Modern Day Harem Novels with an Overpowered Main Character Recommendations
Are you getting bored of novels with weak Main character getting stronger with the power of friendship and countless difficulties?
If yes, then this is the List of Novels you are looking for. This recommendation contains novels with protagonist strong from the start.
Furthermore, the novels on the lists are set in the modern world, the present time and the novels contain Harem as well, so be sure to continue reading.
But if you are not in Harem, this recommendation is not for you.
I have read a lot of novels where MC is OP from the start and quite like them too.
I have made a list of OP MC novels. If you want to check the list, click the link below:
The 20 Best Novels with Overpowered Main Character
In the above list, I discussed the best Overpowered Main characters novel. But here, I will be discussing the novels with modern-day, harem, and OP from the start tags.
H means Haitus.
Let’s get started with the Recommendation list containing a Modern-day Harem novel with an Overpowered protagonist.
| Novels | Chapters | Personal Ratings | Ecchi | 18+ |
| 1. Shinmai Maou no Keiyakusha JP | 9 / 12 vol | 4 stars | Yes | Yes |
| 2. So Pure So Flirtatious CN | 1621 H | 2.5 stars | Yes | No |
| 3. I am Prodigy CN | 625 / 794 | 2 stars | No | No |
| 4.Returning from the Immortal World CN | 1418 | 2 stars | No | No |
| 5. A Valiant Life CN | 1239 | 3 stars | No | No |
| 6. My Wife is a Beautiful CEO CN | 1200 / 1600 | 3.5 stars | Yes | No |
| 7. Beauty and the Bodyguard CN | 1500 H | 1.5 stars | Yes | No |
| 8. Campione! JP | 18 / 21 vol | yet to read | Yes | No |
| 9. Strongest Abandoned Son CN | 2258 | 2.5 stars | No | No |
| 10. NEET receives a dating sim game leveling system CN | 842 H | 3.5 stars | No | No |
| 11. Isekai Kaeri no Ossan wa, Fusei Sukiru de Fathercon Musume-tachi o Tororori ni JP | 56 / 263 | yet to read | Yes | No |
| 12. Very Pure and Ambiguous: The Prequel CN | 739 | 3 stars | Yes | No |
| 13. My Beautiful Teacher CN | 404 / 2014 | yet to read | Yes | Yes |
| 14. X-ray Is More Than I Thought JP | 126 / 153 | 3.5 stars | Yes | Yes |
| 15. Top Quality Beauty Cultivation System CN | 97 / 692 | 3 stars | Yes | Yes |
| 16. You Cannot Afford To Offend My Woman CN | 269 / 1382 | 3 stars | No | No |
| 17. Godly Student CN | 550 / 4000 | 2.5 stars | No | No |
| 18. Megami Buchigire JP | 68 / 198 | yet to read | No | No |
| 19. Skirt-Chasing Young Monarch: City Lady-Killer CN | 215 / 1374 | 2 stars | Yes | No |
| 20. Is it Tough Being a Friend? JP | 7 / 10 vol | 3.5 stars | Yes | No |
| 21. Kore wa Zombie desu ka? JP | 8 / 19 vol | yet to read | Yes | No |
| 22. Bonus CN a. Flower Master in the City b. Girl, I Will Teach You Cultivation c. Rebirth of the Godly Prodigal d. My Cold and Elegant CEO Wife | a. 90 H b. 280 H c. 1316 d. 2512 |
1. Shinmai Maou no Keiyakusha
Synopsis:
“Hey, you said you wanted a little sister, right?” First year highschool student, Toujo Basara, was suddenly asked this question by his father, and he fell into a state of panic. On top of that, the eccentric father told him that he will be getting remarried. He then departed overseas after bringing Basara two beautiful step-sisters. But Mio and Maria’s true forms are actually a newbie Demon Lord and a succubus!? Basara was almost forced into a master and servant contract with Mio, but a “reversed” contract was formed by mistake, and Basara is now the master!? Moreover, Basara is being hit by ecchi situations one after another due to the contract, but Mio’s life is being pursued by other demon tribes and hero tribes!! The most powerful contractor’s desire action drama begins!
