One normal day, high school student Asahi Kashiwagi wakes up and watches a fortune teller’s predictions on TV. On his way to school, as according to the predictions, he has a variety of accidentally lewd encounters with five different people.
After these five clandestine meetings, he discovers that all five of them are new members of his class. What’s more, their encounters have all sparked the embers of love between him and each one of them.
Now he needs to follow his own heart else his love life flop and fizzle out.
Bold and interesting to try a harem with a femboy, even if they were cowards with it in the end. Regardless, this was a fine ecchi harem romance that did well to have an actually likable main character. If you were looking for more anime recommendations like Love Flops, then head on down below.
Anime Like Love Flops
For Fans of Dating Sim Situations
Date a Live
Thirty years ago, an explosion devastated East Asia, killing over 150 million people. In the present day, such “spacequakes” are now a common occurrence.
One day, Shidou Itsuka races to rescue his little sister from one such spacequake. However, when he is caught in the blast, he discovers a mysterious girl who turns out to be a Spirit. These girls are responsible for the devastation when they come crashing to Earth.
However, when Shidou is rescued by an anti-Spirit team, he discovers it is headed up by his little sister. Recruited in and tasked with neutralizing Spirits with extreme force, Shidou discovers he can come to a more peaceful solution – making the Spirits fall in love.
Both of these harem series enjoy referencing the dating sim-like situations the main characters face without being too obvious with it. However, while the harem in Love Flops is all pretty into Asahi initially, Date A Live is all about making girls fall in love to save the world.
As Date a Live is also a longer series, this means the harem gets quite large as well. However, as it does treat its plot more seriously than you would expect, it doesn’t leave much room for ecchi.
If Her Flag Breaks
High schooler Souta Hatate has the ability to see visual novel-style flags above a person’s head. As such, he has the ability to stop events from happening.
Using such a power, he has prevented a few deaths, but after an event that lead to him being the sole survivor, he started to believe he was a curse. Things change when he enters a new school and his classmate Nanami helps him unravel the mystery behind the flags.
Both series nod really hard towards dating sims. Love Flops puts Asahi in in very obvious dating sim situations frequently while If Her Flag Breaks is a bit more on the nose by giving the main character the ability to see “event flags” like you would see in actual dating sim games. Regardless, they both end up helping girls with their problems and earning affection.
The large difference is that If Her Flag Breaks is prone to darker, sadder moments. The main character is traumatized by being able to see death flags, and it made him weary of getting involved with people.
The World Only God Knows
Keima Katsuragi is known as the “God of Conquest,” a man that can conquer any girl’s heart, at least in his dating sim games. However, when Keima arrogantly accepts an offer to prove his dating sim supremacy, he finds himself at the mercy of a demon that forces him to woo over real life girls.
While Love Flops has a lot of situations that look to be pulled right from a dating sim, it doesn’t really fully embrace that. The World Only God Knows embraces it, lifts it up, and twirls it around romantically.
Both series are about men helping women with their various issues then having those girls fall really hard for them. However, he is just playing a game IRL in The World Only God Knows so he isn’t quite as emotionally invested in the girls he is wooing until later.
For Fans of Bad First Impressions
The Quintessential Quintuplets
As his family is in some serious debt, Fuutaro Uesugi is a serious penny pincher. However, his great grades have landed him a higher than normal paying tutor job.
The problem is that his five wards, all sisters, are dumb as door nails and think he is a complete idiot.
However, to get his pay, he has to think of a way to get these five unique girls to study and learn.
Both series start off with a main character who has a series of strange first meetings with girls he will then be forced to work very closely with. In The Quintessential Quintuplets, the main character ends up as their tutor, so he is not quite living with them like in Love Flops, but they still need to coexist closely. It is these odd first meetings that color the relationships that follow.
While The Quintessential Quintuplets isn’t really an ecchi show, the entire plot is about the main character helping the girls deal with their various problems thus earning their admiration, much like in Love Flops.
Oresuki – Are You The Only One Who Loves Me?
Jouro is your average high school boy that dreams of a love story. He is thrilled when he lines up two dates, but unfortunately, both girls confess their love for his best friend.
Of course, his friendly face is just a facade. Schemer that he is, he decides to make his friend fall for one of the girls so he can swipe the other.
Unfortunately, his efforts are threatened by Pansy, a gloomy girl who knows of his secret personality.
Both Oresuki and Love Flops are what you might call awkward harems. However, Love Flops is awkward because of the constant awkward ecchi situations, Oresuki is awkward because of the set ups for his romantic interests.
Both series embrace rom-com situations, but Oresuki is more non-ecchi comedy surrounding his odd, malformed harem.
