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Rent-A-Girlfriend Anime's 5th Season Debuts in 2026

The staff for the anime of Reiji Miyajima's Rent-A-Girlfriend (Kanojo, Okarishimasu) manga revealed on Saturday the anime's fifth season will debut in 2026. The fifth season is technically the previously announced second cours (quarter of a year) for the fourth season. The fourth season ended on Friday in its 12th episode.

The fourth anime season debuted on July 1 on the DMM TV and d Anime Store streaming services. The season then debuted on television on July 4 in the "Animeism" programming block on the MBS, TBS, and BS-TBS channels. The fourth season was originally slated to air for two cours with a break in between. Crunchyroll is again streaming the series as it airs.

Character designer Kanna Hirayama drew the below illustration to celebrate the news.

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. 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 X/Twitter account, Comic Natalie