Read: Light Novel and Manga
Watch: Anime
2. So Pure So Flirtatious
Synopsis:
Yang Ming is an underachiever in high school. He skips class to shoot pool, cheats on his exams and gets into fights. However, by a twist and turn of fate and luck, he obtains some high-tech contact lenses that give him superpowers and dramatically change his life. As his journey unfolds, he battles against society’s big guns and attempts to bring justice into an unjust world. Along the way, he has many interesting and romantic encounters with the ladies who are charmed by his character. How will he use his superpowers? Will he be able to overcome evil and bring justice to the world?
3. I am Prodigy
Synopsis:
Ye Lingchen was a regular high schooler who struggled with exams and expectations from his parents. All that changed after he woke up from a strange dream and discovered that he had been granted the ‘Prodigy System’. His life changed from this point on. Reading a book allowed him to learn its content immediately. Listening to lectures granted instant understanding of the lesson. Observation of a technique imprinted knowledge of the technique used. Learning had never been so easy, and as the saying goes, knowledge is power. In this case, he now had access to a ton of unbridled power. What does it feel like to become a ‘prodigy’ overnight? Follow Ye Lingchen on this journey to discover the limitless possibilities…
Read: Novel
4. Returning from the Immortal World
Synopsis:
A supreme expert in the Immortal World had died, and a strand of his soul returned to its original body on Earth. Tang Xiu discovered with amazement that ten thousand years passed in the Immortal World, yet only a single year passed on Earth. Ruthlessly betrayed by his lover and trusted friends, Tang Xiu found that his soul went back to his previous body on Earth, and, despite he spent 10,000 years in the Immortal World, just a year has passed on Earth and many things have changed. Having an unsurpassed knowledge, Tang Xiu will protect his loved ones and go back to the Immortal World to take his revenge.
5. A Valiant Life
Synopsis:
I am Lin Fan and I’ve become a jack of all trades just because of a powerful Encyclopedia.
In the first ever competition organised for trolls, all the other contestants lost. The crowd exclaimed, “Brother, you’re so good at trolling.”
Lin Fan replied, “But I’ve never been trolling…
6. My Wife is a Beautiful CEO
Synopsis:
This story takes place in Modern China. However, no matter how much things change, in the depths of society, a secret world of syndicates and hidden factions exist. Yang Chen, a graduate from Harvard who is fluent in English, French, Italian, and German to list a few. He is also capable of fighting and a number of practical skills. Yet he chose to go on the streets to sell fried mutton skewers for a living. Lin Ruoxi is the CEO of a multibillion-dollar company—Yu Lei International. This company is one of the leaders in the cosmetic and fashion industry. Despite being only 20 years old, her ice-cold demeanor and beauty are well-known and unrivaled in Zhonghai City. Due to a wild night consisting of a lot of liquor, fate has brought them together to become husband and wife. And with that, the story begins!
7. Beauty and the Bodyguard
Synopsis:
When an S-class elite, assassin-raised captain of a special ops suicide squad comes home from a high-stakes Africa mission, he finds himself offered something that could potentially set him up for life- a curious assignment that he could use to finally exit his days of war and slaughter.
Then placed into a high-school setting, Lin Yi is tasked by the chairman of a top-tier multi-billion company with bodyguard duty for non-other than his own daughter, a certain little Miss of said high-school.
His enemies, once ranging from drug lords, mafia bosses, political figures, and national leaders, are soon replaced with spoiled kids who happen to have rich papas and mamas, and Lin Yi finds his intense expertise and high-threat skillset misused and very underwhelmed…
But he does get a harem cast as diverse as his old enemies, so Lin Yi decides that, for the sake of messing around with girls as an invincible entity in a down-leveled environment, leaving his bloody and death-filled war days behind is something he’d definitely want to strive for.
Read Beauty and the Bodyguard on Webnovel
8. Campione!
Synopsis:
A Campione—a Godslayer—is a supreme ruler. Since he can kill a celestial being, he can therefore call on the sacrosanct, divine powers wielded by the gods. A Campione—a Godslayer—is a lord. Since the power to kill a deity is in his hands, he, therefore, looms over all mortals on Earth. A Campione—a Godslayer—is a devil. Since for all mortal who lives in the world, none can assume a power to match his! Kusanagi Godou is a 16-year-old boy who played catcher and fourth hitter in senior league baseball until an injury put an end to it in junior high. As the spring break of his third and last year of junior high came around, he got involved in an adventure and ended up slaying one of the Heretic Gods, Verethragna. Thus, he became the youngest—and seventh—Campione. Now that he is a Campione, a godslayer, young Godou must defeat the troublemaking gods with the help of his followers!
