Anime Series Like Rent a Girlfriend

Recently dumped by his girlfriend, college student Kazuya Kinoshita tries to fill the void with an app that lets him rent a girlfriend. While Chizuru seems like the perfect girlfriend, reading the views online, he finds out it is an act. He leaves her a bad review and this reveals her more sassy true self. Unfortunately, after his grandmother’s collapse, he introduces her as his girlfriend, and thus they begin their fake relationship.

Lots of ho’s in this anime, including the spineless main character. Maddening at times, but Chizuru is a lovely bright spot within it. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Rent a Girlfriend, then head on down below.

For Fans of Fake Relationships

Nisekoi

Ten years ago, Raku Ichijou made a promise with a childhood friend. In the present day, this heir apparent to an intimidating yakuza family continues to wait for his friend’s return while trying to be as uninvolved in family matters as possible. However, when a rival gang invades his family’s turf, the family leaders decide Raku should start a romantic relationship with the other chief’s daughter, Chitoge.

Both Rent a Girlfriend and Nisekoi are built on the premise of a fake relationship that slowly becomes real. Of course, this is not without romantic rivals, though they are less irritating in Nisekoi.

Oreshura

After being abandoned by his love-addled parents, Eita Kidou is a bit put off by romance. It also causes him to see through the love confession of one, Masuzu Natsukawa. As it turns out, she just wanted a boyfriend to stop the daily love confessions. While he initially declines, she takes to blackmailing him to be her fake boyfriend.

Both series are about people who pretend they are in a fake relationship. However, Oreshura is more blackmail than actually being paid like in Rent a Girlfriend. Over time, they also morph into an actual romance series.

Scum’s Wish

To the outside world, Mugi and Hanabi look like the perfect couple, but the truth is that they are only dating each other because they can’t be with the people they actually want to be with. For Hanabi, it is her childhood friend-turned-homeroom-teacher and for Mugi it is his older tutor that has been teaching him since middle school. In order to stave off the loneliness, the pair find solace in each other’s arms.

You know how Mami is just the worst person? Imagine if every character was just awful like Mami. Then you would have Scum’s Wish.

For Fans of Ho’s

My First Girlfriend is a Gal

Although he has reached the spring of his youth, Junichi is finding it harder than expected to get a girlfriend, but that is due in no small part to his friends brazen habit of reading dirty mags in class. However, in order to “help” him, his virgin friends submitted a love letter in his name to the resident gal of his class, Yame Yukana. However, while she may dress like a gal, this tough-looking girl is actually as pure as the snow.

Both shows surround a romantic relationship between your typical horny young man and a girl that would be considered a loose women due to different reasons. However, what you find out is that the girls are actually quite sweet and innocent despite how they look or what they do.

3D Girlfriend

Tsusui Hikari is an otaku that mostly avoids social life. He only really has one friend at school and is otherwise mocked by his classmates. One day, he ends up having to clean the pool with Igarashi Iroha. She is blunt, truant, and a troublemaker, but she stands up for Hikari when people make fun of him. While he is harsh with her, she never dismisses him. Could real 3D love be in the air?

In both series, you are introduced to girls who might be viewed as loose women for various reasons, but are either misunderstood or hide their profession like in Rent a Girlfriend. Both explore a building relationship between these girls and a normal-ish guy with their own emotional problems.

Domestic Girlfriend

Natsuo is in love with his teacher Hina. In order to try and forget his feelings, he goes to a mixer and meets a girl named Rui. Oddly enough, she asks him to do her a favor – to have sex with her. He does so, but soon he is faced with a unique problem. His father has remarried and he now has two new stepsisters that he knows too well – Rui and Hina.

If you like cute girls that are inexplicably attracted to a rather boring guy, well then Domestic Girlfriend can fill the void. Like Rent a Girlfriend, there is quite a bit of relationship drama about as the two stepsisters fight over their new stepbrother who ultimately can’t decide on who he even likes best.

For Fans of Hiding Your True Nature

Love Hina

After making a childhood promise with a girl who moved away, Keitaro is dedicated to getting into the prestigious Tokyo University. Unfortunately, he is hopelessly stuck failing his entrance exams. In order to continue trying, he moves out of his parent’s house into his grandmother’s inn to work as a manager. However, what he doesn’t know is that her hot springs inn is also an all-girls dorm.

When you see Chizuru in her school mode, she looks exactly like Naru in her school attire. They both turn into pretty girls outside of school with fiery tempers and an occasional passion of violence.

Toradora

Ryuuji Takasu is a gentle student with a passion for housework, however his thug face causes his fellow students to think him a delinquent. Taiga Aisaka is small and cute, but with an attitude as fierce as a tiger. Both of these misunderstood students have a crush two classmates, and after a series of misunderstandings of their own, they find themselves in an unlikely alliance.

Both series start off as a show about people who are in love with other people. Toradora has a bit of a different dynamic, but the same way people look at Chizuru oddly for being a rental girlfriend isn’t too dissimilar to the way people see Taiga as a cute doll or Ryuuji as a thug, which neither is.

His and Her Circumstances

Yukino Miyazawa is the perfect student to her peers, but it is all just a front to get the praise and admiration she thrives on. So naturally when Soichiro Arima takes her spot as number one in the class rankings, she goes a little batty. Yet after Arima finds out her true personality, he begins to blackmail her with it.

Where as Chizuru has her girlfriend mode, Yukino has the perfect facade that she puts on in front of her classmates. However, while both shows morph into a romance series, His and Her Circumstances is more a serious romance instead of the harem-like romance that Rent a Girlfriend becomes.

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