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* ''LightNovel/RedoOfHealer'', though in a DarkerAndEdgier sense. The protagonist, Keyaru, is hellbent on revenge after being subjected to all kinds of abuse because of his status as a healer, so he woos several girls to his cause by either brainwashing them into submission or relating to their own desire for vengeance.
* ''LightNovel/SisterPrincess'': An interesting (and unusually non-romantic) variation on this trope can be found in the anime. In which, a young man discovers that he has a baker's dozen half-sisters he never knew existed. Having grown up alone except for a few servants, he finds their slavish adoration of their "[[BigBrotherWorship big brother]]" somewhat overwhelming, but grows to love and treasure them all.
* ''LightNovel/SoICantPlayH'' begins with Ryosuke's neighbor, Mina, already nursing an unrequited crush on him since childhood. But the first episode's opening scene introduces his soon-to-be love interest: a stunning redhead named, Lisara, who is not only a shinigami, but [[BlueBlood high-ranking nobility.]] Then the other two shinigami show up (Quele and Ilia) and Mina's chances effectively go [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend down the drain.]]
* ''LightNovel/StudentCouncilsDiscretion''. The male lead ''blatantly'' announces he is aiming for one to his female cast ''more than once''. He's generally a nice and dependable guy and, in a way, [[spoiler:it pays off by the end]].
* ''LightNovel/SisterPrincess'': An interesting (and unusually non-romantic) variation on this trope can be found in the anime. In which, a young man discovers that he has a baker's dozen half-sisters he never knew existed. Having grown up alone except for a few servants, he finds their slavish adoration of their "[[BigBrotherWorship big brother]]" somewhat overwhelming, but grows to love and treasure them all.
* ''LightNovel/SoICantPlayH'' begins with Ryosuke's neighbor, Mina, already nursing an unrequited crush on him since childhood. But the first episode's opening scene introduces his soon-to-be love interest: a stunning redhead named, Lisara, who is not only a shinigami, but [[BlueBlood high-ranking nobility.]] Then the other two shinigami show up (Quele and Ilia) and Mina's chances effectively go [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend down the drain.]]
* ''LightNovel/StudentCouncilsDiscretion''. The male lead ''blatantly'' announces he is aiming for one to his female cast ''more than once''. He's generally a nice and dependable guy and, in a way, [[spoiler:it pays off by the end]].
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* ''LightNovel/RedoOfHealer'', ''Literature/RedoOfHealer'', though in a DarkerAndEdgier sense. The protagonist, Keyaru, is hellbent on revenge after being subjected to all kinds of abuse because of his status as a healer, so he woos several girls to his cause by either brainwashing them into submission or relating to their own desire for vengeance.
*''LightNovel/SisterPrincess'': ''Literature/SisterPrincess'': An interesting (and unusually non-romantic) variation on this trope can be found in the anime. In which, a young man discovers that he has a baker's dozen half-sisters he never knew existed. Having grown up alone except for a few servants, he finds their slavish adoration of their "[[BigBrotherWorship big brother]]" somewhat overwhelming, but grows to love and treasure them all.
*''LightNovel/SoICantPlayH'' ''Literature/SoICantPlayH'' begins with Ryosuke's neighbor, Mina, already nursing an unrequited crush on him since childhood. But the first episode's opening scene introduces his soon-to-be love interest: a stunning redhead named, Lisara, who is not only a shinigami, but [[BlueBlood high-ranking nobility.]] Then the other two shinigami show up (Quele and Ilia) and Mina's chances effectively go [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend down the drain.]]
*''LightNovel/StudentCouncilsDiscretion''.''Literature/StudentCouncilsDiscretion''. The male lead ''blatantly'' announces he is aiming for one to his female cast ''more than once''. He's generally a nice and dependable guy and, in a way, [[spoiler:it pays off by the end]].
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* ''Literature/UndefeatedBahamutChronicle'' has [[TheHero Lux]] accumulating a harem made of the [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething princess]] [[KnightInShiningArmor he works for]], [[BureaucraticallyArrangedMarriage his bureacratically arranged fiance]], [[ChildhoodFriendRomance his childhood friend]], [[TheAce the school's top fighter]], [[SubordinateExcuse his servant]], and a [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld distant and ancient cousin from another family branch]].
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* ''Literature/UndefeatedBahamutChronicle'' has [[TheHero Lux]] accumulating a harem made of the [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething princess]] [[KnightInShiningArmor he works for]], [[BureaucraticallyArrangedMarriage his bureacratically bureaucratically arranged fiance]], fiancée]], [[ChildhoodFriendRomance his childhood friend]], [[TheAce the school's top fighter]], [[SubordinateExcuse his servant]], and a [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld distant and ancient cousin from another family branch]].
