Kimi no Koto ga Daidaidaidaidaisuki na 100-nin no Kanojo

Upon graduating middle school, Rentarou Aijou manages to confess to the girl he loves. Unfortunately, he gets rejected, making it his 100th rejection in a row. Having experienced heartbreak after heartbreak, he goes to a matchmaking shrine and prays with the hope of finally getting a girlfriend in high school. Suddenly, the god of the shrine appears, promising Rentarou that he will meet one hundred soulmates in high school.

Although skeptical at first, Rentarou quickly acknowledges the truth behind the god's words when two of his soulmates—Hakari Hanazono and Karane Inda—confess to him the very same day that they meet him. However, there was one detail that the god forgot to tell Rentarou: if any of his soulmates fails to get into a relationship with him, they will die. Now trapped in a matter of life and death, Rentarou decides to date all of his soulmates.

With a heart so big that it can be shared among one hundred girlfriends, Rentarou makes the most out of his unanticipated high school life, with the Rentarou family growing ever larger!

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Kimi no Koto ga Daidaidaidaidaisuki na 100-nin no Kanojo has been published in English as The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You by Seven Seas Entertainment under the Ghost Ship imprint since February 22, 2022.

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Oct 27, 2024

ewot

Recommended

Well-written

Preliminary (194/? eps)

100 gf is peak, and a little repetitive at times, but you should know what you're getting yourself into when you read it.
It is parody of the typical harem genre, but it is high quality parody.

Art: The art is superb and really adds to the cutesy, fluffy vibe of the manga
The character designs, too, deserve praise, because currently all ~30 (as of ch194) girlfriends have distinct designs or at least features to recognize them even with chibi form.

Plot: Pretty episodic and formulaic, typically as of recent chapters, its introduce new gf, dedicated focus for 2-3 chapters, some 1 or 2 miscellaneous chapters, repeat.
Given it's parody ...

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Jun 23, 2021

nykdos

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (49/? eps)

It's just your average fan service/comedic manga.

I could end the review here, but I'll dwell about why I was so disappointed after reading it.

When I first stumbled upon "Kimi no Koto ga Daidaidaidaidaisuki na 100-nin no Kanojo", I saw pages about the 3rd "main" girlfriend and was really surprised. Those pages not only described her unique traits, but also made clear how the MC helped her notice that those traits made her the beautiful girl she is, even while being "the odd one" when compared to others. And so I imagined that the manga would develop around meeting all those different girls with their own ... distinct features, that would not only blindly fall in love with the MC; but also learn with him how to love themselves. Something I believed that would also be in a more relaxed world, with comedic moments between the characters, a few dramatic ones, but nothing that would be extremely complex due to the theme of having a 100 girlfriends just not being suited to be explored further than minor arcs.

Unfortunately, that wasn't the case. Just in a few chapters after that girl, things have escalated to the absurd level way too quickly, and it just is the path that the manga chose to follow. The girls introduced are textbook stereotypes, and only expose a little character complexity at random moments, just to have a minor arc and end up with everyone loving everyone. The fan service was also gradually more frequent, serving no development purpose to any of them, just to please the reader (or the author). And about the moment that I talked about earlier? When they do occur, they're extremely superficial and take no more than a few pages, being there with the sole purpose of introducing one more girl in the harem. Certain things about their relationship that could hold some importance are ridiculed by others that are way more extreme and happen frequently throughout the story progression, taking out the little importance it could hold and making it as something shallow, that has no real impact at how things are going, not even worth to be remembered as a hardship.

Things become out of hand easily, and this makes everything "normal" in our world seem silly compared to the "normal" of their world. It breaks the similarity in a way that makes it impossible for me to empathize with the characters in our world standards, as it creates an insane distance between anything that could be compared to their everyday life. Which is okay to be done when you have no intention to connect to our world, but to make the reader involved in their world. The problem not only with this manga, but with all in this genre is this switch between "wanting to be more realistic" when it comes to characters feelings, and pulling a sci-fi moment like "earth is going to be destroyed!".

While the characters are mostly flat, they are well established in their own boundaries and what they like to do, and the variety produces interesting interactions between themselves, a charming feature about this specific theme, that if didn't went off the rails every single time, would be incredibly attractive, as the concept has a lot of potential. While the potential is not wasted, it is used to create comedy in the clash of opposite personalities, as opposed to being a development tool, something that was used in early chapters, when there weren't so many characters and nothing out of reality hadn't happened yet.

The art is excepcional. While the story has its ups and downs, this is beautiful. The character design, their expressions, the impact, even how the panels are placed, make this manga admirable. It plays a really important part, being a comedy-focused manga over anything else, and it does an excellent job in conveying the expectation to the reader.

This could be easily described as your average fan service, over-the-top comedic manga. But it is more diverse when it's making jokes, just like the fourth wall breaks with comments about the readers and the own author, also referencing other titles such as Doraemon (a bit overused), Chainsaw Man, One Piece, and various others, which does makes them smarter than "just the average". And I did have some fun while reading it, but nothing that would be greater than those forced moments and absurdities that made no sense. So it is just more of a comedy than a romcom, just isn't that obvious about it since the beginning, focusing a little more on what I thought that would be the main idea of the series. As a result, it played me into believing that this manga would be different from what it is, which led me to a frustrating experience.

