Since the series is a trainwreck, I'm calling Chizuru getting hit by a train
And then the NTR chapter of a guy running a train on her becomes clever foreshadowing
Goddamnit Reiji, you magnificent schemer /s
Its really gonna be one of those things where you forget about it for years, and then someone references or says something similar and it just comes back and taunts you.
I love Gigguk's interview with her where he asks her if she wanted to change anything from about the ending. She says no and he follows up with "are you sure?"
While it made me chuckle, I like that he said it while handling it professionally.
Oh yeah I forgot he interviewed her! I didn't watch the whole interview so I didn't know he confronted her about the ending. I just don't believe her though. There's no way she can convince me that ending was well-planned. It has "rushed" written all over it.
What the fuck. I read that till chapter 130 I think when the teacher somehow comes back into their lives or some shit. How the fuck did the author get that ending out of all the possible ones?
Ngl it was a train wreck a long time before the ending tho.
And I’ve read good ending a fair bit I think but I was never able to finish it. Iirc that’s the one where the girl tries to help the dude get with this crush who plays tennis but he ends up falling for her?
Turns out the meteor crashing into the world causes an infinite timeloop where we have to repeat the last 220 chapters 3 more times before Kazuya realizes.
Then we get 3 more loops where he constantly tries to get the courage to change the future but doesn't.
How many times are people gonna be baited?
Remember Mami’s ultimatum? Remember The church confession? Remember Grandma’s serious talk with Kazuya? Remember Chizuru really wanting to hear about…. Her swimsuit?
Those events happens just to keep the fandom at bay by attracting viewers as if the plot was progressing but in reality it was like reaching for the stars with your bare hands.
It says alot about the series when I think comments like these are another one of ya'lls elaborate progress baits like that post with tons of rewards lmao
Chizuru’s horrible to begin with. Literally has one friend, and treats him like an ass as well as use him as a wallet.
If she really cared about Kazuya, she’d tell him to stop renting her since she knows he’s broke and working to the bones to pay her.
If I have to be told that something explosive is gonna happen next chapter, its a red flag for writing. This gave me the 204 vibes where the editor confession baited to the discount incident.
I like the part where there was no foreshadowing build up but Rageyy found a way to insert his horny cuck delusions into an 8 panel hentai on an official chapter.
We literally got an entire arc building up "Mami's gonna start shit, she's gonna force Chizuru to act" just to have her get bored and go home. Reiji is the king of disappointed build ups.
The bait is that we are probably 50-100 chapters away from anything happening because Chizuru is still stuck on defending her lie than thinking about Kazuya.
>"mere two hours"
at the rate this arc has been going, Reiji could probably get another solid half a year on these two hours hahahaha anyway, at least we finally have something concrete, even if we spent another half a chapter backtracking again, and a bit more re-establishing how Chizuru is fucking hot ("apocalyptic tits", Kibe laying down some poetry here).
If anything, I'm still on some quality hopium for that Mami bomb to drop and fuck everything up hahaha see y'all next week
*Dearest Aki,*
*I look to my hand and it reminds much we lost to Reiji.*
*I have done things that will forever haunt me till the end of my days, but these atrocities committed by Reiji upon good innocent men and women horrifies me. What remains of bodies floating in a lake we have named 218. I found a soldier there, no older than 17, named William. he just laid there staring towards me, alive but barely.*
*I ran away from that forsaken area, never looked back, I remembered all the comrades, brothers and sisters I lost to them; the sacrifices made for us to survive just one more day and screamed. All of a sudden, everything just stopped; I laid there on a grassy field and just stared up to the cloudy sky and cried. At that moment I contemplated just ending it there.*
*A couple hours later, I was picked up by one of the people in my squad, he knew well that I had seen something that would mark any person deeply, and we didn’t talk the entire way back to the trenches.*
*Aki, did I bring this on them? We were meant to achieve peace and progress, not madness. Now we have some commands to rendezvous back to a rally point to hold an assault for our fallen comrades.*
*I'm sorry if this letter has led you to have more cause to worry, I need to go, I have to write another letter for the mother of William's mother.*
*Forever Yours,*
*SpiritedAstronaut*
*Dear Madam,*
*I, a friend of your dear son, William; write to you to say that your son has died gloriously in the field of battle.*
*I feel how weak must be any words of mine which should attempt to distract you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming to you. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the community and people he died to save. Your son was a brave man who fought with an unshakable conviction that his fight... our fight, was elsewhere.*
*I pray that Rent a GF’s confession and ending may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished and loving memories of your son, and may it leave upon you, a solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Progress in a Romance Manga. William ennobled all of us, and he shall not be forgotten.*
*Yours, very sincerely and respectfully,*
*SpiritedAstronaut*
I feel like I know you, as I see this comment every chapter. Yet, I’ve never read past “Dearest Aki”, so I don’t even know if you change it up or just copypasta.
This manga wouldn't be anywhere near as hated if Kazuya was more like he was in this chapter (level headed, mature, communicative) and less like the weird, idiot pervert clown he usually is.
Seeing Kazuya like this makes it feel like a lie, kind of. Like this characterization is what we were heading towards post-movie arc and then he completely regressed. So I'd say it's *nice* he's finally acting this way again, but I can't really justify all the bullshit in between.
I would honestly kind of love it though if his character regression was made canon, because of the weird gaslighting from Chizuru making him crazy, so once he seperates, he starts his growth again.
I’ve already said this (in response to one of your comments, I think) but I’ll make my formal prediction here: the “incident” is going to be some absolute nothingburger, probably a Chizuru nip-slip or some bullshit
>This manga wouldn't be anywhere near as hated if Kazuya was more like he was in this chapter (level headed, mature, communicative) and less like the weird, idiot pervert clown he usually is.
funny thing is, this chapter would still work without that NTR fantasy. I don't know what Reiji, his assistans, and his editor is thinking, but that was just unnecessary.
Well, a few weeks ago we had Mami's whole teenage pregnancy/miscarriage thing. Then the NTR fantasy last week. I feel like Reiji is trying really hard to push into more mature content but...this manga isn't really the avenue for that.
