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* PrettyFreeloaders

* ArTonelico series is a RPG hybrid with VisualNovel element ib the form of Cosmos Sphere, focusing on romance developments between TheHero and two (later three) heroines.

* RivieraThePromisedLand pits you with 4 girls, each with their own ending, and the game provides another special ending [[GuideDangIt that's really hard to get.]] Since this is a linear RPG, romance paths aren't really obvious.

* RPG Maker game ''Romancing Walker'' is this, featuring a pretty boy hero and his six love interests.

* {{Hayate no Gotoku}}, a strange combination of the guy being hit by {{Asexuality}} and the girls mostly being knowledgable and completely alright with competing for his affection between them.

* ''ElfenLied''

* Not a harem anime but every single guy in ''{{Touch}}'' wants Minami. They don't stand a chance against the [[VictoriousChildhoodFriend childhood friend]] {{Jerk with a Heart of Gold}} Tatsuya but they still persist.

* ''SchoolDays'' is known for being one of the most brutal {{deconstruction}}s this trope has ever known, especially in the anime and several endings of the visual novel. It seems like your average harem series at first, where the main character has an {{Ojou}} (Kotonoha), a {{Shorttank}} (Sekai), a TokenLoli (Setsuna - [[OlderThanTheyLook in looks]], anyway), a [[TheLibby Libby]] who doubles as the UnluckyChildhoodFriend (Otome), a GirlNextDoor with AnimeHair (Hikari), and TheLibby's GirlPosse (Natsumi, Kumi and Minami) after him. Makoto, however, has become known as one of the biggest jerks of any male lead in the history of {{Harem}} stories, starting off more or less okay but soon beginning to screw any girl he can get and, unlike most of the above anime and mangas, we see [[ItGotWorse the realistic consequences of this situation happening]]. [[BeyondTheImpossible And then go beyond it.]]

{{Harem}} is a genre/plot frame, that is mostly present in the Japanese media of Anime, Manga, LightNovels, VisualNovels, and VideoGames.

* LoveDodecahedron

* {{Meido}}
* {{Ojou}}

'''Remember:''' There is a big difference between "harem series" and "series with an UnwantedHarem in it." In a HaremSeries, the harem is the main plot. Please keep that in mind before adding examples.

Many of these works are also shared with the {{Ecchi}} genre, as it is harder to find a {{Harem}} story that isn't filled with gratuitous {{Fanservice}} than one that is.

* The ''SuzumiyaHaruhi'' anime/novels. An alien, [[HoYay an ESPer]], [[TimeTravel a time traveller]], and an unknowing goddess. Remember, this is [[TropeOverdosed a show that sinks its meathooks into any trope it can find and folds and spindles it to shreds...]]
* ''CodeGeass'': It seems like everyone in the series is in love with Lelouch. In the first season, Lelouch/Zero accumulates a rather large group of girls who have feelings for him, including [[MysteriousWaif C.C.]], [[{{Tsundere}} Kallen]], [[NaiveEverygirl Shirley]], [[CoolBigSis Milly]], [[GenkiGirl Kaguya]], and even his half-sister [[RebelliousPrincess Euphemia]]. He just doesn't do anything about it, since for the most part he's too busy trying to overthrow the government [[CelibateHero to pursue romance]]. The staff has said that the second season will deal more with his romantic entanglements (and note that all this is ignoring the BrotherSisterIncest and HoYay-slash-FoeYay ships with Nunnally and Suzaku, respectively, and a combination of both those tropes (though a downplayed one that doesn't get as much focus) with Schneizel, who refers to Lelouch as the "one he loved and feared the most").
** The second season seems to poke fun at this; as a result of his NinjaMaid running around in a [[LatexPerfection Lelouch disguise]] and being generally nicer, Lelouch ends up scheduled to go on dates with no less than ''OneHundredAndEight'' girls. And there's Kaguya fantasizing about a TenchiSolution...
** And yes, the staff sort-of delivered it. Not only [[TykeBomb Rolo]] became a ''second'' GayOption (who was all "Bitch, PLEASE!" at Sayoko for the 108 dates), but there ''is'' more focus on Lelouch's love life... [[spoiler:Specially when it hit FatalAttractor levels and later Suzaku manages to ensnare the position of TheDragon to Lelouch, with all the HoYay squeals it implies. See the entry.]]
** This was played with in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYsycP8DecU one of the first season's audio dramas]] where Shirley considers asking him to go to a concert with her and imagines him revealing that he was in love with and getting married to Kallen, Nunnally, Suzaku, Milly, Rivalz, and even Arthur the cat in that order. At the end they all decide to share him and invite Shirley in on the action. Note that Nina was not in the fantasy and it was set only hours before the Table-Kun incident.

