Miki Yoshihawa is the author of the Japanese romantic comedy manga A Couple of Cuckoos. Shin-Ei Animation & SynergySP will release an anime version of the series in April 2022. A Couple of Cuckoos is the ideal choice if you enjoy harem-themed films.
Nagi Umino, a 16-year-old who learns he was adopted, is the main character. He encounters social media personality Erika Amano on the route to his first encounter with his biological family while she is trying to get away from an arranged marriage. Later, the two learn that their parents had mistakenly given birth to the wrong child and are now planning their marriage.
1. Rent-A-Girlfriend
In Rent-A-Girlfriend, Kazuya Kinoshita, a college student, attempts to rent a fiancée via a smartphone app when his girlfriend dumps him.
Chizuru Mizuhara, the girlfriend who is being rented out, seems ideal. She exudes charm, is attractive, and makes a great first impression.
Kazuya reads the reviews of Chizuru after the date and finds that they are quite conflicted. He starts to think that she is only trying to win men over, so he rates her negatively on her profile.
Then Chizuru displays her genuine self, which is very different from what was initially perceived—sassy and irascible. Just then, Kazuya learns of his grandmother’s passing and takes Chizuru with him to the hospital.
Although it turns out that there was nothing serious about the collapse, Kazuya’s grandmother is overjoyed that he is in a committed monogamous relationship with such a lovely woman. The two are “forced” to act like a real couple since they are unable to disclose the truth.
Another programme where a fictitious connection has become genuine is this one. Both include all the elements of rom-com harem with a dash of drama that you adore.
2. Komi Can’t Communicate
A student at Itan High private school named Komi Shouko is incredibly well-liked by her other students due to both her attractiveness and what appears to be a haughty and arrogant attitude. On the first day as classes start, she meets Tadano Hitohito, her neighbour, who later learns that Komi truly has a communication impairment that makes it difficult for her to speak in front of others and, as a result, keeps her from making friends with anybody. Tadano thus pledges to assist her in locating a hundred pals.
3. The Quintessential Quintuplets
Futaro Uesugi, a talented academic student in high school, has a challenging existence because his mother passed away, he doesn’t have any friends, and his father is heavily in debt.
When the wealthy Nakano family enrolls in his school, a chance arises. Immediately, Futaro is employed as a well-compensated tutor. Futaro is shocked to learn that his five charges—five identical quintuplet sisters with distinct personalities—have little interest in learning and have appalling scores.
4. My Dress-Up Darling
Wakana Gojo, a freshman in high school, wants to work as a Hina doll manufacturer. His well-liked classmate Marine Kitagawa notices him constructing doll outfits in the school’s dressmaking room one day during his first semester.
Wakana is asked to make a costume of a video game character for Marine, who had wanted to cosplay for a long and had seen Wakana’s sewing prowess. Despite the fact that Wakana had never created human-sized costumes, he agrees to Marine’s request after being prodded by her intense feelings.
5. Maid Sama!
The Seika High School initially exclusively accepted boys, but over time it began to accept girls as well. Girls find it extremely difficult to establish themselves in the classrooms because of the seclusion, and they frequently endure the guys’ ridicule.
Even yet, Misaki Ayuzawa is able to establish herself in front of her peers and win the position of first student representative. She quickly has a reputation as a man-hater due to her actions, yet she is also feared or revered. But she also battles a number of other issues beneath this façade.
Her father abandoned her family, which comprises of her mother and younger sister, and they are currently sitting on a hefty debt load. Misaki seeks for a job at a maid café to support her exhausted mother and stop her own apartment from collapsing. She attempts to keep her employment a secret from her peers because she primarily serves male customers there.
In the meanwhile, she frequently encounters Takumi Usui at school, who persistently rejects all claims of love and causes the girls to cry. As a result, she develops a particular kind of loathing for him. But one day, Takumi runs into Misaki in front of the Maid Café and learns her secret.
However, Takumi retains her secret and defends her since, unlike the other girls, he develops love for her, dispelling her concerns that she would now lose her reputation. Misaki slowly begins to feel something for Takumi as well, and a complicated love affair develops between the two of them that is often plagued by terrible failures.
But ultimately, at a school celebration, Usui Takumi can proclaim his love to Misaki Ayuzawa.
6. To Love-RU
A shy high school student named Yuuki Rito appears hesitant to confess to Sairenji Haruna, the girl he has been dreaming about since he was in junior high.
One fateful day, as he mopes in the tub, a strange, nude female with devil-tailed hair materialises. Lala Satalin Deviluke is the sole successor to the throne of the planet Deviluke and the fugitive crown princess.
Lala chooses to stay on Earth and live with Rito in spite of her father’s attempts to take her back home and marry some of the suitable marriage candidates.
Rito must fend off Lala’s hostile alien suitors while making friends with Lala, who rapidly falls in love with him, as well as his ideal girl, Haruna, and a vibrant group of alien and human ladies.
Even though To Love-Ru has magical elements, its narrative is exactly identical to that of A Couple of Cuckoos.
The male lead in both episodes adores a female who likes him back but is coerced into dating another woman.
7. My First Girlfriend is a Gal
Junichi Hashiba is looking for a girlfriend desperately. He appears to be out of luck until his buddies pressure him to confess to Yame Yukana, a popular and lovely girl. Surprisingly, despite the possibility that he could simply want to be with her to lose his virginity, she agrees to be his girlfriend.
But it doesn’t end there; Junichi suddenly attracts the attention of several attractive women!
Both A Couple of Cuckoos and My First Girlfriend is a Gal, feature harems of stunning damsels vying for the attention of the male lead.