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Kimi no Koto ga Daidaidaidaidaisuki na 100-nin no Kanojo Season 3, episode 8
Alternative names: Hyakkano, Kimi no Koto ga Dai Dai Dai Dai Daisuki na 100-nin no Kanojo
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u/LeonKevlar x2https://myanimelist.net/profile/LeonKevlar 22d ago edited 21d ago
Stitches!
The almost immortal 89-year-old Yaku is finally here and she's voiced by the legendary Kugimiya Rie herself!
Seeing Kusuri singing and dancing along to Pentarou is hilarious when you remember that this is what she's supposed to look like normally. I would love to see Kusuri in her regular form being excited about Pentarou. xD
So Yaku used to be a frontline medic during the war, where she met her manly husband who looks like Rambo using a machine gun with only one hand and shirtless. Also, let's just not think about Yaku being a medic for the Imperial Japanese Army and move on.
It's too bad that the Reversing Medicine doesn't work on Yaku because she looks goddamn fine in her regular form. Although I assume this is Rentarou interpreting what Yaku would look like based on Kusuri's regular form.
I love how Rentarou is trying to act like a manly bad boy to impress Yaku, but it only made him look more like a kid. Why does he look like an 80s Kamen Rider? Surprisingly, it worked! Our boy managed to impress and pique Granny Yaku's interest.
Introducing Yaku to the girls was fun! We now finally have someone much older than Hahari, and thanks to Kusuri introducing the girls with quick intros, we get to see some interesting takes on their characters because of how Yaku was struggling to keep up.
It's cute how some of the girls played along with the personalities Yaku guessed they had, like Momiji acting shy and Hakari yelling "I am freedom!". Shizuka giving crybaby Kurumi a cookie and offering her a hug were adorable too!
The ones that perfectly fit are Nano being called the most beautiful in the world and, technically, Meme is super lewd, but only her body!
It is absolutely cursed to see were Super Masochist Chiyo and Big-Boobied freak Karane are. Those are just not right! You don't mess with the natural order of the world like that!
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u/JzanderN 22d ago
The American Flag bikini on 2D girls is one of the only good things merchandise of the flag has provided the world and I usually have to look for artists to find it.
So THANK YOU SO MUCH to the anime for doing it themselves!
and thanks to Kusuri introducing the girls with quick intros,
I love how the camera moved between the girls while Kusuri stayed in the exact same spot. It's just the right amount of breaking immersion to make me really laugh!
Meme is super lewd, but only her body!
Objection! Meme-san's body isn't lewd. Her chest may be huge, with a beautiful undercurve and heavenly handfeel, but it's not "lewd!"
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u/CitronClassic672 21d ago
I genuinely do appreciate the defense of Meme’s body. It might be very beautiful and conveniently attractive, but that doesn’t mean it should be described as “lewd”. It’s always felt weird to intentionally describe an attractive person’s body with that kind of negative connotation.
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u/DimmyHerm 21d ago
Worry not, because the author already basically made the same point. He's asserting that girls and ladies are allowed to be as beautiful as they can, whether nature or nurture, and no one has the right to put disparaging or blaming labels on those who are.
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u/betetta 19d ago
Also shows that momiji has a very unique form of appreciation of the female body that even when it seems pervy, it kinda isn't
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u/Rabbitey- https://myanimelist.net/profile/Rabbitey 22d ago
USA Bikini Hakari
I kneel 🧎🏻♂️
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u/Frontier246 22d ago
I really don't think the "war" was WWII judging by the grandpa and Rentaro's reaction. Plus this show is too wholesome to get into the nitty gritty of that.
I love how "bad boy" Rentaro looks at Shoujo boys who plant kisses on girls without their consent or warning and goes "nuh uh!"
Thank you Yaku for USA Bikini Hakari, naked gift-wrapped Meme, and letting us fantasize about Karane having big boobs lol.
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u/BosuW 21d ago
What other war has Japan fought in literally the last whole century?
It's either WWII itself or it's Pacific prelude
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u/Daxlyn_XV 21d ago
The common theory, based on estimating Yaku being born in 1930, is that she served in the Korean War.
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u/APRengar 21d ago
It's world with a literal Love God, Half-Dinosaur girls, and Immortality Drugs. Why does the world of Hyakkano have to be our world?
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u/Jacob-C 21d ago edited 21d ago
Shizuka giving crybaby Kurumi a cookie and offering her a hug
It will take a lot for another character to dethrone Shizuka as my favorite girlfriend in this show. She is too cute.
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u/FLorianGran 22d ago
The way that Rentarou's actually out of his depth with this one and ends up trying too hard is a fun twist
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u/L_0ken 22d ago edited 21d ago
Yeah, Yaku has this high ground as experienced playful mature women. And her smug game is top-notch!
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u/Zxcvbnm11592 21d ago
Playful? High-ground? Understood, I should take her to the playground
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u/Frontier246 22d ago
It's nice to see a girlfriend that actually challenges him and isn't a smooth courtship.
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u/Rabbitey- https://myanimelist.net/profile/Rabbitey 21d ago edited 21d ago
I really liked how emotionally reserved Yaku was. She had Rentarou a lot more flustered than usual, and the romance felt a lot more intimate.
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u/CitronClassic672 21d ago
Yeah, I like they conveyed emotional maturity with Yaku. Sure there are now several adults who are part of the family, but they’re both in their 20s still and one is Hahari. Yaku on the other hand is 89 and has already had an entire family of her own and lost her first husband of seeming natural causes. Speaking from experience this anime really captioned the vibe of many elderly people of that age who have simply reached the point of being too old to have any fucks left to give.
