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Volume 7 (Chapters 51 - 59)

Chapter 51

• Rentarou thinks nothing of his Uncle Hiro's admiration of him.
  Rentarou: I mean, all I did was push him out of the way of a tanker truck that one time.
• Rentarou has been asked to look after his uncle's daughter, Chiyo - in other words his cousin, just to be clear - who just started junior high school. Both of which, as Rentarou himself points out, means that he won't be expecting any "Zings" today! Then said cousin answers the door and—ZING!!
  Rentarou: You have got to be kidding me...
  • This is accompanied by either Rentarou or the narration thinking a Rapid-Fire "No!"
• Rentarou asking Shuiesha itself if they're okay with this in disbelief.
  Rentarou: Is this even...?
• Rentarou trips into Chiyo then ups himself back all the way into the wall facing Chiyo's house.
  Chiyo: That's jumping a bit too far back!
  • Remarkably, Rentarou is uninjured despite the wall being cracked, though his white clothes are wrinkled up and out of place. Then he finds out that Chiyo is so Obsessively Organized that the sight of it makes her snarl until she fixes it.
    Rentarou: Does it really warrant a face that grim!?
    Chiyo: Rrrrrgghh—
    Rentarou: And groaning too!?
• While the two are sitting down having snacks, tea suddenly spills over Rentarou's clothes. Chiyo's OCD kicks in again and she drags him into a shower.
  Rentarou: (thinking) Huh...? Wait a sec... I came here to look after her... but all she's been doing is look after me...
• As it turns out, Hiro was there all along; he goes on a crazed Motive Rant on how he lured Rentarou to his home and stealthily orchestrated the above mishaps to get Rentarou and his straight-laced daughter together. Because every other man in the world is lesser than Rentarou. All of this while ignoring Chiyo's crying from losing her glasses, which was also part of his plan.
  • He's also wearing a shirt with Kanji that translates to "Super Love" on it. Rentarou's passion runs in the family it seems.
• Hiro initially wanted to wait to set the two up to meet until they were adults, but noticed a certain group of girls following Rentarou around and sped his plans up under the assumption that Rentarou was in the typical situation of a harem protagonist where he hasn't picked one girlfriend out of any of them yet. Rentarou bluntly tells him the truth.
  Hiro: I'm not following you at all, but...! Fine, then, this is good! At this point, one relative in the group is nothing, right!!?
  Rentarou: I'm not following you at all...
• Hiro starts bawling his eyes out begging Rentarou to date Chiyo, who's still crying right beside her father. The family resemblance is uncanny, something Rentarou notes.
  Rentarou: (thinking) Is that in their genes...?
• After Rentarou and Chiyo agree to date each other on their own terms, Hiro starts celebrating in the background as the panels start zooming in on him, with each one looking a little blurrier than the last because they're zooming in on the same picture.

Chapter 52

• Just like Rentarou last chapter, Karane freaks out over Rentarou's newest girlfriend being a little girl and his relative. Rentarou suspects that since they're still being published, that means they're in the clear. He's dropping sweat while saying this of course.
  • The author's note states that they're prepared to shift the blame on Shueisha if they need to.
• "Thank you so very much for the meal." Hahari's reaction. "Jokes aside," as she says, she suggests asking permission from Chiyo's parents first. After learning the truth...
  Hahari: AND HE DARES CALL HIMSELF A PARENT!? (The girls pop up behind Hahari in confusion)
• Rentarou's family being what it is, and Chiyo being who she is, a domino effect of correction occurs. Starting with Hakari and Karane.
  • Chiyo pulls down Hakari's skirt so it covers her ankles. Without her sex appeal, she settles for "accidentally" running into Rentarou and clinging to him for most of the chapter.
    Karane: Why're you running, anyway?
    Hakari: What if I want to stay in shape?
  • Then she straightens Karane's socks and sweater, lengthens her skirt, and ties a ribbon around her collar. Karane literally freezes in place for most of the chapter.
    Mimimi: Naturally, she ended up looking like a forcibly dressed-up cat.
• When Chiyo says "Fake eyelashes rrgh!" at Mimimi, the latter also says "Fake eyelashes rrgh!?" before Chiyo takes them. Despite her natural eyelashes looking exactly the same, Mimimi runs around the roof with her face covered in shame for most of the chapter.
• Chiyo pins Meme's bangs up like a pompadour, prompting a reaction evocative of Colonel Muska's final moments. Shizuka gives her a pair of sunglasses that she borrowed from Mimimi, which just makes Meme look like a hoodlum.
• Wrongly assuming that Shizuka has a bedhead, Chiyo combs her naturally-curly hair straight. Shizuka tries and fails to keep it that way for most of the chapter when strands of her hair keep popping out.
  Kurumi: (Blushing) It ain't like a game of whack-a-mole, y'know.
• Chiyo demands that Kurumi use cleaner dialogue ("isn't" instead of "ain't"). The word "cleaner" being thrown around makes her hungry for wieners.
  Nano: What a horribly inefficient way of life...
• When Nano offers Kurumi a left-over wiener from her lunch, Chiyo bans her from sharing and demands that she eat it to "Show gratitude to the animals it's made of rrgh!" Who are in heaven. When Nano says heaven doesn't exist, Chiyo pulls out a copy of Volume 4 of the manga and flips to Rentarou being carried off by angels in Chapter 28. Nano promptly kneels and attempts to eat her leftovers.
  Nano: This world is severely deficient in realism...
  Kusuri: Nano lost in an argument, yep yep!?
  Nano: Thank you, dead pigs. Even though I am so full that I may vomit...
  • In the background, Kurumi had her heart set on eating Nano's wiener, going from being overjoyed at Nano's offer, to open-mouthed in expectation of it being fed to her, to lying facedown with her tummy rumbling.
• Kusuri panics and pulls out a drug to keep the readers from seeing Nano throw up. "She's not Hahari, after all!"
  Hahari: Excuse me?
  • The drug in question is a "Makes-your-barf-super-sparkly drug." One person believes the artist Nozawa-sensei already has that covered.
  • Chiyo confiscates that, along with all her other drugs, sending Kusuri into withdrawal.
• Mei attempts to drive to a Matsumoto pharmacy, which she calls Matsumoto-sama, to get drugs for Kusuri. When Chiyo blocks Mei's path, Rentarou asks what could possibly be out of order for a maid as perfect as Mei. Chiyo objects to Mei driving with her eyes closed, which even Rentarou admits is the most dangerous thing yet. This leaves Mei trying to pry her eyes open yet again, even though the shock of Chiyo's statement just did that.
• Iku gets the idea to paddle Hahari so that the sight of her in pain gets Mei to open her eyes. But for some reason, this plan involved playing Rock-paddle-scissors (a game Iku came up with that no one will play) with Hahari, and Iku ends up getting paddled instead. Because she played rock with the hand holding her bat.
  Iku: Ack, gosh darn it, I lost...!♥
  • Not only does Hahari not get what Iku's doing and goes along with it anyway, she instinctively spanks Iku barehanded and not with the paddle she was given. And does it on repeat with Iku's permission until...
    Chiyo: Your existence is a problem rrgh!
    Iku/Hahari: Our very being.
  • Then Chiyo ties them both up like mummies... frankly, the less said about this the better.
• And finally, Rentarou's problem: twelve-timing. Ignoring the fact that this sends Rentarou into an existential crisis, Chiyo just now says something about it pages after she's introduced to them all.
• After Chiyo's corrections, the whole family is in chaos.
  • Kurumi looks like she's about to go outright feral, demanding that someone's got to have a wiener on them.
  • Mei repeatedly says Open Sesame as she tries to open her eyes.
  • Hakari is still pretending to bump into Rentarou, even while he's facedown on the ground in the middle of a Heroic BSoD begging someone to split him into twelve equal parts.
  • Hahari thinks Chiyo is engaging in neglect play.
  • Karane is still frozen up, which leaves Meme to play the Straight Man in her place to try calming everyone down. Emphasis on "try". It's even funnier when she still looks like a hoodlum.
    Meme: Y... Y... Y'all gotta knock that off!
• Chiyo loses her glasses after Mimimi accidentally bumps into her, causing Chiyo to cry. Normally, seeing a child in tears is upsetting, and it is. But Chiyo calling everyone a weirdo while doing so is both accurate and funny enough to soften the moment.
• In a heartwarming moment, the family breaks off the chaos they're in to calm Chiyo down when she starts crying. It steers back into hilarious again because Hahari and Iku are still dressed up like mummies and Chiyo apologizes and admits... well, no... says that they weren't in disarray in the first place. They don't say it out loud, but the girls (Hahari included in the panel) agree that they are in fact screwed up.
• In the group shot at the end, Kusuri raises her arms while still trembling from withdrawal, Nano has a wiener in her mouth and is shaking with nausea, Mimimi is still covering her eyes, and Mei is still trying to open hers.

Chapter 53

• "This is Basically a Commercial"
• Rentarou is hosting an advertisement chapter for 100 GF merchandise, featuring 6 acrylic keychains, 7 wooden tag straps, and square pin badges of all his girlfriends... except for Iku, Mimimi, Meme, and Chiyo, who weren't introduced during production. Rentarou is doing his best to make sure that the merchandise sells well enough so that the four can get future merch themselves.
  • The rest of the girls join in, so they can all get Rentarou merch.
• Hakari puts on a badge of herself as an excuse to get Rentarou to look at her chest. Rentarou is just happy seeing two Hakaris at once, and Hakari is just happy that he's being a gentleman.
• When Chiyo puts a tag of Mei on her backpack, Kusuri gets the same idea and puts a bunch of merchandise on her own in a disorganized mess. Chiyo goes into OCD mode, takes the bag without a word and puts the merch in neater order, but Kusuri doesn't realize what she's doing yet in the middle of it and gets a bit...
  Kusuri: (Grabbing Chiyo's head and holding her glasses) Someone's 'bout to bawl their eyes out...
  Hahari: Please don't.
• After Hakari distracts Karane by pointing at the air and saying there's a breast-enhancing bra, she catches Karane with a set of her own keychains inside her backpack and teases her for it. Karane responds by shoving it over Hakari's head "so she can take a good look for the rest of her life''.
  Hakari: All I can see is Karane merch! (holding onto Hahari) Oh, Rentarou-kun! Karane is so thirsty for attention I can't see a thing in front of me!
  Hahari: Yes, Hakari. It's me, your boyfriend. Wanna go do some naughty stuff?
  Hakari: Ack! Get away from me!
• Mimimi uses keychains of Nano as earrings. Her face doesn't change an inch, but it's clear that she's in pain and doesn't want to admit it.
  Mimimi: Owowowowie, naturally.
  • Iku takes note of this and starts trying some on herself while Chiyo stops her.
• Mei arranges some merch so everyone is surrounding Hahari. Mei is admiring how happy Hahari is to be surrounded by everyone, while Meme thinks it looks more like a siege.
• Meme makes dolls with wooden tags attached to the heads. And Hahari promptly corrupts it by playing make-out with dolls of herself and Karane. Then her daughter and the real Karane punish her with a double lariat.
  Hakari: You're a disgrace to your whole family!
  Hahari: URGGKH! Those girls are getting less considerate by the day.
  Kurumi: Right along with you becoming more degenerate.
• Rentarou imagines a noir-style scenario where he gets shot in the heart. You would think at first that Rentarou kept 100 GF merch in his coat where he got hit and that they blocked the bullet. He did have wooden tag straps on him, but he moved them out of the way of the shot before he got hit, stays alive long enough to tell the crook exactly this, and then just dies.
  • Karane and Shizuka question him, but Rentarou's declaration that he wouldn't even have his girlfriends' merchandise be harmed gives them a heartthrob and they stop caring about the logic.
• Kusuri comes up with a game where badges are flicked around to knock them out of bounds, which Karane dubs Super Smash GFs. They also reference a very popular meme from Smash Bros., minus the Foxes.
  Kusuri: Nutty free-for-alls are pretty fun, but if you want something more intense, you can set up a one-on-one fight on a textbook like this, yep yep!
  Karane: No items, Final Destination!
• When Hahari tries to kiss Kurumi, the latter gets her to leave by tossing some merch, which Hahari chases. Kusuri says they work as Hahari repellent, while Karane questions what good that would do for the readers.
  Kusuri: (with a serious expression) ...Make sure you check under your bed tonight...
  Hahari: Don't make me seem like some kind of youkai!
• Iku creates a game where you close your eyes while trying to guess whose merch you're holding.
  • Kusuri notes they can't tell if Meme is closing her eyes or not, so they have her wear an eye mask over her hair where her eyes should be.
  • Rentarou correctly guesses he's holding Shizuka's merchandise, even though he's holding a perfectly circular badge. He also gets Mei correct while holding a rectangular tag.
  • Speaking of which, Mei also plays the game, even though it's noted that she already has her Eyes Always Shut.
• Eventually, Rentarou doesn't think that the advertisement is properly conveying his own feelings of elation to the readers. And so he visualizes a spread of the whole family in an actual swimming pool of merchandise.
  My whole life turned around when I bought 100 GF merchandise
  • Which is quickly revealed to be what Hahari had visualized. Rentarou's image was a child-like drawing of him and the girls frolicking through a meadow while holding hands.
    Rentarou: (Beat) WHAT VIVID IMAGINATION!
    Kurumi: That's less imagination and more delusion.
    Rentarou: If that's the most I can muster, I can't possibly best Hahari-san in an imagination battle...!
    Hahari: Rest easy, dear readers. I shall make sure there will be no shortage of bare-naked flesh in this manga.
  • It actually makes sense that it's Hahari's image if you pay attention to it. Rentarou has an uncharacteristically smug smile with the Hanazonos clinging to him, and Kurumi is sniffing Hahari's hair from behind.
• Rentarou's clothes burst off to reveal he's covered from shoulder to waist in merchandise, which the narration calls his "girlfriend armor."

Chapter 54

• As Chiyo looks up junior high romance on her phone, her father Hiro is screaming about a stinkbug and calling for her help.
• Chiyo doesn't approve of kissing at school, but she's confident that someone as sincere and honest as Rentarou would never do that. When she reaches the rooftop, Rentarou is on the ground while all the other girls are kissing him. Chiyo gets so angry that she launches herself headfirst into the group, scattering them like bowling pins.
  CHIYO STRIKE!
• None of the girls take it well when Chiyo bans them from kissing at school.
  • Hakari is so desperate for stimulation that she starts groping herself with her left hand while her right hand goes below the table to do... something else.
  • Shizuka starts kissing the book she's reading.
  • Meme just disappears under Shizuka's skirt for no reason.
    Shizuka: "Whither?"
  • Nano writes "kiss" as the answer to all her math problems. She tries to recite pi to regain her focus, but seeing Hakari's lips puckered for a kiss reminds her of the number 3, causing Nano to say 3 repeatedly while a steamy "phweeee" comes out of her mouth.
    Shizuka: "She's" "glitching out."
  • Karane calls out everyone for getting frazzled over kissing, while Hakari points out that Karane is holding her pencil upside down.
  • Being unable to kiss Rentarou causes Mei to accidentally pour water on Hahari's breasts.
    Hahari: These are I-cups, not teacups. Good one, right?
    • Mei tries to kill herself by jumping out the window while Hahari stops her as she says, "Live. You're beautiful."
  • Hahari has been drooling since this morning because she wasn't able to kiss Rentarou, and she's considering going to the hospital. When Kurumi enters her office to give her something, she points out that Hahari has been drooling nonstop since this morning and tells her to go to a hospital, even though Kurumi herself is also drooling.
    Hahari: Look who's talking!
  • Kusuri tries and fails to make a drug that can simulate kissing Rentarou.
  • Mimimi is looking at her reflection in the school bathroom's mirror and laments on how disappointing the gloss of her skin is, even though she doesn't look any different. Meanwhile, the Vice-Principal is pressed against the window calling out Mimimi's vanity and ranting about how jealous she is. Her silhouette in the window terrifies Mimimi.
    Mimimi: Eeeeek! A school specter, naturally!
  • The only girl who remotely enjoys the kiss withdrawal is Iku, for obvious reasons.
• Fed up with the kissing ban, the girls start urging Chiyo to kiss Rentarou while circling her and holding hands like they're playing Ring Around the Rosie.
  Hahari: Overflowing euphoria!
  Shizuka: "That is what it means to be human."
  Iku: Don't give up!
  Mimimi: Beauty!
  Hakari: Soaking wet!
  Kurumi: Pear halves!
  Kusuri: It's better than popping uppers!
• When Rentarou says he's fine with not kissing Chiyo, Kusuri tries to give him the "you-can't-help-but-kiss-the-person-you-love" drug, only to trip and launch it into Chiyo's mouth instead, turning her into a kissing zombie. Kusuri is out of the negation drug and has to go back to the lab to make more, prompting Karane to ask if they're just reusing the plot from last time.
• The first thing Chiyo does is rip the doorknob off the rooftop's only door, leading to someone saying, "This sequel's really upping the stakes."
• Mei notes that without the doorknob, the door won't open and that Rentarou won't be able to leave the roof without the doorknob.
  Mimimi: He seldom seems to leave the roof anyway.
  Hahari: For the record as the chairwoman, you can let me deal with the doorknob, okay?
• As everyone struggles to hold Chiyo back while Rentarou tries to break the door down, Hahari suggests that someone else kiss Chiyo to mitigate the latter's desires. She insists this is just to help Chiyo, "with no ulterior motives on my part whatsoever," leading Hakari to say, "Try saying that without drooling."
• Hakari asks Kusuri to give her the kissing drug, which she calls the "you-can't-help-but-(whatever)" drug and drinks it so Chiyo won't be stained by Hahari's unsightly desires. Kusuri thinks Hakari drank the drug because she was thirsty and asks what's wrong with her.
• Karane holds on to Chiyo for Hakari, only for Hakari to kiss Karane instead. The force of the kiss causes Karane to swallow some of the drug in Hakari's mouth, leading to Chiyo being trapped between Hakari and Karane as they hug and kiss each other. Hahari calls it a "Chiyo sandwich with Hakarane buns" as she starts snapping pictures while bleeding from the nose uncontrollably.
• The others did not see Karane swallow any of the drug, so they're noting how she must be stone-sober. Meanwhile Kurumi is covering Shizuka's eyes.
• Rentarou manages to break the door down, but Meme points out he's covered in blood. Iku gulps as though she's envious.
• After Chiyo kisses Rentarou of her own volition and decides to lift the kissing ban, everyone proceeds to kiss Rentarou in rapid succession. However, when Chiyo kisses Rentarou again, her OCD kicks in as she grabs his wrist in anger.
  Narration: Unsurprisingly, twelve kisses in a row on an entire double-page spread were improper enough that this point-blank distance got her unnerved.

Chapter 55

• After Kijineta Toruru, the head of the newspaper club, tries to take a picture of Meme, Meme is holding the school paper, mortified that Toruru succeeded in getting a picture of her. Rentarou shows up with a bag containing the other copies of the newspaper, all 299 of them.
  Rentarou: Writing an article about someone against their will is essentially equivalent to terrorism. It's only fair to pay that back in kind. With terrorism.
• When Chiyo points to a part of the paper saying the next issue will reveal Meme's face, Rentarou is suddenly holding a torch that's already on fire.
  Shizuka: "He would even declare war."
  • Rentarou insists the torch is just a tool for negotiations and he won't actually use it. Unless necessary. Incidentally, he's wearing a pleasant smile through the entire scene.
• Hahari tries to use her authority as the school's chairwoman to get Toruru to leave Meme alone, only for Toruru to reveal she has pictures of Hahari harassing the girls and kissing Rentarou. After Toruru insists she isn't trying to blackmail Hahari, a brief staredown between them occurs until it suddenly cuts to Hahari tearfully unrolling a scroll that says "CASE LOST" to everyone.
  Kurumi: Aren't you the highest authority around here?
  Hakari: If you can't show off your redeeming qualities now, when will you ever?
  • Hahari calls herself worthless as she falls to her knees. Kusuri assures her that she still has "the biggest boobies around," with Nano adding that there's always a demand for that.
• Meme says she can do some training so she can improve her misdirection enough to avoid Toruru's camera. Hahari responds by having Meme wear a Playboy Bunny suit. Meme is so embarrassed that she immediately disappears.
  • Then there's everyone's reactions. Shizuka, Kurumi, and Rentarou are blushing, Chiyo seems to be entering her OCD mode, Karane is shaking with envy, Hahari is drooling, and Hakari is either disgusted at her mother for dressing Meme like that or she's envious at being reminded that Meme's chest is even bigger than hers.
• Shizuka lifts the back of Mei's dress to find Meme hiding there. When Meme disappears again, Shizuka is left staring at Mei's panties, causing her and Mei to blush in embarrassment.
• Nano notices a bulge in the back of Kusuri's lab coat and lifts it to reveal... Hahari, who says she's using Meme as an excuse to sneak under everyone's clothes. Nano's only response is to cover up Hahari.
  Kusuri: Hm? What's up, Nano?
  Nano: That was... the incorrect life-form.
• Hakari points out that Meme is hiding behind Karane.
  Hakari: Oh, over there!
  Karane: It-It's not like I'm Meme, or anythin'!
  Hakari: I wasn't talking about you.
• One of Meme's hiding spots is Kurumi's shadow, prompting the latter to ask if Meme is some kind of ninja. Another one has Meme hanging over the edge of the roof, which leads to someone asking Meme if she's a ninja again.
• When Toruru confronts Meme, who is accompanied by Mimimi, Toruru opens a window to let in the wind and tries to take a picture of Meme's face, only to get a picture of Mimimi posing with one of Meme's toys instead. Toruru tries again and gets another picture of Mimimi, now with two toys.
• Crying in defeat, Toruru says the photos are so beautiful that she has to use them in an article before running off, but she crashes into something because she can't see with the tears in her eyes.
• It turns out Rentarou came up with the idea of Meme misdirecting Toruru into looking at Mimimi. Mimimi dubs it "The Misdirection Beauty Flow."
• The open window from earlier lets in a gust of wind that blows away the bangs covering Meme's face. Rentarou closes his eyes while Mimimi is utterly shocked to see Meme's face. When Mimimi says Meme is unthinkably beautiful, the latter disappears while Mimimi wants to learn Meme's beauty secrets.

Chapter 56

• The girls notice Rentarou dozing off while sitting up.
  Hahari: SHO KYUTE!
  • Then they decide to repay him for the things he does for them, as he's cutting into the time he needs to sleep. In Kusuri's case, he served as a test subject for her "Keeps-your-eyes-wide-so-you-can't-sleep" drug.
• So they wish for him to sleep on each of their laps and initiate the Lap Pillow Champion Play-off, where he sleeps on them before a timer goes off. Rentarou is disappointed that he doesn't have enough heads to sleep on all of their laps at once.
  Rentarou: Damn it... If only I were a Yamata-no-Orochi...!
  Chiyo: They only have eight heads, so you'd still be four short.
• Each time Rentarou sleeps, he enters a Dream Sequence invoking each of his girlfriends. And each one of course is utterly absurd.
  • There's also, as Kurumi puts it, a contrived sound effect as he goes to sleep.
    "Dream dream dream"
• #1: Mimimi. Rentarou dreams of her becoming the Paris fashion champion. Karane doesn't understand the context, but Mimimi and Rentarou are happy anyway.
• #2: Nano. She and Rentarou are carried through a meadow on a rig, gazing at the night sky and holding hands with the blankest faces possible.
  Rentarou/Nano: What a highly efficient date...!
• #3: Iku. At first, they were doing rigorous baseball practice... but then it devolves into Rentarou spinning like a top to paddle Iku's butt with a bat 1000 times.
  Rentarou: Now, Beyblade, GO!
• #4: Mei. Keeping with her Animal Motif, Mei's reimagined as a faithful dog that still has her hairdo. She also transforms into a bigger dog with turbine wings (a dogfighter, basically) to fly him to school.
• #5: Karane. ...Which is actually fairly heartwarming. It's just the two of them sharing each other's company and kissing in a field of heart-shaped clouds. There's no punchline to this other than how normal it is compared to the other entrants.
• #6: Shizuka. She and Rentarou are a princess and a prince who get married. It almost ends with them consummating their marriage, but then Rentarou thrusts himself awake before that can happen.
  Rentarou: GOOD MORNING!
  Meme: What kind of dream was it?
  Rentarou: Uh... no... see...
  Shizuka: ?
• #7: Hahari. Rentarou is a baby sitting in a crib, and Hahari is just about to feed him milk. From her breasts. Rentarou wakes himself up again to her disappointment. Hakari has some idea of what the dream was about.
  Hakari: A pillow should make you want to sleep, not do other nighttime activities.
• #8: Hakari, to speak of whom. All that's seen is a shot of ceiling chandeliers and some moaning before Rentarou wakes up yet again. Hakari is pissed.
  Hahari: That wasn't even a second.
• #9: Kusuri. Who's perfected her immortality drug and shares it with Rentarou so they can devote all their needs and time to kissing. Ten billion years after the earth is gone, an alien that the artist barely even tried to make look much different from a Xenomorph finds the two floating in space and still smooching. The alien blushes.
  Rentarou/Kusuri: And so we became the Adam and Eve of a brand new human race—
• #10: Kurumi. It starts off normal with Rentarou feeding her a baguette. She swallows the entire thing whole. Along with Rentarou's arm. And then the rest of him. Kurumi breaks down at his funeral while his spirit watches over her.
  Rentarou: It's okay, I'll always be here with you, Kurumi. In your flesh, and in your blood.
• #11: Chiyo. Which is the least romantic, as she spends more time complaining about how asymmetrical his character design is. Rentarou tries to remedy this; first by simplifying his design, then shaving himself bald, and finally turning into a diagram. Chiyo's still not happy.
  Chiyo: Wrrrrrrronggghh—!
• #12: Meme. Media groups all over the world are trying to expose her face, so she hides in Rentarou's clothes. While he's still wearing them. Rentarou decides this doesn't work and turns into Cybernetic Lifeform Evangtarou with Meme piloting him.
• Rentarou falls asleep while declaring the winner is all of them. The girls decide to place Rentarou on all of their laps to create a lap bed. In his dream, Rentarou's legs are really long and curve like a spiral so he can serve as a lap pillow to all of them.

