Anzu Baba

Anzu Baba serves as vice-principal at Ohana no Mitsu Academy, the school attended by Rentarou Aijou and his many girlfriends.

She is portrayed as a mature woman whose behavior, appearance, and abilities make other characters treat her as something closer to a monster or urban legend than a normal educator.

She was formerly an all-around track-and-field athlete and a national-level shot putter.

Because of her incredible running speed, she is known as "the granny closest to the speed of sound on land."

She is extremely strict about school rules, especially the prohibition on running in the hallways.

Her signature "punishment" is to chase down students and give them an unsolicited deep kiss, and it is said that no student has ever successfully escaped her once the chase begins.

Her star sign is Aries.

She consistently wears sunglasses, and there is an in-series joke that because her eyes are never actually seen, there is a nonzero possibility she might secretly be Rentarou’s hypothetical 100th destined girlfriend.

Anzu is a rule-obsessed disciplinarian whose methods are wildly inappropriate and frightening.

She patrols the hallways with predatory focus, immediately targeting any student who dares to run, then "punishes" them with a deep kiss.

Despite her position as an educator, her morality and sense of propriety are deeply questionable.

She openly states things like hoping that nobody will be happy when throwing a bridal bouquet and routinely behaves in ways that make others suspect she is inhuman.

She is obsessed with deep kissing young, attractive men.

One of her stated motivations for continuing to work as vice-principal is to earn enough money to hire young male escort hosts and deep kiss them.

Her movement speed is described as alien-like, almost supernatural.

Her former all-event track background and national-level shot put experience are played up as the source of her monstrous mobility and strength.

She is frequently called a monster, alien, curse god, or urban-legend youkai by students and other characters.

Even other eccentric characters often react to her with pure fear or disgust rather than camaraderie.

She wears extremely thick makeup, especially foundation.

This comically heavy layer, nicknamed "AnxietymuddeathcursIon," is so dense it can block even chemically corrosive drugs from reaching her skin.

Anzu has a bizarre mix of pride and shamelessness.

Even when injured or in danger, she keeps trying to deep kiss men around her, including paramedics and club members.

Anzu is a mature woman who always wears sunglasses, further enhancing her intimidating and inhuman aura.

Her heavy makeup gives her face a "mud wall" thickness, emphasized repeatedly for comedic and horror effect.

In the anime adaptation, she is animated with extremely fluid, almost slimy movement to enhance her creepiness.

Combined with the eerie performance of her voice actor, her presence feels like a horror character dropped into a romantic comedy.

Her very first line is "Called and I pop out, bababa-boom," a deliberately over-the-top, showy entrance.

She often appears suddenly in hallways or behind doors, framed like a jump-scare.

Anzu is a former all-event track-and-field athlete and former national-level shot put representative.

This background explains her abnormal physical abilities and is directly referenced in scenes like the bouquet toss, where she demonstrates terrifying throwing power.

Her mobility is absurdly high, allowing her to close distance on fleeing students almost instantly.

Because of this, students believe no one has ever outrun her once she starts a chase.

She also demonstrates unusual durability.

Corrosive chemicals that would burn skin are unable to penetrate her ultra-thick foundation, letting her shrug off attacks that would injure normal people.

In sports-themed events such as the beach chanbara couple tag tournament, she fights with multiple whip-like arms and exaggerated chest movements.

Rentarou compares her style to a certain infamous demon boss, underscoring how monstrous she appears in battle.

Anzu’s primary narrative role is as a horror-comedy gag character who destabilizes otherwise romantic or lighthearted scenes.

She often appears when someone breaks a rule or when the story wants to push a situation into absurd territory.

She becomes a major obstacle when characters are running through the halls, especially Rentarou when he chases after a fleeing girlfriend.

Characters are forced to slow down and walk past her zone of influence to avoid triggering her chase.

Her presence also helps highlight the relative normality or innocence of other extreme characters.

For example, even someone as morally flexible as Kusuri Yakuzen is shocked or thrown off when Anzu’s makeup neutralizes her experimental drugs.

The fandom has embraced her as a cult-favorite side character, especially after the anime adaptation.

Her horror-like presence led some viewers to joke that she alone is living in the world of "Dark Gathering," a horror manga, and some even compare her to other terrifying supernatural figures.

