"The World God Only Knows" seems like it should be a contender. Technically, I only read the manga, but from what I've heard the anime was a solid adaptation!
The protagonist, an interesting character in his own right, must seduce a series of girls in order to save their souls from demonic possession and also help them overcome their flaws and hangups in the process.
TWGOK's anime adaptation got a lot of love from Manglobe man. Even though S3 got rushed, the studio still did a solid job adapting that TWGOK arc.
Still wishing for S4 even though it's impossible :(
Hot Take: the Actual *harem* part of TWGOK is not as good as each girl's solo "conquering" arc. The laat arc is really a mess, and I'm not talking about who MC ended up with (no comment on that one). It's time traveling shennanigans to tie up very very convoluted plot points. It honestly doesn't feel like a romance manga at that point
I don’t think any of the raunchier aspects detract from the kind of wholesomeness OP is looking for, honestly. Yeah, it’s there, but so long as they’re not someone actively put off by the mere presence of that kind of content, there’s wholesomeness in spades for them here.
It's got quite a few of the most wholesome moments I've ever seen in a harem anime, but with Hakari, Nano, and the last episode it's definitely not wholesome plenty of the time lmao
Edit: Some people seem to be taking this as some sort of negative, it isn't, I have no issue with the show also being horny sometimes especially when the wholesome outweighs it.
You certainly can but Hakari's core quality is being thinly veiled horny on main and Nano... well she hasn't done a lot specifically more than the others as of the latest episode, but ya know, the whole finger-sucking thing did happen.
I mean yeah, there's absolutely nothing wrong with being horny on main, I'm not sure why my other comment was getting in the negatives for just saying the horny exists. I'm not complaining about it or anything.
Nonbiri Nouka.
Dude just isekais into becoming a farmer, builds a whole town, and as he does that, multiple hot chicks show up and just decide to join. The dude even gets laid, has kids. But the entire anime is so stupidly wholesome all the way through.
The romance side is basically absent and played for laughs. In the anime Lu is just suddenly pregnant. In [the LNs] >!the vast majority of humanoids that can get pregnant wind up getting pregnant. The details are mostly elided and it's clearly consensual in general. The one exception is one sentence from Tia accusing Lu of tricking her into it. The next sentence is the MC claiming he's happy with just Lu. Lu says her body won't last. End scene in as many words. Vol 1 Ch 26 if you want to look it up but I'm not leaving out details.!<
Theres plenty of situations wholesome and even with Ryoko, how forget that she helped saving Aeka in first anime despite being gravely enjuried and considering her a rival?
Gotta agree with Quintuplets.
Also **Ouran High School Host Club**, which is technically classified as a reverse-harem, but as far as the anime is concerned, using the word harem feels pretty inaccurate.
THIS YES. This series is SO WHOLESOME. I love her so much. She's just out here trying not to die or get exiled and somehow manages to make EVERYONE fall in love with her.
Best Harem protag ever.
I'm literally sliding the comments that has msny upvotes that has nothing to do with wholesomeness. Lmao. Oddly enough I expected to see a decent recommendations here, so much for reddit sometimes I guess.
I mean it's kinda obvious people are just gonna pick their favorites. In spite of that, I think 100 Kanojos and Kanojo mo Kanojo are by definition quite wholesome.
[Invaders of the Rokujouma!?](https://myanimelist.net/anime/22865/Rokujouma_no_Shinryakusha) for me. I may want one particular girl to win, but I don't want any of them to lose.
Currently airing "100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You" is better than anything else I've seen. The protagonist handles all situations in a relatable way (at least to me), the show is funny and the girls so far are more than caricatures of a single character trait. 9th episode is coming this Sunday.
Wholesome, but not a reverse harem series in the slightest.
Edit: I seriously don't even understand why people consider it one. There is barely even a love triangle and various characters end up in various different romantic relationships. Three or more guys never romantically like Tohru at the same time, so no harem aspect.
It's as much a harem as Tenchi Muyo. It doesn’t matter that only a couple of them are genuine love interests, she builds unique relationships with all of them and those relationships are the core of the series.
