Girls, cute girls, more adorable girls! Who doesn’t love anime girls!!! Well, if you are a diehard fan of delightful, lovely anime girls, then harem is a genre that you must start watching in 2020. With a legion of outstanding female anime characters falling in love attachment with story’s leading character, the harem genre offers an appealing, fantasy leading world of smooth, refreshing, and heart-warming stories that will certainly transform you to a quick devotee to these masterpieces.
For your quick acknowledgment, the harem is one of the oldest anime genres present today and still in high demand among global viewers. If you want to start your anime view list with something refreshing this year, then here is your list of “32 Best Harem Anime Of All Time” to include in your watch list and have some cringey fun.
32. Mahou Sensei Negima!
Total Episodes: 26
Want something humorous, romantic, and magic stuffed at the same time, then entertain yourself with Mahou Sensei Negima! This one-season series spins around the 10-year-old Negi Springfield, who wishes to become a Master Wizard. With his final task to become a Master Wizard, which is to become an English teacher at a female boarding school, Negi has to deal with one of his students Asuna Kagurazaka who learns his wizard secret. Together they have to complete many tasks while fighting off evil wizards. This romantic harem comedy series could be the perfect choice to start your journey to the harem world.
31. Sekirei
Total Episodes: 12
The 19-year-old Minato Sahashi, who also is the main protagonist of the series, doesn’t do well under pressure and can’t get into college. But, he has the rare genetic ability to unlock the full potential of super-powered alien beings named Sekirei, and that to be with a sweet kiss. The Sekirei and masters battle to determine who is best. This anime has some excellent female fights with romantic kiss contracts that will definitely slow your time.
30. Hentai Ouji to Warawanai Neko
Total Episodes: 12
The story here spins around a pervert high school male student who can’t express his true feelings and a long list of cute female characters. Our protagonist Youto Yokodera wishes near a magical cat statue to end his feeling expression problems but ends up with the ability to swap personality traits with several girls at his school. This magic mess will bring him close to his dream girls, and sometimes even a little too close. With so many cute characters, we guarantee you to find your best girl out of these lovelies.
29. Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou
Total Episodes: 12, OVA: 2
What if a bunch of half-human, half-monster girls fall in love with simple, alone living, nice guy suddenly? Well, that’s precisely what this harem anime is all about. The original character Kimihito Kurusu is given the task to take care of Miia, a beautiful half-monster, half-human, due to the sudden discovery and laws for demi-human that allow them to obtain host families in Japan as part of cultural exchange. This hilariously comedic yet romantic show will offer outstanding fun scenes and an excellent love story with interspecies relationship problems to enjoy with a big bucket of popcorn.
28. Tenchi Muyo!
This is one of the classic and long-running harem anime on our list. As a mainstream anime with a solid story, Tenchi Muyo has a solid adventure story with the spice of splendid female anime characters. The story here continues with Tenchi, who accidentally reanimates Ryoko, a space pirate who has been in deep slumber for 700 long years. Tenchi’s life eventually adds more and more cute alien women to it. This ultimately leads to an excellent harem anime plot with sci-fi action-adventure and romantic comedy. Tenchi Muyo is a must to watch for anime beginners of this genre.
27. Ichiban Ushiro no Daimaou
Total Episodes: 12
The power of a demon king with lots of elegant girls to follow you, sounds interesting, right!!! The story here progresses with Akuto Sai, the main protagonist who is stunned when an aptitude test at Constant Magick Academy declares him as the future Demon King. While Akuto tries to erase the evil reputation of Demon King, his path eventually meets with countless girls. While some of the cuties try to destroy him and others want to exploit his potential for Demon King, ultimately, they all become his crazy lovers.
26. Kiss x Sis
Total Episodes: 12
Time for sweet stepsister loves to enjoy. Our main character Keita Suminoe is extremely close to his older twin stepsisters Riko and Ako since childhood, and those feelings have turned to romance for the twin sisters with time. The charm of Keita has made even his classmates and teachers fall for him. The unique and intense theme of this popular harem anime will make some shocking turns at times, but this eventually adds the best entertainment for the viewers.
25. Sora no Otoshimono
Total Episodes: 13
Will you love to watch a harem of gorgeous angels? Here a perverted teenage boy named Tomoki Sakurai will help Ikaros and other fallen Angeloids to adopt the human culture. But, things start to go crazy when the Angeloids learn sexual attraction, which is an important part of human culture. And, thus, the journey of this great harem anime will continue.
24. Mayo Chiki!
Total Episodes: 13
The flying nosebleeds are one of the essential parts of the harem anime genre. Our protagonist here, Sakamachi Kinjiro, gets nose explosion with just a simple approach of hot girls. The young boy must conquer his fears, which are related to harem phobia here filled with stunningly beautiful anime girls.
