Kanojo, Okarishimasu 4th Season

After the success of his crowdfunded movie featuring the woman of his dreams, Chizuru Ichinose, university student Kazuya Kinoshita resumes his life of lies and deception. Although he pretends that he has been in an ideal relationship with Chizuru for more than a year, Kazuya still mostly sees her through a rental girlfriend company's services.

However, after Kazuya attends a private party with Chizuru, he reaches the decision to finally confess his feelings to her. Unfortunately for him, his trial girlfriend Ruka Sarashina and his ex-girlfriend Mami Nanami continue to complicate his already messy attempts at romance. While he is forced to keep up his facade, Kazuya is under pressure to find a solution to his ever chaotic love life.

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Ichinose, Chizuru Main

Amamiya, Sora Japanese

Kinoshita, Kazuya Main

Horie, Shun Japanese

Sakurasawa, Sumi Supporting

Takahashi, Rie Japanese

Sarashina, Ruka Supporting

Touyama, Nao Japanese

Nanami, Mami Supporting

Yuuki, Aoi Japanese

Yaemori, Mini Supporting

Serizawa, Yuu Japanese

Kibe, Yoshiaki Supporting

Akasaka, Masayuki Japanese

Kinoshita, Nagomi Supporting

Nozawa, Yukari Japanese

Ichinose, Sayuri Supporting

Sadaoka, Sayuri Japanese

Kuribayashi, Shun Supporting

Kajiwara, Gakuto Japanese

Koga, Kazuomi Director

Takakuwa, Hajime Sound Director

Tachibana, Saori Episode Director, Storyboard

Mattos, Sidney Script

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Sep 18, 2025

Destron

Recommended

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I can already tell I am going to get absolutely clowned on for this review and to be honest, I am 100% ok with this. I have already accepted it.

Rent a Girlfriend. What in the fuck can I say about this show that hasn't been said by now? This is going to be a very clowned on statement but I like RAG. I find this show to be very enjoyable despite its many issues. Let's take it from the top. I'm not going to individually review each season because I can't be fucked. However, I'll do a summary.

Rent a Girlfriend is about a ... guy known as Kazuya, who rents out a girl known as Chizuru due to being dumped by his partner Mami. He then falls in love with Chizuru and the story goes in so many goddamn directions, it's pretty hard to summarize the events

Season 1: Really enjoyed - Introduced us to the cast of characters, and gave us possibly the most frustrating confession I have ever witnessed in a romance anime and I have seen a lot of romance anime.

Season 2: Also really liked, not the best season. However, it showed Kazuya was willing to go through great lengths just for Chizuru. It also expanded on the characters back stories.

Season 3: By far my favorite season of the bunch so far. It also introduced us to Yaemori who was a fantastic character.

Season 4: What in the fuck was the start of this season? - The first 30 seconds of the show starts of with Kazuya gooning and having a mini Sumi covering his crotch (why'd they have to do Sumi like that?) - This season follows Kazuya on a trip with Chizuru, his Grandma, Mami and Ruka and a few other friends that are mostly just there. Mami is dead set on telling Granny about the fake relationship and what's really been going on. They all get into ridiculous situations to try and avoid all that and Kazuya tries non stop to try and ask Chizuru out to make a lie into a truth.

Despite the completely out of pocket start to the season, I actually liked this season. Don't get me wrong, it was probably my least favorite out of all the seasons, but I still liked it. I do wish we got more Sumi and Yaemori, but that's complete biased because Sumi is my favorite. I do wish she was there though for real because she's more of the voice of reason and she's a fantastic support. She could have been there to comfort.

As for the cast

Chizuru: I like, she seems the most normal out of all of them, but I do really wish she would learn to speak up and stop letting people walk over her. She could have easily told Mami to piss off and mind her own, but she didn't. There were so many times, but she just didn't.

Sumi: The best girl (biased) - Consistently has been a fantastic character, a great support, adorable and overall a great girl. Really wish she got more screen time and I'm not just saying that because she is my favorite, but she's also gotten the least amount of screen time in this anime and that's disappointing because the episodes with Sumi feel so refreshing and they're really sweet.

Ruka: annoying

Yaemori: She feels like the voice of all the audience. When we're basically begging for plot progression and for these 2 to finally get together. Yaemori feels like the personification of all of us and she's there to pass our message on. She literally out right tells Chizuru how Kazuya feels. She did in 1 episode what he couldn't do for 3 seasons. She was a very well needed character.

Mami: It's annoying how she knows how to make a great point. I can't get a read on her to be honest. I can't tell if she's doing it to get back at Kazuya for breaking up, because she actually cares about him or she just wants to be a dick. I can't tell, but every time she has made a good point. About how Chizuru has really dragged this on and how she really needs to come clean.

Rent a Girlfriend is not a show for people who are a fan of romance anime because if you're wanting a confession, it's basically never going to happen. It's more for people just wanting a laid back anime (that is the best way I can put that) as whilst yes there is romance portions, it never goes anywhere and it feels quite frustrating at times. I don't know why I like RAG so much, but I just do.

My order goes from best to worst: Sumi, Chizuru, Yaemori, Mami, Ruka

7/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Sep 16, 2025

KANLen09

Mixed Feelings

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Rent-A-Girlfriend: The 4th Date, 1st Cucking — 4 words: It only gets worse...

