Danica Davidson
July 12, 2024 
The Rent-A-Girlfriend franchise has a lot going on! For starters, we just learned that the fourth season will be here in 2025. And now there’s news about an upcoming adventure game for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. Called Kanojo, Okarishimasu: Suiheisen to Mizugi no Kanojo in Japanese (translated as Rent-A-Girlfriend: The Girl of the Horizon and a Swimsuit), the game will become available for pre-order on August 5. It’s slated to come out sometime in 2024, though an exact date wasn’t given. This trailer gives fans a bit of an idea for what to expect.
Rent-a-Girlfriend Game Trailer
Instead of being based on something from the manga, Rent-A-Girlfriend: The Girl of the Horizon and a Swimsuit is a brand-new yarn where the five girls are working part-time jobs while on an island during summertime.
The anime adaptation of Rent-A-Girlfriend is available on Crunchyroll.
Kodansha USA publishes the original Rent-A-Girlfriend manga by Reiji Miyajima, and gave this description for its plot:
Rent-a-Girlfriend Synopsis
You can rent a girlfriend, but can you buy love? Reeling from a bad breakup, Kazuya rents the beautiful, polite Chizuru for a date. But rock bottom might be so much lower than he thought! Chizuru is much more than the pretty face and sweet demeanor he thought he’d bargained for…
In today’s Japan, “rental” services can deliver an afternoon with a “friend,” a “parent,” even a fake girlfriend! After a staggering betrayal by his girlfriend, hapless freshman Kazuya gets just desperate enough to give it a try. But he quickly discovers how complicated it can be to “rent” an emotional connection, and his new “girlfriend,” who’s trying to keep her side hustle secret, will panic when she finds out her real life and Kazuya’s are intertwined in surprising ways! Family, school, and life all start to go wrong, too… It’s sweet but naïve boy meets cute but ruthless girl in this 21st-century manga rom-com!
Source: ANN
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Danica Davidson is the author of the bestselling Manga Art for Beginners with artist Melanie Westin, plus its sequel, Manga Art for Everyone, and the first-of-its-kind manga chalk book Chalk Art Manga, both illustrated by professional Japanese mangaka Rena Saiya. Check out her other comics and books at www.danicadavidson.com.
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