23. To LOVE-Ru
Total Episodes: 26
This harem story continues with beautiful alien princess Lala and a shy, simple buy named Rito Yuuki, who is too afraid to confess his love for girls. Rito’s life takes a sudden change when he accidentally gropes alien princess Lala and gets transported into his bath, which strangely a marriage proposal for the alien race. Now Rito must protect Lala from bounty hunters and suitors while controlling his emotions with the growing harem that strangely includes his school crush, teachers, Lala, and even his sister.
22. Ore no Kanojo to Osananajimi ga Shuraba Sugiru
Total Episodes: 13
The MC here, Kidou Eita doesn’t have faith in love and romance. But, when the beauty queen of school blackmails him into starting pretending to date her, he simply can’t avoid it. This new relationship causes girls around to treat him differently and try to win his affection. Eita will try to survive the number one love guy in the school with lots of targets on his back. This harem comedy with lots of romance and a fantastic storyline is simply delightful to watch.
21. Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai
Total Episodes: 12
With his constantly moving life that follows his father’s work, our main character Hasegawa Kodaka is desperate to have a single friend. But, things go around when Koda decides to join Neighbor’s Club at his brand new school, where he finds himself surrounded by many socially outcast girls. With luck, Koda will make girlfriends even before ne makes his first friend. Well, the overnight life change of Koda gives this harem anime an interesting plot story and passionate romance.
20. Grisaia no Kajitsu
Total Episodes: 13
Our MC here, Kazama Yuuji is a human weapon who has completed countless secret operations for the Japanese Government. But, now he desires to live a normal life of a high school student. His wish is granted when he transferred to Mihama Academy, and surprisingly the only other students studying there are a group of girls. On his very first day, one of the girls confesses her love for Yuuji while another tries to kill him. Grisaia no Kajitsu is an excellent harem drama that shows the dark side of human nature. Will our MC survive this environment? Watch out to find.
19. Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata
Total Episodes: 25
The brilliance of this harem show is just out of words. This comical natured anime plots around Aki Tomoyo, who stumbles with his dream desired girl and suddenly decides to create a game based on his special moment. He brings two of his friends Utaha Kasumigaoka and Eriri Spencer Sawamura, to help him with this project. But, he crosses path with the same girl later on that day only to find that she is not who he thought she was.
18. Nisekoi
Total Episodes: 32, OVA: 2
Another harem anime for our list with perfect story execution. The MC Raku Ichijou has made a childhood promise to a certain girl to marry when they reunite in the future someday. Up to the present day, he holds the pendent gifted by the girl. Years later, now Ichijou has a crush on Kosaki Onodera, one of his classmates. As Ichijou’s family is a yakuza group known as the Shuei-gumi and he is the only heir, he is forced to go along with another yakuza group heir named Chitoge Kirisaki. Now he has to deal with this mess of relations while making a balance between families and his true feelings.
17. Absolute Duo
Total Episodes: 12
An excellent harem genre anime with an outstanding supernatural plot. The story follows a world where individuals can draw out powerful weapons called “Blazers” from others’ souls. Kouryou Academy High School trains such special individuals to harness their supernatural abilities. Here each student has to partner with another one to create the Absolute Duo. Our MC Tooru Kokonoe here is forced to create a pair Julie Sigtuna, and their journey continues within the harem, romance, action, and more that will interest to finish the anime in one go.
16. IS: Infinite Stratos
Total Episodes: 12
This ecchi harem anime is popular among fans globally. Here in this world, Infinite Stratos (IS) is a powerful exoskeleton weapon that only can be operated by girls. The prime character Ichika Orimura is the only male capable of piloting an IS and soon finds himself training in the all-female Stratos Academy. He will be united with childhood friends to continue his journey to guard the academy and sharpen his skills as a capable IS pilot.
15. Seiken Tsukai no World Break
Total Episodes: 12
To protect the world against monsters known as Metaphysicals, students enlist themselves into Akane Private Academy. Students here possess special abilities and memories of their previous lives. Some students can use an offensive weapon while others can use magic. This action-harem genre anime revolves around student lives and their romantic bonds.
14. Nyan Koi!
Total Episodes: 12
Our high school studying MC Junpei Kousaka has a severe cat allergy, but everyone around him appears to be a cat lover, even his family, his crush, and childhood friends. As this is not enough, he gets cursed for breaking the cat deity statue accidentally. Now he has to perform a hundred good deeds for cats without letting know anyone about his curse, or the person will suffer the same fate. Well, this comedy anime has a ton of harem moments to enjoy, so make sure to give it a try.
13. Madan no Ou to Vanadis
Total Episodes: 13
The plot takes place in the fantasy world of medieval Europe. The show MC Tigrevurund Vorn encounters Elenora- the war maiden. As she spares her life and gives him the particular order to “Become mine!”, the story will continue with a unique motion with adventure, war tactics, jaw-dropping action, and not to mention lots of pretty women. This medieval, harem genre fantasy anime is a must-try for you.
