Ichigo 100%
Junpei Manaka is an aspiring film director who dreams of one day making it big. After a mishap where an unknown girl falls upon him and he catches a glimpse of her strawberry imprinted panties, he makes it a personal mission to find her once again and to capture her on film.
Typical of many harems, Ichigo 100% had a comedic aspect to it, that, for lack of better words, was pretty darned funny. And don’t get me started on cliché awkward moments. Let’s just say it was overly abundant in this anime. Whether there was some sort of freak gust of wind, untied shoes, or just sheer clumsiness, Junpei seemed to have a girl sprawled awkwardly on his chest every other scene.
I fell in love with the love tug-of-war going on between Junpei and his harem of love interests. Ichigo100% excelled marvelously in giving each girl a fair chance in winning Junpei’s heart in love (the serious competitors anyway). They each had their own unique personalities and different niches that appealed to Junpei’s desires thus forcing him into a mode of indecisiveness. Then again, when you think about it, when is the protagonist in a harem ever decisive?
When it came to character development, the characters were pretty much generic, though that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Junpei is your typical moderately handsome high school pervert who somehow has the sex appeal of an A list celebrity. You have his friends, the one that is somewhat smart and then, of course, the super perverted one. And then you have the girls; the top beauties in the entire school. I could give that same exact description word for word for about 50 other harem anime out there. How a guy like Junpei can cause all of the prettiest girls in the school to gravitate to him like a moon forcing asteroids into its orbit is beyond me, but I guess it's all about personality when it comes to these harem girls. Overall, the character development was a bit cliché, but every character had a distinctive aura that enveloped them in a cloud of differentiation.
The story line was expectedly random, though the loose theme of founding and maintaining a video club was the main focus, second only to the relationships of the protagonist (the focus of every harem is the relationships the protagonists has with the women attracted to him).
In the end, what I found truly alluring about Ichigo 100% was its dedication to staying what it was – a harem. Ichigo 100% stayed true to form, and for that reason, among others, I’m giving it 8 out of 10. I definitely recommend this one to the romance fans out there.