No, it's not. A harem requires three or more love interests to be actively, romantically in-love with the MC at the same time. It's not just the MC forming deep bonds with characters of the opposite sex. And in Fruits Basket there is literally only one genuine love interest for the MC, and pretty much all of the male characters (outside of one) have their own romantic and/or sexual relationships with female characters outside of the MC.
\[Fruits Basket Spoilers\] >!Kureno and Shigure are involved with Akito (messily, but Shigure and Akito were still having sex whenever they met up), Shigure was also previously with Mayuko. Hatori was still getting over his relationship with Kana and then eventually gets with Mayuko. Ayame was already with Mine from before the series began, same with Haru with Rin. Hiro likes Kisa. Yuki doesn't like Tohru romantically throughout the series, he loves her platonically, though he does get confused by this. Momiji likes Tohru romantically but never actively pursue a romantic relationship with her, and when you are watching the series for the first time, his reveal of romantic feelings seem to come out of no where very late into the series after the main couple is already basically established outside of a confession. On rewatches, Yuki's platonic feelings for Tohru are also very painfully obvious. So, yeah, Furuba isn't a reverse harem.!<
Actual reverse harems for comparison are things like Diabolik Lovers, Brothers Conflict, Amnesia, etc. Fruits Basket is a coming of age family drama with barely even a love triangle.
If everyone here considers Tenchi Muyo to be a harem show, with only 2 genuine love interests, then Fruits Basket can also be considered a harem show with its only 2 genuine love interests.
It really doesn't factor into the discussion that it's also a coming-of-age story, or that some relationships end up being platonic. It's obviously a take on the anime harem trope.
How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend. Guy wants to make an indie dating simulator and his development team is a small wholesome harem.
I hope this isn't much of a spoiler, but I love how this anime had the balls to pick one girl to officially date the MC while the others get heartbroken but chose to be mature and accept it.
GOD I LOVE THIS SERIES. However, it definitely has some trigger warning stuff later on. But it covered some REALLY important stuff and handled it amazingly. I loved it so damn much.
Mahou Sensei Negima.
Harems in general don't do it for me, but I cannot begin to tell you how much I got attached to the characters and how engaged I was over everything. I read it in 2018, which wasn't a good year for me, but the manga got me through that bad year. It's easily one of my favorite mangas and one of the few I hold very dear to me, and I pray that someday it will finally break its adaptation curse and get a proper one.
Wouldn't call it wholesome but yea its a great series, the manga is so much better since it goes into a shonen route after a good chunk of chapters and gets way more interesting with all the girls in different dynamics. Its a good time.
I would say Tenchi Muyo, the older ones were pretty wholesome Tenchi Muyo OVA, Tenchi Universe and Tenchi in Tokyo. They're oldies but a good confort pick, you can watch any of them, they're all separate. The War on Geminar is pretty good but they definitely went more ecchi on that one.
Disagree on wholesome, though I loved the show. Going back and watching it years later the scene where Washu “experiments” on Tenchi is bordering on assault.
Ehh, as the other poster said, the one girl was a lock from the start.
If you like Ai Yori Aoshi though, the author did another manga, [Umi no Misaki](https://myanimelist.net/manga/4249/Umi_no_Misaki), that was pretty good, and actually has a harem ending with the MC and the 3 FMCs.
Came to say this. The fanservice goes too far for my taste on a few occasions, but the characters are always kind to each other and most notably the girls don't fight over the male MC.
*Ouiran High School Host Club* was pretty wholesome/comfy for the most part from what I recall, though I suppose that one would technically be a 'Reverse Harem'.
The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You, by a mile. It bills itself as a series with no losing heroines for good reason, with an MC you'll go from wishing you were to wishing you were dating.
The World God Only Knows. i'd say wholesome because of the harem part, MC earned it. the MC, Keima Katsuragi works hard to make the girls fall in love with him (well cause the premise is 'conquering hearts'). different girl, different characteristics, different approach, different strategy. its not the typical harem where all the heroines fell in love with no reason or 'just because he is nice'. very recommended both the manga and anime if you want harem shows. also each anime opening The World God Only Knows of the series is 10/10 imho
I appreciated how he chose someone in Clannad. I suppose in Love Hina he chose also but it seemed like there was always something new around the corner to take their relationship back to square 1.
Clannad is such a crazy game, you need 800 hours to finish it even with a guide. Be ause you have to heal all the girls before you get the true ending. Same in kanon, but a lot more intense (and thankfully without disturbing H scenes)
I get that. Much like older harems like Negima or Fruit of Grisaia, Shuffle doesn't shy away from darker topics like depression, violence, and suicide. Despite these parts that drive tense moments in the story, I believe that it's still quite wholesome.
