It would be a great show, if the original was not so much sh@te.
Source manga is pushing close to 400 chapters, while S3 covers to the chapter 167. And the main couple is still not officially a couple. The problem is, MC has 0 character growth. He still does the same pathetic self-depreciating internal rants he did in chapter 1, and they amount to about 50% of content. This joke long ago stopped being funny.
If your MC is a "lost cause" after 300 chapters, than your whole work is a lost cause too.
At this point, the source is nothing more than a lucrative cash cow milked dry to the bone.
Author managed to become rich on this BS, but the best anime crew could do for S4, is just cut the hell away most of Kazuya from an anime version. That would maybe made it a worthwhile watch.
Manga peaks where S3 ends, so the best moments are already here to watch, if you want.
Anime: Kanojo, Okarishimasu 72261h
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| Main Title | Kanojo, Okarishimasu (a15299) |
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| Official Title | enverified |
| Official Title | ja |
| Type | TV Series, 12 episodes |
| Year | 11.07.2020 until 26.09.2020 |
| Season | Summer 2020 |
| Tags | [similar] |
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| Rating | 4.40 (1979) |
| Average | 6.39 (1999) |
| Review Rating | 4.83 (1) |
| Added by | hidden on 2019-12-09 03:29 |
| Edited by | hidden on 2021-02-25 08:44 |
| Main Title | Kanojo, Okarishimasu (a15299) |
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| Official Title | enverified |
| Official Title | ja |
| Official Title | pl |
| Official Title | ru |
| Official Title | ar |
| Official Title | zh-Hant |
| Official Title | zh-Hans |
| Synonym | Девушка на час, 租赁女友 |
| Short | KanoKari |
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* Based on a love comedy shounen manga by Miyajima Reiji.
In today's Japan, "rental" services can deliver an afternoon with a "friend," a "parent," even a fake girlfriend! After a staggering betrayal by his college girlfriend, girlfriend," who's trying to keep her side hustle secret, will panic when she finds out her real life and Kazuya's are intertwined in surprising ways!
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In today's Japan, "rental" services can deliver an afternoon with a "friend," a "parent," even a fake girlfriend! After a staggering betrayal by his college girlfriend, girlfriend," who's trying to keep her side hustle secret, will panic when she finds out her real life and Kazuya's are intertwined in surprising ways!
Source: kodansha comics
Statistics 2b56c
Favourites/Rec. 4p7048
Running Time 4g4xh
approx. 5h
Completed p533i
2635 (58.9%)
Watching 363s
289 (6.5%)
Plan to Watch j3w4v
1347 (30.1%)
Dropped 543712
204 (4.6%)
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by technine on 2025-02-08 21:12
recommended
by Whale-Bone on 2022-08-14 23:48
I was surprised to see the amount of bad reviews around for this show. I really enjoyed it. Yes, it involves a series of unlikely coincidences. It's a rom-com. If you can't stand unlikely things happening, I'm not sure anime, in general, is for you. Coincidences aside, I found it to be very funny with realistic characters. All the characters have understandable motivations. Yes, believe it or not, 20 year old men are stupid horny and very often behave ridiculously. The art is quite good, with the characters looking very appealing. Give it a shot if you want to have a laugh and some light romance.
recommended
by Gene_Starwind on 2021-11-22 19:44
OK, Kazuya is rather pathetic, and that's typical. However, Chizuru, Ruka, and Sumi make up for his lameness in spades. In many ways, this is a lot better than you might think. Mami is very easy to hate and deserves it.
recommended
by aidschbe on 2021-07-04 13:08
Scattered thoughts:
- it very much puts on display how incredibly awkward puberty is
- the shipping grandmas are fantastic
- the main girl is so incredibly top tier that there's no real sense of competition
Pretty standard, cute romcom with a billion misunderstandings.
- it very much puts on display how incredibly awkward puberty is
- the shipping grandmas are fantastic
- the main girl is so incredibly top tier that there's no real sense of competition
Pretty standard, cute romcom with a billion misunderstandings.
recommended
by Helemar on 2021-02-09 04:50
This series blew by pretty fast. With all the intricacies of the characters keeping their lies straight.
This series does nothing more than lay the ground work for what is coming in the future. At the end, it starts to find out where people's feelings truly lie, but it's so slow in that regard that it's hard to say when it's going to happen.
I truly hope that the next season elaborates further on this and makes some clear distinctu9ions on who is with whom.
All in all - a decent watch - think this is highly dependent on the next season to see how they structure things.
