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Rent-A-Girlfriend (彼女、お借りします) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Reiji Miyajima. It has been serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine since July 2017, and has been compiled into sixteen volumes as of August 2020. The series is licensed in North America by Kodansha Comics, which released the first volume in English in June 2020.

An anime television series adaptation by TMS Entertainment premiered in July 2020 on the Super Animeism block.

Plot
Kazuya Kinoshita is dumped by his girlfriend Mami Nanami after dating for a month. He then decides to use an online app to rent a girlfriend named Chizuru Mizuhara, a beautiful and attractive girl. However, because she appears to be too perfect, he gives her a low rating. When Chizuru berates him for that, he realizes she is meaner than he expected. However, when Kazuya's grandmother collapses in the hospital, he brings her along and his grandmother is smitten with how great she is. Kazuya continues renting Chizuru in order to keep up appearances with his family and friends, but things get complicated when they discover they are next-door apartment neighbors and attend the same college. Later, other girls from the girlfriend business also join in.

Main

 * Kazuya Kinoshita (木ノ下 和也)
 * A 20-year-old college student who lives in Tokyo. Following a painful breakup with his girlfriend Mami Nanami, he decides to rent a girlfriend. He soon finds himself in situations where he has to continue renting Chizuru to keep up appearances with his family and friends. He then develops romantic feelings towards her. He has an indecisive personality, and sometimes he feels like he's going to lose to his ulterior motives. On the other hand, he also has a kindness that cares for the people around him.
 * Chizuru Mizuhara (水原 千鶴)
 * A college student who moonlights as a rental girlfriend for the Diamond company. She is proud of her exceptional ratings in the service, but becomes annoyed and abrasive when Kazuya embarrasses her and gives her a bad rating. At school, she goes under her grandmother's family name Chizuru Ichinose, and has a nerdy appearance with large dark-framed glasses and braided pigtails. It is soon shown that Chizuru and Kazuya are next-door neighbors in their apartment complex. She continues to let Kazuya rent her services in order to help his grandmother, and to help him develop as a person. Later, it is revealed that her reason for joining the rental girlfriend business is to develop role-playing experience and to become an actress.
 * Chizuru Mizuhara (水原 千鶴)
 * A college student who moonlights as a rental girlfriend for the Diamond company. She is proud of her exceptional ratings in the service, but becomes annoyed and abrasive when Kazuya embarrasses her and gives her a bad rating. At school, she goes under her grandmother's family name Chizuru Ichinose, and has a nerdy appearance with large dark-framed glasses and braided pigtails. It is soon shown that Chizuru and Kazuya are next-door neighbors in their apartment complex. She continues to let Kazuya rent her services in order to help his grandmother, and to help him develop as a person. Later, it is revealed that her reason for joining the rental girlfriend business is to develop role-playing experience and to become an actress.
 * A college student who moonlights as a rental girlfriend for the Diamond company. She is proud of her exceptional ratings in the service, but becomes annoyed and abrasive when Kazuya embarrasses her and gives her a bad rating. At school, she goes under her grandmother's family name Chizuru Ichinose, and has a nerdy appearance with large dark-framed glasses and braided pigtails. It is soon shown that Chizuru and Kazuya are next-door neighbors in their apartment complex. She continues to let Kazuya rent her services in order to help his grandmother, and to help him develop as a person. Later, it is revealed that her reason for joining the rental girlfriend business is to develop role-playing experience and to become an actress.
 * A college student who moonlights as a rental girlfriend for the Diamond company. She is proud of her exceptional ratings in the service, but becomes annoyed and abrasive when Kazuya embarrasses her and gives her a bad rating. At school, she goes under her grandmother's family name Chizuru Ichinose, and has a nerdy appearance with large dark-framed glasses and braided pigtails. It is soon shown that Chizuru and Kazuya are next-door neighbors in their apartment complex. She continues to let Kazuya rent her services in order to help his grandmother, and to help him develop as a person. Later, it is revealed that her reason for joining the rental girlfriend business is to develop role-playing experience and to become an actress.