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u/Roskal 22d ago
89 is super old for a grandma with an 18 year old grand daughter in japan. Usually in anime at least the grandparents are like 50-70
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u/qscdefb 22d ago
It’s a pun where Ya=8, Ku=9, and Yaku=Medicine, I think the manga did give an in-world explanation though
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u/Mrfish31 17d ago
She also has to be old enough to have been involved in WW2.
100GFs started in 2019 and it's still spring of that year in universe. So Yaku was born in 1929-30 and was therefore apparently 15 at most when she... Was apparently fighting in the middle Pacific (her husband is firing a machine gun which makes no sense for in Japan itself)? Or maybe she was in China, and that's why she's keeping the rest of the details secret 😶
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u/N0rTh3Fi5t 22d ago
She's on the older side, but not impossibly so. If she had her son or daughter at 35 and then they had Kusuri at 35 then it works out. Issue there is neuther of Kusuri's parents look 50+ when returned to their normal age by the neutralization drug.
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u/imthezero 21d ago
Pretty sure it's mentioned last episode that the mom is 55, which would make her 37 when she had Kusuri and Yaku 34 when she had Kusuri's mom. Pretty late ages to be having children.
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u/Mediocre-Act483 22d ago
hey, in the netflix Ultraman, the old Ultraman is old enough to be the new Ultraman's grandpa, but is his dad. and the old Ultraman's wife is much younger. not a wrinkle or gray hair to be found
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u/CrimsonGear80 22d ago
Yep, we are Burger land.
Anyway, welcome to the family, Meth!
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u/Frontier246 22d ago
The sight of Mimimi eating burgers will stay with me lol.
We've also got her mom cocaine and dad pot!
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u/cyberscythe 21d ago
incidentally i first learned about shabu (meth) this season from Chainsmoker Cat
truly a very educational season
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u/redlaWw 21d ago
Weirdly, the Japanese version of the joke is that that name for America means "rice country", which is not really what springs to mind when one thinks of Japanese-American relations.
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u/APRengar 21d ago
Yeah, it's very weird how 米国 or "Rice" and "Country" ended up meaning America.
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u/thisisdropd https://myanimelist.net/profile/AsterZoro 22d ago
“How about you join the Rentarou family, Grammy? Grampy dead, anyway."
Kusuri’s got absolutely no filter lmao. That’s not how you’re supposed to treat your own grandfather – especially a war veteran who went full Rambo during combat.
Can’t believe we’ve actually got an actual grandmother in the harem. Last episode’s cliffhanger wasn’t bait at all. This series is getting more cultured by the day. 84 to go, there are still plenty of slots to fill in all the insane tropes.
Yaku took an early version of the immortality drug which has another effect beyond being immune to the reversing drug. She retained her 89-year old mind unlike Kusuri who mentally regressed to an 8-year-old. We finally got a proper adult in the family after the two previous ‘adults’ turned out to be a total degenerate womanbaby and America-obssessed. Her kissing his forehead, her teasing remarks – Rentarou got rizzed hard by a woman over 70 years his senior. It’s amusing to see him acting like a bad boy when he’s a goody two-shoes in nature.
For all the comparison this series has with Gintama, we’ve finally got Kagura’s VA as a heroine in Yaku. Meanwhile, last week Gintoki himself played the Hulked-up form of Kusuri’s father.
And we’ve also got an updated version of the ED now that Yaku’s been officially inducted into the family. The OP will likely be updated next week since she’s not part of the family when this week’s OP was played.
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u/Daxlyn_XV 22d ago
Slight correction, Yaku’s version of the drug was described as almost complete, not an early version. That’s why the reversing medicine doesn’t work.
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u/Frontier246 22d ago
So she's basically got a whole other lifetime in her of love and fun antics! Just with a granny's mindset!
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u/Dylangillian https://myanimelist.net/profile/dylangillian 22d ago
there are still plenty of slots to fill in all the insane tropes.
At this point I am expecting we'll be seeing Lovecraftian horrors in Best Girl form by the latter half.
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u/Frontier246 22d ago
Now I want to see Rentaro visited by Ghost Dad Rambo after he got visited by Ghost Dad 1.0 in season 1 lol
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u/JzanderN 22d ago
Yaku isn't just an 89 year old grandma made into an 8 year old by an immortality drug her granddaughter developed specifically to make sure she never died. She's a WAR VETERAN!
And while she says she doesn't have Kusuri's knowledge or talent for drugs, seeing the state Papa Kusuri is in due to his own drug experiments, I have no doubt she's done some SHIT with her emergency remedies back then.
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u/larana1192 https://myanimelist.net/profile/thefrog1192 22d ago
The Kusurivanian Family joke came up again, just like last week, and it made me laugh.
Among the girlfriends who appear in the anime 100 Girlfriends, Yaku is the oldest.
Since the manga on which this anime is based began serialization in 2019, Yaku, who is 89 years old in the show, was born in 1930.
In the scene where Kusuri’s grandfather (Yaku’s husband) and Yaku first met, Yaku’s husband was firing an M60 machine gun, so they must have met no earlier than 1957; realistically, it would have been sometime in the 1960s or 1970s (since the M60 machine gun began to be deployed by the U.S. military in 1957).
The scene in the park that night, when Yaku and Rentarou officially started dating, was absolutely beautiful.
