Discussion HaremGenre / AnimeAndManga

• Code Geass: It seems like everyone in the series is in love with Lelouch(who wouldn't be?). Over the course of the series, Lelouch/Zero accumulates a rather large group of both genders who have feelings for him, including Kallen, Shirley, Euphemia, Kaguya, Suzaku, and Rolo. He just doesn't do anything about it, since for the most part he's too busy trying to overthrow the government to pursue romance. The second season seems to poke fun at this; as a result of his Ninja Maid running around in a Lelouch disguise and being generally nicer, Lelouch ends up scheduled to go on dates with no less than 108 girls. And there's Kaguya fantasizing about polyamory…
  • This was parodied in one of the first season's audio dramas where Shirley considers asking him to go to a concert with her and imagines him revealing that he was in love with and getting married to Kallen, Nunnally, Suzaku, Milly, Rivalz, and even Arthur the cat in that order. At the end they all decide to share him and invite Shirley in on the action. Note that Nina was not in the fantasy and it was set only hours before the Table-Kun incident.

Okay, what the actual f..k? The only girl whose romantic feelings get any kind of focus is Shirley. There is also Kaguya, but her love for Zero seems to be more of a running gag than anything serious. Kallen was fiercely loyal to Zero, but 90% of the time it was portrayed as a loyalty to the man who gave them hope of winning rather than romance. In fact, if it wasn't for the kiss near the end, I wouldn't have guessed that there were any romantic feelings between them at all. Euphemia and Suzaku were interested in each other, not him. Rolo wanted brotherly affection, not romantic(there is also a fact that he's a Tyke-Bomb, so he may be so messed up in the head that he doesn't know how love works in the first place.