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Fridge Brilliance
- Hahari knowing what colour Mei's eyes are makes sense when we learn that Hahari is the only one to have seen Mei's eyes prior to Chapter 30, when she found Mei wandering in the snow.
- If the volumes of the manga exist within the manga itself, then it would make sense for Chiyo to have a copy on hand when proving to Nano that heaven exists.
- It also makes sense that Nano would think heaven doesn't exist in the manga, since she was a baby when the angels appeared.
- Karane is the Audience Surrogate of a work in a genre made to appeal largely to men, so it would make sense for her to have a lot of masculine traits compared to the other haremettes.
- You would think that Rentarou would know that all of his current girlfriends are used to him collecting new girlfriends every few chapters, and therefore would have no reason to have Overly-Nervous Flop Sweat when introducing them to his newest girlfriend. But actually, he's nervous about his newest girlfriend meeting all of his current girlfriends and how she'll get along with the others.
- Considering that Hahari bought out the school shortly after joining the harem, and most of Rentarou's girlfriends are from the same school district as him, it makes sense that few people think twice about her status as one of Rentarou's girlfriends.
- You would think that Rentarou dating dozens of girls would be known to pretty much everyone outside the harem, especially since Recursive Canon is a thing in the series. However, the Recursive Canon part is actually preventing others from finding out about the harem by creating the impression that Rentarou and the girls are actors putting together the manga within the universe of the manga.
- Considering what her family is like, it makes sense that Karane hates being a Tsundere, which sheds a new light on her story arc at the end of Volume 6.
- Iku, the ninth girlfriend, is a baseball player. A full baseball team has nine players.
- If Kusuri's negation drug temporarily ages her body to her actual age, then it makes perfect sense why she was in her older form when she first saw Rentarou; she had recently taken the neutralizer to clear a drug out of her system.
- It makes sense that Suu doesn't need to associate numbers to remember Rentarou and Akko's names; between him posing as numbers and her helping develop the mnemonic in the first place, they both bonded with Suu enough she doesn't need numbers to remember them.
- Hakari and Karane are regularly shown to be in love with each other just as much as they do with Rentarou. Which makes sense when you consider that the two of them had their "soulmate event" at the same time. Hakari and Karane are each other's soulmate as well!
- In chapter 160, we learn that Hahari personally signed off on Matsuri's gothic lolita middle school uniform because of how cute it was. Her willingness to do this probably explains a lot about the multitude of Custom Uniforms we see in the series.
- Even assuming that Hakari attempting suicide and Karane threatening Hahari in Chapter 18 / Episode 11 was able to shock Mei into opening her eyes, it would make sense that neither of them would've seen her eyes at those times. Hakari was blinded by tears and/or looking away from Mei, and Karane's attention was on the guards in the room rather than Mei.
- In Chapter 149, Chiyo (in Momoha's body) puts the latter's sake bottle on the ground since teachers shouldn't even be carrying alcohol on campus. The girlfriend who adds her agreement? Nano, who is currently in the body of Momoha's fellow teacher Naddy.
- Parents often use the phrase "when a mommy and a daddy really love each other" as a euphemism for sex. When you recall the title of the manga, the intended joke in the title becomes evident.
- Rentarou is very adamant about keeping his relationships with his girlfriends as pure as possible, much to Hakari and her mother’s chagrin. A few of his girlfriends would be more than willing to sleep with him but it’s possible that like with his first kiss, Rentarou worries that whoever he gives his first time to will be seen as the girlfriend he loves most out of the 100 and doesn’t believe it’s fair to the rest because he truly does love them all equally. So until he thinks of a solution to that, he tries to ensure to keep his sexual desires down as much as possible so he isn’t tempted.
Fridge Horror
- If you stop and think about it, it makes sense how everyone would most likely die if they lost their soulmate:
- Rentarou vowed to commit Seppuku if he couldn't be a good boyfriend to his girlfriends. Also, when the Lie Detector registers Karane’s statements about loving him as false, he nearly dies of fatal blood hemorrhaging from the shock.
- Hakari tried to kill herself when her mother tried to cut her ties with Rentarou.
- Karane wouldn't be able to live with her own Tsundere personality or her A-Cup Angst, which would eventually drive her to suicide.
- Shizuka wouldn't have anyone to transcribe her books to her phone, and her own past trauma would drive her to suicide as well.
- Nano would struggle to get thoughts of Rentarou out of her mind, eventually concluding that the most efficient way to do so would be to poison herself.
- Kusuri would get carried away in her drug making until she died in a lab accident.
- Hahari would become an Extreme Omnisexual, eventually leading to her being arrested and possibly executed. Or decide to follow her daughter when she dies.
- Kurumi would starve to death without Rentarou constantly feeding her.
- Mei would think she failed Rentarou and Hahari as a maid and kill herself.
- Iku would have no control over her workout and die from overexerting herself.
- Mimimi's excess focus on her own beauty would erode her focus on more important things, eventually killing herself when she can't support her own beauty and feels worthless as a result.
- Meme would end up getting so much attention that she would kill herself to escape it. Or end up getting stuck in a place where nobody can find her.
- Chiyo's Obsessively Organized tendencies would drive her into a deadly frenzy as she struggled to fix everything around her, resulting in her getting on the bad side of the last person she should. Or if she never met Rentarou, she would spend more time around her dad and end up getting ran over by a truck with him. Chiyo ultimately passing away because such a young female child isn’t as resilient as an adult male.
- Naddy's insecurity about her Heritage Disconnect would make her feel worthless and drive her to suicide.
- Yamame would work herself to death trying to do things for other people all by herself.
