New season adapts Cohabitation arc
The staff for the anime of Reiji Miyajima’s Rent-A-Girlfriend (Kanojo, Okarishimasu) manga announced on Saturday that the anime is getting a sixth season. The season will adapt the manga’s Cohabitation arc. Character designer Kanna Hirayama shared a commemorative illustration:
Image via Rent-a-Girlfriend anime’s website
© 宮島礼吏・講談社／「彼女、お借りします」製作委員会 2026
The fifth season ended on Wednesday on the DMM TV streaming service, and the season’s 12th and final episode aired on television on Friday.
Image via Rent-A-Girlfriend anime’s website
© 宮島礼吏・講談社／「彼女、お借りします」製作委員会 2026
The fifth season debuted first streaming on April 8 at 10:00 p.m. on DMM TV. The anime then began airing on the Animeism programming block on MBS, TBS, and CBC starting on April 10 late at night at 2:23 a.m. (effectively, April 11). The fifth season is technically the previously announced second cours (quarter of a year) for the fourth season.
The fourth anime season debuted last July on the DMM TV and d Anime Store streaming services, and ended in September in its 12th episode. The fourth season was originally slated to air for two cours with a break in between. Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired.
The staff at TMS Entertainment returned from the third season for the fourth season. However, Kazuomi Koga, the director of the first two seasons, replaced the third season’s director Shin’ya Une in the fourth season. The fourth season and fifth season are covering the Hawaiians arc.
The anime’s third season premiered in July 2023. Crunchyroll streamed the season worldwide except in Asia.
The second season premiered in July 2022. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired.
The first anime season premiered on the Animeism programming block in July 2020 and aired for 12 episodes. Crunchyroll streamed the anime worldwide except in Asia.
Crunchyroll describes the story:
Kinoshita Kazuya is a 20-year-old failure of a college student. He managed to kiss his girlfriend once, but was dumped after a month. “Ugh… Damn it. I never want to go through that again.”
Completely spiteful, Kazuya uses a certain method to date a girl. He goes to their meeting place and suddenly hears,”You’re Kazuya-kun, right?” A beautiful girl brushing her long, black hair behind her ear was there, smiling at him. Her name was Mizuhara Chizuru. Something real is born after just a single rental! A reckless rom-com filled with love and excitement is about to begin!
Miyajima launched the manga in Kodansha’s Weekly Shōnen Magazine in July 2017. The manga’s 46th compiled book volume shipped on June 17. Kodansha USA Publishing is publishing the manga in English.
The manga also inspired a live-action series that premiered in July 2022.
Sources: Rent-A-Girlfriend anime’s website, Comic Natalie
