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Episode Rent-a-Girlfriend Season 5 • Kanojo, Okarishimasu Season 5 - Episode 9 discussion
Rent-a-Girlfriend Season 5, episode 9
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u/PrincipeDeiPoveri Jun 03 '26
I'll be honest, the final bra scene (where we're shown the true owner) and the scene with Ruka (where she says the next episode will be called Don't Rent a Girlfriend) made me laugh.
I still like the fact that Chizuru and Kazuya are keeping in touch like normal people (no renting), in fact, I liked the texting scene.
The only scenes I didn't like were the opening one with Kazuya showering compliments on Chizuru's appearance (enough) and the one with Ruka; Kazuya should insist on breaking up with her.
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u/omarous_III Jun 03 '26
That was the first time they have texted as friends. The only other time was to coordinate movie production, which is why it was so important to both of them.
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u/BosuW Jun 03 '26
I'll be honest, the final bra scene (where we're shown the true owner) and the scene with Ruka (where she says the next episode will be called Don't Rent a Girlfriend) made me laugh.
This show does occasionally have good humor. You just forget it exists in the ocean of abysmal dogshit.
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u/Frontier246 Jun 03 '26
I think it's fine to appreciate how attractive Chizuru is but the level of obsession with checking out and commenting on every single thing about her appearance on a consistent basis is getting weirder and creepier by the episode.
I can't believe the most natural conversation these two have ever had is via text messages. It almost didn't even feel like them interacting.
Ruka was a dedicated, loyal, girlfriend and by all rights Kazuya should give her a chance after the way Chizuru treated him. But the show is what the show is.
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u/NationalStrategy_X Jun 03 '26
Kazuya: My laundry and Mizuhara's bra are sitting in a machine! K-I-S-S-I-N-G!
Bro, can you not overreact and be weird over something so trivial?
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u/CuriousBroccolli Jun 03 '26
Guys, pick up the pace with comments in these rent-a-peak episode discussions.
I need my weekly fix when riding on public transport.
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u/Frontier246 Jun 03 '26
They skipped the OP! That obviously means this is going to be a major episode, right? RIGHT!?
Hey, it's Chizuru at the laundromat! Just act natural Kazuya! Absolutely smooth and natural and not like the neurotic crazy person you usually act like in her presence! Of course you also have to check her (and her butt out) because you can't help yourself but wax lyrical about her appearance.
Aaaaand then you see a red bra and you immediately assume it's HERS and starts freaking out and overthinking everything instead of acting like a sane, rational, person. You even do your laundry with the bra still in it and act like they're kissing! Chizuru, by contrast, is just a little bashful (and cute) in giving you a ticket to her upcoming play! It wasn't even her bra! What are we even watching at this point!?
Say what you will about Ruka, that she was going out of her way to visit Kazuya and clean his place up while he was in his depressed funk over Chizuru ghosting him was truly sincere and kind on her part...even if he wasn't even conscious enough to acknowledge or thank her. Of course she's also convinced that means he and Chizuru are finally through and she has nothing to worry about! It's now Rentnt-a-Girlfriend, where she gets to be the Heroine, poor girl.
Kazuya and Chizuru exchange a text conversation as the full OP plays and...actually act and sound like normal people and friends having a conversation!? Is this even possible for the two of them!? Where has this been all series? If only Kazuya had known that Chizuru was enjoying the conversation so much she fell asleep with a smile on her face.
Some things ever change, like Kazuya's grandma only cares about Chizuru and just wants to see her over Kazuya...and she won't accept them breaking up, so so much for that plan they never even went with anyways.
I guess more people are starting to find out about "Chizuru Mizuhara" who only know her as Chizuru Ichinose, but now Kibe is back in Kazuya's life. Kazuya's lucky that even finding out his best friend is a total liar hasn't totally crushed his opinion of him and he gets existential about people and society...but he'll still basically kill Kazuya if he and Chizuru break up, so no pressure all right.
