“ | “For the first time in my life, due to how big of shock this one was...I thought I was gonna die from rejection.” | ” |
—Aijou Rentarou at Chapter 1 |
Aijou Rentarou (
Appearance[]
Rentarou is a high school student with short dark brown hair, reddish-brown eyes, and his signature perfectly taut well-kept thick eyebrows.[2]
He is most commonly seen wearing his high school uniform.
Personality[]
Rentarou is a kind, thoughtful, serious, and sociable boy who is easy to get close to. He knows how to study well and is relatively athletic.[3] Rentarou genuinely loves all of his girlfriends more than anything else, and is very easily impressed by their actions, especially when they do things that he finds cute. However, Rentarou is also very protective of his girlfriends and often needs to be calmed down should someone insult or harass any of them, hinting at a somewhat short temper. There have been times where he almost got into fistfights with people when they insulted or slighted his girfriends, or he feels that his girlfriends are in danger.
Not only that but on multiple occasions he has displayed loyalty and isn't dirty-minded nor willing to do anything that his girlfriends don't want.
He dislikes cross-dressing but does it for the sake of his girlfriends.
Abilities[]
Love God's Blessings[]
With the blessings of Love God, Rentarou has displayed a number of in order to satisfy every last one of his girlfriends. When his eyes intersect with Soulmate's, an electric "zing" shock effect will be caused.
Invincibility[]
Rentarou literally can do anything for love. Including but not limited to breaking the fourth wall, moving quickly, changing body shape, cloning himself, catching meteorites, completing city-wide construction that would have taken all day and night in just one hour at most, snapping his neck to rotate it a full 180 degrees, defying gods... It is best to stop here since there is no end to the writing.
History[]
From 8 months old to his junior high graduation, Rentarou has experienced 100 love proposal rejections in a row. After his 100th rejection, Rentarou goes to a matchmaking shrine and prays to the shrine's god for a happy high school life by letting him get a girlfriend. To Rentarou's surprise, the god appears before to him as a donation thief before revealing that he is in fact a god. The God of Love tells Rentarou that he is to meet his "soulmate" in high school and that they will fall in love at first sight.
However, due to the god's error (being distracted while watching "Castle in the Sky") Rentarou has 100 soulmates instead of just one. On his first day of high school, Rentarou accidentally bumps into two girls in the hallway on his way to class. Feeling a sudden shock Rentarou realizes they're his soulmates and then offers to help them up. After being tricked into taking them to the nurse's office he learns their names Hanazono Hakari and Inda Karane, all three happen to be in the same class.
The girls hear of a rumor that if you confess while giving someone a pink four-leaf clover it will definitely succeed. Causing the two of them to run to the school's garden in search of one leaving Rentarou to wonder about their legs. After helping an elderly teacher find his lost contact lenses, he sees the two girls are still searching for a clover in the courtyard. Moved by their dedication for him, Rentarou decides to buy them a drink as repayment. He first meets with Karane who embarrassed by his kind gesture makes a fool of herself, though touched due to her tsundere nature she is barely able to say thank you. As Karane runs away, Hakari appears though she has similar difficulties taking the drink due to trying to trick Rentarou into an indirect kiss, resulting in her spilling the drink. Rentarou goes to help her, only for Hakari to confess which is overheard by Karane, which causes her to confess.
Rentarou asks them to wait till tomorrow morning for a response. Extremely happy for his spring to come after 100 rejections, to his horror he realizes that he could never choose one over the other. He then goes to consult the God of Love where he is told the truth that for those who have met their soulmate... If they cannot fall in love with each other and be happy, they'll die from various unfortunate events afterwards. If he only dates one the other will die so Rentarou comes up with a plan to save the girls, he'll date them both in secret.