11. Nagasarete Airantou
Total Episodes: 26
As our lead character Ikuto Touhohin boards a luxury ship to take a vacation with no idea of what is going to happen his vacation, he ends up stranded on a remote island in the Pacific Ocean filled with gorgeous girls and strange creatures. As girls here never seen a boy before, Ikuto will have to face uncertain, unconditional scenarios that meet the very root of harem, ecchi, romance, comedy, and fantasy genre.
10. Highschool of the Dead
Total Episodes: 12
If you are an anime lover, then the title “Highschool of the Dead” may not be new to you. The anime is one of the most loved ones among fans, and we are still frustrated as there is no second season coming for this. The plot centers around certain high school students who lead the resistance during a zombie break out. The series has plenty of harem and ecchi moments, and no doubt, a great story for you to enjoy.
9. Yuragi-sou no Yuuna-san
Total Episodes: 12
Fuyuzora Kogarashi is going to start his high school journey, but he is too broke to afford a home for him. As he decides to stay in a defunct hot springs inn which is rumored to be haunted, he finds an actual ghost living there, The Yuuna named ghost living there has no memories of his past, and soon Kogarashi finds out that there are other odd residents living there with who he has to share the place. The anime is a fun and charming one and highly recommended for harem anime starters to go with.
8. Trinity Seven
Total Episodes: 12
At the start, our protagonist Arata Kasuga saves his home town by using magical grimoire gifted to him by his cousin and best friend magical grimoire. With his quest to investigate this unknown danger, Arata enlists himself in the Royal Biblia Academy, a top-secret magic school. He meets six beautiful female mages in the academy and partnered with them to prevent further destruction in his hometown. The lead characters of this fantasy-harem series are superbly enjoyable. Do give this a try.
7. Date A Live
Total Episodes: 12
The story sets in a future world where the world is invaded by spirits. Every time the spirits invade, thousands of people die due to a spacequake. The MC of series high school student Sidou Itsuka who lives alone with his sister plans to date them to stop these invasions. The series has great entertainment to support the harem genre and one of the top recommendations in this list.
6. Yamada-kun to 7-nin no Majo
Total Episodes: 12
The main characters of this series are guaranteed to offer you some superb romance material to watch and enjoy. Ryuu Yamada enlists himself into Suzaku High to become more productive and leave his violent ways. With his accidental kiss share with Urara Shiraishi, a stunningly beautiful honors student, he discovers that they can switch bodies with a kiss. As they enter into the Supernatural Studies Club to investigate more on their powers, soon they find out the legend of Seven Witches of Suzaku High. The anime offers some of the best comedy and romance moments, and truly represents the harem genre.
5. Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?
Total Episodes: 12
Our high school MC Ayumu Aikawa was murdered by a serial killer one night but resurrected magically by Eucliwood Hellscythe, who happens to be a necromancer. And, now, he is a zombie. When Ayumu steals the uniform of magical girl Haruna and gains her powers, now he has to fight evil creatures while figuring out a way to return Haruna her power. The anime truly shines in the Harem genre, and the exciting plot will spellbind you to finish it.
4. Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai
Total Episodes: 12
Popularly known as the “God of Conquest” in the online gaming world with his ultimate skill to conquer any girl’s heart in the 2D world, Keima Katsuragi has absolutely no interest in 3D girls. When he suddenly receives an email to accept a challenge to prove his skills, and he instantly accepts it without thinking. The task he assigned with is to help Elucia “Elsie” de Lute Ima, a demon in a quest to runaway evil spirits, which comes with a twist to conquer 3D girls.
3. Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari
Total Episodes: 13
The series MC Kenshi Masak has been kidnapped to a whole new world named Geminar by a group of mysterious yet pretty women. As he agrees to help them assassinate the newly crowned empress using a Sacred Mechanoid only to get back to his real world, the story will spin around a unique harem theme where every female character of the series falls in love with Kenshi. Sounds interesting, right!!! Well, you must watch complete action and romance packed series to unravel Kenshi’s journey back home.
2. Isekai Maou to Shoukan Shoujo no Dorei Majutsu
Total Episodes: 12
In the world of fantasy MMORPG game Cross Reverie, the Demon King Diablo is the most powerful player with possession of rarest artifacts. Takuma Sakamoto is the face behind the Demon King Diablo in the real world who sucks with poor social skills. One day Takuma mysteriously transported into the world of Cross Reverie with Diablo’s appearance and powers. The two pretty girls who summoned him to that world in order to enslave him ends up as his slave. The anime has loads of strong harem and ecchi scenes, making it a top choice for our list.
1. High School DxD
Total Episodes: 12 (4 Seasons)
With his sole dream to have a harem world full of cute, beautiful ladies, Issei Hyoudou just can’t stop looking at any woman he crosses, but he doesn’t dare to approach any of them. One day a fallen angel tricks him to join a date and kills him. Luckily, Issei is revived by her beautiful senior Rias Gremory as her servant. He joins the school’s Occult Research club and eventually meets the other members of Rias’s group. This series is top-rated among anime fans for its glamorous female characters and mild ecchi moments. The anime has four seasons, enough to help you spend hours in a single series.