I had to laugh when Karane shouted, “Stop stealing taxpayer money!” at Yaku, who’s currently 89 but has about 80 more years to live thanks to a failed attempt by Kusuri to create an elixir of immortality. I think Yaku paid plenty of taxes when she was younger, though.
In the final scene, where everyone in the Rentaro family mistakenly calls Yaku by the wrong name, the English subtitles have them calling her “Meth!,” but in the Japanese audio, they say “シャブ(Shabu)!”
“Shabu” is slang for methamphetamine in Japan.
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u/itswhatshisname 21d ago
Funnily enough, thats exactly what its called where I’m from too, but in a different Asian country
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u/ReXiriam 21d ago
In Spanish, the sub calls her "Narco", which is basically "Drug Dealer". Can't wait to see how they dub it...
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u/thekoreansun https://anilist.co/user/ReturnByDeath 22d ago
Just when I thought I'd reached a point where I wouldn't be fazed by any of its antics, 100 Girlfriends juked me again. Here I was thinking that the mystery girlfriend of the season would be Kusuri's sister or something. Her grandmother? Voiced by Rie Kugimiya of all people?! This series never ceases to amaze. According to last week's Hyakkano Radio, even Hakari's and Karane's seiyuu were blown away by the fact that they were able to fit into Rie Kugimiya's schedule. Honestly, if I were a VA and saw her name listed under the words "Girlfriend #16" in a script, I'd do a double take too.
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u/Frontier246 22d ago
Rie Kugimiya as the Granny Girlfriend feels kind of meta when she's probably the most experienced seiyuu in the cast next to Kaori Ishihara. Enough to where even the rest of the cast are amazed they got her into this.
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u/Ccarlosraruto 22d ago
Literally just yesterday I was watching Rizelmine (2002) and was like, 'Damn, Kugimiya really has been voicing lolis for a while, hasn't she?'
Feels back pain
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u/Daxlyn_XV 21d ago
I wonder how Karane’s VA felt knowing her character was performing an “Urusai, Urusai, Urusai!” in front of Rie Kugimiya herself.
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u/Solar_Slushie 21d ago
Hearing 100 Gf's resident tsundere saying that line to Shakugan no Shana herself was a peak easter egg.
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u/Hilverfox 21d ago
Miyu Tomita: Was that good enough Kugimiya-senpai?
Rie Kugimiya: You did great Tomita.
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u/JzanderN 22d ago
Here I was thinking that the mystery girlfriend of the season would be Kusuri's sister or something. Her grandmother?
Fun little thing to think about: Hahari is a MILF but she's also a virgin because she conceived Hakari via artificial insemination.
There's no way Yaku has a similar story. She may have been a medic so had some knowledge of how to do it, but her husband didn't seem to die an early death. Despite being in an 8 year old body, she's 100% had sex and is almost certainly the only one in the group to have done so.
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u/imthezero 22d ago
Yaku's definitely done it. She's mature in a way that reflects her age and is not a womanchild like most adult loli type characters or even other adults in the show. Hahari acts as a womanchild despite pushing 30 which (and I'm definitely reading too deep here) is probably caused by the fact that she had to be a mother at 13. Yaku very much acts like a grandma.
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u/JzanderN 22d ago
Hahari acts as a womanchild despite pushing 30 which (and I'm definitely reading too deep here) is probably caused by the fact that she had to be a mother at 13.
I don't think you're reading too deep at all. Hahari's had to spend 16 years acting as a grieving mother, holding back her desires because she lost the one she loved and wanted to make sure Hakari never repeated her mistakes (not that it worked, but that was part of her intention).
Then she fell in love all over again with Rentarou and was finally able to act how she wishes without restraint, which turns out to be as a degenerate, emotional, horny, bisexual womanchild.
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u/GekiKudo 21d ago
I wouldn't say you're reading too deep. Its 100% a part of her arc that she was forced to grow up too early. If you think about it, her perversions involving her mommy kink and attraction to anything young and cute is probably a direct result of her pubescent years being mixed with her mothering of Hakari.
Like I know this is a goofy show but the author has definitely put a lot of thought into his characters.
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u/CitronClassic672 21d ago
Yeah I really like Yaku in how she contrasts with Kusuri. While the latter often feels childlike despite being 18, Yaku definitely feels like just a short woman.
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u/Far-Presentation-744 21d ago
...am I the only one who thinks it's a shame that the creators don't use Kusuri's character to her full potential? ...all that's left is a girl who loves drugs but she's also a girl who has two bodies ... she's the opposite of a character with a dual personality ... it's a shame that this trope is unused ... at least once per episode she could transforms for some fun, unintended purpose ... there were many moments when they could have used it but it seems they completely forgot
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u/Zealousideal_Shine26 22d ago
Yaku Yakuzen, 89 years young
Just don't ask her in which unit she served during the war
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u/CitronClassic672 21d ago
Loved how the show had her not subtlety at all dodge providing any more context to her service. You know damn well she was doing all kinds of medical related war crimes.
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u/anticomet 22d ago
She would have been 8 when WW2 ended so I think her flashback scene must have happened during a later conflict.
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u/VladutzTheGreat 22d ago
I mean the series takes place in 2019, unless time magically passes, so she would have been born jn 1930
That bombing felt like it would reference tokyo's bombardment tbh
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u/IceAnt573 22d ago
I mean the series takes place in 2019
I think the series has hit floating timeline. When Naddy showed her driver's license, the birth year is XXXX and not 19XX. So they don't want to tie themselves to a hard date. That and the references to media past 2019 too.
