Welcome! to JUST MY TYPE ... of manga #2. That's right, manga.

Nowadays there are a lot of readers out there who are looking out for manga and comics that are ORIGINAL. Now, i am what you would call a devotist. If i find something i like, then i don't mind reading a few more of the same type of manga, no matter how similar the plot threads or character types might be.

This thread will be open up with a few well known titles and people can chime in when they think they know a similar manga title or two.

(if you're insterested in veiwing my previous posts look here: http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=4905)

MY TYPE of manga today is: the Fighting Harem

More specifically: A seemingly normal person, usually a guy, suddenly seems to be drawing the attention of beautiful/cute girl(s), for one reason or another, usually one at a time until a harem grows. BUT these are not normal girls, they have special abilities, and he gets in situations where they have to protect him.

Now, this is a genre that i think is picking up in popularity, the two that come to my mind are Mai-Hime, of course, and Magikano

(thanks to all who post!!)

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Koi Koi 7 is like that. The harem doesn't really grow with time is the only difference.

Biggest example of this is Rosario + Vampire
Meets all your criteria.

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Mahou Sensei Negima sounds like it fits into this

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Or Sekirei for that matter.

Mai Otome is another one too.


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Sekirei as well, hope some others are posted.

looks like someone beat me to the punch.

Last edited by soulg77 at 6:30 pm, Apr 12 2008

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dude move urself to the "I'm looking for" section cuz basically you're just asking for suggestions.

Sorry, but this isn't turning out to be much of a "discussion", so I'm moving this to the other forum suggested by funkmu1 (and the first topic of this kind too)

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Sekirei was mentioned but not linked.
http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=3867

Omamori Himari
http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=7333

Fate/Stay Night (well, the game is the best; anime and manga adapted from it with manga following DIFFERENT scenario than anime, supposedly)
http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=2010

Tsukihime (neither the anime nor the manga really develop the harem though, both focus on the primary relationship)
http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=511

Although it might not match up to this genre exactly, Fruits Basket is a good example of a harem where the woman is the center of attention of a group of men. It's also one of my favorite manga out right now, i'm waiting for the next US volume release.

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