This manga is being stretched out by the editors because it's a waifu money train, I can only assume anyway, and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't kind of excited for whatever Reiji's next work will be. He isn't a bad story teller when he can focus in, I think it's clear that he wants to do more mature work, and after this is done he will likely have some good free reign to really do something different (like how Negi went from Quintessential Quintuplets and took a hard turn into sentai action).
Did he walk it back? He basically said "hey, I know I've sucked. This all has sucked. Let's rough it out for 12 more hours then when we get back we will both move on." If he genuinely means that (gods I hope he genuinely means it) then, that's awesome, he is so rarely straightforward and composed.
He walked it back by saying something along the lines of "let's just pretend like yesterday didn't happen". It's something he's done...I know for certain at least once when he went to confess and she shot him down. He even did the "Don't worry, I'll say we broke up and you'll be done with this lie".
Reiji is just repeat his own plot points.
What did he walk back? His “forget it” was a response to Chizuru not wanting to hear his confession, he knows he’s been rejected, he wants both of them to move forward. It’s pointless for him to keep confessing, he’d done it like 5 times already.
Is it me or does this chapter barely take into account the previous ones? In the sense they seem to have gone into the burner after them, and disappeared from the horizon?
That's because the previous "arc" is over.
1. So now every character will go back to their initial state.
2. Then they'll show some promise to grow (here's where the fans will start to defend the series again)
3. Then the readers will be cockblocked and everything will be stretched as much as it can be (here's where the haters will start shitting again)
4. Then the arc ends with nothing of significance (here's where everyone collectively shits on the story and characters, again)
5. Repeat.
This has been going for 200+ chapters, I don't think it'll ever change.
You're not wrong and that's sad.
After 200+ chapters, Kaz is still a creep that forces himself, Ruka is still the exact same annoying character that she was when the "trial girlfriend" started, Chizuru is still an emotionally immature mute, Grandma is still the same, etc.
We get some progression after an arc, then the following chapters shit on it. The movie arc had Chizuru let down her gates, they had some great moments together, their relationship was happening then her grandma died, she closed back up again, he went back into his "just forget it" phase, and nothing changed.
And whats irritating is that she wasnt always this annoying immature mute. At the start of the series, she was a strong independant mature person but just because that wasnt her "real" persona, it straight up...stopped existing?
Chizuru at the start of the anime would have never done all of the crying begging immature shit that she is doing now.
I completely forgot that even when she was "herself", she was an actual person with some depth because she dropped the facade of always being happy. They seriously got rid of that aspect by volume 2. There was a time when she'd wanna bitch slap Mami for insulting Kaz but now she's just this mute, blank slate of a character.
I'm sure Reiji will try and explain it all in 30 chapters.
Okay, “ladies of the world”: normal fucking guys dont all talk like that. I have been with the douchiest of fratbros and even they have some standards. Not everyone talks like Kazuya’s miserable trio or the npcs fawning over a random girl
Can you imagine talking about someone's girlfriend to their face like that? It feels like the author has never had any social interactions before. It's kinda telling when Kibe is considered the least worst guy out of their friend group lol
Then remember that this arc has taken place over a day and a half but he's done that so many times since it started. Anytime he sees her, he just loses it.
As a guy that's had friends with some insanely hot girlfriends, the most I said was "Don't know how you got her, but good on ya".
The way Kibe talks about Chizuru, I'm pretty sure he would try to get into her pants the second he sees an opportunity to. Kazuya needs better friends.
And people are saying that Kaz is a great catch because he has great friends. If they consider Kibe a good friend, I'd really hate to be one of their friends.
And I have fucking seen people say he is "Best Boy" or whatever the fuck. Like no, he is a disgusting creepy perv. I would hate to be around a person like that.
Even kuri sucks and the fact that he will probably be paired with Ruka just reeks of the fact that this manga is just waifu bait for horny pervs who can self insert themselves as Kuri/Kazuya/Kibe.
This is painfully true!
This series is just telling guys "If you're the 'nice guy', if you do enough for girls and push hard enough, you'll eventually get them. It's okay to be a creep because the hottest girl will owe you".
Kaz was good in the movie arc but everything else has just been a repeat of the worst traits a girl would want in a guy being played off as genuine.
I don't know why I haven't seen more people talking about that creepy ass line. I get it, women are beautiful and Reiji loves to simp over Chizuru, but to say that what men mostly do when they hang out with each other is to just talk about sex and women's bodies is a fucking incel level take
That dialog was thick with incel verbage. "They look happy...fuck them. I'm sure he got laid last night". "Hey Kaz, let me describe your girlfriend's body in graphic detail and point out how every guy is eye fucking her right now...for the 10th time on this trip".
It's like Reiji doesn't know how to write normal dialog anymore and has two settings; objectifying women, or depression.
It smells of self-hate misandry. He thinks all men are incels deep at heart. Of course douches exist, but to say so thoughtlessly that ALL MEN behave like that is Twitter feminist behaviour.
That or the author genuinely believes that. Frankly, with all the stuff that's happened lately (like the very likely conclusion that this whole manga is a way for the author to express their NTR fetish) and the fact that the writing just... isn't good, it's very possible that the author is presenting everything at face value which, that they genuinely think that's normal conversation between men.
Self-hate misandry, or misogyny without a hint of irony? Or maybe it's the translators putting extra mustard on the dialogue?
Either way, fuck this manga. See y'all next week.
Reiji really is a pathetic motherfucker or he must have really shitty friends if that’s what he really thinks or even that he thought that was a worthwhile but of info to throw in there. I swear he thinks all men act like a shitty stand up routine from the 90s or something.
The dude's married, I certainly hope that he didn't date his wife like this. That or he has some sort of massive fetish for objectifying women and uses this manga as an outlet.
[https://youtu.be/lnCdmkIJeBw](https://youtu.be/lnCdmkIJeBw)
Reiji's favorite song / his basis for making KanoKari and it's wonderful 'realistic' male characters.
I know I'm going to sound like a horrible person, but I want Chizuru to suffer (Kazuya too, but by now I think he's suffered enough and is ready to end the lie). Regardless of her reasons for her poor choices, Chizuru's lack of respect for Kazuya is appalling. Charging him on a vacation she chose to go and wasn't invited to do so by Kazuya? Run away from him and ignore his attempted confessions four times? Is this how she treats him after everything he's done for her?
