The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You probably comes in as the biggest wild card of the season for me. Title long enough to be a LN, with a pretty dumb-sounding premise. But it’s a manga and a pretty well-regarded seinen at that. And a couple of folks in my circle predicted that I might like it. So I want into this premiere not really knowing what to expect. And to be honest, I come out of it pretty much the same way.
Kimi no koto ga Dai Dai Dai Dai Daisuki na 100-nin no Kanojo (let’s just agree that’s the last time I include the whole thing) is the story of a boy named Aijou Rentarou (Katou Wataru) who’s been a serial confessor since eight months old, and always rejected (much to the puzzlement of his “Friend A“). After he finishes junior high with a .000 batting average he goes to a love shrine to pray for improved luck in high school. The Kami himself (Chiba Shigeru) appears and tells him he’ll meet his soulmate in high school. But not only that, he’ll meet one hundred of them.
After a quick cut to opening day (the fourth wall is pretty much non-existent here) he meets the first two by literally bumping into them. That would be the classic tsundere Inda Karane (Tomita Miyu), and Hanazono Hakari (Hondo Kaede) – who I guess would be a deredere if anything. And what follows is a series of gags riffing on their respective character class romcom tropes, like the whole indirect kiss thing. Some of this is pretty funny, some of it not so much – which considering the pace at which it’s hurled at the audience is probably inevitable.
As it turns out Rentarou was basically screwed by the God of romance, who was distracted by a showing of Miyazaki’s “Castle in the Sky” (whose fans flash-tweeted the magic word “Balus” in record-breaking fashion during an airing a few years ago) and signed him up for 100 soulmates. Hey, I don’t blame him – that’s my second-favorite Ghibli movie – but considering that when soulmates don’t wind up with their fated partner they die, that puts an awful lot of pressure on Rentarou here.
I have questions. I mean, it’s not like even with two cours you’re going to be able to flesh out 100 actual girlfriend characters. So how much of a pass at that is the series actually going to make? And while all this is obviously intended as satire, it still comes off as resolutely sexist in the premiere. It’s all self-referential enough that I suppose one won’t take that too seriously, and better to see tropes satirized than observed robotically. Even so, though, it’s a bit much at this point.
I’ve learned with romcoms – especially seinen romcoms – that you can’t base your conclusions on the first episode or two. So while a lot of what happened here didn’t really work for me, I’m not that worried – these things usually take time to unspool the thread. There was stuff that made me laugh, and the general consensus seems to be that 100-nin ni Kanojo is not a mean-spirited sort of series. I’m not even close to forming a firm opinion and I probably won’t be for at least a couple of episodes.
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