The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You

2023

Original language: Japanese

animation
comedy

The story

Rentaro Aijo was rejected 100 times in middle school. He visits a shrine and prays for better luck in high school. The God of Love appears and promises that he'll soon meet 100 people he's destined to date. But there's a catch—once destiny introduces someone to him, the two must happily love each other. If they don't, they'll die. What will befall Rentaro and his 100 girlfriends in high school?

What it’s like

Bright, saturated cel animation with bouncy, exaggerated character designs, pastel school hallways, and candy-colored skies, all cut together with the quick timing of a sitcom. Gags land in rapid bursts, with sudden zooms, deadpan freeze-frames, and a narrator who keeps breaking the fourth wall to address the audience. The score is cheerful and pop-leaning, and the sound effects are loud and cartoonish. The mood is brash, goofy, and high-energy, a comic romp that never sits still long enough to feel heavy. Its people are a crowd of eager, exaggerated admirers around one flustered, put-upon protagonist, and the real arc is his shift from dreading rejection to tolerating a chaotic overload of affection. Intensity is comedic: fan service, suggestive jokes and skimpy costumes, a steady stream of innuendo, some slapstick violence, and brief drug-related gags. Nothing is graphic, and the looming death threat is played for laughs rather than dread. It suits a loud, silly watch with friends or a lighthearted binge when you want something ridiculous and fast. It is for viewers who enjoy harem comedy, fourth-wall winking, and over-the-top romcom energy more than gentle, quiet storytelling.

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