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* ''LightNovel/HaremPrince'' deconstructs and parodies a lot of tropes associated in the genre a la ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'' and ''LightNovel/{{Toradora}}''.
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* ''LightNovel/HaremPrince'' deconstructs and parodies a lot of tropes associated in the genre a la ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'' and ''LightNovel/{{Toradora}}''.''Literature/{{Toradora}}''.
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* ''LightNovel/{{Toradora}}'' settles into this genre in its second half.
* ''LightNovel/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'' is a DeconstructiveParody of the genre wherein the male lead is {{blackmail}}ed into beating an [[RomanceGame otome game]][[note]]a dating sim aimed at teenage girls[[/note]] for his sister to get the reverse harem ending, then dies in an accident, [[ReincarnateInAnotherWorld reincarnates as a background character in the game]], realizes [[CrapsackWorld how much the game world sucks for people who aren't the protagonist]], and proceeds to send things wildly OffTheRails in his efforts to survive. [[spoiler:He winds up with both the original PlayerCharacter and TheRival falling in love with [[{{Polyamory}} both him and each other]].]]
* ''LightNovel/UndefeatedBahamutChronicle'' has [[TheHero Lux]] accumulating a harem made of the [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething princess]] [[KnightInShiningArmor he works for]], [[BureaucraticallyArrangedMarriage his bureacratically arranged fiance]], [[ChildhoodFriendRomance his childhood friend]], [[TheAce the school's top fighter]], [[SubordinateExcuse his servant]], and a [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld distant and ancient cousin from another family branch]].
* ''LightNovel/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'' is a DeconstructiveParody of the genre wherein the male lead is {{blackmail}}ed into beating an [[RomanceGame otome game]][[note]]a dating sim aimed at teenage girls[[/note]] for his sister to get the reverse harem ending, then dies in an accident, [[ReincarnateInAnotherWorld reincarnates as a background character in the game]], realizes [[CrapsackWorld how much the game world sucks for people who aren't the protagonist]], and proceeds to send things wildly OffTheRails in his efforts to survive. [[spoiler:He winds up with both the original PlayerCharacter and TheRival falling in love with [[{{Polyamory}} both him and each other]].]]
* ''LightNovel/UndefeatedBahamutChronicle'' has [[TheHero Lux]] accumulating a harem made of the [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething princess]] [[KnightInShiningArmor he works for]], [[BureaucraticallyArrangedMarriage his bureacratically arranged fiance]], [[ChildhoodFriendRomance his childhood friend]], [[TheAce the school's top fighter]], [[SubordinateExcuse his servant]], and a [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld distant and ancient cousin from another family branch]].
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* ''LightNovel/{{Toradora}}'' ''Literature/{{Toradora}}'' settles into this genre in its second half.
*''LightNovel/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'' ''Literature/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'' is a DeconstructiveParody of the genre wherein the male lead is {{blackmail}}ed into beating an [[RomanceGame otome game]][[note]]a dating sim aimed at teenage girls[[/note]] for his sister to get the reverse harem ending, then dies in an accident, [[ReincarnateInAnotherWorld reincarnates as a background character in the game]], realizes [[CrapsackWorld how much the game world sucks for people who aren't the protagonist]], and proceeds to send things wildly OffTheRails in his efforts to survive. [[spoiler:He winds up with both the original PlayerCharacter and TheRival falling in love with [[{{Polyamory}} both him and each other]].]]
*''LightNovel/UndefeatedBahamutChronicle'' ''Literature/UndefeatedBahamutChronicle'' has [[TheHero Lux]] accumulating a harem made of the [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething princess]] [[KnightInShiningArmor he works for]], [[BureaucraticallyArrangedMarriage his bureacratically arranged fiance]], [[ChildhoodFriendRomance his childhood friend]], [[TheAce the school's top fighter]], [[SubordinateExcuse his servant]], and a [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld distant and ancient cousin from another family branch]].
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* ''Literature/TheOccupationSaga'': {{Justified}} by the various aliens' use of ExoticExtendedMarriage. By the end of the first book, Jason has slept with nearly every other member of his training squad at least once, male Tarcil included, and at the start of book three he's in a stable polyamorous relationship with Raisha, Kernathu, and Yaro.
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* ''LightNovel/RebornAsASpaceMercenaryIWokeUpPilotingTheStrongestStarship'': Hiro ends up gathering a harem mostly of BridgeBunnies for his ship, starting with helping Mimi and Elma out of their financial troubles and then hiring them as crew members to WorkOffTheDebt. Neither girl explains initially (mistakenly assuming he already knows) that there's a local custom that if a male starship captain hires a female crew member, she's consenting to be his bed-warmer in addition to her other duties, but by the time he finds out they've already got a pretty solid [[{{polyamory}} three-way relationship]]. Later he acquires Mei, a RidiculouslyHumanRobot [[{{Robosexual}} built to his sexual fantasies]] after he went a little crazy playing "Space Barbie" with the Maidroid designer program without planning to place an order: the company was so impressed they built her for him anyway as a marketing ploy. Hiro is also pursued by military officer Serena Holz (not interested), heiress Christina Dalenwald (too young), and medical doctor Shouko (mutually attracted but is MarriedToTheJob).