With Rentarou Aijou

Rentarou views Anzu with a mix of horror, revulsion, and reluctant responsibility.

He is repeatedly exposed to her extreme behavior, from witnessing her punishments to nearly losing his first kiss to her.

When Rentarou’s attempts at a first kiss with Hakari Hanazono and Karane Inda repeatedly fail and devolve into arguments, he develops guilt over how things have gone.

To "take responsibility" and erase the specialness of the first kiss dispute, he tries to throw away his first kiss by giving it to Anzu, calling her in specifically for that purpose.

Hakari and Karane intervene and successfully prevent the kiss from happening.

Afterward, Rentarou and the girls refer to the vice-principal as "ditchwater" or "filth," clearly showing how little romantic appeal Anzu has to them.

Later, Rentarou mistakes a bare-faced Anzu in the dark school at night for a legendary monster called "Turbo Granny."

The shock is so great that he faints, causing his girlfriends to go looking for him.

Despite his terror, Rentarou often ends up indirectly saving others from Anzu’s collateral damage.

For example, he protects Yamame Yasashiki from the sparks caused when Anzu’s hair catches fire, getting between them at the crucial moment.

With Hakari Hanazono and Karane Inda

Hakari and Karane treat Anzu as a walking taboo rather than a serious romantic threat.

When Rentarou decides to "throw away" his first kiss on Anzu, they go into full emergency mode and physically stop the attempt.

They are completely repulsed by the idea of Rentarou’s first kiss going to Anzu.

Their intense reaction reinforces Anzu’s role as a comedic worst-case scenario in the romance stakes.

With Kusuri Yakuzen

Kusuri and Anzu have multiple encounters where Kusuri’s experimental drugs interact with Anzu’s abnormal makeup.

On one occasion, Kusuri splashes a skin-corroding drug onto Anzu’s face, only to discover that the three-hour-thick foundation blocks it entirely.

This frustrates and mildly traumatizes Kusuri, who is shocked that her powerful chemical creation was stopped by mere cosmetics.

Later, when Kusuri is dramatically running to the science room while in trouble due to a drug side effect, Anzu appears in her path once again.

Kusuri immediately throws another drug in Anzu’s face, ruining her foundation and forcing Anzu to retreat.

Kusuri then breaks the fourth wall, complaining that the original author has made such an annoying setting that she cannot even run dramatically without being interrupted by the vice-principal.

With Yamame Yasashiki

Yamame first encounters Anzu when Rentarou is helping her with farm work and they run into Anzu patrolling the school grounds.

Anzu, having overexerted herself in her escort-host sessions, is suffering from back pain at that time.

Rentarou initially mistakes Anzu for an animal, and when he explains her to Yamame, he ends up describing her as an alien.

Later, when Anzu’s hair catches fire from moxa and she runs amok, Yamame is nearly hit by falling sparks.

Rentarou shields Yamame with his own body, preventing her from getting burned.

In the bonus pages of volume 8, this entire chain of events is shown again, and Rentarou is seen feeling a romantic flutter precisely because Yamame is one of the few people not completely repulsed by Anzu’s behavior.

With Mei Meido, Mimimi Utsukushisugi, Kurumi Haraga, and Other Girls

Anzu often appears as a background horror element in the romantic chaos surrounding Rentarou’s girlfriends.

In one episode, when Mimimi worries about her skin’s shine, Anzu jealously presses herself against the door, watching from outside.

Mimimi interprets this as a school ghost-story-level apparition and screams.

Other girls, like Kurumi Haraga, sometimes compare Anzu’s obsessive energy to that of their own group, jokingly calling Hahari Hanazono similar "same-type" troublemakers when Hahari considers firing Anzu.

In a hide-and-seek game on campus, Anzu tries to pocket a male student’s lost item while mysteriously looking unwell.

It turns out Meme Kakure is hiding in her head; once Meme is removed, Anzu returns to normal and resumes hunting for lost items and victims.

With the Male Student Body and Hosts

Anzu relentlessly pursues male students who break rules, especially by running in the hallways.

Even male students who have done nothing wrong can become victims if Anzu happens to fixate on them.

