Staff for the Kanojo, Okarishimasu (Rent-A-Girlfriend/彼女、お借りします) anime have confirmed that the anime’s fifth season will premiere in April 2026, and they have revealed a key visual for the new season.
The anime’s first season premiered in July 2020, the second in July 2022, and the third in July 2023. The fourth season debuted in July 2025, and the fifth season is technically the previously announced second cours (quarter of a year) for the fourth season.
All four seasons can be streamed on the Crunchyroll website, under the title Rent-A-Girlfriend. Crunchyroll describes the anime below:
“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!”
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZFEtc3CKHs]
The anime is based on Miyajima Reiji’s Kanojo, Okarishimasu manga, which began in July 2017 in Kodansha’s Weekly Shounen Magazine. Kodansha published the manga’s first tankoubon volume in October 2017, and the 44th volume will be released on January 16th, 2026.
Kodansha USA Publishing releases the manga volumes in English under the name Rent-A-Girlfriend, and it will release the 35th volume on February 24th, 2026. Kodansha USA describes the manga story below:
“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!”