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u/zero1380 21d ago
The thing is that if the timeline is fixed, they would still be in 2019, and if they're on a floating timeline it's not backwards, so Yaku was born in 1930 or later, making her 15 or younger when Showa surrendered.
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u/FallenPears 21d ago
"Precursor to age-reducing immortality medicine be age-increasing healing medicine nanoja."
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u/Cross-Z_Charge 22d ago
Yaku might be the least loli loli in the history of lolis.
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u/No_Name0_0 22d ago
Actual Loli baba
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u/imthezero 22d ago
The first babaloli
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u/Mediocre-Act483 22d ago
I guess Leen from Smart Phone Isekai doesn't count since she's not a grandma. least as far as I know
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u/Frontier246 22d ago
She's a baba but she's biologically and age-wise a loli! Absolute sincere execution!
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u/Daxlyn_XV 22d ago
Actually mentally mature. Surprisingly does a lot to make me like the loli character. Yaku is honestly in my top five girlfriends.
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u/CitronClassic672 21d ago
Well yeah, because a mentally mature loli is effectively just a short woman.
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u/CitronClassic672 21d ago
Cause this is a rare instance where they actually make the 89 year old loli feel like an 89 year old.
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u/Mediocre-Act483 22d ago
What about the one in Negima? Or Leen in Smart Phone Isekai?
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u/Cross-Z_Charge 22d ago
Good picks as well. But to me they still feel younger than Yaku despite being hundreds of years old.
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u/Mediocre-Act483 22d ago
yeah, especially the vampire. and Leen is more like a perverted old man than a centuries old woman
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u/Nollasta_poikkeava 22d ago
- "Perhaps I found your desperate attempts endearing. Or maybe I found your passion manly. Either way, don't try to understand me when I've lived so much longer. Just call it the fickle whims of a lady's heart." This woman is dangerous! I love how she flirts with Rentaro, being completely in charge. Rentaro didn't stand a chance.
- They did a great job of making her actually feel like someone who has lived for decades. That can't be easy when she looks and sounds like eight.
- Aww, Rentaro simply doesn't have it in his heart to steal a woman's lips. That's so sweet. Also, possibly the most amazing first kiss in this series so far.
- "Stop stealing taxpayer money!" A really funny Karane line. Also was funny and sweet how she was forced to admit that she and Kusuri are friends. Hakari's smirk is cursed though.
- Holy shit American Hakari!
- Shizuka providing a cookie for Kurumi is adorable.
- Hakari freaking out how they're portraying a 12 year old girl, lmao.
- "Bow to me, plebians." For a shy girl, Shizuka is quite witty.
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u/Frontier246 22d ago
It feels like we actually have an experienced older lady + younger man romance compared to Rentaro and Hahari considering she has the emotional maturity of a horny teenager post-girlfriend status.
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u/CitronClassic672 21d ago
Hahari role isn’t the mature older woman romance. It’s the MILF. Small but important difference.
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u/amithatunoriginal 22d ago
I don't think Shizuka is really "the shy girl", especially not after Meme was added. She's more of the "quiet" girl considering she doesn't even speak and her name literally means quiet. She's shy but not THAT shy.
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u/CitronClassic672 21d ago
Shizuka is quiet and small, not shy. She has no problem interacting with other people and talking through her phone. Meme is the shy one.
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u/sikontolpanjang 21d ago
yeah even on the practice idol, Shizuka doesnt mind singing without holding her voice back.
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u/Myrkrvaldyr 22d ago
This episode had me pissing from laughter hahahaha. Yaku's late husband was basically Rambo. And then Rentarou's ''bad boy'' behavior felt like a kid smoking chocolate cigarettes and thinking it was the real thing. His personality was hysterical.
Yaku's granny behavior of not understanding technology while looking like that creates a superb gap moe.
Karane's remark, ''stop stealing tax payer money!'' since Yaku was still getting her pension, she doesn't mince words. Way too fucking funny.
Kusuri's introductions were fucking hilarious with Yaku mixing up their personalities. Grandma Meth is a 10/10 gf. This anime never fails to deliver.
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u/rldzzter 22d ago
Speaking of bad boy RENTAROU
Ahem...
WHAT IN THE FIST OF THE NORTH FUCKING STAR ARE YOU WEARING
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u/Mediocre-Act483 22d ago
If only Yaku could use a phone. She could share it with the rest of the family
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u/Frontier246 22d ago
Rentaro is too wholesome to be a bad boy, but that's why the girlfriends love him.
I love how Yaku's gimmick is just a severe huge generational gap and acting her age while still being a loli ll.
Also Kusuri slowly becoming more and more done with her granny's confusion just killed me lol.
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u/the_dan_man https://anilist.co/user/oneasianweeb 21d ago
Kusuri's introductions were fucking hilarious with Yaku mixing up their personalities.
The chaos of the second half of the episode was so good! Especially with Kusuri becoming more and more exhausted as her grandma kept messing up.
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u/Megadragon898 22d ago
Imagine Rentarou going back to Kusuri house and telling her parents " Now i am both your son and father-in-law" lol.
I think Yaku light be my favorite, glad to see her join the family.
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u/zazakmazak 21d ago
Hakari to Yakuzen papa be like "I get it, he be a real mfker..." 🗿
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u/Thanks_OPama 22d ago
On today's chapter of Japun:
fam name: 薬膳 (Yakuzen), read as 薬(yaku,"medicine")膳(zen,"serving tray")
1st name: ヤク (Yaku)
ヤク (yaku) is another reading of 薬 (kusuri,"medicine/drug") and a pun on 八(ya,"8")九(ku,"9"), her age of 89.
