News
Muse Asia Streams Rent-A-Girlfriend Anime on YouTube
posted on by Adriana Hazra
Muse Asia began streaming the television anime of Reiji Miyajima's Rent-A-Girlfriend (Kanojo, Okarishimasu) manga on Friday. The company will stream episodes of the anime daily at 5:30 p.m. IST.
Alongside India, Muse Asia is streaming the anime in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, and Nepal.
Muse Asia describes the story:
Kazuya Kinoshita, the worthless college student. Was dumped by his ever girlfriend after only one kiss and a month together. "I don't want to put up with this anymore." In desperation, Kazuya decides to go on a date with a girl using a certain method. And what he founds at the meeting place was— "You're Kazuya, right?" A beautiful girl, Chizuru Mizuhara smiles at him as she puts her black hair behind her ear.
The Rent-A-Girlfriend anime premiered on the Animeism programming block in July 2020 and aired for 12 episodes.
The cast includes:
- Sora Amamiya as Chizuru Mizuhara
- Aoi Yūki as Mami Nanami
- Nao Tōyama as Ruka Sarashina
- Rie Takahashi as Sumi Sakurasawa
- Shun Horie as Kazuya Kinoshita
- Yukari Nozawa as Nagomi Kinoshita, Kazuya Kinoshita's grandmother
- Masayuki Akasaka as Yoshiaki Kibe, one of Kazuya's friends
- Gakuto Kajiwara as Shun Kuribayashi, another of Kayuya's friends
Kazuomi Koga (Rainy Cocoa, Welcome to Rainy Color) directed the anime at TMS Entertainment, and Mitsutaka Hirota (Anime-Gataris, Nanbaka, The Prince of Tennis II) supervised the series scripts. Kanna Hirayama designed the characters, and HYADAIN composed the music. The staff also includes color key artist Fumiko Ishiguro, art director Minoru Akiba, compositing director of photography Shintaro Sakai, and editor Yumiko Nakaba.
The female rock band The Peggies performed the opening theme song, while singer halca performed the ending theme song. Both The Peggies and halca created their songs expressly for the anime.
The second television anime season will air in 2022.
Miyajima launched the manga in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine in July 2017. Kodansha Comics is publishing the manga in English. The series received a manga anthology in August 2020.
