The show commits to the bit so hard that it actually subverts the entire harem genre instead of just coasting through it. Every girl wins because the premise forces Rentarou to love them all equally, which sounds like a fantasy until you watch the show earn it through genuine chemistry and character work that makes you believe he could actually care about each of them. The animators clearly had fun with this one, and that energy is contagious, it's trashy in the best way, crude without apologizing, and funny enough that you stop questioning the premise and just ride it.

Rentarou Aijou has looks, brains, athletic skill and popularity, yet he racked up one hundred straight rejections in middle school. On graduation day he prays at a matchmaking shrine for a girlfriend in high school. The god of the shrine appears and says his bad luck came from a cosmic mistake. To fix it, Rentarou will meet one hundred soulmates in high school. The catch is brutal: once fate introduces them, he and each girl must love each other happily, or they will die in absurd accidents. He doubts the prophecy until his first day of school, when two soulmates, Hakari Hanazono and Karane Inda, both confess to him. High school becomes a balancing act between romance and survival in a harem romantic comedy with ecchi touches, adapted from the manga by Rikito Nakamura and Yukiko Nozawa.