50 Best Ecchi Anime of All Time (Ranked)
The world of anime is a truly fascinating phenomenon filled with various genres and storylines. Although the majority of genres in the world of anime (and manga) are identical to those in Western art, there are some that are specific to Japanese animation. Most of them are rarely present in the West, while some are present, but usually under different names. In this article, we at Fiction Horizon have decided to focus on some of the best anime series in the ecchi genre, delivering to you a list of the 50 best ecchi anime you can watch. You’re going to get some basic information on the shows themselves, their production, and a short synopsis for each of them.
List of Best Ecchi Anime
50. Freezing
Author(s): Lim Dall-young
Genres: Action, science fiction
Release Date: January 8, 2011 – December 20, 2013
Episodes: 24
Additional Material: 12 OVA episodes
In the near future, the Earth is subject to repeated attacks by extraterrestrial entities from another dimension, endangering all of humanity. Called Nova, these creatures resist conventional weapons and are capable of creating a Freezing Zone, an attack that immobilizes matter. To avoid its extinction, Humanity creates a new world order, the Knight Organization, which makes it a point of honor to build an army capable of repelling the invasion.
This army is made up of women, named Pandora. These possess superhuman powers and physical abilities bestowed by their Stigmata, Nova tissues implanted in their bodies. The Pandoras are equipped with a male pair, a Limiter capable of channeling part of the power of a Pandora and thus releasing Freezing to counter those of the Nova.
49. Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt
Author(s): TAGRO
Genres: Action, comedy
Release Date: October 1, 2010 – December 24, 2010
Episodes: 13
Additional Material: 1 special
Two fallen angels, Panty and her younger sister Stocking, have the mission to exterminate the “ghosts”, these human souls who have not managed to find rest and who disturb the town of Daten City. Under the tutelage of Pastor Garterbelt, they must collect the “Ecus of Paradise” which will allow them to return to Heaven and thus regain their rank.
These maidens will greatly need their powers; under the influence of these, their underwear turns out to be dangerous weapons, to say the least. However, their actions do more to destroy the city than to save it.
48. Strike the Blood
Author(s): Gakuto Mikumo
Genres: Action, harem
Release Date: October 4, 2013 – March 28, 2014
Episodes: 24
Additional Material: 37 OVA episodes
Strike the Blood follows the story of Kojō Akatsuki, a vampire high school student, and Yukina Himeragi, a young swordsman shaman, living in Japan on the artificial island of Itogami, also nicknamed the Demon District. A treaty was drawn up there in order to establish peace between supernatural creatures and humans; supernatural creatures are forced to remain within the confines of the Demon Districts for experimental purposes.
Yukina Himeragi is sent to the island to monitor Kojō Akatsuki, suspected of being the 4th Primogenitor, the most powerful vampire, who could threaten the balance of this sacred treaty put in place thanks to the collaboration of the first three Primogenitors.
47. Plunderer
Author(s): Suu Minazuki
Genres: Action, fantasy
Release Date: January 8, 2020 – June 24, 2020
Episodes: 24
Additional Material: None
In the year 305 of the Alcia calendar, in a world governed by numbers, each human is endowed with an “Account” marked somewhere on their body, this one can correspond to anything; however, when it drops to zero, the person is engulfed by the Abyss. This is what happened to Hina’s mother who, at the last moment, asked her to find “the legendary Ace”. In her journey, Hina meets a strange masked swordsman named Licht Bach.
46. Ikki Tousen
Author(s): Yuji Shiozaki
Genres: Martial arts
Release Date: July 30, 2003 – October 22, 2003 / February 26, 2007 – May 14, 2007 / June 11, 2008 – August 27, 2008 / March 26, 2010 – June 11, 2010 / May 17, 2022 – present
Episodes: 13 / 12 / 12 / 12 / 3
Additional Material: 6 OVA episodes
The student Takatoshi Tsuda opts for the Ōsai Gakuin as a high school out of sheer convenience. Regardless of the fact that until recently this was an all-girls school. He is in the first year in which both girls and boys attend classes together.
But before he can even enter the school premises on the first day, he is forced to adhere to the correct dress code by the chairman of the student council, Shino Amakusa. He also gets to know the two other student council members Aria Shichijō and Suzu Hagimura directly.
Shino surprisingly came up with the idea of including him on the student council, since there are now male students and this should also be reflected in the composition of the council.
From this point on he tries to do the tasks of the student council and is confronted with almost always ambiguous thoughts of Shino and the quirks of the other students and council members.
45. The Asterisk War
Author(s): Yū Miyazaki
Genres: Action, harem
Release Date: October 3, 2015 – June 18, 2016
Episodes: 24
Additional Material: None
In the past, mankind suffered a natural disaster called the “Invertia” impact. This catastrophe destroyed the whole world. But thanks to this event, humanity acquired a new ability named “Genestella”. The story takes place in the Academic city on water, named Rikka. This city, otherwise known as “the Asterisk”, is famous for being the world’s largest stage for Star Wars.
Generation Starpulse people from six different academies made their wishes with meteorite fragments to compete for supremacy in this city. Amagiri Ayato is one of them. After arriving in Rikka at the invitation of the Student Council President of Seidoukan Academy, a girl named Julis-Alexia van Riessfeld, unhappy that the latter saw her naked, challenges him to a duel.
44. So, I Can’t Play H!
Author(s): Pan Tachibana
Genres: Erotic comedy, fantasy
Release Date: July 6, 2012 – September 25, 2012
Episodes: 12
Additional Material: 1 OVA episode
Ryōsuke Kaga is a high school student obsessed with women. One day he runs into a girl who is standing in the rain without an umbrella. This is Lisara Restall, an angel of death (or shinigami, as he defines himself later) visiting the world of humans in order to find a specific subject who possesses a soul with high potential, which can release a large amount of energy necessary for the survival of his world, Grimworld.
Lisara enters into a temporary contract with Ryosuke, so that she draws all the energy she needs for her search for her in the world of men, from the energy of the boy’s spirit. Lisara reveals to the boy that he only has three months left to live and also reveals that there is a way to extend it.
At that point Ryosuke proposes an agreement to Lisara which he accepts: he would help her find the “strong soul” and she would prolong his life. Thus he begins the search that will bring them closer and closer.
43. Keijo!!!!!!!!
Author(s): Daichi Sorayomi
Genres: Comedy, sports
Release Date: October 6, 2016 – December 22, 2016
Episodes: 12
Additional Material: 6 OVA episodes
Nozomi Kaminashi, 18, is an exceptional gymnast. Many high schools with good programs try to recruit her, but she has other plans in mind. She comes from a poor family and money is everything to her. It is for this reason that she decides to do keijo.