In the anime’s ending for season 1 episode 12, she appears as a background gag, repeatedly deep kissing a blonde male student in the hallway despite him not running at all.

This emphasizes that her obsession goes beyond mere discipline and into outright predation.

She is also a regular client of a host named Haruya, an escort who works at a host club.

Haruya is revealed to be the same "Host S" who cast a vote for Anzu in the popularity poll, showing that at least one person in-universe somewhat appreciates her.

She stays in her underpaid and stressful vice-principal job partly so she can earn enough to continue hiring young male hosts.

Her dream is not professional success or educational reform, but to earn money and deep kiss as many pretty young men as possible.

First Appearance (Episode 2)

Anzu first appears in the second chapter of the manga.

Rentarou and the girls witness her punishing a student with a deep kiss, and the ghastly scene leaves them stunned and revolted.

Later in the same episode, Rentarou, burdened by guilt over the failed first-kiss attempts with Hakari and Karane, decides to erase the specialness of his first kiss by giving it to Anzu.

He calls her in, intending to sacrifice his first kiss, but Hakari and Karane desperately resist and prevent it.

After she walks away, Rentarou and the others call her "sewer filth," making it clear how horrifying they found the whole situation.

This firmly establishes Anzu as a line no one wants Rentarou to cross.

Corrosion Drug and the "AnxietymuddeathcursIon" Foundation (Episode 12)

In chapter 12, Kusuri throws a skin-corroding drug onto Anzu’s face.

To everyone’s surprise, Anzu is saved by the monstrous thickness of her foundation, which has been applied over three hours to mud-wall density.

The foundation is humorously named "AnxietymuddeathcursIon."

Kusuri is deeply shaken that her powerful drug has been so easily neutralized by makeup, undermining her scientific pride.

Revelation of Name and Career (Episode 14)

In chapter 14, Anzu appears as a guest for a bouquet toss, revealing her full name and past as a former national shot put representative.

During this event, she demonstrates her throw power in a way that reminds everyone how frightening her athletic background is.

She casually makes a remark along the lines of hoping that no one ends up happy, which is completely inappropriate coming from a school vice-principal.

This line highlights just how warped and unempathetic her worldview can be.

Popularity Poll (Episode 100)

In chapter 100, the series publishes a character popularity ranking.

Anzu places at 30th, showing that she is surprisingly well-liked among fans for such a horrific character.

One of her votes is identified as coming from "Host S," a host she has hired.

Later, it is revealed that his real name is Haruya, connecting the poll gag back into the story.

Aries Fortune and the Ostrich (Episode 29)

In chapter 29, Anzu learns from a horoscope that she is an Aries and that her lucky item is an ostrich.

Taking this completely seriously, she tries to turn an ostrich into a taxidermy piece.

This reckless behavior backfires when she gets kicked in the head by the ostrich and nearly dies.

In the volume 4 bonus pages, she is shown attempting to deep kiss two paramedics even as they are loading her into the ambulance.

Rampaging Hair Incident (Episode 42)

In chapter 42, Kusuri mixes a hair-growth drug with a hair-control drug, causing Meme Kakure’s hair to go berserk and attack people.

As Rentarou and the girls flee down the hallway, they run into Anzu, who appears from directly in front of them.

However, in the very next panel, the rampaging hair slams into her, flattening her instantly.

The scene uses her as a quick slapstick casualty of Kusuri’s newest disaster.

School Hide-and-Seek and Meme Kakure (Episode 46)

In chapter 46, during a giant hide-and-seek game inside the school, Rentarou searches for his girlfriends while Anzu creeps around on her own agenda.

He first encounters her as she tries to steal a male student’s lost property, for reasons that are never fully explained but are easy to guess.

Later, when only Meme Kakure remains unfound, Rentarou runs into Anzu again and notices that the lost item she holds contains one of Meme’s knitted dolls.

Realizing Meme is hiding in Anzu’s head, Rentarou manages to find her there.

Once Meme is removed, Anzu immediately feels better and resumes searching for lost items with renewed enthusiasm.

Watching this, Hahari Hanazono briefly considers firing Anzu, but Kurumi Haraga quickly points out that Hahari herself is essentially the same kind of weirdo, undercutting the idea.

