Rent-a-Girlfriend (彼女、お借りします)

My name's Kazuya Kinoshita.

I'm a 20 year old college student living

on my own in Tokyo.

Fun fact, I have a girlfriend.

I repeat, I have a girlfriend.

Sorry, I fell in love with someone else, let's break up.

I got dumped.

She was the first girlfriend I ever had,

and she dumped me after only one month together.

Oh Mami, I tried so many things to bring us closer.

I gotta catch the last train.

Oh sure, nothing beats taking a late train

to get back home, huh.

She plucked me.

Don't tell me, she's already moved on with the new guy.

Oh man, this totally sucks!

And why am I getting turned on by picturing that?

Junior's a big boy now, he's ready to move out!

Rent-a-Girlfriend?

Man, I've had it, like,

I'm just so fed up with it all.

What am I doing?

I bet she's gonna be fugly without all the filters.

An orange shirt and striped pants.

Are you Kazuya?

Oh, you're in college?

What year?

First year.

Oh, same for me.

But I took a gap year.

So you're older than me.

Damn, she's hot!

Anyone dating her would be seriously living the life.

Hey, do you mind?

Oh sure. Aw crap,

I so just wanna bail.

I wanna go home and sleep.

Oh, so we're following the date plan I sent by text.

This is the first time I've ever gone to an aquarium.

Oh, is that so?

Wow look, that fish is so cute.

Oh, that's a glowlight tetra.

You know about fish?

I guess so I just like to visit aquariums.

Cool! Well I'm sure glad that my first time was with you.

Well, I had a lot of fun today.

Thanks a lot.

See you Kazuya.

What! Outrageous!

It was all just an act!

Oh again, it's just part of her routine!

How dare she toy with my heart like that!

A moron who didn't even know common fish names.

Use this to get by,

I won't be sending you any more money

for living expenses after this.

Make sure not to get caught up in campus life

and end up wasting it all.

Are you kidding?

You know, I'm not going to college to have fun.

I need to give her a piece of my mind.

Kazuya I'm sorry,

hope you didn't wait long,

I had to do my hair.

I was worried you might not like this hairstyle.

Do you like it?

I mean I don't hate him or anything.

Oh thank goodness.

Damn it! She's so cute!

Thanks, payment's officially received.

Don't you feel empty?

Hmm?

You know, going on dates with guys, you don't like

and getting paid for it.

Doesn't it get to you?

No way, I really love this job.

After all, I get to meet people like you.

I assume one bag for the mr and mrs?

Here you go.

Oh, we're not married.

We're dating.

No we're not really even that.

Huh?

We're strangers, right?

Technically.

Oh, I guess I'll split your purchases

into to two bags then.

We can be whatever you want us to be Kazuya.

Look Kazuya! Neon tetras!

Oh yeah.

They're so cute.

And garden eels,

Wow! She must read up on them.

because they're afraid, right?

She did her homework, all for today's date.

Look enough already.

Huh?

I mean really?

What are you hoping to achieve?

Just being professional,

It's so meaningless.

This relationships don't last.

Stop it please calm down.

What's gotten into you Kazuya?

You just get dumped right away!

It doesn't matter how much you care about your partner!

Come on Let's get out of here.

I know that was stupid.

but at least I got it off my chest.

Why do all these girls get into fake relationships

with people they don't even like.

Okay, look, What's wrong with you? Are you stupid?

Yelling like that in a public place,

drawing everyone's attention.

What is your problem anyway?

All day you've been saying stuff like

"Don't you feel empty?" And "We're strangers."

Huh! Seriously! Are you stupid?

I mean am a rental girlfriend,

this is just how it works.

You were the one who requested this, weren't you?

you saw the user agreement and clicked I agree, didn't you?

I'm sorry.

And why did you give me a one-star review anyway?

Did I actually do something wrong on our first date?

That brought brought my ratting down three tenths

of a point! I'd only ever gotten five-star reviews

before that, and I'm very proud of that fact!

Here we go, now we're seeing the real Chizuru Mizuhara,

she's completely different person.

All I can say for sure is.

Could you not interfere with my job?

This sacks guess I'm getting another one-star review.

I'm totally in the wrong.

Now what?

Wanna continue the date?

I mean, I'll tag along with you,

if you wanna keep going.

Yeah, hello, huh?

She did what?

Really? I got it.

My gran, she passed out.

Huh?

I gotta go now.

Hey, but you still have some time left.

It's no big deal, I fainted, that's all.

But we're still worried about you mother.

Your good health is very important to us.

Mom, you gotta realize

that you aren't as young as you used to be,

and we do have a shop to run.

It's not the first time you've been hospitalized.

Does this room have Wi-Fi?

The phone's not a good idea.

I'll get you some senior citizens magazine.

Would you like to have something soft to eat.

Am not about to kick the bucket.

Anyway, who's this young lady?

Oh, I brought her in here because she was with Kazuya.

Are you one of his classmates from college?

Am well.

You're not his girlfriend, right?

No way honey, we're talking about Kazuya here.

Of course, right, it's Kazuya.

Kazuya.

Girlfriend, she's my girlfriend.

Nice to meet you, I'm Chizuru Mizuhara.

Nice to meet you, I'm Chizuru Mizuhara.

Perfect.

It's too bad, I had to introduce myself under

these circumstances, but still I'm glad to meet you all.

Discharge me!

What!

We need to get home and put together a party to celebrate!

Come on, Mom don't be ridiculous!

Listen to you! Kazuya's brought home a real hale

and hearty hottie! We have to celebrate!

Hale and hearty hottie?

Can you believe it! Our Kazuya!

He has a beautiful girlfriend,

do you have any idea what this means?

Kazuya of all people!

No sign of any love life for 20 years.

Now coz of you he has.