The apex of the word "Cringe"
After watching the anime and seeing a crowd giving hate to the main character and thinking they were exaggerating, I decided to take a look at the manga to see if the story would come to anything, I've seen similar cliché works of the same genre and if if I compare them with Rent-A-Girlfriend the other works are a thousand times better than that.
The story of Rent-A-Girlfriend tells of virgin student Kazuya Kinoshita, who was abandoned by his girlfriend, emotionally shaken, tries to soothe the emptiness in his heart through a girlfriend for hire from a mobile app. Then he meets his surrogate girlfriend Chizuru Mizuhara who seems like the perfect girl with everything he could ask for: great looks and a cute, caring personality. Seeing differing opinions on her profile after the first date, and still plagued by their previous relationship, Kazuya believes Chizuru is just playing with men's hearts and leaves a negative assessment for her. Angered by her client's disrespect for her, Chizuru reveals her true nature: sassy and temperamental, the complete opposite of Kazuya's first impression.
The main character Kazuya is the biggest problem in the work and the funniest thing is that there are people who think the character is REALISTIC, but he's just totally mediocre that in almost 200 chapters he's still the same idiot and without any attitude.
The female characters are not that good either, they only serve to make the plot move, Chizuru is the only one who manages to be the least worst in history. And when you think it can't get worse, the author just comes to me with this ex-girlfriend back to creating feelings for the protagonist, that's not even the point of the iceberg because the worst comes further ahead. Ruka is the culmination of how a character is forced and not to mention that it was for her to add more things in the story and I think that didn't work very well.
The author had chances to finish the work and not to mention that the ending would be much less bad, but what did he do? It created more stupid situations to drag the story even further. Rent-A-Girlfriend reminds me a lot of what happened in Nisekoi, the author simply had the knife and cheese in his hand, but he preferred to create another 100 chapters just to extend the story even more.
The author could easily make the character declare himself to Chizuru in a single chapter.
So, the work hasn't been so impressive? Well, I think the only good thing presented in the work is the Author's art, which is very well detailed, but a pity that the story is mediocre.