* ''LoveHina'' the main character Keitaro is living in an all girls inn and by the end of the series he had attracted a Tsundere, a ShrinkingViolet, a GenkiGirl /WrenchWench/[[spoiler: Princess]], a BottleFairy, a KidSamurai, a CloudCuckooLander/[[spoiler: UnluckyChildhoodFriend]], his [[spoiler:[[BrotherSisterIncest adopted sister]]]], and a BrattyHalfPint... maybe. In an unusual twist, [[spoiler: they suggest a TenchiSolution but he refuses and marries his VictoriousChildhoodFriend]]

* The ''SuzumiyaHaruhi'' anime/novels. An alien, [[HoYay an ESPer]], a time traveler, [[TimeTravel a time traveler]], and an unknowing goddess. Remember, this is [[TropeOverdosed a show that sinks its meathooks into any trope it can find and folds and spindles it to shreds...]]

** The second season seems to poke fun at this; as a result of his NinjaMaid running around in a LatexPerfection Lelouch disguise and being generally nicer, Lelouch ends up scheduled to go on dates with no less than ''OneHundredAndEight'' girls. And there's Kaguya fantasizing about a TenchiSolution...

* Most of the ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' manga out there are high school romantic comedies with [[{{Tsundere}} Asuka]], [[{{Kuudere}} Rei]], and [[GayOption Kaworu]] lusting after Shinji.
** So do several [[FanFic fan fics]], which may also include [[BottleFairy Misato]] in the roster... and/or [[HotScientist Ritsuko]]... and/or [[BridgeBunnies Maya]]... and/or [[YamatoNadeshiko Hikari]] (and/or [[TenchiSolution one or both of]] [[SiblingTriangle her sisters]])... and/or [[MagicalGirlfriend Mana Kirishima]] (from Girlfriend of Steel)... and/or [[ShrinkingViolet Mayumi Yamagishi]] (NGE: 2nd Impression)... and/or [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters one or more]] [[OriginalCharacter fan]]-[[AuthorAvatar made]] [[MarySue characters]]... and/or Yui as a MamaBear HaremNanny (Not [[OedipusComplex that]] [[ParentalIncest way]], [[FreudWasRight you perverts]]... [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2751276/1/Evangelion_Revisited Usually]]). Yeah, turns out being the universe's ButtMonkey in your previous life (assuming the [[spoiler:"Third Impact spawning a zillion alternate universes"]] theory) is a sure way to make such an attractive ChickMagnet out of you that [[EvenTheGuysWantHim even the guys want you]]. Too bad Shinji is usually a CelibateHero.

* According to an un-canon pre-anime sketch, this happens in ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi''. After Keiichi goes even more {{bishonen}} then he already is, it's shown that Rena, Mion, ''Rika and Satoko'' all like him.

* Played with in the manga OtomariHoney, where we see the situation from the perspective of one of the haremettes- she goes to the house of a boy she has a crush on to ask if she can live with him to get away from her own home, only to find that he's already got three other girls with the same story living in his room.

{{Harem}} is a genre of Japanese media, that is present in Anime, Manga, LightNovels, VisualNovels, and VideoGames.

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* Subverted in ''ElfenLied''. What could've been a major Harem Show is actually one really screwed up drama.

* AccidentalPervert

!Common charecter types for the {{Harem}} members:

The protagonist either takes it as an UnwantedHarem, or reacts as a HaremSeeker, or OliviousToLove.