Recommendations A Good Harem Fantasy Novel

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  1. fandig2

    fandig2 Active Member

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    I hate the harem genre. So I hope you could recommend me some good novels with the harem genre that I have avoided.

    My favorite novel on this site is Warlock of the Magus World which has the harem genre, but it doesn't really feel like a harem and the "harem" does not slow down/hinder plot progression. So I wonder if I have missed some good novels because I avoid that genre.

    Some novels I have avoided:
    Wu Dong Qian Kun
    Martial God Asura
    Emperor’s Domination
    Sovereign of the Three Realms
    Chaotic Sword God

    Would be nice if you could tell me if the novels mentioned or others in the same genre are something for me to read. I do not want to read about a mc spending 50% of his time maintaining a harem.
     
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    DocB "I see you, little mouse! Run along"

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    WMW is not a harem novel, and i've removed that genre more than once
    @runsing any chance to completly block that option

    Edit:
    block against, not for
     
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    Avoid MGA AT ALL COSTS
    Read ED ABSOLUTELY
    SOTR is also okay but the girls sometimes become hindrance but they also bring good points in the story so depends on you.
    WDQK.....i have not read it but i have read the other works of the author which have improved over the years but as this is an earlier work so i think instead of harem the story is only subpar or below even
    CSG no idea about this one
     
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    King0Mik 【An Actual Idiot】

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    Have you read Mushoku Tensei?
    Harem isn't really the focus of this novel IMO.

    (Note that Baka-Tsuki translated it and has since removed it from their site, so you'll have to look for the pdfs or epub of the translations somewhere else.)
     
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    Nneeil Well-Known Member

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    Wait... you hate the harem genre yet you still want to read it?
    [​IMG]
     
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    I "know" it's not a harem but that's kinda why I'm making this post, In case other novels are labeled wrong, or not the main part of the novel.
     
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    Actually because the protagonist has 2 ladies with whom he officially has sex and also has kids the people misunderstand and add harem tag to it even if the mc himself is only doing it to increase his lineage and is only married to one woman
     
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    you want story that is mostly about harem
    or story that have harem but its like 3rd stage 3 chapters in 600 chapters
     
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    but that is the reason that the polygamy tag exist.
    you wouldn't put the martial arts genre on a school romance novel because in all the novel there is one character that threw one punch once.
    it is not the main theme/ focus of the novel so it is not a genre
     
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    I have a hard time finding anything new to read that already has a lot of chapters translated, would be sad to miss Magus World only because it's labeled "harem".
     
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    Yup completely agree on that one
     
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    I agree with @DocB 's sentiment, WMW is not a harem novel. Yes he casually fucks some women, yes he even later technically has two wives and two children + a bunch of other children that don't even get named from concubines, but all of that has literally 0 with the novel to do.

    They women are just lumps of flesh to serve Leylin's carnal desires. And his children are merely potential lab rats for bloodline experiments...

    Let's just say that they're fortunate Leylin's power grew too fast for him to ever have the need to dissect them or run any kind of horrifying experiments...


    With that out of the way, I'd say stay the fuck away from all of those novels listed. Imo they're all extremely trashy, the only exception here could be ED as I never read it, and from what I've heard it seems like the Harem aspect isn't really emphasized either.

    Other than that, I actually read a shameful amount of CSG, something like 700 chapters. And honestly at no point was it particularly good but I just liked it even though I was constantly angry and frustrated with the novel, if not for a particularly awful moment
    where the MC's parents get killed for no reason
    I probably would have read even more.

    So I want to say that of the novels listed Chaotic Sword God is the least bad, but I can't really recommend anyone reading it.
     
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    "Story that have harem but its like 3rd stage 3 chapters in 600 chapters"

    Don't want to read about harem, but might tolereate it if there is a low amount of it and the rest of the story is good.
     
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    Tales of Herding Gods
    Cultivation Chat Group
    The Second Coming of Avarice
    Story that have harem but its like 3rd stage 3 chapters in 600 chapters" what a spageti of words I dont belive you understood what I wrote cause my reaction to this was
    Wut?
     
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    If you really read so much, I suggest you make your reading list public,
    I can easily recommend you something relatively good, long, and new to read without the harem tag

    with harem tag:
    Overlord
    Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei
    To Be a Power in the Shadows
    The Death Mage Who Doesn’t Want a Fourth Time
    Dungeon Defense
     
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    Didn't know that was a thing that I had to enable, should be public now. Might have missed adding a few JP novels that I read before I found this site.