This series does nothing more than lay the ground work for what is coming in the future. At the end, it starts to find out where people's feelings truly lie, but it's so slow in that regard that it's hard to say when it's going to happen.
I truly hope that the next season elaborates further on this and makes some clear distinctu9ions on who is with whom.
All in all - a decent watch - think this is highly dependent on the next season to see how they structure things.
must see
by Lordcero on 2021-01-22 21:27
It's kind of hard to put this one into words..
It's a special kind of cliche, cringey, cheesy, yet strangely addicting kind of anime.
It's the kind of anime you expect NOTHING from, yet somehow, you walk away from this one ODDLY SATISFIED.
The main character SUCKS, but this doesn't matter when all the female side characters are SO GOOD!
I struggle to convey my feelings on this one, because of the nature of this anime.
As an ecchi series, it is VERY GOOD for what the average viewer is expecting. DO NOT expect the plot to blow you away or anything. However, the female characters REDEEM this anime by A LOT!
Somehow, someway, I'm over here hoping it gets a second season?
It's a special kind of cliche, cringey, cheesy, yet strangely addicting kind of anime.
It's the kind of anime you expect NOTHING from, yet somehow, you walk away from this one ODDLY SATISFIED.
The main character SUCKS, but this doesn't matter when all the female side characters are SO GOOD!
I struggle to convey my feelings on this one, because of the nature of this anime.
As an ecchi series, it is VERY GOOD for what the average viewer is expecting. DO NOT expect the plot to blow you away or anything. However, the female characters REDEEM this anime by A LOT!
Somehow, someway, I'm over here hoping it gets a second season?
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by irohma on 2022-06-21 13:22
Rating: 4.83
Approval: 58.8% (2 votes)
Review
It's impossible. Protagonists in the anime industry were not always well-developed characters, I know, but a few years ago it seems that the new "default settings" for them became this unrealistic mixture of typical japanese teenagers with a desire for social power where none of their actions has real-life consequences. This mixture boomed Kirito (Sword Art Online), a dick of a boy whose terrible choices always seem to veer him towards success instead of failure and conflict, or Subaru (Re:Zero), who always makes wrong choices and yet reaps benefits at every turn. It's a formula that may work on very specific occasions, but not as a new standard.
The isekai shit-wave came to consolidate this sort of protagonist, giving him god-like powers and no worries to deal with the consequences of their actions. No matter what they did, no matter how they acted, the rest of the cast had this pre-set assumption that, as a protagonist, he must be loved and cared for.
The harem subgenre, for most part, had managed to keep with its two more "realistic" templates: the shy guy who is pulled into perversion by the horny girls, or the perverted guy who was pushed away from the girls he likes. Now, however, it seems the new "default settings" have reached the harem realm... and god, it is an awful combination.
Rent-a-Girlfriend is the story of Kazuya, a 20-year-old guy who was just dumped by his first and only girlfriend and is trying to cope with his failure. Without much thought, he pays for the service of a rental girlfriend and ends up in a sequence of lies and coincidences that makes him stuck with Chizuru, the contracted girl. Keeping up the lie and trying to not fall in love with her is pretty much impossible.
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It's a real struggle to keep watching a show where the lead is such an annoying and terribly established character, especially when the premise behind everything seems interesting. At many moments during this struggle I was thrown back to past harem leads who annoyed me, but not so much, and after some thought I came to understand that, although bothersome, those guys at least acted accordingly with their presets and had many problems with their love interests. The shy guys never managed to get close to the girls besides some "accidents", the perverted guys were slapped and yelled at, and so on. Kazuya is completely immune to that. He has no problems getting close to the girls, he is supposed to be the perverted guy, yet, when he acts as a dick he is received with love and care. It makes no sense.
Kazuya's template, however, is not news to me. This is the preset of the isekai leads, guys immune to backlash, guys who can act however they want and never suffer with the consequences. It's already annoying in fantasy worlds where these leads are super powerful saviors and magicians, but here, in a "real world" setting and playing a love-comedy... gods, it gets damn infuriating.
It's impossible. Protagonists in the anime industry were not always well-developed characters, I know, but a few years ago it seems that the new "default settings" for them became this unrealistic mixture of typical japanese teenagers with a desire for social power where none of their actions has real-life consequences. This mixture boomed Kirito (Sword Art Online), a dick of a boy whose terrible choices always seem to veer him towards success instead of failure and conflict, or Subaru (Re:Zero), who always makes wrong choices and yet reaps benefits at every turn. It's a formula that may work on very specific occasions, but not as a new standard.