Chapter 57

• While speculating what their new Japanese teacher could be like, Nano says she'd prefer "a no-nonsense educator who can teach without issue."
  Hakari: That's just how teachers normally are, isn't it?
  Karane: We're talkin' about a new character in this manga, y'know.
• Hakari says she'd like their Japanese teacher to be someone who specializes in Japanese. Meme asks if it would be someone who only spoke in kanji, while Karane points out that would just be Chinese.
  • Another subtle joke here is "speaking" entirely in kanji is impossible. In addition to foreign words and names that have no kanji, many words are a mix of kanji and hiragana characters, particularly verbs. The only way one could "speak" entirely in kanji would be to use phonetic kanji (using a kanji character simply because it can be read with the needed sound(s) and not for its meaning), but then all that person's dialogue would be impossible to actually read.
• It turns out their new Japanese teacher is an American named Miss Naddy, who's dressed in a Stripperiffic cowgirl outfit and speaks in a really thick southern accent.
  • She immediately starts an argument with Karane about her suitability as a Japanese teacher, getting sidetracked by a spiel about freedom.
• When Miss Naddy gets a ZING!! with Rentarou, she tells him to see her after class for supplementary lessons because his eyebrows are disrupting the class.
• During their after-school session, Naddy gets flirty with Rentarou, claiming this to be normal in America.
• After Rentarou points out that Naddy is actually Japanese, she confesses that her real name is Yamato Nadeshiko. When Rentarou recalls that Naddy said she came from America, Naddy admits she went to America for five minutes yesterday before coming back just to avoid lying.
• A flashback shows young Nadeshiko watching a movie, where she's amazed at the kind of freedom American children have, such as eating pizza, holding popcorn, drinking soda, and wearing shoes inside the house.
• The flashback then cuts to Naddy, her hair dyed and wearing an "I LOVE AMERICA" shirt, getting banned from her home by her parents. Naddy says "Fakkyuu...!" while her left hand is censored from presumably Flipping the Bird, shaking all the while.
• Suddenly, it makes sense that Girlfriend #13 is a reverse Occidental Otaku.

Chapter 58

• While everyone is drawing their freedom outfits, Nano's picture is a blocky stick figure made up of lines so straight that Karane remarks they "don't look even remotely hand-drawn."
• In stark contrast to her usual friendly self, Naddy yells "Scrap this junk!" when she sees Nano's drawing. When she says the same thing about Hahari's, Hahari points out that she's Naddy's boss, while Naddy says her true boss is freedom. Naddy saying it again to Iku causes Iku to enjoy the rejection.
• Mei is wondering what freedom is, Nano is at a loss on what to do, and Chiyo is crying "I dun get iiiit!" after somehow losing her glasses.
• After everyone came up with designs that met Naddy's approval, their clothes arrive the very next day. Hahari looks quite sinister as she says, "The power of capital is enough to make any ridiculous demand a trivial matter."
  Hakari: She looks just like she did during her debut as an antagonist.
  Nano: It is hard to argue her development since has been an improvement.
• Hahari decides to "help" everyone change by undressing them. Hakari tells her to go after Kurumi first, while Kurumi calls out Hakari for pointing Hahari at her.
• Mimimi's outfit is so massive that she appears to be four times taller than everyone else, prompting one person to ask, "What on earth are you even wearing?"
• Mei's outfit has her dressed as a walking Sanrio puppy. Hahari finds it so cute that she says, "I think I've got arrhythmia!" When the outfit is revealed to have a function that wags its tail with Mei's pulse, Hahari says, "Are you trying to kill me!?"
  • Naddy appears to be completely indifferent and unimpressed with Mei's outfit. She also has the same reaction to everyone else's outfits, no matter how outlandish they are.
• Shizuka's outfit causes Rentarou to excitedly call her "a walking princess." Kurumi asks him, "Is that not normal to you?" which implies Kurumi has always seen Shizuka as a princess.
  Nano: This makes me wish I could take her around Disneyland...
  Karane: What are you, her mom?
• When Chiyo is shown to be dressed as a policewoman, Hahari says, "I'd happily let myself be taken in if it's by a cute little officer like this!"
  Shizuka: "Let's just hope that line isn't" "foreshadowing."
• Kurumi is dressed as a macaron fairy. She explains that she saw an ad for Acron detergent yesterday and it made her want to eat macarons, leading someone to say, "At least it didn't make you want to eat Acron." It's even made with real macarons, which she proceeds to eat.
• Hakari is dressed in a Stripperiffic outfit and covered in melted chocolate hearts.
  Hakari: I'm... Ready. To. Eat.♥
  Chiyo: Hussyyy rrrghh!
• Rentarou and Karane are horrified to see what appears to be Kusuri preserved in formalin, while Naddy continues to look unmoved. Kusuri explains that she's actually in a drug that looks like formalin and is harmless to the human body, although it does make pee more yellow.
• After Rentarou reveals his outfit is pre-time skip Luffy, Iku asks why he didn't go for the time skip design. Rentarou says it's because he can't use Haki yet.
  Kurumi: Wait, are you planning to learn it someday?
  Kusuri: Of all people, I bet you Rentarou could.
• As Karane tries to back out of showing her outfit, Hakari accuses Karane of making a fuss to get a page to herself, which actually happens. When Karane is revealed to be wearing a really soft and girly outfit, Hakari teasingly calls her a cutie while Rentarou calls Karane the softest and fluffiest thing in the world. Karane punches Rentarou in response, which causes his head to spin around while he says her punches are soft and fluffy too.
  Shizuka: "There's no doubt about it anymore, that" "sense of pain" "is long dead."
• Hahari is revealed to be wearing a high school uniform like Hakari, prompting Rentarou to call her Hahari-senpai. Mei is so shocked that her eyes are open while her ghost, which has dog ears, is flying away, requiring Nano to dunk it back into her body.
  • Hakari says "Oh, Mother...!" seemingly in awe, but the narration reveals her true feelings.
    Narration: From the very bottom of her heart, what Hakari honestly thought was "You look like you take clients." But she read the mood around her and skillfully mimicked it.
  • Considering Hakari's own outfit, this is rich.
• After Naddy tells everyone how much she loved their outfits, Iku, the girl who makes no effort to hide her masochism, and Hahari, the woman who can't keep her hands to herself, talk about how hard it is to be honest about your feelings and true to yourself.
  Kurumi: I don't think that's ever been a problem for you two.
• Following Miss Naddy revealing her past to everyone, the group starts socializing.
  • Hahari asks if she can have a "bite" of Hakari's costume, but Hakari turns her down, saying it's only for Rentarou.
  • Iku begins climbing Mimimi while the latter tells Iku not to use her as training equipment.
• Naddy and Rentarou try to kiss each other, but their hats get in the way.
  Naddy: Guess I oughta take my hat off to ya.

Chapter 59

• Everyone gets stuck inside of a photo booth because Kusuri took her negation drug to take pictures of her older form, even though it was already a tight fit with her younger self.
• When Karane feels someone grope her butt, she accuses Hahari of doing it. Hahari denies it was her while drooling a waterfall.
  Karane: Save your excuses until after you stem that Niagara Flow!
  Footnote: The Great Falls of Saliva
  • Meme confesses it was actually her who was touching Karane because she was trying to stretch her arm. Karane says it's fine since it was just Meme, prompting Hahari to ask why Meme gets a pass.
• Kurumi feels her butt getting groped and assumes it was Meme again, but Meme says it wasn't her. Behind her is a smiling, drooling Hahari.
  Hahari: Xièxie^note Mandarin Chinese for "thank you" for the squishy little handful.
  Kurumi: Whyyy youuu! Don't expect me to forget any of this once we're out!
• After Rentarou grabbed the hand of whoever was trying to take off his pants, Hakari feigns innocence while her thoughts reveal it was actually her. Hakari believes he won't be able to tell it was her since it's too cramped to see anything, only for Rentarou to say the hand feels like hers.
• Poor Shizuka is handling the cramped environment worse than anyone. As Nano puts it:
  Nano: Yoshimoto Shizuka's already poor capacity for survival is being overwhelmed—She may be crushed to death...!
• Rentarou makes room for Shizuka by arching his body away from her while planting his head on the wall. Shizuka likens it to a Wall Pin of Love.
• When Naddy suddenly hugs Mimimi, the latter thinks it's because of how beautiful she is, but Naddy is doing it because having everyone pair up with each other will give more room for Shizuka.
• The group tries to yell for help, but no one can hear them. When Karane points out how noisy it is even for an arcade, Nano says there's a challenger in a life-or-death game who's willing to spend every last cent to achieve victory and get enough rewards to last a lifetime, prompting someone to ask if this person is Kaiji.
• When everyone considers waiting until the fuss dies down or Kusuri's negation drug wears off, Hakari points out they just ate and drank, meaning if they don't get out soon, they'll be drowned in a "urinary aqua laguna." Kusuri isn't worried since she's wearing a diaper, while Karane points out that the rest of them don't.
• Kusuri tries to drink her "makes-your-metabolism-faster" drug so the negation drug will wear out faster, but she can't reach it, so Chiyo has to get it with her mouth. Chiyo's movements cause Kusuri to laugh and knock the vial out of the former's mouth, which bounces across Meme and Mimimi's chests before Nano catches it in her mouth.
• Nano tries to say something, but holding the drug in her mouth causes it to be muffled. According to Rentarou, Nano was saying, "We need to pass this to Yakuzen Kusuri via mouth-to-mouth relay."
  Karane: How'd you parse that?!
  Rentarou: Because I love her.
• Nano decides to pass the drug to Mimimi. Mimimi is very flustered to be so close to Nano, and holding the drug in her mouth with Nano reminds Mimimi of the pocky game. This causes Mimimi to start biting down on the drug while Kurumi yells at her not to bite it.
• Naddy compliments Mimimi's eyelashes as she receives the drug from her. Even though her speech is muffled, it's clear that Mimimi is saying, "Hmhmm, naturally!" in response.
• Hahari is mentally gushing about how cute Naddy is as she receives the drug from her. When Naddy kisses her on the cheek, the drug slips from Hahari's mouth.
  Hahari: GIMME SOME TONGUE ACTION!
  Naddy: Whoa Nelly!
  Shizuka: "Mom! Get the medicine!" (the drug lands in Hahari's cleavage) "The treasure lies in the valley of the goddess!"
  • Hahari decides to focus on the relay and tells Naddy they can French later, while Naddy says, "Nah, I'm good ma'am."
• Mei has to retrieve the drug from Hahari's cleavage, something the former is really uncomfortable with. The drug keeps slipping out of her mouth and slides further in until Mei is pressing her face into Hahari's cleavage. Mei mentally tells herself to focus even if her brain boils in her skull, while Hahari delightedly points out it looks like Mei is breastfeeding. Hahari says she's having a baby as the drug slides further into her cleavage, and when it slides all the way through and shatters on the floor, she says it's born.
• Hahari shouts, "Mei and my babyyy!" when she realizes the vial containing the drug is shattered. Mei tries to perform Tongue Suicide to atone for her failure while Hahari says, "I can bear as many you'd like!" Mei also urges Hahari to tear her corpse apart so everyone can escape while Hahari tells her to calm down.
• Mei bumps into Chiyo during her argument with Hahari, causing Chiyo's glasses to fall off. Chiyo proceeds to cry, saying It's All My Fault and sorry to everyone while asking them to at least let her leak before them.
• After Kusuri gets Chiyo to calm down, the latter calls her "Mom."
  Kusuri: Did you take hallucinogens while I didn't notice, yep?
• It turns out the person in a life-or-death game really is Kaiji, or at least a Lawyer-Friendly Cameo of him. His design causes him to look hilariously out of place in this series.
• Hearing the word "Overflow" gives Rentarou the idea to put a lot of money in the machine and write something. This causes the photo booth to print so many pictures that they start overflowing. The leader of the Gorira Alliance sees this and assumes the people in the photo booth are weirdos.
• When the Gorira Alliance leader sees SOS written on the photos, she pulls the curtain aside. One person screams, "Aaack! Japanese ruffians!" while Meme starts frantically apologizing and vibrating like she's trying to disappear but can't. Nano tries to assure everyone that they aren't ruffians, just a motorcycle gang. Mimimi thinks that's even worse, while Iku wants them to beat her up first. Fortunately, the Gorira Alliance helps everyone escape the photo booth.

Volume 7 Extras

• There's an even more zoomed-in picture of Hiro as he starts celebrating about grandkids. He's told it's still too early for that.
• Chiyo apologizes for tying up Iku, but the latter says it's fine and to not untie her, to Chiyo's confusion.
• The God of Love imagines there'll be merchandise of himself in the second wave for sure, which depicts a keychain of a chibi version of him with a mini Rentarou.
  Rentarou: Don't hold your breath.
• Even though Chiyo is growling at Rentarou in her OCD mode, he still thinks she's cute as she reminds him of a growling chihuahua. The love throb on his face combined with Chiyo's face causes Kusuri to think they're having a glaring contest.
• Hahari mistakes Toruru's name for the most obvious name one could think of.
  Hahari: Totoro?
  Toruru: IT'S TORURU!
• While Rentarou dreamed he had really long legs so he could give all the girls a Lap Pillow, he also dreamed he gave Shizuka a lift so she could play with the birds in the sky.
• All Naddy did when applying for a job as a teacher was go into Hahari's office and say, "I'm gonna be a teacher in this here school, ya hear?" Hahari hired her because she thought Naddy was a cutie.
• Rentarou initially assumes all the girls' freedom outfits are the cloaks they're wearing, saying they all look like paper teru-teru dolls. The narration points out he's jumping the gun.
• Continuing from the Volume 6 Extras, the God of Love gets another simple drawing of himself, which is just the original image mirrored.
  • He says flipping the image doesn't count as "different," points out that no one is going to notice the image is any different since the original drawing was already pretty symmetrical, and asks if this is a game of spot the difference.
  • The God of Love complains about how small the drawing makes him and claims Nozawa-sensei draws him taller than this. He tells the artist to stop being lazy and to at least make him taller.
  • The artist decides to oblige the God of Love and make him taller... by stretching the drawing. The God of Love screams and says he's gonna die, suggesting the drawing was actually the God of Love all along, making the whole thing similar to Duck Amuck.

Volume 8 (Chapters 60 - 68)

Chapter 60

• The chapter opens with Iku revealing she plans on seeing "Pa-On: The Bludge," which is said to be the scariest movie ever made. Chiyo easily guesses why Iku wants to go from the look on her face, and she learns for herself that Iku gets off on emotional pain as well.
• Iku asks if anyone else wants to see it with her:
  • Rentarou says he'd love to see it while visibly sweating.
  • Kusuri doesn't want to because she might wet herself, even though she's always wearing a diaper.
  • Karane claims, while sweating, it's not like she's scared or anything, she just has something to do.
• When Rentarou sees Iku wearing a skirt, he's so surprised by how cute she is that he tumbles backward down the escalator he went on. While Iku helps Rentarou walk, she looks a bit envious at how injured he is.
• Iku is the only person in the theatre who's enjoying the movie while everyone else, including Rentarou, is shivering in terror.
• Rentarou says he has a fever in every single joint after seeing the movie, and he's shivering so quickly that he appears a little blurry.
• While Iku is trying to win an autographed bat by hitting a baseball at a moving target, another girl named Mika, whose boyfriend Kazuto is also trying to get the prize, attempts to throw her off by claiming Iku is more of a boyfriend than Rentarou. Being insulted arouses Iku and causes her to get more into it, while Rentarou thinks Iku was being complimented and calls her a way cooler boyfriend than he is.
• After Rentarou switches with Iku, Kazuto boasts that his girlfriend is cuter and better at cheering than Iku. Rentarou goes so ballistic that Iku has to hold him back while telling him a bat isn't a tool for clubbing people, it's a tool for clubbing butts. Kazuto tries to keep his cool but is clearly terrified of Rentarou.
• When Rentarou finally manages to hit the target, he and Iku try to hug each other, only for Rentarou to fall flat on his face. Rentarou thinks Iku's cheering let him push his body past its limits and now he can't move anymore. Iku is impressed and says she'll have to work even harder to match that, while Rentarou tells her, "Please, don't. Seriously."
• As Mika rants about how much she hates baseball, Iku gives her a bat and tells her to try it herself. When Mika tries to hit Iku with it, the latter instinctively turns her butt toward her, but Mika stops before it hits her when Kazuto points out Iku gave her the autographed bat. Both girls say "Huh...?!" in response, Mika because she can't believe Iku gave the autographed bat to her, Iku because she didn't get hit.
• With Rentarou unable to move, Iku decides to get him home with a Bridal Carry, which embarrasses him a bit.

Chapter 61

• When Chiyo's glasses slide under a small gap, Rentarou considers breaking the bones in his hand so he can reach them.
• Shizuka decides to be a little dramatic when she retrieves Chiyo's glasses.
  Shizuka: "Behold, the might that my right hand commands." [...] "I bestow this upon thee."
• The bookstore at the mall has a display of volumes from the manga itself! Later, Rentarou joins two guys discussing the manga.
  Guy 1: Dude, check this out. The title is cringy as hell, but the cover girls sure are cute.
  Guy 2: Oh yeah, 100 Girlfriends. I heard the title is supposed to be a joke, but nobody got it. The author's on record saying it made him want to crawl into a hole and die.
  Guy 1: Whew... man's suffering for being too ahead of the curve, I guess.^note A tweet from the mangaka in response to the joke: "I've heard that it may be a bit misleading, so I'll justify it! Regarding episode 61, 'The title is gag, I'm gag.' Please be assured. There will be 100 people."
  Rentarou: The heroines in that one are the cutest in the whole galaxy. It has my highest recommendation.
• After Rentarou thinks how great it is that Chiyo has friends she can act her age with, some text boxes point to Shizuka and Kusuri saying "High School Year 1" and "High School Year 3" respectively, as a reminder that they're actually older than Chiyo, who's a Year 1 Junior High student.
• When a Jerkass tries to hit Chiyo after she demands he apologize to Shizuka and Kusuri for ruining their crepes, Kusuri hits him and his friend with her "human magnetization drug," causing them to end up in a vertical 69 position, just as she said would happen back in Chapter 10.
• The Jerkass yells "I'll kill ya!" as he tries to attack the girls, only to be stopped when Rentarou screams a far louder "I'LL KILL YA!" while sporting a Nightmare Face and swinging around a pair of shopping carts! The jerk and his friend are so terrified that they apologize and pay for the crepes, while Rentarou now looks like a shadowy demon.
  Footnote: Good boys and girls Don't Try This at Home! (Unless someone important to you is about to be killed)

Chapter 62

• When Hahari announces that the school will be having a spring festival, Karane asks if they're going to have one for every season. Hahari says, "If I feel like it," while Kusuri asks if spring will ever end in this manga.
• A week before the festival, Hahari gets a call informing her that one of the performers of B.A.K.A. 69 fell during a dance that triggered a domino effect, causing all of them to get bone fractures. Thus, Hahari asks the girls if they're willing to become idols to fill in for them.
• Karane tries to object to becoming an idol until Rentarou says all of them singing and dancing sounds cute.
  Karane: It-It's not like I'm interested or nothin', but I guess I'll give it a shot!
  Naddy: Shucks, ya'll Japanese young-ins are so easy.
• Hahari hires a former top idol named Quali Tina to teach everyone how to be idols. Tina describes everyone's dancing as a type of quality.
  • Shizuka, Kusuri, and Chiyo are depicted as adorable chibi figures, which is dubbed "Playdate Quality."
  • Hakari, Hahari, and Meme are feeling sore from all the bouncing their large chests do, which is called "Titty Quality." Karane is in the background glaring at them.
  • Naddy's childhood training is causing her to dance differently than everyone, which is dubbed "Traditional Japanese Quality."
• Tina's catchphrase while training everyone is "Qually! Tee!"
• The next lesson is singing.
  • Shizuka's singing causes Rentarou and Hahari to crash into the wall in Yamcha poses again like in Chapter 38. Tina tells them to pipe down.
  • Meme is so quiet that Tina tells her to pipe up.
  • Mimimi sings "Mi mi miiiii!" while dramatically raising her hand, while Tina tells her this isn't an opera.
  • Naddy singing enka style causes Tina to ask, "Why is a Yankee Doodle like you singing and dancing in such antiquated Japanese styles?!" Naddy tries to defend herself before being flattered that Tina called her a Yankee Doodle and starts acting bashful.
• When Hahari starts struggling because of how much her breasts hurt, Tina slaps her in the face and orders her to get up. Then Mei slaps Tina for slapping Hahari.
• A montage ensues of everyone practicing.
  • Chiyo's father Hiro is Giving Up the Ghost after seeing her practice.
  • Iku is training to the point of exhaustion and enjoying it while her brother tries to stop her.
• While the girls are dancing, Tina describes Kurumi as a "well-fed student", Hakari, Meme, and Hahari as "Holstein students^note Holstein is a breed of dairy cow", and Naddy, who isn't matching anyone else's movements, as "those who are Japanese at heart."
• When Tina tries to have Hahari, Chiyo, Hakari, Shizuka, Naddy, and Meme drop out because they're underperforming, the other girls refuse as they each give their own reason for not abandoning them. Kurumi struggles to explain her reason, so Karane does it for her.
  Karane: They're all doin' their best, which lets us do our best, too. ...Is that what you were gettin' at? —'CUZ IT'S NOT LIKE THAT'S WHAT I WAS THINKIN', OR ANYTHING!
  Kurumi: Get a grip...
• Tina promptly decides to quit.
  Tina: I will hereby step down as your coach!
  Mei: (while Tina is talking) Understood.
  Tina: At least mull it over!
• After Hakari repeats what Karane said to Tina earlier, Karane screams, "GET OOOOOUUUUUTT!"
• When Rentarou offers to be everyone's coach, he explains that he recorded their lessons and rewatched them so much the video burned off the DVDs.
  Kurumi: I've literally never heard of that happening.
• Tina overhears their resolve and is so frustrated she screws up her own catchphrase.
  Tina: QUALLY... REEEEE!

Chapter 63

• Rentarou goes wild as he cheers for the girls during the festival, while the rest of the audience walks away.
• One reason the crowd is leaving is because B.A.K.A. 69 is there to do signings and stuff, even though they're all using crutches and have leg casts. They came because Tina called them over to draw attention away from Rentarou's family. That's right, Tina is so petty over being rejected that she got injured people to show up just to upstage them.
• Chiyo's father Hiro arrives carrying a large bag while bleeding because he was hit by a tanker truck.
  Rentarou: How does that keep happening to you?!
  Hiro: I'm just worthless without you... I need you with me...
  Rentarou: That kinda sounds like a proposal...
• Hiro says it's not a big deal because the bag he was carrying cushioned the impact.
  Rentarou: I can't really agree with that.
  Hiro: This is just a scratch, compared to missing out on Chiyo's performance!
  Rentarou: Yeah, that's fair enough, actually.
• When Hiro notices that no one is watching Chiyo, whom he calls "the cutest thing alive," he asks if they're all right in the head. Rentarou says he was wondering the same thing.
• Rentarou and Hiro each created ten life-sized puppets of themselves so they could make the audience look bigger by themselves.
• Hakari is excited to see so many "Rentarou-kuns," but her thoughts quickly get really dirty.
  Hakari: (thinking) B-But... I only have so many holes... If I were to be mobbed by so many Rentarou-kuns... Ahh... Oh nooo...
• The Jurassic High Baseball Team shows up to support Rentarou's family. The baseman still calls Shizuka by her dog's name, while Terano is still sulking over being unable to throw anything but fastballs.
• One of the people getting autographs from B.A.K.A. 69 asks them to sign his marriage registration. A crowd member points out he's cheating while another says "Kill him!"
• The family's performance was such a hit that a famous idol producer named Jesus Nakai scouts them. As he offers to make them world-famous idols, the narration says the "Lovey Dovey School Life Arc" is over while the "Idol Road Arc" will begin. However, when he says they must never fall in love, the girls immediately walk out on him. The narration says the "Idol Road Arc" is over while the "Lovey Dovey School Life Arc" will continue.

