100 Girlfriends Season 3 Episode 3: Japanese Fans React to Nadi's Non-Stop Parody Gags

Episode 3 of The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You season 3 belongs to Nadi, the new “kokugo” teacher who rolls into class playing up an exaggerated, freedom-loving American persona despite being just as Japanese as her students. A Japanese reaction channel's roundup of the episode pulled in 72 comments, and almost none of them are about plot. It's a scavenger hunt: parody references, casting reveals, and a running joke about how surprisingly well everyone could keep up with Nadi's rapid-fire delivery.

That ‘cram-school’ nickname is a compliment dressed up as a joke — Japan's famous Shinken Zemi study-course ads are known for painfully clear, textbook-perfect diction, and fans are saying Nadi's over-the-top persona somehow reads clearer than expected. It helps that the character openly knows she's playing a bit: she's ashamed of being a fake American, and the comment section was quick to reassure her she's got nothing to be embarrassed about, not with Rentaro around.

• “Pretty much exactly how I pictured it from the manga — very satisfied. Young Nadeshiko is adorable.”👍13
• “That dumb double-peace-sign face, I love it so much.”👍28

The rest of her debut got the usual 100 Girlfriends treatment: instant, unqualified adoration.

• “THIS is everyone's peak (freedom)! Rentaro's basically got Haki by now, right?”👍23
• “Girlfriend fifty onward is basically the back half of the Grand Line, so that's when the Haki kicks in. No joke, I bet something huge happens around girlfriend fifty.”👍9

From there the thread turned into reference-spotting. The biggest hit was a comparison nobody saw coming — Rentaro cutting loose with newfound confidence reads, to more than one commenter, exactly like Luffy unlocking Haki, and the joke immediately spiraled into speculation about which girlfriend milestone might trigger the real power-up.

• “Thought the same thing last episode with the Demon Slayer-style cue — they're way too good at nailing that BGM pastiche.”👍12
• “The Marvel shield's gonna need an original redesign for sure — swap the star for the kanji for ‘rice’ inside a rising-sun circle, maybe.”👍8

Other viewers were busy cataloguing the episode's other homages: a Demon Slayer-style score cue that echoed last episode's soundtrack trick, and pre-emptive fan-casting for how a certain shield gag might get redesigned to dodge a Marvel trademark down the line.

• “Did NOT clock that Nadi's mom is voiced by Sayaka Ohara.........”👍7
• “The issue date printed on Nadi's license prop is literally her voice actress's real birthday. That's next-level dedication.”👍9

Underneath all the gag-spotting, there was real appreciation for the craft. Fans clocked Ayana Taketatsu behind Nadi's voice, were startled to realize Sayaka Ohara plays her mother, and dug up a prop detail: the issue date printed on Nadi's driver's license matches her voice actress's actual birthday.

• “About that license — if she likes who she is now, she could just renew it, I figured. (Also noticing a lot of toxic moms voiced by Sayaka Ohara lately.)”👍1
• “There's a hole punched in the card, so it has been renewed — probably switched over to a photo of the ‘Nadi’ persona.”👍1

That license turned into the episode's one real point of friction. A manga reader pointed out that even the source material has never explained why Nadi is holding an expired card in the first place, half-joking that the curse of the Yamato family isn't over yet. Not everyone let the mystery stand, though — one reply insisted there's a visible hole punched through the card, proof it had already been renewed, aimed, they guessed, at a new photo of the ‘Nadi’ persona. Nobody in the replies actually settled it. The license stayed exactly as mysterious as it started, which might be the most 100 Girlfriends outcome available: a two-second prop joke turning into its own small research project, with the show under zero obligation to ever explain itself.