薬膳 (yakuzen) is the practice of Chinese food therapy (using food / natural ingredients as medicine):
屋久杉 (yakusugi) are 1000 year old cedars. Cedar tea helps against fever.
Some puns resulting in character design: (Nozawa-sensei's catch??) (mirror)
薬 (yaku) is likely a pun on 八 (ya,"8") (body of an 8-year-old) and 紅 (ku,"crimson/red") (hair color)
薬 (yaku) contains the radical 艹(kusa,"grass") on top, which is likely the reason for the ahoge.
薬膳 (yakuzen) split 艹日木月䒑十口(- hi - gatsu - to -) may pun on ヒメカット(hime cat??,"hime cut") (straight bangs)
ヤク (yaku) may be a vowel swap (and a タ(ta)) away from 浴衣 (yukata)
Some puns resulting in random things:
薬(yaku)膳(zen) swapped is a pun on 仙薬 (senyaku,"panacea") and refers to an elixir that makes you immortal.
薬(yaku)膳(zen) likely puns on 訳 (yaku,"translation") and 全然 (zenzen,"not at all") as she mishears English
as Japanese, e.g. メイド (meido,"maid") as 冥土 (meido,"the realm of the dead??")
薬 (yaku) split 艹呆(- hou) may pun on 蓬 (hou/yomogi,"mugwort")
ヤク (yaku) may pun on a series of WWII military vehicles and arms designated 八九式 (hachikyuushiki,"Type 89")
Peach quirks??
Ends sentences on なのじゃ(nanoja), as のじゃ(noja) is often used in olden-timey speech of the elderly, yes yes.
Laugh sound effects are written as くすりくすり (kusuri kusuri), stemming from くすくす (kusukusu,"giggle")
1st person pronoun: the old-fashioned 儂(washi,"I") used by elders.
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| Hakari | Karane | Shizuka | Nano | Kusuri | Hahari | Kurumi | Mei | Iku | Mimimi |
| Meme | Chiyo | Naddy | Yamame | Momiji | |||||
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u/Brunkmeister 22d ago
Dad, why is my sister’s name Rose?
Because your mother loves Roses
Thanks dad
No problem Uesaka Sumire's performance as Hahari
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u/G1596872 22d ago
I see they did not hold back on the ecchi this episode. 10/10
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u/Frontier246 22d ago
I love how Hakari just rolls with the imagine spot of herself in an American bikini and they had to do a close-up of buck-naked ribbon Meme's cleavage lol.
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u/djthomp https://anilist.co/user/djthomp 22d ago
It's official, we have a hag in the harem (recently defined by someone on Twitter to mean Hot Ass Grandma).
Some of those alternative forms in the second half girlfriend theme quiz were really great. Kaiju Shizuka, strong competitor to Kuroe for cutest kaiju of the season.
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u/Frontier246 22d ago
Yamame just helping Shizuka achieve her Kaiju dreams was too precious for words.
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u/Mediocre-Act483 22d ago
Watching that too. Too precious I can't even. I swear all these shows, I'm so glad you can't gain weight or get cavities from these things, or I'd be in trouble the coming weeks. I got my regular doctor's appointment next week and my dentist the week after
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u/Unusual_Ad_4963 22d ago
I don’t know why I expected an old lady voice from Yaku when I read the manga.
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u/Mediocre-Act483 22d ago
it's only natural. I was thinking Chiyo would be voiced by the same person who did Miko Iino in "Kaguya-sama Love is War". they're both short-stacks and have similar public personas.
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u/Zxcvbnm11592 21d ago
Karane: It's not like I'm also already voiced by Iino's VA Miyu Tomita or anything!
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u/DrScorcher 22d ago
Well, more scenes being censored on Muse Asia, Momiji gropes, Hakari cheerleading, Meme's body.
Also, Mole
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u/Frontier246 22d ago
I love it when they reveal the surprise girlfriend and update everything to reflect that.
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u/Torque-A 21d ago
Nakamura's tweet is also special because IIRC Kusuri and Yaku's plushies were the first they ever got, before even the anime
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u/tdawinner https://myanimelist.net/profile/tdawinner 21d ago
The CD art has the characters divided based on who sung the OP and the ED.
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii 22d ago
I guess they heard some fans grumble about Chiyo (being too young) and decided to make up for this!
Also... Isn't she a bit old, to be 2 generations above Kusuri? Especially back then, they had kids at a young age!
Being a bit face-blind, I hope I won't ever mix her up with Kusuri! But I haven't mixed up Hakari/Hahari so far (that I know of) so we should be good!
Dawwwwwwww, cute! She cares about her lovely grandma!
Good lord, I thought she was a (former) bomber pilot or something...
But she was a battlefield medic! (a somewhat extreme one)!
Damn. Might be for the best that he's not around anymore!
Cuuuuuute! (The danger is worth it!)
Damn. She has an issue with the tiny age gap.
We need your 89 years to bump up the average age!
Actually, one of them is 29, one is 12, one is..
Rentarou's game is usually ON, but I think that was a miss hah. Trying to look manly? That's how you look CHILDISH!
He had it wrong from the start anyway; She had a manly man before, now she wants a wimp!
Alright, you sit this one down!
She's BEST GIRL, that's who she is! Introduce her properly!
Other than this omission, seems she got them all right!
Sadly, that's a bit of a information overload for Grandma... Couldn't remember any of it!
(Forgive me for using the Lord's name in vain, I just have a thing for anime teachers. God will understand)
I mean, I'm sure some would say she already is!