Chapter 64

• Rentarou is briefly taken aback by the dialect of the head of the Gardening Club, Yamame Yasashiki, who turns out to be Girlfriend #14.
• Rentarou initially believes Yamame is wearing flower and butterfly accessories in her hair, before discovering they're actually alive. Yamame says they just appeared on her head one day and she doesn't want to drive them off, so she's raising them. Apparently, the key is to shampoo very gently.
• Yamame loves plant life so much that she won't even kill weeds. Instead, she moves them into a dedicated weed garden.
• When the narration says, "Sure she's not a Laputian robot?" Rentarou grabs the text box and snaps it into pieces before tossing them into the empty space outside the panels.
• Yamame recounts the time she helped a fallen chick back into its nest. The mother bird is thinking, "Oh, my dear son!" while the chick is thinking, "Mum!" as they tearfully hug each other.
• Rentarou hears something coming and assumes it's an animal. Turns out, it's actually the Vice-Principal, who's crawling on all fours because she threw out her back.
  Rentarou: The creature called "Vice-Principal?!"
• When Yamame suddenly falls over in terror, Rentarou assumes she was scared of the Vice-Principal and assures Yamame she isn't an alien. Yamame was actually scared of a fire, specifically the tiny burning moxa on the Vice-Principal's back.
• After Rentarou helps Yamame care for the garden, the Vice-Principal reappears with her hair on fire from the moxa.
  Rentarou: Vice-Propellant!
  Yamame: (falls over) A DEMON OF FIRE!
• The Vice-Principal tries to extinguish the fire by headbanging, which Rentarou compares to "the final gig of some extreme metal band." The fire eventually morphs into a mushroom spark cloud.
• As Rentarou protects Yamame from the flames, she thinks back to the time she caught a falling tree to save a deer, and the time she used her body to protect some flowers from a landslide.
• The Vice-Principal frantically crawls to the sports club and asks them to spit their sports drink on her. One of them says, "Gaahh! Is this the wrath of God?!"
• When Rentarou assures Yamame that nature wouldn't frown upon him for engaging in Polyamory, Yamame thinks that he represents all flora and fauna and that she was taking care of him the whole time.
  Rentarou: No, this isn't like the story of the Crane's Return of a Favor.

Chapter 65

• Yamame says, "Aye it's nice to meetcha!" after being introduced.
  Kusuri: "Aye" is a really funny thing to say, yep yep!
  Karane: I mean, "yep yep" is a really funny thing to say, yep yep.
• To go with all the flower crowns Yamame and Rentarou got them, Hahari uses some surplus curtains she accidentally ordered to create white dresses. When Chiyo calls Hahari out for being careless, the latter claims it's not her fault she got distracted, and all the pictures of the idol performance were just too cute.
  Karane: Workin' ain't the time to be oglin' at that stuff.
  Kurumi: Probably should've expected she has creep shots of that.
• Seeing all the girls put on the flower crowns and white dresses causes Rentarou to explode.
  Rentarou: All 4000 of my Life Points!
• Hahari was so distracted by the pictures that she also got a curtain that was the wrong length. Although it does make a suitable dress for Yamame, Karane can't help but ask when will Hahari learn from her mistakes.
• While Yamame is giving a piggyback ride to Shizuka, Kusuri, and Chiyo, she asks Nano if she wants a ride too.
  Nano: No, thank you. I am terrified.
• After Yamame asks everyone if they want to go to the field to get fruits and veggies, Kurumi tearfully says, "I want to leave!" Upon eating some of the food there, Kurumi just as tearfully says, "I want to live here!" Making it better is that its a clear reference to Nico Robin's "I want to live!" moment, the second time even having Kurumi undergo an Art Shift making her look like she was drawn by Eiichiro Oda.
• When Rentarou screams all of a sudden, Hahari asks what's wrong. Rentarou says seeing everyone eating strawberries was so cute it literally shocked him.
• The strawberries are so sweet that Kurumi says trying to eat them with condensed milk will get you slapped with a curse. She says this with a big smile, stars in her eyes, her fist pumped into the air, and saying "Wahooo!"
  Mimimi: That sentence isn't lining up all that naturally with your cheer.
• Hakari kisses Rentarou after eating a strawberry because it's said that strawberries stimulate the taste of sweetness in the mouth. Then she starts quivering as she says, "Which may or may not amplify the pleasure of kissing...♥" Rentarou is worried that the strawberries amplified her pleasure too much, but Karane says Hakari is just being her usual self.
• Chiyo's OCD kicks in when everyone starts kissing Rentarou. Not because she disapproves of it, but because she wants a turn as she leaps into the action.
  Mei: Can you pick an emotion and stick to it?
• Hakari encourages Yamame to kiss Rentarou while blushing and wiping the drool off her mouth. Iku says it sounds like Hakari is trying to get Yamame drunk.
• Karane even acts like a tsundere to flowers.
  Karane: It-It's not like I think you're all pretty, or anything!
  Kusuri: You could at least water plants quietly, yep yep.
• Nano repeatedly says "I love you" to some plants because Yamame said earlier that plants grow well when raised with love.
• Yamame remembers watching a show where a man said he'd never go out with a girl taller than him. Yamame's father then turns off the TV with a furious expression while saying, "What a trash show, aye!"
• When Yamame sees all the other girls are the same height as her, she initially assumes that everyone grew up all of a sudden. In reality, they're all standing on piles of dirt while using some leftover curtains to conceal them. Hahari says there were still plenty of curtains left over from the ones she ordered, prompting Kurumi to say, "Don't start acting like you got them on purpose."
• After Yamame kisses Rentarou, all the other girls proceed to kiss him while towering over him. The narration points out it looks like a scene from Attack on Titan, while some onlookers think Rentarou is being devoured, said onlookers clearly being the Shiganshina Trio.

Chapter 66

• When everyone goes to the Hanazono residence for a blind potluck challenge, where each person brings a secret ingredient that is added to a hot pot, Hakari and Kusuri are immediately tied up.
  Kusuri: I object to this violation of my rights, yep yep.
• Karane accuses them of bringing an aphrodisiac or some other weird drug. Hakari denies it while Kusuri says her drug is neither an aphrodisiac nor weird, which implies she really did bring a drug.
• Kusuri insists that drugs are a type of food, prompting Kurumi to say, "In Kusuri Land, maybe, but not here."
• The Lie Detector is brought out to screen the ingredients.
  • First up is Hakari.
    Hakari: The ingredient I brought would be categorically recognized as "food" by literally anybody.
    Lie Detector: Truth! Truth!
    • Hakari proceeds to rub it in Karane's face while the latter is trembling in anger.
    • The fact that Hakari provided a weirdly specifically worded response all but confirms an invocation of Exact Words on her part.
  • Nano claims that adding supplements to the hot pot is the most efficient way of getting nutrients. The machine registers this as a lie.
    Karane: You've got a real Spartan diet.
  • Iku brought a cocoa flavor protein mix and says, "Protein isn't scary, it's your friend!" which the machine calls a lie.
    Kurumi: It isn't friends with pots.
• Chiyo unveils the first ingredient, which is udon from Kurumi. Chiyo is irked because udon is supposed to be saved for last and starts to enter her OCD mode. Not wanting to ruin the mood, Chiyo deliberately removes her glasses so she'll start crying instead.
  Chiyo: Udon's sooo gooood!
  Kusuri: You're acting like we have to ration off every bite, yep yep.
• Nano immediately goes next. When Hakari suggests at least drawing it out for a panel or two, Nano says, "Blame the author."
  • The ingredient Nano uncovers is from Shizuka. The blind potluck made Shizuka think of wicked witches cackling around a cauldron, which is why she brought a frog-shaped dumpling. Nano stares at the dumpling for a bit as she wonders how something so cute can be wicked.
• Shizuka wonders what "wicked ingredient" she'll find before picking up what appears to be squirrel brains. It's actually a walnut from the mixed nuts Mimimi brought.
  • Since Kurumi is Japanese for walnut, Hahari uses this as an excuse to start flirting with Kurumi, who has Dull Eyes of Unhappiness.
    Hahari: Hey, may I have a bite of Kurumi, too? Would you mind signing me a consent form saying "Hanazono Hahari may taste Kurumi?" I think I'll take that silence as a "yes." Ahh, wait, wait, wait, don't go dialing emergency services.
• When Kusuri gets a sunflower seed, someone asks, "Who brought this? Hamtaro!?" which is accompanied by an image of Hamtaro with his eyes covered by a black box. Turns out, it's also from the mixed nuts Mimimi brought.
• Naddy finds a fishball from Chiyo. After Chiyo explains that each of her fishballs have a different flavor, Naddy calls them Russian Roulette fishballs, prompting Chiyo to say they aren't that dangerous.
  Karane: Why is it that every time Naddy opens her mouth, it sounds like some kinda advanced reading test?
  Nano: Not even passing the test would cause her parlance to make any more sense.
• Yamame picks up a chicken tender, which was Iku's backup ingredient. Iku thinks her ingredient feels a little pedestrian compared to Chiyo's fishballs, but Yamame tells her not to say that, because chicken tenders are living things, too.
  Karane: No, that chicken is 100% dead.
  • Iku offers to let Yamame paddle her in place of the chicken tender, to which Yamame says Iku's butt is a living thing, too.
• Hakari gets karaage, a type of fried chicken, which is from Karane. Hakari asks if Karane picked karaage because of her name. It takes Karane a Beat Panel before she freaks out upon realizing the pun. After Hakari says she thought it was funny, Karane insists she wasn't trying to be funny, followed by Shizuka and Meme saying they thought it was funny too.
  Karane: Tryna be nice can hurt, too!
• Mimimi picks up a shark fin from Hahari. Mimimi calls them a wonderful source of collagen as she eats it, only to discover it's still very hot.
  Mimimi: AHH, HOT HOT HOT, NATURALLY!
• Mei gets something that she calls "an honored butt." Hearing the word "butt" prompts Iku to ask, "You rang?" while Chiyo says nobody rang. It turns out Rentarou of all people brought it.
  Chiyo: Sexual harassment rrrgh!
  Rentarou: No, no, no, it was ham sliced into a heart shape...! But I guess the end got cut off in the pot.
• Karane finds a CalorieMate, which was Nano's backup ingredient. Nano claims using it as an ingredient is an efficient way of getting nutrients, while Karane points out it's not meant to be an ingredient. Nano then says it's more efficient to mix all of your food into one meal instead of separate meals, to which Karane says, "That's not efficient, that's cursed."
• Hahari picks up sakura monaka, which is mochi with a sweet filling. Mei brought it because it's one of Hahari's favorite foods, even though a sweet food like that is a poor fit for a hot pot. Despite this, it's still quite good, prompting Hahari to say, "Our chef is quite the miracle worker."
• Meme gets what looks like a zombie Pentarou. Kusuri says that's the Pentarou gummy she brought, which melted in the hot pot. She used it because that's the only thing she had in her pocket, meaning it was her backup ingredient. Kurumi is furious that Kusuri would add something like that to the hot pot, becoming so menacing that the normally carefree Kusuri is nervously stammering as Kurumi glares at her.
  Naddy: Her dialogue turned into a hot mess.
  Karane: You're one to talk.
• Rentarou finds what seems to be a stuffed toy. He asks Meme if she dropped it during a misdirection, while she explains that she actually knitted it out of konjac noodles. Rentarou becomes reluctant to eat it, not because it's made of konjac as Meme thought, but because it's too cute to eat. He eventually gets around it by eating it one thread at a time; Kusuri says it looks like he's slurping up its brains.
• When Iku picks up a rose, she considers it a challenge and proceeds to eat it. Karane urges Iku to stop and not give up her humanity as Yamame explains she brought it along with the vegetables. Iku is disappointed that it actually tastes good, which causes Yamame to grow despondent. Iku tries to apologize for calling it a challenge and offers to do a hundred million practice swings as punishment, which Chiyo points out wouldn't be a punishment for Iku.
• Kurumi of all people ends up being the last person to pull something out of the hot pot, which turns out to be... a Big Mac.
  Kurumi: There's only one person here who would even dare to think of putting a Big Mac in a hot pot.
  Naddy: (raises her hand) You got it, hoss.
  • Despite this, Kurumi still eats it while gushing about how good it is.
    Kurumi: Well, who cares! IT'S YUMMY! A Big Mac is great even if you cook it in a pot! And that's because it's a Big Mac! Big Macs are made of Big Macs, so no matter how it's prepared, it's gonna be good!
    Karane: You're a Big Mac believer, then...?
    Footnote: Kurumi is also a MOS Burger believer, a Burger King believer, and a Lotteria believer.
    And every single other chain too, for that matter.
• Upon discovering an unidentified type of meat in the hot pot, everyone realizes they never found out what Hakari brought to the potluck.
  Karane: She hid in the blindspot created by this stupid huge number of girlfriends!
• Hakari brought a special meat that's believed to stimulate lust—sea otter meat, just like in Golden Kamuy. This is followed by Hakari's thoughts revealing she couldn't get any sea otter meat, so it's just regular beef that's been soaked in an aphrodisiac she got from Kusuri.
• Rentarou realizes what Hakari's plan is and counters it by suggesting everyone sumo wrestle, just like in Golden Kamuy. He thinks having everyone sumo wrestle will allow them to work off the ache and go back to normal because that's how it worked in Golden Kamuy. The narration says Rentarou's extreme sexual arousal is causing his judgment to be severely impaired.

Chapter 67

• The chapter is called "Sea Otter Hot Pot Sumo Tournament (Grave Sea Otter Slander)" because everyone but Hakari believes they're aroused because they ate sea otter meat when it was actually beef laced with an aphrodisiac.
• The first image shows some of the girls dressed as sea otters. Highlights include Kurumi happily eating something and Hahari drooling while holding an uncomfortable Hakari.
• Round 1 has Rentarou (Love Mountain) against Shizuka (Still Waters). Rentarou finds Shizuka so adorable that he can't fight back at all, with a text box saying, "His fighting spirit has been obliterated." Shizuka on the other hand tries to put in more effort when she realizes she can do "more" with Rentarou if she wins, only to slip and fall on her face.
• Round 2 is against Chiyo (Orderly Alp).
  • All the aching Chiyo feels from the aphrodisiac causes her OCD to trigger.
    Chiyo: Inappropriate aching rrrgh!
    Rentarou: Are you fighting against me or yourself?!
  • Chiyo's OCD gives her enough strength to push Rentarou to the edge. Just as she's about to push Rentarou out of the ring, Chiyo's glasses suddenly fall off, causing her to cry while falling to her knees.
    Chiyo: Why's my body all itchyyy?! I dunno what's going ooon!
• Round 3 is against Meme (Hidden Hills). Meme disappears while wrestling Rentarou because of how lewd she feels, causing Rentarou to lose his balance and fall. Hakari and Hahari start celebrating as they believe Meme won, only to Face Fault when Mimimi points out Meme left the ring before Rentarou fell, meaning he's the winner.
• Round 4 is against Hakari (Budding Blossom). Hakari hugs Rentarou and pushes her breasts into him to overwhelm him with arousal. When Rentarou passes out, Hakari immediately strips completely naked and tries to hug him, only to wonder if the manga would really let her beat him this easily. She then realizes it was actually her who passed out from lust. Rentarou performs "Secret technique: The Kiss of Life!" to wake up Hakari.
• Round 5 is against Hahari (Mount Motherly). Rentarou stops moving when Hahari subjects him to Marshmallow Hell. When she looks at his face, Rentarou has Empty Eyes and a nosebleed as the words "This man is dead on his feet" appear. Hahari falls to her knees and cries as she begs Rentarou not to leave them. Then she performs "Secret technique: The Kiss of Life!" to wake him up.
• Round 6 is against Kusuri (Medicine Meadows). After Rentarou fails to lift her into the air, Kusuri reveals she drank her "Makes-you-a-hundred-times-heavier drug," which Rentarou says is literally doping. However, the increased weight causes Kusuri to fall through the floor, leading to Rentarou desperately hanging on to Kusuri and asking someone to get the "negation drug" while Kusuri shouts, "I'm gonna diiie!"
• Round 7 is against Kurumi (Famished Flower). Hearing Mei constantly say "nokotta" causes Kurumi to get hungry for panna cotta, making her so hangry that she starts to push Rentarou back. Rentarou gets Kurumi to stop by convincing her that the cream pan he brought is the same as panna cotta because they both contain cream and have pan in their names. Kurumi proceeds to happily leave the ring to get the cream pan.
  Kurumi: Yaaay, panna cottaaa!
  Mei: The winner is Love Mountain!
  Chiyo: Kurumi rrrgh!
• Round 8 is against Naddy (Grand Naddyon). Naddy hugs and kisses Rentarou to disorient him before tackling him to the ground. However, Naddy enveloped Rentarou in a hug when she tackled him, meaning her arms touched the ground first. This also caused Naddy to injure her arms, with Rentarou trying to rub them better after the round.
• Round 9 is against Mimimi (Peak of Beauty). Rentarou slips off of Mimimi's smooth skin, leaving him unbalanced. Mimimi tries to push him down, only to slip off her palms and fall down before him. When Rentarou tries to pull her up after the round, her arm slips through his hands, causing her to fall again.
  Kurumi: Are we oil wrestling now?
• With nine people down, there are only five left, but they're also the best fighters: Nano, Karane, Yamame, Iku, and Mei.

Chapter 68

• Round 10 of the sumo wrestling tournament is against Nano (Clear Waters). Nano tries to calculate the best path to victory by analyzing Rentarou's body, but the aphrodisiac causes her to get distracted every time she sees his collarbone. The first time she misses his leg, and the second time she slips and falls over.
  Nano: What could have disrupted my calculations...?
  Kurumi: That aching, obviously.
• Round 11 is against Mei (Dutiful Daffodil).
  • Since Mei can't serve as the gyōji (referee) this round, Chiyo does it instead, looking absolutely adorable in a gyōji hat.
  • When Hahari orders Mei to eliminate Rentarou, Mei is suddenly surrounded by a Battle Aura.
    Rentarou: Did she just cast a buff on you?
  • Mei repeatedly chants, "I will eliminate him without fail," as she tries to push Rentarou out of the ring.
    Rentarou: This is like a horror movie where the characters are attacked by a rampaging robot hell-bent on executing its prime directive...!
  • Rentarou realizes the only way he can stop Mei from eliminating him is if he eliminates himself first. When he leaps backward, Mei rationalizes that if Rentarou eliminates himself, then she can't fulfill Hahari's order to eliminate him. She proceeds to grab his arm and pull him back into the ring, leaving herself vulnerable to Rentarou picking her up and planting her on the ground.
  • After Mei congratulates Rentarou for winning, she announces that she'll have to pay for her failure to follow Hahari's order with her life. Hahari immediately tells Mei to forget the order.
• Round 12 is against Yamame (Mount Mountain).
  • When Yamame lifts Rentarou into the air, she talks about the time she managed to pin down a bear.
    Kusuri: She's way beyond human, yep yep!
    Iku: Yamame's incredible... I've never done any training like that...!
    Hahari: Don't even think about it.
  • Right before Yamame can slam Rentarou into the ground, she sees a leaf (which fell from her head earlier) and flips herself to avoid it, causing her to hit the ground first.
    Yamame: Leaves are living things too, aye!
    Karane: What are you, the Mother Teresa of the plant kingdom?!
• Round 13 is against Iku (Sporty Sunflower). Realizing he can't overpower Iku, Rentarou tries to slap her instead, which causes Iku to instinctively turn her butt to him. Rentarou stops before his hand touches her and proceeds to lift Iku before planting her outside of the ring.
• The 14th and final round is against Karane (Tsundere Spire).
  • Karane repeatedly thinks about how much she loves Rentarou, before tossing him while saying one of the most redundant tsundere phrases ever.
    Karane: It's not like I was thinkin' of anythin', or anythin'!
    Rentarou: Like what?!
  • Rentarou manages to grab Karane's arm as she throws him out of the ring, which somehow causes her to be pulled out of the ring with him.
    Kurumi: Are you Mercenary Tao?!
  • As they fall, Rentarou notices they aren't above the futon and tries to protect Karane. Upon realizing this, Karane says, "It's not like that makes me happy or anythin'!" while performing a tsundere backbreaker drop on Rentarou, causing him to cough up blood.
  • Mei notes that if this were a professional wrestling match, Karane would have won, but since it's sumo, Rentarou is the winner. As Rentarou is unconscious and bleeding from the mouth, someone remarks, "He doesn't really look like the winner."
  • Karane apologizes for hurting Rentarou while he assures her it's alright because he drinks milk every day just in case something like this happened.
    Kusuri: If it actually works, that's basically a drug, yep yep.
• So what does Rentarou want as the victor? To hug and kiss everyone.
• Hakari and Hahari are lying on the ground giggling in ecstasy after kissing Rentarou, while Kusuri says, "I'm leaking!♥♥♥"
• Rentarou says they're not finished and proceeds to kiss everyone repeatedly the entire night. By the time it's morning, the girls are all sparkling while Rentarou is on his knees and covering his face as he says, "I'm sorry... girls...!"

Volume 8 Extras

• Iku with a target on her butt.
  Iku: Just treat this target like the special homerun one.
  Rentarou: You mean I should miss?
• Rentarou does a cutesy pose for reference during the girls' idol practice.
  Hakari: (So cute.)
  Naddy: (So cute.)
  Hahari: (I'm gonna die.)
• Karane and Mimimi notice Chiyo's dad excessively cheering for Chiyo in the background (Yeah! Chiyo, babyyy! x 3) and mistake him for a stalker.
• The Vice-Principal pouring water bottles over herself to get rid of the fire in her hair.
  • Yamame calling the Vice-Principal a living thing.
    Rentarou: (thinking) What a tender soul...!
• Kusuri and Chiyo pull a convincing Totem Pole Trench with their dresses, with Kusuri on top.
  Kusuri: I turned into a Titan for real, yep yep.
  • Rentarou can immediately tell it's Chiyo holding Kusuri up just from looking at her feet. And not from the bubble showing Chiyo's head under Kusuri's dress.
• Kurumi forces everyone to finish the food first, despite how much they were aching and dripping with sweat from the aphrodisiac. Hakari in particular is trembling as the narration mentions that "some were dripping with other liquids, too."
• Yamame freaks out over the fire effect behind her from the final panel of Chapter 67.
• Due to being hypnotized as a child, Yamame thinks she was taught to walk on stilts by "a talking bug that's the size of Nausicaä's Worldbuilding."

Volume 9 (Chapters 69 - 77)

Chapter 69

• While Rentarou is looking for the mystery masseuse, he hears a scream and enters the tennis court to see multiple girls collapsed on the ground. Standing among them is a lone girl, making it look like she killed all of them. Luckily, the girls are just passed out from the massage the lone girl gave them.
• After the girl introduces herself as Momi Momiji (like Nobi Nobita), Rentarou asks Momiji why she just told him her name since no one ever mentioned it before. Momiji says she always introduces herself, but everyone feels so good from her massages that they always end up forgetting it.
  Rentarou: I would expect side-effects like that from drugs, not a massage.
• As Rentarou helps Momiji carry the girls to their clubroom, Momiji suddenly starts groping the breasts of the girl they're carrying. When Rentarou asks Momiji to show some restraint, she insists that there's nothing lewd or indecent about what she's doing and that Rentarou should get his mind out of the gutter, all while the panel is filled with "grope" sound effects.
  Rentarou: Maybe try that line without the constant stream of sound effects?
  • Suddenly it makes sense why Momiji was introduced in Chapter 69.
• Momiji admits that the main reason she gives massages is so she can savor the soft feeling of a woman's body.
  Rentarou: You're going to upset every masseur in the country saying that.
• That said, Momiji also massages women because removing the stress and fatigue from their bodies allows them to become as wonderfully soft as they can. She describes it as a very rewarding job... while still groping the girl they're carrying.
  Rentarou: Aaand you've ruined it.
• While Momiji massages Rentarou's body, she says his body is so stiff it's like she's massaging Astro Boy, with Rentarou's back being drawn in an incredibly detailed style that makes it look like it's made of metal, complete with a "ka-clang." When Momiji asks what Rentarou does each day, he says it's nothing serious, while his thoughts reveal he was running to each Japanese prefecture on foot to look for potential date spots, and he spent a week and a half without sleep to prepare for the girls' idol performance.
• After Rentarou praises Momiji's massage skills, she says she still needs practice before she can become the best masseuse she possibly can. Then, while drooling and groping the air, she mentions once she becomes famous, she'll be flooded with requests from gravure idols.
  Rentarou: They'll be mad if you get too frisky.
• Every time Momiji starts groping and nuzzling the breasts of a Nami hand pillow, Kurumi is sitting next to her looking perturbed.
• Momiji riding/massaging Rentarou's back on the bench while yelling, "ASTRO BOOOOY! THERE YOU GO ASTRO BOY, ON YOUR FLIGHT INTO SPACE!" As two students look on ahead, they assume that she's playing Astro Boy make-believe.
• Momiji asks Rentarou how he's able to turn his body into Astro Boy every day (and assumes that he's been enslaved to an underground manual labor facility). He explains his body ended up like this by helping someone who does the hardest, most difficult job in the world: the manga's artist, Nozawa-sensei.
• Nozawa-sensei's home is pixellated to protect her identity. When Nozawa herself appears, the manga says, "Behold, Nozawa-sensei's face!" even though she's also pixellated.
  • Nozawa-sensei understandably thinks she's dreaming or hallucinating about meeting Rentarou, who wholeheartedly thinks she's been working so hard that she's seeing things.
    Narration: Yes. Things like you.
• While Rentarou is helping Nozawa-sensei draw, two cats can be seen in the foreground, with the white cat punching the black cat's face in.
• Rentarou points to a black area in their actual world and tells Momiji he inked that while helping Nozawa-sensei draw the manga.