The keijo is a kind of wrestling where only the use of the posterior and the chest is authorized, and which is practiced on a platform called “Land” on the water. Will Nozomi be able to break into this intense world of keijo?
42. Heaven’s Lost Property
Author(s): Suu Minazuki
Genres: Comedy Fantasy, Harem
Release Date: October 4, 2009 – December 27, 2009 / October 1, 2010 – December 17, 2010
Episodes: 13 / 12
Additional Material: 1 OVA episode
The story shows us a boy in the city of Sorami in Japan called Tomoki Sakurai who is one day invited by his childhood friend Sohara Mitsuki as well as Eishirō Sugata (the leader of the club “The New World”) to meet at midnight to observe a strange object seen in the sky of the city. Eventually, Tomoki goes alone when he receives an alarming call from Sugata telling him to flee right away as the object is very close to him.
It is then that something falls straight on Tomoki, the strange object turns out to be in reality a creature called Angeloid which is named Ikaros.
41. Yosuga no Sora
Author(s): Sphere
Genres: Romance
Release Date: October 4, 2010 – December 20, 2010
Episodes: 12
Additional Material: None
The two siblings Haruka and Sora are suddenly orphaned by a tragic car accident, which Sora in particular finds difficult to cope with. This prompts the boy and game’s protagonist, Haruka, to sell his parents’ new house. So they both return to their original, rural place of residence. While Haruka tries to find strength in thoughts of the past, it is not an easy decision for Sora, who is clinging to the present and which she is reluctant to follow.
In particular, this forces her to turn to her brother’s arms for support. She rarely leaves the house and is unable to attend school, while her brother revives old acquaintances. So he quickly finds himself in the middle of several admirers, which drives Sora to the brink of despair. So she is very averse to the students Nao, Akira, Kazuha, and Motoka.
From this point on, the action of the game separates into five main directions, at the end of which he has built up an intimate relationship with one of the girls and there are corresponding consequences for his sister. In the anime, a mixture of all five story sections was chosen.
40. Maken-ki!
Author(s): Hiromitsu Takeda
Genres: Action, harem
Release Date: October 5, 2011 – March 20, 2014
Episodes: 22
Additional Material: 2 OVA episodes
Takeru Ohyama enrolled in Tenbi Academy, a private preparatory high school that changed from all-girls to coeducational students. Hoping to have a life filled with pretty girls, he reunites with his childhood friend Haruko Amaya, who shows him around the school. However, he learns that the school is for students who possess magical and spiritual energies called Elements and who use crafted weapons called Makens.
Students compete in school-sanctioned combat matches that showcase their powers. Although his own abilities and Maken are not apparent at first, Takeru soon finds himself surrounded by girls, including Inaho Kushiya, an attractive girl who calls herself his fiancée, and Kodama Himegami, a popular blonde. He joins the Security Committee, also known as Maken-ki, which supports student council activities.
39. Demon King Daimao
Author(s): Shōtarō Mizuki
Genres: Science fiction, harem
Release Date: April 2, 2010 – June 18, 2010
Episodes: 12
Additional Material: None
Sai Akuto is a student who has just moved to the Academy of Magical Arts where he would like to fulfill the dream he has had from an early age which is to become a high priest and thus change the things that are wrong in the world. At the station, he meets Junko Hattori, a girl who, like him, attends the Academy and who belongs to the Suhara family in charge of protecting the emperor.
Having such similar dreams, they decide to exchange an oath of friendship and if one of them breaks it, the one who does will die with that sword. As soon as you arrive at the Academy it is necessary to undergo a physical fitness test which also tells the students what their future occupation will be. Incredibly, when the time comes for Akuto’s test, the artificial spirit predicts that the boy will become the future “demon lord”.
After this revelation, the whole school is terrified of the newcomer, and Junko also feels betrayed. In the evening, trying to go and see Junko clarify things, he meets another student named Soga Kēna who says she already knows the boy even if he doesn’t remember it.
At the same time, Korone, a Liladan appointed by the government to supervise Akuto 24 hours a day, also arrives. The days for Akuto are increasingly difficult and he is also interested in three other girls: Fujiko Etou, Lily Shiraishi, and Eiko Teruya who for different reasons set their sights on you.
38. Gleipnir
Author(s): Sun Takeda
Genres: Action, horror, supernatural thriller
Release Date: April 5, 2020 – June 28, 2020
Episodes: 13
Additional Material: None
Shūichi Kagaya is seemingly a simple high school student but he hides something; the latter actually has a power that can turn him into a monster resembling a dog yuru-chara. However, by saving Claire Aoki from a burning warehouse, she discovers her secret and will use it to her advantage by blackmailing her because the latter has a specific goal: to find her parricide big sister.
As Claire shows Shūichi a medal related to her big sister, a young girl suddenly appears trying to grab it. At this time, Claire will also discover that she can break into Shūichi thanks to a zipper on her back. As one, they manage to defeat the aggressor but understand that this is the beginning of the clashes that await them.
37. Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out!
Author(s): Take
Genres: Slice of life, romantic comedy
Release Date: July 10, 2020 – present
Episodes: 12
Additional Material: None
The 3rd-year student Shin’ichi Sakurai is enjoying his peaceful life on campus to the fullest. He prefers to spend his time alone, but a student younger than him named Hana Uzaki decides to keep him company anyway. A turbulent new life awaits her, but, despite being arrogant, Shinichi can’t hold it against her.
36. Soul Eater
Author(s): Atsushi Ohkubo
Genres: Action, dark comedy, dark fantasy
Release Date: April 7, 2008 – March 30, 2009
Episodes: 51
Additional Material: None
To fight the evil Kishin, which can “plunge the world into the abyss of madness”, Shinigami-sama creates The Academy is a place where Weapons and Overlords are trained together.
The former are the very weapons that will stop the death of the world; the second are those who will hold the weapon. The Scythe of Death will be obtained when the weapon eats 99 evil souls ready to become Kishin, and 1 witch soul, and therefore all overlords are actively competing in creating the Death Scythe.
The story takes place during the main events of the manga and anime, Maka and Soul at that time had not yet become known in the Academy and beyond.
35. Bakemonogatari
Author(s): Nisio Isin
Genres: Mystery, paranormal, psychological
Release Date: July 3, 2009 – June 25, 2010
Episodes: 15
Additional Material: None
The Monogatari series centers on the story of Koyomi Araragi, a senior high school student who was attacked by a vampire (and then turned back almost fully human) shortly before the story begins. He meets other characters suffering from various paranormal illnesses and comes to their aid. Bakemonogatari is the first series in the franchise.
