Shan's Take: Kanojo Okarishimasu (Rent-A-Girlfriend)

By Shan Freemoor:

Look… I get why Reiji Miyajima made the characters and the story the way he did to push its concept/central plot, which is the title. But the main female character, Chizuru Ichinose, doesn’t deserve the main character, Kazuya Kinoshita. I found myself getting pissed off from time to time with Chizuru’s reactions to Kazuya. Most of the time, when Kazuya compliments her, shows sincere concern, or is willing to help her, she makes this face right here (picture below) or responds standoffishly or with such rudeness. The first episode of season 2 ends that way. I’m like, why are your panties in a bunch towards a guy who genuinely likes you for you and not your Rent-A-Girlfriend persona? [Partial Spoiler] He even told her in the second season that he likes the real her and wants her to be herself on one of their dates. [End Spoiler] Her responses to his kindness are childish for a 20-year-old.

Honestly, Kazuya is better off with someone like Ruka Sarashina or even Sumi Sakurasawa.

Just like Naruto was better off with Hinata. When the girl likes the guy more, the relationship works out better. She is willing to follow his lead and trust him to be the provider and protector she congenitally desires him to be. When it’s the other way around, she usually doesn’t respect him or gets bored because she sees he’s more into pleasing her than having his own opinion, perspective (life), and taking the lead in situations because he doesn’t want to upset her. I understand Miyajima has to have Chizuru wrestle with her emotions as a Rent-A-Girlfriend employee, her partially unhealthy ideology about men, and her romantic feelings to prolong the series, but this is getting agonizing... It’s hard to still view them as Client/Rent-A-Girlfriend when their grandparents are close and expect them to be there for one another (with the charade of being an item), they live right next door to each other, do favors like close friends, and go through multiple circumstances that create a close bond. Her still treating him like a client at times when they aren't on a Rent-A-Girlfriend date makes her look weird now.

I’m not letting Kazuya off the hook! Kazuya’s personality is like the genre titles on some streaming sites suggest this series is... CRINGE! His level of thirst is over SIMP 9000! I’ve yelled at the screen several times, “Calm down, dude! She’s just a girl. She puts on a pair [of pants] one leg at a time just like you! Sheesh!” Every interaction he has with Chizuru is like a teen girl on a sitcom idolizing her crush (I’m still talking about Kazuya). I don’t know how he restrains from finishing on himself when he walks and thinks at the same time about her when she’s present. He disappoints me as a man, walking around like he has nothing but her to live for. Brah, show that you have a life’s purpose besides Chizuru, like she does with her acting... As popular as this series is to get a third season, it’s slowly dying on me. I’m thinking about reading the manga to see if this goes on for another 95 to 100 chapters.

This is just a theory, but maybe Miyajima might mention in later chapters that Chizuru is scared to open her feelings to Kazuya because she’s scared to lose him like she lost her grandfather. They do have similar personalities. That may save the series for me... Maybe... Who knows? I give this series a 2 out of 5. What do y’all think?

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