Highlights
- The Fall 2023 anime season will have a highly anticipated anime adaptation of The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You, a comedy series with laugh-out-loud humor, cute girls, and romantic wholesomeness.
- The premise revolves around Rentaro Aijo, who has 100 soulmates due to a clerical error. He must navigate dating all of them simultaneously to prevent them from dying, resulting in a zany and off-the-walls romantic comedy with ridiculous situations.
- The series focuses more on comedy than romance, but there are still heartwarming moments. Each girlfriend is unique in personality and design, making for a varied assortment of heroines, adding excitement to the series.
The Fall 2023 anime season is starting soon, and anime fans all over the world are preparing for it by figuring out which shows they'll be watching. Fall is always the season where a lot of big shows tend to release, so for those who don't have a lot of time to watch anime, they'll have to pick what they'll be watching very carefully.
One highly anticipated series that will be coming out in Fall 2023 is the anime adaptation of The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You, a romantic comedy series involving the main character Rentaro Aijou and the many love interests he comes into contact to over the course of the series. Produced by Bibury Animation Studios, The 100 Girlfriends is sure to be one of the craziest anime to come out this season, with laugh-out-loud fourth-wall-breaking humor, tons of cute girls, and a surprising amount of romantic wholesomeness. Here's what anime fans can expect from this rambunctious polyamorous love comedy.
The Premise
Rentaro Aijo is a man who lives for love. Unfortunately, this does not translate to success, as he has been rejected by every girl he has confessed to, with a crowning total of 100 failed confessions. With high school looming on the horizon, Rentaro prays at a shrine that he'll be able to find a girlfriend there. As he prays, the God of Love suddenly appears and tells him that the reason Rentaro has never managed to get a girlfriend until now was because of a clerical error: though every person is only supposed to have one soulmate in their entire lifetime, Rentaro was given 100.
Immediately as he starts high school, Rentaro runs into the first two of his 100 soulmates: his classmates Hakari Hanazono and Karane Inda. The two girls immediately confess to Rentaro, and Rentaro likes them so much he cannot choose between them. He asks the God of Love for help, but only learns a harsh truth: if he does not return the feelings of one of his soulmates, they will inevitably die. Not willing to let even one of his soulmates face such a fate, he asks Hakari and Karane to date him at the same time, planning on doing the same for the rest of his 100 soulmates.
A Zany, Off The Walls Romantic Comedy
What likely stands out to most people from this series' premise is the ridiculousness of it all. The 100 Girlfriends does not shy away from that, resulting in a highly comedic series that even lampoons its own premise. Humor abounds from the first episode as nearly every normal romantic situation is made bizarre just by the inclusion of Rentaro and his growing group of girlfriends. The comedy is absolutely the strongest point of The 100 Girlfriends, and potential viewers should prepare to keep their sides from splitting.
Anime fans looking for romance in this series might be upset at how comedy-focused this series really is, though there are certainly moments of romance throughout the series. Though the premise is ridiculous, there is real love between Rentaro and his many girlfriends, and though the sheer volume of it all can make it feel ridiculous at points, those looking for the more wholesome and heartwarming aspects of romance will still find it here.
A Varied Assortment Of Heroines
100 girlfriends is far from an exaggeration or an overstatement: the series seriously intends on eventually introducing 100 different soulmates for Rentaro, and the manga has already made quite some headway on that number. Of course, the anime is unlikely to include all of these girls at once, but there will still be quite a number of beautiful girls joining Rentaro's "family" of girlfriends.
It sounds great to have that many girlfriends, but it would be honestly boring if they all had similar personalities. Thankfully, The 100 Girlfriends makes sure to give every single one of Rentaro's soulmates an incredibly quirky and unique personality, as well as a vibrant character design that makes them stand out from all the others. Hakari Hanazono, for example, comes from a wealthy family and has a penchant for perverted fantasies. Meanwhile, Karane Inda is a slender tsundere with an unusual level of strength. Of course, though each girl has sides of her that set her apart from the others, they all share one thing in common: being in love with Rentaro Aijo, who does his level best to match their affections with everything he's got.