34. The Devil Is a Part-Timer!
Author(s): Satoshi Wagahara
Genres: Comedy, fantasy
Release Date: April 4, 2013 – present
Episodes: 13
Additional Material: None
The demon king Satan seeks to conquer the world of Ente Isla by annexing its four continents with the help of his demon generals Alciel, Lucifer, Malacoda, and Adramelech.
Following their confrontation with the hero Emilia Justina and her companions, after they kill Malacoda and Adramelech, Satan Jacob and Alciel escape from Ente Isla through a portal that leads them straight to Tokyo. However, due to the lack of magic in the modern world, Satan and Alciel take the form of what represents their human appearance.
33. GOBLIN SLAYER!
Author(s): Kumo Kagyu
Genres: Dark fantasy
Release Date: October 7, 2018 – present
Episodes: 12
Additional Material: 1 anime film
In a whimsical universe where everyone’s fate is ruled by dice rolls by the destiny rolls of deities, adventurers in search of wealth and glory come from all over the world to join the Adventurers’ Guild. An inexperienced young priestess who has joined the Guild joins a group of rookie adventurers, but her first quest turns into a nightmare when the rest of her team is slaughtered by Goblins: she owes her salvation only to a mysterious man in armor, the “Goblin Slayer” (in the original version, Goblin Slayer), an adventurer knight whose one and only objective is the eradication of these creatures.
32. Fairy Tail
Author(s): Hiro Mashima
Genres: Adventure, fantasy
Release Date: October 12, 2009 – September 29, 2019
Episodes: 328
Additional Material: 9 OVA episodes + 2 movies
In the kingdom of Fiore, there are among ordinary mortals men and women who manipulate magic: they are called mages. To better control them, guilds—places where mages gather and do work in order to earn jewels (currency of Fiore)—have been created and put under the responsibility of the council of magic (through the masters of guilds).
Besides the need to control mages, this network has other uses. Indeed, it makes it possible to provide a wide choice of mages to the client, and many missions to mages through classified ads. Among the many guilds, one of them is particularly talked about, whether by the acts carried out by its members, but also and above all for the material damage caused by them with each mission they carry out. This is Fairy Tail.
31. Is This a Zombie?
Author(s): Shinichi Kimura
Genres: Dark comedy, harem, supernatural
Release Date: January 11, 2011 – March 30, 2011 / April 5, 2012 – June 7, 2012
Episodes: 12 / 10
Additional Material: 3 OVA episodes
Aikawa Ayumu is a normal high school student until the day he is murdered by a serial killer. He is then reborn as a zombie thanks to the necromancer Eucliwood Hellscythe. Aikawa then becomes his servant but inadvertently absorbs the powers of a “masō-shōjo” named Haruna and in turn, becomes a masō-shōjo.
The young man will then have to manage his schedule between his duties as a masō-shōjo, his studies, and the search for his assassin, with Eucliwood, Haruna, and a vampire ninja named Seraphim living with him.
30. Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma
Author(s): Yūto Tsukuda
Genres: Comedy, cooking, slice of life
Release Date: April 4, 2015 – September 26, 2020
Episodes: 86
Additional Material: 5 OVA episodes
The art of cooking is Souma’s passion, and he is constantly experimenting to find the right combination and flavors. In the aftermath of his father closing down the family diner, he lost hope that someday he would own it. But his dad has bigger plans for him. Souma’s dad enrolls him in a prestigious culinary school to enable him to prove his worth. Does he have what it takes, or will he fail?
29. The Seven Deadly Sins
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Tachikawa, Japan, in the early summer of 2015. Tachikawa serves as a “second metropolis” of Tokyo and is protected by the Gatchaman, warriors who suit up with special reinforced suits called NOTE, which are powered by their spiritual power. Gatchaman must tackle Berg Katze, an enigmatic alien creature who has destroyed several planets and now opposes Earth. After introducing their newest member, the cheerful and energetic Hajime Ichinose, the group must talk to him about their new mission.
28. Kämpfer
Author(s): Toshihiko Tsukiji
Genres: Action, harem, romantic comedy
Release Date: October 2, 2009 – December 17, 2009 / April 8, 2011 – May 25, 2011
Episodes: 12 / 2
Additional Material: None
The average high school student Natsuru Senō wakes up one morning to the remarkable discovery that he has turned into a girl. It seems even more absurd to him that his stuffed tiger called Harakiri Tora speaks to him and can move. So he learns that from now on he is a “Kämpfer” and that he is under a contract, which is symbolized by his blue bracelet.
Waking up the next day, he believes that what had happened last night was just a dream and meets Kaede Sakura on the way to school. While attending school, they are unexpectedly attacked by Akane Mishima, who has been transformed into a “Kämpfer,” which makes Natsuru’s bracelet glowed. Remembering Harakiri’s words that he would transform shortly after lighting up, he disappears from Kaede’s field of vision.
In the following argument, both Kaede and Akane are saved from death by Natsuru’s female self, which triggers a strong affection for the female Natsuru in Kaede. After the dispute is settled, Natsuru is approached by the normal Akane at school, who turns out to be a very reserved girl. From her, he finally learns that because the bracelet in the same color, they should both belong to the same team, whose opponents should be visible on a red bracelet.
In the further course of the story, it quickly happens that Akane and Natsuru meet the first member of the “Red faction”, which represent the opponents. However, this person turns out to be the head girl of the school of two. The head girl Shizuku, however, wants it to remain a secret in the school that these fighters exist and thus she ensures that Natsuru also goes to this school in his female form.
Furthermore, problems arise again and again because Natsuru cannot yet control his transformation. After a while, however, the blue and red fighters become friends because they see no point in fighting each other as no one can tell them the reason why they should fight. However, after a certain period of time, the “white fighters” turn on, so that fighting starts again.
27. To LOVE Ru
Author(s): Saki Hasemi
Genres: Harem, romantic comedy, science fictio
Release Date: April 4, 2008 – October 28, 2015
Episodes: 64
Additional Material: 16 OVA episodes
The 15-year-old student Rito Yūki is in love with his classmate Haruna Sairenji, but never manages to confess his love to her because something always comes up like a curse. So he enjoys a bath and can’t keep his thoughts off her when suddenly girl falls into the tub. It is Princess Lala Satalin Deviluke heir to the throne of the planet Deviluke.