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* ''LightNovel/RebornAsASpaceMercenaryIWokeUpPilotingTheStrongestStarship'': ''Literature/RebornAsASpaceMercenaryIWokeUpPilotingTheStrongestStarship'': Hiro ends up gathering a harem mostly of BridgeBunnies for his ship, starting with helping Mimi and Elma out of their financial troubles and then hiring them as crew members to WorkOffTheDebt. Neither girl explains initially (mistakenly assuming he already knows) that there's a local custom that if a male starship captain hires a female crew member, she's consenting to be his bed-warmer in addition to her other duties, but by the time he finds out they've already got a pretty solid [[{{polyamory}} three-way relationship]]. Later he acquires Mei, a RidiculouslyHumanRobot [[{{Robosexual}} built to his sexual fantasies]] after he went a little crazy playing "Space Barbie" with the Maidroid designer program without planning to place an order: the company was so impressed they built her for him anyway as a marketing ploy. Hiro is also pursued by military officer Serena Holz (not interested), heiress Christina Dalenwald (too young), and medical doctor Shouko (mutually attracted but is MarriedToTheJob).
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* ''Literature/TanteiTeamKZJikenNote'': While {{downplayed|trope}} due to this being [[MiddleGradeLiterature a series about and primarily aimed at tweens]], there's no escaping the fact that it's one girl surrounded by boys that she and everyone around her consider to be cool and good-looking, and she even develops some feelings towards some of them. While not as strong as older Reverse Harem series, it still has the same effect.
* In ''Literature/TairenSoul'', Ellie is surrounded by handsome men who swear they'll die to do her bidding. They (officially) don't want to be together or sleep with her, however.
* In ''Literature/TairenSoul'', Ellie is surrounded by handsome men who swear they'll die to do her bidding. They (officially) don't want to be together or sleep with her, however.
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* ''Literature/TanteiTeamKZJikenNote'': While {{downplayed|trope}} due to this being [[MiddleGradeLiterature a series about ''LightNovel/ArifuretaFromCommonplaceToWorldsStrongest'': Part of the {{isekai}} wave of the 2010s, and primarily aimed at tweens]], there's no escaping notable for the fact that it's one twists on the usual formula. Hajime starts with his classmate Kaori already crushing on him, but since she's the SchoolIdol the crush makes his bullying-prone life even harder. Then he rescues the imprisoned Yue from the labyrinth and falls hard for her, and they actually [[TheirFirstTime consummate]]. Every girl surrounded by boys that she and everyone around her consider to be cool and good-looking, and she even develops some feelings towards some who joins his party after that, Kaori included, ends up competing with TopWife Yue.
* ''LightNovel/TheAsteriskWar'' involves [[TheHero Ayato Amagiri]] earning the attention ofthem. While not as strong as older Reverse Harem several girls across the series, it still has the same effect.
* In ''Literature/TairenSoul'', Ellie is surrounded by handsome men who swear they'll die to do her bidding. They (officially) don't want to be together or sleepwith her, however.the twist that Ayato already chosen Julis as the girl he loves and becomes devoted to. While he cares about the girls, [[SupportingHarem he only sees them as friends, not love interests]].
* ''LightNovel/BeingAbleToEditSkillsInAnotherWorldIGainedOpWaifus'' is a {{reconstruction}} of the UnwantedHarem, through a HerosSlaveHarem.
* ''LightNovel/TheAsteriskWar'' involves [[TheHero Ayato Amagiri]] earning the attention of
* In ''Literature/TairenSoul'', Ellie is surrounded by handsome men who swear they'll die to do her bidding. They (officially) don't want to be together or sleep
* ''LightNovel/BeingAbleToEditSkillsInAnotherWorldIGainedOpWaifus'' is a {{reconstruction}} of the UnwantedHarem, through a HerosSlaveHarem.
* ''LightNovel/CatPlanetCuties'' features a BattleHarem, with the protagonist of Kio Kakazu, being [[ObliviousToLove oblivious]] to the affections of Aoi and Manami, two government agents, and tall, sexy, alien [[GenkiGirl Genki]] CatGirl Eris who proves herself to be a competent combatant as well.
* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' rapidly turns into this, courtesy of its CluelessChickMagnet NiceGuy hero, Kamijou Touma. It also attempts an explanation for why this trope occurs. Thanks to Touma's [[AntiMagic Imagine Breaker]] negating all supernatural effects which contact him, it's hypothesised that he is immune to the [[RedStringOfFate red string of fate]], meaning no one woman can be his soulmate. The series can be said to have the largest harem of any work, primarily due to the inclusion of the Misaka Network, who are 9969 clones of Mikoto Mikasa. Even without them, it arguably still holds the record.[[labelnote:A not exhaustive list of harem members]]Index Librorum Prohibitorum, Mikoto Misaka, Aisa Himegami, 9969 clones of Mikoto, Kaori Kanzaki, Itsuwa, Lessar, Leivinia Birdway, Othinus, Seria Kumokawa, Misaki Shokuhou[[/labelnote]]
* ''LightNovel/ChivalryOfAFailedKnight'' subverts this early on. At the beginning it seems that this will be your typical harem series, seeing how the Light Novel seems to be playing the tropes straight, but by the end of volume 1 (chapter 10 in the Manga and episode 4 of the Anime) both leads Ikki Kurogane and Stella Vermillion become an OfficialCouple. The series also subverts many common tropes from harem series, where the leads solve their differences rather quickly without padding the drama, instead focusing on progressing the romantic relationship.
* ''LightNovel/DateALive'': [[TheHero Shido Itsuka]] must become a ChickMagnet ''by necessity'' to save the world. The series involves him dating [[MagicalGirlWarrior Spirits]], getting them to fall in love with him and sealing their powers with a kiss so they can live normal lives.
* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' rapidly turns into this, courtesy of its CluelessChickMagnet NiceGuy hero, Kamijou Touma. It also attempts an explanation for why this trope occurs. Thanks to Touma's [[AntiMagic Imagine Breaker]] negating all supernatural effects which contact him, it's hypothesised that he is immune to the [[RedStringOfFate red string of fate]], meaning no one woman can be his soulmate. The series can be said to have the largest harem of any work, primarily due to the inclusion of the Misaka Network, who are 9969 clones of Mikoto Mikasa. Even without them, it arguably still holds the record.[[labelnote:A not exhaustive list of harem members]]Index Librorum Prohibitorum, Mikoto Misaka, Aisa Himegami, 9969 clones of Mikoto, Kaori Kanzaki, Itsuwa, Lessar, Leivinia Birdway, Othinus, Seria Kumokawa, Misaki Shokuhou[[/labelnote]]
* ''LightNovel/ChivalryOfAFailedKnight'' subverts this early on. At the beginning it seems that this will be your typical harem series, seeing how the Light Novel seems to be playing the tropes straight, but by the end of volume 1 (chapter 10 in the Manga and episode 4 of the Anime) both leads Ikki Kurogane and Stella Vermillion become an OfficialCouple. The series also subverts many common tropes from harem series, where the leads solve their differences rather quickly without padding the drama, instead focusing on progressing the romantic relationship.
* ''LightNovel/DateALive'': [[TheHero Shido Itsuka]] must become a ChickMagnet ''by necessity'' to save the world. The series involves him dating [[MagicalGirlWarrior Spirits]], getting them to fall in love with him and sealing their powers with a kiss so they can live normal lives.
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* In the book ''Power Play: A Hockey Romance'' by Mia Moon, the heroine finds herself being courted by four hockey players.
* In ''Harem of Fangs'', heroine Ally Swift finds herself being courted by five powerful vampires.
* The ''Succubus Lord'' series revolves around a guy and his harem of succubi.
* In ''Harem of Fangs'', heroine Ally Swift finds herself being courted by five powerful vampires.
* The ''Succubus Lord'' series revolves around a guy and his harem of succubi.
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* In the book ''Power Play: A Hockey Romance'' by Mia Moon, the heroine finds herself being courted by four hockey players.
* In ''Harem of Fangs'',''Literature/HaremOfFangs'', heroine Ally Swift finds herself being courted by five powerful vampires.
*The ''Succubus Lord'' series revolves around a guy ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' has elements of this; while Kyon has the most romantic tension with Haruhi herself, several other female characters such as Yuki and his harem Mikuru also show varying degrees of succubi.romantic interest in him. Remember, this is [[JustForFun/TropeOverdosed a show that sinks its meathooks into any trope it can find and folds and spindles it to shreds…]]
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* ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'' is this coupled with fanservice, comedy and AllMythsAreTrue action, with the added twist that every girl in the harem is willing to share, but they're competing to see ''who's first place''. Open pervert Issei is a major fan of this genre in-universe and elated to be in the position of the genre's protagonist.