The following day Rentarou ultimately decided to confess to both of them after reflecting on his plan he knew that lying to them would save their lives, but he would never be able to forgive himself for treating their love so callously. He decided henceforth that he would do everything to make them happy even though he was trying to two-time them. To prove this, he gives both girls a four-leaf clover when confessing to them as he thought it would make them happy. Due to his efforts both girls decide to date Rentarou and he promises that he will make them happy.[3]
Relationships[]
Friends[]
He is Rentarou's friend from the middle school who is seen talking to him at school at the flashback of episode 1 when Asakawa has been compliment on Rentarou's personality and also when he was with Rentarou crying and that he saw how upset he was giving him something and he refused to go and have with it talking and teasing about his rejection also describing him and left
His personality is known to be very stern, laid-back and blunt
Girlfriends[]
# | Name | Description |
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1 | Hanazono Hakari | |
One of Rentarou's first two girlfriends, along with Karane, as well as one of Rentarou's classmates in class 1–4. Hakari is from a wealthy family and likes to present a prim and proper appearance but is rather physical in her affection and can sometimes be perverted. Hakari's mother initially disapproved of her relationship with Rentarou, before seeing how true his feelings are (becoming a girlfriend herself). She occasionally cooperates with her mother to manipulate Rentarou and his girlfriends into doing perverted actions. | ||
2 | Inda Karane | |
One of Rentarou's first two girlfriends, along with Hakari, and one of Rentarou's classmates in class 1–4. Karane has a tsundere personality and struggles with hiding her true feelings. She eventually acknowledges though, that her personality is what makes her special. While she initially disliked the idea of Rentarou having multiple girlfriends, she soon became accepting of them. In addition to loving Rentarou, she is also secretly attracted to Hakari. | ||
3 | Yoshimoto Shizuka | |
Rentarou's 3rd girlfriend and one of his classmates in class 1–4. Shy to the point of muteness, Shizuka was constantly bullied by her fellow students and abused by her mother before meeting Rentarou. She is a bookworm who initially could only communicate through passages from her favorite book by pointing at them when trying to respond to someone. Rentarou develops a text-to-speech app for her so she can freely communicate by digitally reciting the lines she touches, as well as a word bank. She loves fantasy romance books in particular but is unable to swim. | ||
4 | Eiai Nano | |
Rentarou's 4th girlfriend and classmate from class 1–4. Nano is stoic to the point of emotionlessness and acrophobic. She is intelligent and highly optimized in her daily life, removing any sort of unnecessary movements and actions to achieve utter efficiency. Nano initially has trouble concentrating when she first falls in love with Rentarou, throwing her lifestyle into chaos. This changes after going on a date with him where she accepts her feelings and stops him from burning the photos they took on it. | ||
5 | Yakuzen Kusuri | |
Rentarou's 5th girlfriend. A third-year high schooler, Kusuri is the president of the Chemistry club at Rentarou's high school and specialises in creating drugs that have strange effects when consumed. While she is technically 18 years old, she spends much of her time in an eight-year-old's body due to a drug that was supposed to make her immortal. She also has a neutralization drug that can revert most of her drug's effects, this includes the failed immortal drug which can only be temporarily negated. She acts like her general appearance, wears diapers, talks in the third person, and ends her sentences with "-nanoda" (なのだ). | ||
6 | Hanazono Hahari | |
Rentarou's 6th girlfriend and Hakari's mother. Hahari gave birth to Hakari when she was 13, due to having fallen in love with a terminally ill fellow student. Knowing that he did not have long to live, she had herself artificially inseminated with his sperm so that they could be a family before he died. Hahari initially disapproved of Hakari's relationship with Rentarou, but hanged her mind when she fell in love with Rentarou herself. She later bought his school and became the new chairwoman to stay close to him. She adores cute things, is affectionate to Rentarou and his girlfriends (as a mother figure/mother of all humanity), and shares some of her daughter's perverted tendencies. | ||
7 | Haraga Kurumi | |
Rentarou's 7th girlfriend. Kurumi is a 3rd-year middle schooler with a very high metabolism, which causes her to get hungry very easily. She constantly wears headphones and has her hood up in order to block out as much food-related talk as possible due to her cravings when hearing food-like words. Kurumi is shown to have two personalities which depend on how hungry she is. When full she is very kind and sweet-natured, but when hungry she gets emotional and tantrums. Unfortunately, the latter personality usually is dominant due to her near-constant hunger. | ||