She is on the run from her father because he urges her to marry, but none of the candidates suit her. After her spaceship was shot down, Lala teleported to earth and landed in Rito’s arms. After this initial shock for Rito, he finds out that Lala has fallen directly in love with him and wants to marry him in order to be able to stay on earth.
To make matters worse, Lala’s bodyguard Zastin appears, whom he accidentally defeats in the first fight. Zastin is so convinced of this and of the words that he can only marry someone he loves that he puts in a good word for Rito with the Emperor of Deviluke.
There is a catch, however, that he must now absolutely become Lala’s husband and protect her from her fiancé. If he fails, the emperor threatens to kill Rito and destroy the earth. After these introductory events, there are many short arcs that either deal with various fiancés trying to kidnap Lala or embarrassing situations that Lala gets into Rito. Nevertheless, Lala quickly became popular at Rito’s school and made friends with Haruna, among others.
The initial storyline continues when Lala’s father comes to Earth to announce that Rito has been selected as her future husband. However, Lala has now realized that Rito really loves another girl and refuses to marry him. She wants to erase the memories of all people on earth by means of a memory eraser she invented so that she can start over on earth.
However, it later turns out that their invention didn’t work and everyone kept their memories.
26. Seitokai Yakuindomo
Author(s): Tozen Ujiie
Genres: Comedy, slice of life
Release Date: July 4, 2010 – September 26, 2010 / January 4, 2014 – March 29, 2014
Episodes: 13 / 13
Additional Material: 18 OVA episodes / 2 anime films
The student Takatoshi Tsuda opts for the Ōsai Gakuin as a high school out of sheer convenience. Regardless of the fact that until recently this was an all-girls school. He is in the first year in which both girls and boys attend classes together.
But before he can even enter the school premises on the first day, he is forced to adhere to the correct dress code by the chairman of the student council, Shino Amakusa. He also gets to know the two other student council members Aria Shichijō and Suzu Hagimura directly.
Shino surprisingly came up with the idea of including him on the student council, since there are now male students and this should also be reflected in the composition of the council.
From this point on he tries to do the tasks of the student council and is confronted with the almost always ambiguous and perverse thoughts of Shino and the quirks of the other students and council members.
25. Kill la Kill
Author(s): Hiroyuki Imaishi
Genres: Action, comedy, magical girl
Release Date: October 4, 2013 – March 28, 2014
Episodes: 24
Additional Material: 1 OVA episode
In the series, Ryuko Matoi, a vagrant schoolgirl who searches for her father’s killer, tumbles into a violent confrontation with Satsuki Kiryuin, the president of Honnouji Academy’s student council, and her mother’s fashion empire. Satsuki, Ryuko, and others make their clothes appear to have superpowers as a result of their martial arts training.
24. Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero
Author(s): Tetsuo Uesu
Genres: Action, fantasy, harem
Release Date: July 6, 2012 – September 21, 2012
Episodes: 12
Additional Material: 7 specials
The story follows a world in which several young men find themselves spiritually in a dimension of magic and sword warriors called Arezard. Those who survive and return to the real world are typically gifted with magical abilities. An international training organization called Babel protects these young returnees and trains them in the use of its power.
A rebel hero named Ousawa Akatsuki has returned to his world, along with a beautiful girl named Myuu, who is the daughter of the Last Demon King, whom he defeated in battle.
23. Rosario + Vampire
Author(s): Akihisa Ikeda
Genres: Harem, romantic comedy, supernatural
Release Date: January 3, 2008 – March 27, 2008 / October 2, 2008 – December 24, 2008
Episodes: 13 / 13
Additional Material: None
Tsukune Aono is an unremarkable young boy who unfortunately failed all the high school entrance exams. By pure chance, his father finds an advertisement for Yokai High School, the High School for Monsters.
It is there that he meets Moka Akashiya, an angelic-looking young girl who actually hides a split personality and very powerful vampire powers (S-class monsters). His powers are revealed when the rosary adorning his neck is torn off. Thanks to Moka’s powers, both will fight several monsters. Later, Tsukune and Moka will meet the succubus Kurumu Kurono and Yukari Sendo, a gifted little witch.
Ginei Morioka is the president of the journalism club, a werewolf (S-class monster) nicknamed “Gin”. In the second volume, we also discover Rubi Tōjō, another powerful witch, and Mizore Shirayuki who is an ice woman with some stalker tendencies.
22. Monster Musume
Author(s): Okayado
Genres: Comedy Fantasy, Harem, Romantic Comedy
Release Date: July 7, 2015 – September 22, 2015
Episodes: 12
Additional Material: None
For years, the Japanese government has kept a secret: mythical creatures like centaurs, harpies, and lamias are real. Three years before the story began, the government revealed the existence of these creatures and granted them a legal pass license, the “Interspecies Cultural Exchange Act.”
Since then, these creatures, known as “liminals” or “extra-species”, have become a part of human society, living with normal families as foreign exchange students and au pair visitors, but with other rights and certain restrictions. (The main restriction is that liminals and humans are prohibited from hurting each other).
Kurusu Kimihito did not initially volunteer for the exchange program, but when he watches in amazement as Mrs. Smith accidentally delivers the scared and embarrassed Miia to her doorstep, he doesn’t have the heart to deny her a roof and they start living together. Over the course of the story, Kimihito gathers and shelters other female liminals, each of a different species.
Some come more or less by accident, some are forced to be with him by Mrs. Smith or forced by themselves, and before long he finds himself in a hectic environment in which he struggles to live in harmony with his new life. housemates, as she deals with their constant advances and the dramas about helping them navigate the human world.
The situation takes on a new twist after the girls are notified that due to anticipated changes in the law on human-liminal relationships, Kimihito is expected to marry one of the girls on a trial basis, increasing thus between these tenants competition for their attention.
21. Trinity Seven
Author(s): Kenji Saitō
Genres: Harem, romantic comedy, urban fantasy
Release Date: October 8, 2014 – December 24, 2014
Episodes: 12
Additional Material: 1 OVA episode / 2 anime films
At the center of the plot is the teenager Arata Kasuga, who lived with his cousin Hijiri Kasuga until one day a black sun appeared in the sky, which destroyed the city and dissolved all residents. Before she also disappeared, Hijiri gave him a magic book with which he unconsciously created an illusion of the former city including Hijiri.
A few days later, the sorceress Lilith Asami appears, who frees him from this illusion and gives him the choice of either destroying the magic book due to its immense power and losing all memories of the event or dying. He decides to go the third way, to become a mage himself, in order to find a way to get Hijiri back.