* ''LightNovel/HowToBuildADungeonBookOfTheDemonKing'' offers a somewhat dark take on the genre, since it centers on a VillainProtagonist, Aur, who is fond of recruiting many women to his crusade against humanity. Some come willingly, as they also don’t like humans, or don’t mind Aur’s misanthropic tirade against them; the good-natured women, however, are met with several doses of {{brainwashing}} ''[[RapeAsDrama through sexual assault till they start liking]]'' Aur and become fully supportive of his deeds.
* ''LightNovel/HybridXHeartMagiasAcademyAtaraxia'': Kizuna Hida is forced to become TheCaptain of a group of girls equipped with [[PoweredArmor Heart Hybrid Gears]] in order to defend the Ataraxia fleet from invaders from AnotherDimension. To do that, Kizuna must do [[DeusSexMachina perverted stuff]] to the girls, as doing so will power up their Heart Hybrid Gears and unlock new weapons and upgrades.
* ''LightNovel/InAnotherWorldIAmCalledTheBlackHealer'' is a reverse harem, where the main character quickly builds up a group of male admirers. However, few are explicitly in love with her. Most of them seem to like her and have a crush on her.
* ''LightNovel/InfiniteStratos'' somewhat induces this by necessity: There's the eponymous PoweredArmor that only girls can use, but for some reason, one guy is able to use it as well. He gets plunked in to a dedicated all-girls school to learn how to use the same.
* ''LightNovel/InvadersOfTheRokujyouma'': Koutarou moves into a new apartment and becomes the unwilling roommate and LoveInterest to a CuteGhostGirl, a MagicalGirlWarrior, a {{Miko}} from an underground race, a HumanAlien princess and her servant, another AlienPrincess and a DarkMagicalGirl. They all(including Koutarou) start off hostile to each other, due to fighting over exclusive rights to Koutarou's apartment, but as time passes, they all become friends and something of a family unit even befrore the girls start falling in love with Koutarou.
* ''LightNovel/{{Maburaho}}'' is the [[UrExample granddaddy]] of all Harem works that take place in a magical school of some sort. Basically every trope you see in those modern works originate from Maburaho in some fort or another; from the idea of the setting itself making its magic known to the public, to the protagonist being a self insert loser who secretly holds grand power, to several of the female leads being tried and true archetypes vying for the protagonist, it all began here.
* ''LightNovel/MagiciansAcademy'', which features ''both'' the UnwantedHarem and a HaremSeeker.
* In ''LightNovel/MazeMegaburstSpace'', female Maze has a ''bisexual'' reverse harem of both males and females interested in her. As she swaps genders at sundown and sunrise, its notable that Princess Mill doesn't care which gender Maze is at the moment.
* ''LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'' centers around a female protagonist who's been reincarnated as Catarina Claes, the female villain of an OtomeGame she played before her death. She ends up with a rare instance of a bisexual harem, since [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer she attracts both male and female love interests]].
* ''LightNovel/{{Oreimo}}'': For most of its run, only one girl (Kuroneko) is openly in love with the protagonist, while Kirino (his sister) has tons of UnresolvedSexualTension with him. His childhood friend Manami seems to hold a flame, and another (Ayase) feels something towards him, but it might not be best called "love". Then in the ending OVA, the subtext becomes text as nearly every girl in the cast openly declares their love for him for no apparent reason.
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* ''LightNovel/{{Oresuki}}'' starts out as a twisted satire of harem series, where the protagonist Joro is a manipulative jerk who [[HaremSeeker actively wants a harem]] but quickly finds out that the girls he tried to manipulate into falling for him are both into someone else, and the only girl who ''does'' like him is a creepy stalker. The satirical aspects [[SatireAndSwitch are eventually downplayed]] as more girls become genuinely interested in Joro, though the series never completely stops being self-aware about various harem tropes.
* In the book ''Literature/PowerPlayAHockeyRomance'' by Mia Moon, the heroine finds herself being courted by four hockey players.
* ''LightNovel/RebornAsASpaceMercenaryIWokeUpPilotingTheStrongestStarship'': Hiro ends up gathering a harem mostly of BridgeBunnies for his ship, starting with helping Mimi and Elma out of their financial troubles and then hiring them as crew members to WorkOffTheDebt. Neither girl explains initially (mistakenly assuming he already knows) that there's a local custom that if a male starship captain hires a female crew member, she's consenting to be his bed-warmer in addition to her other duties, but by the time he finds out they've already got a pretty solid [[{{polyamory}} three-way relationship]]. Later he acquires Mei, a RidiculouslyHumanRobot [[{{Robosexual}} built to his sexual fantasies]] after he went a little crazy playing "Space Barbie" with the Maidroid designer program without planning to place an order: the company was so impressed they built her for him anyway as a marketing ploy. Hiro is also pursued by military officer Serena Holz (not interested), heiress Christina Dalenwald (too young), and medical doctor Shouko (mutually attracted but is MarriedToTheJob).
