The romantic comedy "100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You," currently serialized in Weekly Young Jump, is finally being adapted into an anime! What kind of work is this? It's unofficially referred to as "the Bo-bobo of the romantic comedy world"! Speaking of Bobobo, it's a hilarious comedy manga with hilarious humor that humanity will never be able to keep up with, but why is it called that? Let's take a look at what this work is all about!
The protagonist, Koitaro Aijo, just wants a girlfriend.
The protagonist, Koitaro Aijo, has confessed his love to his girlfriend 100 times since he was born, but every time he's been rejected. He wasn't ugly, had no personality flaws, or neglected to put in effort. He was a good-looking young man who was popular with both men and women. Yet, when it came to dating, he was rejected harshly. He was a rather strange man.
In fact, his "soulmate" had already been decided for him!
In fact, Koitaro's "soulmate" was already decided for him from the moment he was born. He met a whopping 100 soulmates in high school! Due to a mistake by God, Koitaro ended up with 100 soulmates, and as a result, he became unpopular with women. When a girl meets her soulmate, she instantly falls in love with the boy, and the boy gradually grows fonder of her.
No way, it's not okay to have a girlfriend and date another girl.
Shortly after entering high school, Koitaro meets two "soulmates," but because the heroines are so attractive, he is unable to choose between them. Furthermore, God tells him that any girl who does not end up with his soulmate will soon suffer some kind of misfortune and die. In the end, unable to choose, Koitaro boldly announces to both girls that he will be dating them at the same time, legally cheating on them both.
100 Heroines! That's way too many!!
This work features an unprecedented 100 heroines. "The Quintessential Quintuplets" has five, "Seven Witches" has seven, and even "The World God Only Knows," which has a somewhat similar setting, had a structure that allowed it to continue to function even with an increased number of heroines. Due to a mistake by a useless angel, the protagonist becomes extremely popular for one day, but once that day is over he becomes unpopular for the rest of his life, so he avoids the girls who approach him and confesses his feelings to the girl he likes.The setting is quite similar to that of "Gal*Gun", but while in "Gal*Gun" the protagonist chooses just one girl, in "100 Kano" he chooses all of them. "100 Kano" sticks to the strong style of dating all of the girls who appear in "Gal*Gun".
With 100 heroines it looks doomed! A chicken race started by the author!
The title of 100 Kano clearly states that there are 100 heroines. Furthermore, rather than choosing one from the 100 potential heroines and fading out the others, the story introduces 100 heroines and treats each of them as a single heroine, without letting them fade away. If that were to happen, the author's health would suffer! I can only imagine that the author's health would suffer before the story's collapse! Will he even be able to produce 100 heroines by the end of the series? Or will he end up becoming a sword master? Perhaps the author's life will come to an end first! The chicken race began immediately after the series began, and as of volume 13, 21 heroines have appeared. The weekly serialization, which has become hellish with each new heroine, shows no signs of ending anytime soon.
The number of heroines continues to increase...
This is a work that is determined to love all the heroines equally, so it wouldn't be considered equal unless it featured everyone in each episode. Perhaps because of this belief, the number of heroines continues to increase with each volume, and more heroines continue to appear in the same frame. Even with a single kissing scene, if the author decides to do it, he has to include everyone, so there has to be one kiss scene per panel. And with the number of heroines continuing to increase, we'll likely see more and more in the future.
These unique heroines—are they on drugs?
100 Kano is planned to feature 100 heroines, and if their personalities were weak, it would be easy to forget who they were. Because there are so many heroines, even the more normal ones could easily become obscured, so the heroines are all unique...or rather, some of them even seem like they might be on drugs. There is actually a heroine who creates a dangerous drug, which she uses to both destroy and save the world. In order to ensure that all the heroines are not forgotten, extraordinary plot twists are necessary, and drugs often cause trouble.
The Heroines Are Completely Changed by the "Soulmate" Setting
The main character is a 100-woman lover in this work, and the heroines who accept him are also a bit strange, but that wasn't the case from the beginning. The premise of the soulmate is that they fall in love to death at first sight, and they're normal until they set eyes on the main character. For example, this character is the mother of one of the heroines. When she found out that her daughter was dating a terrible boyfriend who was also cheating on her five times, she tried to forcefully separate them. Despite her overprotective and strict personality, she was a good mother who worried about her daughter.
She fell in love at first sight, and this is what happened...
However, that mother was also the one destined for the protagonist. And the moment he fell in love with her at first sight, the respectable mother who had always exuded dignity and grace, and who had raised her daughter with kindness, was completely transformed. Furthermore, she later became one of the most outrageous characters in the story, a suspicious character claiming to be the mother. At first, she was normal! At first!
These heroines adapt so well that love is not just blind
Most heroines start out normal, but then they get mad and go crazy. After becoming a girlfriend, they gradually adapt to their abnormal environment. The main character, Koitaro, sometimes explodes with love and behaves in crazy ways that would normally be considered a turn-off. The girls react to him like that, thinking he's cool... (heart flutters) or something along those lines. Love is more than just blind!
Parody material that's taken for granted!
This work mercilessly throws in parodies and jokes from the same magazines, Young Jump and Weekly Shonen Jump, as if they were a given. And yet, it's allowed because of the bizarre worldview in which he plans to have 100 girlfriends and treats all the heroines equally.
Anything goes meta-commentary is a given!
Since parodies are a given, meta comments that go beyond the fourth wall are also common. The story reveals behind-the-scenes details, the protagonist visits the illustrator in person, and touches on the publishing industry's greater will. This work is a game of chicken between completing the series first, canceling it first, and the author's downfall, but it also seems to be playing a game of chicken with the editor.
The protagonist gives up being human and becomes a Hajikerist!
So far, there isn't a single heroine in this series who is completely unremarkable, but the protagonist is far from being unremarkable either. Their love transforms them into eccentric characters who will do and be able to do anything. Recently, their love has led them to become monsters, refusing to be human, and they have become the epitome of this series.
[100 Girlfriends I Really Really Really Really Love You] Summary
Here's a sneak peek at the anime "100 Girlfriends I Really Really Really Love You," which will air in the fall of 2023! Featuring 100 heroines, the protagonist becomes a girlfriend to all 100 of them, treating them equally. It's a crazy story that's so overflowing with love that it's on the verge of collapse, and it could drive you crazy! However, as it's been dubbed the Bobobo of romantic comedies, it's sure to be a hot topic, so if you're interested, be sure to check it out!