Lilith then introduces him to the Royal Biblia School, where she teaches. The headmaster explains to him that to get Hijiri back, he needs the collaboration of the seven most powerful sorceresses at the school: Lilith Asami, Arin Kannazuki, Levi Kazama, Mira Yamana, Akio Fudō, Yui Kurata, and Lieselotte Sherlock.
Each magician specializes in a certain topic that is in contrast to his own character or something from which the magician is furthest away and is assigned to one of the magic archives named after the Seven Deadly Sins.
20. Chivalry of a Failed Knight
Author(s): Riku Misora
Genres: Action, fantasy, romance
Release Date: October 3, 2015 – December 19, 2015
Episodes: 12
Additional Material: None
In a world in which people with magical abilities known as “blazers” are trained as knights, Ikki Kurogane is the most unsuccessful student at the Hagun Knight Academy. His abilities are weak and so is his “device”, the weapon he can form from his soul.
The fact that the notorious loser comes from a famous family doesn’t make it any easier for him, as his relatives also keep preventing him from being successful. One day, however, the school changer Stella Vermillion, a princess from Europe, becomes his roommate.
Since he surprises her while changing clothes, a duel ensues. Stella sets the stake that the loser must be of lifelong service to the winner, and then unexpectedly loses to a trick Ikkis. He doesn’t value her submissiveness and just wants to share the room with her peacefully. Stella is considered an exceptional talent among the young knights.
Therefore she is nominated for the tournament of the seven knight academies. Hagun was not very successful recently and Stella should finally bring them another victory. Ikki is nominated as her partner. His success is linked to the continuation of his school attendance – after all, he has already stayed seated once.
The two roommates have to prepare for the tournament together and learn how their skills complement each other.
19. Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs
Author(s): Tadahiro Miura
Genres: Comedy, harem, supernatural
Release Date: July 14, 2018 – September 29, 2018
Episodes: 12
Additional Material: 4 OVA episodes
Since childhood, Kogarashi Fuyuzora has had the weakness of being easily possessed by ghosts. After the ghost of a day trader took possession of him, plunging him into debt and poverty, he became homeless and apprenticed to a powerful medium with the aim of destroying evil spirits and getting his normal life back.
When he saves a man, he offers him to live in his haunted pension, so the rent is extremely low, with the option of living rent-free if he removes the ghost. Kogarashi agrees, but it turns out that the ghost (Yūrei) is a pretty girl named Yūna Yunohana and since his way of casting out ghosts is to eliminate them with a targeted punch, he quickly drops this plan.
Yūna is also unexpectedly sociable and makes friends with him quickly, as he is one of the few people she can see. When he moves into his new room, he finds out that the supposedly empty room is Yūna’s, so that from now on he will live with her.
But the other residents of the pension are also unusual: the caretaker Chitose Nakai is a Zashiki Warashi (good house goblin), Nonko Arahabaki an oni (demon), Sagiri Ameno is a ninja who fights ghosts, and Yaya Fushiguro is possessed by a nekogami (cat god).
Later other roommates join him like Sagiri’s sister Hibari, Oboro as a descendant of a dragon, and other girls who feel drawn to him because of his helpfulness like his classmate Chisaki Miyazaki or the Dai-Tengu Karura Hiogi.
18. Sankarea: Undying Love
Author(s): Mitsuru Hattori
Genres: Romantic comedy, zombie
Release Date: April 5, 2012 – June 28, 2012
Episodes: 12
Additional Material: None
Son of a priest, the Japanese high school student Chihiro Furuya likes zombies. He avidly collects everything related to these, whether video games, movies, or manga, he entertains the dream of zombies declaring his love for him.
Faced with the death of his cat Babu, he decides to bring him back to life with the help of an old manuscript describing the process of creating a “resurrection” potion. Around this time, he meets a young girl named Rea Sanka, who has run away from her home.
After the tragedy, she drinks a sample of the “resurrection” potion which is created from a poisonous herb known as Hydrangea macrophylla, but this fails to kill her. After an argument with her father, she falls off a cliff, but thanks to the potion, she returns as a zombie.
Even though she has become an undead, she chooses not to give in to her new-found nature and survives by consuming hydrangea leaves frequently.
17. Kanokon
Author(s): Katsumi Nishino
Genres: Harem, romantic comedy, supernatural
Release Date: April 5, 2008 – June 21, 2008
Episodes: 12
Additional Material: 2 OVA episodes
The plot focuses on the young and somewhat short high school student Kōta Oyamada, who is in their first year and has moved to the city from a rural area. On his first day, he meets the beautiful student Chizuru Minamoto, who is in his second year.
So she asks him to meet her alone in the music room. Upon arrival, she confesses her love to him and accidentally reveals that she is a kitsune yōkai. Since then, Chizuru has been flirting with Kōta regularly, which always embarrasses him because bystanders are watching or she is too aggressive.
Soon after, the exchange student Nozomu Ezomori attended the same class. There begins a competition between the wolf goddess Nozomu and Chizuru for the favor of Kōta, which makes the embarrassing situation extremely sharp. Starting from this situation, the three main characters go through different adventures that are related to both school and their family backgrounds.
The students in their class are always included and even the board of directors of the school is constantly confronted with keeping the powers of the various “animal gods” under control.
16. Ao-chan Can’t Study!
Author(s): Ren Kawahara
Genres: Romantic comedy
Release Date: April 6, 2019 – June 22, 2019
Episodes: 12
Additional Material: None
When she was in kindergarten, Ao Horie shared a short essay on the meaning of her name which is spelled with the kanji for “apple” and “orgy”, which would soon make her the object of constant teasing.
Her relationship with her father, a famous author, is mediated by the fact that thanks to the name he gave her and her constant coexistence with his literature, Ao finds herself in constant conflict with herself and her desires.
She has only one purpose, and that is to finish high school and enter an elite university to live alone and away from her father who always manages to embarrass her. Ao’s plan is perfect until she begins to experience an unexpected romantic attraction for her partner Takumi Kijama, who in addition to being a tender young man is quite handsome, although somewhat naive.
Ao, who has never experienced love before, will be in constant conflict fighting with his feelings and seeking forms of rejection, denying herself the desire to begin to experience her emotions.
15. Mayo Chiki!
Author(s): Hajime Asano
Genres: Romantic comedy
Release Date: July 7, 2011 – September 29, 2011
Episodes: 13
Additional Material: None
The story revolves around the life of a 17-year-old boy named Kinjiro Sakamachi, who is unable to interact with the opposite gender since he has developed gynophobia since childhood due to his family situation. One day by accident he sees Konoe Subaru, a classmate, and butler of Kanade Suzutsuki, one of his classmates, in the bathroom, where he discovers that Konoe is actually a girl.