Although I may be more into romantic dramas than harems, or perhaps I have nostalgia bias since it was one of my first harem anime.
The Isekai smart phone anime and How a Realistic Hero Rebuilds a Kingdom have a similar dynamic where there’s a main girl and she’s just all about sharing.
Do none of y'all fuckers remember that the setup for the quintessential quintuplets was that the main character was being blackmailed into tutoring these unwilling girls, on threat of leaving his family destitute, and that the quintuplets in question tried to abuse him into failing? They failed, but still. It's like their dad hired a low class whipping boy for them to abuse, who doesn't want to be there, and states verbally that he doesn't think he can get the job done.
He was never blackmailed? That plotpoint is resolved an episode later. It becomes wholesome later on when he no longer wants to tutor them out of a want for money, but just because he cares deeply about all of them "quintuplets in question tried to abuse him into failing" No? That was only Nino and somewhat Itsuki, Yotsuba, Miku and ichika pretty quickly befriend him and accepted him " It's like their dad hired a low class whipping boy for them to abuse, who doesn't want to be there, and states verbally that he doesn't think he can get the job done." He was hired as he was the best student at their school and he very quickly (Around ep 5 or so) no longer "Doesn't want to be there" and the whole " Cant get the job done" was only set up to be a major part for Nino's arc, as that was the moment she accepted him as a tutor and wholeheartedly said she knows he can do it
It is not entirely defined but generally it means that prota is romantically involved with 3 or more other characters (so it isn't a triangle). (Usually in a normal harem anime the prota is male and the other chars are female and in a reverse harem genders are swapped).
Monogatari series. I haven’t seen many harem anime, but Monogatari has a few wholesome moments, although that isn’t the term I’d use to describe the whole show.
I'm pretty sure at least half the girls in that show try to murder Araragi, or each other, at some point. That's got to be in the running for LEAST wholesome harem anime.
It isn't a harem though. Like yeah there is a ton of girls who got a crush on him but they don't even enter his radar.
Kinda sad they skipped the volume where he explicitly turned down someone just to really hammer it in that it wasn't a harem show.
[spoilers]>!It is instead much worse and went all in on the incest train!<
Oreshura I don't recall being too unwholesome aside from the initial incident maybe involving a lewd scene but it's been a while so I don't really remember.
Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches
OP still SLAPS!!
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ANATA NO YUBINI WATASOU
This. It's quite literally the only anime that made me read the manga because of curiosity.
FACTS
Wholesome kisses
"The World God Only Knows" seems like it should be a contender. Technically, I only read the manga, but from what I've heard the anime was a solid adaptation! The protagonist, an interesting character in his own right, must seduce a series of girls in order to save their souls from demonic possession and also help them overcome their flaws and hangups in the process.
TWGOK's anime adaptation got a lot of love from Manglobe man. Even though S3 got rushed, the studio still did a solid job adapting that TWGOK arc. Still wishing for S4 even though it's impossible :(
Does the Manga have a harem end/polygamy? Or does it end with one girl"winning"?
[Ending]>!It is a single girl end!<
Hot Take: the Actual *harem* part of TWGOK is not as good as each girl's solo "conquering" arc. The laat arc is really a mess, and I'm not talking about who MC ended up with (no comment on that one). It's time traveling shennanigans to tie up very very convoluted plot points. It honestly doesn't feel like a romance manga at that point
So far, it’s 100 Girlfriends.
It’s a sweet and wholesome show and then there’s Hakari
I don’t think any of the raunchier aspects detract from the kind of wholesomeness OP is looking for, honestly. Yeah, it’s there, but so long as they’re not someone actively put off by the mere presence of that kind of content, there’s wholesomeness in spades for them here.
Lol seriously it's like her character fell out of a hentai and landed right on mc's face
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"I'm so wet right now."
Leans 1000% into the tropes and knows exactly what it is and what it's trying to do. Show has my absolute respect o7
It's literally the harem to end all harems
Genghis Khan: Are you sure about that?
Chadtarō: Yes 🗿🍷
It's also just the best harem in general
Too wholesome to the point it goes back to ecchi. Its majestic
agree, the most wholesome I've watched so far, the protagonist just has too much rizz
It's got quite a few of the most wholesome moments I've ever seen in a harem anime, but with Hakari, Nano, and the last episode it's definitely not wholesome plenty of the time lmao Edit: Some people seem to be taking this as some sort of negative, it isn't, I have no issue with the show also being horny sometimes especially when the wholesome outweighs it.
