Romcom is dead. That’s it. That’s my review.
Now, seriously, Kimi no Koto ga Dai Dai Dai Dai Daisuki na 100-nin no Kanojo is probably one of the worst romcoms in recent memory. The word “romcom” originates from combining the words “romantic” and “comedy”, so, here we have a romcom that is neither funny nor has romance, fundamentally failing at the most basic level of the genre.
I have always found a problem with romcoms and that is a reason why, even though I like some of them, they are always flawed in one way or another, as usually girls will fall in love with a guy because he was nice to them once, and that’s pretty much all she needs to want to pursue the MC, but in this series you don’t even get that, here the girls fall in love because they saw the MC to his eyes. The problem with these girls is that they don’t have much else going on for them aside from loving the MC, Hakari is constantly lusting after him and Karane is a complete tsundere towards him, and that’s pretty much their entire personality. You can literally describe all the girls of this series in a single gimmick, after all, the author is supposed to create 100 female characters, so making them have an actual personality would be almost impossible.
I honestly didn’t find the comedy funny at any point, as even the boke and tsukkomi routine doesn’t work because even the tsukkomi is insanely stupid too, making it near impossible to actually differentiate it from the boke. The references to other things were fine I guess, like the Biohazard one, even if some were very forced like the “Ghoul from Tokyo” one in the first episode. This series also tries to have some serious moments, like Shizuka’s backstory to explain why she behaves like a generic shy anime girl, but most girls won’t get this kind of stuff for them.
The biggest problem of this series isn’t the comedy or the characters or how it looks like, however, the biggest problem is the premise itself, this series’ romance is completely disingenuous. Why I say this is really easy: the romance in this series is completely based on brainwashing the girls. I remember that I came across the manga because I saw a lot of people saying how good and funny it was and since I like to watch romcoms I decided to give it a read, and so when I was like half a chapter in and the god explained to Rentarou that he would get 100 girlfriends because he will rewire their brains into loving him, I immediately dropped the manga, honestly, the first time I saw the girls was in the PVs for the anime. I mean, I’ve seen arguments as to why this series supposedly doesn’t have brainwashing, and some specific examples were occasions like when Nano didn’t want to become his girlfriend, but those are completely untrue, the second Nano and Rentarou saw each other, she instantly fell in love and wanted to become his girlfriend, in fact, she was the one who asked to him to date her first, and she probably wouldn’t be dating anyone if it wasn’t for the zing given her own mentality. Even worse, I’ve seen some claim it’s not brainwashing because Rentarou is affected too… which just means he’s also being brainwashed by the god, with neither side of the relationship being real.
The most egregious example of all this is the end of episode 10, and the first 17 seconds of episode 11 basically prove me right, the complete change of character once the brainwashing takes place is actually jarring. How am I supposed to believe this isn’t some kind of brainwashing when the girls’ minds were clearly reprogrammed so they would fall in love with a guy without knowing anything about him and that they will die if they don’t go along with it? And this basically turns this series into something uninteresting, this series is literally the opposite of doing a good romcom, it is fundamentally broken because all the relationships presented here are forced and unnatural to the most absolute extreme. Of course, this turns Rentarou’s character into a mess and someone that one could easily call a self-insert, he is a perfect boyfriend for every single one of the girls, no matter how different they are from him or if they actually have anything in common, he doesn’t seem worried at all about the huge number of girlfriends he will have, I don’t think he even has any kind of hobby aside from loving these girls, he feels even more factory-made than the girls.
I have no mean words towards the people who enjoy this series, please, go ahead and enjoy it if you want to see a plot straight out of some sleazy hentai be presented as if it was a wholesome romcom, but there’s nothing that can change my mind that this series is fundamentally flawed from its very conception.
Thank you for reading.
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