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Rent-a-Girlfriend
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Shun Horie
Kazuya Kinoshita (voice)
60 eps
Sora Amamiya
Chizuru Mizuhara (voice)
60 eps
Aoi Yuuki
Mami Nanami (voice)
60 eps
Nao Toyama
Ruka Sarashina (voice)
60 eps
Rie Takahashi
Sumi Sakurasawa (voice)
60 eps
Yu Serizawa
Mini Yaemori (voice)
60 eps
Yukari Nozawa
Nagomi Kinoshita (voice)
60 eps
Sayuri Sadaoka
Sayuri Ichinose (voice)
60 eps
Gakuto Kajiwara
Shun Kuribayashi (voice)
60 eps
Masayuki Akasaka
Yoshiaki Kibe (voice)
62 eps
Hisako Tojo
Miharu Imai (voice)
4 eps
Naoya Miyase
Playboy (voice)
2 eps
Yu Kohanai
User (voice)
1 eps
Saika Kitamori
Lungfish (voice)
23 eps
Hayato Fujii
Iwafune (voice)
1 eps
Ryuji Yamamoto
Playboy (voice)
8 eps
Kaito Ishikawa
Umi Nakano (voice)
6 eps
Yui Ogura
Shiori (voice)
3 eps
Yuuki Sanpei
Kazuo Kinoshita (voice)
15 eps
Miki Natsutani
Harumi Kinoshita (voice)
17 eps
Naho Shimada
Hero Show MC (voice)
2 eps
Takahiro Yoshino
Takeshi Sasano (voice)
14 eps
Shoumaru Zouza
Hiroshi Ushiide (voice)
11 eps
Hitomi Sasaki
Yoko Shinbo (voice)
11 eps
Minami Kurisaka
Yuki Kawanaka (voice)
23 eps
Ryusei Nakao
Katsuhito Ichinose (voice)
7 eps
Akira Kuwabara
Nagomi's Hospitalized Friend (voice)
3 eps
Rin Kusumi
Female University Student (voice)
1 eps
Wataru Tsuyuzaki
Mami's Father (voice)
3 eps
Takuma Terashima
Tabuse (voice)
3 eps
Fumihiro Kojima
Passerby (voice)
1 eps
Wakana Kowaka
Flea Market Clerk (voice)
2 eps
Hiroki Ichinomiya
Passerby (voice)
1 eps
Haruna Kakiage
Girl (voice)
2 eps
Ayaka Ohnishi
High School Girl (voice)
2 eps
Satoshi Inomata
Yudai (voice)
7 eps
Shoya Ishige
Passerby (voice)
8 eps
Genki Muro
Male Customer (voice)
7 eps
Sakura Kimura
Café Waitress (voice)
3 eps
Keita Tada
Young Person (voice)
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Rent-a-Girlfriend actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Rent-a-Girlfriend reads strongest on Humour, Character Depth and Bingeability.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The story
What it's about
Kinoshita Kazuya is a 20-year-old failure of a college student. He managed to kiss his girlfriend once, but was dumped after a month. Completely spiteful, Kazuya uses a certain method to date a girl. He goes to their meeting place and a beautiful girl brushing her long, black hair behind her ear was there, smiling at him. Her name was Mizuhara Chizuru. Something real is born after just a single rental! A reckless rom-com filled with love and excitement is about to begin!
The run
Seasons
1 season · 60 episodes.
Season 0 · Complete
Specials
2020138 episodes
Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
202060 episodes
6.8IMDbJilted and heartbroken after just a month of dating, 20-year-old college student Kazuya Kinoshita turns to a rental girlfriend app out of sheer desperation. This leads him to a fateful encounter with Chizuru Mizuhara, a stunningly beautiful and seemingly perfect girl. However, after a chaotic first date and a sudden family emergency, they discover that they not only attend the same university but also live as next-door neighbors. Forced by circumstances to keep up the charade, their complicated, rental-based relationship officially begins.
Best episode · S01E41 Promised Time and Girlfriend
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E39
Daikanyama and Girlfriend
Chizuru and Kazuya are invited to a party in the super-fancy area of Daikanyama.
- Directed by Akiko Nakano
- Written by Mitsutaka Hirota
S01E04
Friend and Girlfriend
Mami’s plan comes to a head as Kazuya decides to set the story straight, to mixed reactions.
- Directed by Akira Yamada
- Written by Mitsutaka Hirota
S01E07
Provisional Girlfriend and Girlfriend
While Kazuya desperately tries to get Ruka to promise she won’t reveal his secret, she tells him her own.
- Directed by Kazuomi Koga
- Written by Mitsutaka Hirota
S01E12
Confession and Girlfriend
Chizuru and Mami go on an awkward rental date unaware that Kazuya has seen them together. How can Chizuru handle this situation?
- Directed by Kazuomi Koga
- Written by Mitsutaka Hirota
S01E06
Girlfriend and Girlfriend
Having to spend a night in the same room with Chizuru sends Kazuya’s heart and mind racing. Meanwhile, Kuribayashi Shun has a surprise in store…
- Directed by Shinya Une
- Written by Rie Uehara
S01E01
Rent-a-Girlfriend
Jilted and heartbroken, 20-year-old Kinoshita Kazuya turns to Diamond, a Rent-A-Girlfriend app that leads him to a fateful encounter with Mizuhara Chizuru, one of the talents on offer.
- Directed by Fumihiro Ueno
- Written by Mitsutaka Hirota
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S01E60
Loneliness and Girlfriend
- Directed by Akiko Nakano
- Written by Mitsutaka Hirota
S01E59
Moving and Girlfriend
- Directed by Akiko Nakano
- Written by Rie Uehara
S01E58
Childhood Home and Girlfriend
- Directed by Hiroshi Kimura
- Written by Mitsutaka Hirota
S01E56
Investigation and Girlfriend
- Directed by Ryoko Takemura, Marie Koizumi
- Written by Mitsutaka Hirota
S01E55
Valentine's and Girlfriend
- Directed by Hiroshi Kimura
- Written by Rie Uehara
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Hiroyuki AoiProducer
- Yuri TeraoProducer
- Toshihiro MaedaProducer
Writing
- Fumi TsubotaWriter
- Rie UeharaWriter
- Mitsutaka HirotaWriter
Direction
- Shinya UneDirector
- Ken AndoDirector
- Kazuomi KogaDirector
- Akira YamadaDirector
- Naoyuki KuzuyaDirector
- Taku YamadaDirector
Cinematography
- Shintaro SakaiDirector of Photography
Music
- HyadainOriginal Music Composer
- Tadaaki TsukadaOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
Availability verified against regional listings.
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