Does anyone know of a good romance harem manga or novels?

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I've tried looking for any good ones on here using advanced search and couldn't find ones I like (some had very disturbing scenes that made me drop them). I started looking for ones that had erotica, fantasy, romance and harem tags.

I was looking cause well who doesn't like a good escapism story and I got tired of seeing the MC in animes just not do it. Like it would be more normal to have a scene where the MC wakes up next to his love interest and it's just implied, feels more weird that the writers are teasing or avoiding that stuff, I digress.

But it perplexes me that I'm unable to find a single manga or novel that has all these genres in one correctly. The type of manga or novel I'm looking is one where the female characters are fleshed out, fall in love with the mc without feeling forced and having it feel slightly slice of life from there.

So I'm asking everyone for recommendations please?
Edit: I don't mind normal gore or blood but no cnc, rape or that stuff in recommendations if possible 🙏

 

[Ferreas]

I was looking cause well who doesn't like a good escapism story and I got tired of seeing the MC in animes just not do it. Like it would be more normal to have a scene where the MC wakes up next to his love interest and it's just implied, feels more weird that the writers are teasing or avoiding that stuff, I digress.

Oh yeah, I get what you mean.
But thats a rare thing for sure.
Can't give you any recs in those genres unfortunately, I'm not unto harem fantasy much.

Some good stuff I've read, though the genres are absolutely not what you asked for. But still, I'll leave it here, maybe you'll want to try something different
Romcom, slice of life - Ase to Sekken
Romcom, slice, yuri, emotional rollercoasters - How Do We Relationship?
Romcom, slice, one of those "old but gold" titles with lot's going on, somewhat realistic, unfortunately never finished due to authors health - Nana

On a lighter side with only one such scene. but still it was delivered really well:
Romcom, slice - Horimiya

 

[Edo4169]

I can't help you either because harem not likey.
But I can recommended you my comfort manga.
Ran and the Gray World
Machida-kun's World
Sekine-kun no Koi
Subaru to Suu-san

 

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the female characters are fleshed out, fall in love with the mc without feeling forced

This is a bit hard to define, actually
How do you consider that the females are fleshed out enough?
Does Negima fleshed it out enough?
Does To Love-ru felt forced?
How about the old ones like Love Hina or Ai Kora?

Do you want the story sets after the harem choosing trope? when the MC already gotten all the girls?
Something like Isekai Nonbiri?
Lots of isekai collecting bithes out there

Which harem story have you read and ended up not liking?

 

[Ferreas]

This is a bit hard to define, actually
How do you consider that the females are fleshed out enough?
Does Negima fleshed it out enough?
Does To Love-ru felt forced?
How about the old ones like Love Hina or Ai Kora?

Do you want the story sets after the harem choosing trope? when the MC already gotten all the girls?
Something like Isekai Nonbiri?
Lots of isekai collecting bithes out there

Which harem story have you read and ended up not liking?

Oh yeah, I forgot about Negima
Really liked that one.

 

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This is a bit hard to define, actually
How do you consider that the females are fleshed out enough?
Does Negima fleshed it out enough?
Does To Love-ru felt forced?
How about the old ones like Love Hina or Ai Kora?

Do you want the story sets after the harem choosing trope? when the MC already gotten all the girls?
Something like Isekai Nonbiri?
Lots of isekai collecting bithes out there

Which harem story have you read and ended up not liking?

I've read a few here's a list of them with things I did and didn't like:
Gekizumi Dungeon Desu ga "Skill: Hanshoku" de Gyakuten Shitai to Omoimasu

There's sexual violence in it which I didn't enjoy. The main character doesn't have morals and in a general sense it's depressing.

Astro King - Shoukan Yuusha dakedo Maid Harem wo Tsukurimasu!
There's so much sexual violence and lack of morality in the setting that I wanted to puke. However they did give a few of the female characters distinctive personalities and well written back stories that made me want to get to know them. However it didn't have much if any romance between the main character and them. This made most of the scenes where he 'got with them' so to speak feel transactional or sad

Warrior Princess Survival Saga: The Unsanctioned Intergender Relations on a Deserted Island, Battling for the Fate of Another World
They have a main female character be a loli which simply made me not want to read past the first chapter but I did. They fleshed out the characters decently and they have the main character a decent enough backstory where he's a correctional officer at a school which was interesting. However the writer decided to give scenes that tease sex which made me more uncomfortable then them just doing it and skipping past it. They gave some of the characters interesting traits or tropes such as a side character dragon being tomboyish or just a brute which was more interesting than just having a calm and composed female side character that did almost nothing except explain the world as if the main character was dumb. Another annoying thing is that they're all on a normal island and not in a fantasy world which that a long with a lot of other things made me drop it.

