Aijou Rentarou

* Anime
* Manga

**Rentarou Aijou** (愛城 恋太郎 *Aijō Rentarō*) is the main protagonist of *The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You* by Nakamura Rikito and Nozawa Yukiko.

## Appearance

Rentarou is a high school student with short dark brown hair, blue comet-colored eyes in the manga, reddish-brown eyes in the anime, and his signature perfectly taut well-kept thick eyebrows.

He is most commonly seen wearing his high school uniform.

## Personality

Rentarou is a kind, thoughtful, serious, and sociable boy who is easy to get close to. He knows how to study well and is relatively athletic. Rentarou is very easily impressed by his girlfriends' actions, especially when they do things that he finds cute. However, Rentarou is also very protective of his girlfriends and often needs to be calmed down should someone insult or harass any of them.

Not only that but on multiple occasions he has displayed loyalty and isn't dirty-minded nor willing to do anything that his girlfriends don't want.

He dislikes cross-dressing but does it for the sake of his girlfriends.

## History

From 8 months old to his junior high graduation Rentarou had been rejected 100 times. After his 100th rejection, Rentarou goes to a matchmaking shrine and prays to the shrine's god for a happy high school life by letting him get a girlfriend. To Rentarou's surprise, the god appears before to him as a donation thief before revealing that he is in fact a god. The God of Love tells Rentarou that he is to meet his "soulmate" in high school and that they will fall in love at first sight.

However due to the god's error (being distracted while watching "*Castle in the Sky"*) Rentarou has 100 soulmates instead of 1. On his first day of high school, Rentarou accidentally bumps into his two people in the hallway on his way to class. Feeling a sudden shock Rentarou realizes they're his soulmates and then offers to help them up. After being tricked into taking them to the nurse's office he learns their names Hanazono Hakari and Inda Karane, all three happen to be in the same class.

The girls hear of a rumor that if you confess while giving someone a pink four-leaf clover it will definitely succeed. Causing the two of them to run to the schools garden in search of one leaving Rentarou to wonder about their legs. After helping an elderly teacher find his lost contact lenses, he sees the two girls are still searching for a clover in the courtyard. Moved by their dedication for him, Rentarou decides to buy them a drink as repayment. He first meets with Karane who embarrassed by his kind gesture makes a fool of herself, though touched due to her tsundere nature she is barely able to say thank you. As Karane runs away, Hakari appears though she has similar difficulties taking the drink due to trying to trick Rentarou into an indirect kiss, resulting in her spilling the drink. Rentarou goes to help her, only for Hakari to confess which is overheard by Karane, which causes her to confess.

Rentarou asks them to wait till tomorrow morning for a response. Extremely happy for his spring to come after 100 rejections, to his horror he realizes that he could never choose one over the other. He then goes to consult the God of Love where he is told the truth "that for those who have met their soulmate... If they cannot fall in love with each other and be happy, They'll die from various unfortunate events afterwards." If he only dates one the other will die so Rentarou comes up with a plan to save the girls, he'll date them both in secret.

The following day Rentarou ultimately decided to confess to both of them, after reflecting on his plan he knew that lying to them would save their lives, but he would never be able to forgive himself for treating their love so callously. He decided thenceforth that he would do everything to make them happy even though he was trying to two-time them. To prove this he give both girls a four leaf clover when confessing to them as he thought it would make them happy. Due to his efforts both girls decide to date Rentarou and he promises that he will make them happy.

## Relationships

### Friends

Friend A

He is Rentarou's friend from the middle school who is seen talking to him at school at the flashback of episode 1 when Asakawa has been compliment on Rentarou's personality and also when he was with Rentarou crying and that he saw how upset he was giving him something and he refused to go and have with it talking and teasing about his rejection also describing him and left

His personality is known to be very stern, laid-back and blunt

## Etymology

Both the Ai (愛) and the Ren (恋) in his name are spelt with different kanji for love. His surname (愛城) means "Feelings of Love".

## Trivia

* One of his favorite foods is egg.
* Both of his parents are teachers.
* Rentarou's birthday is on May 1st. With *Goroawase*, 51 can be read as "*ko*(5)*i*(1)", the word for "love" (恋). Due to this, this day has also been called "The Day Love Begins (恋がはじまる日)(*Koi ga hajimaru hi*)" and "Premonition of Love Day (恋の予感の日)(Koi no yokan no hi)"

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 40
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chapter 1
3. ↑ Reddit each Character's name pun
4. ↑ Chapter 31
5. ↑ Chapter 120