Chapter 70

• Kurumi and Momiji recognize each other as classmates. Momiji thought Kurumi was a delinquent because the latter was always sitting by herself to finish her lunch before noon, while Kurumi says Momiji was always sitting by herself groping things.
• Upon seeing all the girls, Momiji offers to give each of them a massage as a token of friendship... while drooling.
  Rentarou: Your ulterior motive is leaking.
• After Momiji massages Hakari, Meme, and Hahari's shoulders, Meme says she feels like she's going to fly away, while Chiyo points out Hahari's ghost really is flying away. Fortunately, Mei manages to catch Hahari's ghost and dunk it back into her body.
• Momiji massages Mei like she's petting a dog, to the point where Mei lies on her back and sprouts dog ears and a tail.
• Seeing Mei get massaged makes Kusuri wants to get one too, but because her body is 8-years-old, she has no stiffness in her body at all. Kusuri scrunches up her face in disappointment, which makes her brow stiff enough for Momiji to massage it. The way Momiji does it causes Kusuri to compare it to an iron claw.
• Yamame is so big that Momiji massages her back by spinning her head on it like a buffer, with Yamame repeatedly saying "Aye" like she's vibrating.
• When Mimimi is given a foot massage by Momiji to enhance her beauty, Mimimi is clearly in agonizing pain as she struggles to maintain her smile. Nano, Shizuka, and Naddy cheer her on, the first two dressing up as ouendan while the latter is dressed as a cheerleader. Momiji then decides to apply more pressure.
  Mimimi: Owowowowow naturally!
• Karane says "Hnnyaaa!" with a very blissful face when a specific pressure point is pushed. Hakari gets Momiji to keep pushing it until Karane lashes out at them, with Momiji dodging her attack while Hakari makes a run for it. Hahari says Hakari's beaming smile is from finding "a new way to play with her favorite toy."
• After Momiji informs Naddy that the latter doesn't have any stiffness, Naddy says it's because she doesn't hold back. Kusuri of all people asks, "Is that something a responsible grown-up should be saying, yep yep?" When Kusuri imagines Naddy peeing on the couch while watching TV, even she's disturbed by the idea.
• Iku wants Momiji to give her the painful foot massage, but Momiji insists on treating Iku's muscle pain, causing Iku to cry out in genuine anguish. Shizuka and Kurumi compare what happened to Revive Kills Zombie. Iku does cheer up a bit when Momiji gives her the foot massage afterward.
  • According to Momiji, Iku has accrued a lot of physical pain (although Iku herself appears normal), so much so that Momiji has a clear Freak Out through her text bubbles.
    Momiji: I CAN HEAR HOW YOUR MUSCLES SCREAM AND BEG FOR MERCY!
• After Momiji says she's a sucker for Kusuri, Chiyo, and Shizuka's cheeks, Kurumi's hunger kicks in as Hahari gives her a lollipop.
  Hahari: Do you like Mommy?
  Kurumi: Yep. ♥
  Hahari: Will you marry me?
  Kurumi: Nope. ♥
• When Momiji gets to Karane and Iku, Karane says it's not like there's anything for Momiji to grope, then angrily asks who said they got nothing to grope. Momiji proceeds to grope their butts, and while Karane is initially embarrassed, when Momiji says her butt is gentle, Karane thinks to herself that she wants Rentarou to know.
• Naddy agrees to let Momiji touch the spot where her butt and thighs meet. Although Naddy tries to act like there's no problem, it's clear she's very embarrassed given how much she's sweating and shaking.
• Hakari is very smug with all the praise Momiji gives while groping her breasts. She looks at Rentarou and wonders if hearing Momiji's compliments makes him want to try for himself. Rentarou is just glad Momiji is getting along with Hakari and everyone else. Right next to him is Karane, who's clearly ticked off by Hakari showing off her large bust again.
• With Hahari, Momiji pulls up her sleeve before sticking her arm in Hahari's cleavage. Momiji gushes about how wonderful it feels and cries Tears of Joy, but when Hahari says they can kiss too, Momiji immediately turns her down.
• Momiji is so determined to grope Meme that she gets dubbed "The Mominator." She's even accompanied by five du-duns like the Terminator's theme.
  • Meme tries to let Momiji grope her as thanks for the massage, but as Momiji leaps toward her saying "Teat-seeking missile," Meme disappears again, leading to Momiji latching onto Rentarou instead.
• Momiji gets so hooked on kissing Rentarou that she starts having "wild and crazy kissing" with him. Kusuri and Naddy want some "wild and crazy kissing" too, followed by the narration saying, "And then they had some wild and crazy kissing."

Chapter 71

• Chiyo and Naddy are eating at McDonald's and discussing two of Chiyo's classmates, Akogare and Manesu, whom Chiyo has been trying to get to stop smoking. The initial revelation causes Naddy to Spit Take, which she hides by claiming she can't handle soft drinks.
  • When Naddy learns that they won't listen:
    Naddy: Talk to em' with your fists!
    Chiyo: Miss Naddy, you are a teacher, right?
  • Since violence is out of the question, Naddy suggests sending "threatenin' letters" instead.
• For whatever reason, the English scanlation has Akogare and Manesu speaking in British slang.
• Chiyo confronts the two again in a park, which leads to them arguing over the prospect of spending money on Jump Comics volumes instead of cigarettes.
  Akogare: Yeah, muppet! These cost more than a single volume of Jump Comics! Bloomin' tosser!
  Chiyo: Then why not spend that money on manga, instead?! That's a much better hobby for junior high students like us to have!
  Manesu: You got any idea how many volumes of One Piece are out right now, you bleedin' muppet?!
  Akogare: Yeah, muppet! With our allowance, we wouldn't even get through the "East Blue" arc! Bloomin' tosser!
  • They also name-drop this very manga itself. And not only do 100 GF volumes cost more than cigarettes, they say it's worse for your brain.
• Then Naddy comes into the scene, riding a spring horse, falling to the ground, and then getting back up to threaten the two girls with getting dragged into her rampagin' rodeo. This involves Naddy riding the spring horse while Akogare and Manesu are tied to the other end by their feet getting slammed into the ground repeatedly, which Akogare calls a public execution. Without even changing their attitude or their use of slang, Akogare and Manesu admit that they're terrified and are visibly shaking.
  • Then Chiyo enters her OCD mode and headbutts Naddy in the back for what's basically child abuse. Now Akogare and Manesu are scared of both of the girlfriends and run off swearing to change their ways... not the most ideal drug PSA.
• Rentarou, naturally the ever-vigilant boyfriend, was watching this the whole time. He noticed that Chiyo was feeling down, followed her around the day before to find out what was up, and came up with his own solution for this before Naddy "resolved" it; a DJ routine on how cigarettes are bad for your health. He's even carrying a DJ kit, two flags saying that cigarettes will stunt your growth on his back, and a hat with the number 20 on it.
  • He also makes a Jojo reference while taking his leave.
    Rentarou: DJ "No Smoking Before 20" withdraws cooly.
• Right when Chiyo and Naddy are having a heartwarming moment, two police officers approach them with questions regarding a strangely dressed woman attacking two junior high girls. As Naddy sheepishly walks over to talk to them, Chiyo lampshades the reality check.
  Chiyo: (thinking) Yeah, obviously... when you act like that, this is what happens.
  • Followed by Chiyo taking Naddy by the hand and running off. Reality doesn't kick in this time (or it might, depends) and the officers don't chase after them or think anything else of this.
    Male Officer: Well... there really was someone wearing a bizarre outfit. But she was with that serious little girl. I don't think anything happened.
    Female Officer: The report must've been a crank call. It also mentioned some DJ hiding behind a tree. Dunno what's up with that.
• Akogare and Manesu reappear again... both in Chiyo's outfit and with (relatively...) normal attitudes, having gained a newfound worship of her. They even mimic Chiyo's Angrish in public halls, much to her embarrassment.
  • Also, their cigarettes were just toys... Yeah. They only blew out smoke and the two were only imitating delinquents the whole time, which explains the accents.
    We never got real tobacco in the first place.

Chapter 72

• Nano finds herself unable to swallow a bite of her sandwich, with Kusuri quipping, "You can't go saying chewing is inefficient anymore, yep yep."
• Kusuri hands Nano a bottle of tea, except she gave her a drug vial instead, resulting in Nano suddenly shrinking to a few inches tall.
  Karane: SHE TURNED INTO A NANOPUTIAN!
  • It's not unthinkable that the plot of this chapter was written just so Kusuri could say "She's a nano-Nano, nanoda!"
    Kurumi: Just stick to the yep yep.
• Chiyo asks Kusuri to give the negation drug to Nano, only for Kusuri to explain that the "makes-you-small drug" puts so much strain on the body that taking the negation drug will kill Nano, so they'll have to wait for it to wear off on its own.
  Chiyo: Dangerous narcotics rrrgh!
• When Nano puts on some clothes from Meme's doll, Hahari exclaims, "A dress-up Nano-chan doll! I'll be on pins and needles waiting for the merch!"
• After Hakari gives Nano a flower to hold, the former says Nano looks just like a fairy and talks about how every girl dreams of having a flower umbrella. Nano says there are too many gaps and it can't be collapsed, before suggesting polyester would be more convenient.
  Hakari: Let me dream.
• Kusuri thinks with Nano like this, she can beat the latter at sumo. Karane asks if she's trying to kill Nano, followed by Nano covering her ears while asking Karane to lower her voice, since being smaller makes Karane sound much louder. Karane reflexively yells, "Huh!? You lower yours—" before awkwardly stopping herself.
• Nano tries to finish the rest of her tuna sandwich so Chiyo won't give her an earful about wasting food.
  Nano: Thank you, dead fish...
  Chiyo: Do you take me for a demon?
  • Chiyo is less concerned about Nano not finishing her lunch and more concerned about her overdosing on supplements.
    Chiyo: Overdosing rrrgh!
  • Nano trying to eat her sandwich at her current size causes Kurumi to start fantasizing about Giant Food. Iku thinks dumbbells must be 100 times heavier to lift, while Hahari thinks the pictures she's taking must be 100 times cuter.
• Hahari trips and ends up crushing Nano under her breasts.
  Mimimi: Gaaah! Nano-san has been crushed under-breast!
  Karane: Killer cleavage!
• Fortunately, Nano ended up inside Hahari's cleavage. Unfortunately, Nano is struggling to breathe.
  Hahari: My cleavage really will kill her!
• We get a brief glimpse of Naddy teaching her class. Suffice to say, it's a pretty unusual one.
  Naddy: Yeah, so the main character kiddo, right? Here, a bear's sayin' "Fakkyu" to his old man! So he's mad as all hell and screamin' and whatnot!
  • Nano tries to take notes with a normal-sized pencil, but she refuses to let anyone else take notes for her.
• When Rentarou is taking Nano to his home while carrying her in his shirt pocket, the wind picks up and causes a plastic bag to fly into his face. Rentarou refuses to use his hands to remove it because he wants to protect Nano from the wind, even though the bag is pressing into his face so much that he can't breathe while imprints of his eyes and mouth can be seen.
• Once they reach Rentarou's house, he fashions multiple scaled-down facilities for Nano, such as a watering can for a shower (while Rentarou wears a blindfold), a cardboard lavatory taped atop the toilet, and a bed inside of a matchbox.
• The next morning, Rentarou wakes up to see Nano has returned to her original size... and she's also completely naked since the dress Meme gave her doesn't fit anymore. Nano hugs and kisses Rentarou when she wakes up, which causes him to faint. It's only then that Nano realizes what happened to her clothes.

Chapter 73

• The interviewer gets increasingly desperate as she hears the girls' stories about their boyfriend, as she finds them too extreme to be relatable. Not only does she start to wonder if all boyfriends are total monsters these days, but at no point does she ever realize that all of them are talking about the same person, Rentarou.^note They only mention him by name once, and none of them say anything to imply he's dating more than one of them.
• Meme tells the interviewer how when her bra snapped, Rentarou held the straps together. The interviewer points out he could have just used a safety pin, to which Meme says even a dozen safety pins would pop off trying to hold her bra together. The accompanying image shows Rentarou with a gentle smile while his arms are visibly straining as they hold Meme's bra in place.
• Shizuka says every time a new book she likes comes out, Rentarou copies it by writing all over his body, including the ears, causing the interviewer to ask if he's cursed.
• After Naddy says she once rode Rentarou (as in she literally rode him like he was a horse), Hakari declares she wants to ride Rentarou too, while Karane points out it's not a sex position.
• Yamame talks about the time Rentarou injured his arms and legs to stop her from falling onto a bug, which prompts Iku to stand behind Yamame because it would be dangerous if the latter fell.
• Hakari recalls the time she trapped Rentarou in a room with her so they could have some "naughty puff puff action," but he did everything in his power to resist her because he treasured her. The interviewer assumes Rentarou kept his eyes closed the whole time, but Hakari clarifies that Rentarou simply slammed his head on the wall until he passed out.
• Karane mentions the time she hit Rentarou out of embarrassment and he wasn't mad at her at all. Except she hit him so hard he ended up in a full body cast.
  Momiji: For goodness sake, please don't kill him...
  Karane: It-It's not like I'm doin' it on purpose!
  Mimimi: That is, of course, precisely what is so worrying.
• Mimimi recounts a recent date with Rentarou where her cup of tea slipped from her hands and was about to ruin her dress. The interviewer thinks Rentarou caught the tea with his hands and muses he was a heat-resistant container in a past life. Mimimi says Rentarou actually used a straw to suck up all the tea before it could touch her, causing the interviewer to instead call him a Dyson (a brand of vacuum cleaners).
  • After hearing Mimimi's story, Kurumi praises Rentarou for not letting a single drop of tea go to waste, while Yamame declares tea leaves are living things too.
• Momiji once told Rentarou she wanted to practice massaging forearms, and the interviewer assumes he bulked his arms up to Astro Boy proportions. In reality, Rentarou's forearms bulked up so much they looked like pre-time skip Franky or Popeye's forearms.
• Iku and Kusuri's stories only get a mosaic background unlike everyone else, implying their stories are so extreme that the manga can't even show them.
• Mei talks about the time Rentarou took her to a beautiful landscape during their date. To get her to open her eyes and see it, Rentarou informs her he was wearing a Frieza costume the whole time while doing one of Frieza's signature poses.
• The last person the interviewer talks to is Rentarou himself. When she asks him what his girlfriend is good at, Rentarou praises all of his girlfriends at once. Unlike before where the interviewer thought the girls were each talking about different people, here she thinks Rentarou is talking about one person, calling the girlfriend "an honest-to-god monster." Rentarou proceeds to blow a gasket.
  Rentarou: WHO ARE YOU CALLING A MONSTER?! THERE ISN'T A SINGLE GODDAMN HOMINID IN EXISTENCE THAT'S CUTER THAN ANY OF MY GIRLFRIENDS! SHUT THAT CAMERA OFF RIGHT THIS SECOND, Y'HEAR ME?!
  Narration: And thus began the legend of the monster boyfriend.

Chapter 74

• With Hahari and Chiyo having happened, Rentarou is aware of the trend of family members becoming his soulmates and is wary of meeting Kusuri's mom. When their eyes meet:
  NO ZING!!
  Yep, swing and a miss! (You had me going there! Phew!)
• Rentarou meets Kusuri's parents... who also took her failed immortality drug. They also both have Idiot Hair and variations of Kusuri's Verbal Tic. As the manga says:
  It's a Kusurylvanian family...!
• Kusuri's dad asks Rentarou if Kusuri is the most important person in his whole world. Rentarou tries to say she is before her dad suddenly grabs him by the collar and pulls him to the ground demanding he dump his 14 other girlfriends. Rentarou says they're all number one in his whole world, which just angers Kusuri's dad even further. Kusuri assumes they're roughhousing and tells them they can play in her room.
• Rentarou eats cake with Kusuri's family in the living room... which is filled with all sorts of lab equipment. Kusuri's mom apologizes for the mess, while Kusuri's dad is still glaring daggers at Rentarou.
• The "final boss-looking device" in the living room is a huge vat full of the "negation drug". With all the dangerous drugs in the house, Kusuri's family needs plenty of the "negation drug" at all times. One drug on the dinner table will make your body explode if you drink it, causing Rentarou to wonder why it's there, to begin with.
• Kusuri's mom mentions feeling a zing go through her body when she first met Kusuri's dad, who claims that's not something "a 15-timin' cheat" like Rentarou could understand.
• When Kusuri was born, instead of playing with her dollhouse, she played with the distillery, and she made her first drug when she was just eight months old.
• Kusuri's parents suddenly collapse saying "Ah beh beh beh". A mysterious man who drugged their tea reveals himself. Rentarou apologizes for the intrusion until Kusuri says he's not family.
• When the pharmaceutical spy threatens to shoot Rentarou, Kusuri tries to shield him, but since she's much shorter than Rentarou, she has to repeatedly hop up and down to cover him.
• After the spy threatens to shoot Kusuri in the leg, Rentarou tries to shield Kusuri with his body. After a Beat Panel of the three of them, the spy does an Eye Pop through his sunglasses as he yells, "Why are you the human shield now?!" Even Kusuri asks if Rentarou is some kind of moron since he's the one the spy is trying to shoot.
  Rentarou: I may be a moron, but I'll never, ever let anyone hurt you!
• Rentarou tells Kusuri he doesn't want the spy to take her because he hates the idea of her drugs being misused. Kusuri then admits that her drugs may have already been misused by Hakari, to which Rentarou says, "That was done with love so it's fine!"
• Unsure of what to do, Kusuri declares her love for Rentarou and starts kissing him, much to the spy's disbelief.
  Spy: WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?! Look! I have a gun! A handgun! If I shoot you with this, you'll die! Understand?!
  Kusuri: Well, duh. Even preschoolers know that, yep yep.
  Spy: Even preschoolers know you shouldn't start making out with someone at gunpoint!
• When the spy tries to shoot Rentarou, the bullet is blocked by Kusuri's dad, who is so huge and muscular from his body-augmenting experiments that the spy shouts, "ARE YOU THE HULK?!"
• Kusuri's dad explains that Rentarou tricked the spy into shooting some drugs so the bullets would hit the vat of "negation drug," which would spill over Kusuri's parents and cure them of the drug the spy poisoned them with. Meanwhile, the spy is screaming in terror while repeatedly shooting Kusuri's dad, to no avail. Kusuri's dad eventually gets fed up with the spy's screaming and punches him so hard he bursts through the roof and becomes A Twinkle in the Sky.
  Kusuri: Mom... Did Daddy kill him, yep yep?
  Kusuri's Mom: No, dear, that man's simply become a star in the sky, mm-hm.
• After seeing Rentarou risk his life to protect Kusuri, her dad admits that Kusuri really is the most important thing in Rentarou's whole world. When Rentarou calls him father-in-law, he snaps at Rentarou, because he still hasn't accepted Rentarou being a 15-timer.
• Remember how Rentarou thought Kusuri's mother could be his soulmate, only for it to not happen? As the ending shows, it's actually Kusuri's freaking grandmother.
  From no zing to YES, ZING!!
• The final panel of Rentarou, whose face is stuck on a "happy greeting" expression. Most likely about as shocked as the audience.

Chapter 75

• Girlfriend #16, the granny, is 89 years old... and she also took Kusuri's failed immortality drug, has an Idiot Hair, and her own variation of Kusuri's Verbal Tic. To Rentarou she looks like Kusuri's twin.
  Yaku: My name is Yakuzen Yaku, yes yes.
  "The whole family's Kusurylvanian!"
• Not that Yaku minds much, but Kusuri has zero tact over saying, "Is [Rentarou] a finer man than my dead granddad, yep yep?" It's hard to tell whether Rentarou's shocked about Kusuri inviting Yaku to the family, or cheerfully saying "Granddad's dead, anyway."
• After Yaku treats Rentarou's cut, she gives him a charm to make him feel better: a kiss on the forehead. Rentarou becomes so flustered he falls on his butt, while Yaku asks if he feels better.
  Rentarou: Yeah. I'm fully healed.
  Yaku: Surely it didn't work that quickly.
• It's one thing for an elder to not be proficient with technology. It's another that Yaku doesn't even know what an app or a smartphone are, thinking of the latter as "that funny plank Kusuri plays with sometimes." She can't even manage a landline, the most she can use being a Tin-Can Telephone.
• Rentarou tries to get Yaku to stop treating him like a kid by acting "wild and rugged" like her old husband.
  • He puts on an ascot, a vest, and wears Sunglasses at Night.
  • Rentarou tries to be assertive during his date with Yaku at the park, but he's so considerate that his usual politeness keeps coming out.
  • He tries "taking the lead" by having Yaku go on a seesaw with him and showing off his "reliability" by moving it by himself.
  • Rentarou tries to show "decisiveness" by saying he'll take the swing all the way on the right and "broad-mindedness" by offering the same swing to Yaku.
  • He tries to be "thrill-seeking" by standing on his swing while declaring the floor is lava and showing "courage" by jumping onto the ground.
    Yaku: Then why make the floor lava?
  • Rentarou realizes that instead of being wild and rugged, he's "acting like a kid having fun at the park with his grandma."

Chapter 76

• When Yaku says she's 89 years old, Karane is shocked that she's almost a nonagenarian. Yamame protests that 89-year-olds are living things too, to which Karane says, "I ain't saying she's like a corpse!"
• Hahari takes ethical issues with the new girlfriend being an 89-year-old. Kurumi speaks for everyone:
  Kurumi: YOU'RE THE LAST GODDAMN PERSON I WANT TO HEAR THAT FROM.
• Because she's an eight-year-old now, Yaku notes that she'll probably live off her pension for another 80 years. Which Karane points out is pretty much pension theft.
• When Yaku gives Kurumi hard candy, the latter calls her Grandmother and gives her a shoulder massage. When Yaku tells Hahari she looks exactly like the other young girls, Hahari also calls her Grandmother and fans her with a giant leaf. Mei is behind Hahari looking uncomfortable that the latter is doing such a menial task.
• After Kusuri introduces everyone to Yaku, some of the girls object to her descriptions of them.
  • The Hanazonos take issue with how Kusuri described them to Yaku.
    Hahari: WHO'S A PERV WITH HUGE BOOBS?!
    Kurumi: You.
    Hakari: WHO ARE YOU CALLING HORNY 24/7?!
    Karane: You.
  • Shizuka is bothered by Kusuri calling her "tiny and weak." Nano tells Shizuka not to fret because the same applies to infants and small animals.
  • Mei protests her description ("Maid Machine") and states she is simply an ordinary maid who has literally and figuratively offered her heart to Hahari.
    Rentarou: We aren't the Survey Corps.
• Momiji finally gropes Meme after introductions are over. Meme does her thing and ends up on Yamame's shoulders.
• After being introduced to the other girls, Yaku tries to remember what she's been told about them... and proceeds to get every single personality wrong, as shown by her Imagine Spots.
  • The more Yaku gets a girl wrong, the more Kusuri's face scrunches up and starts to frown.
  • The fact that Kusuri of all people is the down-to-earth one is probably the funniest part, completely bewildered by how wrong her grandma got each girl.
• The imagine spots themselves, along with the reactions to them, are a riot.
  • Iku is "tiny and weak" (Shizuka), looking like Shizuka and trembling, the real Iku trying to get someone to smack her around to prove she's tough.
  • Hahari is "a Maid Machine" (Mei), shown dressed in a uniform identical to Mei's, the real Hahari looking depressed when Kusuri says "despite everything, she's the boss."
    Hahari: "Despite everything...?"
  • Hakari is "a yank" (Naddy), dressed in an American Flag Bikini while cheerleading, Karane chiming in that she might as well be one with her level of sex education. While Hakari and Karane go at it again, Yaku is confused by what a "Yank" even is.
  • Momiji is "real shy" (Meme), groping Hahari's breasts with a bashful look while Kurumi quips she isn't shy enough. Momiji asks Kurumi if she could grope her stomach like a shy schoolgirl with a crush. After she's shot down, she can be seen being glomped by Hahari.
    Kurumi: Get lost.
  • Mimimi is "Needs to eat or she gets all irked" (Kurumi), giving a Death Glare as she eats a burger. The real Mimimi is more focused on the burger being bad for natural beauty. Kurumi tries to troll her by insinuating she was badmouthing her, only for Mimimi to start endlessly complimenting her.
  • Naddy is "Super-Duper Smart" (Nano), dressed in a pantsuit with glasses. Or in Karane's words a "completely different lifeform."
  • Kurumi is "Cries when her glasses are off" (Chiyo), her eyes all watery. Shizuka jokes about how her stomach being empty is what gets her crying, only to immediately break out a cookie for her, Kurumi succumbing to Cuteness Proximity and thinking she's an angel.
  • Mei is "gropes boobies" (Momiji). And it just happens to be Meme that she's groping, to Meme's displeasure.
    Chiyo: Mei-san would never!
    Mei: Not unless I was ordered.
    Chiyo: Don't waste my defense rrrgh!
    Hahari: Grope me.
    Rentarou: Please don't. She'll vomit blood again.
  • Yamame is "a tsundere" (Karane), Kusuri saying a smack from her would be fatal accompanied by her sumo slapping Rentarou. While she's trembling over the thought of it, Iku is excited at the idea.
  • Nano is "wants to be the most beautiful person in the world" (Mimimi), Nano in a gorgeous dress and wearing jewelry. Mimimi claims she'd be naturally blinding if that were the case, only for Nano to criticize her attempt at being the Straight Man.
  • Chiyo is "a matchless masochist" (Iku), the resulting image showing prim and proper Chiyo tied up bondage-style, much to her frustration and Hakari's horror. Chiyo nearly enters her OCD mode, prompty Naddy to try and tie her up before she goes crazy, with Hakari begging her not to make the image a reality.
    Hakari: THAT'S GOTTA BE ILLEGAL! You can't show that... I mean, Chiyo-san is just a 12-year-old girl... you just can't... She's not mother or Iku-san...
    Hahari: Just who do you take us for...?
    Karane: Just who do you take yourselves for...?
  • Meme is "Horny 24/7" (Hakari), followed by an image of Meme in the most Stripperific outfit imaginable. Kusuri says only Meme's body is lewd and horny, but Momiji protests that. Kusuri tries to apologize to Meme, but the way she words it just embarrasses her even more. Mimimi tries to come to Meme's defense, but she also ends up embarrassing her.
    Momiji: It may be true that Meme-san's chest is so massive it beggars belief, that the curve of her underboobs is out of this world, and it is made of the softest substance known to man... but you can't call it lewd!
    Meme: MOMIJI-SAN...!?
    Kusuri: Oh, alright. ...Sorry, Meme. Your honkers are ginormous and really pretty and super soft but—
    Meme: I-I-I-I get it! Please stop...!
    Mimimi: I'll say. Meme-san is terribly beautiful in so many more—
    Meme: Mimimi-senpai...!
  • Shizuka is "Huge and Strong" (Yamame), with a kaiju sized Shizuka happily set to destroy a city. Yamame playfully hoists Shizuka over her shoulders in response, with Shizuka playing along.
    Kusuri: That Shizuka's straight out of Nobita's Little Star Wars, yep yep!
    Yamame: Aye, Shizuka-san's a titan, alright!
    Shizuka: "Bow down, you cretinous worms."
    Mei: (Bows)
    Shizuka: "That was just a joke...!"
  • Karane is thought to be "pervert with huge breasts" (Hahari). Which leads to a very cursed image of a busty Karane staring lecherously at the reader.
    Karane: GET OUT AND BUY OLD PEOPLE GLASSES!
• Eventually, Yaku manages to memorize every one. She guesses that Karane is the loudest one.
  Karane: Who's loud?!
  Yaku: Ah yes, it was indeed Karane.
  Karane: WHO'S LOUD?!
• Everyone but Chiyo, Mei, and Nano forgot what Yaku's name was and try to remember it. After recalling that her name has something to do with four letters, speed, and drugs, they all shout "Meth!"
  Yaku: My name is Yaku, yes yes.