* ''LightNovel/RedoOfHealer'', though in a DarkerAndEdgier sense. The protagonist, Keyaru, is hellbent on revenge after being subjected to all kinds of abuse because of his status as a healer, so he woos several girls to his cause by either brainwashing them into submission or relating to their own desire for vengeance.
* ''LightNovel/SisterPrincess'': An interesting (and unusually non-romantic) variation on this trope can be found in the anime. In which, a young man discovers that he has a baker's dozen half-sisters he never knew existed. Having grown up alone except for a few servants, he finds their slavish adoration of their "[[BigBrotherWorship big brother]]" somewhat overwhelming, but grows to love and treasure them all.
* ''LightNovel/SoICantPlayH'' begins with Ryosuke's neighbor, Mina, already nursing an unrequited crush on him since childhood. But the first episode's opening scene introduces his soon-to-be love interest: a stunning redhead named, Lisara, who is not only a shinigami, but [[BlueBlood high-ranking nobility.]] Then the other two shinigami show up (Quele and Ilia) and Mina's chances effectively go [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend down the drain.]]
* ''LightNovel/StudentCouncilsDiscretion''. The male lead ''blatantly'' announces he is aiming for one to his female cast ''more than once''. He's generally a nice and dependable guy and, in a way, [[spoiler:it pays off by the end]].
* The ''Literature/SuccubusLord'' series revolves around a guy and his harem of succubi.
* In ''Literature/TairenSoul'', Ellie is surrounded by handsome men who swear they'll die to do her bidding. They (officially) don't want to be together or sleep with her, however.
* ''Literature/TanteiTeamKZJikenNote'': While {{downplayed|trope}} due to this being [[MiddleGradeLiterature a series about and primarily aimed at tweens]], there's no escaping the fact that it's one girl surrounded by boys that she and everyone around her consider to be cool and good-looking, and she even develops some feelings towards some of them. While not as strong as older Reverse Harem series, it still has the same effect.
* ''LightNovel/{{Toradora}}'' settles into this genre in its second half.
* ''LightNovel/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'' is a DeconstructiveParody of the genre wherein the male lead is {{blackmail}}ed into beating an [[RomanceGame otome game]][[note]]a dating sim aimed at teenage girls[[/note]] for his sister to get the reverse harem ending, then dies in an accident, [[ReincarnateInAnotherWorld reincarnates as a background character in the game]], realizes [[CrapsackWorld how much the game world sucks for people who aren't the protagonist]], and proceeds to send things wildly OffTheRails in his efforts to survive. [[spoiler:He winds up with both the original PlayerCharacter and TheRival falling in love with [[{{Polyamory}} both him and each other]].]]
* ''LightNovel/UndefeatedBahamutChronicle'' has [[TheHero Lux]] accumulating a harem made of the [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething princess]] [[KnightInShiningArmor he works for]], [[BureaucraticallyArrangedMarriage his bureacratically arranged fiance]], [[ChildhoodFriendRomance his childhood friend]], [[TheAce the school's top fighter]], [[SubordinateExcuse his servant]], and a [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld distant and ancient cousin from another family branch]].
* ''LightNovel/HowToBuildADungeonBookOfTheDemonKing'' offers a somewhat dark take on the genre, since it centers on a VillainProtagonist, Aur, who is fond of recruiting many women to his crusade against humanity. Some come willingly, as they also don’t like humans, or don’t mind Aur’s misanthropic tirade against them; the good-natured women, however, are met with several doses of {{brainwashing}} ''[[RapeAsDrama through sexual assault till they start liking]]'' Aur and become fully supportive of his deeds.
* ''LightNovel/HybridXHeartMagiasAcademyAtaraxia'': Kizuna Hida is forced to become TheCaptain of a group of girls equipped with [[PoweredArmor Heart Hybrid Gears]] in order to defend the Ataraxia fleet from invaders from AnotherDimension. To do that, Kizuna must do [[DeusSexMachina perverted stuff]] to the girls, as doing so will power up their Heart Hybrid Gears and unlock new weapons and upgrades.
* ''LightNovel/InAnotherWorldIAmCalledTheBlackHealer'' is a reverse harem, where the main character quickly builds up a group of male admirers. However, few are explicitly in love with her. Most of them seem to like her and have a crush on her.
* ''LightNovel/InfiniteStratos'' somewhat induces this by necessity: There's the eponymous PoweredArmor that only girls can use, but for some reason, one guy is able to use it as well. He gets plunked in to a dedicated all-girls school to learn how to use the same.
* ''LightNovel/InvadersOfTheRokujyouma'': Koutarou moves into a new apartment and becomes the unwilling roommate and LoveInterest to a CuteGhostGirl, a MagicalGirlWarrior, a {{Miko}} from an underground race, a HumanAlien princess and her servant, another AlienPrincess and a DarkMagicalGirl. They all(including Koutarou) start off hostile to each other, due to fighting over exclusive rights to Koutarou's apartment, but as time passes, they all become friends and something of a family unit even befrore the girls start falling in love with Koutarou.