8 | Meido Mei | |
Rentarou's 8th girlfriend. Mei is one of the Hanazono household's maids, having been found by Hahari after she was abused and abandoned by her biological parents. She is exceptionally loyal to Hahari and will carry out any request made by her without question. A running gag has Mei will do suicide if she fails to fulfill the task, often resulting in Hahari having to rescind the order to stop her. While Mei usually keeps her eyes closed which hide her rainbow-colored irises, this does not stop her from driving or piloting a helicopter. | ||
9 | Sutou Iku | |
Rentarou's 9th girlfriend, in the same year as him (class 1–3). Iku is the last remaining member of the school's baseball team, as the other members decided to study baseball in America. She is masochistic, finding pleasure in overworking herself to exhaustion and otherwise being mildly hurt. A bonus chapter in Volume 5 reveals that her masochism began when she developed a love of baseball at a young age. Initially, she found practicing too hard and painful, but after an encouraging pep talk from her older brother, she decided to keep at it. However, because she had been told to keep trying even if it hurt, she came to consider pain a good thing. | ||
10 | Utsukushisugi Mimimi | |
Rentarou's 10th girlfriend and a second year at his school. While Mimimi is a girl who is obsessed with beauty, she is aware that beauty cannot simply be bought. As she considers her inner beauty just as important, she works hard by earning her own money, doing facial regimens, and teaching herself elocution. She initially considers Nano to be a rival as she beat Mimimi in their junior high school beauty contest and then snubbed her. After Nano apologises for her past the two become friends and maintain a friendly rivalry. | ||
11 | Kakure Meme | |
Rentarou's 11th girlfriend and another of his classmates from class 1–4. Meme is extremely shy and goes out of her way to be an "extra character". Her most prominent physical characteristic is her long bangs that constantly cover her eyes due to her insecurities. Meme knits small plushies as a hobby, which she uses as a distraction to disappears from sight when she gets flustered. She eventually becomes more comfortable around Rentarou's other girlfriends and teaches them how to knit. | ||
12 | Iin Chiyo | |
Rentarou's 12th girlfriend and his middle schooler cousin. Chiyo has extreme tidiness tendencies, which results in her getting so frustrated when anything is disorganized or sloppy that she has to intervene and correct them. Although she is the class president of her class, she secretly dislikes the high expectations they put on her. Chiyo is vulnerable to anxiety when she loses her glasses which cause her to become whiny. While Rentarou had his reservations about dating his cousin, he relented after witnessing her honest and pure confession. | ||
13 | Yamato Nadeshiko | |
Rentarou's 13th girlfriend. Nadeshiko (who calls herself Naddy-sensei) transfers to his school where she becomes the new Japanese teacher. She initially claims to be American until it is later revealed that she is a pure-blooded Japanese Freeaboo. When she was a child, her parents forced her to learn and uphold the behavior of a proper Japanese lady. She later rebelled after discovering and watching an American movie showing the freedom American children were allowed compared to her own upbringing. Her parents disowned her when she began modelling her appearance and entire life around American "freedom". | ||
14 | Yasashiki Yamame | |
Rentarou's 14th girlfriend and Iku's classmate from class 1–3. Yamame is bigger and taller than Rentarou's other girlfriends but is described by Rentarou as a gentle soul who loves nature. As a member of the school's gardening club, she is overly caring to all forms of wildlife (including weeds). She used to dislike her ample body when she was younger but became proud of it since she could protect and help out nature. After witnessing a wildfire, she developed pyrophobia as fires kill plants and animals. After putting out the fire in the school's greenhouse, she confessed her feelings to Rentarou as it was the first time someone had ever protected her. | ||
15 | Momi Momiji | |
Rentarou's 15th girlfriend. Momiji is Kurumi's classmate and a skilled masseuse who puts other students into a state of extreme bliss. Although she states that she enjoys the "softness" of a woman's body, she falls in love with Rentarou after finding his unique body a perfect tool to practice on. Her dream is to become a popular masseuse and personally massage gravure models. | ||
16 | Yakuzen Yaku | |