No-Kissing Rule and "School Ghost" (Episode 54)

In chapter 54, Chiyo Iin imposes a "no kissing on school grounds" rule on Rentarou’s family.

As they all suffer from forced abstinence, Mimimi Utsukushisugi worries about her skin’s glow.

On the other side of the door, Anzu watches and seethes in jealousy over Mimimi’s youthful beauty.

Mimimi glimpses her through the door and screams, believing Anzu to be a literal school ghost story come to life.

Back Pain and Fire Incident (Episode 64)

In chapter 64, Anzu is on patrol while Rentarou helps Yamame Yasashiki with fieldwork near the school.

Due to overexertion with a host, she has thrown out her back and is hobbling around.

Rentarou and Yamame initially mistake her for an animal or an alien as they try to describe her.

Later, while Rentarou is about to say something meaningful to Yamame after finishing their work, Anzu returns, her hair accidentally ignited by moxibustion fire.

She runs around like a living torch, almost showering Yamame with burning sparks.

Rentarou leaps in front of her to shield Yamame, and Anzu then attempts to use the sports clubs’ sports drinks to extinguish herself.

The club members, however, call her a curse god and refuse to approach.

In a bonus page in volume 8, this scene is expanded, and Rentarou is shown falling for Yamame even more because she alone does not completely shut down emotionally in front of Anzu’s horrifying behavior.

Turbo Granny Misidentification (Episode 137)

In chapter 137, at night in the school, Rentarou spots a suspicious silhouette and is worried it might be someone about to peep on Momoha Bonnouji’s tent.

He decides to intervene and scare off the intruder.

However, what he sees is Anzu without makeup and without sunglasses.

He immediately identifies her bare face as the terrifying urban legend "Turbo Granny" and passes out on the spot.

Because of this, the girls have to search for the missing Rentarou.

Anzu herself is not named in the scene, but the implication is obvious and played as a horror-comedy joke.

Clover Scene (Episode 146, Volume 17 Bonus)

In volume 17’s bonus pages, Anzu witnesses Rentarou passionately searching for a pink four-leaf clover.

Seeing his hunched figure and intense movements, she screams that she has seen a monster.

This time, the roles are reversed: Anzu calls Rentarou the monster, even though she is usually the one given that label.

It’s a small but funny gag that pokes fun at how both of them can appear abnormal depending on context.

Vending Machine Incident (Episode 148)

In chapter 148, Anzu herself does not actively appear but is mentioned in passing.

It is revealed in a note that she had somehow gotten stuck under a vending machine.

Rentarou supposedly helped her out from under it.

The commentary suggests she was probably searching for some male student’s dropped item under the machine when she got trapped.

Judo Club and Muscle Obsession (Episode 150)

In chapter 150, Himeka Saiki is in danger of being swept up and injured by a rampaging group of judo club members.

Rentarou intervenes, trying to stop the stampede with his body.

He shouts out to Anzu, and the mere mention of her sends the judo members scattering in fear.

At this point in the story, Anzu has apparently awakened to the allure of muscular bodies.

She starts chasing after the judo club members to savor their sweat and muscles.

The whole scene plays her as a muscle-fetish predator that even combat sports athletes flee from.

Beach Chanbara Couple Tournament (Episode 166)

In chapter 166, Anzu participates in a beach chanbara couple tag tournament together with her favorite host Haruya.

They advance all the way to the finals, where they face Rentarou and Kishika Torotoro.

Anzu fights using multiple arms that crack like whips and exaggerated chest movements, overwhelming the pair at first.

Rentarou likens her to a notorious villainous demon boss due to her grotesque, multi-limbed style.

Despite her initial advantage, they are eventually defeated by Kishika’s chivalrous spirit and determination to protect Rentarou.

Anzu and Haruya’s loss becomes a comedic highlight of the tournament arc.

Hallway Chase with Shiina Usami (Episode 169)

In chapter 169, Shiina Usami, mistakenly believing that Rentarou has rejected her confession, sprints away from him in absolute panic.

Rentarou chases her, desperate to clear up the misunderstanding.

However, they both must avoid running in areas where Anzu might appear.