The isekai shit-wave came to consolidate this sort of protagonist, giving him god-like powers and no worries to deal with the consequences of their actions. No matter what they did, no matter how they acted, the rest of the cast had this pre-set assumption that, as a protagonist, he must be loved and cared for.
The harem subgenre, for most part, had managed to keep with its two more "realistic" templates: the shy guy who is pulled into perversion by the horny girls, or the perverted guy who was pushed away from the girls he likes. Now, however, it seems the new "default settings" have reached the harem realm... and god, it is an awful combination.
Rent-a-Girlfriend is the story of Kazuya, a 20-year-old guy who was just dumped by his first and only girlfriend and is trying to cope with his failure. Without much thought, he pays for the service of a rental girlfriend and ends up in a sequence of lies and coincidences that makes him stuck with Chizuru, the contracted girl. Keeping up the lie and trying to not fall in love with her is pretty much impossible.
- Kazuya
Ok. Let's get rid of this. Kazuya basically makes the show impossible to enjoy. The idea behind him is to depict a guy coping with his own failures and lack of ability to get a girlfriend, yet what we have is a teenager who is a dick, a weakling, not funny, and lacks common sense. He is a social disaster, and that would be ok if the story progressed accordingly, yet...
Everyone loves him. No matter how stupid he is, no matter how he drags people into his problems without any thought, the other characters either fall in love with him, are his best buds, or only complain to him when he is about the break up with the "hot girl". It's impossible to enjoy the show this way, because it is not funny and it is not dramatic. It is just plain annoying. You watch as he creates dozens of problems, yet they are solved by others simply forgiving him automatically.
It's the recipe of disaster
Instead of having funny situations where the ecchiness of harem and the traditional cliches about pantsu and blushing take place, what we have is this guy dicking around and somehow never facing any form of danger or problem. He is not the overpowered isekai lead in of physical strength and magical prowess, but he is simply immune to enmity.
The show tries very hard to create situations where he must keep up with his lies to avoid public shaming for having paid a prostitute to act as his girlfriend, but every issue stemming from his choices vanish in a flash. The girl, Chizuru, never really pushes him away even after all the bullshit. Well, she instead falls in love with this ridiculous guy.
It forces its way too
Sometimes the show can get you a bit of fun when the coincidences come to play, but at some point, when a clear solution to his problems is presented, the protagonist makes a complete turnaround in personality and stops being a perverted guy completely. In one episode he is fapping for his ex-girlfriend and commenting on how hot the new girl is, and when the new girl wants to bang him... yeah, he dumps her and stops commenting on her sexual appeal completely. It makes no sense.
I have always been annoyed by ecchi leads pushing away girls who wanted to bang them, but they were shy guys at their concept. Not here though, Kazuya is this "loser", but he is a fucking pervert. Yet, when the time comes, he simply jumps into being the innocent and timid 14-year-old.
It had a chance though
Rent-a-Girlfriend could be a lot more enticing with very little changes though. The idea of getting stuck into a lie and trying to make away with it is interesting, but the show tries to be a love-comedy with no compromises with a lead that is an utter disaster.
Some of the girls are nice. Chizuru seems bothered and really has a more mature aura when compared to the boyish lead, and the evil-ness of Mami is quite spot-on with cheap jealousy we can find with ease among friends and acquaintances. They, however, have no reason to like the protagonist guy, no reason at all. It becomes even worse when the show dumps more girls to the harem. Yeah, I know it's a harem, but the guy needs to make SOME effort to please the girls, not the opposite.
It's cute too
TMS Entertainment does an amazing job with the cute girls, the colors, and a great deal of consistency that elevates the work. It becomes at least a cute harem show to watch, but with the downside that it is extremely conservative in of ecchiness. Yup, as I've said, this is more of a love-comedy than a perverted harem.
Comments
It's a real struggle to keep watching a show where the lead is such an annoying and terribly established character, especially when the premise behind everything seems interesting. At many moments during this struggle I was thrown back to past harem leads who annoyed me, but not so much, and after some thought I came to understand that, although bothersome, those guys at least acted accordingly with their presets and had many problems with their love interests. The shy guys never managed to get close to the girls besides some "accidents", the perverted guys were slapped and yelled at, and so on. Kazuya is completely immune to that. He has no problems getting close to the girls, he is supposed to be the perverted guy, yet, when he acts as a dick he is received with love and care. It makes no sense.
Kazuya's template, however, is not news to me. This is the preset of the isekai leads, guys immune to backlash, guys who can act however they want and never suffer with the consequences. It's already annoying in fantasy worlds where these leads are super powerful saviors and magicians, but here, in a "real world" setting and playing a love-comedy... gods, it gets damn infuriating.
