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Anime rankingsTop Harem anime of 2021
When several hearts pull in different directions, nothing stays simple for long. Discover the top harem anime of 2021, where competing affections, romantic misunderstandings, and clashing personalities drive the story. Compare the casts and choose your next tangled romance.
#10Osananajimi ga Zettai ni Makenai Love Comedy
A Romantic Comedy Where the Childhood Friend Never Loses
Sueharu Maru has known Kuroha Shida since childhood, and although the popular girl confesses to him, he rejects her because he is in love with famous young author and classmate Shirokusa Kachi. Sueharu thinks he may have a chance until he learns that Shirokusa is already dating someone. With his first love apparently ruined, Kuroha proposes a revenge plan designed to make Shirokusa regret overlooking him. What begins as a childish romantic scheme quickly becomes tangled because nearly everyone is hiding feelings or information from someone else. Between fake confessions and very real jealousy, figuring out who genuinely loves whom becomes the hardest game of all.
#9Shinka no Mi: Shiranai Uchi ni Kachigumi Jinsei
The Fruit of Evolution: Before I Knew It, My Life Had It Made
Seiichi Hiiragi has spent his school life as the target of relentless bullying. When a self-proclaimed god suddenly transports the entire school to a fantasy world, nobody wants Seiichi in their group, leaving him to arrive alone in a dangerous forest. Hunger drives him to eat a mysterious Fruit of Evolution, and the effect changes his body, abilities, and prospects almost beyond recognition. His first major companion is Saria, a powerful gorilla whose affection is as overwhelming as her strength, and from there Seiichi's supposedly hopeless life becomes a chain of absurd victories, new skills, and unlikely friendships. The boy everyone discarded may have received the most ridiculous advantage of them all without realizing it.
#8Ore dake Haireru Kakushi Dungeon
The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can Enter
Noir Stalgia comes from a poor noble family with little influence, and losing a promising job leaves him with few options. A rare ability guides him to a hidden dungeon that only he can enter, where he meets Olivia, a legendary adventurer trapped deep inside. She grants Noir powerful skills that let him create and modify abilities, but using them consumes points he must restore through pleasurable or emotionally rewarding experiences. Armed with talents far beyond his former status, Noir begins reshaping his future, though every advantage comes with a cost he must constantly manage.
#7Kaifuku Jutsushi no Yarinaoshi
The Healer Starts Over
Keyaru was chosen as a Hero with extraordinary healing power, only to be abused and exploited by the very people who claimed to be his allies. After discovering that healing can restore more than wounds, he uses overwhelming magic to return the world to an earlier point in time while keeping his memories. Now he knows who will betray him and what they are capable of. Refusing to become their victim again, Keyaru begins a ruthless campaign of revenge against those who destroyed his life. A second chance gives him control of his fate, but not necessarily a path toward becoming a better person.
#6Megami-ryou no Ryoubo-kun.
Dorm Supervisor of the Goddess Dormitory
Twelve-year-old Koushi Nagumo loses his home and is then abandoned by his father, leaving him with nowhere to go. After collapsing from hunger, he is rescued by Mineru Wachi and brought to the Goddess' Dormitory, a residence filled with college women famous for being difficult to manage. The solution she offers is strange but practical: Koushi can receive food and a room if he becomes the dormitory mother, handling cooking, cleaning, and order. The problem is that the five residents make ordinary management nearly impossible, from the androphobic Atena to Mineru's reckless scientific experiments. Koushi tries to perform his duties seriously and gradually finds, inside all the chaos, a new home and an unconventional family.
#5Kanojo mo Kanojo
She's a Girlfriend Too
After years of repeated confessions, Naoya Mukai finally begins dating his childhood friend Saki. His happiness becomes complicated almost immediately when Nagisa Minase confesses to him as well. Unable to dismiss her sincerity, Naoya proposes the least sensible solution possible: date both girls at the same time, openly and with everyone's consent. Saki reluctantly agrees, and the three begin living together while trying to prove that their bizarre arrangement can work. Jealousy, misunderstandings, and Naoya's painfully straightforward personality turn every attempt at balance into fresh chaos, especially once other girls begin taking an interest in the relationship.
#4Isekai Maou to Shoukan Shoujo no Dorei Majutsu Ω
The Otherworldly Demon King and the Summoner Girls' Slave Magic Ω
Diablo continues traveling with Rem and Shera, still hiding severe social awkwardness behind the arrogant Demon Lord persona he knows how to perform. While testing new magic, he rescues High Priest Lumachina from assassins connected to her own church. She interprets his overwhelming power as divine intervention and becomes convinced he is a god. Diablo chooses to protect her as she searches for someone trustworthy inside an institution corrupted by its own leadership. New companions join the group, and the journey turns into a confrontation with powerful religious and political figures. Saving Lumachina may require Diablo to maintain an act even larger than the identity he invented for himself.
#3Seirei Gensouki
Spirit Chronicles
Rio grows up in the slums of the Beltrum Kingdom with one goal: find the people responsible for his mother's murder and take revenge. At seven years old, memories suddenly awaken inside him from Haruto Amakawa, a Japanese university student who died in an accident, merging two lives within one child and revealing unusual magical potential. After Rio helps rescue a kidnapped princess, the king rewards him with admission to the Royal Academy attended by noble children. Instead of an easy new beginning, he faces contempt for his background and must develop his abilities largely on his own. Between Haruto's memories and Rio's painful past, a long journey begins that will reshape his identity and repeatedly force him to meet people he cannot always keep beside him.
#2Genjitsu Shugi Yuusha no Oukoku Saikenki
How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom
Nineteen-year-old Kazuya Souma expects none of the usual glory when he is summoned to the struggling Kingdom of Elfrieden as a hero. Faced with debt, food shortages, and a state barely holding itself together, he concludes that slaying monsters will solve far less than sound administration. His practical proposals impress the royal family so much that the king unexpectedly hands him the throne and betroths him to Princess Liscia. Suddenly responsible for an entire nation, Kazuya begins gathering talented people from every walk of life and rebuilding Elfrieden through economics, law, agriculture, diplomacy, and whatever other reforms reality demands. In this kingdom, his greatest battles are fought with policy rather than a sword.
#15-toubun no Hanayome ∬
A Bride Among Five Quintuplets: Season 2
The Nakano quintuplets are finally making academic progress under Fuutarou's tutoring, but studying is no longer the hardest part of their time together. He becomes more involved in the sisters' family troubles and personal choices, while several of them begin to see him as more than a teacher. At the same time, Fuutarou starts revisiting memories of a girl he met in Kyoto years ago and suspects that one of the quintuplets may be connected to that past. As graduation draws closer, exams and romance become increasingly difficult to keep separate.
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