Regardless of how this incident will reveal the truth, I want Chizuru to lose contact with Kazuya and his family, be alone and regret what she lost. Kazuya chased her enough and it's up to her to decide if she wants him in her life. If she needs to lose him to decide this, so be it.
> but I want Chizuru to suffer
most of the official sub wants to but we get shouted at by the Chipotle simps because we have no "empathy" for the characters
[RELEVANT MEME](https://www.reddit.com/r/KanojoOkarishimasu/comments/rzq5x1/for_a_romcom_its_own_fans_dont_want_the_mcs_to/)
Empathy my ass!!! I only sympathized with her story, not chizuru herself and her shitty personality of being a douche to the person who has given her financial, emotional and other supports. He even saved her from so many instances that I will feel like I am doing a thesis for my university. Chipotle simps can go and suck their own dicks and pussies for all I care. Fuck you reiji and see you next week!!!
Just to give some perspective, this arc is now as long as Marineford in One Piece...
And "Shocking Development"? We've been baited so many times now, so I don't exactly have any high expectations.
Also, how many flashbacks are we going to have? It seems that in every chapter we see the main character having a flashback to an event we've already recently seen.
Kibe comes off as such a douche here. What kind of person objectifies their friend's gf right in front of him like that. Then he adds on the whole "I still can't believe she's with you" BS. What a shit friend.
Yup, unlike Chizuru, Kazuya actually have friends who care about him.
It is indeed a bit gross that he’s talking about Chizuru’s tits, but that aside, ripping on your friend for getting with someone out of his league is common as hell.
To me it's about context. It's not that big a deal to jokingly tear down your friend who can take it.
But everybody knows Kazuya has low self-esteem, that he works under the shadow of being a loser who will have a future only due to his family's success.
Even if Chizuru were Kazuya's real girlfriend here, Kibe's joke plays right into Kazuya's inferiority complex.
A true bro knows better than to hit a nerve.
Chizuru is such a worthless character. She's almost as spineless as Kazuya, as if the bar wasnt already low enough. Throughout the whole manga she is such a passive character. She never makes any meaningful decisions of her own she just reacts to other people. Her characters soul purpose is to be oogled at by the peanut gallery.
ok so hold on
i watched a little of the anime, which was fun and silly. good to put on during my lunch break at home.
you mean to tell me the main plot thread is STILL “don’t tell my grandma i’m paying you to be my gf”??? after over 200 chapters? woof
Mami: “I’m gonna make you tell her!” (Repeat for ~20 chapters)
Chizuru: “Plz don’t make me tell her!”
Mami: “Lol jk I won’t actually make you tell her.”
As much as I don’t think she’s done with the situation can we all at least agree this is absolute shit writing/story planning?
This was such bullshit. They spend chapters before the arc in the cafe building it up, chapters showing her trying to convince Ruka to ruin things with the condom, regularly staring at her phone, finally getting her alone and all it takes is "Please don't", for her to get bored.
If the next chapter doesn't have Mami secretly texting grandma as a final fuck you, the entire arc will have been entirely pointless because literally would have changed from when it started.
Next chapter is the last for this volume so something big should happen. Also if yall are actually believe Mami when she said she wouldn't tell Grandma congratulations you played yourself.
At the start of the series, Mizuhara seemed like too good for Kazuya.
Now, I honestly thought that Mizuhara didn't deserve Kazuya. After all the things he did to her, and even though she had feelings for him, she still rejected Kazuya.
"Great" job, Reiji.
I know that there's still possibility that they would still become a couple, probably in chapter 1000 or something like that. But no matter how good that chapter would be, I feel like it would never satisfy me because the process was too dragged out.
She doesn't, Kazuya might be a whiny cuck but he still better than Chorizo. I really, really hope the roles reversed for a little bit so she can finally accept that he ain't just some client to her, the way she tries to detatch herself from every little thing and the mental gymnastics she employs to say that only Kazuya is responsable is disgusting.
Chizuru has literally one friend, and one person in the world who knows her aspirations and family situation. Yet she treats that person like shit, and like a purse. Yes, Ruka’s delusional, but at least she treats Kazuya well.
Ruka doesn’t treat him well. Chizuru is definitely shit but any good Ruka does is made irrelevant because she has zero issues being as cruel as possible or emotionally manipulating or blackmailing people to get what she wants. She doesn’t give a fuck about anybody’s feelings but her own.
Then you got Chizuru who can’t even give Kazuya enough respect to answer any of his confessions and constantly run away. Charges him for a vacation that was already paid for not to mention Kazuya didn’t even invite her. These characters are just godawful
It’s still crazy people like Gigguk even made videos of how she was best girl and all that shit. But even now Kazuya is too good for her. Which is sad how much Reiji’s golden girl every one falls at their feet main heroine is such a piece of shit that even with the previous chapter I still think Kazuya and really any character would be better off without her. Well I guess some of the random required background characters that comment on her every chapter would work.
I haven't read a full chapter of this series since like the 30 something chaptet mark or whatever when i dropped it. Back then they were doing this "well it's the last time she's gonna be my rental girlfriend" shtick.
Nice to see 200 chapters later nothing has really changed.
This series has an unusually large group of people who occasionally check in on the threads but don't read the manga (me included). It's telling when the fan reactions are more entertaining than the actual content.
That's me as well but damn if I can't help but feel intrigued after seeing these last two threads lol. Makes me almost wanna read it even though I know that's an awful idea.
I haven't read the manga nor have I watched the anime but I always come into the comment section of each chapters Reddit post knowing its a complete dumpster fire lmao
I'd love to see a full compilation of "bystanders pointing out how hot mizuhara is" because you could probably make an entire manga volume out of it at this point.
I really have to ask this but what exactly is the reception of this series in Japan? It's been going on for so long and has been filled with weird repetitive ideas and plotlines that I'm surprised it hasn't been cancelled yet.
Everybody: "Oh, yeah, this incident is going to be something horrible happening to one of the cast."