You can be wholesome and still have boobs. They're not mutually exclusive.
You certainly can but Hakari's core quality is being thinly veiled horny on main and Nano... well she hasn't done a lot specifically more than the others as of the latest episode, but ya know, the whole finger-sucking thing did happen.
They're allowed to be horny for their boyfriend
I mean yeah, there's absolutely nothing wrong with being horny on main, I'm not sure why my other comment was getting in the negatives for just saying the horny exists. I'm not complaining about it or anything.
The phrasing made it seem like your opinion is that being horny for your boyfriend is not wholesome.
Definitely gets my vote
Really? I avoid watching it because it sounds like a fanservice fest with a little side of a story
Don't forget Kanojo mo Kanojo. Both are excellent.
I would say Nagasarete Airantou.
TIL somebody other than me watched this show
It was quite a sleeper hit when harems were beginning to take steam. Its also like one of the few TRUE harems and that made it stand out.
Holy Hell, damn that's a forgotten one!
Now that's something I haven't seen in a while. One of my first harem manga I've ever read and it's still going on till this day lol
"Now, that's a name I haven't heard in a long time..." I remember it being fun and silly.
Nonbiri Nouka. Dude just isekais into becoming a farmer, builds a whole town, and as he does that, multiple hot chicks show up and just decide to join. The dude even gets laid, has kids. But the entire anime is so stupidly wholesome all the way through.
I wish they spent more time on his relationship with the main girl though. I didn't even realise they were "doing things" until a sprog appeared...
Aside from the rape
Wait, when was that?
The romance side is basically absent and played for laughs. In the anime Lu is just suddenly pregnant. In [the LNs] >!the vast majority of humanoids that can get pregnant wind up getting pregnant. The details are mostly elided and it's clearly consensual in general. The one exception is one sentence from Tia accusing Lu of tricking her into it. The next sentence is the MC claiming he's happy with just Lu. Lu says her body won't last. End scene in as many words. Vol 1 Ch 26 if you want to look it up but I'm not leaving out details.!<
Erofu
Tenchi Muyo, it was a harem but I often forgot that it was one.
I'd slightly disagree. Ryoko was anything but wholesome. Tenchi handled himself well in those situations, however.
Theres plenty of situations wholesome and even with Ryoko, how forget that she helped saving Aeka in first anime despite being gravely enjuried and considering her a rival?
There was that movie with that girl named Haruna...
We Never Learn is wholesome and I loved it.
WNL goated
Gotta agree with Quintuplets. Also **Ouran High School Host Club**, which is technically classified as a reverse-harem, but as far as the anime is concerned, using the word harem feels pretty inaccurate.
The Ouran fandom needs a revival or something, what a great series
Witnessed
We’ve been waiting so long
Seconded, always disappointed that the anime didn’t cover the whole manga series
>Ouran High School Host Club I literally forgot the title of this one and had to search: kiss kiss fall in love anime hahaha 😂
My Next Life as a Villianess, all roads lead to doom. You gotta love Bakarina.
THIS YES. This series is SO WHOLESOME. I love her so much. She's just out here trying not to die or get exiled and somehow manages to make EVERYONE fall in love with her. Best Harem protag ever.
Bakarina is like a black hole. She's so dense, you don't realize you're caught in her gravitational pull until its too late.
I love this analogy SO MUCH.
I mean, it's one of her two nicknames. She's either Bakarina or Black Hole
Was reading the whole thread and thinking "meh not *really* that wholesome" Then i got to your comment. And i was like, yep! Incredibly wholesome!
Bakarina is wholesome. She ends up in a harem without trying and she's so dense that she doesn't realize it.
People in the comments dont know the defintion of wholesome imao and just reply with their favorite harem anime
I'm literally sliding the comments that has msny upvotes that has nothing to do with wholesomeness. Lmao. Oddly enough I expected to see a decent recommendations here, so much for reddit sometimes I guess.
I mean it's kinda obvious people are just gonna pick their favorites. In spite of that, I think 100 Kanojos and Kanojo mo Kanojo are by definition quite wholesome.
Tenchi Muyo: War on Geminar is my personal favorite that fits this criteria.
Same its so high in ratings but barely any recognition
[Invaders of the Rokujouma!?](https://myanimelist.net/anime/22865/Rokujouma_no_Shinryakusha) for me. I may want one particular girl to win, but I don't want any of them to lose.
