Rent-A-Girlfriend , or Kanojo, Okarishimasu in Japanese, is a Japanese romantic comedy series, both in manga- and animeform, written and illustrated by the talented Reiji Miyajima . It has appeared in Kodansha's Weekly Shounen Magazine since July 2017 and has gotten 20 volumes in April 2021. --- The story basically follows a 20-year-old university student named Kazuya Kinoshita and his "love life", if you would say so. Kazuya is a rather awkward but kind and genuine guy, living a normal life and enjoying finally getting his crush, Mami Nanami , to become his girlfriend. After only one month though, Mami suddenly ends the relationship... which totally breaks Kazuya's heart. He tries to process the traumatic breakup and his feelings but nothing works and he drowns in his sorrowful tears and thoughts... until he discovers an app in which you can rent girlfriends. This is an actual system in real life Japan too; one can think of it as a fake dating app, where you go th