41 She has a shy personality and through Chizuru's urging, goes on dates with Kazuya in order to improve her skills as a rental girlfriend, later developing feelings for him. 41, 54 She has pink hair with a braid styled on one side. 41-44 She is in her first year at college and is a newcomer to the industry. 37 Sumi Sakurasawa ( 桜沢 墨, Sakurasawa Sumi) Voiced by: Rie Takahashi (Japanese) Suzie Yeung (English) A girl who also works as a rental girlfriend with Chizuru's company. 28 She later gets a job at the same karaoke bar as Kazuya. 20-25 She has a health condition where she has a low heart rate that she monitors, and Kazuya is the first guy who elevated it. 20 She wants to date Kazuya for real after seeing how kindly and passionately he treats Chizuru and her. In actuality, she is also working as a rental girlfriend for another company. 7 Ruka Sarashina ( 更科 瑠夏, Sarashina Ruka) Voiced by: Nao Tōyama (Japanese) Sarah Anne Williams (English) A girl who is introduced as Shun Kuribayashi's girlfriend. 4-6 She does not like Chizuru and makes negative online posts about her using a private Twitter account. 4, 7 She is shocked and suspicious that Kazuya has found another girlfriend so soon, within a month, after dumping him. 1 She appears to be friendly on the outside but harbors jealous and possessive feelings that scare her friends sometimes. 61 Mami Nanami ( 七海 麻美, Nanami Mami) Voiced by: Aoi Yūki (Japanese) Laura Stahl (English) Kazuya's former girlfriend. 31 Her mother died when she was young and her father abandoned her, leaving her in the care of Sayuri. Later, it is revealed that her reason for joining the rental girlfriend business is to develop her acting experience and to become an actress. 3 She continues to let Kazuya rent her services in order to help his grandmother Nagomi, and to help him get over his breakup with Mami. 2 It is soon shown that Chizuru and Kazuya are next-door neighbors in their apartment complex. 1-3 At university, she goes under her grandmother Sayuri's family name Chizuru Ichinose ( 一ノ瀬 ちづる, Ichinose Chizuru), and utilizes a nerdy appearance with large dark-framed glasses and braided pigtails. She is proud of her exceptional ratings in the service, but becomes annoyed and abrasive when Kazuya embarrasses her and gives her a bad rating. Chizuru Mizuhara ( 水原 千鶴, Mizuhara Chizuru) Voiced by: Sora Amamiya (Japanese) Lizzie Freeman (English) A college student who moonlights as a rental girlfriend for the Diamond company. 32 One of his defining traits is his love for marine biology and aquariums, as he owns several pet fish including a lungfish that serves as a commentator in the manga. Later on in the series, he begins working part-time at a karaoke bar to pay for his dates and other expenses. On the other hand, he also has a kindness that cares for the people around him.
16 He has an indecisive personality, and sometimes he feels like he is going to lose to his ulterior motives. He then develops romantic feelings towards Chizuru. 1 He soon finds himself in situations where he has to continue renting Chizuru to keep up appearances with his family and friends, due to him lying to his grandmother that she is his real girlfriend and decides that telling her the truth will disappoint her. Following a painful breakup with his girlfriend Mami Nanami, he decides to rent a girlfriend.
Later, other girls from the rental girlfriend business also join in.Ĭharacters Main Kazuya Kinoshita ( 木ノ下 和也, Kinoshita Kazuya) Voiced by: Shun Horie (Japanese) Aleks Le (English) A 20-year-old college student who lives in Tokyo. Kazuya continues renting Chizuru in order to keep up appearances with his family and friends, but things get complicated when they discover they are next-door apartment neighbors and attend the same college. However, when Kazuya's grandmother is hospitalized following a collapse, he brings Chizuru along and his grandmother is smitten with how great she is. When Chizuru berates him for that, he realizes she is meaner than he expected. However, because he thinks she was inauthentic, he gives her a low rating. He then decides to use an online dating app to rent a girlfriend named Chizuru Mizuhara, a beautiful and attractive girl. Kazuya Kinoshita is dumped by his girlfriend Mami Nanami after dating for a month.