In the AniManga realm, I don't care about the labels that people call you as a bonafide lover of anime, but if we can all collectively agree on one thing, it's that we love to shit on (genuine) anime trash. But yet, we also wonder, why does someone like mangaka Reiji Miyajima exist with his infamous series that has continued to deliver dumpster fire levels of defying common sense that make for some great marketing of the manga and the content itself? Apart from last season's Shiunji-ke no Kodomodachi a.k.a The Shiunji Family ... Children (which Doga Kobo really gave the quality it deserves of a "family-not-family" harem), it has been 5 years since the anime started, giving us weebs a taste of what's to come for this rom-com series that has given us lots of wild feelings and emotions, at least up until here, with Season 4's split-season showing that showcases why Kanojo, Okarishimasu a.k.a Rent-A-Girlfriend, is easily one of the most clowned-upon series that always keeps you emblazoned for the infamy that's to come.

With Season 4 covering the manga's longest and most infamous arc — the Paradise Arc, spanning from Volume 22 to 27 of the manga — Part 1's start here, continuing the adaptation where the anime left off at Volume 20, is but only the tip of the iceberg for anyone expecting the "goodness" to come out of this trashy "adaptation". Bear in mind, this is coming off what I think is the best arc of the manga — the Movie Arc that already (and OBVIOUSLY enough) shows how Kazuya Kinoshita's simping of the rental girlfriend that is Chizuru Mizuhara accumulated to create one of the manga's earliest defining high praise points that would make you think that Kazuya is not just honouring his one-sided crush's only dream of making it big, but it's also to her late Granny Sayuri for seeing her dream come true (even on a small basis), which should be a green flag for Chizuru to realize that he's only serious for her. Alas, as much as this is an achievement for the both of them, with Kazuya being "confident and sure" that Mizuhara's his woman to come, he and she (or they) regressed their minds as if the self-funded movie and all of its emotional highs...just didn't exist. Can someone call YELP?

I think it's safe to say that given how far we're into the adaptation of the manga, the key players are not going to stand out as much as they once did. Ruka Sarashina is only more confident that she's going to annoy Kazuya so much until her heartbeat stops working; Mami Nanami continues her unsurprising usual investigative gaslighting work, getting close to the MCs and figuring out their rental partner business shtick; heck, even Mini Yaemori isn't so prevalent at this stage of the manga, taking a backseat alongside Sumi Sakurasawa, whom she is (almost) totally absent from going into the dreams of Paradise. To be fair, I'm not going to regurgitate this if you're a manga reader (and deep into Reiji's rather common-sense-defying rhetoric), but the Paradise Arc, I feel, REALLY shows the "Kiss, Marry, Kill" oration that would make up for what the series has to come through in its adaptation in showing (un)mind-blowingly how much Reiji simps HARDER for his own fictional woman than allowing the same elegance to be bestowed on the young man of his own story. So, anime-onlies, I'm telling you to brace for that incoming fire, because THAT moment to come in Part 2 (which manga readers will inevitably know) will show how much the series has gone so low as to degrade everything that the manga stands for as far as the anime is concerned.

Still, from an anime series standpoint, director Kazuomi Koga and his staff team at TMS Entertainment are dedicated to giving the series its worth in terms of quality, just showcasing the divisiveness for a series that has been the face of infamy in the rom-com space ever since the medium's adaptation started, for a show that many think is just too overrated to give such "good and wasted" quality, that really sells and earns the cash bags way too much to ignore. Even the OST is some level of good, with the excellent streak ongoing with ClariS's OP and Regal Lily's ED (which is OK at best).

Believe me, y'all, when Kanojo, Okarishimasu a.k.a Rent-A-Girlfriend, knows its depths of depravity and, at least up until Season 4's Part 1 here, is not the worst yet, for the "devil in the details" has yet to come and will finally make it reality for a series so insufferable and unsalvageable that it has people thinking, "Why do people just LOVE to market the series so much with all of its clownish tactics?" We'll just have to wait and see until Winter next year to see that infamy come to (anime) life, and "hail" Reiji Miyajima for his causal effect.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Sep 16, 2025

s6of

Not Recommended

If you thought this season would finally deliver meaningful character development or emotional payoff… think again. Season 4 is nothing more than a recycled mess of fake dates, awkward tension, and a protagonist who still hasn’t grown a spine.

- **Plot stagnation**: The so-called “Paradise Arc” promised depth and drama. What we got was filler disguised as romance.
- **Character regression**: Kazuya remains painfully indecisive, Chizuru is emotionally locked down, and the rest of the cast feels like reruns of their former selves.
- **Tone confusion**: The anime tries to appeal to adults with sexual innuendos and fanservice, yet the storytelling feels juvenile and repetitive.
- **Production vs. substance**: ... Visually, it’s polished. Narratively, it’s hollow. The staff clearly prioritized quantity over quality.

Honestly, it feels like the creators are just dragging this out for profit. If anything fresh or meaningful ever comes from this series again, it’ll be because fans demanded fairness and emotional honesty—not because the studio suddenly remembered how to write.

Score:
Story: 2
Animation: 5
Sound: 2
Characters: 3
Enjoyment: 2
Overall: 3/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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