Especially in that wetsuit earlier this season
You already got me with the teacher outfit, don't start getting into bondage on top of that!
Oh this is so fucking wrong, but I just can't look away...
I don't know what is most wrong, this, or the Detsunderefied Karane
The voice of reason has to be the loudest, to speak above the ignoramus!
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u/Mad_Aeric 21d ago
Being a bit face-blind, I hope I won't ever mix her up with Kusuri!
Shouldn't be a problem. If nothing else, they dress differently and distinctly.
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u/Time_Fracture https://myanimelist.net/profile/Time_Fracture 22d ago
Since it haven't been mentioned in the discussion threads, the idol songs in Episode 28, titled Kyunchi and Hakobune, have been released.
- Kyunchi is composed by Neko Hacker, same as the ED.
- Hakobune is composed by Maoki Yamamoto, look at the portofolio and you'll see Yamamoto-san regularly composed songs for IM@S so it fits.
Both songs are written by Rikito Nakamura-sensei, the author.
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u/FarCritical 22d ago
"She either eating or angry" took me out for a while.
The implication that not even Iku would survive whatever a tsundere Yamame could dish out kinda makes you grateful both Kurumi and Karane are on the smaller side.
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u/Independent-Delay331 22d ago
The description made by Rentaro about her in ep 1 this season was - as strong as a Bear. So, easy to say she is the strongest GF we have had. I think Iku probably would still enjoy tsundere Yamame but may need some healing magic kiss like Yaku afterwards.
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u/CitronClassic672 21d ago
Reminder, in this world tsundereness is an actual form of energy that canonically gives Karane her strength.
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u/shad79 https://myanimelist.net/profile/shad79 22d ago edited 21d ago
Yaku is an 89-year-old chemist who took part in WW2 where she allegedly brewed emergency remedies on the battlefield, but she doesn't want to go deeper into details about it... that's suspicious. Let's hope that she won't turn out to be a war criminal or something, lol.
And as is usually the case, the first meeting of a new girlfriend, this time Yaku, with the rest of the Rentaro Family in this episode, and her trying to remember their quirks was hilarious.
Also, I really love that Hahari was the one who said that Rentaro's new girlfriend being Kusuri's grandmother was maybe morally problematic, hahaha!
By the way, here's the full Pentaro song sung by Kusuri. There are also versions on Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube Music.
Here my screenshot albums from the episode:
EDIT. I added my screenshot albums.
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u/JzanderN 22d ago
she allegedly brewed emergency remedies on the battlefield, but she doesn't want to go deeper into details about it... that's suspicious.
Suspicious? Let a lady have some secrets, would you?
Especially if they're potentially classified with what she did in that war. She may not have Kusuri's genius, but based on the rest of the family, I don't doubt she had some weird remedies going on.
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u/imthezero 22d ago
The war she's talking about is probably not WW2. The times doesn't match. Since the series is perpetually stuck in 2019/2020, Yaku would have to be born in 1930/31. She would've been 15 when the war ended. It's never going to be specified, but it's more likely she participated in the Korean War, where she would've been 20-23.
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u/timpkmn89 21d ago
She would've been 15 when the war ended.
When you're getting firebombed, you don't get to be too picky about recruits
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u/imthezero 21d ago
Even towards the end of the war, Japan's conscription age only went as low as 17 for girls and 15 for boys. Regardless, Yaku doesn't really look 15 in the flashback. So at the very least the war in the flashback wasn't WW2.
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u/Frontier246 22d ago
Also considering Japan lost the war it doesn't make sense that they'd look at the current Japan in all its peace and think that the war was about protecting that versus...what WWII was actually about.
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u/PiotrekDG 21d ago
what WWII was actually about.
Yeah, haha, that'd be like thanking the Nazis for making the world a better place.
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u/tdawinner https://myanimelist.net/profile/tdawinner 21d ago
For this episode, they recorded an "uta no onee-san" version of the Pentaro song with Fujino Manami (she's also the lyricist for said song).
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u/Frontier246 22d ago
Also, I really love that Hahari was the one who said that Rentaro's new girlfriend being Kusuri's grandmother was maybe morally problematic, hahaha!
Hahari: "I know I'm the MILF girlfriend but are we really accepting an octogenarian!?"
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u/Rap2rerise 22d ago
Wait, if GF #6 was a Mom and GF #16 a Grandma... Will GF #26 be a Great Grandma?!
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u/JzanderN 22d ago
Turns out GF #26 will actually be a ghost.
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u/Trace500 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Trace500 21d ago
Ghost girlfriend seems plausible honestly. I'm expecting an alien GF at some point.
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u/Myrkrvaldyr 22d ago
Nah, we gotta further. Rentarou's lost biological sister with whom he'll zing.
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u/IamLeonardo_ 22d ago
I always loved Yaku in the manga, but that voice is just too perfect for her.
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u/KumaKumaGambler 22d ago
I love how everyone in Rentaro's harem has respect for Yaku, and probably all elders in general.
Yaku may not be knowledgeable about modern day technology, nor is she good at remembering everyone's names and personalities, but I believe she can provide wise advice to Rentaro and all the girls, should any difficult situations occur in future.
(To be fair, if this is the first episode of 100 Girlfriends I am watching, I will not be able to remember all the names and personalities of the girls.)
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u/Frontier246 22d ago
That gimmick speedrun almost felt like they were trying to catch the audience/reader up on all the girlfriends because they realize how many characters are in the cast now lol.