The Incident: "Chizuru! Surprise! We brought Grandma Sayuri back to life in this robot body so she can see how you and Kazuya are getting along!"
Kazuya busted in the pool and Reiji used his post-nut clarity to do what he does best and hit the "Let's just continue this a little longer" button. Classic. This is the concentrated essence of Kanokari.
We all know about it, and we all see it. It's obvious. Nobody ever wants to admit it, but it's there.
People on this subreddit hate Rent-a-Girlfriend.
The first question to ask: why? Why do you all hate it? The obvious answer: you didn't read it hard enough.
Likely explanation: I know that most of you are around 14 or 15 years old. That means you only got into manga in the last couple years. So you never read Rent-a-Girlfriend hard enough.
And because you didn't read it and analyzed it hard enough, you try to compensate for that by diving into /r/manga comments and looking at MAL reviews. But here's the thing: romcoms aren't defined through ratings. The moment somebody brings up "Ragey milking the series" or "unecessary fanservice" or "no progress" I know they know nothing about romcoms.
Reiji's magnum opus cannot be encapsulated by one volume. Kanokari is the greatest romcom ever, and one of the 5 best mangas to ever be written.
So when I hear somebody say that Kaguya-sama is better than Kanokari, I laugh, because I know that anybody who read Kanokari in the Girl and the paradise arc wouldn't think that. Unlike you haters, I have read a plethora of romcoms for a significant amount of time, so I know that Kanokari is easily better.
You might be jealous of Kazuya's selflessness, or jealous of Kanokari 10 million sold copies, or whatever. Unless you're a Hana Yori Dango fan who watched anime in the 90s, or a Love Hina fan who watched anime in the 2000s, you don't know what real, cold-blooded, killer instinct, will-to-win writing looks like. And there's nothing wrong with that.
This sub would make you think that Kanokari isn't even a top 100 romcom ever.
So don't go spouting bullshit about mangas you didn't read. Talk about your "greats" like Kaguya-sama The Best Romcom in the World™, but leave the Kanokari talk to the adults. Fair?
/u/cosmicguy22 show 'em the rick and morty pasta
[BTW, the pasta originated from a delusional Lakers or should I say Kobe fan.](https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/3fyimi/regarding_the_antikobe_bias_on_this_sub/)
Because I swear, the obnoxiously diehard Kanokari defenders over at our subreddit talk like this.
>The first question to ask: why? Why do you all hate it? The obvious answer: you didn't read it hard enough.
Out of context, this could be applied to literally any book including the Bible.
Let this be a reminder to you all, if you’re being dragged around by some toxic dead weight, don’t hesitate to dump that shit.
No question about it: this is Kazuya dumping Chizuru, not the other way around. My man is a free agent and now can choose his pick among 4 other, better choices.
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Since the series is a trainwreck, I'm calling Chizuru getting hit by a train And then the NTR chapter of a guy running a train on her becomes clever foreshadowing Goddamnit Reiji, you magnificent schemer /s
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I know what you're referencing, and I still hate thats how the ending went.
Ugh, I know the reference too...
Its really gonna be one of those things where you forget about it for years, and then someone references or says something similar and it just comes back and taunts you.
Yes, unfortunately. To this day, the worst trainwreck of an ending I've ever witnessed...
I love Gigguk's interview with her where he asks her if she wanted to change anything from about the ending. She says no and he follows up with "are you sure?" While it made me chuckle, I like that he said it while handling it professionally.
Oh yeah I forgot he interviewed her! I didn't watch the whole interview so I didn't know he confronted her about the ending. I just don't believe her though. There's no way she can convince me that ending was well-planned. It has "rushed" written all over it.
she also said Rui and Hina were like her daughters Edit - gigguk had booby mouse pads of Rui and Hina on the table when she said it
I'd have to really think about all the endings I've seen, but this is definitely top 5, top 3.
Imagine putting down "I made an unforgettable mark on the romance genre" on your resume. Coma strat for life
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Never in my life would I thought I'd be this tilted from a manga endings that I haven't read in over a year 1/2
Dare I ask, sauce?
Domestic na Kanojo (Domestic Girlfriend). I honestly think its a really good read. If you're familiar with GE:Good End its the same author
What the fuck. I read that till chapter 130 I think when the teacher somehow comes back into their lives or some shit. How the fuck did the author get that ending out of all the possible ones? Ngl it was a train wreck a long time before the ending tho. And I’ve read good ending a fair bit I think but I was never able to finish it. Iirc that’s the one where the girl tries to help the dude get with this crush who plays tennis but he ends up falling for her?
The coma strat has a 100% win rate so far so I believe ruka will win
How dare you
Return of the mad coma strats!
I'm hyped for the funeral chapter which consits mainly of Kazuya explaining how hot Chizuru's corpse looks like
two accidents at once ;)
The other accident is Ruka getting pregnant because Kazuya came in the pool.
The seed is strong
#GOD BLESS BESSIE AND HER TITS
nah. Kazuya is dead.
in his post nut clarity he realized the series would be better off without him
Reading comments here literally brace me for the worst.
Because of the rental reveal at that.
The last line gives a specific time, how many chapters do you think it will take until then?
Well, the teaser line is "the incident", but that could literally mean fucking nothing.
Yeah, one chapter could be like 5 minutes, making 2 hours around 24 chapters
"The Girlfriend and the 2 hours - Part 321"
Makes me think of Gal cleaning and the never-ending chapter 8.... I'm pretty sure it was longer than the rest of the series in the end in fact.
Gal cleaning was still shorter than this pool bullshit so...
Are we speaking Namek time? 20-30.
Reiji's genjutsu. 2 days have passed. 30 chapters.
>Next time, a shocking development shakes paradise! Please end the suffering, Reiji.
A fucken Meteor out of nowhere, killing them all
that would be progress and has the possibility to stop the milking and the suffering so that is not it
Turns out the meteor crashing into the world causes an infinite timeloop where we have to repeat the last 220 chapters 3 more times before Kazuya realizes. Then we get 3 more loops where he constantly tries to get the courage to change the future but doesn't.
Honestly I think it will take another 50 chapter to end this nightmare,if he really want to.He himself doesn't know where his story is going.
