 https://myanimelist.net/anime/54714/ Plot Summary Upon graduating middle school, Rentarou Aijou manages to confess to the girl he loves. Unfortunately, he gets rejected, making it his 100th rejection in a row. Having experienced heartbreak after heartbreak, he goes to a matchmaking shrine and prays with the hope of finally getting a girlfriend in high school. Suddenly, the god of the shrine appears, promising Rentarou that he will meet one hundred soulmates in high school. Although skeptical at first, Rentarou quickly acknowledges the truth behind the god's words when two of his soulmates—Hakari Hanazono and Karane Inda—confess to him the very same day that they meet him. However, there was one detail that the god forgot to tell Rentarou: if any of his soulmates fails to get into a relationship with him, they will die. Now trapped in a matter of life and death, Rentarou decides to date all of his soulmates. With a heart so big that it can be shared among one hundred girlfriends, Rentarou makes the most out of his unanticipated high school life, with the Rentarou family growing ever larger! Other Information Type: TV Episodes: Unknown Status: Currently Airing Aired: Oct 8, 2023 to ? Premiered: Fall 2023 Broadcast: Sundays at 22:30 (JST) Producers: Lantis, Bushiroad, Shueisha, Bushiroad Move Licensors: None found, add some Studios: Bibury Animation Studios Source: Manga Genres: Comedy, Romance Themes: Harem, Parody, School Demographic: Seinen Duration: Unknown Rating: None |
boldulyssesNov 12, 2023 9:50 AM
| That was fucking perfect. Peak fiction. I don’t remembering reading all these 4th wall breaking jokes in the manga but that shit was hilarious. I’m so glad a studio like Tezuka Prduction didn’t pick this up. This is rumored to be 2-cours. |
| I'm a cultured degenerate. |
| Episode 1 Sir Flirts-a-lot is quite the appropriate name for Rentaro, and being rejected 100 times means something is definitely wrong with him. So after starting high school and praying to a matchmaking god, all of the sudden two girls fall in love with Rentaro. But thanks to the God neglecting his duties in order to watch Laputa, Rentaro is cursed as whichever girl he rejects will die. So to start out, he decides to date both Inda and Hanazono, and the 98 other soulmates he comes across. Pretty funny stuff that was, and the manga is great from what I'm hearing. Just about the only major issue with this show I have are the production values as the designs of the girls make them look like they came from a hentai. In any case, I'm curious to see the other three girls in the main cast. |
| Also did they just make a Chik-fil-A fast food restaurant reference with Chick-fillet?? Haha damn now I want to eat a Chik-fil-A sandwich now. |
paulchaestedOct 8, 2023 9:35 AM
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Also did they just make a Chik-fil-A fast food restaurant reference with Chick-fillet?? Haha damn now I want to eat a Chik-fil-A sandwich now.
| @paulchaested Too bad they are closed on Sundays. |
| Girlfriend, girlfriend? Hold my beer and watch this |
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That was fucking perfect. Peak fiction. I don’t remembering reading all these 4th wall breaking jokes in the manga but that shit was hilarious.
I’m so glad a studio like Tezuka Prduction didn’t pick this up.
This is rumored to be 2-cours.
I’m so glad a studio like Tezuka Prduction didn’t pick this up.
This is rumored to be 2-cours.
paulchaested said: That was fucking perfect. Peak fiction. It's peak something alright. I'm dying from second hand embarrassment. |
| Yeah this definitely has Girlfriend Girlfriend vibes, but it was still hilarious. As soon as the god rose out of the donation box and the rope became his hair/headpiece I knew this had serious potential. That was a great sight gag. Special bonus points for making the girls look distinctly different from each other. |
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Yeah this definitely has Girlfriend Girlfriend vibes, but it was still hilarious. As soon as the god rose out of the donation box and the rope became his hair/headpiece I knew this had serious potential. That was a great sight gag.
Special bonus points for making the girls look distinctly different from each other.
