Harem Marriage


Harem Marriage is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by. It was serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine from July 2014 to June 2019, with its chapters collected in nineteen volumes. A nine-episode television drama adaptation was broadcast from January to March 2022.

Plot

Koharu finds that her boyfriend was a married man, who was cheating on his wife with her, and was the third guy to do so in a row. Desolate, Koharu decides to leave Tokyo and move back home, rejecting a future of love and marriage for a simpler life. However, once she arrives, she discovers that the café that her parents ran is closed and they are heavily in debt. A man, Ryunosuke Date, who was following Koharu, offers her to pay their debt, but Koharu has to marry him. Koharu learns that her hometown has legalized polygamous marriages to counter declining birth rates and becomes Ryunosuke's third wife.

Characters

;Koharu Date
;Ryunosuke Date
;Yuzu Date
;Madoka Date

Media

Manga

Written and illustrated by, Harem Marriage was serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine from July 23, 2014, to June 17, 2019. Kodansha collected its chapters in nineteen volumes, released from November 6, 2014, to August 6, 2019.
In November 2020, Kodansha USA started the digital publication of the manga on January 5, 2021.
An epilogue mini series started in Weekly Young Magazine on January 17, 2022. The mini-series will last eight chapters.

Volumes

Drama

In October 2021, it was announced that the manga would be adapted into a television drama. The series is directed by Takashi Ninomiya and Kana Yamada, with Yamada also writing scripts for the series. It was broadcast for nine episodes on ABC from January 16 to March 13, 2022. The theme song is "Final Piece" by Hyde.

Reception

In 2018, the manga was nominated for the 42nd Kodansha Manga Award in the General category.