Rent-a-Girlfriend is officially returning for a sixth television season, continuing Kazuya Kinoshita and Chizuru Mizuhara’s complicated relationship after the conclusion of the Hawaiians storyline.
The continuation was announced immediately after the final episode of Season 5 aired in Japan. The new season will adapt the manga’s Cohabitation Arc, in which unexpected circumstances place Kazuya, Chizuru and Mini Yaemori under the same roof.
A special announcement illustration drawn by anime character designer Kanna Hirayama was released to celebrate the news. The artwork features the central characters while introducing the domestic setting that will shape the next stage of the story.
A premiere date, broadcast window, episode count and full production staff have not yet been announced.
Rent-a-Girlfriend Season 6 Is Officially in Production
The sixth season was confirmed following the broadcast of Season 5’s twelfth and final episode, also counted as the anime’s sixtieth main episode overall.
The announcement confirms that the adaptation will continue directly into the Cohabitation Arc rather than ending after the emotional confrontation and difficult decisions surrounding the Hawaiians trip.
- Season: Rent-a-Girlfriend Season 6
- Japanese title: Kanojo, Okarishimasu 6th Season
- Status: Officially in production
- Story arc: Cohabitation Arc
- Release date: Not yet announced
- Episode count: Not yet announced
- International streaming: Not yet formally confirmed
No teaser trailer or completed footage from the new episodes accompanied the initial announcement. The newly released image is a commemorative production visual rather than a representation of finished Season 6 animation.
Season 6 Will Adapt the Cohabitation Arc
The Cohabitation Arc changes the everyday structure of Rent-a-Girlfriend by bringing Kazuya and Chizuru physically closer than ever before.
Their relationship has always depended on carefully maintained boundaries. Chizuru begins as a rental girlfriend hired through an application, while Kazuya becomes one of her clients after a painful breakup with Mami Nanami.
A series of misunderstandings leads their families and friends to believe that they are genuinely dating. Although the original arrangement is supposed to remain professional, the two gradually become deeply involved in each other’s lives.
Living in the same place makes it much more difficult to preserve the emotional distance that allowed both characters to avoid addressing their feelings directly.
Kazuya, Chizuru and Mini Will Share a Home
The new storyline places Kazuya Kinoshita, Chizuru Mizuhara and Mini Yaemori in a shared living arrangement.
The premise creates a major change from the neighboring-apartment dynamic used during earlier seasons. Kazuya and Chizuru will now encounter one another during ordinary domestic moments rather than only through planned dates, family meetings or emergencies.
Meals, household responsibilities and casual conversations can create situations that feel more intimate than the elaborate events that previously brought them together.
Mini’s involvement ensures that the arrangement will not remain calm for long. She has openly supported Kazuya’s feelings for Chizuru and frequently attempts to accelerate their relationship whenever she believes they are avoiding an obvious opportunity.
The New Setting Could Change Kazuya and Chizuru’s Relationship
Kazuya has already acknowledged that his feelings for Chizuru are genuine. His greatest problem is not understanding what he wants, but finding a way to communicate those feelings without destroying the bond they have built.
Chizuru’s emotions are more difficult to read. She cares deeply about Kazuya and has repeatedly depended on him during some of the most painful periods of her life, but she continues struggling to define what those feelings mean.
Cohabitation removes many of the excuses that previously allowed them to avoid the subject.
Their connection will no longer be limited to rental appointments or dramatic crises. They will have to learn how to exist around one another during ordinary mornings, quiet evenings and the small moments that reveal what a genuine relationship might look like.
Season 5 Completed the Hawaiians Arc
The fifth season continued the large Hawaiians storyline that began during Season 4.
What was supposed to be a family trip became one of the most emotionally dangerous situations Kazuya and Chizuru had faced.
Mami knew that their relationship had begun as a rental arrangement and used that information to place increasing pressure on both of them.
The conflict threatened not only Kazuya and Chizuru’s bond, but also their relationships with their families and the people who had accepted their supposed romance as real.
Season 5 forced the characters to make decisions that could no longer be dismissed as another temporary misunderstanding.