Special bonus points for making the girls look distinctly different from each other.
zkeleton said: Yeah this definitely has Girlfriend Girlfriend vibes, but it was still hilarious. What if this takes a dark turn as he slowly realizes its impossible to date 100 girls at once and they start to die off one by one Final Destination style? |
| What a ridiculous premise. There are going to be too many cast members for any real character development. It's just a silly slapstick show with contrived romance. I'll be watching. I mean... i-it's not like I enjoy that kind of humor or anything. Hmmph. |
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zkeleton said:
Yeah this definitely has Girlfriend Girlfriend vibes, but it was still hilarious.
Yeah this definitely has Girlfriend Girlfriend vibes, but it was still hilarious.
What if this takes a dark turn as he slowly realizes its impossible to date 100 girls at once and they start to die off one by one Final Destination style?
| @runec And I thought I was a pessimist. |
| Cursive is the future. - Nate Bargatze |
| OK that was better than I expected it would be. The 4th wall breaks by the shrine god were hilarious (and the "skip" button in the corner). Nice that the guy isn't a total bundle of reaction noises in the presence of any girl, too. Interested to see where this goes. |
boldulyssesOct 9, 2023 6:00 PM
| Away from the things of man, my love, away from the things of man. |
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zkeleton said:
Yeah this definitely has Girlfriend Girlfriend vibes, but it was still hilarious.
Yeah this definitely has Girlfriend Girlfriend vibes, but it was still hilarious.
What if this takes a dark turn as he slowly realizes its impossible to date 100 girls at once and they start to die off one by one Final Destination style?
| @runec I'll be very surprised if he actually makes it to 100. Hell, |
| Away from the things of man, my love, away from the things of man. |
| That was way funnier than it had any right to be, thankfully @runec is not the script writer :-0 |
| Quantum ille canis est in fenestra |
| Y'know, if I were Rentarou, I'd be a little skeptical of the whole "soulmate will die" thing. Kami-sama isn't exactly the most...reliable. That said, I hope the series knows better than to string us along and then finish it off with a big, fat "Never mind!" |
| Away from the things of man, my love, away from the things of man. |
| I wonder if this same god is the one who somehow gave the girl 'unluck' in that other show. |
| Cursive is the future. - Nate Bargatze |
| Episode 1: The End of Harem History So, what Nietzsche was trying to do with his philosophy was combat nihilism: He thought Christianity had exhausted itself and the world, that it was throwing the world away for an imaginary eternity, but he didn't want to lose the possibility of meaning religion supplies. He was worried people would slide from decadent religion, which already valued something imaginary as far as he was concerned, to not valuing anything at all, to a spirit of leveling and languishing where we are rather than excelling at anything and loving the earth and life. To do that he encouraged people to embrace new, courageous ideas—he called them new virtues—and thus exalt our ability to choose in life, and to choose difficult ways of life that shake people out of their decadent stupor. He did not believe it didn't matter what we chose, that lacking religious morality everything was permissible—because he hated the life of languishing, of cowardice, and of pettiness. This is why his hero, Zarathustra, is a strange preaching hermit who disdains even the pupils he gathers, that they might not become too attached to him and thus languish at his level rather than excel beyond, to the ubermensch. And Nietzsche hated justifications of mediocrity or suffering, the kind of self-denial that leads people to become self-righteous and act like they're more moral than everyone else. So he'd dislike the liberal defense of the poor as inherently disadvantaged, but he'd also dislike the conservative disdain of the poor because it acts like no violence was involved in creating the rich/poor divide. For Nietzsche it is the will that must be acknowledged in everything. We created our moral and historical condition, and we must take responsibility for and ownership of what we've done. Obviously I am talking about why The 100 Girlfriends That Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You is terrible. And not only that, it is the worst: It is the Last Man of the harem genre. For behold: Rentaro is enslaved. He has no agency, he follows the harem track lay out for him, nothing is his fault, and what he must do is patiently suffer that he might receive some kind of reward. And there is no question of the reward, or that in the end he will deserve it. He undergoes great purgative struggles, already punching and dirtying himself, just as the old monastics tortured themselves to gain a