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Reverse Harem Dramas 2020



This page will be dedicated to reverse harem dramas with the airing date of 2020. Be warned, some may turn out to be not reverse harem after all. This page will be updated with new or upcoming reverse harem dramas.

This will also be listed under the main tab of the blog, Upcoming/Watchlist. Please also subscribe to Reverse Harem Garden Youtube Channel, I will create an updated video too if there are new dramas.






1. "Oh My Baby"|kdrama
Official Site
Airdate: May 13
Synopsis from Asianwiki

Jang Ha-Ri (Jang Na-Ra) is a single woman and 39-years-old. She works as a deputy manager at parenting magazine company "The Baby." She has a beautiful appearance, but she hasn't dated in the past 10 years. This is because Jang Ha-Ri is a workaholic. She has given up on finding love or getting married, but she still wants to have a baby. Jang Ha-Ri soon becomes involved with 3 men. Han Yi-Sang (Go Joon) works as a freelancer photographer. He continuously looks for hobbies that will make him happy. He complains about pretty much everything, but he is enthusiastic with his work. Yoon Jae-Young (Park Byung-Eun) works as a pediatrician. He is friends with Jang Ha-Ri. Suddenly, Yoon Jae-Young becomes a single father and he struggles to deal with his situation. Choi Kang-Eu-Ddeum (Jung Gun-Joo) is a rookie employee, who works for Jang Ha-Ri. He has a positive personality and he adores her.



2. "Was it Love" or "Did We Love"| kdrama
Airdate: July 8, 2020

Synopsis from MDL: No Ae Jung is a film producer who’s a single mother that’s been on her own for 14 years. She’s been unlucky since she was a child, and she suddenly encounters four men who shake up her life: a bad but tempting man, a pathetic but well-off man, a scary but sexy man, and a young but appealing man.




3. "Boys, Please Kiss Him Instead of Me" | Japanese live action film| based on manga 
Official Site
Kiss Him Not Me anime review, Movie Review 
Premier Date: July 10, 2020

Synopsis from Asianwiki: Kae Serinuma (Miu Tomita) is a chubby female high school student. She is a fujoshi, who enjoys reading about romance between men. One day, her favorite animation character dies and she falls into shock. Kae Serinuma is unable to eat for a week and she ends up losing a lot of weight. The end result is that Kae Serinuma (Nonoka Yamaguchi) suddenly becomes popular at school. Four pretty male students fall for Kae Serinuma. The four boys are Asuma Mutsumi (Hokuto Yoshino), Yusuke Igarashi (Fuju Kamio), Nozomu Nanashima (Asahi Ito) and Hayato Shinomiya (So Okuno).




4. "In a Class of Her Own" | cdrama| based on kdrama Sungkyunkwan Scandal
Official Site- not yet available
First Impression and Drama Review
Also see Sungkyunkwan Scandal review
Airdate: July 23, 2020

Synopsos from MDLXue Wenxi comes from a poor family, and disguises as a guy to make ends meet by helping to transcript and copywrite books. She meets Feng Chengjun, the son of Prime Minister Yun, who acknowledges her talents. Feng Chenjun secretly planned a setup so that Xue Wenxi was appointed by the Emperor, and enrolled in the Yun Shang Academy which only accepts male students. There, she befriends the rebellious and unrestrained Yu Yuexuan and the cold and aloof Lei Zexin. The four become known as the "Yun Shang Quartet" and assists the Emperor in managing the country.







5. 38-sai Batsuichi Dokushin Onna Ga Matching Apuri Wo Yattemita Kekka Nikki (The Diary of the 38-year-old Divorcée Has Tried a Dating App)| based on essay
Release Date: November 18, 2020

Matsumoto Chiaki is a 38-year-old woman who got married at 24 and divorced at 35. As she's almost 40, she decides to try a dating app and meet various types of men to recover the youth she lost from her early marriage.


