Kimi no Koto ga Daidaidaidaidaisuki na 100-nin no Kanojo 2nd Season

The 100 Girlfriends Who REALLY Love You, Round 2 — Holy wowsers, the harem just keeps getting better and better.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: mangaka Rihito Nakamura's Kimi no Koto ga Daidaidaidaidaisuki na 100-nin no Kanojo a.k.a The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You is the pinnacle of harem anime, by far and bar none. The harem subgenre has never seen such a magnitude of atrocities so blatant yet so off-the-walls full of bullshittery as this show does and praise the man for absolute cinema for whatever Rihito Nakamura's thinking. Because no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, can ... ever fathom be reading his mind and knowing whatever he's concocting. This man is pure genius, genuine, and should be praised to God-like levels.

Onto Season 2's newest girlfriends added into the Rentaro Family:

- Girlfriend No. 7 of Kurumi Haraga, a foodie fighter with a high metabolism that causes her to go hungry very easily, with her earphone always on her to avoid being influenced by food talk.

- Girlfriend No. 8 of Mei Meido, one of the Hanazono family's maids, who was found bruised and taken in by Hahari, thereby being exceptionally loyal to her without question. The thing is, the running gag of her going full-on suicidal if orders aren't heeded, and Hahari is the only person who can stop her from the reckless act. Also, her rainbow eyes are not for the faint of heart; that's why she's always presented with closed eyes.

- Girlfriend No. 9 of Iku Suto, the same-year student who's the last remaining member of the school's girls' baseball team, with a fiery passion...for being masochistic and finding pleasure in overworking herself to exhaustion and otherwise being mildly hurt.

- Girlfriend No. 10 of Mimimi Utsukushisugi, a Senpai just like Kusuri but a narcissist who's VERY obsessed with beauty, though being aware that the entity cannot be bought and works hard by earning her own savings to acquire such beauty. Though she and Nano were enemies at first from the school's beauty pageants, they subsequently made up and became friends.

- Girlfriend No. 11 of Meme Kakure, the closest Rentaro could ever encounter, being his classmate in the same class as both Hakari and Karane. The "Komi Can Communicate" shy character who prefers being a background character and a very good knitter who always knits dolls to assert misdirection to slip away when she gets flustered. Like Mei, Meme's bangs cover her eyes due to her insecurities.

Knowing the standards of Season 1 back in Fall 2023, it's clear that the staff team at Bibury Animation Studios, led by director Hikaru Sato, has something very uncommon on their hands, but something that's worth every point to meme about, because 100GFs is just so unhinged at what it does to the fullest degree. You couldn't try to ask other authors to even try to mimic what Rihito Nakamura can do, because their efforts would fail on the basis that this idea is the author's and his alone, being the ONLY person who can pull this all off, and for the 2nd time, this consistency has been largely kept and improved for the better.

I think that the OST for Season 2 has improved a lot, and mostly for the better. Season 1's OP may be now iconic, but while Season 2's OP may not fare the same, I feel that it's a great follow-up song that sounds a lot better than it looks. Even the ED song is a good one, though I'd compare to say that Season 1 was the better of the two.

I need not already mention that if you like/love Season 1 to begin with, Season 2 is pretty much more of the same, with the Rentaro Family of girlfriends counting by the half-dozen and increasing.

May the true gentleman legend never die, serving his queens with utmost respect and sensitivity, which no man in the whole wide world can ever fathom to match with the kind-natured heart and soul of the name...that is Rentaro Aijo.

Season 2 of 'The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You' or 100 GFs or Hyakkano is one anime this winter that I was highly anticipating. In my review for season 1 (https://myanimelist.net/reviews.php?id=545367), I called it genre-defining. Unfortunately, it feels that it's not as good as season 1.

Season 2 is basically Rentarou adding more girlfriends. It features more ridiculous situations and the metafictional aspects are even more pronounced. I love the fourth-wall breaks.

The problem is that, firstly, every new girl now feels hit or miss. Of course, we may prefer different girls, but the effect is still the same. I may like ... Mei but dismiss others as a girlfriend I do not prefer. It's a pity because every new girl in season 1 felt so much better than the girl before yet in their own ways, each is compelling.

Secondly, the ever-increasing new cast of girlfriends is proving to be a problem, and that's probably why previous harems have chosen to limit the number of girls, even if the number is a few girls plus/minus ten girls. Rentarou's girlfriends are starting to become unwieldy. Aside from dealing with every new girlfriend, Rentarou must also make some effort to keep his existing girlfriends happy. Thus, I'm afraid, every succeeding season of Hyakkano might get worse and worse.

Again, the idea is great, but the execution is bothering me, and we only have 11 girlfriends in the anime so far. How much more unwieldy can the number of girlfriends in succeeding seasons, if any, will get?

I'm not saying that the anime got bad. It's still better than many harems. I'm saying that, over time, getting a laugh out of the ridiculous situations has diminishing returns.

Due to these concerns and the fact that my experience of season 2, while still okay, is nowhere near the peak of season 1, I am rating this a 6 and marking it as 'mixed feelings.'

I'm about 2 and a half episodes into this hot pile of garbage, but I cant stop watching. There is nothing coherent or intriguing in this god damn story. Which in and of it self is essentially just boobs served on a pile of mud for you and your sloppy disgusting self to feast upon. I feel like a fucking pig watching this, like a pig rolling and mucking about in its own filth. The show tries its hardest to be sincere about this man really loving all these women but in reality (unless you have too much money) this would never happen. It shouldn't ... really be listed as a Romance cause of the fact that Eventually there will be a horde of women that are covering the screen turning it more into a Action/ Slice of Life. Where the conflict is endless and the amount of sexual content also increases. Like wouldn't it eventually turn into: "Oh wow My 100 girlfriends want to milk me but all at the same time... WILL I DIE?" Something like that. No one can handle the lust of 100 women. Idk where I went with this other than the fact that I hate it and its unrealistic and it is getting too hectic I was fine when it was around 4-5 girlfriends, mainly cause that seems feasible, but now I'm upset and I want to watch more focused romcoms where ideally there is maybe half of a woman, or less.