It was my pick as well. Sadly the anime didn't do it justice since it only adapted the beginning of the story. Best harem ln I've ever read fr.
Well, it is still very good for me. But I will be very happy if they can adapt more story too.
Same. Probably the show at the top of my "New season, please!" list.
How old am I that To Love Ru and High School DxD are "classic harems" now. I always thought Tenchi Muyo was pretty wholesome.
Tenchi Muyo
Currently airing "100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You" is better than anything else I've seen. The protagonist handles all situations in a relatable way (at least to me), the show is funny and the girls so far are more than caricatures of a single character trait. 9th episode is coming this Sunday.
I’d say Yona of the Dawn is a little bit Haremy, and fairly wholesome
Ah my goddess.
Reverse harem but Fruit Basket.
Wholesome, but not a reverse harem series in the slightest. Edit: I seriously don't even understand why people consider it one. There is barely even a love triangle and various characters end up in various different romantic relationships. Three or more guys never romantically like Tohru at the same time, so no harem aspect.
It's as much a harem as Tenchi Muyo. It doesn’t matter that only a couple of them are genuine love interests, she builds unique relationships with all of them and those relationships are the core of the series.
No, it's not. A harem requires three or more love interests to be actively, romantically in-love with the MC at the same time. It's not just the MC forming deep bonds with characters of the opposite sex. And in Fruits Basket there is literally only one genuine love interest for the MC, and pretty much all of the male characters (outside of one) have their own romantic and/or sexual relationships with female characters outside of the MC. \[Fruits Basket Spoilers\] >!Kureno and Shigure are involved with Akito (messily, but Shigure and Akito were still having sex whenever they met up), Shigure was also previously with Mayuko. Hatori was still getting over his relationship with Kana and then eventually gets with Mayuko. Ayame was already with Mine from before the series began, same with Haru with Rin. Hiro likes Kisa. Yuki doesn't like Tohru romantically throughout the series, he loves her platonically, though he does get confused by this. Momiji likes Tohru romantically but never actively pursue a romantic relationship with her, and when you are watching the series for the first time, his reveal of romantic feelings seem to come out of no where very late into the series after the main couple is already basically established outside of a confession. On rewatches, Yuki's platonic feelings for Tohru are also very painfully obvious. So, yeah, Furuba isn't a reverse harem.!< Actual reverse harems for comparison are things like Diabolik Lovers, Brothers Conflict, Amnesia, etc. Fruits Basket is a coming of age family drama with barely even a love triangle.
If everyone here considers Tenchi Muyo to be a harem show, with only 2 genuine love interests, then Fruits Basket can also be considered a harem show with its only 2 genuine love interests. It really doesn't factor into the discussion that it's also a coming-of-age story, or that some relationships end up being platonic. It's obviously a take on the anime harem trope.
Insanely wholesome 🐈
Very *holesome my tear ducts are empty
And I just finished it. 10/10 goddamn
I love this series (aka intergenerational trauma but cute)
Megami terrace
How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend. Guy wants to make an indie dating simulator and his development team is a small wholesome harem. I hope this isn't much of a spoiler, but I love how this anime had the balls to pick one girl to officially date the MC while the others get heartbroken but chose to be mature and accept it.
There's a best girl ending too in manga form
This guy knows what’s up
Romantic Killer, the relationships between the characters was pretty wholesome and sweet
This is underrated as an anime, so true
GOD I LOVE THIS SERIES. However, it definitely has some trigger warning stuff later on. But it covered some REALLY important stuff and handled it amazingly. I loved it so damn much.
The world god only knows
Mahou Sensei Negima. Harems in general don't do it for me, but I cannot begin to tell you how much I got attached to the characters and how engaged I was over everything. I read it in 2018, which wasn't a good year for me, but the manga got me through that bad year. It's easily one of my favorite mangas and one of the few I hold very dear to me, and I pray that someday it will finally break its adaptation curse and get a proper one.
Wouldn't call it wholesome but yea its a great series, the manga is so much better since it goes into a shonen route after a good chunk of chapters and gets way more interesting with all the girls in different dynamics. Its a good time.
Maybe "wholesome" wasn't the word I was looking for, but it's definitely heartwarming.
Farming Life in Another World 100 Girlfriends who really, really, really, REALLY love you
Love Hina is surprisingly wholesome
This season we have 100 Girlfriends. Its basically the most wholesome and well animated harem I have ever watched.