heavenly reward—and in the end it is all for the show of it. The four-leaf clovers lose their value as talismans causing love and instead become mere signs of Rentaro's goodness. The world is emptied of meaning, even as a literal love god is invoked to explain the situation. It's all religion, linearity, and ease. And there could be no greater contrast between Rentaro and Naoya, the ubermensch protagonist of Girlfriend, Girlfriend: Naoya has no standard virtue; his destiny is not fated even though he is in a harem anime. He has battled every step to keep his harem, and his dedication to it, and his own stubborn virtue, make him a champion of will. He embraces his stupid and will go where it leads, heedless of its end. He believes he can make that end. That which is absurd he makes his own honor, and thus he earns his girls. And aside from this analysis actually kind of making sense, which is ridiculous enough, it also explains why Girlfriend, Girlfriend manages to be funnier than The 100 Girlfriends That Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You: The humor in this first episode was almost all of the meta, winking, dial-tropes-to-11 variety. Yes, show, I can see very well what the joke is. The only part that I actually liked was when tsundere screamed at seeing the confession and dropped all those cans everywhere. That was indeed a dialing-up, but of physicality rather than trope. All the love god humor was incredibly tiresome. Girlfriend, Girlfriend is funny because of Naoya's doubling down in everything, and because his harem becomes invested in playing out the logic of his harem virtue to its end. I'm not sure how long I'll keep up with this; I usually stick around at least a few episodes when a show gives me this much to think about. But I think I'll end up deciding Renai Flops does this kind of thing better. |
| I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour and who then asks: Am I then a cheat? – for he wants to perish. |
| Episode 2 That vice principal is one scary lady seeing that not only does she strictly enforce school rules, but those who break them get French-kissed by her and not only is is traumatizing, but it hurts quite a lot. That just doesn't bode well for Rentaro seeing that he doesn't really have the option of rejecting a girl. In the meantime, Rentaro, Hakari, and Karane hang out on the roof and play all sorts of weird games. As for the vice principal knowing that what the vice principal is doing is so against the law, Rentaro draws that hag, and then Karane strangles her before she could apply her dreaded French kiss. Then both girls kiss Rentaro at the same time, so that both have the prestige of being the recipient of his first kiss. That was just messed up how things transpired. Next time, Rentaro meets his next girlfriend in Shizuka. |
| HAHA WTF, the manga did not have that weird tongueing x-ray scene, literally felt like I was watching a hentai. I decided to reread all the manga I own and there are indeed a shit ton of references. I love this anime so much. |
| I'm a cultured degenerate. |
| Holy crap, they really subbed all the love letters in the OP that flashed on the screen for about 1/10 sec each. That's some Monogatari-level sub work. The skirt physics of this show are highly suspect. |
| Away from the things of man, my love, away from the things of man. |
| Not as good as the first episode. A little to much 'lol random' type of humor in this one. MenchiK1 said: A what where? I certainly didn't notice that. Nope. Very funny so far, love the animation too. Does curvy girl have a mole just below her butt cheek? Not me. |
| Cursive is the future. - Nate Bargatze |
| Episode 3 Here comes Rentaro's next girlfriend, Shizuka. She is the silent type who doesn't say much and loves to read books with her favorite being Circlet Love Story. As she's one of the 100 girlfriends that Rentaro naturally needs to make her fall for him, and he does so by reading her favorite book, and then showing that they are available electronically and can be read out loud. She's just like a princess out of a fairy tale, and with that 3 down, 97 left to go. |
| This show continues to be way more solid than it has any reason to be. That was a cute episode, and #1 and #2's reactions to #3 are pretty hilarious. So it's a foregone conclusion we're not going to get to 100, what with the care and attention we're shown of how Rentaro actually wins over each of the girls. How does this show wrap it up in a satisfying way, then? |
| Away from the things of man, my love, away from the things of man. |
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This show continues to be way more solid than it has any reason to be. That was a cute episode, and #1 and #2's reactions to #3 are pretty hilarious.
So it's a foregone conclusion we're not going to get to 100, what with the care and attention we're shown of how Rentaro actually wins over each of the girls. How does this show wrap it up in a satisfying way, then?