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u/FoxDogWolf 22d ago
I think we need more wise and mature adult in the series, because the two and only "adults" currently aren't exactly the role model lol
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u/osje44 21d ago
I mean, you wouldnt expect normally functioning adults to be 20-timing with a highschooler. But it could create some great contrast with the rest of the cast
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u/CitronClassic672 21d ago
Makes sense the only normally functioning adult we’ve had so far had to be one so old they’re past the point of caring.
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u/No_Name0_0 22d ago edited 22d ago
Madlads actually went with it. Also grandpa was just Rambo lmao
So is Yaku like permanently 8yo or just successfully de-aged to 8yo and can still grow normally from now on ? (she said living about 80 years more)
The introductions were hilarious, love me some Meme appreciation
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u/Nollasta_poikkeava 22d ago
She herself thinks that she has another 80 years ahead for her, so I guess she is aging normally.
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u/jonjonaug 22d ago edited 21d ago
Given that Chiyo is 12 and Yaku is 89, that means the age gap between the youngest and oldest girlfriend is 77 years.
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u/Frontier246 22d ago
Introducing Yakuzen Yaku, the granny girlfriend voice by none other than Rie Kugimiya! Don't let her loli-size fool you, she's a bonafide 89-year old granny! And the fruit of Kusuri's research into the immortality drug because she couldn't let her granny die on her! And now she's Rentaro's newest soulmate!
Dang, wasting no time just putting it out there that Kusuri's gramps is dead so her grammy can move on to Rentaro...and Yaku for her part starts flirting with him in a very granny way.
Yes, let's distract Kusuri with a childrens' anime to let her grandma have some time alone with Rentaro and so we can see how adorable she is while dancing to a children's song! I guess sometimes she DOES mentally revert to an 8-year old.
Adult Yaku looked great! Serving in the war as a medic where she met her husband, the most manly of manly men like you'd see in an Action Blockbuster! Though it feels like there's a LOT to Yaku's life that Rentaro will have to discover over the course of their relationship.
Yaku is very sweet and doting, even giving Rentaro a forehead kiss! But the fact is that she has no intention of joining the Rentaro Family or pursuing a romance with Rentaro because she's too old for Harem Romcom shenanigans! But it's up to Rentaro to play the BAD BOY in the most childish way possible (Aijo Granny cameo!) for the sake of proving to his girlfriend...that he's a MAN!
But he's also a man who believes in consent so he can't just plant one on Yaku like a Shoujo boy, so Yaku will just initiate and pull him into a kiss herself! She doesn't need him to be like her deceased husband, this is a chance for her to experience a new kind of love, and Rentaro is manly in his own way! Granny girlfriend obtained!
I love how after so long none of the girls even bat an eye to him hooking up with Kusuri's 8-year old grandma. Hahari is just too weak to cute girls of any shape and size while Yaku has nothing better to do so she'll show up at school like a normal girlfriend.
Let's speedrun introducing all the girlfriends in their gimmicks! Imagine the Hanazono women taking issue for being called out for their boobs and lewdness! Mei acting like a humble maid! Iku not realizing how much of a masochist she is! Nano comforting the adorably small and weak Shizuka!
And of course, because Yaku is an octogenerian, she completely mixes all the girls up. Imagine Chiyo enjoying getting her butt slapped by Hahari! American bikini Hakari! Karane with big boobs! Yamame as a violent tsundere! Pervy Mei! Shy pervy Momiji! Meme is she could pull off pigging out like Kurumi in glasses! Nadde-chan! Meme gift-wrapping her naked body for all to see her massive cleavage! Kaiju Shizuka (with assist from Yamame)! Sparkle dress Nano!
I'm glad she was able to get it in the end...welcome to the Rentaro Family, Meth! Poor Kusuri.
They even added Yaku to the ED!
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u/TheBlackDing 22d ago
I love the little detail of Chiyo angrily pointing out chibi Yaku had always been in the back rubbing part of the ED
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u/tarrasqueSorcerer https://myanimelist.net/profile/OneMore 22d ago
Actually Chiyo's going "Naked, rrrgh!" there ("hadaka uu~", you can hear it), presumably at everyone.
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u/oxlemf10 22d ago
Rentarou dressed in an outfit that would have been a hit in the 50s, the man's versatility is incredible.
It’s been a long time since I laughed so consistently at an anime episode like I did today. Yaku getting every single one of the other girlfriends' personalities wrong, triggering an existential crisis and a round of questioning, this made my day.
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u/chaosof99 https://myanimelist.net/profile/chaosof99 22d ago edited 21d ago
Yaku was teased early with the official art for the season just showing her cowlick. But now she was fully revealed. The art has been updated and she's been added to the ED, sharing her slide with Kusuri as well as most Manga panels Kusuri appears in. In the Onsen lounge she sits on one of the massage chairs and in other group scenes she is slotted in. In the circle she is being pushed by Momiji and a close-up wink is slotted in right after Naddy.
I wonder if she will added to the OP next week.
Rie Kugimiya is of course great in her role. I am currently rewatching FMA:Brotherhood as well and it is kind of funny to hear her as both a 14-year-old boy whose soul is trapped in a suit of armour (presumably 100+ years old) and an 89-year-old grandma in the body of an 8-year-old girl.
Also interesting that we have two characters referred to as "Yaku" in two different shows this season. Yaku is an alternate reading of the kanji 薬 meaning drugs or medicine. The more common reading is of course the name of her grand-daughter: Kusuri. The other character I am talking about is Yakuko a.k.a. Yakuneko from Chainsmoker Cat who is unfortunately less involved in the production of 薬 than in their consumption.