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Mar 28, 2024

Kurgo

Not Recommended

Preliminary (77/? eps)

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100 girlfriends etc. etc. I'm writing this mostly because it's mind-boggling to me how high of a score this manga has (I definitely can see why people would like it, but that doesn't make it anything even remotely approaching the "decent" category, let alone the good one).

The core of the anime is that for silly reasons the MC will fall in love with 100 ""girls"" (and have them fall in love with him, conversely) just by looking into their eyes. The reason for this is inconsequential and it's said that if he doesn't make them happy and in love, they'll die (because, why not). All ... of this is pointless anyway so let's get to the actual issues with the manga.

You might think at first that the manga might be more than what it looks like. It starts off as a parody of harem mangas and harem tropes in general...or so other people would have you think, because to be a parody of something you need to actually subvert expectations and criticise the thing you're being a parody of, not literally do all the possible harem stereotypes and have 4th wall jokes intersparsed in every other chapter. That, frankly speaking, isn't a parody of anything other than the intellectual honesty of the manga's author. So, right off the bat, no, this manga isn't a parody, it's just every single harem trope and nonsensical thing thrown into a pot with an occasional "wow, give the character more than 2 panels!" "blame the manga author GOTTEEEMMM AHAAA" kind of jokes which are 1) about as original as everything else in this manga and 2) get old *really* fast.

I don't want this review to last forever so while there's plenty of issues let's get to the ones that made me drop it:

1) Pedophilia. I have no idea what the average MAL user thinks about this subject but I, for one, am not comfortable with it in the slightest. Played for a one-off joke given specific contexts or you know, not being treated as something that's ok...sure, fine. When you have: a 40-year old trying to have sex with a 14-year old, a 40-year old sexually harassing an 11 year old (and literally anyone in this manga, so long as they're underage), a 24-year old having a relationship with a 14-year old and an 89-year old (in an 8-year old body because suuure) doing the same...yeah, I don't care in the slightest how humorously this is put, I find it plain disgusting. The 14-year old MC french kissing a 10 or 11-year old leads us neatly into the next issue, since that child is also his cousin

2) Incest. Holy fucking mother of incest, the first 10 chapters of this manga alone make the Lannisters look like amateurish buffoons (there's your GoT incest joke, go away). As above, if you're fine with incest in your manga or your media in general when it's very much NOT depicted as something negative or given ample historical or narrative context, you do you (and hopefully your hard drives get checked by the authorities at some point in time) but this manga is nothing but incest. The MC "falls in love" with a girl AND with her mother (because, why wouldn't you) and said mother is one of the most repulsive characters I've had the misfortune to read in a long ass time. Not only will this 40 year old woman make out with her daughter and with her daughter's boyfriend, she'll try to have sex or get her hands on his junk whenever possible and sexually harass anyone in sight (but it's funny because she's cute and has huge tits, know what I mean? Heehee). The MC, as said above, will kiss and be in a relationship with his 11-year old cousin (who is, rather literally, a child, her mental age is akin to that of a 7-year old more so than anything) with the full approval of her father because the MC saved him from being run over years ago (if only they'd both been hit, if only) which is frankly speaking, an incredibly good reason to have your daughter smooch her cousin, that not so?
What made me think "yeah enough" was the MC falling "in love" with a girl and, a few chapters in, with her 89-year old grandmother who is, for laughably boring reasons, inside the body of an 8-year old. When I reached this point, 70-something chapters in, I thought yeah ok, this can't go anywhere but downwards.

Other issues are the usual ones that harem media has, such as the MC being a bland, boring AF, goody two-shoes who somehow is surrounded by ravenously horny girls (and mothers, grandmothers and primary school children in this specific case) while apparently being sworn to chastity. The MC in this manga *really* doesn't work because his whole shtick is "omg my girlfriend is adorable omg I love her so much" repeated for as many new girlfriends he's got by the time you read said line again. Since not a single one of the poor girls has anything more than ONE trait (because, you know, 100 of them) it's basically "toddler pointing at a colour and clapping while laughing" level of commitment and entertainment.
The whole "girl finding out MC has already another (or multiple) girlfriends" could have been fun, except it's an issue only for the first...3, 4 girls, tops, everyone else sees this guy with 20 girlfriends and is like yeah sure, I'm here if you want to wet your whistle you Casanova. I swear, this whole manga has worse writing than fucking School Days, and that's saying something.

Positives? Some art is nice (the first 3 times you see it, it gets repetitive pretty quickly), some jokes land pretty well, some of the "character traits" are funny depending on your tastes (none of them original in the slightest, so not really something you can praise the manga for, realistically speaking) and yeah, cute girls, big boobs, same old same old.

TL;DR
If you like incest, pedophilia, one of the most boring MCs you can find, girls with one character trait that get one or two chapters of focus, corny ass badly written dialogue with an occasional fine joke, you'll love this.

If not, then you'd be better off staying away from this shitshow. Cheers.

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