I've also watched Mushoku Tensei which I didn't like due to the main characters actions throughout the entire show. However I bring it up because it does a lot of good things throughout it such as giving all of the female characters backstories and reasons to like them. It also does some amazing world building that I ended up liking. They also give some reasons why the main character has a harem Instead of just throwing it into the story. It also shows characters not liking it and others being okay with it and giving reasons why or why not. There's also a lot of flaws such as the main character getting with his cousin (eris). Sexualizing underage characters which made me uncomfortable to say the least and did a lot of other things wrong that I don't want to get into.

There's also welcome to demon school iruma-kun which is a fantasy where I think a few different people like the mc. It's not super erotic or anything like that but I'd consider it almost perfect with how it portrays female characters and the world they're in.

 

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I've read a few here's a list of them with things I did and didn't like:
Gekizumi Dungeon Desu ga "Skill: Hanshoku" de Gyakuten Shitai to Omoimasu

There's sexual violence in it which I didn't enjoy. The main character doesn't have morals and in a general sense it's depressing.

Astro King - Shoukan Yuusha dakedo Maid Harem wo Tsukurimasu!
There's so much sexual violence and lack of morality in the setting that I wanted to puke. However they did give a few of the female characters distinctive personalities and well written back stories that made me want to get to know them. However it didn't have much if any romance between the main character and them. This made most of the scenes where he 'got with them' so to speak feel transactional or sad

Warrior Princess Survival Saga: The Unsanctioned Intergender Relations on a Deserted Island, Battling for the Fate of Another World
They have a main female character be a loli which simply made me not want to read past the first chapter but I did. They fleshed out the characters decently and they have the main character a decent enough backstory where he's a correctional officer at a school which was interesting. However the writer decided to give scenes that tease sex which made me more uncomfortable then them just doing it and skipping past it. They gave some of the characters interesting traits or tropes such as a side character dragon being tomboyish or just a brute which was more interesting than just having a calm and composed female side character that did almost nothing except explain the world as if the main character was dumb. Another annoying thing is that they're all on a normal island and not in a fantasy world which that a long with a lot of other things made me drop it.

I've also watched Mushoku Tensei which I didn't like due to the main characters actions throughout the entire show. However I bring it up because it does a lot of good things throughout it such as giving all of the female characters backstories and reasons to like them. It also does some amazing world building that I ended up liking. They also give some reasons why the main character has a harem Instead of just throwing it into the story. It also shows characters not liking it and others being okay with it and giving reasons why or why not. There's also a lot of flaws such as the main character getting with his cousin (eris). Sexualizing underage characters which made me uncomfortable to say the least and did a lot of other things wrong that I don't want to get into.

There's also welcome to demon school iruma-kun which is a fantasy where I think a few different people like the mc. It's not super erotic or anything like that but I'd consider it almost perfect with how it portrays female characters and the world they're in.

hmm...
Your examples are mostly fantasy/isekai. What about harem stories you've enjoyed so far? What are they?

I don't read Iruma-kun. So I have nothing to say about that one.
I dropped the first 2 after ~5 chapters with score 3 and 2 out of 10. So, nothing more to say.

I like the middle two, but I never considered them as harem stories.
We know that there will be harem in Mushoku, and we can safely predict the high possibility of it in Princess Survival Saga, but I've never read them for the harem story. To me, the harem there is not the part that is being pursued by the story.
So I don't actually consider them as harem "romance" story. I don't read them for the harem.
(I read/watch Mushoku for the isekai action fantasy, I read Princess Survival for the comedy)

If it's something like Isekai Yurutto Survival in place of the Princess Survival, then yes. I consider that one as having harem "romance" elements that are pursued throughout the story. But you said you don't like the "normal island".

Ok, I've mentioned Isekai Nonbiri Nouka, because that story is basically the MC's everyday harem life.
How about Risou no Himo Seikatsu? The harem romance there is quite slow and gradually developed throughout the story.

7-nin no Nemurihime is a fun harem romcom.

Other isekai story with decent harem "romance"... I guess... Genjitsu Shugi Yusha and Hachinan tte?
They're not particularly good imo, but they're alright. At least the "falling in love" part isn't done in just 1 or 2 chapters.
Not harem for the sake of harem. (tho, Genjitsu kinda fell into that trope in the latest chapters)
of, there's also Isekai Kenkokuki

(I only listed those that did not have sexual depictions in the story)

 

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My friend suggested to me horimiya, I haven't watched it though. I believe there's a sex scene on episode 7 I only think though.