Harem Marriage | |
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ハレ婚。 (Hare-Kon) | |
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Genre | Drama, romance[1] |
Manga | |
Written by | NON |
Published by | Kodansha |
English publisher |
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Magazine | Weekly Young Magazine |
Demographic | Seinen |
Original run | July 23, 2014 – June 17, 2019 |
Volumes | 19 |
Television drama | |
Directed by |
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Written by | Kana Yamada |
Original network | ABC |
Original run | January 16, 2022 – March 13, 2022 |
Episodes | 9 |
Manga | |
Harem Marriage seconds! | |
Written by | NON |
Published by | Kodansha |
Magazine | Weekly Young Magazine |
Demographic | Seinen |
Original run | January 17, 2022 – March 19, 2022 |
Volumes | 1 |
Harem Marriage (Japanese: ハレ婚。, Hepburn: Hare-Kon) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by NON. It was serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine from July 2014 to June 2019, with its chapters collected in nineteen tankōbon volumes. A nine-episode television drama adaptation was broadcast from January to March 2022.
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 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.
Harem Marriage is written and illustrated by NONKodansha's Weekly Young Magazine from July 23, 2014, to June 17, 2019.[6][7][8] Kodansha collected its chapters in nineteen tankōbon volumes, released from November 6, 2014, to August 6, 2019.[9][10]
. It was serialized inIn November 2020, Kodansha USA started the digital publication of the manga on January 5, 2021.[11]
An epilogue mini series started in Weekly Young Magazine on January 17, 2022.[12][13] The mini-series will last eight chapters.[14]
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.[52][53][54] The theme song is "Final Piece" by Hyde.[55]
In 2018, the manga was nominated for the 42nd Kodansha Manga Award in the General category.[56]