- Momiji's desire for touching soft things would likely cause her to touch some dangerous things (like, say, a Petri dish cultivating Streptococcus pyogenes
.) Alternatively, without Rentarou’s Family around to tolerate her Skinship Grope tendencies, she eventually tries it on a female delinquent, who kills her. - Yaku would have no way of functioning in the modern era, which is likely to end badly if her mind deteriorates further. Alternatively, she could give up on living after her granddaughter passes and either overdoses on drugs or has an accident and tells the doctors not to resuscitate her because she feels she lived long enough and has nothing left to live for.
- Kishika constantly asks to be killed after recovering from an infantile state, and it's likely that her request could be taken seriously. She also could end up killing herself to atone for failing to follow her code.
- Ahko's Retail Therapy already left her in a bad state. Without Rentarou, she'd have no way to escape the trappings of the lifestyle, eventually becoming a hoarder and getting literally crushed by all the junk she’s purchased.
- Uto's confusing habits have put her in tight spots, so it'd make sense for her to eventually endanger her own life.
- Mai's clumsiness is very likely to cause a fatal accident without Rentarou's intervention.
- Momoha would have no way to control her vices and die of malnourishment.
- Rin would suppress her fetishes so much that they eventually get out of control, she seeks out highly dangerous situations to experience real violence, and gets killed. Alternatively, she could outright become a killer when her suppressed fetishes become too strong to hold back and she starts attacking people to satisfy them, getting caught and executed soon afterwards.
- Suu's lack of basic math skills and her inability to relate to non-numbers would cause her deadly trouble out in the real world.
- Eira’s Absurd Phobias would make her so terrified of something harmless that it leaves her vulnerable to something that can kill her. Even in her debut chapter, she's afraid of heartbreak because she can't take it out with a kick.
- Tama mentioned that she'd thought about killing herself in an attempt to reincarnate as a cat, and she was already on a path that would've led to her starving to death if Rentarou hadn't met her.
- Himeka would inevitably try something so abnormal that it would carry a very high risk to her health. In her debut, she almost gets trampled to death by the judo club when she tried to reject Rentarou.
- Matsuri's complete ignorance of cultural norms would doom her to alienation. Alternatively, her choice of clothing is not safe to wear when cooking and all it takes is some bad luck for her clothes to catch on fire.
- Shiina would almost certainly kill herself due to being overcome by a sense of loneliness.
- Even if Kusuri did have a body-shrinking drug while breaking into the home of a wealthy family, the fact that the Shapeshifting Excludes Clothing and that the neutralization drug would kill the user would've meant that it wouldn't have been as much help as they needed it to be.
- In Chapter 121, a little girl, probably around kindergarten age, accidentally breaks Rin’s Nirvana Family toy, and bursts into tears and says that Rin can kill her if she wants. What must this girl’s upbringing be like?
- Given that the little girl in question also offered Mei a chance to kill her for accidentally dirtying a handkerchief that was meant to be a gift for Hahari in Chapter 47, it may just be that the girl is very strange.
- Rentarou is destined to have 100 soulmates because the God of Love accidentally wrote two zeroes into his soulmate count. If Rentarou was originally destined to have more than one soulmate before the mistake happened, then he'd be destined to have 100 times the original number of soulmates.
- When Hakari and Karane first confess to Rentarou, he initially considers turning them down together, then accepting their confessions separately and keeping his relationships with them secret from each other. He quickly disregards that idea, but as shown in his response to Iku's confession, even pretending to turn down a confession causes harm to both him and the girl.
- Himeka almost gets trampled to death after trying to reject Rentarou, this implies that the death caused by losing your soulmate could be way more immediate that it was thought of.
- While it's played for laughs since Rentarou is Made of Iron, note that Karane regularly hits and at least once hospitalized him in her Tsundere moods, despite the fact that she loves him and always feels bad about this. Now remember that this behavior is In the Blood for her parents and siblings. Is it just out of embarrassment that she's reluctant to let others meet her family, or to have a child of her own?
- Momoha’s first reaction to realizing she loves one of the students is to ask him for sex.
- If a soulmate passes, by the series rules so will Rentarou from various causes. And if Rentarou passes away, so will all his 99 other girlfriends, each dying because of bad luck.
- A soulmate has all of your luck invested into them which is why without them only bad luck remains. With 100 soulmates one of them would only equal to one hundredth of his luck. Whether or not and how exactly that still applies after having successfully entered a relationship with a soulmate didn't really get any focus. It would still heavily weigh on Rentarou, so that could potentially lead into something that is similar or even exactly the same as the consequences that were theorized about above.
Fridge Logic
- Kurumi's constant anger is caused because of her fast metabolism which causes her Big Eater tendencies, however when she's in the body of Meme in Chapter 148, she also gets angry at the first mention of a Big Mac.
- At this point in her life she's probably been psychologically conditioned to react like this in this kind of situation by her body even with the original cause gone.
- The central conflict in Chapter 113 is about Mei's self-denied desire to linger at a particular display at the light show versus Nano's drive to visit all the displays quickly for efficiency. In the end, thanks to Momoha's help, they go back to the display of flowers, Mei calling out how the brightly shining colors remind her of the wonderful times they all spend together. Which is beautiful, except that Mei at no point opens her eyes, and we've long established that she can't see like that. Sure, her Daredevil-style powers could allow her to appreciate the flowers, but not specifically the colors!
Fridge Sadness
- When Shiina confesses to Rentarou out of a desire to join the family, he tells her he can only accept the confession if she truly loves him and isn’t just using the group for her own gain. They had already had the zing, so he knew she was a true soulmate, but that logically implies that were a girl who isn’t a soulmate to ask him out, he would have to turn her down just like the 100 girls that he originally asked out at the start of the series did to him, despite knowing this could break her heart.