Kanade, the rich daughter of the school principal, explains to him that the Subaru family males have served their family for generations as butlers, but Kanade is an only child, so she decided to hide her gender so that she would be allowed to prove that she could perform this function that should only fall on a male; that is why he weighs on her the condition that if she is not discovered before finishing school he will be able to take over as Kanade’s butler.
Now that Kinjiro knows the truth, he is pressured by Kanade not only to keep the secret but also to help Konoe integrate so she can discover what it is to have friends and be able to express herself as a woman and in return, they will help him overcome his phobia of women.
14. Scum’s Wish
Author(s): Mengo Yokayori
Genres: Psychological, romantic drama
Release Date: January 12, 2017 – March 30, 2017
Episodes: 12
Additional Material: None
At their high school, Mugi Awaya and Hanabi Yasuraoka are perceived as the perfect couple who are popular with everyone else, even if many are jealous of their luck. But in fact, both are not in love with each other, they just pretend it is for everyone. They love their teachers: Hanabi their class teacher Narumi Kanai, whom she has known and loved since childhood, and Mugi the music teacher Akane Minagawa.
But both had to find that those they desired do not love them, but each other. So the students made the pact to fake a couple until they can finally get together with their true love.
13. No Game No Life
Author(s): Yū Kamiya
Genres: Isekai, fantasy, science fiction
Release Date: April 9, 2014 – June 25, 2014
Episodes: 12
Additional Material: None
The Hikikomori siblings Sora and Shiro live secluded in their apartment and avoid leaving it as much as possible. Though isolated, they are a well-known figure on the Internet among gamers who, under the name Kūhaku, top the rankings in every game they play. One day they are challenged to a game of chess by a mysterious stranger, but Shiro is able to beat it.
He then offered both of them to be reborn in another world – a world called Disboard, in which everything is decided by games. When they accept the offer in disbelief, they are unexpectedly actually transported into another world, where they meet the god Teto, who was also their previous adversary, and who roughly explains the world, its connections and rules to them.
12. Sekirei
Author(s): Sakurako Gokurakuin
Genres: Harem, Romantic Comedy, Supernatural
Release Date: July 2, 2008 – September 17, 2008; July 4, 2010 – September 26, 2010
Episodes: 12; 13
Additional Material: 1+1 OVA episodes
In Tokyo in 2020, referred to as Shintō Teito (“New Eastern Imperial Capital”), the boy Minato Sahashi fails the university entrance exam for the second time, has not yet had any success with women, and moreover, he is still unemployed. However, he is very intelligent, but cannot cope with the pressure of an exam, which explains his constant failure.
As a result of these circumstances, however, he is labeled a loser by many, even his little sister. One day the attractive Musubi falls into his hands as if she had fallen from the sky. However, he soon realizes that Musubi is not an ordinary girl, but that she is a Sekirei and has chosen him as her Ashikabi.
The Sekirei are extraterrestrial life forms that crash-landed on earth with their spaceship in 1999 and were found by students Minaka Hiroto and Takami Sahashi. On board the ship were 108 life forms, which are also described as “a pillar and 107 small birds”, as only one, the pillar (# 0 / # 1), was in the adult state, while eight other living beings (# 2 – # 9) were present as embryos and the remaining 99 (# 10- # 108) as fertilized eggs.
Due to their DNA, which largely corresponds to the human, they have a human appearance, but also have special abilities. The single-digit numbers are particularly strong.
Minaka and Takami, Minato’s mother, now chair the Mid Bio Informatics (MBI) organization. They modified the Sekirei in various experiments and achieved very different results in order to then let them compete against each other in the so-called Sekirei Plan.
In the process, very different personalities emerged, ranging from helpless and innocent to mean and murderous. The Sekirei themselves are looking for a worthy Ashikabi, whose kiss gives them wings, or put them into a special state in which they are much stronger than usual.
Ashikabi Minato finds himself in fight scenes faster than he would like and soon finds out that several Sekirei chose him as Ashikabi, which leads to numerous problems of all kinds.
11. Highschool of the Dead
Author(s): Daisuke Satō
Genres: Action, horror, supernatural thriller
Release Date: July 5, 2010 – September 20, 2010
Episodes: 12
Additional Material: 1 OVA episode
On an ordinary morning, everything happened as normally as any other day. From the roof, Komuro Takashi, the main character, observes a strange event at the school gates: a suspicious man is causing confusion. One of the teachers, when trying to expel him, ends up being bitten by the suspicious man, and in the middle of cries of despair from the other teachers he gets up, but now he is a zombie.
He then begins to attack the other teachers who were with him. Seeing this, Takashi runs back into the school and joins together with his friend Miyamoto Rei and her boyfriend Igou Hisashi who is his best friend. Now the school is already overrun with teachers and other zombie high schools.
The three then decide to go to the roof, but on the way, they meet a teacher who has been turned into a zombie. This teacher ends up biting Hisashi, who has an injured arm. After eliminating the zombie, they manage to reach the roof of the school, in addition to finding several zombies and normal students being attacked by them on their way.
On the roof, Hisashi begins to feel the first effects of the zombie bite. Gradually he begins to transform until he reaches the point where he loses consciousness and threatens to attack Rei, Takashi, seeing that his friend was no longer him, decides to attack him, hitting him over the head with a.
After a series of events within the school, Takashi and Rei meet the characters: Busujima Saeko, Takagi Saya, Hirano Kouta, and nurse Marikawa Shizuka. So the story of the survival of this simple school group begins, amid an enormous amount of zombies, which spreads throughout the city.
10. Domestic Girlfriend
Author(s): Kai Sasuga
Genres: Romance
Release Date: January 12, 2019 – March 30, 2019
Episodes: 12
Additional Material: None
Natsuo is a young high school sophomore who lives alone with his father, as his mother passed away ten years ago. It is because of how he managed to overcome this event that he first developed a fondness for reading, which then led to his wanting to write a novel himself.
That is why during his breaks he goes to the roof of his school to capture his goal and it is there that he establishes a friendship with Hina, the young English teacher. Over time, he develops a strong attraction toward her, but feeling that it will be unrequited love, he decides to accompany her class friends to a meeting with girls in a karaoke.
Thus he meets Rui, who after a brief conversation at the soda vending machine, proposes to him to sneak away, and thus takes him to his family’s apartment. Once there, she proposes to him to sleep with her for the simple fact of the experience itself.