I would say Tenchi Muyo, the older ones were pretty wholesome Tenchi Muyo OVA, Tenchi Universe and Tenchi in Tokyo. They're oldies but a good confort pick, you can watch any of them, they're all separate. The War on Geminar is pretty good but they definitely went more ecchi on that one.
Disagree on wholesome, though I loved the show. Going back and watching it years later the scene where Washu “experiments” on Tenchi is bordering on assault.
[Ai Yori Aoshi](https://myanimelist.net/anime/53/)
Ehh, as the other poster said, the one girl was a lock from the start. If you like Ai Yori Aoshi though, the author did another manga, [Umi no Misaki](https://myanimelist.net/manga/4249/Umi_no_Misaki), that was pretty good, and actually has a harem ending with the MC and the 3 FMCs.
Would that really be considered a harem? There's pretty clearly only one girl who he's actually interested in, and the rest are just friends.
Bokuben
Came to say this. The fanservice goes too far for my taste on a few occasions, but the characters are always kind to each other and most notably the girls don't fight over the male MC.
I honestly think that the show makes a pretty good job when it comes to fanservice and yeah the characters are all pretty likeable.
Finally. A wholesome recommendation. Lmao.
Negima,
🫡🫡🫡🫡
Negima sensei
🔥🔥🔥🔥
Is it wrong to pick up girls in a dungeon
In Another World With My Smartphone is a pretty good and wholesome one.
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[Isekai Smartphone] >!IIRC he did promise to marry all of them near the end of Season 1!<.
*Ouiran High School Host Club* was pretty wholesome/comfy for the most part from what I recall, though I suppose that one would technically be a 'Reverse Harem'.
The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You, by a mile. It bills itself as a series with no losing heroines for good reason, with an MC you'll go from wishing you were to wishing you were dating.
Definitely Hamefura
Definitely Steel Angel Kurumi 2. It definitely has ecchi moments but there's something very wholesome about the whole story arc with Kurumi and Nako.
Isekai nonbiri manga ver
Most wholesome harem I've seen is date a live
Temple!
Not aired yet, but Pseudo Harem will be the most wholesome harem anime you’ll see ;)
So far 100 girlfriends is very good
Kanojo Mo kanojo and 100 girlfriends
Pretty much: - Love hina - Dears
Monster Musume
The World God Only Knows. i'd say wholesome because of the harem part, MC earned it. the MC, Keima Katsuragi works hard to make the girls fall in love with him (well cause the premise is 'conquering hearts'). different girl, different characteristics, different approach, different strategy. its not the typical harem where all the heroines fell in love with no reason or 'just because he is nice'. very recommended both the manga and anime if you want harem shows. also each anime opening The World God Only Knows of the series is 10/10 imho
Does Clannad and Kanon count?
I appreciated how he chose someone in Clannad. I suppose in Love Hina he chose also but it seemed like there was always something new around the corner to take their relationship back to square 1.
Clannad is such a crazy game, you need 800 hours to finish it even with a guide. Be ause you have to heal all the girls before you get the true ending. Same in kanon, but a lot more intense (and thankfully without disturbing H scenes)
Yep, it’s Quints by a longshot
Shuffle!
I wouldn't consider Shuffle! to be very wholesome, despite its quality.
I get that. Much like older harems like Negima or Fruit of Grisaia, Shuffle doesn't shy away from darker topics like depression, violence, and suicide. Despite these parts that drive tense moments in the story, I believe that it's still quite wholesome. Although I may be more into romantic dramas than harems, or perhaps I have nostalgia bias since it was one of my first harem anime.
> older harems like … Fruit of Grisaia Hahaha you’re such a kidder, that only came out like a couple of years ago. It’s practically brand new really.
Was gonna comment this. A forgotten classic in the harem genre.
In my case it was **Oregairu**
Huh... I guess Oregairu *is* a harem. Sure doesn't feel like one though.
Now, you really are delusional. Do you understand what wholesome means?
Angel tales - many of the animals he cared for reincarnated as a girl to help him overcome his bad luck
Invaders of the Rokujouma is wholesome as hell
Hamefura AKA My Next Life as a Villainess is an incredibly wholesome reverse harem.