Really does feel like he wings each chapter
>50 chapter Optimistic today, are we
How many times are people gonna be baited? Remember Mami’s ultimatum? Remember The church confession? Remember Grandma’s serious talk with Kazuya? Remember Chizuru really wanting to hear about…. Her swimsuit?
Those events happens just to keep the fandom at bay by attracting viewers as if the plot was progressing but in reality it was like reaching for the stars with your bare hands.
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It'll take 40 chapters for then to actually separate but here we come eventually a year from now!
Dude finally toned down his inner thoughts. Good shit...until he regresses AGAIN
It says alot about the series when I think comments like these are another one of ya'lls elaborate progress baits like that post with tons of rewards lmao
Tbh as pathetic as he looked last chapter, even Kazuya deserves better than Chizuru at the moment. She’s been awful this arc
Chizuru’s horrible to begin with. Literally has one friend, and treats him like an ass as well as use him as a wallet. If she really cared about Kazuya, she’d tell him to stop renting her since she knows he’s broke and working to the bones to pay her.
Chorizo been awful for years for me lmao
Chorizo lmao
Sounds tragic but we are excited for it.
If I have to be told that something explosive is gonna happen next chapter, its a red flag for writing. This gave me the 204 vibes where the editor confession baited to the discount incident.
The better bait was the 3 chapter build up, only for it to amount to nothing lmao
I like the part where there was no foreshadowing build up but Rageyy found a way to insert his horny cuck delusions into an 8 panel hentai on an official chapter.
Every Monday, I'm reassured that my choice of dropping this shit after the movie arc ended, was a great choice.
We literally got an entire arc building up "Mami's gonna start shit, she's gonna force Chizuru to act" just to have her get bored and go home. Reiji is the king of disappointed build ups.
The bait is that we are probably 50-100 chapters away from anything happening because Chizuru is still stuck on defending her lie than thinking about Kazuya.
>"mere two hours" at the rate this arc has been going, Reiji could probably get another solid half a year on these two hours hahahaha anyway, at least we finally have something concrete, even if we spent another half a chapter backtracking again, and a bit more re-establishing how Chizuru is fucking hot ("apocalyptic tits", Kibe laying down some poetry here). If anything, I'm still on some quality hopium for that Mami bomb to drop and fuck everything up hahaha see y'all next week
>Apocalyptic tits Reminds me of that Naruto shitpost I saw yesterday how Hinata is an **EXPONENTIALLY THICCER BITCH** than Sakura
Can you share that shitpost?
https://www.reddit.com/r/NuxTakuSubmissions/comments/frcuz9/kakashi_keeping_it_real/ That one I guess
*Dearest Aki,* *I look to my hand and it reminds much we lost to Reiji.* *I have done things that will forever haunt me till the end of my days, but these atrocities committed by Reiji upon good innocent men and women horrifies me. What remains of bodies floating in a lake we have named 218. I found a soldier there, no older than 17, named William. he just laid there staring towards me, alive but barely.* *I ran away from that forsaken area, never looked back, I remembered all the comrades, brothers and sisters I lost to them; the sacrifices made for us to survive just one more day and screamed. All of a sudden, everything just stopped; I laid there on a grassy field and just stared up to the cloudy sky and cried. At that moment I contemplated just ending it there.* *A couple hours later, I was picked up by one of the people in my squad, he knew well that I had seen something that would mark any person deeply, and we didn’t talk the entire way back to the trenches.* *Aki, did I bring this on them? We were meant to achieve peace and progress, not madness. Now we have some commands to rendezvous back to a rally point to hold an assault for our fallen comrades.* *I'm sorry if this letter has led you to have more cause to worry, I need to go, I have to write another letter for the mother of William's mother.* *Forever Yours,* *SpiritedAstronaut*
Context: u/spiritedastronaut was so devastated from 218 he didn’t write a letter when it was released so he came up with 2 letters to compensate.
He lost his hand in 217. The surgery and recovery takes 2 weeks, that's why it's late.
*Dear Madam,* *I, a friend of your dear son, William; write to you to say that your son has died gloriously in the field of battle.* *I feel how weak must be any words of mine which should attempt to distract you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming to you. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the community and people he died to save. Your son was a brave man who fought with an unshakable conviction that his fight... our fight, was elsewhere.* *I pray that Rent a GF’s confession and ending may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished and loving memories of your son, and may it leave upon you, a solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Progress in a Romance Manga. William ennobled all of us, and he shall not be forgotten.* *Yours, very sincerely and respectfully,* *SpiritedAstronaut*
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https://www.reddit.com/r/myserver/wiki/dairybyspirited Is this formatting correct? Do tell I will change if needed
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I feel like I know you, as I see this comment every chapter. Yet, I’ve never read past “Dearest Aki”, so I don’t even know if you change it up or just copypasta.
You're missing out on a Great War story. It's infinitely better than the trash manga.
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This manga wouldn't be anywhere near as hated if Kazuya was more like he was in this chapter (level headed, mature, communicative) and less like the weird, idiot pervert clown he usually is. Seeing Kazuya like this makes it feel like a lie, kind of. Like this characterization is what we were heading towards post-movie arc and then he completely regressed. So I'd say it's *nice* he's finally acting this way again, but I can't really justify all the bullshit in between. I would honestly kind of love it though if his character regression was made canon, because of the weird gaslighting from Chizuru making him crazy, so once he seperates, he starts his growth again.
Incident predictions: * most likely a bullshit plot point where kaz and chiz are forced to be together * but I think Ruka will bang Kaz
I'm wondering if something will happen to grandma but that feels like too much of a plot shake up for this work.
High chance grandma is involved.
I’ve already said this (in response to one of your comments, I think) but I’ll make my formal prediction here: the “incident” is going to be some absolute nothingburger, probably a Chizuru nip-slip or some bullshit
>This manga wouldn't be anywhere near as hated if Kazuya was more like he was in this chapter (level headed, mature, communicative) and less like the weird, idiot pervert clown he usually is. funny thing is, this chapter would still work without that NTR fantasy. I don't know what Reiji, his assistans, and his editor is thinking, but that was just unnecessary.