In an unexpected event, Natsuo’s father tells him that he is thinking of marrying again, so he has invited who would be his new wife to come to visit the apartment. Upon opening the door, she introduces herself and so do his two daughters: Hina and Rui.
The destinies of the three would be intertwined after living under the same roof.
9. How Not to Summon a Demon Lord
Author(s): Yukiya Murasaki
Genres: Fantasy, comedy, harem, isekai
Release Date: July 5, 2018 – September 20, 2018 / April 9, 2021 – June 11, 2021
Episodes: 12 / 10
Additional Material: None
In the MMORPG Cross Reverie, the student Takuma Sakamoto is unbeatable and notorious as “Demon Lord” Diablo. He beats all opponents with ease – and also many of the teammates he doesn’t like. But outside of the game, Sakamoto is insecure and avoids social contact.
Then he is summoned into an alien world very similar to that of the game, in which he takes on the role of his character Diablo, including his abilities. The elf Shera L. Greenwood and the cat girl Rem Galleu argue about which of the two has summoned him and both want to enslave him. But their magic is thrown back by Diablo’s power so that the two girls become his slaves.
The adolescent tries to fill the role of the powerful demon but often fails because of his own insecurity in dealing with the girls. After all, he also wants to help them achieve the goals for which he was summoned. So he should defeat the demon king Krebskulm.
8. kiss×sis
Author(s): Bow Ditama
Genres: Romantic comedy
Release Date: April 4, 2010 – June 21, 2010
Episodes: 12
Additional Material: None
The starting point is the life of the boy Keita Suminoe, who is just about to finish middle school. However, learning for the upcoming exams proves to be extremely strenuous. Because his father has remarried, and his new mother also brings the two pretty twin sisters, Ako Suminoe and Riko Suminoe, who are even older than him.
Since they both fell in love with Keita, complications arise. So the two are in a competition for the favor of Keita, who may not like the idea at all, since at first, he sees the two only as his older sisters. But the two are not afraid to show their love for their “brother” in public.
He finds no help from his parents either, as they even encourage him to choose one of the sisters and marry them. But later he realizes that his sisters are just normal girls. However, he cannot choose between Ako and Riko, who always try to seduce him by all means. Unfortunately, things are not going so well for him at school either and so the final exams are a big hurdle for him.
However, he finds supports in his sisters who, albeit not without ulterior motives, accept and teach him as part of his preparation for the exams. However, this seldom allows him to learn, because after all, Ako and Riko continue to seek his favor. So when he is not being “harassed” by his sisters at home, he is confronted with three other female characters at school who play an essential role in the plot.
The busty Meganekko Miharu Mikuni, who has a reserved and somewhat anxious personality, involuntarily becomes entangled in the relationships between Keita and his sisters. In various embarrassing moments when she loses control of her bladder, the two of them often come closer to each other. As a result, always nervous in his vicinity, various ideas come to mind.
In contrast to Miharu, the younger Mikazuki Kiryū hunts Keita directly and uses the opportunity to present herself in a stimulating manner in front of him, which also earns Keita the reputation of a Lolicon. At the same time, Ako and Riko see her as a strong competitor, as they imagine that Keita is attracted to older women.
7. Shimoneta
Author(s): Hirotaka Akagi
Genres: Dystopian, school comedy
Release Date: July 4, 2015 – September 19, 2015
Episodes: 12
Additional Material: None
Sixteen years ago, the government of Japan enacted the “Public Order and Morality Health Education Act,” which banned all gender representation and expression. To enforce this, every citizen must wear a collar that automatically and immediately reports any violation to the moral police.
Tanukichi Okuma was previously at the most notorious middle school in Japan because of the many violations and is looking forward to his transfer to the model high school Tokioka Gakuen, as his crush Anna Nishikinomiya is also there.
She is the daughter of the chairwoman of the national parent council Sophia Nishikinomiya and the politician Matsukage Nishikinomiya, who both initiated the law and want to tighten it, as well as the chairwoman of the student council and asks him to join it. The reason for this is that the city-known pervert Setsugen no Ao, who for inexplicable reasons always manages to escape the customs police, is occasionally on the school grounds.
Since Anna grew up sheltered, she cannot see the signs of indecent acts until it is too late and they have been carried out. She, therefore, campaigned for Okuma to be accepted into the school so that he could support the student council with his experience from his previous school. Later, the deputy chairwoman Ayame Kajō asks him for a confidential conversation in which she identifies herself as Setsugen no Ao.
She thinks that she has found a like-minded person in him, as Tanukichi’s father was a well-known profanity “terrorist”. When Tanukichi wants to call the police, she blackmailed him by saying that it would only negatively affect Anna to join her. He becomes an involuntary founding member of Ayame’s “terrorist organization” SOX, which wants to make what they think is the boring world more exciting through lewd jokes.
Classmates Otome Saotome, Kosuri Onigashira, and Yutori Nuregoromi join the group as further SOX members. In addition, the eccentric Hyōka Fuwa is interested in Tanukichi, who wants to find out with him the secret of where babies come from.
6. Haganai
Author(s): Yomi Hirasaka
Genres: Comedy, harem, slice of life
Release Date: October 7, 2011 – December 23, 2011 / January 11, 2013 – March 29, 2013
Episodes: 12 / 12
Additional Material: 2 OVA episodes
The protagonist Kodaka Hasegawa has a bad start as a new student at the “St. Chronica School”. Not only is he late for his first lesson, but he also walks into the classroom completely out of breath. With his dyed blond hair, his grim look, and his panting voice he leaves both the sensitive teacher and the students the impression of a violent delinquent.
The rumor spreads very quickly in the Catholic high school and he doesn’t even get the chance to clear up this misunderstanding. One day, when he is about to enter the classroom, he happens to witness a conversation between Yozora Mikazuki, which she is embarrassed about and which leads to his amazement with her imaginary friend Tomo.
In the following conversation, in which Yozora reveals her very rough tone, both have to admit that they have a big problem with social life. The dialogue with Yozora also gave rise to the idea of founding a school club, the Rinjin-bu, whose intention is to make friends and learn to socialize. In the following days, Yozora is busy taking on the formalities for founding the club, engaging the still ignorant Kodaka directly as a club member.
But initially, the club does not have enough members to be founded officially. So the search for more club members begins and the school icon Sena Kashiwazaki joins them sometime later, who, however, is in constant dispute with Yozora. She is followed by Yukimura Kusunoki, who pretends to be a weak man in women’s clothes, and Rika Shiguma a student in the form of a mad scientist.