Rentarou's 16th girlfriend and Kusuri's grandmother. While she is technically 89 years old, she also has the appearance of an 8-year-old girl due to a prototype of Kusuri's immortality drug. Even though she is shown to be technologically illiterate, Yaku's age is shown through her knowledge and mature womanly charm. She met her husband in a warzone when she was a military medic but has since been widowed. She also shares a variation of her granddaughter's verbal tic, ending her sentences with "-nanoja" (なのじゃ), which is a more antiquated version. | ||
17 | Torotoro Kishika | |
Rentarou's 17th girlfriend. Kishika is Kusuri's classmate and captain of the school's kendo team. She has 5 siblings, all of whom she looks after by herself due to her parents' absence. When anyone attempts to touch her, she becomes extremely reactive and intimidating. This hides her secret desire to be pampered, spoiled, and doted on. She becomes Rentarou's girlfriend after he discovers her secret, but when pampering her is surprised to find that she is also an adult baby. Kishika is later shown to be aware of her fetish and is extremely embarrassed about it. | ||
18 | Kedarui Aashii | |
Rentarou's 18th girlfriend and from class 1-1 in the same high school. Aashii dresses and speaks like a gyaru, and a personality self-described as "low-blood pressure”. This causes her to have a constantly relaxed expression, even when stating that she is motivated or excited. After meeting Rentarou and going to a flea market to sell her unused cute things, she became inspired to one day run a store that sells cute things and hopes Rentarou will help support her new dream. She prefers everyone to call her Ahko. | ||
19 | Nakaji Uto | |
Rentarou's 19th girlfriend. Uto is a Chuunibyou second-year middle schooler who identifies as a wandering bard like Snufkin. She dresses up in appropriate green clothing and plays an ocarina, albeit very poorly. Uto tends to talk in a poetic, roundabout fashion or using the Socratic method. | ||
20 | Meido Mai | |
Rentarou's 20th girlfriend. Mai is the granddaughter of the previous chief maid of the Hanazono household. She chose to become a maid herself after meeting Mei, whom she later idolizes as a self-proclaimed little sister. As she is highly protective of Mei, she initially despises Rentarou for dating her. Mai ends up falling in love with him after she fell and he caught her, making eye contact in the process. She often spaces out when thinking about Mei and later Rentarou which causes her to be clumsy at inopportune times. | ||
21 | Bonnouji Momoha | |
Rentarou's 21st girlfriend. Momoha is a 27-year-old Ethic teacher at Rentarou's school who teaches second-year students with an emphasis on teaching ethics. Unfortunately, she ironically tends to spend her money on gambling and alcoholic beverages which causes her to become homeless. She later becomes the advisor of the Gardening Club after taking up residence in a tent by Yamame's garden. Momoha is also shown to have a generous side as she regularly uses her own money to supply the Gardening Club with new tools. | ||
22 | Baio Rin | |
Rentarou's 22nd girlfriend and Uto's classmate. Rin is a second-year middle schooler who practices the violin as both of her parents are also violinists. After accidently watching a quick scene from Resident Evil as a child, she secretly derives pleasure from any sort of depiction of violence. Rentarou allows Rin to express her desires, and she tends to exclaim "violen-suwa" when aroused. | ||
23 | Hifumi Suu | |
Rentarou's 23rd girlfriend and Aashii's classmate. Suu is numerophilic that she flat-out states that she is romantically in love with numbers. She dislikes most other things and ignores Rentarou's initial conversations with her because he is not a number. Suu later grows fond of Rentarou and asks to be his girlfriend after he postures himself to resemble numbers. | ||
24 | Kaho Eira | |
Rentarou's 24th girlfriend. Eira is a half-Brazilian sophomore student at Ohananomitsu College University. Her father is a Capoeira instructor, and she is an active disciple. She has an unusual habit of kicking things, and a fear of objects or phenomena that she "cannot kick". This is either due to them being physically unable to be kicked (like sickness or emotions) or things that would be socially unacceptable to kick (like babies or cats). | ||
25 | Nekonari Tama | |
Rentarou's 25th girlfriend. Tama is a 21-year-old who grew weary of her office job and decided to reject her humanity. She dresses and acts like a cat and is "adopted" by Rentarou who pampers her. She eventually realizes that as long as he dates her then she has a reason to work as she can come home to be with him afterwards. | ||
26 | Saiki Himeka | |
Rentarou's 26th girlfriend. Himeka is a transfer student (first year) and is a popular idol who goes by the stage name "Kiki." While she is a prodigious singer, she has an interest in doing weird things for mundane tasks and situations in order to attract more attention to herself. Himeka initially rejects Rentarou due to perceiving him as normal but changes her mind after hearing that he had 25 girlfriends at that time. | ||