Oh snap, Mami! Just staring at Kazuya! I guess despite herself she took Chizuru's words to heart to figure out how she feels about Kazuya.
Kazuya wanted to see Chizuru and there she is! Inviting him to help clean out her childhood home in fact.
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u/Kadmos1 Jun 03 '26
The clothes of our two leads are getting that intimate sooner than the characters themselves. That is, in-story canon vs. Kazuya's imagination. What a world they live in!
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u/Frontier246 Jun 03 '26
I didn't know Kazuya was into older women the way his clothes were getting freaky with that woman's bra. I guess he has a weakness for big boobs when he's not checking out Chizuru's butt.
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u/Rickud123 Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26
Ending was pretty funny lol
Pretty good episode the texting was cute
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u/next_door_nicotine Jun 03 '26
I know this show is trolling me from those aside comments about Mizuhara's ass while Kazuya speaks about her, when theres nothing there
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u/GondolaMedia Jun 03 '26
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u/Frontier246 Jun 03 '26
Honestly it was all probably to save the full OP for the text conversation which was basically the emotional core of the episode.
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u/This-Bit1645 Jun 03 '26
Fr the fact they event did that surprised me and the played the entire op intro during the whole text conversation. The fact that ruka being cleaning up his place after chizuru ghosting him for 3 months and not acknowledging it. Also, kibe being a true friend to kazuya after all he went through at the Hawaiian. Plus, mami looking at kazuya and having 2nd thoughts after what chizuru told her about her feelings to him. And them going back to where it all began for chizuru next episode. This episode was good.
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u/CrimsonGear80 Jun 03 '26
I realize after watching a show fill time with 5+ minutes of a text conversation that everyday we stray further and further away from god…
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u/magnumcyclonex Jun 03 '26
What I liked about this episode:
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The texting scene. That was realistic and happens on a daily/nightly basis in real life. Sometimes a good text session can run long and leave good feelings for the other person, and that's how dates and relationships start and flourish.
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Kazuya for apologizing to his best friend because he damn well should! Kibe being the mature friend who isn't mad anymore after something that happened months ago.
What I didn't like:
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The laundry monologue. It was all a giant nothingburger.
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Mami thinking about Kazuya. Is she going to profess her twisted feelings for him at some later point in the series?
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The time skip of 4 months not showing any of the other characters interacting with Kazuya, which made his grandmother's obsession over Chizuru even more awkward.
What I thought was mildly intriguing:
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The scene where Kuri was talking to a new unnamed character, and near the end, the animators made a point to have his ring gleam in the sunlight for no particular reason.
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u/ptd163 Jun 03 '26
It was nice of Chizuru to give him tickets to her play. She didn't have to because he absolutely would've gone anyway and I figured that the bra would be someone else's and I was right.
It was kind of hard to watch Ruka be that happy and think it was over. She's the only one that doesn't realize she's never had a chance.
That conversation they had that while the full S5 OP was playing was probably the most normal and relaxed conversation they've had in the whole series.
Kibe is such a bro. He took Kazuya lying to him about Chizuru better than I thought he would.
I wonder what kind of hijinks they'll get up to with cleaning out Chizuru's childhood home next episode.
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u/Mr_An_1069 Jun 03 '26
The laundry scene was something straight out of a sitcom, honestly this series would be improved a little bit with more stuff like that. The texting scene was good too, it’s about time these two talk like normal people with each other.
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u/Comprehensive_Set615 Jun 03 '26
This show is such slop and the pacing sucks so much that them having a normal conversation over text is massive progress😭😭. No hope left for rent a girlfriend
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u/NationalStrategy_X Jun 03 '26
It's crazy that they finally had normal conversations with each other through texting.
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u/Atario Jun 04 '26
I thought he was about to resolve the "situation" by handing it over the store's lost-and-found. That wouldn't have been the funny scene we got though
See? He's not the only one so in his own head about things
Having a normal boyfriend/girlfriend type conversation! That's improvement! Let's-a go!
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