 
6 . No Going Back Romance kdrama
Release Date: December 8, 2020

A teen romance of So Dam, a sixteen-year-old girl, who has never dated before but she receives her first-ever love confession from a mysterious boy. She is looking for the boy who secretly confessed to her. Source: MDL

7. Lascivious Lady or Unique Lady Season 2 cdrama
Release Date: December 24, 2020

Season 1 synopsis from Drama Review: Lin Luo Jing tries an otome game and then finds herself inside the game as the main character/player. The object of the game is to find true love. Will she find it from the four characters? There's the irritating royalty (Zhong Wu Mei), a rich playboy (Jin Chen), a bodyguard with a secret (Liu Xiu Wen) and a mysterious ethereal man (Hua Ying Chi). 

8. Life of Namjoo kdrama  

Watch the trailer here

Release Date: December 30

First Impression

Jin Nam Joo gets dumped by her boyfriend, whom she believed was fate, on the first day of the new year. Her fortune-telling dad predicts that three men of destiny will appear before his daughter. Source: MDL 







8. Girl2K (2020) | Thai drama   moved to 2021
Official Site
Airdate: 2020

Synopsis from MDL: Momay is 2000 years old. For centuries she has never aged, never gotten sick, and never died. Having tried hundreds of methods to kill herself over and over again and always failing, Momay finally sees a ray of light at the end of the tunnel when her friend, Krateng, who is a fortuneteller, tells her that she will be able to age and pass on if she finds the love of her life within this year. The problem is... there are four candidates. Thawin —her hardworking and generous boss, Khun Prom, — who is their company's biggest client, Kampun —a sweet young man, and Moo Tod —the dashing new guy. Four candidates and one year to find the love of her life. But who's the right one?

The following anime are NOT reverse harem. They fall under one flower and two flower levels. See Levels of Reverse Harem. I may or may not watch or blog the said dramas.




1. "Raise De Wa Chanto Shimasu" | jdrama | based on manga | for mature audience only
Airdate: January 8, 2020

Synopsis from Asianwiki: "Raise de wa Chanto Shimasu" follows the sexual lives of five people, including Momoe Omori (Rio Uchida), who work at CG production company Studio Delta. Momoe Omori is 27-years-old and single. She has intimate relationships with five male friends. She thinks of physical intimacy as a hobby that doesn't cost money.

The verdict: As of ep 3, the story has five POVs but the main character is Momoe.



2. "To All The Boys P.S. I Still Love You" | movie | based on book
Official Site
To All The Boys I've Loved Before movie and book reviews 
Airdate: February 12. 2020

Synopsis from Netflix: Lara Jean is officially Peter’s girlfriend, so everything should be perfect, right? But feelings grow complicated when an old crush reenters her life.



3. "Kizoku Korin: Prince of Legend" film - March 13, 2010

Synopsis from Asianwiki: Shintaro Ando (Alan Shirahama) has become Noble Dori after various confrontations. Now, the noble group, who are led by Shintaro Ando, has battles over the title of Legend (“Densetsu”) against the prince group, who are led by Kanade Suzaku (Ryota Katayose).




4. The Chang'an Youth drama 24 episodes
Release Date: April 20 

Synopsis from MDL: Shen Yi Yi lives in the city and has excellent cooking skills. When she was young, she was friends with Shen Die Yi. Die Yi abruptly dies of a cough and her life remains a mystery. In order to repay her friendship with Die Yi, Yi Yi poses as Die Yi and heads to Chang’an Lu Xing to fulfill the marriage contract. As well, she wants to find out the truth behind Die Yi’s life. In order to delay the marriage, Yi Yi dresses up like a man and enters the Shangyi Guan alongside with Die Yi’s fiancé, Tang Jiu Hua. They also meet Yang Zi An who was ordered by the emperor to hide his identity and enter Shangyi Guan. Together, Shen Yi Yi, Yang Zi An, Tang Jiu Hua, second prince Li Xin Yuan and swordsman Du Gu Mu Xue solve many strange cases. They face the embassy of the East Kingdom, and form the “five sons of Shangyi Guan”, becoming famous in all of Chang’an. Together, the five must ride out the difficulties and bring peace to the kingdom.



