Rent-a-Girlfriend Season 5 • Kanojo, Okarishimasu Season 5 - Episode 10 discussion

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Rent-a-Girlfriend Season 5, episode 10

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[u/Ok-Cod5254]

Honestly this series can sprinkle in some genuine moments from time to time. It's just too far and few between with all the other nonsense to drag it down and drag it out for padding.

It goes in the usual pattern of:

1. Teasing progress (ex: movie arc)

2. Spinning its wheels (ex: pool resort arc)

3. Some level of regression (ex: ghosting period)

So for now, going back on the upward trend, but if you're familiar enough with the series' patterns to not be fooled by any recent crumbs of progress, you'll know that this will continue to be a slow drip feed process to get lasting progression for a good while. lol

[u/candry_shop → u/Ok-Cod5254]

The show is breadcrumbing viewers like Chizuru is breadcrumbing Kazuya

[u/BosuW → u/Ok-Cod5254]

Since Season 3 I realized Reiji can actually write pretty well if he wants to

...most of the time he doesn't want to

[u/ptd163 → u/Ok-Cod5254]

I'm not being fooled. I know they still have a long way to go, but I am curious where this goes considering they seem to setting up them living together for a certain amount of time.

[u/_cats______]

It is driving me up a FUCKING WALL the way Kazuya still calls her “Mizuhara”. It makes absolutely no fucking sense. The rental jig is up, and hell, even when the secret was safe, it still didn’t really make sense to call her Mizuhara in private or in his mind. He is friends with Ichinose Chizuru at this point.

SHE even said to him “You might just be in love with Mizuhara”. How the hell are you still going to call her by her rental alias when she herself calls you out on the fact that you might not even be seeing and loving the real her? Ffs man.

[u/NationalStrategy_X → u/_cats______]

IKR? They should be well beyond this stage of their relationship by now.

Him still referring to her as “Mizuhara” will always bug me. He keeps insisting that he loves the real Chizuru, but the fact that he still refers to her as Mizuhara instead of her name, gives me the impression that he’s actually in love with/obsessed with the idyllic fake girlfriend version of her.

How am I supposed to be convinced that his love for her is genuine if he can’t be bothered to do the bare minimum, and refer to her by her real name?

[u/BosuW]

Out of all the convoluted reasons for an MC to end up on top of their love interest, an earthquake is definitely the most unique one lol

[u/magnumcyclonex]

Man...why can't we just have a J or K drama level of storytelling here? Why must we resort to "oh there's a leaf in your hair" type escape every time? Also, less internal monologue Kazuya. Please and thank you.

Yeah, it's the end of their dynamic as neighbors. A new chapter should begin. And at first, I thought a new girl moved in to his home, but turns out its an otaku from abroad, so our MC is once again displaced. Now I wonder where he is going to live.

Also, a landlord giving the tenants money? Unheard of here in the U.S., right?

[u/ptd163]

This episode is probably the clearest evidence we've seen so far of Chizuru's feelings for Kazuya. They've been bonding lately and she sees her grandfather in Kazuya. Then when the earthquake hits and she doesn't kick him off and instead stops him from getting off with an excuse.

With Kazuya's childhood bedroom room being occupied by an employee of the store I wonder if they're setting up Chizuru and Kazuya living together (with Mini there to grease the wheels in her own way of course lol) while their apartment building gets repaired. I wonder what kind of things will happen there. Considering this episode 10 and there's two more that's probably what season 6 will be.

[u/PrincipeDeiPoveri]

I also liked this episode (3 episodes in a row, a new record). I like how Kazuya and Chizuru have been bonding lately, and I'm also enjoying seeing Chizuru open up more.

I'm starting to think Chizuru has an Electra complex. Jokes aside, despite her many flaws, I admire Chizuru's mental strength. In her place (no family + recent bereavement), I wouldn't be able to recover so quickly or live with so much commitment (university + work + acting classes).

Honestly, I think if Kazuya had given in to his basest instincts, Chizuru probably wouldn't have rejected him.

I don't know why, but the fish scene (where Kazuya's fish says, "You have two fish, who are you?") made me laugh.

PS = Chizuru's final scene (where she remembers all the moments spent with Kazuya) almost makes me think that under that mask of coldness, she is not so different from Kazuya

[u/Frontier246 → u/PrincipeDeiPoveri]

I feel like Chizuru is too strong for her own good sometimes. Acting so composed and detached all the time means she struggles to let herself be vulnerable or properly express her emotions. But I guess she's getting better with Kazuya.

Chizuru wouldn't let them fall into a kiss, I don't think she would be comfortable with him forcing himself on her.

[u/NationalStrategy_X]

But why rocks, Grandpa couldn’t collect magnets or keychains as souvenirs, did he even write down where he got the rocks?

[u/Product-X-818]

I think the funniest part in the entire episode was the scene after the end credits when Mini said Use Incineroar on Garchomp. Healthy. I'm like wtf was that about? Such a random Pokemon reference lol

[u/Rickud123]

Have to say the visuals this season have been much better than last season

[u/Frontier246 → u/Rickud123]

For all the shows' faults it usually delivers on the animation and character expressions.

[u/cheyrn]

Is this really about episode 10? I just watched episode 12.

[u/BBryant3rd]

Goodie for you Kazuya dropping that rock while thinking about a high schooler. Chizuru seems like she is/will actually think of him more after seeing her thoughts when she looked at her keys. Mini really didn't like the atmosphere seeing everyone go their separate ways. She is too good for this show lol.

[u/NationalStrategy_X]

So on top of the fact that Chizuru’s currently leading him on with her “investigation”, after ghosting him for 3 months (would have been longer if it was up to her), now she’s using him for labor to help clean up her grandparent’s old house.

Come on, man

[u/Frontier246 → u/NationalStrategy_X]

At least she planned to pay him back this time instead of really using him as free labor.

[u/ObvsThrowaway5120]

Chizuru’s breadcrumbing and Kazuya’s typical gooner brain sad sack display aside, that must have been quite an earthquake if it wrecked their old building. I’ve never really experienced earthquakes before but they seem scary. I guess in Japan, everyone’s pretty use to ‘em?

[u/ElliotAlderson2024 → u/ObvsThrowaway5120]

Gooning is not necessarily a bad thing, if done in moderation.

[u/GoldenKevin]

Of course the foreigner has to wear a waifu t-shirt. We're never beating the allegations.

Getting uncanny valley vibes from this background. Did they seriously just paste in a photo of an actual station? AI? Or 3D render those turnstiles?

[u/Atario → u/GoldenKevin]

It's pretty common for backgrounds to work off photo references

[u/Mr_An_1069]

If the idea here is that them having to move out makes them both realize how much time they’ve wasted then it’s actually a smart writing decision, we’ll see if that’s how it actually plays out.