* ''LightNovel/{{Maburaho}}'' is the [[UrExample granddaddy]] of all Harem works that take place in a magical school of some sort. Basically every trope you see in those modern works originate from Maburaho in some fort or another; from the idea of the setting itself making its magic known to the public, to the protagonist being a self insert loser who secretly holds grand power, to several of the female leads being tried and true archetypes vying for the protagonist, it all began here.
* ''LightNovel/MagiciansAcademy'', which features ''both'' the UnwantedHarem and a HaremSeeker.
* In ''LightNovel/MazeMegaburstSpace'', female Maze has a ''bisexual'' reverse harem of both males and females interested in her. As she swaps genders at sundown and sunrise, its notable that Princess Mill doesn't care which gender Maze is at the moment.
* ''LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'' centers around a female protagonist who's been reincarnated as Catarina Claes, the female villain of an OtomeGame she played before her death. She ends up with a rare instance of a bisexual harem, since [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer she attracts both male and female love interests]].
* ''LightNovel/{{Oreimo}}'': For most of its run, only one girl (Kuroneko) is openly in love with the protagonist, while Kirino (his sister) has tons of UnresolvedSexualTension with him. His childhood friend Manami seems to hold a flame, and another (Ayase) feels something towards him, but it might not be best called "love". Then in the ending OVA, the subtext becomes text as nearly every girl in the cast openly declares their love for him for no apparent reason.
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* ''LightNovel/{{Oresuki}}'' starts out as a twisted satire of harem series, where the protagonist Joro is a manipulative jerk who [[HaremSeeker actively wants a harem]] but quickly finds out that the girls he tried to manipulate into falling for him are both into someone else, and the only girl who ''does'' like him is a creepy stalker. The satirical aspects [[SatireAndSwitch are eventually downplayed]] as more girls become genuinely interested in Joro, though the series never completely stops being self-aware about various harem tropes.
* In the book ''Literature/PowerPlayAHockeyRomance'' by Mia Moon, the heroine finds herself being courted by four hockey players.
* ''LightNovel/RebornAsASpaceMercenaryIWokeUpPilotingTheStrongestStarship'': Hiro ends up gathering a harem mostly of BridgeBunnies for his ship, starting with helping Mimi and Elma out of their financial troubles and then hiring them as crew members to WorkOffTheDebt. Neither girl explains initially (mistakenly assuming he already knows) that there's a local custom that if a male starship captain hires a female crew member, she's consenting to be his bed-warmer in addition to her other duties, but by the time he finds out they've already got a pretty solid [[{{polyamory}} three-way relationship]]. Later he acquires Mei, a RidiculouslyHumanRobot [[{{Robosexual}} built to his sexual fantasies]] after he went a little crazy playing "Space Barbie" with the Maidroid designer program without planning to place an order: the company was so impressed they built her for him anyway as a marketing ploy. Hiro is also pursued by military officer Serena Holz (not interested), heiress Christina Dalenwald (too young), and medical doctor Shouko (mutually attracted but is MarriedToTheJob).
* ''LightNovel/RedoOfHealer'', though in a DarkerAndEdgier sense. The protagonist, Keyaru, is hellbent on revenge after being subjected to all kinds of abuse because of his status as a healer, so he woos several girls to his cause by either brainwashing them into submission or relating to their own desire for vengeance.
* ''LightNovel/SisterPrincess'': An interesting (and unusually non-romantic) variation on this trope can be found in the anime. In which, a young man discovers that he has a baker's dozen half-sisters he never knew existed. Having grown up alone except for a few servants, he finds their slavish adoration of their "[[BigBrotherWorship big brother]]" somewhat overwhelming, but grows to love and treasure them all.
* ''LightNovel/SoICantPlayH'' begins with Ryosuke's neighbor, Mina, already nursing an unrequited crush on him since childhood. But the first episode's opening scene introduces his soon-to-be love interest: a stunning redhead named, Lisara, who is not only a shinigami, but [[BlueBlood high-ranking nobility.]] Then the other two shinigami show up (Quele and Ilia) and Mina's chances effectively go [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend down the drain.]]
* ''LightNovel/StudentCouncilsDiscretion''. The male lead ''blatantly'' announces he is aiming for one to his female cast ''more than once''. He's generally a nice and dependable guy and, in a way, [[spoiler:it pays off by the end]].
* The ''Literature/SuccubusLord'' series revolves around a guy and his harem of succubi.
* In ''Literature/TairenSoul'', Ellie is surrounded by handsome men who swear they'll die to do her bidding. They (officially) don't want to be together or sleep with her, however.
