So Rent a Girlfriend is celebrating its 300 chapters next week, and I thought I must write a review for it. I read this manga once every 5-6 months and just skim through it, simply to periodically remind myself of what a horrible, lowlife and degenerate the main character Kazuya is, and to never become like him no matter what happens in life. The female lead is equally bad if not worse. The only decent characters in this series are Yaemori and Sumi.
But before the characters, I would first like to start with the author's way of writing. It just seems to me the author is milking the series as much as possible. Kazuya and Chizuru kissed in chapter 226, that was 73 chapters ago, released all the way back in March 3rd 2022, 1.5 years ago. And what happened in these last 73 chapters? Nothing. There has been ZERO progress. They havent even started dating after the kiss which is so ridiculous.
The author just wants to keep milking this series and it feels to me like he knows he has no talent and his one series got popular by accident and if he finishes it then he will have nothing left and he is not confident he can write something good, because yes, he cant. Every chapter in last 1.5 year has been completely useless, with no story progression, no meaningful character development, and no events of particular value happening.
So Kazuya yes, there is nothing good about him at all. Everything he does in the series he does for the sole purpose of getting his hands on Chizuru physically. He pretends to be her friend, pretends to act for her sake, and even love her, but at the end of the day it is all obsession, infatuation and lust masked as love and self-deceit.
You need proof? So he has known Chizuru for more than 2 years at this point, almost 3 years, and what is his first reaction everytime he sees her? He gets horny. Yes, no matter if its in public, his first reaction is to always oogle at her breasts, comment about her body's shape, and treat her like a doll just to vent his sexual frustrations.
3 years you have known someone and you still cant hold a conversation with them without getting horny. Every single time he talks, he doesnt speak normally even a SINGLE time. Every SINGLE time for the last 300 chapters he talks to Chizuru, he gets all hot and horny, starts staggering and stammering cuz he is too nervous eyeing her body the entire time and getting hard in public. I have never seen him talk normally with her even once without getting all pathetic and horny, thinking of lewd things at everything she does and says.
It is honestly pathetic, in one chapter he even imagines Chizuru getting physically intimate with another guy and starts to have a boner in public. This man is the pinnacle of what lowlife human beings are.
So the female lead Chizuru is equally a worse human being as Kazuya. She has known for many months (in the manga timeline) that Kazuya "loves" her or is basically wooing her with the intent of going out with her.
But what does she do? She doesnt reciprocate his feelings and she doesnt turn him down either, she just strings him along, knowing that he will just spend money on her and shower her with more money by booking her for dates and in general.
This type of indecisive and crappy human behaviour is unacceptable. Its completely fine to reject Kazuya if she doesnt like him, but to give mixed signals and string him along for months and months, all the while using his money and taking advantage of him.
Rent a girlfriend is a husk of a manga, with nothing real or of substance in it, the characters are designed just to appeal to single lonely bachelors and its just a self-insert fantasy for degenerate people with no self-value. This is literally what the manga is, a self-insert for people like Kazuya. And they cling on to this manga and this bad writing hoping he will get the girl someday.
The character interactions are bad, there is an insane amount of excessively sexually suggestive content, all portrayed in a wrong and inappropriate way, the interactions between the characters are bland and boring and both the main characters are lowest of low.
This manga is a lesson to me to never stray to the path of degenerates and lowlifes.
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