Chapter 77

• Iku has a distant relative who's in charge of a corporation called the "Serious Group." Their motto is "We're serious about serious quality." How serious?
  HALF-MEASURES MEAN DEATH!
• The harem won a ticket to the pre-opening of the Serious Group's "Serious Onsen." And it lives up to its name. Every label and sign is listed as "Serious," and the baths, showers, products, etc. nearly kill them. They get washed away to different parts of the onsen from Naddy using body soap.
• When Mimimi gets engulfed by the foam, her hand has its index finger, pinky, and thumb out like the "I love you" gesture.
• Iku uses herself as a shield to save Kusuri from a "Serious Jet Bath"... and stays there long after Kusuri got out.
• The "Serious Jacuzzi" expels water so forcefully that it looks like a geyser.
• Upon seeing Karane with large breasts, Hakari initially assumes she mistook her for someone else.
  • Hakari tries to talk Karane into getting out of the "Serious Breast Enhancement Bath." Karane is reluctant to do so because the effects of the bath will disappear once she does, so Hakari tries to snap Karane out of it by slapping the latter's breasts.
  • Then the bath makes Hakari's already large breasts even larger. Karane can't get out of there fast enough.
    Karane: DAMMIT, DAMMIT, GODDAMMIIIT! THE GAP JUST KEEPS EXPANDIN'! GET THAT "REALITY" OUT OF MY FACE!
    Hakari: No running in the bath! Be careful!
• While Mimimi and Meme are trapped under a "Serious Waterfall Shower," the latter asks Mimimi to kiss her on the neck.
  • At first, Mimimi is weirded out by Meme's request, but then she rationalizes it. Of course, Meme would ask her that. Mimimi is naturally that beautiful after all.
  • Getting kissed embarrasses Meme so much that she escapes the waterfall shower via her Ninja Log. Yes, Meme can apparently escape being trapped via Running Gag.^note She actually mentioned being able to do this in Chapter 46.
  • After Meme pulls Mimimi out of the waterfall shower, Meme tries to help the latter get on her feet, only for Mimimi to slip on her smooth soles and face plant.
• Mei says the "Serious Cold Bath" has frozen her so much that she can't move her body, not even her eyelids. Hahari can't tell if Mei was joking or being serious.
• Rentarou managed to save Chiyo, Momiji, and Yaku by himself and proclaims they're all unharmed, but Rentarou himself is battered and bleeding from the head and mouth.
• Everyone decides to rest in the "Serious Paradise Bath," which is so relaxing that all of them are Giving Up the Ghost.

Chapter 77.1

• This chapter is a Fractured Fairy Tale compilation, where each girl is the heroine of a different story with some sort of twist on the source material, while Rentarou is cast as "Rentaromeo" in all their stories, the chapter ending with him saving them all and living happily ever after, a text box listing how he saved them... mostly by killing the problem!
  • Shizuka is "Shizulina". Instead of just being stolen by a toad though, she's stolen from the toad by a Stag Beetle, then from them by a rich Mole who wants to marry her. Rentaromeo instead kills the Mole.
  • Kurumi is "Kurutel", having ate the breadcrumbs her brother put down to lead them back home, prompting him to abandon her, and then finding the Witch and her gingerbread house... before proceeding to eat the whole house, the witch now wanting to just kill her, Rentaromeo killing the witch first.
  • Kusuri is "Little Red Riding Kusuri", who easily notices her "grandma" is a wolf... but thinks its because she took a drug to become a wolf, and is easily tricked into getting eaten, being saved when Rentaromeo kills the wolf.
  • Hahari is "Haharmes", giving the initial woodcutter both his normal axe, and a platinum and Diamond axe! Another woodcutter catches wind of this story and tries to trick Hahari, but isn't buying it. So he whips out another axe he brought and tries to attack her, only to be obliterated by Rentaromeo.
  • Iku is "Ikuren", the cursed shoes being applied like a video game debuff. The shoes cursing her to dance though just causes her pleasure though, to the point the narration says she couldn't resist the temptation and wore them for the rest of her life. Rentaromeo however yanks them off her.
  • Naddy is "Naddya", but she doesn't care about going to the moon, she's going to 'murrica! The rabbits try to drag her back instead, but Rentaromeo kills them.
  • Momiji is "Momice", having fallen in a hole after chasing the White Rabbit to fluff him. She ends up sentenced to death by the Queen of Hearts after groping and shoving her face into the Queen's chest, but Rentaromeo kills the Queen.
  • Mei is "Meiderella", falling in love with Rentaromeo at the ball. However, rather than fleeing due to the stroke of midnight, she leaves five minutes early, and didn't leave anything behind, giving no indication for Rentaromeo to find her. He somehow manages to find her anyway.
  • Yaku is "Yakohime", turning down Urashima Tarou's marriage proposal citing her age, then sends him back to the surface when he drinks a potion that ages him. In response, Urashima tries to cancel her on Twitter. Yakohime is unfazed, given that she doesn't realize what a cell phone is, and Rentaromeo manages to delete the tweets anyway before killing Urashima Taro.
  • Meme is "Omeme". The reason the old man is so desperate to see Omeme's face is because he has a thing for seeing the eyes of characters who hide them and fanart isn't enough, sending Omeme into hiding. Rentaromeo manages to erase the sight of Omeme's face from the old mans mind... before killing him anyway.
  • Mimimi is "Mimi White", and took pride in her stepmother wanting her dead, naturally. Since she ate apples everyday to stay beautiful, it was easy to poison her, but Rentaromeo manages to obliterate the poison while it was still in her throat.
  • Chiyo is "Chiyona", but she stubbornly refuses to light a single match despite freezing to death since that would be embezzling. Rentaromeo instead warms her up with his bodyheat.
  • Hakari is "Hakariet", and planned to use a Kusuri-brand drug to fake her death and run away from home to be with Rentaromeo. She instead ends up distracted by her lovestruck thoughts and nearly downed the whole vile, nearly killing herself were it not for Rentaromeo getting her to puke up the drug, then stealing her from her home.
  • Yamame is "Aumame", who no one is able to save because she would admonish them in her sleep for trying to cut the briar thorns. Rentaromeo instead runs through the briar patch and wakes Aumame with a kiss.
  • Nano is "Nanonzel", with Rentaromeo having come to save her, but Nanonzel refuses to throw her hair down since that would require going to the balcony and triggering her fear of heights, so she just shoots him down. Rentaromeo instead climbs the tower barehanded and frees her.
  • Karane is "Kariel", but when she tries to tell Rentaromeo how she was the one who saved him, her tsundere side acts up and gets in her way. Rentaromeo can still understand her feelings however, and breaks off his planned marriage to the princess he thought saved him.

Volume 9 Extras

• If the God of Love had been drinking while he was distracted by Castle in the Sky, Nozawa-sensei would have been one of Rentarou's soulmates.
• Everyone has so much "wild and crazy kissing" at the end of Chapter 70 that it's nighttime. Mimimi says they should only kiss once more before going home, only for them to have more "wild and crazy kissing."
• The main reason Akogare and Manesu were pretending to smoke in the park was to annoy Chiyo. They didn't break character even when wondering where she was on days she didn't show up.
• Meme taught Nano how to repair the doll outfit she wore during her time as a Nanoputian.
• On the day of the broadcast in Chapter 73, the top trends on Twitter in Japan were #MonsterBoyfriend, #ShutThatCameraOff, #Frieza, #BroadcastMishap, #HorrorEpisode, and #CryingKids.
• During the moment where Kusuri's dad sends the spy flying through the roof, the spy is saying "I'm blasting off agaaaain" while Rentarou is sweating profusely.
  Rentarou: (thinking) In all honesty... if he'd met me at the door and yelled at me looking like that... I likely would've started crying and wet myself...
• Rentarou tried to set up a Tin-Can Telephone between his house and Kusuri's so he could talk to Yaku, but the wind and buildings got in the way, causing him to get tangled up. Yaku assumes he wanted to play with tin-can telephones, while Kusuri tells him to just message her whatever he wants to tell Yaku on LINE.
• Upon first meeting Yaku, Hahari assumed Yaku was "a cute widdle girl" and tried to kiss her. After she found out Yaku was older than her, Hahari sheepishly apologizes for her earlier behavior.
• When everyone's souls left their bodies after they relaxed in the "Serious Paradise Bath," some angels try to bring them to heaven. Hakari's father frantically blocks their path by moving so quickly it looks like there are three of him, before telling the angels to take everyone's souls back.
• Momiji's love for touching soft things started when she was very young. While playing in a bounce house, Momiji bumped headfirst into young Hakari's butt and started groping it. When Hahari came to pick Hakari up, Momiji groped Hahari's breasts and—ZING!!
• Yaku's memories of her war days result in a mosaic background filled with the sounds of gunshots and explosions, censoring the sight of one soldier losing an arm and another one losing his head. The soldier who lost an arm used Yaku's "knits-body-parts-together-drug" to reattach their arm, but they ended up attaching the wrong arm. Present-day Yaku's face remains calm the whole time.
  Kusuri: Is this black magic, yep yep?

Volume 10 (Chapters 78 - 86)

Chapter 78

• When Yamame arrives at the Hanazono residence, Hahari excitedly asks if Yamame came just to see her. In response, Hakari starts pushing Yamame out the door while suggesting they go somewhere else, prompting Hahari to say she was just kidding and won't bother them.
• Hakari has Yamame do a photoshoot in bikinis with her to help build the latter's confidence, and so the artist can draw swimsuits two weeks in a row.
  • Yamame's first attempt to do a sexy pose looks more like she's about to receive a volleyball.
  • The second pose causes Yamame to look like she's trying to scare off a bear.
  • During the photo shoot, the squirrel that sits on top of Yamame's head starts doing sexy poses, so Mei takes photographs of it.
  • Hakari laments that they're only able to take wholesome photos of Yamame, which the latter agrees with.
• Hakari teaches Yamame to lower her collar to show off her cleavage, which currently holds Yamame's squirrel. The squirrel proceeds to make a sexy pose to block it as if the very idea of Yamame being sexy is so scandalous that the manga has to censor it.
• When Yamame shows off her cleavage while claiming it's hot, Rentarou assumes she's ill and starts pulling out all sorts of medical supplies and food for her. Seeing the food causes Kurumi to get hungry.
  Karane: What are ya, Doraemon?
• Momiji tries to grope Yamame when the latter starts showing off her cleavage, but Hakari stops Momiji from interfering by convincing her to grope her chest instead.
• Yamame bends over to show off her cleavage, but Rentarou asks if her head feels heavy. When she pretends to trip so she can press her chest into him, Rentarou asks if she can't keep herself up.
• Kusuri offers Yamame cold medicine that's three hundred million times stronger than the over-the-counter kind. Mimimi questions if that's really safe for human consumption.
• When Hakari leaves Momiji to help out Yamame, Momiji does a Futile Hand Reach towards her. There's even a closeup for emphasis.
• Hakari's rush to act sexy causes her bra to snap and her shirt's button to pop off.
  Naddy: (while Hakari's button bounces off her hat) Boy howdy, if that ain't freer'n I've ever been.
  • While Hakari is usually a Shameless Fanservice Girl, she's mortified about Rentarou seeing her topless because they still haven't done it and the area is too public.
• Yamame stops Rentarou from seeing Hakari topless by flipping her skirt to show off her panties, which are blocked from the viewer by her squirrel and butterflies all doing sexy poses.
• Seeing Yamame's panties causes Rentarou to get launched into the wall in a Yamcha pose with enough force to crack it. His "excitement" is so great that it's echoing through the walls and the ground, which Yamame initially mistakes for an earthquake.
• Just as Rentarou is about to fall from his position and regain consciousness, Yamame hugs Hakari to cover up her chest, which causes him to fly back into the wall with even more force.
  Karane: Is that really his heartbeat?
  Kurumi: He's gonna die.

Chapter 79

• While Hahari and Mei are walking through the school halls, the latter catches Hahari's drool in a cup.
• When they overhear a student saying he won't date a 29-year-old single mother (which matches Hahari's background), Mei looks concerned as she asks Hahari if she should dispose of him.
  Hahari: He's a student...
• Seeing everyone slam menko cards on the ground causes Iku to lie down and start crawling to the play area. This is followed by a brief shot of Naddy and Yaku about to throw down menko with Iku lying down between them.
• To ease Hahari's embarrassment of dressing like a high schooler, Rentarou offers to dress as a kindergartener. Hahari finds it adorable but says she'd prefer he wear it another time.
• Hahari reminisces about the Teddy Baby she had as a little girl - how she would take it everywhere with her, dote on it, give it kisses... and French Kiss it every night before bed.
• Rentarou and Hahari enter a quiz challenge for a chance to win a premium size Teddy Baby. The quiz giver is a person in a Teddy Baby costume who speaks in Baby Talk.
• The first question the quiz giver asks is the present a character got... had how many dots on the wrapping paper? The quiz giver says if the question is too hard, Hahari can rewatch the episode repeatedly by buying the Blu-ray box in the gift shop.
  Hahari: This Teddy Baby has been possessed by the spirit of rampant consumerism!
• Rentarou manages to answer the question, to Hahari and the quiz giver's shock. He said he rented the whole show and studied it over and over so he could get Hahari the prize.
  Teddy Baby Quiz Giver: Guh, cuwse you, wentaw mawket...! (Guh, curse you, rental market...!)
• The answers to the rest of the questions prove to be really specific and obtuse, like, "The seat 25 columns from the window, 37 rows from the back!" and, "The half-brother of the second youngest of the maternal grandmother's brother's four daughters!"
• The last question the quiz giver asks is what is the real reason Teddy Baby's mouth has been shut since a specific episode. It's not the reason provided in the show. It's because the head of the show's sponsor complained that her daughter (Hahari) wouldn't stop sticking her tongue in Teddy Baby's mouth.
• At the end of the chapter is a 100 GF quiz corner, which is rendered in the same Baby Talk as the Teddy Baby quiz giver.
  How many does of Vitamin π would Kawane (Karane) have to take to match Hahawi's (Hahari's) I-cups? If you need it, the wight answew's (right answer's) in vowume (volume) 3! Find it at the gift shop!^{The answer?}60 doses.

Chapter 80

• The family goes on a hiking date, and they (along with the manga's text) lampshade how sunny and clear the sky is. Nano says otherwise.
  Nano: Mountain weather is fickle. Underestimate it at your own peril.
  (Literally the next panel, the girls are caught under a storm)
  Karane: IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD!
  • Mimimi is still smiling even under heavy weather.
• Meme's hair gets blown through the wind, and she still prioritizes her bangs over her own life. Nano is kind enough to stand in front of Meme and block her face with her own flowing hair.
• Shizuka gets blown into the air while Karane struggles to keep her from flying away. Realizing she isn't heavy enough to hold Shizuka down, she asks Hakari for help.
  Hakari: (Rushing in to help) WHO ARE YOU CALLING HEAVY?!
• Mei tries to pull a You Shall Not Pass! against a flood.
  Hahari: YOU HARE-BRAINED MAID!
  Mimimi: (Pulling Mei out with Hahari) DO YOU HAVE A DEATH WISH?!
• Kusuri moves Chiyo out of the way of a falling branch and gets knocked out. Any dramatic tension from this is immediately fizzled out by Kusuri's blank-eyed drooling face.
• Momiji and Kurumi pout at each other when Kurumi nearly crushes a steamed bun Momiji was groping. Their faces make it more adorable than dramatic.
  • The fact that Momiji kept a bun on herself to grope it. Not to eat it, but to grope it to keep her spirits up.
  • Momiji feeds Kurumi the bun to make up with her. In turn, Kurumi offers Momiji to grope her stomach as an apology. Momiji grabs her chest instead.
    Kurumi: My tummy, I said.
• An injured Rentarou carrying Mei, Hahari, and Mimimi all at once. Karane calls it a Bridal Carry Burger. Knowing that she's in the middle, Hahari responds:
  Hahari: WHO ARE YOU CALLING A SLAB OF MEAT!?
• After everyone is reunited, Kusuri notes that it's cloudy again, while Rentarou says he hung up a million teru-teru dolls for good weather.
  Kurumi: That sounds like a seriously cursed ritual.

Chapter 81

• Girlfriend #17, Kishika, mentions that one of her classmates looks like an elementary student despite being the head of the chemistry club. This conjures a small image of Kusuri making a double V-Sign saying "yaa~y."
• When Rentarou almost touched Kishika's head, she went under a bridge to get patted on the head while being comforted by someone she calls Daddy. After Kishika tripped into Rentarou, she goes to the same bridge to get comforted by Mommy. Rentarou follows her to discover Kishika is patting herself on the head with a glove on a stick, while "Mommy and Daddy" are actually recordings Kishika made on her phone.
• Kishika starts to melt when Rentarou pampers her. After three minutes pass, she calls him Daddy and starts sucking her thumb.
  She's turned into a baby.
• Rentarou and Kishika agree to go out with each other while she's in baby mode. When Kishika goes back to normal, the two of them are nervously sweating as they shake hands.

Chapter 82

• "Recap: Her strength is peerless with a sword. Her cuteness is unmatched when headpatted."
• Kishika states out loud how ridiculous it is that Rentarou has so many girlfriends, but she also says she can't picture herself loving anyone but Rentarou. The girls all get a throb, understanding how she feels.
• Iku (while rubbing her butt) requests a sword match with Kishika, who offers a match with all the girls at once to know them better. In response to that, Hahari and Naddy propose that if Kishika wins, she kisses Rentarou. If she loses, she does whatever the winner says. Notice Momiji readying her hands.
• Hahari already prepared hakama for the match, along with paper balloons to strap to their heads. Hakari visibly isn't pleased with her mom gushing over her get-up, but she immediately cheers up when she sees Rentarou in one.
• As everyone surrounds Kishika, Kurumi notes it looks like they're hazing the newcomer.
• Iku is taken out first and drops to her knees in disappointment upon realizing she wasn't hurt at all.
  Hahari: We're using soft swords to avoid any injuries. Don't worry, Iku-chan. We can play Taiko no Tatsujin later.♥ ^note  Knowing these two, they're probably using different kinds of drums.
• After Nano gets taken out, Kusuri takes her and Iku's swords swearing to avenge them. Once again she uses Zoro's Three Sword Style and attacks Kishika with Oni Giri. Kusuri's balloon pops in a Single-Stroke Battle.
  Kusuri: Once again, an unworthy target defiles her blade, yep yep.
• Hakari uses Shizuka and Chiyo as decoys, while she attacks Kishika from behind atop of Yamame's shoulders so her strikes can't reach her. Just one flaw to this master plan however; the inverse is true and Hakari can't reach Kishika's head either. When Hakari awkwardly asks Yamame to bend down so she can hit her, Kishika pops Hakari's balloon by just poking it with her sword. Yamame, Shizuka, and Chiyo fall shortly after off-panel.
  Shizuka: "Egads!"
• Yaku and Naddy are the only ones who actually had kendo practice. They're tagged as the "Ancient" and "American" Hashira respectively.
  Naddy: 'Murican Slash!
• Grabby Hashira, Hidden Hashira, Hungry Hashira, and Beautiful Hashira (Momiji, Meme, Kurumi, and Mimimi) are also left.
  Hidden Hashira: She's taking on the whole kit and caboodle solo...!
  Hungry Hashira: Caboodle...! Noodle...!
  • Momiji gropes Meme while latched onto her back. Meme disappears using a Pentarou as a substitution... and apparently Mimimi too, who just... poses dramatically with Pentarou atop her sword. It looks like she's trying to block stylishly, but her sword's too low to properly guard her head.
  • The use of Meme and Mimimi's "Misdirection Beauty Flow" to draw Kishika's sword is renamed the "Momisdirection Beauty Flow" because of Momiji's contribution.
  • As Meme attacks from behind, Momiji gropes Kishika while Kurumi bites on Kishika's sword thinking it's a giant toppo.^note  A Pocky made by the South Korean Lotte Corporation.
• Kishika takes everybody out and is declared the winner by Mei. Kishika proceeds to kiss Rentarou... and gets her balloon popped by Hahari from behind, who took advantage of the fact that there are so many people taking up panel time that everyone forgot she was there, readers included.
  • The sheer, muted shock, and disbelief on Kishika's face (and dotted eyes) as she turns around to face Hahari, who's innocently sucking in her own lips.
• Hahari noticed Kishika drooling at the sight of her comforting Iku earlier, so she offers to pamper Kishika as the winner's order. Kishika protests until Hahari says "Come to mommy."
  Kishika: (Already on Hahari's lap) Mommy...♥
  Hahari: This is better than I ever expected!
  • Hahari then, as typical for her, asks Kishika to suck on her breasts... Hahari herself is almost as shocked as the reader most likely is by the answer.
    Kishika: Huh...?! For real?!
    Hahari: Huh...?! For real?!
  • And it actually happens. The scene is given the same dramatic art as whenever Rentarou kisses one or more of the girls. No one stops them either. Everyone is far too shocked or grossed out to do anything. The only ones who aren't shocked are Momiji, who's just licking her finger, and Mei, who's wiping her own Tears of Joy off.
  • Yaku's eyes in particular are blank in shock.
• The chapter ends with Kishika back to normal and on her knees begging for someone to kill her. The harem is happily smiling in welcome of her, but are noted to be slightly disappointed that she's not as cool as they thought.

Chapter 83

• The chapter begins with the time the ramen lady attempted the "Gourmet Challenge," which involves eating a bowl of ramen filled with a pile of food three times bigger than the bowl. If you finish it, you get the meal for free and other customers might take pictures of you, earning you 15 minutes of Twitter fame. Fail, and not only do you pay the price of the meal and your dignity as a human being, but the other customers will also take pictures of you, sentencing you to Twitter Hell. The ramen lady is shown puking sparkles in the flashback as other people take pictures of her.
• The ramen lady becomes more and more frustrated as the girls easily win her challenges. She changes the challenge each day to be a different form of impossible, but each pair of girls is custom-tailored to conquer it.
  • Despite her obsession with making an unbeatable ramen, the ramen lady still tastes her creations to make sure they're edible, no matter how unpleasant they are.
  • At no point do the girls realize that they're ordering different ramen bowls from each other, with the only exception being Chiyo, who tells Naddy that the "stupid as hell" challenge ramen being advertised isn't the same dish the other girls were served.
• The first dish is a spicy-as-hell challenge ramen which already hospitalized three customers as well as the ramen lady herself. The Yakuzens order two servings and barely display any reaction, with Yaku saying it "doesn't stack up to proper medicine".
• The ramen lady fixes a "Hot-as-hell" bowl that burned her mouth just as Kishika and Iku come in. The bowl is even served with a fire underneath it to ensure it always stays hot.
  • Kishika is briefly tempted by the "Sweet Treat Ramen" before ordering chashu ramen. She even gulped like Iku did when the latter ordered the "Hot-as-hell" ramen.
  • The challenge ramen is apparently so hot that it's life-threatening.
    Kishika: Stop that! You'll die! At least blow on it first!
    Iku: (Stops) But, like... that'd defeat the point, no?
    Kishika: THE POINT OF WHAT?!
  • Kishika then asks if Iku could at least blow on the former's ramen. You know, like a parent blowing on their child's food.
• The next dish the ramen lady makes is the "steamy-as-hell" ramen, which is so steamy her eyes got puckered in. The girls that enter the shop are Yamame and Mei.
  • When Yamame's face gets hit by the fumes of the "steamy-as-hell" ramen, her squirrel is suddenly wearing a gas mask.
  • Mei doesn't even notice the steam rising from her bowl, even though her face almost looks like it's melting.
• Up next is the "tough-as-hell meat" ramen, which was so hard to chew that the ramen lady chipped a tooth. The ramen lady makes a smug, cheerful smile while Karane futilely tries to bite through her "tough-as-hell meat"... before Momiji massages the meat until it's tender enough for Karane to enjoy it.
  Ramen lady: Are you a wizard?!
• Mimimi conquering her fear of getting her clothes messed up and dodging spilled drops from the "messy as hell"^note which Mimimi calls "messy as heck" ramen point-blank like in The Matrix. She completes the challenge, but Meme failed and has to pay 800 yen.
• The ramen lady then comes up with the "stupid-as-hell challenge ramen," which is a bowl of ramen filled with pocky sticks and a hamburger in a bun with whipped cream on top, served in a bowl with the word "kusobaka" on it.^note Kuso is Japanese for "shit" and baka is Japanese for "idiot," so kusobaka effectively means "shithead." The idea is that it's so gross and embarrassing, no one will order it. So naturally, the person who tackles it is Naddy.
  • As Chiyo points out how much food is in the challenge ramen, the ramen lady sweats while thinking, "Exactly! Stop that idiot in her tracks!"
  • Naddy starts to feel full partway through, but when she sees Chiyo making her OCD face at her, Naddy says, "Uh— no! 'Murricans never go back on their world!"
    Narration: She done licked the plate clean.
• She then decides to make the name of the challenge dish so long and convoluted that nobody could possibly remember the whole thing. As Shizuka and Nano take their seats, the owner hides the challenge dish poster. Shizuka struggles to remember what the dish was called, but Nano manages to recite the Overly Long Name of the challenge ramen with just a glance. The ramen lady can only think, "OH MY GOD."
• The Hanazonos are confused at the idea that the others ordered the "expensive as hell challenge ramen" that costs a million yen^note over US$8,400 at the time of the chapter's publication per bowl, but nonetheless order two bowls of it. The ramen lady, not expecting anyone to actually order it, tearfully sprints to a jewelry store to prepare the bowl.
  Hakari: It's topped with a ring and a certificate of authenticity!
• The last challenge the ramen lady thinks of is the "massive-as-hell challenge ramen." The ingredients she packed into the bowl formed a literal ball that was taller than she was and three times wider.
  • Readers who learned their lesson from the previous chapter will know which girlfriend is still unaccounted for. She's introduced walking through the door with the same gravitas (and visual style) as the Colossal Titan first appearing to smash through the walls.
    On that day, Mankind received a grim reminder. We lived in fear... of that bottomless appetite... and were disgraced to not see a drop left in the bowl.
  • The ramen lady finally Rage Quits when Kurumi eats the enormous bowl of ramen placed in front of her.
    Ramen lady: I'M CLOSING UP SHOP FOR GOOD!
• The ending caption says she'll be out of business for a while. "Ten years, at least."