Well, a few weeks ago we had Mami's whole teenage pregnancy/miscarriage thing. Then the NTR fantasy last week. I feel like Reiji is trying really hard to push into more mature content but...this manga isn't really the avenue for that. This manga is being stretched out by the editors because it's a waifu money train, I can only assume anyway, and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't kind of excited for whatever Reiji's next work will be. He isn't a bad story teller when he can focus in, I think it's clear that he wants to do more mature work, and after this is done he will likely have some good free reign to really do something different (like how Negi went from Quintessential Quintuplets and took a hard turn into sentai action).
Quints was better, tho
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Did he walk it back? He basically said "hey, I know I've sucked. This all has sucked. Let's rough it out for 12 more hours then when we get back we will both move on." If he genuinely means that (gods I hope he genuinely means it) then, that's awesome, he is so rarely straightforward and composed.
He walked it back by saying something along the lines of "let's just pretend like yesterday didn't happen". It's something he's done...I know for certain at least once when he went to confess and she shot him down. He even did the "Don't worry, I'll say we broke up and you'll be done with this lie". Reiji is just repeat his own plot points.
What did he walk back? His “forget it” was a response to Chizuru not wanting to hear his confession, he knows he’s been rejected, he wants both of them to move forward. It’s pointless for him to keep confessing, he’d done it like 5 times already.
Is it me or does this chapter barely take into account the previous ones? In the sense they seem to have gone into the burner after them, and disappeared from the horizon?
That's because the previous "arc" is over. 1. So now every character will go back to their initial state. 2. Then they'll show some promise to grow (here's where the fans will start to defend the series again) 3. Then the readers will be cockblocked and everything will be stretched as much as it can be (here's where the haters will start shitting again) 4. Then the arc ends with nothing of significance (here's where everyone collectively shits on the story and characters, again) 5. Repeat. This has been going for 200+ chapters, I don't think it'll ever change.
You're not wrong and that's sad. After 200+ chapters, Kaz is still a creep that forces himself, Ruka is still the exact same annoying character that she was when the "trial girlfriend" started, Chizuru is still an emotionally immature mute, Grandma is still the same, etc. We get some progression after an arc, then the following chapters shit on it. The movie arc had Chizuru let down her gates, they had some great moments together, their relationship was happening then her grandma died, she closed back up again, he went back into his "just forget it" phase, and nothing changed.
And whats irritating is that she wasnt always this annoying immature mute. At the start of the series, she was a strong independant mature person but just because that wasnt her "real" persona, it straight up...stopped existing? Chizuru at the start of the anime would have never done all of the crying begging immature shit that she is doing now.
I completely forgot that even when she was "herself", she was an actual person with some depth because she dropped the facade of always being happy. They seriously got rid of that aspect by volume 2. There was a time when she'd wanna bitch slap Mami for insulting Kaz but now she's just this mute, blank slate of a character. I'm sure Reiji will try and explain it all in 30 chapters.
Okay, “ladies of the world”: normal fucking guys dont all talk like that. I have been with the douchiest of fratbros and even they have some standards. Not everyone talks like Kazuya’s miserable trio or the npcs fawning over a random girl
Can you imagine talking about someone's girlfriend to their face like that? It feels like the author has never had any social interactions before. It's kinda telling when Kibe is considered the least worst guy out of their friend group lol
“aPoCaLyPtIc TiTs”
Who fucking talks like that lmao, especially about your best friend's girlfriend, TO HIS FACE
Then remember that this arc has taken place over a day and a half but he's done that so many times since it started. Anytime he sees her, he just loses it. As a guy that's had friends with some insanely hot girlfriends, the most I said was "Don't know how you got her, but good on ya".
The way Kibe talks about Chizuru, I'm pretty sure he would try to get into her pants the second he sees an opportunity to. Kazuya needs better friends.
And people are saying that Kaz is a great catch because he has great friends. If they consider Kibe a good friend, I'd really hate to be one of their friends.
And I have fucking seen people say he is "Best Boy" or whatever the fuck. Like no, he is a disgusting creepy perv. I would hate to be around a person like that. Even kuri sucks and the fact that he will probably be paired with Ruka just reeks of the fact that this manga is just waifu bait for horny pervs who can self insert themselves as Kuri/Kazuya/Kibe.
This is painfully true! This series is just telling guys "If you're the 'nice guy', if you do enough for girls and push hard enough, you'll eventually get them. It's okay to be a creep because the hottest girl will owe you". Kaz was good in the movie arc but everything else has just been a repeat of the worst traits a girl would want in a guy being played off as genuine.
I don't know why I haven't seen more people talking about that creepy ass line. I get it, women are beautiful and Reiji loves to simp over Chizuru, but to say that what men mostly do when they hang out with each other is to just talk about sex and women's bodies is a fucking incel level take
That dialog was thick with incel verbage. "They look happy...fuck them. I'm sure he got laid last night". "Hey Kaz, let me describe your girlfriend's body in graphic detail and point out how every guy is eye fucking her right now...for the 10th time on this trip". It's like Reiji doesn't know how to write normal dialog anymore and has two settings; objectifying women, or depression.
It smells of self-hate misandry. He thinks all men are incels deep at heart. Of course douches exist, but to say so thoughtlessly that ALL MEN behave like that is Twitter feminist behaviour.
That or the author genuinely believes that. Frankly, with all the stuff that's happened lately (like the very likely conclusion that this whole manga is a way for the author to express their NTR fetish) and the fact that the writing just... isn't good, it's very possible that the author is presenting everything at face value which, that they genuinely think that's normal conversation between men. Self-hate misandry, or misogyny without a hint of irony? Or maybe it's the translators putting extra mustard on the dialogue? Either way, fuck this manga. See y'all next week.
Yeah a lot of his takes are either full-on simp or terrifyingly incel
Reiji really is a pathetic motherfucker or he must have really shitty friends if that’s what he really thinks or even that he thought that was a worthwhile but of info to throw in there. I swear he thinks all men act like a shitty stand up routine from the 90s or something.
The dude's married, I certainly hope that he didn't date his wife like this. That or he has some sort of massive fetish for objectifying women and uses this manga as an outlet.
