NO.421ANIMEOOTDMeme Kakure
NO.421ANIMEANIME OOTD / CHARACTER ARCHIVE
Meme Kakure
The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You ↗ / 2021
First-year high-school student / Rentaro’s eleventh girlfriend
AI-assisted illustrations · Not official anime stills








Created by writer Rikito Nakamura and artist Yukiko Nozawa, Meme enters The 100 Girlfriends as a first-year high-school student. Her introductory chapter is chapter 45, “Kakure-san,” from 2021, collected in volume 6 on June 18 that year. The series began in 2019, so its starting date is earlier than her own debut. As the eleventh girlfriend, she joins a romantic ensemble that is already well established.
Meme’s shyness shapes the way she moves. Even a strong headwind makes her protect her fringe before anything else. Her handmade dolls give that instinct a comic rhythm: attention lands on the toy, and she is gone. An interpretive way to read her performance is to watch the pauses and lowered head as closely as the dialogue. The empty space she leaves can say as much about her embarrassment as a spoken reply.
Spoilers for anime episode 22: Rentaro tries to get closer to Meme, but each attempt to speak to her ends with another sudden disappearance and a handmade doll left behind. Meme concludes that someone who reacts this way cannot manage a romance and begins to give up. Rentaro refuses to abandon her. Their meeting turns a running hide-and-seek gag into a practical emotional problem: how can affection be expressed when even a face-to-face conversation feels overwhelming?
Meme’s place as girlfriend number eleven matters because she enters an existing network of relationships. Shueisha’s character guide presents her alongside the other girlfriends, and volume 6 quickly moves from “Kakure-san” to a school hide-and-seek chapter, then to stories about Mei’s present and Karane. Read as an editorial sequence, this gives Meme a distinct entrance while returning her to the ensemble’s everyday life.
Both the official manga portrait and anime model art emphasize a heavy fringe that conceals Meme’s eyes. The anime full-body image shows straight dark-brown hair, longer side sections near the shoulders, a muted purple-gray jacket and below-knee skirt, a dark ribbed high-neck top, dark hosiery, and lace-up shoes. The manga website’s portrait uses a pink graphic tint, which does not establish pink hair. Kanon Takao voices the anime version; the voice credit and the observed design belong to that adaptation.
As a reader’s interpretation, Meme has a neat comic contradiction: the harder she tries to escape notice, the more memorable her disappearances and abandoned dolls become. Her design also shows how much a small mouth, a blush, or a lowered head can communicate without visible eyes. Reading her as someone who wants affection but struggles with being seen is an interpretive lens, not a clinical diagnosis. Concealment itself becomes part of her expressive vocabulary.