culture of the fantasy Races.

Lack of Tsundere?! Impossible!! I'm pretty sure the lamia is the tsundere. Most of the girls nearly kill him every episode, but here more than most.

@@carsonrush3352 Funny thing is, not even the Lamia is a tsundere

I've been patiently waiting for almost 7 years for a sequel. The manga has only gotten crazier and weirder and I want to see it animated. It's such a fun story and the characters and world building are interesting. And ya no Miia is definitely NOT a tsundere. If anything she's fills the role of "jealous possessive" girl. I would slightly argue that Centorea is sort fills that tsundere role. She isn't as open about her love of Kimihito as the others, and tries to play off most of her actions as just serving her master. But she doesn't hate him nor doesn't hide the fact she cares about him.

@@zerofox641 and that's what makes Cerea best girl

To love ru was definitely a journey

I hope you drank plenty of fluids!

My first one was literally Highschool DxD, dont really know how to feel about that LOL

Mine was Negima! Magister Negi Magi. Honestly can’t recall if it was trash or just average but it was a fun imo

Lala was such a ray of sunshine.

amen

Wait there are others?

true.

AGREED

this comment needs more attention as it made me think of all the characters and yes there is not one tsundere in monmusu

Cerea kind of was

Agreed. I do not like Tsundure, perhaps why I cannot understand the "greatness" with Taiga. Good show with decent messages, but not that great.

@@vincentgraymore Yeah, I don’t get it either. In Ranma 1/2 Akane is almost universally considered worse than the two other fiancees.

Eh, I prefer Rosario + Vampire

Would you be willing to die side be side with a friend?

@@chrisrd4 My man. 🤝

Amen, I remember watching the anime and thinking it was okay for a fan service show but when I read the manga it became an instant classic in my heart

literally one of the best Manga i've ever had the pleasure of reading

Wish it kept going

So underrated

@@murderman8578 more like forgotten!

ya its a shame because its a pretty interesting one

Literally only know about it because my bestie loves it and gave him his obsession with gynoids.

@@shuriken05 Shame since it was Good AF

Infinite Stratos was awesome and I really enjoyed it since it had people from various different countries who were funny and interesting. It was mildly generic but it was a still super enjoyable watch and I wish it got a season 3

Yeah, it had some concepts it could have worked with, but it turned out generic with a side of feeling like MRA propaganda, and the girls went from zero to dere in 60 seconds or less. The only one he actually had chemistry with was Charlotte, and only when he thought she was a guy!

@@SecretIdentityStudio the chemistry with Charlotte still exist, but yeah the show has a lot of interesting concepts that could work but the focus seems to follow a lot in the harem side of things

@@SecretIdentityStudio Do you mean NRA, out of curiosity? I thought most of them had nice build ups, especially Charlotte and Hoki, while Charlotte is probably my favourite ship, Cecilia was hilarious

To me Infinite Stratos is up there with SAO in terms of wasted potential. There were so many potential plotlines they could've given us. How was the IS made, why can only women pilot it? It could've been about preventing, taking part in or rebuilding for WW3, because we all know wars begin as arms races. Heck, they gave us an actual terrorist organization that kidnapped the MC and still want him but they never did anything with it. It could've been about finding non-militarized uses for the IS since it was too powerful. Like space travel, EMS work, mining, going into places like the bottom of the sea or Chernobyl. It could've been about sexism towards men. It could've even been a shonen mecha battle anime and nobody would've complained. Or heck, it could've delivered in some small way for the romance to even one of the girls. We all know Charlotte was best girl, but the fact that they never gave any romantic progress anywhere was infuriating. While Charl is my favorite, I think the concept of Cecilia learning not to be a sexist, snobby bitch could've been nice. Or Laura learning what it means to be a regular girl and not a soldier/tool could've been nice concepts. Or, the author did say that Ichika acted dense on purpose, it could've been one of the first meta parody anime like OreSuki. Or, this is my favorite idea, it could've been about the world being poised for war, except the school was a way to foster international relations. Introduce Ichika to try and improve those relations, all the while being forbidden to get involved with anyone, to maintain impartiality. Yes, I put this much thought into a subpar, comedy harem anime. It's a shame that the author never did.

Yeah escaflowne, and fushigi Yugi were the proto isekai, with things like magic knights rayearth following closely iirc. Fushigi yugi, like many shojo, also has the main character seal the deal whilst within the main storyline. Which is a nice change of pace from most Shonen derived or targeted harems.

Not really. Yes, the SM era had his trio of girls. But Ash only likes Pokemon.

@@ligtningdog6399 but aren't a lot of harem protagonists dense in the ways of love? Also I was counting chikorita as one of the girls that liked him

@@elrick44 2 things. 1) The girls have to be part of the main cast at the same time. The show rarely has more then 1 main girl as a time. 2) Ash's lack of interests in girls makes him borderline asexual.

@@ligtningdog6399We can ask about 'borderline Asexual' Ash when they let him turn 11.

@@ligtningdog6399 ok, that #1 was what I was really asking about

I really like the Op

That is a great anime. The idea of weapons so advanced that they just remove fibers but no skin alone had great potential.

I guess if anything, Food Wars is a harem anime. Both the guys and girls want to beat Souma, but can't help but admiring him and his food skills.

Agreed

I really hope it gets a good poly ending

Sometimes it gets stale they're too which i find hilarious hentai can keep most of their plotlines fresh and original, while harem anime rip eachother off so often it's grand we should keep in mind what's the point here huh

LOL Tenchi marries them all and I do mean all including the Rabbit/Ship and gets them all pregnant and they have kids and adventures daughters of Ryoko and Ayeka are best friends who go on adventures. You can see the whole harem who marry him and Ryoko and Ayeka pregnant in recent OVA but they chicken out and have that mostly in the background of the in front action the training of the male lead of War on Gemminar.

@@RedRocket4000 They don’t call marrying the whole harem the “Tenchi Solution” for nothing.

@@RedRocket4000 You mean Tenchi Muyo GXP? That sounds familiar...

Is that number FOR REAL?!

@@Ramsey276one Yes, though the MC hasn't met all of them yet. I believe it's somewhere under 20 at the moment. Great read btw.

I was hoping to see this comment here, good taste sir

@@NickDeArmon if they adapt it, it could be infamous as the Karoshi Anime ( imagine the workload of managing 100+ characters!) XD

Its kinda ironic and thats why its funny.

And the only one where the Harem Protagonist canonically wins in the end.

DxD is pure shonen action gold.

I do not think anyone can honestly call DxD trash. Like, people who hate boobs and just don’t watch it aren’t in a position to call it anything.

It has both the plot and THE PLOT.

@@moesan1987 The fact the plot is good enough to make you ignore the PLOT is what makes me love the show so much. Plus without spoiling anime watchers much, he does something NO harem protag has ever done before and somehow it's totally buyable.

He does very briefly mention it at 17:08 as the "angel and demon" variety.