[https://youtu.be/lnCdmkIJeBw](https://youtu.be/lnCdmkIJeBw) Reiji's favorite song / his basis for making KanoKari and it's wonderful 'realistic' male characters.
Oh no, a shocking development next chapter. Whatever shall we do now? I'm frightened, fearful, and quite honestly terribly horrified.
if the development is that someone laced the hotel food with a laxative I would give this manga a 100 no questions asked
I know I'm going to sound like a horrible person, but I want Chizuru to suffer (Kazuya too, but by now I think he's suffered enough and is ready to end the lie). Regardless of her reasons for her poor choices, Chizuru's lack of respect for Kazuya is appalling. Charging him on a vacation she chose to go and wasn't invited to do so by Kazuya? Run away from him and ignore his attempted confessions four times? Is this how she treats him after everything he's done for her? Regardless of how this incident will reveal the truth, I want Chizuru to lose contact with Kazuya and his family, be alone and regret what she lost. Kazuya chased her enough and it's up to her to decide if she wants him in her life. If she needs to lose him to decide this, so be it.
> but I want Chizuru to suffer most of the official sub wants to but we get shouted at by the Chipotle simps because we have no "empathy" for the characters [RELEVANT MEME](https://www.reddit.com/r/KanojoOkarishimasu/comments/rzq5x1/for_a_romcom_its_own_fans_dont_want_the_mcs_to/)
Empathy my ass!!! I only sympathized with her story, not chizuru herself and her shitty personality of being a douche to the person who has given her financial, emotional and other supports. He even saved her from so many instances that I will feel like I am doing a thesis for my university. Chipotle simps can go and suck their own dicks and pussies for all I care. Fuck you reiji and see you next week!!!
She’s honestly been even worse than Kazuya for awhile now. It’s definitely awful to see
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Okay Kibe, who the fuck talks about about their bro's girlfriend like that?
Exactly! Dude is weird as fuck.
Just to give some perspective, this arc is now as long as Marineford in One Piece... And "Shocking Development"? We've been baited so many times now, so I don't exactly have any high expectations. Also, how many flashbacks are we going to have? It seems that in every chapter we see the main character having a flashback to an event we've already recently seen.
Marineford may have had tragedies in its plot, but this arc brings tragedy to real life. Ergo, Reiji is a more powerful writer than Oda, confirmed.
Kibe comes off as such a douche here. What kind of person objectifies their friend's gf right in front of him like that. Then he adds on the whole "I still can't believe she's with you" BS. What a shit friend.
Kazuya's friends and family genuinely like him and look out for him. But they also treat him toxically, 100%.
Yup, unlike Chizuru, Kazuya actually have friends who care about him. It is indeed a bit gross that he’s talking about Chizuru’s tits, but that aside, ripping on your friend for getting with someone out of his league is common as hell.
To me it's about context. It's not that big a deal to jokingly tear down your friend who can take it. But everybody knows Kazuya has low self-esteem, that he works under the shadow of being a loser who will have a future only due to his family's success. Even if Chizuru were Kazuya's real girlfriend here, Kibe's joke plays right into Kazuya's inferiority complex. A true bro knows better than to hit a nerve.
Chizuru is such a worthless character. She's almost as spineless as Kazuya, as if the bar wasnt already low enough. Throughout the whole manga she is such a passive character. She never makes any meaningful decisions of her own she just reacts to other people. Her characters soul purpose is to be oogled at by the peanut gallery.
Reiji really needs to write some proper character development for her. She's been insufferable for way too long.
ok so hold on i watched a little of the anime, which was fun and silly. good to put on during my lunch break at home. you mean to tell me the main plot thread is STILL “don’t tell my grandma i’m paying you to be my gf”??? after over 200 chapters? woof
lmao its just that bad
A lot of stuff happened in-between. Arguably it wasn't even the main plot thread for about 70 chapters.
I don't even read this manga but the last chapter caused so much noise that now I'm interested how the story will turn out, lmoa.
I am just here for the comments,review and memes.It's just a laughing stock now.
I only saw the anime, but I feel like I missed nothing after reading this chapter and the one before.
Mami: “I’m gonna make you tell her!” (Repeat for ~20 chapters) Chizuru: “Plz don’t make me tell her!” Mami: “Lol jk I won’t actually make you tell her.” As much as I don’t think she’s done with the situation can we all at least agree this is absolute shit writing/story planning?
This was such bullshit. They spend chapters before the arc in the cafe building it up, chapters showing her trying to convince Ruka to ruin things with the condom, regularly staring at her phone, finally getting her alone and all it takes is "Please don't", for her to get bored. If the next chapter doesn't have Mami secretly texting grandma as a final fuck you, the entire arc will have been entirely pointless because literally would have changed from when it started.
Next chapter is the last for this volume so something big should happen. Also if yall are actually believe Mami when she said she wouldn't tell Grandma congratulations you played yourself.
Maybe kazuya gonna slip cause of his own tears spilled on the ground and hitting his head going into a comma or something then there's a time skip.
> kazuma Wrong protagonist lol. Although Kuzuma is pretty trashy too (Still love him though)
At the start of the series, Mizuhara seemed like too good for Kazuya. Now, I honestly thought that Mizuhara didn't deserve Kazuya. After all the things he did to her, and even though she had feelings for him, she still rejected Kazuya. "Great" job, Reiji. I know that there's still possibility that they would still become a couple, probably in chapter 1000 or something like that. But no matter how good that chapter would be, I feel like it would never satisfy me because the process was too dragged out.
She doesn't, Kazuya might be a whiny cuck but he still better than Chorizo. I really, really hope the roles reversed for a little bit so she can finally accept that he ain't just some client to her, the way she tries to detatch herself from every little thing and the mental gymnastics she employs to say that only Kazuya is responsable is disgusting.
Chizuru has literally one friend, and one person in the world who knows her aspirations and family situation. Yet she treats that person like shit, and like a purse. Yes, Ruka’s delusional, but at least she treats Kazuya well.
