ハレ婚。

HARE-KON.

MANGA

STATUS
COMPLETE
VOLUMES
19
RELEASE
June 17, 2019
CHAPTERS
187

DESCRIPTION

Koharu, tired of all the men in her life being lying, married philanderers, decides to move back home, away from the city. Once there she finds her family saddled with a huge debt and no way out, until a handsome but creepy stranger offers to pay the debt, at the same time asking her to marry him. But, as if things weren't crazy enough, he already has two wives!

(Source: Japanzai)

CAST

Yuzu Date
Ryuunosuke Date
Koharu Maezono
Madoka Date
Urara Matsuhashi
Kousei Takeda

CHAPTERS

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REVIEWS

baraxador
40/100
Good enough story, but is it worth it?
A story about 3 women and a man, trying to make polygamy work, Harekon is a drama through and through. There's a lot sadness and a bit of happiness sprinkled here and there. The writing isn't a masterpiece, but I found the characters believable enough, personally. They get jealous, they get angry, and they make unreasonable decisions, just like normal people. The way that not everything is peachy all the time (actually rather salty) makes the whole thing bearable.

Spoilers ahead.

Our main focus is on the 3rd wife, Koharu, which happens to be my favorite character as well. She's actually kinda shit early on, but quickly grew on my due to the simple fact that she's the only one with a half functioning moral compass. An indecisive goody two shoes tomboy, dealing with 3 crazy people she starts to get more mature mentally.

The other 2 wives are a wreck. Yuzu is our nymphomaniac, and all her talk about supporting your husband falls apart when we find out she's cheating. Madoka is our yandere; broken, crazy, and jealous. I never really got her to be honest, and I never really liked her either.

And the last character is the singular husband, Ryuunosuke. I think Koharu herself explained him the best.

I finally understand Ryuu's mind. You're just like a child. A wimpy, lonely person...

The only reason Ryuunosuke ever managed to have 3 wives at at least some points in the series was the wives' willingness to sacrifice themselves. Sleazy and unfaithful, a character you can never trust. He keeps saying that he loves all his wives equally, even though he obviously favors our main heroine, Koharu. He actually deserved a bad ending in my personal opinion.

I'd actually rate this an easy 6, if it weren't for that damn ending. 5th last chapter, I cried. Reality finally caught up to the characters, and a bitter decision was made. Fast forward to the final chapter, and for some fucking reason, they just decided to reverse that whole decision and act like everything is perfectly fine. I couldn't believe it. That ending actually felt like a fan edit. Such a shame.

Let alone getting a bad ending like he deserves, the plot and the characters bended and twisted themselves in such an illogical way that it works out well for Ryuunosuke alone. It's made an mockery out of all the decisions the wives ever made.

Oh and before I forget, sex makes up a big chunk of the page count. Some sex scenes were tasteful, but some were unfortunately really close to... forced. I definitely felt uncomfortable at times. Thankfully that kinda stuff was never made into a plot point or anything. It actually felt like they never realized that that kinda thing might not be OK.
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WeepingClown
73/100
A harem marriage isn't bad, and it's every man's dream.
Men are depraved creatures. While I won't claim that everyone is the same, It'd be a wonder if no one ever thought about being in a harem, with full support of the wives. There are people who has achieved it, but those are rare cases. That being the case, a harem is a man's wet dream. Precisely this reason is what makes this story so compelling. Further ahead there's minor spoilers, but I doubt it can affect the experience. But to be safe, read at your own risk.

Hare-Kon. features Koharu, a tomboyish, straightforward and reckless heroine. She gets cajoled into a harem marriage as the third wife in order to support her family in debt. While she joins the marriage unwillingly and tries to reject the newfound husband, she eventually comes to love him pretty easily, much to her own good. The story is mainly focused on Koharu and the Date family which she's married into, and the story is filled with a plethora of depressed situations, total trainwreck events, and occasional, but not rare, nudity.

The best thing about Hare-Kon. characters are the naturality they bring out in feelings and actions, which makes it all the more frustrating at the same time. Koharu is simple, and she blurts out basically everything she has to say, except for when she needs to talk it out. She's considerate, which is at the same time the thing that pulls her leg. The first wife of Date family, Yuzu, is a beautiful, charming (and big breasted) woman who seems the most level headed out of everyone in the whole story and is extremely affectionate and supportive of her husband. And yet, in actuality, she can't get rid of her past, and cannot decide on the present or future and makes everything a total calamity with a single scenario. And then we get to Madoka, the second wife, who's simply a complete wreckage of a human. The only thing she cares for is her husband and she is utterly jealous of everything that takes him away from her. Paired with her trauma of the past, it's already a wonder how she didn't become a total psycho. Finally, we've Date Ryunnosuke, the husband of the three wives family. He loves all his wives, equally as he claims, and takes care of them very well. But at the same time, his love doesn't exactly show up in the decisive moments, or it just shows up too much, as he simply doesn't make any proactive actions to make his loved ones stay close to him. Rather, it's like he's adamant on pushing them away as far away as he can. Amongst these broken characters, the only person that's more normal is Urara whose love goes unrequited and her family wants to just marry her off in order to gain some support for thr family. But, normal or what, these characters show the very basic and natural emotions of love, hate, jealousy etc. in its purest form. This naturality is what integrates the reader further into the story.

Talking about how natural the character natures are, one also needs to identify if the story itself makes any sense. A contemplation on this brings to an answer of yes and no. To begin with, polygamy in itself isn't inherently bad, but it generally rejected in the modern day. And morality aside, there's the matter of three wives simply getting along in a house. The good thing is that the story isn't written in a way that says "the four married and lived happily ever after". There's plain and visible conflicts which everyone is aware of, and the whole family thing is not a smooth sailing at all. The story develops rather nicely in the first half of the manga with various simple buildups and fooling around. But as it reaches almost midway, along with the Madoka issue, it becomes a nervous wreck. When it gets to the problem of Yuzu, the harem family is more or less collapsed at that moment. Even though they manage to patch things up and make sense of things, the last quarter of the story simply feels as if it's forcefully created, in a way. It's not necessarily bad, but the progression feels randomly paced. And towards the end, things just happens way too fast. The story as a whole is a very nice concept. The drawback of it is the instability of pace management, or the lack of coherence.

All that being said, it really is a nice read. It's interesting, and it's enjoyable. And it's fresh. It could've been better, but it's still done in an agreeable way. The characters themselves can be related to a lot, and the chaotic events make everything nervous. Whenever I read something that makes me nervous throughout experiencing it, I know it has moved me in some way or another. Sometimes it makes me love the story, and the occasions on which it made me dislike the story isn't rare either. I did not particularly care for Koharu, perhaps because of her nature of a spoilt girl. But whether it was Madoka or Yuzu, in their sufferings and indecisiveness, they made me wanting for them to go back to how everything was, and I found myself rooting for them. Especially Madoka, with all her miserable fate, simply caused me a lot pain. In the end I'm just too sensitive. While I preach for the supremacy of tragedy, despair and depression, that in turn makes me want to see happy endings all the more. Hare-Kon. for one, with all its simplicity and naturality, gave me an unforgettable experience of a rollercoaster of different emotions, which I'm thankful for. While it's not the best out there, I rarely find a harem I like, and so it is precious to me.

PS: The art is beautiful and lovely. I forgot to include this as i got immersed in writing everything and didn't remember until a friend reminded. And I'm lazy to edit everything to include this somewhere inbetween. I just want everyone to know it anyway, so this works as well.
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