The 5 Best & 5 Worst Harem Protagonists, Ranked1 Best: Koyomi Araragi - Monogatari Series.2 Worst: Makoto Itou - School Days. ... 3 Best: Issei Hyoudou - High School DxD. ... 4 Worst: Kazuma Satou - Konosuba! ... 5 Best: Tohru Honda - Fruits Basket. ... 6 Worst: Kurusu Kimihito - Monster Musume: Everyday Life With Monster Girls. ... More items...•
High School DxD is one of the most successful harem anime in recent years. Its enormous popularity led to the release of a second season, High School DxD New, in July of 2013. A third anime television series, High School DxD BorN will premiere in April 2015.
Harem is a kind of story in Japanese anime and manga where a male character is surrounded and loved by many female characters. Suzuka, Love Hina, Ai Yori Aoshi, Rosario + Vampire and Sekirei are just a few examples. Most of the time the females are romantically interested in the main character.
Harem stories allow modern viewers to indulge traditional Japanese gender role fantasies. Multiple girls vying for attention amplifies this traditional gender role fantasy. Of course, this depends on the story too.
Harīm (حريم) or “harem” is originally an Arabic word. It means a delegated private house for the women of a rich Muslim household. The usual occupants include multiple wives, concubines, relatives, and even servants. Today, the word is associated with a group of women ogling on a single man.
9 Best - Dog Days The show is just so damn fluffy and sweet. Furthermore, those very same traits seem to spread themselves out among all of the great girls and turn them into a top tier harem.
The Harem King (하렘왕, Haremwang), also known as Jin Dajeon (진다전, Jindajeon) or Transcendence is one of the Divine Ten. He lives in Korea.
SAO is technically not classified as a "harem anime," though sadly it does retain a lot of similarities to that genre. Tons of girls have swarmed around Kirito, usually from being saved by him or impressed by his "skills," who all adore him. Sadly for them, he's only interested in Asuna.
When a male (yaoi) or female (hetero) is the center of attention for a group of males, this is usually called male harem, reverse harem, or sometimes 逆ハーレム or gyaku hāremu. Gyaku translates to reverse or upside down.
The first anime or manga to have all the elements of the harem genre is Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki (OVA anime: 1992). It has multiple female characters pursuing the same male lead, a constant presence in his life, in this case living with him in the same house.
Although polygyny (male harem-keeping) is part of human nature, so is polyandry (female harem-keeping). Ironically, we are both polygynous and polyandrous. Part of our nature inclines us to male-oriented harems, but also — albeit more subtly — to their female-oriented equivalent.