How to Watch Rent-A-Girlfriend? Easy Watch Order Guide

Rent-A-Girlfriend is a fun combination of slice-of-life, harem, and rom-com genres which is not uncommon. But the series does deserve attention for its story and characters, which will keep you interested for sure.

What begins with a boy going through a breakup begins to shift towards hilarious situations where he has to keep a façade among his friends and family.

Rent-A-Girlfriend anime has two seasons as of 2022 and a third season has also been officially announced. In addition to this, a live-action drama was also released in 2022. Several shorts have also been released as ONAs.

Here is a simple watch order for the series, mentioning what is important to watch and what you can do away with.

Release Order

I. TV Series

• Rent-A-Girlfriend Season 1 (2020)
• Rent-A-Girlfriend Season 2 (2022)
• Rent-A-Girlfriend Season 3 (Announced)

II. ONAs

• Rent-A-Girlfriend Petit (2020)
• Rent-A-Girlfriend Season 2 Petit (2022)

III. Specials

• Rent-A-Girlfriend Season 2 Mini Anime (Upcoming)

IV. Live-Action TV Drama

• Rent-A-Girlfriend (Live-Action) (2022)

Chronological Order

• Rent-A-Girlfriend Season 1
• Rent-A-Girlfriend Season 2
• Rent-A-Girlfriend Season 3

Conclusion

As of now, the storyline or the installments are pretty straightforward for Rent-A-Girlfriend because the release order and the chronological order are the same. The live-action drama and the ONAs can be skipped because they are not canon.

However, the ONAs would take half an hour to complete, so feel free to watch it after their respective canon seasons.

How Much Time Will it Take to Complete Rent-A-Girlfriend?

If you want to watch everything, including the TV series, ONAs, and specials, it will take you 10 hours and 3 minutes to complete Rent-A-Girlfriend.

Here is the list of the runtime of each installment –

• Rent-A-Girlfriend Season 1 – 288 minutes
• Rent-A-Girlfriend Season 2 – 288 minutes
• Rent-A-Girlfriend Petit – 15 minutes
• Rent-A-Girlfriend Petit Season 2 – 12 minutes
• Rent-A-Girlfriend Season 2 Mini Anime – N/A
• Rent-A-Girlfriend Season 3 – N/A

About Rent-A-Girlfriend

Rent-A-Girlfriend, also known as Kanojo, Okarishimasu, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Reiji Miyajima. It has been serialized in Kodansha’s Weekly Shōnen Magazine since July 2017 and has been compiled into thirty volumes as of February 2023.

A spinoff manga “Rent-A-(Really Shy!)-Girlfriend” which focuses on the character Sumi is also in serialization since June 21, 2020. An anime television series adaptation by TMS Entertainment premiered in July 2020 in the Animeism block.

Kazuya Kinoshita is dumped by his girlfriend, Mami Nanami, after dating for about a month. He then decides to use an online app to rent a girlfriend named Chizuru Mizuhara, a beautiful and attractive girl.

The story moves on as their lives become complicated and entangled with each other. Later, other girls from the girlfriend business also join in dating and showing interest in Kazuya.