So it's a foregone conclusion we're not going to get to 100, what with the care and attention we're shown of how Rentaro actually wins over each of the girls. How does this show wrap it up in a satisfying way, then?
boldulysses said: So it's a foregone conclusion we're not going to get to 100 The OP and ED suggest 2 more. |
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This show continues to be way more solid than it has any reason to be. That was a cute episode, and #1 and #2's reactions to #3 are pretty hilarious.
So it's a foregone conclusion we're not going to get to 100, what with the care and attention we're shown of how Rentaro actually wins over each of the girls. How does this show wrap it up in a satisfying way, then?
So it's a foregone conclusion we're not going to get to 100, what with the care and attention we're shown of how Rentaro actually wins over each of the girls. How does this show wrap it up in a satisfying way, then?
boldulysses said: So it's a foregone conclusion we're not going to get to 100, what with the care and attention we're shown of how Rentaro actually wins over each of the girls. How does this show wrap it up in a satisfying way, then? Two more for sure. Few reliable leakers are claiming that this is 2-cours (split) so if true, the 2nd cour will introduce #6 to #8 or #9 if the pacing is the same is right now. |
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boldulysses said:
So it's a foregone conclusion we're not going to get to 100, what with the care and attention we're shown of how Rentaro actually wins over each of the girls. How does this show wrap it up in a satisfying way, then?
So it's a foregone conclusion we're not going to get to 100, what with the care and attention we're shown of how Rentaro actually wins over each of the girls. How does this show wrap it up in a satisfying way, then?
Two more for sure.
Few reliable leakers are claiming that this is 2-cours (split) so if true, the 2nd cour will introduce #6 to #8 or #9 if the pacing is the same is right now.
| @paulchaested I wish you had put that under a spoiler tag. |
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Ok so sure he has 100 soulmates but ... what happens when he starts meeting the yanderes?
marklebid said: what happens when he starts meeting the yanderes The current pink haired one gives off slight yandere vibes |
| Episode 4 Now that Shizuka is on-board, Rentaro introduces her to Hakari and Karane as they meet up on the roof and play card games, among other things. And then in the end he kisses all the girls, starting with Shizuka, then Hakarai, and finally Karane. Things could have gotten ugly seeing that Hakari and Karane didn't exactly like what Rentaro was doing, but in the end Shzika is on-board with everybody. |
| Episode 4 Almost certainly going to drop this. Garbage is great for its gratuity; this is boring. It just develops its primary conceit, which is already stupid. There are plenty of examples of worthless attention/money grabs; there's no more to analyzing it than that. |
| I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour and who then asks: Am I then a cheat? – for he wants to perish. |
| This show continues to fire on all cylinders, from the direction to the comic timing. That was just ridiculously cute. Looking forward to the kuudere (maybe next week?). |
| Away from the things of man, my love, away from the things of man. |
| Moving to a different school at this point would be this guy's best move. boldulysses said: There's a kuudere coming? I hope they get her right. Kuuderes are my favorite of the dere types.Looking forward to the kuudere |
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Moving to a different school at this point would be this guy's best move.
boldulysses said:
Looking forward to the kuudere
There's a kuudere coming? I hope they get her right. Kuuderes are my favorite of the dere types.Looking forward to the kuudere
zkeleton said: There's a kuudere coming? I hope they get her right. Kuuderes are my favorite of the dere types. I haven't read the manga, but from the intro and the description on MAL, #4 looks pretty kuudere-ish. And yeah, I am kind of curious as to what will happen once word gets out about what he's doing... Although the show may choose not to explore that. Would also like to point out the hilarious job the subs are doing: "smol floof" "ecsta-pee" "Yo, slow the hell down!" etc |
boldulyssesOct 31, 2023 11:23 AM
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zkeleton said:
There's a kuudere coming? I hope they get her right. Kuuderes are my favorite of the dere types.
There's a kuudere coming? I hope they get her right. Kuuderes are my favorite of the dere types.
I haven't read the manga, but from the intro and the description on MAL, #4 looks pretty kuudere-ish.
And yeah, I am kind of curious as to what will happen once word gets out about what he's doing... Although the show may choose not to explore that.