Chapter 84

• The blatant acknowledgement that they're doing the "Fountain of Youth" plot again.
  Hahari: Everyone, I made baby clothes for you! Please try them on!
  Kurumi: Is this a re-run?
  Nano: The probability the manuscript was late for the deadline is high.
  Hakari: A weekly series with 18 main characters was always going to be too much for the author...
• Kishika tries to refuse the plan even though she's already drooling and melting at the idea.
  Karane: No, you look like you literally can't wait.
• By sheer coincidence, the girls afflicted by the "makes you a baby" drug are all the new girlfriends added since the first time (as well as Hakari, who was the exempted Straight Man last time).
• Even as a baby, Mimimi is still accompanied by the word "naturally," or "nachuwawy!'' in this case.
  • Mimimi notices the necklace Hahari is wearing and climbs onto her to reach it, leading to Hahari exclaiming "My baby!" in excitement. Then Mimimi notices Nano and crawls to her, causing Hahari to cry "My babyyyyy!" in anguish.
  • Upon seeing how cute Mimimi is, Nano embraces her while thinking, "If nobody protected it... This life-form would perish." She later has the same thoughts with Shizuka, even though the latter wasn't turned into a baby this time.
• Shizuka tries to stop baby Yamame from going to climb a ladder, only to get dragged along behind her instead. Whether this says more about Yamame or Shizuka is open to debate.
• Kusuri thinks she can show Yaku how to use a smartphone while she's a baby, but Yaku slams it down like a menko card. What follows is the angriest Kusuri has ever been.
  Kusuri: IT'S NOT A MENKO CARD, NOPE NOOOPE! YOU STUPID LITTLE BRAT!
• Nano stays perfectly calm holding baby Yamame while baby Mimimi is clinging to her face.
• Meme is as shy as ever, but Shizuka gives her a teddy bear to play with. However, the quote Shizuka uses sounds really inappropriate.
  Shizuka: "Heeey, little lady... Mister's got somethin' nice for ya... C'mon, come over here..."
  • As she takes it, Meme falls backwards and makes eye contact with the bear... and vanishes. After a brief moment to process, Shizuka starts panicking.
  • The kicker? As Shizuka is running off to find Meme, you can see Meme hiding in her hair.
• Even as an infant, Hakari finds a way to trigger Karane's A-Cup Angst.
  Karane: DON'T ACT LIKE I'VE GOT NONE! IT AIN'T LIKE YOUR MOM SETS THE STANDARDS FOR THE HUMAN RACE!
  • Despite this, Karane finds baby Hakari so cute that she wants to "cryo-freeze her and hang her up on my wall." Then Hakari kisses her and Karane fully reciprocates it.
• Kurumi finds baby Momiji's cheeks so squishy and delicious that she suddenly dresses up as a poet with a beard as she writes a haiku.
  They look delicious
  Momiji's cute little cheeks
  They look delicious
  • Then Kurumi realizes that her mouth is on Momiji's cheeks like she's actually about to eat her. She berates herself that babies aren't food, followed by Hahari pointing at her cleavage saying she's wide open. Kurumi proceeds to suck on Hahari's breast while Momiji gropes the other one, with Hahari drooling in pleasure.
    Hahari: A CATCH ON EVERY CAST!
• When baby Chiyo starts crying for her mama, Kusuri tries to cheer her up by turning into her older form and putting on Chiyo's glasses. However, because they don't match her prescription, Kusuri staggers a bit before falling flat on her face, leading to Chiyo crying again.
  Kusuri: I can't see with these!
• Chiyo's crying causes all of the other babies to start crying for their mothers too. Including Hakari. Who is with her mother.
  • When Kurumi tells baby Mei to stop crying, Mei immediately stops while opening her eyes. When the other girls are trying to calm down the babies, Kurumi and baby Mei can be seen in the back, staring.
    Kurumi: You sure are obedient.
• The sight of all the babies crying causes Rentarou to break down lamenting he can't be their mom to cheer them up. Seeing Rentarou crying causes all of the babies to stop crying as they all start comforting him out of pity.
  Babies: Dhere, dhere...
  Hahari: Don't...look at him with such pity in your eyes.
  Kusuri: Kids can be so cruel, yep.

Chapter 85

• Yaku is too scared to cross the street because she's afraid of cars, which she calls "iron horses." When Rentarou helps her get across by giving her a piggyback ride, Yaku says he's treating her like a wounded soldier.
  Karane: Make it more disturbin', why don'tcha?
• When Yamame's pyrophobia is triggered by a driver lighting his cigarette, Rentarou pulls out what appears to be a gun. Yamame says, "Smokers are living things too, aye..." which Karane says is like hearing "the last gasps of an elderly smoker." Fortunately, it's just a squirt gun.
• Rentarou notices Kishika is melting after watching him carry Yaku and asks if she wants a piggyback ride, too. Kishika thinks that would be bizarre because she's uninjured and he's her junior, but Rentarou says it's okay because he's her boyfriend. Kishika immediately enters baby mode when Rentarou carries her.
  Kishika: Daddyyy♥
  Karane: No, this is pretty damn bizarre, alright.
  Kurumi: What kind of a couple are they, even?
  • Kishika proceeds to sing a song to the tune of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat."
    Kishika: Go, go, daddy-o
    Gently down the street
    Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily
    Life is but a treat.
  • Karane comments that Kishika's "way too easy". Nano, Mimimi, Momiji, Meme, and Mei give Karane, who's not exactly innocent in that department herself, a collective Look.
• As a gust of wind blows, Meme covers her bangs while Rentarou covers her skirt. Meme calls her skirt her "oft-neglected lower bangs".
• Shortly after Hahari warns Hakari not to get caught up in her delusions with Rentarou, Hahari receives photos from Rentarou showing him dressed in baby clothes. Hahari proceeds to have the exact same reaction Hakari had earlier to getting sexy glamour shots of Rentarou: babbling in excitement before passing out.
• After Rentarou gives Shizuka a book he made for her, Karane and Nano both think, "I should borrow that later."
• It turns out Rentarou wrote a very thick encyclopedia of everything he loves about Karane, but laments that he's still working on the second volume.
• Yaku enjoys her shoulder massage from Momiji so much that she's drooling and vibrating, to the point where Karane is worried the massage will kill her. When Yaku calls it the best massage she's ever had, Kusuri tearfully says Yaku said her massages were the best in the world, causing Yaku to nervously backpedal.
• When the God of Love pokes his head out of a wall, Rentarou throws salt at him while yelling, "Evil spirit, begone!"
• After Rentarou thanks the God of Love for making him the happiest he's ever been after meeting all of his girlfriends, the God of Love asks if Rentarou is coming onto him.
  Rentarou: I'm gonna balse the hell out of this shrine.

Chapter 86

• Hakari and Hahari announce that they'll be playing the pocky game, where everyone keeps their eyes shut as they eat their way down their pocky. Kusuri reads volume 1 of the manga as she points out it was called Bocky back in Chapter 2. Momiji says it was supposed to be a dirty joke, but it was changed back out of embarrassment since the joke fell flat.
  Mimimi: How vulgar.
  Chiyo: Grade-schooler humor, rrgh...!
• The pocky being used are so long that they stretch across more than half of the rooftop.
  Karane: This goes far beyond a serving size.
• Unsurprisingly, the pocky break under their own weight once the game starts, leading to shenanigans as everyone blindly wanders around, which the narration calls a "pockymon battle royale."
• Hakari and Karane kiss each other once again and really enjoy it.
• Kishika tries to psych herself up and steel her resolve, only to cry "Mommy" when she ends up head first in Hahari's cleavage.
• Chiyo, Shizuka, Momiji, and Kusuri end up kissing each other's cheeks, while the narration gets dramatic.
  Narration: Thus spake the lord: where four young girls gather, shall a four-way smooth cheek smooch chain be formed among them. Thank you, young girls. Thank you, cheek smooches. Thank you... Thank you...
• Naddy thinks her pocky is aiming her down, which the narration points out is just gravity. Naddy crawls to follow it, bumps into Yaku, and unknowingly gives the latter a ride like a horse.
• Kurumi's pocky leads to her nibbling on Iku's ear, which makes Iku very flustered. Iku says Rentarou should do it with Hakari, as she prefers something rougher.
• All of this leads to a chain reaction of hilarity.
  • Yamame kisses Mimimi's forehead and slips from the latter's smooth skin.
  • Bumping into Yamame causes Mimimi to lose her balance and grab Meme's breasts.
  • Meme disappears and drops her pocky while Kurumi slides across the ground to catch it in her mouth.
  • Meme reappears on the other end of Nano's pocky. Before they can kiss, Yaku breaks it in two as Naddy crawls between them.
  • Meme and Nano poke their pocky into Iku's chest and end up kissing her there, causing Iku to cry "Why me...?!" Iku says Rentarou should do that to Hahari instead.
• Hahari wonders whose pocky was picked by Rentarou. It then shows Rentarou with his mouth filled with pocky sticks as he picked All of Them.
• Since Mei already spends most of her life effectively blind, she's the only one who can tell how chaotic everything is. That Mei of all people is the Only Sane Man in this situation makes it even funnier.
• After Mei guides everyone to the other ends of Rentarou's pocky, she blushes when she starts eating her pocky towards him.
• Everyone initially says they should play the pocky game again, only to decide they'll do it again next year since eating so much pocky made them sick. Iku enjoys the stomach pain, Kurumi is just plain happy, Yaku is shaking because she isn't used to eating so much sugar, and Mei is puzzled about why everyone else is sick.

Volume 10 Extras

• Mei shakes hands with Yamame's squirrel after the latter served as an excellent fashion model.
• Iku has hearts in her eyes after Yaku and Naddy slammed menko cards on her butt.
• When Rentarou tells infant mode Kishika that he isn't her Daddy, she asks if he's her Mommy instead.
• Both the author and the artist had the same reaction as Kishika and Hahari (Huh...?! For real?!) when the breast-sucking scene was approved.
• Even though Kurumi just ate the "massive-as-hell" ramen, she still ordered vanilla ice cream for dessert. The ramen lady runs out to get some despite earlier saying she was closing up the shop for good.
• Nano tries to give Shizuka the "negation drug" even though the latter wasn't turned into a baby. Shizuka herself has Blank White Eyes in confusion.
• Rentarou's massive rejection streak was also the God of Love's fault.
• While most of the girls are feeling sick after the pocky game, Rentarou is collapsed in a pool of blood since he ate way more pocky than all of them, or so it seems.
  Footnote: It wasn't the pocky, it was overdosing on happiness from the 17 kisses.
• The extra chapter depicts the first time Kishika melted.
  • Where did Kishika get the idea to pat herself on the head with a glove? While cleaning up after school, some kids play around with an inflated glove, only for it to land on young Kishika's head. The kids assume Kishika will snap at them, but Kishika starts melting and drooling from getting patted on the head. When Kishika realizes she's being watched, she pops the glove in her hand and yells at the other kids, while secretly melting upon seeing the box of rubber gloves.
  • It turns out Kishika's mother wanted to pat her just as much as Kishika wanted it, but she didn't because she assumed Kishika hated being treated like a kid. Kishika's mother even pats a pillow while pretending it's Kishika.
    Narration: Some things are just in your blood.

Volume 11 (Chapters 87 - 95)

Chapter 87

• The chapter is littered with footnotes translating terms in the dialogue of girlfriend #18, Aashii Kedarui, who asks that she be called Ahko.
  Ahko: My name's actually Aashii Kedarui. But that's like, hella wack.^note Kedarui translates to different words for "Lethargic". Dunno what my folks were thinkin'.
• There's a ridiculous amount of accessories attached to Ahko's phone. She's worried that the weight will make her arm beefy, which she doesn't find cute.
• Ahko pauses for two panels looking at her phone, then flatly says she's getting carried away.
  Rentarou: That was you getting carried away?
  Ahko: Yah. I'm like, hyped to the max.
  • Ahko attributes this to her low blood pressure.
    Ahko: O.M.G I'm deeead.
    Rentarou: I'd hope not.
• The Running Gag of Ahko's Character Catchphrase and Phrase Catcher.
  Ahko: That sends meee.
  Rentarou: Where?
  • The latter response just seems to be Rentarou not getting slang. Like when Rentarou brings her to the flea market to sell her things.
    Ahko: Woooow that's sick. You're like, sooo sick.
    Rentarou: I'm not sure if that's a good thing.
• Ahko recounts the time one of her friends got dumped by her boyfriend. Each of her other friends said disparaging things about the boyfriend, then looked at Ahko for her response. Ahko said, "I'm like, toootally pissed off," while the only thing that looked different about her face was her eyebrows.
• When Rentarou takes Ahko to a flea market, the latter thinks it's an IRL version of flea market apps.

Chapter 88

• When Ahko asks everyone what their goals are, Nano says she wants to join a stable corporation. Hahari immediately says Nano can join hers.
• After everyone sets up their stalls, Hahari gives Ahko something she pulls out of her cleavage: Ren, which is paper money with Rentarou's face on them.
  Ahko: Wooow, you even use like, your own money?
  Rentarou: Apparently we do now.
• At Hakari and Yamame's flower stall, Ahko wants to get the flowers on Yamame's head. Yamame is really conflicted on this since her butterflies live on those flowers, and she keeps going back and forth on whether to give them to Ahko or not. Fortunately, a nervously sweating Hakari convinces Ahko to get different flowers instead.
• While visiting Shizuka and Nano's bookstall, Ahko wants to get manga or books that don't require much reading. The best Shizuka can come up with is a children's picture book, which Ahko buys because it's cute. Nano offers Ahko a large dictionary, which the latter doesn't want because she thinks it'll make her too muscular.
  Shizuka: "That's the issue?"
  • Nano then offers Ahko a pocket dictionary that fits in the palm of her hand, which Ahko buys because it's cute.
• Kurumi and Momiji run a bread stall where Momiji kneads bread and bakes it while Kurumi tastes and seasons it. All the pieces of bread are actually keychains because of the obvious problem: Kurumi kept eating all the bread.
  Kurumi: You'd have to be beyond human to resist the scent of freshly baked bread...!
• Karane gets so embarrassed when Rentarou calls her cute that she yells, "Shut up! Put a cookie in it!" as she shoves cookies into his mouth and eyes. Iku pushes the corner of the panel away to watch.
• Kusuri and Chiyo run a drug stall. When Ahko describes it as dope, Kusuri asks if Ahko wants dope while holding a vial with a skull on it, which Chiyo refuses to let her sell. Kusuri then demonstrates her "laughing drug" by forcing Chiyo to drink it. While the drug causes Chiyo to laugh constantly, when Ahko takes it, she just says, "That so totally seriously sends mee," while acting no different than normal. (Implying that her Character Catchphrase is how she laughs.) Chiyo tries to tell Kusuri to give her the "negation drug" while laughing, but Kusuri doesn't notice.
• Mimimi is just posing at her and Meme's knit goods stall. When Ahko asks Mimimi what she's doing, the latter says she's a beautiful mannequin. After Ahko decides to get the sweater Mimimi is wearing, the latter starts to remove it while Meme imagines Mimimi in her underwear. Meme gets so flustered that she vanishes, even though Mimimi is still wearing a shirt underneath.
• Naddy and Yaku run a candy stall. Ahko decides to buy karintou and chocolate, but Naddy doesn't know how to spell chocolate in English.
• Hahari and Kishika run a baby products stall called Melty Mothering. Hahari demonstrates the product by shoving a pacifier into Kishika's mouth, who promptly starts acting like a baby.
  Ahko: Like, huge yikes.
  • Kishika becomes so happy that she declares she wants to be a baby when she grows up. Then she ends up on her knees saying, "Just kill me...!"
• Since running a batting center on the roof is too dangerous, Iku and Mei run a paddling center instead, where Iku catches Mei's pitches while the contestant hits Iku's butt with a bat. The prize is a Paddle-kun keychain, which depicts a butt with eyes, arms, and legs as well as a baseball cap, a bat, and a bandage on its, uh, cheek.
• When Ahko says she wants to open her own stall so she can share her likes with everyone, Hakari reveals they had a spare stall in case someone like Karane demolished one. Karane slams down her hand while yelling "In case what?!" and ends up breaking her stall.
• While everyone is visiting each other's stalls, Kusuri shakes a rattle while holding Chiyo like a baby. Chiyo is embarrassed while Kishika starts melting at the sight.

Chapter 89

• The leader of the Serious Overnight Ascetic Training is a monk with a Drill Sergeant Nasty personality and No Indoor Voice (seriously, all of his speech bubbles are intense yelling), yet a perpetually tranquil and friendly smile. The contrast between his appearance and personality couldn't be funnier.
• When everyone shouts, "Sir, yes sir!" the monk shows just how brutal he is.
  Monk: A SIMPLE "YES" WILL SUFFICE! SHOULD I SKIP THE MIDDLEMAN AND JUST KILL YOU NOW?!
• After Iku runs 100 laps while cleaning the floor during Serious Temple Cleaning, she asks the monk if she can do another 100, much to the monk's surprise. Meanwhile, Mei is cleaning one of the statues after her 100 laps, causing the monk to scold both of them for overachieving.
• The next session is Serious Meditation, where everyone is connected to a machine that will smack them on the shoulder if their concentration wavers.
  • Mei imagines Hahari commanding her to concentrate, with a text box saying she's "ordering herself (self-hypnosis)."
  • When Iku gets hit by the machine, she enjoys the pain so much that she intentionally loses her focus so the machine will hit her constantly, to the point where she repositions herself so the machine will hit her butt.
  • A fellow student is wondering what Iku is doing and how Mei is able to stay calm despite all the noise Iku is making.
  • After the training, the monk is shocked that Iku got hit 9,999 times and maxed out the counter. When he threatens to hit Iku as punishment, Iku excitedly yells "Yes!" with sparkling eyes.
    Monk: WHAT HAS GOT YOU SO EAGER?!
• Up next is Serious Prayer, where everyone repeatedly shouts, "Great Buddha is the greatest!" Mei on the other hand keeps shouting, "Hahari-sama is the greatest!" When the monk asks, "WHAT ON BUDDHA'S BLUE EARTH ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!" Mei explains that Hahari saved her before Buddha did, so she owes her life to Hahari, not Buddha. After the monk chews her out, Mei amends it to, "Great Buddha is infinitesimally close to the greatest!"
• The focus of this chapter is exclusively on Iku and Mei, with none of the other characters appearing. That said, the lead monk makes multiple references to the one person who's ever completed the training by themselves and fondly thinks back to that day as the chapter concludes. That person's identity will probably not surprise you.
  Rentarou: (under a waterfall) RRRAAAGHH! EVEN IF ONE DAY A RANDOM WATERFALL POURS FROM THE SKY, EVEN IF SPEARS START RAINING DOWN, OR EVEN IF LAPUTA ITSELF PLUMMETS DOWN ON ALL OF US — I'LL PROTECT MY GIRLFRIENDS EVEN IF IT KILLS ME!
  Narration: I knew it.

Chapter 90

• When Rentarou reveals he won two spots in the raffle to see Hon'o Kakuyo-sensei, the author of Shizuka's favorite book series Circlet Love Story, Shizuka is so frozen in shock that she falls backwards from her chair.
• After Shizuka asks Rentarou how many applications did he send to win the raffle, he says it wasn't that many, while the footnote says it was an unhealthy amount.
• Shizuka is so nervous to see the author that her limbs make creaking noises and swing unbendingly as she moves in line.
• Hon'o Kakuyo-sensei is revealed to be a punk with a mohawk who's covered in tattoos, surrounded by bottles of booze, and smokes so much there's a tall pile of ashes on a plate. The scanlation also has him talk in a thick Cockney accent.
• The punk author gives Shizuka an autograph by writing on a bottle of moonshine.
• Shizuka tries to cheer up by reading Circlet Love Story, but the moment she starts reading, she imagines the author in a messy room, scribbling on a piece of paper while huddling a bottle of sake and hiccuping.
• Once the author is done signing autographs, he says he's gonna head home, take a dump, and pass out.
• Rentarou praises the punk so much in his You Are Better Than You Think You Are speech that the latter breaks down and admits he's not actually Hon'o Kakuyo-sensei. He's really a competing author whose book was completely outsold by Circlet Love Story and came to the signing posing as Hon'o-sensei to ruin her reputation.
• So what happened to the real Hon'o-sensei? The punk pretended to be a waiter and sat her at a table that knocks people out due to how the sun hits it.
  Rentarou: You sure like your disguises!
• After Rentarou finds the real Hon'o-sensei and wakes her and her editor up, he explains the situation, which is rendered as, "Actually, blah blah blah, etc, etc..." The editor runs off saying she's gonna pin down the punk before he gets away.
• Meeting the real Hon'o-sensei has made Shizuka so happy she's floating in the air.

