The romantic comedy "100 Girlfriends I Really Really Really Really Love You," currently serialized in Weekly Young Jump since fall 2023, is getting an anime adaptation. As the title suggests, it's a romantic comedy doomed to failure even at the premise level, with a protagonist who simultaneously has 100 girlfriends and loves them all equally. With 100 heroines, each one needs a unique personality and story to make them stand out, resulting in a work so outrageous it's been called the "Bo-bobo of the romantic comedy world." The protagonist, Aijo Koitaro, is an outrageous character who is just as outrageous as his unique heroines, and today we'd like to introduce you to what kind of character Aijo Koitaro is!
Aijyo Koitaro is a man with a strong mentality who can withstand being rejected 100 times!
The protagonist of this work, Rentaro Aijo, tries to confess his feelings to a girl 100 times in his quest for a girlfriend, but each time is a complete failure. He had the mental fortitude to continue trying even after being rejected 99 times, but by the 100th time, he had finally given up and was like a depressed Miffy. However, Rentaro's reputation with girls was not bad at all, and when it came to dating, he was rejected in a rather strange way.
Aishiro Rentaro hears about his soulmate from the matchmaking god
After graduating from junior high school and preparing to enter high school, Rentaro meets a self-proclaimed god at a matchmaking shrine, who tells him that he will meet his soulmate in high school. A soulmate is the "perfect romantic partner" determined when a person is born. When two soulmates meet, they feel a sudden shock throughout their body and fall in love with each other uncontrollably. However, women fall in love instantly, while men gradually develop feelings over time.
There are 100 soulmates for you! ?
The god then tells him that there are a whopping 100 soulmates out there. Rentaro, who is good-looking, has great looks, good looks, and a great personality, but the reason he hasn't had a girlfriend until now is because he was destined to meet 100 soulmates in high school, and all his romantic luck was spent on them. Furthermore, the reason Rentaro will have 100 soulmates is because the god was working while watching Laputa on Friday Road Show, and got so excited by the Bals scene that he accidentally wrote two extra zeros.
Those who don't find their soulmate will die one way or another!
The power of the soulmate is so great that upon entering high school, Rentaro immediately falls for Hanazono Ukari and Inda Tone, and both confess their feelings to him in no time. However, since Rentaro is chosen as his soulmate, he is unable to choose one of them. Furthermore, God tells him that the other soulmate, who he is not with, will suffer some misfortune and then die. It's already difficult to choose, but now the situation becomes even more difficult.
What if they both date at the same time?
Koitaro thinks that if he secretly dates both of them at the same time, he can save them both from death. However, he feels that such dishonesty is unacceptable to the person who confessed to him so earnestly, so he confronts them head-on and honestly tells them that he wants to date both of them at the same time. As a result, they end up legally dating both of them at the same time, but that leaves 98 people who are destined for them. Will he really be able to achieve this goal?
Koitaro loves all of his beloved girlfriends equally!
Koitaro loves all the people he meets equally and never neglects anyone. All the heroines are cute, but they're also unique, and some even openly show their perversions. Koitaro has the broad-mindedness to accept them all. Behind this lies a history of being rejected by girls since he was eight months old, and constantly having his very existence denied.
He's willing to go to any lengths for the girl he loves!
Each of the people Koitaro meets are unique, each with their own characteristics and worries. Koitaro, who absolutely, absolutely, absolutely loves his girlfriend, confronts their worries head-on and makes extraordinary efforts to connect with them. Their hearts flutter with his sincerity, and they fall in love with him. However, because he'll do anything for the girl he loves, he becomes more and more of a Hajikerist with each episode.
I'm dating everyone because I truly love them! Koitaro never mentions his death.
Koitaro is told that due to a mistake by God, he has been assigned 100 soulmates, and that if the heroine does not find her soulmate, she will die unhappily for various reasons. If he had told the girls that he would die if they did not fall in love, the hurdle for them to date other women might have been lowered. However, Koitaro himself believes that his love is based on the idea that he is dating because he is happy, not because he does not want to die, so he never tells them about his soulmate.
Usually he's the straight man! But recently, he's stopped being human!
Kintaro, who is often at the mercy of the eccentric heroines, is one of the few straight man characters in this series. However, with each episode, their actions become increasingly unrealistic, and perhaps because he accepts everything through the power of love, Kintaro himself begins to cease to be human. Eventually, he increasingly abandons his role as straight man and takes on the role of punchline.
Kano Rentaro before he gave up his humanity
He risks his life to protect one of the heroines, Hanazono Ukari, from falling from a high place. Regardless of the circumstances, it's a cool scene that shows his manliness. His strong will to protect her at all costs, even at the risk of danger, was still strong at this time, and he was still quite sensible around volume 3 of the manga. It reminds me of a scene from The Castle of Cagliostro, and I think it's just plain cool.
Kano Rentaro Transforms into a Monster Out of Love
For some reason, Koitaro ends up participating in a competitive eating contest with the girls. The rules of the competition are to see how much rice he can eat, and while he can eat as many side dishes as he wants, only the rice counts as points. Meanwhile, Koitaro continues to eat his food without any side dishes, and the reason he's able to do this is because each of the girls has brought him a bowl of rice, which acts as a side dish. While most people would be shocked, the girls are touched.
Love turns Rentaro into a Hajikerist
At a promotional event held to celebrate the release of all six 100 Kano acrylic keychains, all eight square badges, and wooden straps, the love for the girls was so overwhelming that he collected a ton of merchandise and equipped himself with "Girlfriend Armor" underneath his clothes. At this point, it was clearly a Bobobo worldview, but no characters even bothered to point it out.
A single frame alone makes it hard to understand how this happened.
Kinotaro's love for his girlfriend turns him into a hijinkist, but it's not just him who is poisoned; many heroines are also completely poisoned by the worldview. It's a mysterious situation that's hard to understand just by looking at one frame, but this is a situation where the protagonist is unable to choose whose lap pillow is the best, and ends up being lap-piled by everyone?
Kano Rentaro Has Stopped Being Human
Kano Rentaro gives everyone a lap pillow in return. He's stopped being human, but in reality, this was just a dream, so it was an unsuccessful attempt... However, his transformation into a Hajikerist has progressed to the point where he might even try it in the real world. He's steadily stopped being human, sometimes overcoming time barriers to visit his illustrator or coming into contact with a powerful figure in the publishing industry.
【100 Girlfriends I Really Really Really Really Love】Aishiro Koitaro Summary
Here's a summary of Aijo Koitaro, the protagonist of the anime "100 Girlfriends I Really Really Really Love," scheduled to air in the fall of 2023! He starts out relatively normal, but as his girlfriends increase, he becomes overwhelmed with love and becomes a hysteric fan. I think he's a character who will be a hit on social media and in real time on the anime stream! It may be a work that humanity will never be able to keep up with, but even that makes it interesting, so please check it out!