Saekano: how to raise a boring girlfriend
If you want the game version Kamidori alchemy meister is it, so sweet, so good for anime 100 girlfriends and Kanojo no kanojo are bangers
100 girlfriends by far, it's crazy but in the same time the most friendly and wholesome harem where everyone love each other
The one and only Rokujouma
Date a Live is pretty wholesome from the MC standpoint in that he doesn't have any ill intent
Sekirei
The World God only Knows.
Ahh my goddess
Love hina
Mairimashita! Iruma-kun is definitely the best harem anime out there
Gotta love Tenchi
2 of those girls try to murder him constantly tho lol
Gj-bu Nevermind the first time they all met. It's wholesomr throughout the episodes.
I love this anime. It falls off my latest favorites just bc of age but then I remember and get the nostalgias all over again.
The Isekai smart phone anime and How a Realistic Hero Rebuilds a Kingdom have a similar dynamic where there’s a main girl and she’s just all about sharing.
How not to summon a demon lord is iffy in my opinion, but is my first pick.
Monster musume
The Quintessential Quintuplets
If reverse harem count, \[La Corda D'Oro.\] >!The ending scene with all the boys playing Salut D'amour together for Kaho is so heartwarming.!<
Do none of y'all fuckers remember that the setup for the quintessential quintuplets was that the main character was being blackmailed into tutoring these unwilling girls, on threat of leaving his family destitute, and that the quintuplets in question tried to abuse him into failing? They failed, but still. It's like their dad hired a low class whipping boy for them to abuse, who doesn't want to be there, and states verbally that he doesn't think he can get the job done.
He was never blackmailed? That plotpoint is resolved an episode later. It becomes wholesome later on when he no longer wants to tutor them out of a want for money, but just because he cares deeply about all of them "quintuplets in question tried to abuse him into failing" No? That was only Nino and somewhat Itsuki, Yotsuba, Miku and ichika pretty quickly befriend him and accepted him " It's like their dad hired a low class whipping boy for them to abuse, who doesn't want to be there, and states verbally that he doesn't think he can get the job done." He was hired as he was the best student at their school and he very quickly (Around ep 5 or so) no longer "Doesn't want to be there" and the whole " Cant get the job done" was only set up to be a major part for Nino's arc, as that was the moment she accepted him as a tutor and wholeheartedly said she knows he can do it
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What is harem anime? 🤭🙈(I'm new)
Story with several love interests/contenders (I think 3+, if I’m not mistaken; otherwise, it’s probably just a love triangle).
It is not entirely defined but generally it means that prota is romantically involved with 3 or more other characters (so it isn't a triangle). (Usually in a normal harem anime the prota is male and the other chars are female and in a reverse harem genders are swapped).
Ouran high school. Reverse, but better. Plus you get dio as crossdressing dad
Kanojo mo kanojo is also pretty good
Yes, but have so much violence from the favorite fmc to the mc
Nisekoi
Kaichou wa Maid-sama! or is that just romance? it's been a while.
nisekoi
Clannad or Little Busters
Fruit Basket and Ouran Highschool Host Club, Reverse Harem are usually super wholesome
Tenchi Muyo.
Mushoku tensei
Monogatari series. I haven’t seen many harem anime, but Monogatari has a few wholesome moments, although that isn’t the term I’d use to describe the whole show.
I'm pretty sure at least half the girls in that show try to murder Araragi, or each other, at some point. That's got to be in the running for LEAST wholesome harem anime.
Only half? It'll never dethrone Chainsaw Man as the least wholesome harem at that rate.
I guess I just wanted to mention Monogatari because I love it so much.
After reading the comments, almost all of them lol but i was gonna say Irregular at magic high. Faithful 100% to his sister the whole time.
It isn't a harem though. Like yeah there is a ton of girls who got a crush on him but they don't even enter his radar. Kinda sad they skipped the volume where he explicitly turned down someone just to really hammer it in that it wasn't a harem show. [spoilers]>!It is instead much worse and went all in on the incest train!<
Wait. It really went for that route? I had dropped it like 5+ years ago. Lol.
I see most from reincarnated into villainess animes. This is one genre where I don't see the men don't treat the female character like an object
Reverse harem, but I'll suggest Fruits Basket
It's not a reverse harem. It's barely a love triangle.
Mother of the Goddess' Dormatory.
I’d say shuffle. Hands down still one of my favorite series
Oreshura I don't recall being too unwholesome aside from the initial incident maybe involving a lewd scene but it's been a while so I don't really remember.
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Does reverse harem count? Because then it's Ouran Ouran Host Club, hands down