Chapter 91

• Kusuri gets inspired by an episode of Pepepe no Pentarou to pair the girls up as "equipment." Yaku explains the episode to the rest of the girls like this:
  Yaku: A bird turned a fish into a spear, yes yes.
• To start things off, Kusuri has Yamame equip Momiji.
  • Momiji massages Yamame so the latter can stay in peak condition and work the fields endlessly. This allows Yamame to repeatedly drive a hoe into the ground with enough force to kick up large piles of dirt. Karane says that looks like some kind of secret weapon.
  • Rentarou points out that Momiji will eventually get tired and have to give up, but Momiji says she can stay in tip-top shape by groping Yamame's breasts. One person describes them as an actual Perpetual Motion Machine. Momiji's groping initially embarrasses Yamame, but it later ends up tickling her instead.
• Mimimi's beauty is already unbeatable, so Kusuri has her equip Shizuka so her cuteness will be, too. This involves Mimimi wearing a rope around her neck that loops under Shizuka's arms so she can carry her, with Mimimi remarking that Shizuka hardly weighs anything.
  • Kishika doesn't approve of Mimimi carrying Shizuka like a neck pouch, but Ahko, Meme, and especially Hahari find the sight adorable. Ahko thinks Shizuka would be all the rage in Harajuku, with an Imagine Spot showing multiple girls carrying Shizuka like a neck pouch, though Hakari points out that Shizuka is literally one-of-a-kind.
  • Mimimi and Shizuka both do the former's "Hmhmm, naturally" pose at the same time. Nano is so dumbfounded by the sight that she stares at them intently. While Nano appears to be looking at Shizuka in particular, Mimimi thinks Nano is looking at her and does an even smugger pose.
• Since Nano has trouble smiling while Ahko is always smiling, Kusuri has them stand back-to-back with each other so they can switch to the appropriate expression. When Kusuri wants them to stop smiling, she mimics Chiyo's OCD mode, which Chiyo doesn't approve of. When she wants them to smile, she mimics Kishika's baby mode, which Kishika also doesn't approve of.
  • Ahko dresses Nano like her before they equip each other. Mimimi's expression makes it hard to tell whether she likes Nano's new appearance or not.
  • Nano and Ahko keep spinning around to switch places with each other until they both get nauseous.
    Kusuri: Now you've got the same expression, yep yep.
• Kusuri has Mei equip Naddy to buff her "freedom stat," which involves stuffing both of them in a shirt so Mei's face is visible while Naddy serves as the arms. Unfortunately, Naddy can't see like this, which leads to several problems:
  • Naddy accidentally gets her lasso around Mei's neck and inadvertently chokes her when she tries to pull it back.
    Mei: I am indeed feeling very much wrapped up in American spirit.
    Hahari: In an Old West gallows sense, yeah!
  • After that gets sorted out, Yaku gives them hot tea to calm down, but the cup is so hot that Naddy throws it in the air, leading to the contents falling onto Naddy's face.
    Kurumi: THIS EQUIPMENT IS ALL KINDS OF CURSED!
• To make up for one of Karane's lacking stats, Kusuri has her equip Meme by having Karane wear a sling around her neck to support Meme's breasts.
  Karane: Whoa! What a load...!
  Meme: (thinking) Whoa, what a load off...!
  • Meme disappears when her chest is about to touch Karane's, leading to the now empty sling drooping pathetically. Karane looks depressed while Momiji offers her words of comfort.
• With Hahari always doting on people, Kusuri has her equip Yaku so someone will dote on her instead. Hahari is really conflicted about whether she should show respect to Yaku for being older than her, or gush about how cute she is. When Yaku calls Hahari a child, the latter is so flattered that her emotions explode.
  Hahari: But... which one of us... will change the diapers...?
  Yaku: Whatever are you talking about, dear?
  Hahari: I mean, who's going to be mommy...
  Hakari: Stop it with the self-inserting slash fics, you... you...!
  Yamame: H-Hahari-san's just doing her darndest at being a living thing herself, aye...!
• Kusuri believes Hakari is in her rebellious phase, so the former has her equip Chiyo to awaken Hahari's blood in her veins. Kusuri puts glasses on Hakari so Chiyo will be like putty in her hands.
  Chiyo: WHO DO YOU TAKE ME FOR?
  • Hakari and Chiyo try to refuse going along with Kusuri's plan, but Hakari ends up admiring how cute Chiyo is, while Chiyo is comforted by Hakari holding her. Kusuri and Hahari both nod at the sight.
• Noticing that Kishika is melting after seeing Hakari hold Chiyo, Kusuri notes that Kishika needs something to increase her resistance to desire, along with Kurumi and Iku.
  • Kurumi objects to being put in the same boat as those two, while Nano points out Kurumi fits in that boat very well. Iku tries to deny having any desire, but Shizuka calls her out as an image of Iku saying "Oof!♥" appears.
    Shizuka: "Gaze upon thyself in a mirror and repent."
  • Kusuri's setup has Kurumi patting Kishika's head, Kishika hitting Iku's butt, and Iku holding a doughnut in front of Kurumi. The idea is that seeing how goofy they look will give them some self-awareness. Unsurprisingly, all of them fail.
    Kishika: Mommyyy♥
    Kurumi: Yummyyy♥
    Iku: Ouchyyy♥
    Karane: Yeah, there it is.
    Kusuri: What a lame punchline.
  • Rentarou cries tears of pride as he praises all of them for lasting eight-tenths of a second longer than normal.
• So who will Kusuri equip now that everyone else is taken? She'll equip to Rentarou so they can make out.
  Mimimi: Hogging him is hardly fair, naturally!
  Momiji: Tyrant! Dictator! Dethrone her as dedicated equipment! Depose her!
  Kusuri: (as Yamame pulls her off Rentarou) Gaaaagh! Defeated by democracy, yep yep!
• Kusuri then comes up with "Perfect Girlfriend Armor," which consists of everyone holding onto each other like some kind of Combining Mecha. Highlights include Rentarou as the head, Hakari and Hahari as the feet, and Iku as the butt.
  Kurumi: That's so impossible it's not even funny!
• In the end, everyone settles on just kissing Rentarou, causing all of them to stick to Rentarou's face while their bodies are perfectly straight in the air.
  Yaku: Ah, you've all become such wonderful spears. Now, make room for me.

Chapter 92

• As Karane and Ahko are chatting, Iku and Yamame can be seen in the background carrying multiple people. Yamame is easily lifting Shizuka, Kusuri, Chiyo, Momiji, and Yaku. Meanwhile, Iku is struggling, yet enjoying, trying to carry Nano, Mei, and Kishika. Nano is riding Iku's shoulders, while Kishika and Mei are being Bridal Carried at the same time. Neither seems to mind too much.
• When Ahko admits she read all of Demon Slayer, saw the movie, and cried her eyes out, Karane acts like Ahko is the only one who likes it. A flashback, however, shows Karane read the whole series, watched the anime, saw the movie, and cried too.
  Flashback Karane: (while tears are streaming down her face) It's not like I'm cryin' or anythin!
  • Even funnier is the implication Karane is actually more into it than Ahko, who doesn't mention watching the anime.
• While hanging out with Ahko's old friends, their excessive use of the word "totally" causes Karane to think, "These girls are a totally different species."
• Karane calls out Ahko's old friends for mistreating Ahko and demands they apologize to her. Not only do they refuse to apologize, they even claim Ahko should be thanking them for hanging out with her again. When they start insulting Karane, she gets so angry that Ahko warns her that, unlike Rentarou, they don't drink milk every day, meaning if she loses it, she really will kill them.
• After Ahko thanks Karane for standing up for her, Karane says, "C'mon... they went and ruined our good time. Let's get outta here'n have some real fun."
  Ahko: Wooow, you tryna pick me up or whaaat?
• Ahko's now former friends are trembling in terror and begging for help after they got into trouble with the Gorira Alliance. The Gorira Alliance leader assumes they're friends with Karane and offers to let them off with a warning. The girls' relief quickly turns back into terror when Karane says they aren't her friends, but she does mention that Ahko knows them. After the girls calmly apologize to Ahko, Ahko tells the Gorira Alliance they can do whatever they want to them. Even Karane is shocked by Ahko's response.
• While Ahko doesn't really care what they say about her, she considers them bad-mouthing Karane to be unforgivable. Ahko says, "I'm like, toootally pissed off," with the same expression she had back in Chapter 87 when she and her former friends were talking about a guy that dumped one of them.
• At this point, Ahko's former friends are in tears as they desperately apologize to Karane.
  Girl 1: We're sorry! We're so, so sorry Inda-samaaa!
  Girl 2: If you're a gorilla, we're just a bunch of bonehead monkeys! We're sorry!
  Girl 3: No, we're water fleas!
  Girl 4: No, we're sea monkeys!
  Karane: Y'all got real quick-witted real fast.
• Ahko and the Gorira Alliance leader bond over the latter's "Lovely Uho-Uho" accessory.
• The narration says, "In the end, the four girls were ultimately forgiven, and they never crossed Karane or Ahko ever again."

Chapter 93

• There's a quiz on the first page that asks what is the noise that's causing all the clacks. The answer will be on the last page.
• When everyone starts putting on glasses, Karane says, "It's not like I'm gonna try 'em on, or anythin'!" even though she's already wearing them.
  Mimimi: Your turnaround time is truly a concern.
• Every girl has a different opinion of Rentarou in his glasses, even though he wears the same pair every time. Some of them even contradict each other.
• Upon seeing Nano in glasses, Rentarou calls her a sub-zero stunner. Iku thinks he's talking about the Mortal Kombat character named Sub-Zero.
• What's Rentarou's response to seeing Shizuka with glasses?
  Rentarou: Her reading level is... 530,000?!
  Hahari: Those glasses don't have a scouter function, I don't think.
• After seeing Hahari wearing glasses, Rentarou says he'll "do as many hundreds of hours of unpaid overtime as she needs," causing Meme to ask if Hahari is managing a sweatshop. When Hahari starts toying with Rentarou, Kurumi describes it as workplace harassment.
• Seeing Rentarou in glasses causes Iku to imagine him as a Sadist Teacher who shouts at her and threatens to hit her with a bamboo sword.
  Chiyo: You're not going to learn anything with that teaching method.
• Rentarou says Ahko wears those glasses better than Nobita. Mimimi notes that's not a high bar to clear, while Kurumi suggests he at least say Ahko beats Conan.
• Meme is wearing special glasses that prevent her eyes from showing through the lenses.
  Nano: What manner of fourth-wall technology is that...?
• Rentarou says he feels like a princess when he sees Kishika wearing glasses. Kishika on the other hand is reminded of Daddy when she sees Rentarou in glasses and starts to melt. Hahari decides to take advantage of this.
  Hahari: That's right. And I'm Mommy.
  Kishika: Mommy...?
• When Kurumi refuses to let Rentarou pat her head, he thinks she's like a cat. Momiji gropes Kurumi's chest while the latter is deep in thought, causing her to hiss like a cat and her hood to point up like cat ears.
• Momiji says Rentarou looks like a well-to-do mogul and calls him Mr. President. Hakari declares she'll be the president's wife then, while Ahko points out that Hakari is the daughter of another president, Hahari. Hahari asks if Hakari just proposed to her, which the latter completely ignores.
  Iku: (gulps) Totally shut down...
• Rentarou flat out yells, "I LOVE YOU! SO MUCH!" after seeing Hakari with glasses. Hakari offhandedly tells Rentarou not to look at her like that, which leads to him apologizing and punching himself in the face while yelling, "RAAAGH! YOU FREAKIN' LECH! I'LL KILL YOU!"
  Narration: The will of the King of Decency stands strong.
• When Yaku starts patting Kishika on the head, the latter melts while calling her "gwanny." A very jealous Kusuri points at Kishika and yells, "Hey! She's my granny, yep yep!"
• In response to Naddy saying she brought America with her to Japan, Kurumi says, "A bootleg version, yeah."
• The sight of Mimimi in glasses is so beautiful that Rentarou doesn't know if he's even allowed to look at her.
  Mimimi: (light bounces off her forehead) Ah. A sudden ray of sunlight.
  Rentarou: (Blinded by the Light) Gagh! Divine punishment!
  Momiji: Gazing upon the hallowed Mimigod will blind you...
• So what's the answer to the quiz? Everyone trying to smooch Rentarou while wearing glasses. Kusuri and Chiyo, the only people who normally wear glasses, watch this as the former comments on it.
  Kusuri: Yeah, I guess you guys aren't used to kissing with glasses on, are you?

Chapter 94

• While Rentarou is scouting a park as a potential dating spot, he notices someone is fishing. When he gets a closer look, it turns out this person is fishing in a puddle.
• Rentarou gets a ZING!! with the girl fishing in a puddle, named Uto. She's dressed like a bard and talks in a vague, wishy-washy manner.
• Uto points to a bag containing her lunch high up in a tree. She tossed it up there earlier so no one would steal it while she was napping, only to later find out she herself can't reach it. When Rentarou asks why did she throw it up there in the first place, Uto tries to save face by calling it "a gift to the forest..."
  Rentarou: It's called littering.
• After Rentarou retrieves Uto's lunch, she thanks him by playing a ballad for him on her ocarina. Rentarou's thoughts reveal Uto is awful at playing music, and her lyrics and singing are just as bad.
• Partway through the ballad, it becomes apparent that Uto is confessing her love to Rentarou through song. When she stops, Rentarou tries to reciprocate only for Uto to sing one more line. Uto wasn't able to hear what Rentarou said, requiring him to say it again.
• Uto shares her sandwich with Rentarou while they sit upon her most favored hill: a dome in a playground.
• When Uto says her life as a Wandering Minstrel means she can't stay with him, Rentarou believes one of the reasons she can't stay is because the artist, Nozawa-sensei, would have her human rights infringed upon if she has to draw Uto on top of everyone else.
• After Rentarou has a heartfelt goodbye with Uto, he meets her again on the way to school the next day. Uto reveals she's a second year in the junior high section of Rentarou's school. That's when Rentarou realizes Uto isn't a bard, she's a chuunibyou.

Chapter 95

• When Kishika asks if Uto lying about being a bard, the latter says, "Lie or truth, it all depends on one's point of view. And mine own point of view is that the title your spirit holds matters above all else... in a sense."
  Karane: What kinda religion are you sellin'?
• Uto's overuse of the word "natural" elicits this bit of Hypocritical Humor from Mimimi:
  Uto: Verily! And what is natural is very natural indeed. It is only natural it is natural, for that is what makes it natural.
  Mimimi: You hem and haw without much substance at all, naturally.
• Kusuri decides to cut to the chase during Uto's introduction.
  Kusuri: So to make sure we're all on the same page, Uto's a stereotypical chuuni, yep yep?
  Uto: One may say that... or one may not.
  Karane: More like a pain in chuu-neck...
• As Uto describes herself as being skilled enough that she might call herself a bard, Rentarou is sweating since no one else knows that Uto is actually a Dreadful Musician.
• Mei asks how can she repay the unrepayable debt of gratitude she owes Hahari before the former's life ends. Uto tells Mei to drink the "immortality drug."
  Mei: (to Kusuri, with a serious expression) I am prepared to provide whatever assistance you feel necessary.
  Kusuri: 'Kay. Start by opening your eyes, that's dangerous.
• After Yamame asks Uto how to achieve world peace, Uto suggests eradicating all life, as that would put an end to all conflict. Yamame is troubled by the answer but still genuinely considers it.
  Kurumi: So she's one of those final bosses who have good intentions but are willing to go to extreme lengths?
• An Imagine Spot of Meme casually walking in public in the nude, which is Uto's solution for Meme relieving her shame. Meme obviously isn't taking it.
• Uto's answer for what Kurumi's favorite food is: anything. Specifically that a person's favorite food changes from moment to moment, thus it could be anything. Not only does this apply to people in real life and Kurumi, this is the first sensible answer Uto's given.
• Karane asks what food she ate this morning, to call bullshit on Uto hemming and hawing her answers.
  Uto: "Food." Perhaps.
  • This causes Karane to ask if Uto is just making fun of her, who in turn asks if that means Karane didn't eat food. Karane says she did eat food, which ends up proving Uto right. This makes Karane so mad that Naddy has to hold her back, while Iku offers to let Karane take her anger out on her.
• Kishika asks what the weather will be like tomorrow.
  Uto: Could you grant me until tomorrow to think about it?
  Kishika: Even I could answer it by then!
  • When Kishika tries to get Uto to answer the question properly, Uto turns it around by saying, "Time can never be regained once spent. It's best savored leisurely." This sends Kishika into a Pose of Supplication as she laments her lost childhood.
    Kusuri: Did she score a crit, yep yep?
  • Kishika cheers up and enters baby mode when Rentarou pampers her.
    Kishika: I wuv you Daddy...♥ Pwease mawwy me...♥
    Hahari: What...?! Didn't you want to marry Mommy...?! You want to marry Daddy even more...?!
• Uto taking two panels (copies really) to answer Nano on how many questions she's been asked.^note Granted, the readers are unlikely to have thought to keep track of how many questions were asked so far.
  Mimimi: Of course you used that moment to count.
• Naddy asks Uto how she can become a real American. Uto suggests changing her nationality. Naddy is conflicted about the idea since Japan is still important to her, but Kusuri says Naddy can just stay a "Naddian."
  • This is the one question that actually baffles Uto, who partly drops her mode of speech and ends the question with an "I guess?"
• Iku wants to know how she can work even harder at putting in more effort. Uto says, "Make an effort to work harder to make more of an effort," which Iku happily accepts.
  Kurumi: Uuhhh, that was kind of scary actually.
• When Yaku asks who will win the sumo match tomorrow, Uto gets out of it by saying knowing the answer would suck all the enjoyment out of watching it, which Yaku agrees with.
  Karane: This is getting so old...!
  Hakari: An adult knows how to play along. Which is why you can't.
• Momiji's question is very simple. So is Uto's answer:
  Momiji: Can I grope you?
  Uto: You may do as you wish.
  (Groping ensues)
• A hot and bothered Hahari wonders what she should do about her "unstoppable, sinful impulses." Uto recommends finding a non-criminal way to deal with them. For some reason, Hahari jumps to the conclusion that this means Hakari's fair game and starts chasing after her. Hakari ducks behind Nano, who proceeds to give Hahari an Eye Poke. Despite this, Hahari is still happy that "Nano-chan's fingers touched my delicate mucous membrane."
• Hakari asks Uto what Rentarou's ideal type of woman is. Uto, who'd just been introduced a chapter ago compared to Hakari who's been around from Chapter 1 to this number, states the obvious. Hakari's response is both somewhat accurate while also selling her lack of awareness.
  Uto: Any type of woman. Perhaps.
  Hakari: (while Uto is saying perhaps) WHAT IS HE, A RAGING MAN-SLUT?!
• While Uto is describing the various girls dating Rentarou, she mentions "sexy girls", which embarrasses Meme and contrasts "clever girls" with "not-quite-so girls" in reference to Chiyo and Naddy respectively.
• The song Uto sings about everyone has some pretty funny lyrics. Kishika is "A baby by the name of knight," Nano has "Efficiency or just impatience," Yamame is "The Ah also known for her aye," Kusuri has "Chemistry, more like drug abuse," and Hahari is "The mother who's a known pervert."
• Uto's song ends with a spread of everyone happily holding hands together while wearing casual dresses. Karane calls out Uto for trying to play off her performance with a cute spread.
• When Rentarou says he really liked Uto's song with a love throb on his face, Karane also gets a love throb as she thinks, "Fine, then! I'll try to like it, too!"

Volume 11 Extras

• A bonus sketch shows Ahko and Uto having trouble posing together for the cover because of their respective heights and Uto's hat. Uto finds a rock to use as a Scully Box.
• After the brief moment when Karane was equipped with Meme's chest, the two have a Shared Dream that night where they happily hold hands and run down a beach together after swapping bust sizes with each other. Both of them are smiling in real life.
• Uto trying to fetch her sandwich from the tree with a stick.
• Everyone discusses what their first words as babies were.
  • Hahari claims that Hakari's first words were "I wuv Mommy!" The flashback shows that while Hahari and Hakari were sleeping in bed together, Hahari kept saying "I love Mommy," possibly while asleep, while baby Hakari was visibly confused with Blank White Eyes.
    Chiyo: Brainwashing rrrgh!
  • Naddy (with Meme translating for her) asks Yaku what Kusuri's first words were. Yaku says that it was her name, although Nano suggests that Kusuri meant "Yaku" as in "drugs" before Shizuka covers Nano's mouth.
  • Uto claims her first words were to sing, "An infant one may call a minstrel~".
    Kishika: At least make your lies less blatant!
  • When Uto says Buddha said "Only I reign supreme above heaven and below," after being born, Mei imagines Hahari as a baby saying, "Only I reign supreme."
• There's a drawing of all the girls as cats, with cat Karane saying, "It's not like I wanna be fed or anythin'!"
• Another drawing depicts Karane as the Loch Ness Monster named Karanessie. She says, "It-It's not like I'm a UMA (unidentified mysterious animal) or anythin'!"

Volume 12 (Chapters 96 - 104)

Chapter 96

• The chapter opens with an exposition on Gu, an ancient Chinese ritual where toxic creatures are stuck in a jar to eat each other to acquire poison for magic. The next panel down shows five of the most problematic girls of the family in such a jar. (Hahari, Iku, Kusuri, Momiji, and Kishika.)
• Hahari orders the most expensive antique she could find to impress Yaku. And it just happens to be a massive jar that can house multiple people. Complete with a ladder.
  • The vase is so enormous that it had to be airlifted to the roof by helicopter.
• Hahari climbs into the jar thinking she could use it for a prank. And realizes that she can't jump high enough out of it to scare anyone, let alone climb out.
  Hahari: Did I just prank myself?
  • Kusuri gets in for fun. Iku gets in for “training”, Kishika moves in because the size reminds her of her childhood, and Momiji hops in to rub up against everyone in it despite Kishika's warning.
• With everyone cramped, Kusuri has come prepared ever since the family got trapped in the photo booth: a "Makes-you-enjoy-cramped-places" drug.
  Kishika: That will not help resolve this situation.
• The text for the Gu ritual also states that the last surviving creature contains the most poison. Surprising no one, it's Hahari.
  • Kusuri takes the negation drug to return to her grown-up form for extra cramps, but by doing so she also canceled out the "Makes-you-enjoy-cramped-places" drug in her system. She suddenly loses interest in the situation and casually climbs out of the jar to go make drugs.
  • Iku climbs out after Momiji massages her to alleviate her muscle pain.
  • Momiji leaves due to feeling like a Third Wheel between Hahari and Kishika.
  • Kishika, in her infant state, gets helped out of the jar by Hahari so she can go to the bathroom. (Hahari also promised her head pats if she could go by herself.) The very moment she gets out:
    Kishika: GAAAAAHHH! SOMEBODY KILL ME! PLEAAASE!
• Kishika regains her chivalry (composure) and returns to help Hahari out of the jar. Hahari grabs her hand and tries to pull her back down. With an innocent smile no less.
  Hahari: (Depraved giggling) Come on... Come with me...
  Kishika: WHAT ARE YOU, HAUNTING THIS VASE...?!
  • Kishika spots Naddy's "'Murrican Justice" lasso (which Naddy lost) on the ground. She then lassos the vase and throws the rope inside so Hahari can get herself out.
    Kishika: I hereby wash my hands of this matter! (Leaves and slams the door)
• The actual winner of the Gu ritual? Rentarou, who got stuck in the vase before any of the girls got in and wasn't noticed. His spine got broken when Hahari jumped in and was further harmed with each girl jumping down, but he kept silent so that they wouldn’t know they hurt him by accident, Hahari mistaking him for a cushion when she landed. He miraculously healed from the crippling injury just by being in the vase with all of them.

Chapter 97

• All of the towns in the Quad Town Public Sports Festival have names that are Exactly What It Says on the Tin. The name of the town everyone lives in is Sukisugi-chou (I love this town), the main rival town is Kiraisugi-chou (I hate this town), and the other towns are Futsuu-chou (Not too bad town) and Dochikaratoiebasuki-chou (If I had to pick I guess I like this town).
• Kusuri's father is mad that Rentarou called him father-in-law, while Chiyo's father Hiro is mad Rentarou doesn't call him father-in-law.
• Hiro and Kusuri's father argue with each other over whose daughter is cuter. When Hiro starts mocking Kusuri's father by calling him a manlet and sticking his tongue out, the latter takes the negation drug to reveal his massive, muscular form. Hiro is so terrified that he immediately adopts a Pose of Supplication and apologizes profusely, but he still refuses to admit Kusuri is cuter than Chiyo.
• After Nano gives a detailed explanation of the mayor of Kiraisugi-chou (With a different text font), Ahko calls her Nanopedia.
• The mayor of Kiraisugi-chou hired a team of professional athletes using a huge amount of his town's taxpayer money, prompting Kurumi to call him out for misusing his town's taxes.
• The moment the tug-o-war event starts, team Sukisugi immediately gets dragged across the ground by team Kiraisugi, on both the men's and women's divisions.
• During the woman's half of the foot race, the Kiraisugi runner says Mimimi's face gets screwed up while running, causing Mimimi to slow down as she tries to maintain her beauty.
• The girls decide to start thinking outside the box during the ball toss.
  • When Shizuka says she'll gather the balls, Nano imagines her as a squirrel.
  • Momiji says she'd rather grope the balls than throw them, prompting Kurumi to say Momiji would be worse than useless here.
  • Instead of tossing the balls into the basket, Hakari has Shizuka gather a bunch of balls, then has Yamame throw her above the basket, where Shizuka drops the balls into the basket. Shizuka's fall is cushioned by landing face-first into Meme and Hahari's chests.
  • This maneuver allows Sukisugi to take first, prompting the mayor of Kiraisugi to ask why this isn't against the rules. The referee says that while the rules forbid piggyback rides, there's nothing against just throwing someone.
• The next event is the costume race, where everyone has to make a costume that meets the audience's approval.
  • At this point, the Kiraisugi mayor decides to cheat by reminding the committee that his town paid them a lot of money and it would be a Shame If Something Happened. Ahko has to dress up like No-face's final form (a giant black Blob Monster with a white mask) and the only materials she's given are garbage bags.
  • One contestant dressed as a nurse screwed up by forgetting to remove her headband, while another one dressed as a police officer put her gun in its holster upside-down.
  • Ahko creates "a gussied up gal No-face" costume that has frills and lots of bows. Ahko convinces the audience that her costume counts because "final form" implies No-face is done doing makeup and stuff, which the audience agrees with. This allows Sukisugi to take first, much to the Kiraisugi mayor's shock.
• For the scavenger hunt, Uto has to find a spear that can pierce any shield and a shield that can deflect any spear, which Uto describes as, "A contradictory oxymoron, as one may say."
  • Uto arrives at the goal first with a plastic fork and a paper plate. Uto argues that the strongest spear master could pierce anything with the fork, while the strongest shieldbearer could deflect anything with the plate. She points out that she wasn't tasked to find those people and suggests that the referee hurry up. The referee is confused but still awards Sukisugi first place.
• The bread-eating race requires the contestants to eat an entire slice of bread before they can cross the finish line.
  • Due to "the imperfections of manual labor," Sukisugi's slice is a tad thicker than the others. As Kurumi puts it:
    Kurumi: That's not even a slice, it's the whole loaf!
  • Kurumi questions if she can really eat the whole thing while drooling with stars in her eyes. She sounds more excited than doubtful.
    Kishika: If you're doing the straight man bit, commit to it.
  • Unsurprisingly, Kurumi eats the whole loaf in one bite and crosses the finish line while everyone else is still eating theirs. The Kiraisugi contestant in particular is behind everyone else.
• The Kiraisugi racer has her egg glued to her spoon in the spoon race, but she still needs to look like she's balancing it to avoid getting caught. Nano flat-out runs despite having no such advantage, with the announcer saying her arm isn't shaking or jostling at all. The announcer says it's like the image stabilization on an iPhone and questions if Nano has a built-in gyro. Nano ends up getting first place.
• For the blindfold race, the announcer points out that the Kiraisugi runner is moving like she can actually see unlike the others, with the runner thinking, "Stop bringing attention to it!" She's still no match against Mei, who already spends most of her life blind.
• Yaku participates in the obstacle course, which reminds her of her training drills. During the sack race portion, a "random ninja passing by just happened to fall and scatter caltrops" all over Yaku's path.
  Karane: —RANDOM?! GET THIS FREAK OUT OF HERE, NOW!
  • Yaku mentions she's played her share of ninja make-believe before leaping over all the caltrops with a flip jump.