* ''Literature/TanteiTeamKZJikenNote'': While {{downplayed|trope}} due to this being [[MiddleGradeLiterature a series about and primarily aimed at tweens]], there's no escaping the fact that it's one girl surrounded by boys that she and everyone around her consider to be cool and good-looking, and she even develops some feelings towards some of them. While not as strong as older Reverse Harem series, it still has the same effect.
* ''LightNovel/{{Toradora}}'' settles into this genre in its second half.
* ''LightNovel/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'' is a DeconstructiveParody of the genre wherein the male lead is {{blackmail}}ed into beating an [[RomanceGame otome game]][[note]]a dating sim aimed at teenage girls[[/note]] for his sister to get the reverse harem ending, then dies in an accident, [[ReincarnateInAnotherWorld reincarnates as a background character in the game]], realizes [[CrapsackWorld how much the game world sucks for people who aren't the protagonist]], and proceeds to send things wildly OffTheRails in his efforts to survive. [[spoiler:He winds up with both the original PlayerCharacter and TheRival falling in love with [[{{Polyamory}} both him and each other]].]]
* ''LightNovel/UndefeatedBahamutChronicle'' has [[TheHero Lux]] accumulating a harem made of the [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething princess]] [[KnightInShiningArmor he works for]], [[BureaucraticallyArrangedMarriage his bureacratically arranged fiance]], [[ChildhoodFriendRomance his childhood friend]], [[TheAce the school's top fighter]], [[SubordinateExcuse his servant]], and a [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld distant and ancient cousin from another family branch]].
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* TokenMiniMoeTokenMiniMoe -- usually the little sister of one of the haremettes, and often too young to be an actual contender.
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* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Usually when the protagonist is a RidiculouslyAverageGuy, it will have other girls and jealous suitors wondering how such a guy could have the attention of so many cute girls.
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* ''Webcomic/BigBreak'': Troy, a college student hailed from the country attracts the attention of his three female roommates.... along with any other woman he encounters.
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Harem is a genre/plot frame that is mostly present in the Japanese media of {{anime}}, {{manga}}, LightNovels, {{Visual Novel}}s, and VideoGames. It typically features a HighSchool–aged male lead with at least two (usually at least three and often a lot more) available girls who may be actively interested in him but at the very least are bound by circumstances to be close to him. {{Gender Inverted|Trope}}, [[QueerAsTropes LGBTQ]], and IfItsYouItsOkay examples exist, as do age-adjusted renditions for younger audiences. Typically [[TasteTheRainbow each harem member has a markedly contrasting personality]], often personifying a single classic characterization archetype while (usually) the opposite applies to the [[VanillaProtagonist protagonist]].
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Harem is a genre/plot frame that is mostly present in the Japanese media of {{anime}}, {{manga}}, LightNovels, {{Visual Novel}}s, and VideoGames. It typically features As the name says, the genre's basic premise involves a HighSchool–aged male lead with "harem" of at least two (usually at least three and often a lot 3 (but usually more) available girls who may be actively interested sharing a common interest in him but at the very least are bound by circumstances to be close to him.a male protagonist. {{Gender Inverted|Trope}}, [[QueerAsTropes LGBTQ]], and IfItsYouItsOkay examples exist, as do age-adjusted renditions for younger audiences. Typically [[TasteTheRainbow each harem member has a markedly contrasting personality]], often personifying a single classic characterization archetype while (usually) the opposite applies to the [[VanillaProtagonist protagonist]].
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* LovingAShadow
* AbhorrentAdmirer -- a variant where they're always attractive.
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* NoRespectGuy -- when the story makes the protagonist as the only NiceGuy while his peers are [[GreenEyedMonster envious]] {{Jerkass}}.{{Jerkass}} who only LovingAShadow of popular girls in school.
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* HardDrinkingPartyGirlHandsomeLech -- always present in a reverse harem but his chances of success are often close to zero.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl -- A fixture of the classic harem is to have at least one rowdy and sexually liberated girl.
* {{Hunk}} -- A must-have in any reverse harem is a strong-built and traditionally masculine type.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl -- A fixture of the classic harem is to have at least one rowdy and sexually liberated girl.
* {{Hunk}} -- A must-have in any reverse harem is a strong-built and traditionally masculine type.
* KavorkaMan -- often exists as a role-model for the protagonist
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** BiTheWay -- Usually become this as the series goes on or [[CureYourGays stops being lesbian]].
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*OneOfTheBoys -- Almost always the lead female and childhood friend of the male protagonist. Her chances of being the lucky girl are usually slim ''[[UnluckyChildhoodFriend and none]]''.
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Not related to [[UsefulNotes/Islam Haram.]]
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Haram.]]