27 | Dei Matsuri | |
Rentarou's 27th girlfriend, and Chiyo's classmate. Matsuri is a first-year middle schooler who is half British through her mother. She speaks with an Edo dialect, loves working at Matsuri festivals, and constantly dresses in a Gothic Lolita style. When she first meets Rentarou while making yakisoba with her grandparents she is initially upset at the thought of him attending festivals only as a means to scoring girls. Matsuri falls in love with Rentarou and asks to become a girlfriend when he proves that he genuinely enjoys the experience. | ||
28 | Usami Shiina | |
Rentarou's 28th girlfriend. Shiina is a second-year high schooler who is autophobic and cannot do things when she is alone. This effects the things she enjoys as while she likes group activities like team sports, she hates doing solo activities like go to toilet by herself. Shiina is first introduced during a gag chapter where she appeared out of nowhere and blended into Rentarou Family by showing pictures of him. Her reasoning was that she saw all of them together and wanted to be a part of it. | ||
29 | Zetsubouda Meru | |
Rentarou's 29th girlfriend. Meru usually has a creepy appearance and talks in a despairing manner, though she does not impose her feelings onto others. After being bullied, she came to the conclusion that the world is irredeemable after researching various types of misfortune. Meru also conversely loves fairy tales and is inspired to become an author after witnessing the pure joy of happiness from children reading these novels. It is revealed that she eventually publishes several books. | ||
30 | Tomogara Saki | |
Rentarou's 30th girlfriend. Saki is a third-year student who acts as the "shadow" delinquent boss, even dressing like one. She is the oldest enrolled student since she repeated her third year of school by her own choice since she enjoys her "seniority" over the other students. She hates being looked down upon since she is notably shorter than Rentarou, but witnessing Rentarou's kindness in helping her maintain her reputation, she joins the family. | ||
31 | Nemui Nemu | |
Etymology[]
Both the Ai (愛) and the Ren (恋) in his name are spelt with different kanji for love. His surname (愛城) means "Feelings of Love".[4]
Trivia[]
- One of his favorite foods is egg.[5]
- Both of his parents are teachers. [6]
- Rentarou, alongside with Karane, Kurumi, Kusuri, Kishika, and Suu are often referred to as the tsukkomi/straight man[7] of the group.
- Rentarou's birthday is on May 1st. With Goroawase, 51 can be read as "ko(5)i(1)", the word for "love" (恋). Due to this, this day has also been called "The Day Love Begins (恋がはじまる日)(Koi ga hajimaru hi)" and "Premonition of Love Day (恋の予感の日)(Koi no yokan no hi)"
- Rentarou in the earlier days of the manga had a Blue Comet eye color, which as of now his eye color was replaced to be what it is now.
Gallery[]
To see Aijou Rentarou's gallery, click here.
References[]
- ↑ Manga Chapter 133
- ↑ Chapter 40
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chapter 1
- ↑ Reddit each Character's name pun
- ↑ Chapter 31
- ↑ Chapter 120
- ↑ Straight man is a member (of any gender) of a team of comic performers who plays a supporting role by helping to set up jokes and punch lines through engaging in dialog with another comedian playing a more eccentric or otherwise more interesting character; a foil who plays such a role in slapstick comedy.
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Media | Manga • Anime |
Story | Timeline • Characters • Chapters and Volumes |
Locations | Mirei Middle School • Ohananomitsu Middle School • Ohananomitsu High School • Ohananomitsu College University |
Main Characters | Aijou Rentarou • Hanazono Hakari • Inda Karane • Yoshimoto Shizuka • Eiai Nano • Yakuzen Kusuri • Hanazono Hahari • Haraga Kurumi • Meido Mei • Sutou Iku • Utsukushisugi Mimimi • Kakure Meme • Iin Chiyo • Yamato Nadeshiko • Yasashiki Yamame • Momi Momiji • Yakuzen Yaku • Torotoro Kishika • Kedarui Aashii • Nakaji Uto • Meido Mai • Bonnouji Momoha • Baio Rin • Hifumi Suu • Kaho Eira • Nekonari Tama • Saiki Himeka • Dei Matsuri • Usami Shiina • Zetsubouda Meru • Tomogara Saki • Nemui Nemu |
[1]List of Girlfriends | |
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#1 to #5 | Hanazono Hakari • Inda Karane • Yoshimoto Shizuka • Eiai Nano • Yakuzen Kusuri |
#6 to #10 | Hanazono Hahari • Haraga Kurumi • Meido Mei • Sutou Iku • Utsukushisugi Mimimi |
#11 to #15 | Kakure Meme • Iin Chiyo • Yamato Nadeshiko • Yasashiki Yamame • Momi Momiji |
#16 to #20 | Yakuzen Yaku • Torotoro Kishika • Kedarui Aashii • Nakaji Uto • Meido Mai |
#21 to #25 | Bonnouji Momoha • Baio Rin • Hifumi Suu • Kaho Eira • Nekonari Tama |
#26 to #30 | Saiki Himeka • Dei Matsuri • Usami Shiina • Zetsubouda Meru • Tomogara Saki |
#31 to #35 | Nemui Nemu |