Whenever they enter zones where Anzu is present, they slow down to a walk, turning what could have been a dramatic chase into a stop-and-go farce.

This segment underlines how Anzu’s hallway rule has become a known environmental hazard in the school.

Everyone tacitly accepts that sprinting past her patrol routes is simply suicidal.

Underwear Theft Incident and Reformation of Ike (Episode 204)

In chapter 204, a student named Hasuha accuses a boy called Ike Mentarou of stealing a pair of panties dropped by a female student.

Ike panics and tries to flee, sprinting down the hallway in terror.

Unfortunately for him, this immediately triggers Anzu’s disciplinary instinct.

She appears and captures him, presumably subjecting him to her usual "punishment."

A later note explains that Ike was so traumatized by this experience that he reformed completely afterward.

From then on, he behaves like a proper human being, suggesting that Anzu’s methods, while monstrous, are effective at scaring delinquents straight.

Aquarium Mermaid Incident (Episode 210)

In chapter 210, Rentarou’s girlfriends wear mermaid costumes for a date at an aquarium.

Anzu senses the presence of these "mermaids" and appears, deciding that capturing them might grant her immortality.

She snatches away the mermaid-costumed girls and flees through the aquarium.

Rentarou gives chase, enduring struggles such as nearly being eaten by sharks and getting tangled in seaweed, making him look like a sea god.

Anzu tries to stand and fight Rentarou in this chaotic environment.

However, at the climax, an actual whale suddenly appears and swallows her whole.

Rentarou, shocked, exclaims that the voice actor Kuji has been eaten by a whale, making a meta joke about her anime cast.

Despite this seemingly lethal outcome, Anzu appears perfectly fine the very next day, turning up at school as usual and chasing after male students running in the hallway as if nothing had happened.

In the anime’s first season, Anzu appears from episode 2 onward as a recurring horror-comedy presence.

Her scenes are animated with especially fluid, almost unsettling motion to heighten the sense of dread.

Her voice actor delivers a performance that leans heavily into creepy, monstrous tones.

Together with her animation, this performance makes her feel like she stepped out of a pure horror series and into a romantic comedy by mistake.

Some viewers remark that she looks and behaves like a character from a horror work about evil spirits, and they often compare her to infamous ghostly figures.

Others joke that within the ensemble, she alone lives in a completely different, much darker genre.

The anime also adds extra background gags, such as her repeatedly deep kissing a handsome blonde boy during the ending sequence of episode 12 despite the lack of any actual rule violation.

These additions reinforce her status as a relentless, boundary-ignoring predator played for morbid laughs.

Anzu’s characterization is heavily built around recurring gags.

Her obsession with deep kissing, speed-based chasing, and monstrous makeup all form the backbone of her humor.

The "no one escapes the vice-principal once she begins the chase" rumor is constantly validated by how fast and sudden her entrances are.

Students behave around her as if she were an environmental hazard or a boss monster, not a staff member.

Her hyper-thick foundation becomes both armor and punchline.

It can deflect advanced drugs and chemicals, but can be ruined by new substances, forcing her to flee in humiliation.

Meta-humor also surrounds her character.

Kusuri directly complains in-story that the existence of the vice-principal ruins her ability to have a clean dramatic run, blaming the original creator of the series for saddling her with such a nuisance.

The fandom’s "Rentarou’s 100th girlfriend" joke plays with Anzu’s always-wearing-sunglasses design.

Because Rentarou’s destined girlfriends usually lock eyes with him as a sign of fate, and Anzu’s eyes are never shown, some fans jokingly claim there is still a mathematical possibility that she is secretly one of his soulmates whose trigger condition has never been met.

Anzu Baba functions as a grotesque mirror to the series’ central romantic themes.

Where most characters express love that is comically intense yet still tender, her version of "affection" is invasive, predatory, and horror-coded.

Her presence raises the stakes when rules are broken or tension scenes need an absurd escalation.

At the same time, she showcases how rich and unrestrained the series’ supporting cast can be.

Even among a cast filled with eccentric girlfriends, mad scientists, and supernatural-feeling individuals, Anzu stands out as uniquely monstrous.

Her combination of track-star physics, cursed makeup, and host-club obsession keeps her one of the most unforgettable side characters in "The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You."