9. Strongest Abandoned Son
Synopsis:
When Ye Mo suddenly woke up, he realized that everything around him seemed to have changed: He has been transmigrated into the modern Earth where spiritual energy is scarce. His pretty master from his former world was nowhere to be seen. Most importantly, he found himself in the body of a young man who has been abandoned by his clan for an embarrassing reason…
10. NEET receives a dating sim game leveling system
Synopsis:
A 30-year-old NEET is reincarnated into the body of an otaku that choked to death on instant noodles. As he comes to grips with his new life, he realizes that this world is subtly different from Earth. The denizens of this world are far better looking, and this new world also possesses futuristic technology as well as mysterious Yin Yang masters! After reincarnating, he realized that he was endowed with a miraculous game-like system, which enables him to increase his own stats and transcend the limits of the human body. This system even has a game-breaking ability to save and load in real life! In this new world that’s akin to a 2-D game, he just wants to enjoy life and head for a glorious future… However, he is quickly embroiled in a complex plot. Can he unlock his true potential and utilize his system to break the shackles that confine him and discover the truth about his previous body’s circumstances?
11. Isekai Kaeri no Ossan wa, Fusei Sukiru de Fathercon Musume-tachi o Tororori ni
Synopsis:
The strongest Hero in history, Nakamoto Keisuke. He was summoned to another world in the spring at the age of fifteen years old, and when he successfully defeated The Demon King, he was already thirty-two years old. He had finished his role in another world and returned to Japan, but the reality that had been waiting for him was, “Middle school graduate with seventeen years of blank period” label. He couldn’t find a decent job and had no choice but to spend his days working part-time. Before such a Nakamoto, a beautiful girl who self-proclaimed had come to return the favor, appeared. “I’m the reward for Hero who had defeated Demon King”, said Angelica, a girl who came from another world that persistently tempted Nakamoto to make her his wife. Together with a high school girl who looks like Elsa, his beloved girl that he lost in another world, Nakamoto with his cheats skills got caught in a harem life.
12. Very Pure and Ambiguous: The Prequel
Synopsis:
He died on the wedding of the girl he had a crush on, after a long and successful career. After convincing Yama to send him back to the world, he decides to fix the areas in which his life went wrong. Realizing the lack of love and romance in his past life, he sets out to conquer the hearts of various women.
Read FanTranslation on Scribblehub
13. My Beautiful Teacher
Synopsis:
My Beautiful Teacher tells the story of a university graduate Qin Chao who can’t seem to find a job and is in a downward spiral in his life. Then one night as he walks home from another failed job interview, a vase hits his head, making him get possessed by an old and powerful evil spirit sealed in that vase and following other incidents, inadvertently saved a mysterious university teacher Su Ji, thereby opening his path to cultivation, he also manages to get a job as a security guard at Guangyuan School. A series of adventures then took place as he deals with all kinds of supernatural beings.
14. X-ray Is More Than I Thought
Synopsis:
Suzuhara was a man who was born with a unique ability. That ability was the x-ray vision, but it had evolved in a bad sense as he abused its power. But one day Suzuhara was given a big chance to use his ability effectively.
15. Top Quality Beauty Cultivation System
Synopsis:
Pausing time, turning back time, reversing times of specific objects/person, and even predicting the future… Taking advantage now that Su Lin has control of time within his grasp. Being able to stop time; can dodge incoming attacks and avoid mishaps, Su Lin is steered clear of harm’s way. Reversing time; can forever never regret, no need to overthink when acting. Inverting the time of a specific object/person; can repair any object and heal any person, Su Lin becomes a miracle doctor. Predicting the future; can hide from natural disasters, can buy the winning lottery tickets and stocks, listening to Su Lin is always right.
P.S: It seems the site where I read this novel has removed it from their site.