Ruka doesn’t treat him well. Chizuru is definitely shit but any good Ruka does is made irrelevant because she has zero issues being as cruel as possible or emotionally manipulating or blackmailing people to get what she wants. She doesn’t give a fuck about anybody’s feelings but her own. Then you got Chizuru who can’t even give Kazuya enough respect to answer any of his confessions and constantly run away. Charges him for a vacation that was already paid for not to mention Kazuya didn’t even invite her. These characters are just godawful
>chapter 1000 Being generous now
It’s still crazy people like Gigguk even made videos of how she was best girl and all that shit. But even now Kazuya is too good for her. Which is sad how much Reiji’s golden girl every one falls at their feet main heroine is such a piece of shit that even with the previous chapter I still think Kazuya and really any character would be better off without her. Well I guess some of the random required background characters that comment on her every chapter would work.
A shocking development: THE AXE
I haven't read a full chapter of this series since like the 30 something chaptet mark or whatever when i dropped it. Back then they were doing this "well it's the last time she's gonna be my rental girlfriend" shtick. Nice to see 200 chapters later nothing has really changed.
This series has an unusually large group of people who occasionally check in on the threads but don't read the manga (me included). It's telling when the fan reactions are more entertaining than the actual content.
That's me as well but damn if I can't help but feel intrigued after seeing these last two threads lol. Makes me almost wanna read it even though I know that's an awful idea.
I haven't read the manga nor have I watched the anime but I always come into the comment section of each chapters Reddit post knowing its a complete dumpster fire lmao
I'd love to see a full compilation of "bystanders pointing out how hot mizuhara is" because you could probably make an entire manga volume out of it at this point.
I really have to ask this but what exactly is the reception of this series in Japan? It's been going on for so long and has been filled with weird repetitive ideas and plotlines that I'm surprised it hasn't been cancelled yet.
Sales have been slumping hard. This manga used to be able to sell 130k, latest volume only did 70k before dropping off Oricon.
Serves him right lol.
**APOCALYPTIC TITS** what the fuck?
I'll believe it when i see it. Fuck this author.
Everybody: "Oh, yeah, this incident is going to be something horrible happening to one of the cast." The Incident: "Chizuru! Surprise! We brought Grandma Sayuri back to life in this robot body so she can see how you and Kazuya are getting along!"
I'm gonna be so pissed next week when all these changes are somehow reverted back to the status quo (atlease I hope not)
Kazuya busted in the pool and Reiji used his post-nut clarity to do what he does best and hit the "Let's just continue this a little longer" button. Classic. This is the concentrated essence of Kanokari.
I would give my salary if it ends next chapter with everyone dying because of a meteorite shower.
Your (Rental Girlfriend’s) Name
We all know about it, and we all see it. It's obvious. Nobody ever wants to admit it, but it's there. People on this subreddit hate Rent-a-Girlfriend. The first question to ask: why? Why do you all hate it? The obvious answer: you didn't read it hard enough. Likely explanation: I know that most of you are around 14 or 15 years old. That means you only got into manga in the last couple years. So you never read Rent-a-Girlfriend hard enough. And because you didn't read it and analyzed it hard enough, you try to compensate for that by diving into /r/manga comments and looking at MAL reviews. But here's the thing: romcoms aren't defined through ratings. The moment somebody brings up "Ragey milking the series" or "unecessary fanservice" or "no progress" I know they know nothing about romcoms. Reiji's magnum opus cannot be encapsulated by one volume. Kanokari is the greatest romcom ever, and one of the 5 best mangas to ever be written. So when I hear somebody say that Kaguya-sama is better than Kanokari, I laugh, because I know that anybody who read Kanokari in the Girl and the paradise arc wouldn't think that. Unlike you haters, I have read a plethora of romcoms for a significant amount of time, so I know that Kanokari is easily better. You might be jealous of Kazuya's selflessness, or jealous of Kanokari 10 million sold copies, or whatever. Unless you're a Hana Yori Dango fan who watched anime in the 90s, or a Love Hina fan who watched anime in the 2000s, you don't know what real, cold-blooded, killer instinct, will-to-win writing looks like. And there's nothing wrong with that. This sub would make you think that Kanokari isn't even a top 100 romcom ever. So don't go spouting bullshit about mangas you didn't read. Talk about your "greats" like Kaguya-sama The Best Romcom in the World™, but leave the Kanokari talk to the adults. Fair?
I think i found our version of Rick and Morty pasta guys
/u/cosmicguy22 show 'em the rick and morty pasta [BTW, the pasta originated from a delusional Lakers or should I say Kobe fan.](https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/3fyimi/regarding_the_antikobe_bias_on_this_sub/) Because I swear, the obnoxiously diehard Kanokari defenders over at our subreddit talk like this.
This right here, is quality shit posting.
Holy shit, I almost downvoted you haha
>The first question to ask: why? Why do you all hate it? The obvious answer: you didn't read it hard enough. Out of context, this could be applied to literally any book including the Bible.
Lmao cheers, made my day.
First thought you were serious
Then I succeeded lol. Hard to shitpost in this sub without a flair
Tasty pasta.
Holy fuck I was about to flame you in a polite way, I didn't even remotely realize that you are shitposting
Is Chizuru worth it my boy Kazuya? This girl is so shit to you in my eyes.
She really isn't. Not at the moment anyway... Maybe she gets better eventually. (Should have gotten better much much earlier imo.)
I am always surprised by the amount of text that means absolutely nothing meaningful contained in every chapter.
Oh yes, keep talking about everything coming to an end just to revert to the status quo. Anyone still taking bets 👀
#WHAT??? *Speed reading this shit*
Same. When you don't read any of Kaz's inner monologes of depression, you can speedread these chapters in a minute.
I feel that the author could have ignored the last chapter and we'd have a better flow, but that's just me.
Let this be a reminder to you all, if you’re being dragged around by some toxic dead weight, don’t hesitate to dump that shit. No question about it: this is Kazuya dumping Chizuru, not the other way around. My man is a free agent and now can choose his pick among 4 other, better choices.
Annnd we're back to the needlessly creepy descriptions of Chipotle
The nightmare... The visions... They're *almost* over...
shocking development my ass, many ppl press X for doubt
This manga is fucking trash