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· · male protagonistThis anime has a male protagonist. weightless
· · funny expressionsThe facial expressions of the characters may change so quickly or unexpectedly distort that hilarity will ensue. weightless
· · breast fondlingBreast fondling is the act of touching, groping, or fondling the breasts of a person, typically female. weightless
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aboard shipThe story takes place aboard a vessel which sails on the surface of the sea, a river, or a similar body of liquid. 1 eps applies to episode(s): 4
amusement park visitPlot device: All or part of the cast visit an amusement park. 1 eps applies to episode(s): 10
beach visitEvery anime has to have them, episodes in which the characters for whatever reason end up going to the sea, ocean, random island or the local pond. 2 eps applies to episode(s): 3-4
cinema visitUsually as part of a date the pair watch a movie together, since hand-holding in the dark is less embarrassing and also romantic. Scary movies often lead to spontaneous hugging, out of fear. 1 eps applies to episode(s): 8
confessionSomeone confesses his/her love to someone else. 2 eps applies to episode(s): 4, 7
dateA date is a romantic meeting or outing with a lover or potential lover. A date may also involve more than 2 people, a "tag-team" date; for example, 1 male and 2 females. 6 eps applies to episode(s): 1-2, 6, 9-11
double dateDouble date is a date in which two couples participate. 1 eps applies to episode(s): 6
first kissThe first kiss plays a role in this anime. Especially for the female cast this can be quite an important moment, so that stealing ones first kiss is serious for them. 1 eps applies to episode(s): 4
furo sceneFuro (polite: Ofuro) is Japanese for bath, specifically a type of bath which originated as a short, steep-sided wooden bathtub. Baths of this type are found all over Japan in houses, apartments and traditional Japanese inns (Ryokans). 2 eps applies to episode(s): 5, 10
group dateUsed to form at least some friendships between two groups that are each of a single sex. 1 eps applies to episode(s): 2
karaokeObligatory national pastime for students in any anime with school setting. Amateur singing to subtitled music videos. The word itself is a compound of the Japanese words for "empty orchestra". 1 eps applies to episode(s): 12
rock-paper-scissorsWhenever a decision has to be made in anime, the Japanese protagonists seem to be awfully fond of playing rock-paper-scissors (or jan-ken-pon) to determine the outcome. 1 eps applies to episode(s): 3
shower sceneThe anime contains a shower scene, obligatory for ecchi anime. The person under the shower will most likely be female — providing "fanservice". 3 eps applies to episode(s): 1, 8, 11
shrine visitThe characters visit a temple/shrine. 1 eps applies to episode(s): 9
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Some of the typical solitary activities are reading, writing, using computers, hiking and fishing. The archetypal artist, writer, sculptor, engineer, composer, and inventor are all considered highly introverted.
Not to be confused as being shy - introverts prefer solitary activities over social ones, where as shy people (who may be extraverts at heart) avoid social encounters out of fear. Like extroversion, introversion is not a black and white measurement, and these people may share some of the same traits than extroverts.young adult (3)Someone is generally considered a young adult if they are between 20 to 40 years old.
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19-20, female, young adultSomeone is generally considered a young adult if they are between 20 to 40 years old.
voiced by: Amamiya Sora
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episode appearance appears in ep: 1-3, 5, 8
voiced by: Amamiya Sora
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episode appearance appears in ep: 1-2, 4-5, 9, 12
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voiced by: Nozawa Yukari
episode appearance appears in ep: 1-7, 10-12
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episode appearance appears in ep: 10-12
episode appearance appears in ep: 6-10, 12
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episode appearance appears in ep: 2-5, 12
episode appearance appears in ep: 2, 10, 12
voiced by: Fujii Hayato
episode appearance appears in ep: 3-5, 8, 12
voiced by: Kurisaka Minami
episode appearance appears in ep: 1, 5, 9, 12
voiced by: Natsutani Miki
episode appearance appears in ep: 1, 5, 9, 12
voiced by: Sanpei Yuuki
episode appearance appears in ep: 11
voiced by: Miyase Naoya
episode appearance appears in ep: 8, 12
voiced by: Ishikawa Kaito
episode appearance appears in ep: 2-6, 10, 12
episode appearance appears in ep: 2-4, 12
voiced by: Kitamori Saika
episode appearance appears in ep: 3-5, 8, 12
voiced by: Sasaki Hitomi
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voiced by: Zouza Shoumaru
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