5.  "Cafe Kilimanjaro"| webdrama/kdrama
Airdate: August 13, 2020

Synopsis from Viki: "As a high school student, San Ha (Viini) never really had any sort of ambitious dream or grand plan for his life. Nothing really piqued his interest and nothing seemed worth his time. But that all changed the day he and his friends decided to start a band. Suddenly inspired to make this new dream come true, San Ha and his friends, Ji Ho (Choi Si Hoon) and Chan (Baek Jin), were determined to make their band successful. However, they soon realized that starting a band was easy, while finding success was not. After graduating high school, life began to slowly lead the friends in different directions. Though their dreams of becoming a successful band still kept them going, they soon realized that life demanded a bit more of them than it had in high school. Now working as a part-timer, San Ha has no time to focus on anything but the present and he hasn’t heard from his friends in ages. On the brink of giving up all hope, his friends return and with them comes a renewed determination to make their dreams come true. Now ready to turn dreams into reality, the friends rent a practice space from an inexperienced coffee shop proprietor, who seems to have gotten in way over her head. With a whole new world of obstacles before them, this indomitable set of friends is determined to let nothing come between them and their dreams.





6. My Unicorn Girl | cdrama
Airdate: August 23, 2020

Synopsis from MDL: Sang Tian is a lovely young woman. On her eighteenth birthday, she made a promise to get into the figure skating team of her mother's Alma mater no matter what. Alas, her usually lucky self fails the examinations. Through some strange circumstances, Sang Tian disguised as a man joins the ice hockey recruitment and gets hired. Because the team does not accept women, she has no choice but to continue the ruse. Thinking that her plan was seamless, she hits a road bump when prankster Wen Bing appears in her life. The two made enemies out of each other during an encounter outside school but they must now live in the same dorm and fight as teammates in their quest to win the ice hockey league championship. Can Sang Tian keep her identity in the wraps?



7. "Julie and the Phantoms" 
Release Date: Septemeber 10, 2020

Julie lost her passion for music when she lost her mom. But when three ghostly guys appear and lift her spirits, they decide to start a band together!




PV and poster from season 1

8  "Love Alarm" Season 2 | based on webtoon moved to 2021
Official Site
Airdate: 2020

Synopsis of Seasosn 1 from Netflix: In a world where an app alerts people if someone in the vicinity likes them, Kim Jojo experiences young love while coping with personal adversities.




9. "We Are Eighteen" | cdrama already aired in 2019
Official Site- not yet available
Airdate: 2020

Synopsis from MDL: Because of an accident, Gu Qian Yu is about to miss the art school. His sister, Gu Qian Xi, impersonated his brother entered the art school in the name of special enrollment in order to prevent his brother's dream from shattering, Zhang Chi was from a wealthy family.  Due to the failure of his father’s investment and his departure from home, his life has undergone tremendous changes. At the age of 17, he released a single, earned a bit of fame. He also entered the art school in the name of special enrollment.


Boys Over Flowers Thailand  moved to 2021
Official Site- not yet available
All Hana Yori Dango adaptations reviews 
Airdate: 2020  


300 Year-Old Class of 2020   
Release Date: December 21, 2020

The series is a fantasy comic web drama that tells a story of three students, who were studying in Seowon during the Joseon period accidently time travel and arrive at present-day Seowon in 2020. From MDL

UPDATE 1- 3/7/ 2020 updated Kiss Him. Not Me PV and key visual
4/2/2020 added Prince of Legend
5/13 added Oh My Baby and My Unicorn Girl
6/13 updated Did We Love PV and key visual
7/8 added PV of My Unicorn Girl and In a Class of Her Own, The Chang'an Youth
7/20 updated In a Class of Her Own release date
8/23 AddedCafe Kilimanjaro. Updated My Unicorn Girl date. Removed Boys Over Flowers
9/22 Added Julie and The Phantoms
10/11 Added 38-sai
11/8 Added release date of 38-sai
12/8 Added No Going Back Romance
12/26 Added Lascivious Lady S2
1/30 Added Life of Namjoo
2/18 300 Year Old Class

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  1. There’s a new drama on Netflix called ‘Julie and the phantoms.’ I don’t think it’s reverse harem but it is a girl being in a band with a bunch of guys and the guys look cute

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    1. I saw the trailer before but I can't decide if I'll post it or not. But now that you mentioned it too, I'll post it then under the kinda reverse harem! :D I'll add it on next update.

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