Shomin Sample
Kimito Kagurazaka is a common man who was kidnapped and brought to an elite all-girls school where he was to serve as a sample of common people to educate the girls. The catch is that in order to not lose his manhood, he must pretend to be interested in only men.
Both anime series are built upon the backs of misunderstandings. In Shomin Sample, they mistakenly think he is gay and not a threat to the women in the school. In Love Flop, it is a series of very awkward meet-cutes for his potential matches. Regardless, both series really lean into the comedy of the situations, Shomin Sample even more so.
However, Shomin Sample has moments, but it is first and foremost a comedy series. This means harem romance is on the low end, and so is the ecchi, though it appreciates ecchi jokes.
For Fans of Living With Your Harem
Girlfriend; Girlfriend
After loving her for years, Naoya Mukai finally confesses his love to his childhood friend, Saki. However, just as he settles into dating her, a girl named Nagisa comes out of the woodwork and confesses her secret love for him.
Instead of shooting her down, he is charmed by her feelings, and suggests to both her and Saki that he date both of them.
Both series are harem shows about a guy living with girls that are absolutely desperate for his love. In Love Flops, they vie for his affections in hope for a relationship. In Girlfriend; Girlfriend, however, they are in a polygamous relationship and vie for his affection over his other girlfriend.
While both harems, Girlfriend; Girlfriend is more of a rom-com harem and not really an ecchi anime.
Mother of the Goddess’ Dormitory
After their home burns down and he is abandoned by his father, Koushi Nagumo wanders homeless until he collapses on the street. He is found by a woman named Mineru and taken to a female dormitory.
Koushi discovers that Mineru is the temporary manager there, and she invites him to be the permanent dorm mother to the problematic female residents.
Both of these ecchi harems start off with a nice enough main character who, within the first episode, is living in a house full of ladies who are busty, and frequently put into positions that show that off with vigor.
However, there are some very notable differences. The most notable is the age difference in Mother of the Goddess’ Dormitory. The women are college girls and the main character is twelve. He is also the one moving in with them, unlike in Love Flops where everyone just moves into Asahi’s home.
Love Hina
After making a childhood promise with a girl who moved away, Keitaro is dedicated to getting into the prestigious Tokyo University. Unfortunately, he is hopelessly stuck failing his entrance exams.
In order to continue trying, he moves out of his parent’s house into his grandmother’s inn to work as a manager.
However, what he doesn’t know is that her hot springs inn is also an all-girls dorm.
Both series start off with an unfortunate (and ecchi) misunderstanding and by the end of the first episode, the main character is living with a harem of lovely girls.
While Love Flops gives each girl a fair shake, there is a very clear romantic favorite among the harem in Love Hina. As it is also an older anime, Love Hina isn’t quite as ecchi or as frequent with it as Love Flops is.
For Fans of Very Ecchi Harems
Immoral Guild
Kikuru Madan is a monster hunter and has built up an impressive reputation in his guild. However, after receiving a notification that his old friend had gotten married, he realized he has wasted his youth without even getting a girlfriend.
Now he seeks to retire from monster hunting to find a girlfriend, but before he does, he must train a suitable successor.
Immoral Guild is innately different in that it is in a medieval fantasy setting. However, like Love Flops, the main character meets an array of girls who are all prone to compromising situations and are frequently put in them for the ecchi of the show.
Monster Musume
With his parents abroad, Kimihito Kurusu is living the quiet alone life. Or rather, he was until an incompetent interspecies exchange coordinator made him the caretaker of a Lamia named Miia.
With a supernatural creature now living in his house, it serves to not only break up his peace, but attract other supernatural beings as well.
Both Monster Musume and Love Flops are romantic harem series where one day a completely normal young man gets a series of girls that now also live with him. They are both similarly ecchi and like to wield that frequently.
The major difference is that the girls in Monster Musume aren’t immediately in love with the main character, and they are also monster girls.
To Love-Ru
Timid Rito wants is to confess his love to a girl in class. However, things quickly become complicated when one night a naked girl comes crashing in on him while he is in the bath.
This girl, as it turns out, is an alien princess on the run and she wants to marry him to avoid a political marriage.
Thus begins Rito’s endless days of girl struggle.
While in the beginning To Love-Ru is more like a pretty ecchi rom-com, it builds its harem over time. By the time you get to To Love-Ru Darkness, its sequel series, it has even upped the ecchi more akin to the horny levels in Love Flops.
All that said, both series are ecchi harems about girls that want to marry if not at least date one guy, but the protagonist in To Love Ru is a bit more spineless.
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