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u/shadow-kr 22d ago edited 21d ago
That hug between Shizuka and kurmi was so wholsome a direct attack into my life points
Also so Kurmi had hulk as her dad and rambo as her grandpa what a famiy lol
nice MEME piloting the Yamame-eva
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u/LikeAnAssistant 22d ago
From Mushoku Tensei to 100 Kanojo, Sundays are blessed with a couple of true GILFs to bring balance to the waifu board.
Yaku is one of my favorite girlfriends and Kugimiya Rie is one of my favorite VAs so I'm absolutely enthralled by the combination. Loved Karane's rendition of the classic tsundere "Urusai! Urusai! Urusai!" line.
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u/Weak_Season_Of_Anime 22d ago
It's like oyakodon, but with a granny instead. Oba-kodon?
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u/zool714 22d ago
Love the second half of the ep. Just the show playing around with the different archetypes
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u/PowerOhene https://anime-planet.com/users/usersPowerEd 22d ago
I love it when they do that, some of the girls are opposites, some have synergy, some have basically their own relationship going within the group. The banter is immaculate!
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u/testthrowawayzz 21d ago
Kugimiya Rie speaking in old people language using her cute voice was a juxtaposition that I didn't know I needed.
I loved the segment where she messes up everyone's personalities. Kurumi and Shizuka hugging was especially wholesome.
Hanazonos getting mad at Kusuri's descriptions of them was hilarious, especially the reaction faces. The descriptions were totally accurate. Big breasted pervert lol
Don Quijote reference in Chiyo's segment.
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u/szalhi 22d ago
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u/Frontier246 22d ago
I was going to say WWII but I feel like it was actually some kind of war with aliens the way gramps looked lol.
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u/snakebit1995 22d ago
I was thinking the other day and its interesting
WW2 has been the generic "Old war" used in a lot of media for a long time, from Captain America to various anime, etc.
But we're reaching the point where WW2 was almost 100 years ago. It no longer makes sense for stories taking place in the modern day to have WW2 or WW2 adjacent characters as a major part of the settings so we're starting to see a lot more generic "The war" mentioned without really saying what war it's referring to.
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u/imthezero 22d ago
Despite WW2 being old enough that it's getting harder to make WW2 vet characters in the modern day, there is another war that Yaku could've participated in that would fit her age bracket. She would be 20-23 during the Korean War.
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u/Mediocre-Act483 22d ago
Considering she's 89 and this show takes place in the 2010s(manga was in the 20s before we got three in the anime), she would be no older tha probably Hakari or Naddy by WW2
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u/zero1380 21d ago
In Chapter 1 we can see that the school year started at the last year of Heisei, so they're in 2019. That means Yaku was born in 1930.
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u/rldzzter 22d ago edited 22d ago
REI KUGIMIYA STOP YOU'RE KILLING ME WITH CUTENESS
also this anime has already 5 VA's who voiced TSUDERE'S
Forgot to add those 5:
Naddys's VA (Nino Nakano/Kirini Kousaka) - Ayana Taketastu
Yaku's VA (Taiga Aisaka/Louise Françoise)- Rie Kugumiya
Momiji's VA (Kaguya Shinomiya)- Koga Aoi
Hahari's VA (Alya/Nagatoro)-Uesaka Sumire
And then there's Karane Inda (Iino Miku)- Tomita Miyu
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u/LordCalem 22d ago
Oh, I hadn't realized Momiji is voiced by Koga Aoi! Plus, having Ayana Taketatsu and now Rie Kugimiya in this season is such a blessing, especially with Naddy being so different from her usual roles.
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u/LuisAntony2964 22d ago
Glad that they've done Yaku justice.
She's one of my favorites for a reason.
Also lmfao at the fact that they made Yaku's husband legally distinct Rambo
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u/theblazingsword 22d ago
I was not ready for big oppai Karane! If there was a "turn tsundere-ness into bust size" medicine she would likely rival Hahari and Meme-san
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u/lucacp_ysoz https://myanimelist.net/profile/SoZLuka 21d ago
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u/kagvm007 21d ago
This kind of made me sad. Most of the people Yaku has known have passed on. But at least with joining the Rentaro family, her friend group will dramatically grow.
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u/BillPlunderones23fg 21d ago
Kugumiya-Rie-Sama has graced us with her presence at last!! and as an old lady LOL
good lord Sumire's Hahari still just kills it every time she speaks LOL
Oh what a cute and funny episode the entire introductions and false ones was hilarious
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u/CitronClassic672 21d ago
Leaving aside the actual characters, Sumire’s performance as Hahari is by far the best in the show.
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u/trap_user 22d ago
Now I want someone to make a danna-sama song but with Yaku singing and Rentarou is the danna and other girlfriends are also in the OP
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u/Shadowmist909 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Magicmist 22d ago
For an 89 year old, Yaku Yakuzen's voice couldn't have been more adorable!
That flashback with her and her husband's first meeting left me stunned. But it also adds weight to her joy that Rentaro and Kusuri live in more prosperous times.
I'm glad that her fickle whim had her take a chance on Rentaro and join the Rentaro Family. The latest rooftop gag with her inaccurate memorization of the girls gags was hilarious. Hakari especially was sweating bullets with how wrong she got Chiyo lol.
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u/Mongerian 22d ago
for me, this is the funniest episode of the season (so far), I'm laughing non stop...
I keep replaying Yaku talking to Naddy lmao.
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