Kazuya Must Face the Consequences of His Feelings
Kazuya Kinoshita began the series as an insecure university student devastated by the end of his relationship with Mami.
His decision to rent Chizuru was initially an attempt to escape loneliness and restore his confidence. Instead, it created a lie that grew more complicated every time their families became involved.
Kazuya has matured through his relationship with Chizuru, particularly while helping her pursue her dream of making a film for her grandmother.
However, his anxiety and tendency to overthink every interaction continue preventing him from acting with confidence.
Season 6 will place him close to Chizuru almost constantly, creating new opportunities for emotional progress while also giving him many more reasons to panic.
Chizuru Can No Longer Treat Everything as Professional
Chizuru Mizuhara has maintained a careful separation between her rental-girlfriend identity and her private life.
She uses the rental profession to support herself while pursuing an acting career, presenting clients with a polished version of the ideal girlfriend.
Kazuya gradually becomes impossible to contain within that professional boundary.
He supports her acting ambitions, helps produce a film and remains beside her during personal tragedy. Those actions give him a place in her life that cannot be explained through payment or contractual obligation.
Sharing a home with him will make it even harder for Chizuru to maintain the emotional walls that protected her from acknowledging how important he has become.
Mini Yaemori Will Be Central to the Cohabitation Arc
Mini Yaemori is Kazuya and Chizuru’s neighbor, friend and enthusiastic supporter.
She understands that Kazuya genuinely loves Chizuru and has appointed herself as his informal adviser.
Unlike Kazuya, Mini is willing to say directly what she believes. She has little patience for the emotional hesitation preventing the central pair from making progress.
Her presence in the shared home gives her constant access to both characters and allows her to observe interactions they might otherwise keep private.
Mini can create comedy by deliberately placing them in embarrassing situations, but she can also recognize emotional changes that Kazuya and Chizuru refuse to admit.
Ruka Will Not Welcome the New Living Arrangement
Ruka Sarashina considers herself Kazuya’s real girlfriend, even though their relationship began as a trial arrangement.
She has consistently viewed Chizuru as her greatest romantic rival and has attempted to create a relationship with Kazuya that feels more direct and conventional.
The idea of Kazuya living with Chizuru is unlikely to be something Ruka can accept quietly.
Her determination and jealousy can create additional pressure at a time when Kazuya and Chizuru are already struggling to understand the consequences of their new situation.
Mami Remains an Unpredictable Presence
Mami Nanami has played one of the most disruptive roles in the series.
Although she ended her relationship with Kazuya, she continues paying close attention to his connection with Chizuru.
Her knowledge of the rental arrangement gave her enormous power during the Hawaiians storyline.
Season 6 will need to address the consequences of her actions and whether the confrontation changed her attitude toward Kazuya and Chizuru.
Mami’s motivations are more complicated than simple jealousy, making her future involvement difficult for the other characters to predict.
Sumi Could Continue Supporting Chizuru and Kazuya
Sumi Sakurasawa is another rental girlfriend and one of Chizuru’s friends.
She is extremely shy but often demonstrates surprising emotional insight.
Sumi has supported Kazuya during moments when he needed someone willing to listen without judging him.
Her role in Season 6 has not been detailed, but she remains an important member of the series’ main cast and a person capable of understanding both sides of the central relationship.
Kanna Hirayama Created the Announcement Illustration
Character designer Kanna Hirayama drew the celebratory illustration released with the Season 6 announcement.
Hirayama has been responsible for adapting Reiji Miyajima’s character artwork for the television anime and has become closely associated with the visual identity of the adaptation.
The new illustration celebrates the move into the Cohabitation Arc while preserving the bright colors and expressive designs used throughout the previous seasons.
Her participation in the announcement provides visual continuity, but the complete Season 6 production team has not yet been officially confirmed.
The Returning Cast Has Not Yet Been Formally Announced
A separate Season 6 cast list was not included in the initial announcement.
The principal Japanese actors from the previous seasons are:
- Shun Horie as Kazuya Kinoshita
- Sora Amamiya as Chizuru Mizuhara
- Aoi Yuki as Mami Nanami
- Nao Toyama as Ruka Sarashina
- Rie Takahashi as Sumi Sakurasawa
- Yu Serizawa as Mini Yaemori
These performers are strongly associated with their characters, but their participation in Season 6 should remain formally unconfirmed until the anime releases its official cast information.