The club’s supervisor is the still very young nun Maria Takayama, who was forced by Yozora and who, for her part, is in constant conflict with Kodaka’s younger sister, Kobato Hasegawa. Together, the club members, shaped by various social problems, try to pursue their goal of making real friends without actually noticing in their various activities that they have actually already found them.
At the same time, there is also the problem that all female characters fall in love with Kodaka equally.
5. The Testament of Sister New Devil
Author(s): Testuto Uesu
Genres: Action, Harem, Supernatural
Release Date: October 9, 2015 – December 11, 2015
Episodes: 10
Additional Material: 2 OVA episodes
Basara Tojo is a high school student studying at Hijirigasaka Academy. One day, his father Jin suddenly “marries again” and asks Basara if he wants to have sisters. Basara meets his two beautiful adoptive sisters, Mio Naruse and Maria Naruse.
After his father travels abroad, Basara quickly discovers that the two sisters are actually part of a demonic clan, and he must be with the clan of heroes. Mio, a demonic princess, tries to force a master-servant contract with Basara, but Maria turns out to be the opposite, with Basara as master.
Basara always ends up getting into erotic situations, trying to protect Mio from being chased by other demons who seek their heritage passed down by former demon lord Wilbert.
4. Why the Hell are You Here, Teacher!?
Author(s): Soborou
Genres: Erotic comedy, romantic comedy
Release Date: April 8, 2019 – June 24, 2019
Episodes: 12
Additional Material: 1 OVA episode
The events revolve around Ichiro Sato, a high school student who suddenly finds himself in quite exciting situations together with Kana Kojima, a young teacher considered by the students to be a real devil. With the succession of episodes, the series introduces other students who, like Ichiro, live embarrassing situations with other professors from his own school.
3. Prison School
Author(s): Akira Hiramoto
Genres: Comedy
Release Date: July 11, 2015 – September 26, 2015
Episodes: 12
Additional Material: 1 OVA episode
Hachimitsu Academy is an elite high school for girls in Tokyo characterized by strict rules of conduct including a ban on dating boys. At the beginning of the series, however, the school decides to open its doors also to the boys keeping the same rules, but to their amazement, the new male students turn out to be only five: Kiyoshi Fujino, Takehito “Gakuto” Morokuzu, Shingo Wakamoto, Jōji “Joe” Nezu, and Reiji “André” Andō.
The boys quickly become friends but things turn bad when the group is discovered spying on the women, the punishment is established in a month of imprisonment and hard labor by the strict secret student association of the school led by President Mari, daughter of the principal, vice president Meiko and secretary Hana.
Shortly before the punishment began, Kiyoshi had managed to interact with a girl, Chiyo, who turns out to be Mari’s sister: the two will continue to see each other clandestinely, and when the boy’s friends find out they will isolate him, also because this behavior will determine for everyone the increased punishment.
Over time, the situation returns to normal also because Gakuto helped Kiyoshi escape so that he would get him a rare action figure he had longed for and Shingo falls in love with another member of the association, Anzu, and will escape as Kiyoshi, who he will accept without batting an eye all the spite of his friends and will sacrifice himself several times for them.
Mari, meanwhile, has in fact organized a secret operation aimed at obtaining their expulsion by exploiting the weaknesses of each of the boys, but with an elaborate stratagem and the benevolence of the headmaster, the five eventually regain their freedom.
The three main members of the association are put in prison and their place is taken by another triad.
2. Interspecies Reviewers
Author(s): Amahara
Genres: Fantasy, comedy
Release Date: January 11, 2020 – March 28, 2020
Episodes: 12
Additional Material: None
In a world where there are many different humanoid species, there are different “cabarets” for each type of species managed by “succubi”. As each species has different opinions on how each courtesan works for them, various visitors have become critics, evaluating their experiences with various succubi and displaying them in the local pub.
The series largely focuses on a human named Stunk, an elf named Zel, and an angel named Curimvael.
1. Highschool DxD
Author(s): Ichiei Ishibumi
Genres: Comedy, Harem, Supernatural
Release Date: January 6, 2012 – March 21, 2012 / July 7, 2013 – September 22, 2013 / April 4, 2015 – June 20, 2015 / April 10, 2018 – July 3, 2018
Episodes: 12 / 12 / 12 / 13
Additional Material: 6 OVA episodes / None / 6 OVA episodes / None
The high school student Issei Hyōdo has been trying to find a friend for some time, along with two other school friends. However, the three of them are more likely to attract attention because of their careless approach and tension, so that actually no girl at school wants to get involved with them.
But one day, a student seems to be particularly interested in him and he can hardly believe that she invites him to date so quickly, which he accepts without hesitation, blinded by her charm. At the end of the day, he is unexpectedly killed by the girl after she turned out to be a fallen angel.
Rias ’group disguises itself as an occultism research club at the school. Likewise, he must first understand what it means to be a demon and what circumstances and duties resulting from it. It is only in the club that Issei seems to understand what happened to him for the first time, and Rias explains to him the hostile relationships between the demons, the fallen angels, and the angels, as well as his followers of the church.
He also learned that he could have his own servants if he tried hard enough and rose so that his ultimate goal was to become a harem king. Despite the knowledge of the enmity, he gets to know the young, always friendly, and naive nun Asia, with whom he befriends quickly despite all the enmities.
As a result of a plot by the fallen angels, Asia is killed, which Issei cannot prevent, although he gave everything. However, Asia can also be revived as a demon and has since been an integral part of the clan, for whom her healing powers prove to be very helpful. She also became the first of many girls to come who will fall in love with Issei.
In the further course, Issei gets stronger and stronger and he plays more and more an important figure for the people within the occult research club and especially for Rias Gremory and the other girls. Although naturally weaker than most of the other – and predominantly female – demons, he can still assert himself repeatedly with unusual techniques and his unbroken will.
Besides, all the girls in the club gradually fall in love with him and especially he developed a deep romantic relationship with Rias. But the other girls don’t let it sit down. They also always try their luck with Issei by seducing him, which sometimes puts him in a difficult situation.
For his part, Issei still aims to become the most powerful farmer and to rise to the demon nobility so that he can protect Rias again and again and find his harem. Noble demons take part in a rating game based on chess and are used for combat training and receive 15 chess pieces.
In addition to the king, these are queens, knights, runners, rooks, and pawns, each with their own skills: knights have increased speed and mobility, runners have increased magical abilities, towers increased strength and robustness, and queens. All of these pawns can convert to a queen, knight, bishop, or rook in enemy territory.
