Rent-a-Girlfriend in New PS4 Visual Novel Inspired by Popular Manga

This series gets a lot of hate, but I won’t lie, I actually like it. Not sure if I’ll be down for this game though.

I like the anime! Give me a physical release for PS4 and Switch! If not I'll go with Steam for my Steam Deck OLED 😁

Ruka my darling!!!! 🥰

So it's a game about an Incel who resorts to using prostitutes? I'll wait for a sale.

@deadfred77 there’s only 1 prostitute in the entire series and it rhymes with Mami

So now they are bringing out more of the big romcom IPs of the modern era to console and more wide world then JP only. FINALLY. It's junk food but I enjoy it in some ways.

The anime/manga compared to the other Rental Girlfriend manga that's more sweet and less all over the place as this Rent A Girlfriend series that's messy on purpose.

Still getting Sumi would be nice and her more less messy moments then the main series is wouldn't sell would it. But she will I assume be part of this game and all the other heroines.

Quintuplets was cool but Rent A Girlfriend wasn't even thinking of a game to be honest but not surprised due to the success/messy situations it's had of story the past few chapters and as weird but not as far as Domestic Girlfriend has.

I'm interested though, waiting on S3 Blu-rays, didn't even finish the S3 anime, need to. Heard manga goes weirder. I'm still interested.

@deadfred77 Well he had a girlfriend but doesn't, fakes it in front of family and yes yes bad romcom tropes happen as expected it gets weird, the acting side plot for the main girl (the rental girlfriend/apartment neighbor) is good but otherwise most drama between the ex, the rental and the was rental but is actual girlfriend apparently, is just like other anime it's a mess.

Yes rental girlfriends, boyfirends and family members are all services in Japan, I think in South Korea as well. It isn't a 'service' in that way and the whole don't do it with your wife, but do it with others that offer such services (not just a AV scenario either). Because that's a weird cultural thing.

So yes a very different cultural thing to fill in gaps for people or I guess to fill in roles/gaps in their lives. The girl/boyfriend services I think are of more as a guide, the family rentals are more for people that need help with deaths/lonely if family are away kind of thing and for emotional support or other assistance.

There is barriers, so yes it's not sketchy, they can't touch them of hands, kissing or anything is very strict (even if the west will think anything is strange and always think the worst of it because they don't understand and don't care even though it has a purpose when people 'think', how many things like Black Friday or other business holidays exist, white day as a March 14th Valentines Day because that needed to exist too, oh wait, KFC Japanese Christmas wasn't a thing then is, things just catch on over time for different reasons), they aren't selling their bodies, they can't it's strict, anyone that has seen videos interviewing the staff know this then westerners that have no idea, don't care to inform and just make up ideas in their heads, they are selling their presence/guidance or just there for emotional support just not in a walking therapist way.

@shonenjump86 I think it has a place, I've enjoyed it like junk food, I don't mind it, there is worse out there of pacing or content.

I think the hate is by people that want to relate and forget Japanese or even some westerners exist like this to a degree (besides the scenarios being messy and obviously exaggerated to a degree) and they have their oh these tropes are annoying or grow a back bone type people can't get past it.

That or people that watch narrow view of shows/new to the medium or forget oh anime is Japanese and have their western morals all the time. We get the medium is weird, we can't change it. We mostly don't want certain ones to change because we get garbage adaptations (not all) instead.

I've seen plenty of anime with just as annoying protagonists or events that are wishy washy, it's nothing new.

@Mikey856 Probably, seeing light novel generators, anything is possible of sentences and whatever to sell people on it with a sentence title then something simpler.

Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon is it's own weird. I swear they make strange titles on purpose to REALLY intrigue people and give way the point and avoid people really the back of the books and it probably works. Not just because of other series with lazier translations, at least when it comes to westerner translated titles compared to convincing the Japanese or whatever word play it ends up with.