TMS Entertainment Produced the Previous Seasons
TMS Entertainment handled animation production for the fifth season and the earlier installments of Rent-a-Girlfriend.
The production has maintained a recognizable visual identity built around colorful character designs, exaggerated reactions and detailed clothing.
The Cohabitation Arc will require extensive character acting because many of its important moments take place during conversations and ordinary domestic interactions rather than large public events.
TMS Entertainment has not yet been officially reconfirmed for Season 6.
The Season 5 Production Staff
- Original manga: Reiji Miyajima
- Director: Kazuomi Koga
- Series composition: Mitsutaka Hirota
- Character design: Kanna Hirayama
- Music: Kenichi Maeyamada
- Sound director: Hajime Takakuwa
- Art director: Minoru Akiba
- Color design: Akemi Nagao
- Director of photography: Shintaro Sakai
- Editor: Yumiko Nakaba
- Animation production: TMS Entertainment
These credits apply to Season 5. The sixth season’s staff has not yet been announced, and the return of each individual team member should not be assumed until officially confirmed.
The Season 6 Theme Songs Remain Unknown
No opening or ending performers have been announced for the new season.
Rent-a-Girlfriend has regularly used its theme songs to highlight the different heroines and the emotional confusion surrounding Kazuya.
A future teaser trailer will likely reveal the new musical artists alongside a premiere window or additional production information.
Crunchyroll Streams the Previous Five Seasons
The first five seasons of Rent-a-Girlfriend are available through Crunchyroll in supported regions.
The platform carried Season 5 as it aired in Japan and has also offered dubbed versions in multiple languages.
However, Crunchyroll reporting on the Season 6 announcement does not automatically confirm that it has already licensed the continuation.
International streaming plans will need to be formally announced closer to the new season’s premiere.
What Is Rent-a-Girlfriend About?
Rent-a-Girlfriend follows Kazuya Kinoshita after his girlfriend Mami unexpectedly ends their relationship.
Feeling lonely and humiliated, he uses a rental-girlfriend application and books a date with Chizuru Mizuhara.
Chizuru appears charming, considerate and almost impossibly perfect. After Kazuya reacts badly to discovering that she behaves similarly with other clients, she reveals a much sharper private personality.
Their lives become connected when they discover that their grandmothers know each other and are delighted by the apparent relationship.
Rather than reveal the truth, Kazuya and Chizuru continue pretending to date.
The arrangement grows more complicated as genuine feelings develop and other women become involved in Kazuya’s increasingly chaotic romantic life.
Based on the Manga by Reiji Miyajima
Rent-a-Girlfriend is based on the manga written and illustrated by Reiji Miyajima.
The series began serialization in Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine in July 2017.
Its continuing popularity has supported multiple television seasons, extensive merchandise, live-action adaptations and international publication.
The manga has progressed considerably beyond the material adapted in Season 5, leaving enough content available for the Cohabitation Arc and later developments.
What Remains Unknown About Season 6?
The sixth season currently has no announced premiere date or release window.
The episode count, Japanese broadcasters and international streaming platforms remain unknown.
TMS Entertainment and the previous production staff have not yet been formally reconfirmed.
The returning voice cast, opening theme and ending theme also remain unannounced.
No teaser trailer or completed animation footage has been released.
Final Thoughts
Rent-a-Girlfriend Season 6 is officially in production following the conclusion of Season 5.
The continuation will adapt the Cohabitation Arc, placing Kazuya, Chizuru and Mini together in the same home and creating a new stage for the central romance.
Character designer Kanna Hirayama celebrated the announcement with a newly drawn illustration featuring the characters connected to the upcoming storyline.
A release date, episode count, production studio, returning staff, cast and theme songs have not yet been announced.
After years of rental dates, family misunderstandings and emotional avoidance, Kazuya and Chizuru will now have to confront what their relationship looks like when they share not only a secret, but also the same living space.