16. You Cannot Afford To Offend My Woman
Synopsis:
He is an undead who is devoid of all humanity, he is the one and only supreme overlord, he is a man who has severe mysophobia. There are many people who try to act cool in front of him, whatever soldier king, assassin, system user, transmigrator, reincarnator, the strong returning, the strong coming down from the mountain, a person coming back from the immortal world, reincarnation of the devil king, immortal emperor possessing someone’s body, and so on, all of them do not know what will happen next.
17. Godly Student
Synopsis:
Once upon a time, an Alchemist Grandmaster from the World of Immortals accidentally took possession of a playboy, who hailed from a rich and powerful family, and became a student in the middle of his midterms. By the means of a miraculous immortal technique, he blended in and mingled amongst the femme fatales’ group to dominate the city! The nature of this novel’s origin is shamelessness to the core; having no sense of shame is just a basic foundation, but if the most shameless isn’t set yet, then become it!
18. Megami Buchigire
Synopsis:
On a certain day, a certain thought came to Japan’s Sun Goddess. ——Aren’t there too many Japanese people being abducted to other worlds? It’s true that the large majority of Japanese are diligent and docile and soft-hearted, which makes them pretty much the best people to ask for favors. “But recently it’s just gotten way too out of hand…… Oh, I’ve got it! Whenever a Japanese person is summoned, I just have to summon an otherworlder!” And now, every time a Japanese person is summoned, princesses and elves and beastmen and whatnot are reverse-summoned. Under the acknowledgment of the government, they begin living in Japan. Today, too, Japan is at peace. And so begins this laidback isekai cultural exchange story♪
19. Skirt-Chasing Young Monarch: City Lady-Killer
Synopsis:
The prettiest girl in the class, the campus belle queen, an attractive policewoman, a cunning reporter, a charming businesswoman, a mesmerizing commando, and a millionaire spendthrift, all shall lose themselves to passion. Be it a Lolita, a virtuous woman, a regal queen, a mature racy woman, a cold-blooded goddess, or a sexy baby-faced doll, all beauties shall come to his embrace. Young and inexperienced, equipped with the [Flower Pickup System], young schoolboy Su Ke, felt his life become more and more chaotic…
20. Is it Tough Being a Friend?
Synopsis:
I’ve encountered my ideal protagonist! It’s my friend, Hinomori Ryuuga. We’ve become the closest of friends after entering high school. My first impression of Ryuuga was “This is the kind of protagonist you’d see in something like an anime.” Then, that thought soon changed into conviction. First of all, this guy almost never talks about his past. Also, he frequently slips out of class. As soon as he comes back, he gets extremely tired, blood comes out from his lips, the sleeves and cuffs of his uniform get torn, and so forth. Furthermore, there are always beauties that are surrounding Ryuuga. The one who’s like an idol within the school, Yukimiya Shiori. The cool expert of the sword, Aogasaki Rei. The mysterious transfer student, Elmira McCartney. It’s very tiring for me when these people appear in front of Ryuuga. I have to frantically make a fuss by saying things like “H, hey Ryuga! How did you get acquainted with Yukimiya!”, “W, why did the beautiful swordswoman Aogasaki come to the classroom to specifically meet Ryuga?!”, or “E, E, Elmira! What is it that you see in Ryuga!” …So why am I doing this? That’s because I, Kobayashi Ichirou, am a pro at being a friend. My life’s calling is to support Hinomori Ryuuga, the protagonist amongst protagonists, as a close friend character. ―Let the curtains open for the rom-com presented by co-starring best friend, Kobayashi Ichirou!
21. Kore wa Zombie desu ka?
Synopsis:
Ayumu Aikawa is a zombie resurrected by a necromancer named Eucliwood Hellscythe after being killed by a serial killer. As he tries to make the best of his undead life, he encounters a Masō-Shōjo (魔装少女?, lit. Magical Garment Girl, a pun on “mahō shōjo”, magical girl) named Haruna and inadvertently takes her magic powers, being forced to become a Masō-Shōjo (and thereby crossdress) in the process. With Eucliwood, Haruna, and a vampire ninja named Seraphim living with him, Ayumu helps battle demons known as Megalos while trying to figure out the mystery behind his own death.
Read: Light Novel | Manga
Thanks for reading. Hope I didn’t miss to include your favorite novel. If I missed, be sure to let me know in the comments.
Which is your favorite Modern Day Harem Novel with Overpowered Main Character?