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Rent-a-Girlfriend

Original title: Kanojo, Okarishimasu
  • TV Series
  • 2020–2025
  • TV-14
  • 24m
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Rent-a-Girlfriend (2020)
After being dumped by his girlfriend, a college student enlists a dating service to "rent" a girlfriend who, unbeknownst to him, happens to be both a fellow student and his neighbor.
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After being dumped by his girlfriend, a college student enlists a dating service to "rent" a girlfriend who, unbeknownst to him, happens to be both a fellow student and his neighbor.After being dumped by his girlfriend, a college student enlists a dating service to "rent" a girlfriend who, unbeknownst to him, happens to be both a fellow student and his neighbor.After being dumped by his girlfriend, a college student enlists a dating service to "rent" a girlfriend who, unbeknownst to him, happens to be both a fellow student and his neighbor.

  • Creator
    • Reiji Miyajima
  • Stars
    • Sora Amamiya
    • Shun Horie
    • Lizzie Freeman
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.8/10
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    • Creator
      • Reiji Miyajima
    • Stars
      • Sora Amamiya
      • Shun Horie
      • Lizzie Freeman
    • 102User reviews
    • 6Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 7 wins & 10 nominations total

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    Sora Amamiya
    Sora Amamiya
    • Chizuru Ichinose…
    • 2020–2025
    Shun Horie
    • Kazuya Kinoshita
    • 2020–2025
    Lizzie Freeman
    Lizzie Freeman
    • Chizuru Mizuhara…
    • 2020–2023
    Nao Tôyama
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    • Ruka Sarashina
    • 2020–2025
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    Aleks Le
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    • 2020–2023
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    • 2020–2025
    Minami Kurisaka
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    • 2020–2023
    Landon McDonald
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    • 2020–2023
    Rie Takahashi
    Rie Takahashi
    • Sumi Sakurasawa
    • 2020–2025
    Sarah Anne Williams
    • Ruka Sarashina
    • 2020–2023
    Sayuri Sadaoka
    • Sayuri Ichinose
    • 2022–2023
    Yukari Nozawa
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    • 2020–2023
    Nicolas Roye
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    Laura Megan Stahl
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    • 2020–2022
    Saika Kitamori
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    • 2020–2023
    Yû Serizawa
    Yû Serizawa
    • Mini Yaemori
    • 2023
    Gakuto Kajiwara
    • Shun Kuribayashi…
    • 2020–2023
    • Creator
      • Reiji Miyajima
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    6Littleman95

    Not What I Expected

    Plot: this is where this anime lacks. This season seamed a sort of an introduction that leads the characters to find their feelings. The point around witch this story spins is very weak.

    Animation: The best part along the drawings. Very well done and smooth. A lot of compliments!

    Drawings: The best part along the animation! They are very well done, defined and easy to follow. Moreover the choice of the colour is stunning (or at least I found it very amusing). Tons of compliments!

    Conclusions: the technical side of this anime is literally high level but it really lacks in the plot with a lot of back and forth and some absurd or nonsense scenes. Chizuru is the only grown up here. I expected more moral stuff about using girls as rental or something like that, but at the and girls are quite depicted as objects.
    5sugarcane-17691

    What people are giving this a 10 lol

    Kazuya is THE WORST. If the characters were in junior high THEN this would make more sense lol. The characters are in their 20's and act like immature kids when it comes to romance, and it get VERY annoying. Like Kazuya rents a girlfriend Chizuru, and then can't distinguish whether she is his actual girlfriend or not, even when he's paying her? Like come out of it. He's in university, he should know what's what. He has moments of clarity where I'm like "ok good, he knows what's going on" then a minute later something VERY subtle happens and he's back in his dillusion again, really makes him off putting and not want to root for him at all lol. If they didn't have him as such a dork with no common sense and more of sensible guy that gets put into the same scenarios with Chizuru but genuinely knows the situation but later on falls in love, it would have been a lot better than putting up with his antics. I gave this a 5/10 only because of Kazuya, as the anime itself was good as I've seen much worse but like 2 little tweeks and a personality change and this would be in the same league as Horimiya.
    7roggothybrown

    MC is annoying af

    The MC is dog. He was given so many opportunities to get the hot chick. But he crumbles up like a little baby. But it was still a good anime lmao. Apart from the MC.
    6Elkied

    so contradictory anime, No character development

    This anime havent been character improve. If you watched anime, main man character contradicts himself in the anime and that stuation so bad for Audience. A few woman character Consistent have it. But other woman characters Fillid the screen and get wasted time. This anime havent another man character. And very different from what he does and what he says,I talking about men character. The male character is so bad that there is no time to criticize anything else. Everything is so contradictory. I think this anime so cringe. I understant someone why watch this anime. But I have to say, this anime Bad even for mid-level. It has some gritty scenes but that's it. No further than that.
    6shettyhardik-69784

    Funny Anime But The End Was Not Clear

    The was Really Not Clear And Up To The Mark Would Need 2nd Season fot it

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      In Episode 12, Mizuhara states she would sing a Song from the Bands the Peggies or Halca at Karaoke. The Peggies & Halca are the bands that Performed the Opening & Ending Themes of the Anime, Respectively.
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    • Release date
      • July 11, 2020 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • Japan
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    • Language
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    • Also known as
      • Bạn Gái Thuê
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      • DMM Pictures
      • Kodansha
      • TMS Entertainment
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      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo

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