 * Mami Nanami (七海 麻美)
 * Kazuya's former girlfriend. She has short blonde hair. She appears to be friendly on the outside, but harbors jealous and possessive feelings that scare her friends sometimes. She is shocked and suspicious that Kazuya has found another girlfriend so soon after dumping him, within a month.
 * Kazuya's former girlfriend. She has short blonde hair. She appears to be friendly on the outside, but harbors jealous and possessive feelings that scare her friends sometimes. She is shocked and suspicious that Kazuya has found another girlfriend so soon after dumping him, within a month.


 * Ruka Sarashina (更科 るか)
 * A girl who is introduced as Kazuya's friend's girlfriend, who actually was also working as a rental girlfriend for another company. She wears a ribbon headband. She wants to date Kazuya for real after seeing how kindly and passionately he treats Chizuru and her. She has a health condition where she has a low heart rate that she monitors, and Kazuya is the first guy who elevated it.
 * A girl who is introduced as Kazuya's friend's girlfriend, who actually was also working as a rental girlfriend for another company. She wears a ribbon headband. She wants to date Kazuya for real after seeing how kindly and passionately he treats Chizuru and her. She has a health condition where she has a low heart rate that she monitors, and Kazuya is the first guy who elevated it.


 * Sumi Sakurasawa (桜沢 墨)
 * A girl who also works as a rental girlfriend with Chizuru's company. She is in her first year at college and is a newcomer to the industry. She has pink hair with a braid styled on one side. She has a shy personality and through Chizuru's urging, goes on dates with Kazuya in order to improve her skills as a rental girlfriend, later developing feelings for him.
 * A girl who also works as a rental girlfriend with Chizuru's company. She is in her first year at college and is a newcomer to the industry. She has pink hair with a braid styled on one side. She has a shy personality and through Chizuru's urging, goes on dates with Kazuya in order to improve her skills as a rental girlfriend, later developing feelings for him.

Supporting

 * Nagomi Kinoshita (木ノ下 和)
 * Kazuya's maternal grandmother. She is thrilled to find out that Kazuya and Chizuru are a couple. She is also friends with Chizuru's grandmother.
 * Kazuya's maternal grandmother. She is thrilled to find out that Kazuya and Chizuru are a couple. She is also friends with Chizuru's grandmother.


 * Yoshiaki Kibe (木部 芳秋)
 * Kazuya's childhood friend and college schoolmate. He occasionally gives Kazuya advice about how to deal with his relationships.
 * Kazuya's childhood friend and college schoolmate. He occasionally gives Kazuya advice about how to deal with his relationships.


 * Shun Kuribayashi (栗林 駿)
 * Kazuya's friend and college schoolmate. He has short light hair and wears glasses.
 * Kazuya's friend and college schoolmate. He has short light hair and wears glasses.

Manga
Written and illustrated by Reiji Miyajima, the series began serialization in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine on July 12, 2017, and has been compiled into sixteen volumes as of August 2020. The series is licensed in North America by Kodansha Comics, which released the first volume in English on June 2, 2020. Kodansha published an anthology of the series on August 17, 2020.

A spin-off manga series, titled Kanojo, Hitomishirimasu (彼女人見知ります), also written and illustrated by Miyajima, has been serialized in Kodansha's Magazine Pocket app since June 21, 2020. The series focuses on the character Sumi Sakurasawa.

Chapters not yet published in volume format
These chapters have yet to be published in a tankōbon volume. They were originally serialized in Japanese in issues of Weekly Shōnen Magazine:

Anime
An anime television series adaptation was announced on December 15, 2019. The series is animated by TMS Entertainment and directed by Kazuomi Koga, with Mitsutaka Hirota handling series composition, Kanna Hirayama designing the characters, and Hyadain composing the music. The Peggies performed the opening theme "Centimeter". Halca performed the first ending theme "Kokuhaku Bungee Jump" starting from Episodes 2–6 and 8–12, while Halca also performed the second ending theme "First Drop" for Episode 7. It premiered on July 11, 2020 on the Super Animeism programming block on MBS and other networks. The anime will run for 12 episodes.

The series is licensed by Crunchyroll outside of Asia. In Southeast Asia, the series is licensed by Muse Communication and released on the streaming service iQIYI. On August 11, 2020, Crunchyroll announced that the series would receive an English dub.