"Bride with a Hundred Days to Live" is the thirty-first chapter of Franken Fran Frantic.
In sickness and in health. To love, cherish, and to obey. Till death do us part...
Right after these commercial messages!
What was once the happiest day of their lives became a tragedy in an instance. Before they can exchange rings, the bride Ako Hirano collapsed at the altar and was rushed to the ER by the groom Ranto Ninomiya. Ako was diagnosed with Progressive Biomembranous Sclerosis and only has a maximum life expectancy of a hundred days.
Now she spends what little time she has with her husband on a whirlwind honeymoon full of excitement, sorrow and most of all, tons of love. However, this adventure is documented live to the entire world by producers who want to profit off Ako's tragedy aptly titled "A Hundred Days of Honeymoon".
A moved Fran, after viewing the documentary, wants to completely cure Ako of her condition but the producers have other ideas. Life-threatening ideas...
Tropes include:
- Callback: This is not the first time a female patient of Fran's burst into a writhing mass of tentacles whilst on the brink of death and proceeded to brutally murder her perpetrators in a secluded forest.
- Continuity Nod: Fran enlist the help of Sentinel V3 to contact the director of Netwix so she can operate on Ako.
- Darker and Edgier: In-universe example with the Show Within a Show "A Hundred Days of Honeymoon". It started off as a light-hearted but saddening between two newlyweds' life together with the little time they have but once Fran miraculously cured Ako, it escalated into "how many ways will Ako be killed this episode" which came to its logical conclusion, at least in the world of Franken Fran, when she mercilessly slaughtered the entire crew on live television after enduring their torment for so long. It does bring the question of why the higher-ups didn't pull this horrific broadcast off the air sooner.
- Fictional Counterpart: The TV company producing the documentary is called "Netwix".
- Love Cannot Overcome: Ako puts through with the filming, her disease and later the countless assassination attempts on so she can live a peaceful, happy life with Ranto. Unfortunately, Ranto doesn't share the same sentiment and tries strangling her to death on the last day of filming for a huge payday, triggering her transformation into a freakish tentacled monster who killed him and the entire crew. Fran of all people delivers the Aesop in the closing lines:Fran: "Well then, the honeymoon is over...I suppose now is the time for a reality check."
- Meaningful Name:
- Ako can mean "one's own" while Hirano is "flat/plain/calm". She's a simple girl who wants nothing more than to spend the rest of her life with her husband, especially when she's all better, and is oddly calm about constantly getting attacked and/or dying.
- Ranto contains the kanji "Capital" while his last name translates to "Second Shrine". He's a Gold Digger who wants to capitalize on his marriage despite being over Ako and already moved on to a Second Love.
- Stealth Pun: Fran cried so hard at the tragic yet touching tale of the honeymooners that one of her eyeballs popped out and was left dangling from its socket. In other words, she literally bawled her eyes out.
- Til Murder Do Us Part: Ranto resorts to this and strangles his wife Ako in hopes of her finally dying for good so he can cash in his check and pursue whatever women he wants... only for Ako to return the favor when he triggered her tentacle abomination form and proceeded to excruciatingly ripped him limb from limb alongside the rest of the production crew.
- They Killed Kenny Again: Ako had suffered through multiple life-threatening hits, such as car "accidents", poisoning and being randomly attacked on the streets, and would have been dead many times over if it weren't for the timely intervention of Fran and Veronica.