Chapter 98

• During the balloon sword fight, Kishika boasts about how she hones and sharpens the soul of her chivalry every day, and how her knight's will remains ever true and sharp.
  Kurumi: And look at what being so uptight got her.
  (an image of Kishika sucking her thumb saying "mommyyy" appears above Nano)
  Nano: She is incapable of staying outside of her two extremes.
• In the three-legged race, the Kiraisugi team is wearing a very elastic cord around their legs that allows them to cheat. When they pass Kusuri and Chiyo, Kusuri tries to rush ahead and screws up her rhythm with the latter, causing Chiyo to fall on her face. Just as Kiraisugi is about to cross the finish line, Kusuri reaches it first because she's running away in terror from Chiyo, who's in OCD mode.
  Chiyo: Stick with the rrrrrrrhythm!
  Kusuri: WAAAH! SORRY, SORRY, SORRY, SORRY!
• Mimimi and Momiji participate in the giant ball rolling race, but their ball is much bouncier than the others, which is a problem because their ball has to be on the ground at all times. Momiji starts groping the ball and rolls along with it. When Mimimi tries to get Momiji to stop, she ends up rolling along with her, with a text box saying Mimimi's smooth skin and slick hair is causing the ball to roll continuously. They manage to pass the finish line before anyone else, but they can't stop rolling, requiring Yamame to stop them.
• Hakari, Iku, Naddy, and Karane take part in the cavalry battle, where three people carry a fourth person and try to push the other teams off balance.
  • Karane is struggling to push against team Kiraisugi because they're wearing non-slip spray. Hakari starts insulting Karane while Iku and Naddy cheer Karane on, which quickly devolves into Iku and Naddy repeatedly chanting "Fight!" and "USA!" respectively while Hakari keeps insulting Karane. This annoys Karane so much that she screams "SHADDAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!" as she knocks the Kiraisugi team over, who tell her not to take it out on them.
  • Karane points out that one person was really laying into her with some nasty words. Hakari feigns innocence as she looks back and forth wondering who it is, but Karane already knows who the culprit is.
    Karane: It was you, Pinky.
• In the men's cavalry battle, Rentarou is getting carried by Hiro, Kusuri's father, and Sr. Sure-thing, the father of the Sure-thing sisters from Chapter 35.
  • Hiro and Kusuri's father spend more time arguing and insulting each other than focusing on the match, but it also improves their performance.
  • While struggling against team Kiraisugi, Rentarou tells everyone that love gives them strength and to think about the people they love. The resulting burst of strength enables them to send the Kiraisugi team flying through the air.
• The women's division of the folk dance mostly features the girls having fun dancing together, with Hahari drooling as she dances with Kishika, Kurumi and Momiji looking at each other awkwardly, and Hakari and Karane looking away from each other.
• During the men's part of the folk dance, Hiro is happy to dance with Rentarou. When Hiro has to dance with Kusuri's father, both of them are looking away from each other in disgust.
• The final event is the women's division of the relay race. Sukisugi is only behind Kiraisugi by one point, meaning they can win the whole competition if they win the race, except all the other women in the town are sloshed out of their minds because someone spiked the tea in the cooler. Rentarou's family wasn't affected because they only had the refreshments Mei prepared.
• Before the women's relay starts, someone is trying to cover Sukisugi's baton with salad oil, only to cover all the batons with oil. This person reveals that the tea was spiked with "Serious Kids' Beer," which the footnote claims is just juice. Judging by the "Serious" in the name, it's probably another one of the Serious Group's products, which is why it can make people drunk despite supposedly being juice.

Chapter 99

• The other teams fumble passing the batons to each other due to how slippery they are, but the girls in Rentarou's family keep handing them to each other without issue because they know each other so well.
• Yamame's running shakes the ground so much that one of the Kiraisugi runners complains about how the vibration is killing her knees.
• The baton slips from Hakari's grasp, but she manages to catch it... between her breasts.
  Hakari: MOTHER! THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR VOLUPTUOUS GEEENES!
  Hahari: No, Hakari! Thank you for growing up so healthy!
• Karane is not amused that she has to grab the baton from Hakari's breasts.
  Karane: (grabs the baton) ARE YOU JUST MESSIN' WITH ME?! (running) GODDAMMIIIIIIIIIIT!
• Even though Ahko appears to be power walking, by the time she passes the baton to Meme, she's so exhausted that she falls on her face saying, "I'm gonna hurl."
• Meme's bra snaps while she's running, causing her breasts to bounce around wildly as she runs. Despite the intense anxiety she feels, she still manages to pass the baton to Shizuka before immediately disappearing.
• Seeing everyone put their all into the relay causes Yaku to reminisce about her war days, showing a mosaic background with the sounds of explosions and gunfire. This reminds Yaku of the life-threatening danger she once faced, causing her body's limiters to fly off as she gains a massive boost in speed. Yaku proceeds to run with Wheel o' Feet and her hands behind her back while repeatedly saying, "I do not want to die...!"
• Team Kiraisugi fumbles passing the baton so much that the announcer says, "Here comes the standard fumble from Kiraisugi!"
• Kiraisugi's athlete makes fun of Mimimi's face again, but the latter knows what she's trying to do and refuses to let it slow her down.
• When Mimimi crosses the finish line first, the mayor of Kiraisugi is facedown in a pool of blood.
• Everyone has a heartfelt Group Hug after their victory, followed by Rentarou blurting out (with a happy face), "Your hands are all so slimy!"

Chapter 100

• To celebrate the 100th chapter, a popularity poll was held. Hahari asked the artist Nozawa-sensei to draw whoever gets first place in a special dress.
• Mimimi gets first place, with 99,999,999 votes.
  • She proceeds to say a much longer version of her usual catchphrase.
    Mimimi: Hmhmhmhmhmhmhmhmhmhmhmhmhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmm, naturally!
  • Mei reads some of the comments from the people polled, who are all identified as R.A.-sama from Sukisugi.
• Another page is found in the first place envelope, revealing someone else who got first place: Yamame!
  • Yamame thinks there must be some kind of mistake, but Mei assures her that she also got 99,999,999 votes like Mimimi.
  • The comments are also from R.A.-sama from Sukisugi.
• Yet another page is found by Mei, revealing the next winner is: Mei herself.
  • Mei is so ashamed to get first place before Hahari that she apologizes for being presumptuous and announces she will eliminate herself at once.
    Hahari: From life? Don't do that! Just keep reading!
  • By this point, it becomes apparent that all the comments will be from R.A.-sama from Sukisugi.
• When Momiji is announced as the next winner, Nano congratulates her. Momiji in turn thanks Nano for "the present" and starts groping her chest.
  Nano: (without changing expression) That was not my intention.
• After Iku wins, she says she still needs a lot of work to do before she deserves this, prompting Kurumi to say, "No, you really don't." Iku then says she'll have to work even harder from here on.
  Kurumi: Listen to me when I'm talking to you.
• Mei says that eight pages have appeared from the envelope simultaneously.
  Kishika: Surely you jest! Is that envelope some matter of fourth-dimensional space?!
• The winners are Meme, Chiyo, Yaku, Nano, Uto, Shizuka, Ahko, and Hahari.
  • For Nano, R.A.-sama says, "What we really need in our smartphones is Nano, not Siri."
  • R.A.-sama wants Uto's songs as ringtones and asks Japanese recording companies what's wrong with them.
  • R.A.-sama really wants Guinness to add Shizuka for something.
• When Mei finds another two pages, Hakari starts to wonder who isn't first while Kurumi notes, "There's barely anyone left to announce." Kusuri points out what the remaining girls are fearing.
  Kusuri: Yeah, but... I reaaally don't wanna be the only one that's not first...
• Kurumi and Hakari are announced as the winners. Hakari feigns innocence as she rubs her victory in Karane's face, who's shaking in anger.
  Hakari: Oh, how about that! I don't think I heard your name, Karane-san. Isn't that just so funny? Only one half of the Volume 1 cover pair got first place! That's so funny!
• Mei finds two more pages, revealing the winners are Kusuri and Karane. Now Karane is rubbing her victory in Hakari's face while the latter is the one shaking in anger.
  Karane: Well looky here, what was that you were sayin'? Huh? You got anythin' else you wanna say? Do ya?
• Kishika and Naddy are both ashamed to be the only ones who didn't win. Kishika believes it's because she kept going against her code since she joined the family, while Naddy thinks she needs to work on her "'Murrican English" more.
• One more page is found by Mei, who says it's indeed the final one. Kishika and Naddy note that the last one in is a rotten heroine. The final winner is: Kishika!
• Poor Naddy is in a Pose of Supplication over being the only girl who didn't win. The other girls try to cheer her up, but the best Momiji can come up with is:
  Momiji: Mmh. She's first place in... not being first.
• It turns out there was still one more page folded up further inside, revealing Naddy indeed won first place like everyone else.
• Mei is about to announce who's in 20th place, only to find one last page hidden within the envelope's pasted edges.
  Shizuka: "Hold on, this is straight out of" "a spy novel."
• The final person to win first place is Rentarou, who ends up wearing a dress like the girls. There's a whole bunch of comments too, whose initials match up with the girls'.
  • One comment from H.H.-sama says, "He's so cute, I'm gonna die." Another comment from (a presumably different) H.H.-sama says, "I want to make lots of babies!"
  • The one from K.T.-sama says, "Pwease be my Daddy."
  • N.Y.-sama just says, "I'm Cap'n 'Murrica."
  • Y.Y.-sama is asking, "A popular pole? Why is it popular?"
• The last page includes some of the other people who got votes in the popularity poll. The comments from the voters don't include "sama" in them, meaning Mei was adding sama to all the voters' names.
• The winners who only got one vote are in 30th place, among them being:
  • Yamame's squirrel and butterflies, who are all doing sexy poses like they did in Chapter 78. Their only vote is from Y.Y. from Sukisugi.
  • The Vice-Principal, who's kissing the camera while her picture was taken. Her only vote is from Outcall host S., who said, "Thanks for always using my services."
  • The God of Love, whose only vote is from G., from the matchmaking shrine. Coupled with the overly flattering comment demanding he appear more, it becomes apparent that the only person who voted for him was himself.
• The end of the page has some footnotes that explain how the popularity poll worked.
  • Characters who haven't appeared yet or only had very minor appearances were not entered. The only votes were from people who knew of the existence of their voted character and of the popularity poll itself.
  • Any vote count higher than 99,999,999 was rounded down to 99,999,999.
  • Nobody outside of Sukisugi was polled, and Rentarou's family screwed up the tally.
• In case it wasn't obvious, this suggests that R.A. was actually Rentarou, who voted about one hundred million times for each of his girlfriends, meaning he voted around 1.9 billion times in total.

Chapter 101

• Another one of Hahari's maids, Mai Meido (Yes, really. And no actual relation to Mei there.) ends up becoming #20. But unlike Mei, she hasn't locked eyes with Rentarou until now because she refused to look at him out of sheer jealousy from how much attention he gets from her beloved sister Mei.
  Mai: WHY CAN'T HE JUST LEAVE ME ALONE WITH MY DEAREST BELOVED SISTER!? I'LL FRIGGIN' KILL YOU!
  • Now she looks at him through a Crush Filter, and is conflicted between "jealous little sister" and "love-struck maiden".
• Mai's plan is to sabotage Rentarou's baking. In her Imagine Spot, she imagines Mei thinking that Rentarou is incapable with her usual serene smile.
• Mai is perfectly fine with the fact that her and Mei's last names aren't written in the same kanji, she'll just never write it down.
• Mai is so clumsy that she slips on air, prompting Mei (and later Rentarou) to catch her twice (each) over the span of a few seconds. She fawns over them both.
• She physically attacks Rentarou when his hand touches Mei's, but her punches are compared to a puppy that wants to play with him. (Especially after he's gotten so used to Karane). Then Mei knocks Mai out with a karate chop.
  Mei: My deepest apologies, Rentarou-sama. Such behavior does not befit a maid of the estate.
  • For extra measure, punching Rentarou's chest just made Mai want to be held against it.
• Rentarou and Mai have a brag-off about how many cute things they know about Mei, which are minor Character Tics.
  Mai: Oh yeah!? Well here's something that's fatally lovely...!
  Rentarou: Oh yeah!? Well here's something that's fatally charming...!
  • Mei returns partway through the competition and spends the remainder of it being quietly flustered on the sidelines.
  • Mai eventually runs out of brags, while Rentarou's thoughts reveal he still has about a trillion more things to say. When he notices Mai doesn't have anything left to say, Rentarou pretends he doesn't either and suggests they call it a draw, which Mai accepts.
• The competition ends when Mei receives a call from Hakari, sending her and Rentarou into eye-opening horror at the news that Hahari formed a blister.
  Rentarou: NO! GOD, NO!
  Mei: I shall send for a car to return her to the estate at once!
  Rentarou: Damn it all to hell! If only I could run faster than a car...!
• As Mei runs off to get Hahari, Rentarou accidentally brags that Mei is "fatally modest." He covers his mouth as Mai points out he wasn't actually out of brags.
• Mai asks why Rentarou wanted a draw when he could have beaten her. Rentarou says he didn't want to undermine Mai's love for Mei and wanted to find another way to prove his love for Mei so Mai could accept him. Mai is so touched by this that she becomes engulfed in light.
  Mai: (thinking) Ahh... this guy... it's not just his face... even his soul is...
• A lovestruck Mai blurts out that she loves Rentarou too, then amends it to say she wants to date him so she can keep an eye on him and Mei at all times, as well as go on dates with Mei.

Chapter 102

• "The stage is set on the roof. Where else?"
• Seeing everyone dressed as maids causes Rentarou to say, "The shine is melting my eyes away," which actually happens.
• Mai says all the other girls are her little sister maids, which makes them Mei's little little sister maids.
  Kusuri: Sister, you're getting a little little repetitive, yep yep.
• Mai tries to stop Mei from participating since Mei is already her mentor, as well as the Hanazonos since they are her masters. Hahari protests being left out while Hakari points out they haven't worn maid uniforms for 70 chapters. Mai compromises by having the three of them look after Rentarou while she trains the remaining girlfriends.
• The first lesson is greetings, where they have to say, "Welcome home, master."
  • Meme's nervous greeting prompts Mai to say, "Do it louder!"
  • Yamame saying, "Aye, welcome home, master!" leads to Mai saying, "I didn't say aye, did I?!"
• The next lesson is walking with speed and elegance. Mai tells Karane to be quieter and calls out Naddy for doing an impromptu noh performance.
• Nano and Momiji's apparent inability to smile on their own. They're visibly trying too, and eventually lift the corners of each other's mouths.
  • Mimimi of course has no issue in this regard, but Mai scolds her for smiling so immodestly.
• For carrying dishware on a tray, Shizuka is nervously carrying a tiny plate on her tray, with Mai telling her to carry more. Iku on the other hand is struggling yet enjoying carrying several stacks of dishware that are nearly as tall as her, causing Mai to say, "Not that much!" Kusuri is carrying an appropriate amount, but she ends up tripping.
• Next, Mai tries to have them prepare chamomile tea. Yaku doesn't know what chamomile is and calls it a camo meal, Ahko gets carried away and turns it into a lavish dessert, and Kurumi just drinks it even though it's not for her.
• Mai then has the girls clean a carpet to make it pretty.
  • Uto tries to get out of it by comparing the carpet to a forest path and saying the carpet is already pretty in its own way. Mai tells her not to argue semantics.
  • Kishika objects to serving a master that would create such a mess and demands that such a master live with more pride. Mai tells her not to lecture.
  • Chiyo enters OCD mode as she says, "So untidy, rrgh...!" Mai tells her not to groan.
• Karane sweeps her broom so hard that she ends up snapping it.
• Frustrated at the girls' lack of progress, Mai pulls a Rage Quit and goes out to the street to mope.
• When Kurumi and Chiyo follow Mai and try to convince her to come back, Mai reveals to them that Mei would scold her whenever she messed up. Kurumi and Chiyo admit they actually feel kind of envious that Mei scolds Mai, as that would mean the two of them are close enough for Mei to be honest about her true feelings. Mai proceeds to boast about how much Mei scolds her with a heart in her mouth.
• After her talk with Kurumi and Chiyo, Mai comes back to apologize to the family for her outburst earlier. She pauses for a few seconds, which prompts Mei to immediately start spanking her until she does in the next panel, to the shock of most of the family. The only ones not shocked are Hakari and Hahari, who've likely seen this several times before.
  Kishika: Wait, hold on! Surely she was about to apologize anyway!
• Iku, on the other hand, just feels betrayed by Mei being capable of this the whole time.
  Iku: How could you, Mei-san?! You've been hiding such power from me this whole time?!

Chapter 103

• The chapter opens with Hakari making Rentarou grope her under the guise that she wants him to feel her heartbeat. Rentarou tries to get Hakari to calm down by kissing her, which sends her into Post-Kiss Catatonia.
• Karane says Hakari is being much more amorous than usual because they and Nano saw a movie with an adult scene. While Karane makes it sound like only Hakari was affected, Nano's flashbacks show Karane was just as aroused.
• When Rentarou is about to clean Hakari's chest after she gets covered in chalk dust, Rentarou describes the sight as "a fluffy stack of pancakes covered in powdered sugar." He opts to clean her by just blowing it off, much to her disappointment.
• Hakari "trips" onto Rentarou's back while he's carrying boxes and "trips" her hands onto his belt, with Rentarou questioning how her hands can trip. Hakari tries to remove Rentarou's belt, but he saw it coming and redesigned his belt buckle into a wire puzzle. When she pokes her head through his legs to get a better look, Rentarou bends forward to a ridiculous degree while still holding the boxes to kiss her, causing Hakari to get Post-Kiss Catatonia.
• At Hakari's request, Rentarou does a Wall Pin of Love on her and discovers that she covered the wall in a sticky substance to immobilize him. When Hakari tries to get intimate with Rentarou, he somehow manages to lift himself into the air, parallel to the ground, using his glued hand on the wall.
  Hakari: Are you a street performer?!
• Hakari traps herself and Rentarou in a gym equipment room by having Mei lock the door and dress as a construction worker directing people to move along. Then the room starts filling with cold air because Mai attached an air conditioner to the vents, with Mai looking very smug.
• Rentarou can't call for help because he and Hakari gave their phones to Mei earlier under the flimsy explanation that doing so would allow them to finish their work faster and make out.
• Hakari goes completely topless so she can have an excuse to have skin-to-skin contact with Rentarou to warm up, but going topless causes her to shiver immediately.
• Rentarou goes topless and looks like he's about to embrace Hakari, before using his shirt to perform a dry cloth rubdown on Hakari's back, using the friction to warm her up while the movement keeps him warm. This still arouses Hakari to the point where she says she's going to melt.
• Rentarou blames himself for Hakari's lust and decides to use the "removes-all-feeling drug" Kusuri gave him earlier on himself instead of Hakari. Rentarou finds himself drifting through space next to a pair of photorealistic cats, while his body now has Blank White Eyes and a Playful Cat Smile.
• Even with the "removes-all-feeling drug" active, Rentarou still spews blood from his mouth when he gropes Hakari. When the drug wears off seconds later, Rentarou jumps back so quickly that he hits the wall headfirst with enough force to crack it, knocking himself out.
• Hakari asks if Rentarou is okay before noticing something that the manga replaces with a raised tent as a representative visual aid.
• In the end, Hakari decides to respect Rentarou's wishes and just kisses him before hugging him. The narration says Hakari's heat finally came to a rest, dropping her Horny Rank from 999 to a more "manageable" 300.

Chapter 104

• Mei, Meme, Yamame, Shizuka, and Ahko are all searching for a "secret flower bed" together. Three hours later, they're all in a Pose of Supplication over being unable to find it.
  Shizuka: "Don't tell me the legend was... nothing but a legend...?!"
• Meme yelps in terror and hides behind Mei when she hears something, which turns out to be a bunny. Mei asks if she should dispose of it, with Meme quickly telling her not to.
• Ahko notes that the "bunbun's mommom" is nowhere to be found. When Yamame offers to help the bunny, it suddenly shakes its head vigorously. According to Yamame, the bunny was saying, "Don't treat me like a child! Ah can go back to me burrow on me own!"
• Normally, this is the part where someone like Karane shows skepticism over Yamame being able to understand animals, but everyone just expresses wonder over Yamame's ability.
  Narration: Unfortunately, there's nobody around to do the straight manning today.
• While everyone follows the bunny to keep an eye on it, Shizuka spots a boulder teetering over a cliff and blocks the bunny's path with her arms outstretched... even though "the boulder" is actually a rock that's smaller than the bunny and "the cliff" is a small ledge that can easily be stepped over.
• Shizuka helps the bunny climb a small ledge by serving as a stepping stone, which gets her dubbed "Stepping Stonezuka" by the manga.
• When a hawk appears, both the bunny and Shizuka are shivering in terror. Yamame says hawks usually avoid brightly colored objects because they tend to be toxic. This inspires Ahko to decorate the bunny with bright flowers to make it look poisonous. The hawk proceeds to leave while thinking, "Nnnope, it's Poison type."
• Upon reaching a river with a strong current, Mei offers to use herself as a bridge so the bunny can get across, only to be held back by Shizuka and Ahko. Instead, Yamame forms a series of stepping stones by hurling boulders into the river.
• The bunny slips while hopping across the stepping stones and gets swept away by the river. Mei runs parallel to the river and catches up with the bunny before asking if she can help it. The bunny squeals while frantically nodding its head.
• After being rescued, the bunny tries to dry off by going into the bushes, only to get tangled up by vines. Meme manages to free it, but she gets tangled in the process, looking like she got tied up bondage-style. Ahko's comment embarrasses Meme so much that she disappears, leaving a toy bunny behind.
  Ahko: Memecchi, that's like, so booold of you.
• Ahko and Meme run away from a hive of bees while the former carries the bunny. While Meme is appropriately scared, Ahko still has a smile on her face.
• Shizuka carries the bunny to safety while Yamame holds back a bear in a Brawler Lock.
• When they finally reach the bunny's burrow, the mother rabbit slaps the bunny in the face before making it bow its head to everyone.
• After the rabbits lead everyone to the flower garden they were looking for, the girls play in the flowers with the rabbits while Rentarou is revealed to be watching them from behind a tree. While the right half of his body seems pristine, the left half is bleeding and covered with tattered clothes because Rentarou fought a bunch of degenerates and perverts before they could attack the girls. Behind him is a pile of all the men he beat up, who are all unconscious and covered with bloodstains.
• The men Rentarou beat up include:
  • A guy who tried to get low-angle creep peeks on women by burying himself up to his face.
  • A guy who's been looking for Totoro for 34 years.

Volume 12 Extras

• Yaku is so excited to see the giant jar Hahari got for her that she's acting like a little kid. Hahari thinks to herself that she should tear down some walls so she can fit it in her office.
• The costume race for the men's division has Rentarou, Hiro, and Kusuri's dad dressed as a dango, dubbed "The Three Dango Bros." Rentarou has a determined expression, Hiro is happily riding on Rentarou's back, and Kusuri's dad is annoyed that Rentarou is carrying him.
  Kusuri's Dad: WHY'M I THE YOUNGEST, UH-HUH?!
• Karane deciding whether she, Iku, and Naddy are going on top for the cavalry race, evidently not caring whether Hakari wants to be a horse or not. Hakari's own objection goes unheard.
  • Naddy and Iku go with being horses, Naddy because Karane is stronger than her and Iku because being the horse is tough.
• So what would happen if Kusuri took the "makes-you-really-fast drug" during the relay? She would have turned into a centaur. And Kusuri thought the only problem would be if she had to take a drug test.
  Kurumi: I don't think you're getting away with this.
• One page shows how the votes for the popularity contest were tallied up.
  • Rentarou indeed voted about 1.9 billion times for all of his girlfriends, they collectively voted around 100 million times for him, and Uncle Hiro voted 200 million times for Rentarou and Chiyo. The accompanying image shows Rentarou and Hiro both wearing headbands as they furiously fill ballots as fast as they can.
  • Hahari('s hired helper) voted 80 million times for all of the girlfriends while Mei voted 50 million times for Hahari.
  • While Kishika was voting for Rentarou, she reverted to baby mode as she reminisced about Rentarou patting her head.
• When Mei came to pick up Hahari after the latter got a blister, she wore emergency worker clothes, brought a gurney, and an ambulance.
  Hahari: It's not that big a deal!
• After Iku complained about Mei spanking Mai instead of her, Mei was glad to oblige Iku and started spanking her.
• Mei eventually found Rentarou and Hakari still asleep. "Their bodies had already gone quite cold."
  Mei: Hakari-sama! Rentarou-sama!
• The extra chapter shows how Mai's first day as a maid went.
  • When Mai introduces herself, Hahari can be seen peeking through the crack of the door, drooling.
  • After Mai accidentally calls Mei "sister," the latter says she doesn't mind. While the footnote clarifies that Mei meant she wasn't offended, Mai assumes that Mei was fine with being her sister.
    Mai: —And that is how my dear sister became my dear older sister!
    Kurumi: No. She really didn't.
• During the moment in Chapter 104 where the girls were escorting the bunny, the guy who thinks Totoro is real is plotting to make the girls believe him. Rentarou is behind the man as he places his hand on the guy's shoulder with a deceptively serene smile and a shadowed face.
  If you gaze into the abyss, the abyss will find you.

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