Would also like to point out the hilarious job the subs are doing:
"smol floof"
"ecsta-pee"
"Yo, slow the hell down!"
etc
boldulysses said: Would also like to point out the hilarious job the subs are doing: "smol floof" "ecsta-pee" "Yo, slow the hell down!" etc Definitely. Apparently people who knows the CR translator tasked with subbing this show said that he's having an absolute blast with this. |
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| Episode 5 Onto the next girlfriend in Nano, an elegant beauty who is the smartest student at school. Not to mention, her name is quite appropriate (Eiai = AI, which is what she is like). Nano is using logic for everything, and logic tells her to not fall in love with Rentaro. Of course, Rentaro won't back down seeing that he has been rejected 100 times. They end up going on a date at an amusement park, and she takes things quite literally. But in the end, Rentaro was able to tailor the situation so that falling in love is the most logical and efficient thing for Nano to do. Nano sure is amusing with her need to explain everything logically. |
| “Beach episode is next. Let’s freakin’ go!” God I love the narrator. Yesss, silver haired kuudere Nano is here! In case if the thought has been floating around in your head, yes the GF names are literally puns of the archetype they represent. Hakari has something to do with thirsty in Japanese. Indo Karane is a phrase used in “it’s not like” or something. Shizuka literally means quiet. Eiai = A.I. |
paulchaestedNov 5, 2023 8:44 AM
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| ^Cool about the name context. Another strong episode. Rentaro is a total chad. Does Nano remind anyone else of a more talkative Komi? |
| Away from the things of man, my love, away from the things of man. |
| ^^I won't defend it as the sharpest comedy out there. It's not Kaguya-sama, and I don't think it's trying to be. It makes me laugh, and I don't really analyze it beyond that. Other anime, sure... But this is just good, switch-the-brain-off fun. ^Yeah, Karane (tsundere) is my pick. Nano (kuudere) is pretty, but too Komi-ish and there's only 1 Komi. |
| Away from the things of man, my love, away from the things of man. |
| So far I think tsundere is my favorite too. I just don't like that frumpy looking sweater she wears. This new girl doesn't really fit the kuudere mold to me, at least not the type I like. I prefer someone more like Aharen or Rei. MenchiK1 said: Yeah I don't get the comparison either. They're both studious and pretty and they both have a very buttoned down sort of look to them, but overall they're personalities are very different.That's the 2nd comparison to Komi, she is NOTHINg like Komi. Komi is emotional but just doesn't talk, this girl is almost a robot emotionally and talks fine. I don't see it????????? |
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| I couldn't really point to anything specific other than 1) they look akin and 2) their approach to social/emotional issues FEELS somewhat similar, even if—as validly pointed out—it differs on paper in significant respects. |
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I couldn't really point to anything specific other than 1) they look akin and 2) their approach to social/emotional issues FEELS somewhat similar, even if—as validly pointed out—it differs on paper in significant respects.
| @boldulysses I think their lower bodies and postures look similar, beyond that not much else. The uniforms and tights are similar and both stand so upright their backs kind of arch. |
| Episode 6 It's off to the pool for the obligatory swimsuit episode as this place just opened, and quite a lot of craziness happens. Rentaro is knocked out by the fanservicey nosebleed after touching Hakari and Nano where he shouldn't, Karane is wearing a poncho claiming to be cold, and Shizuka becomes a castaway as she can't swim and her inner tube gets a hole in it. But just when things get really bad with a couple of scumbags looking to hit on Hakari and Nano, Rentaro has returned to tell those punks that they are his girlfriends. He finds Shizuka, and gets Karane to show off her swimsuit so that she can finally enjoy the waterpark. It was a rather drama-filled time at the pool, but Rentaro knew exactly what he needed to do. And after all that, the waterpark date truly begins. |
God tier swimsuit episode. Holy moly the anime made this awesome chapter from the manga 100x better. Damn man, that is one turned on face. |
paulchaestedNov 12, 2023 9:40 AM
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| That one guy was cracking his knuckles for what felt like 5 minutes straight... Karane definitely best girl so far. |
| Away from the things of man, my love, away from the things of man. |
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