Rent-a-Girlfriend

[Watched 2 episodes of season 1, drop] Ouch, ouch, it made my heart ache once again to have to share the gender of such an awful main character as Kazuya. You can easily tell the lowest level of creativity in the romcom section based on simple traits: 5 trillion misunderstandings, convenient coincidences every minute, confessions as difficult as hiking up Mt. Everest, the king of virgins in the lead role. Honestly, just so I don't degrade "The Girlfriend Rental" here (that in itself sounds awfully stupid, doesn't it? ) to the worst imaginable extremes, the point itself isn't that terrible, and could be made relatively workable with 1/10th of a brain engaged – except that would mean that the scene would have to remain free of the sympathy-devoid squadron in the form of a bunch of wasted buddies, a grandmother more obnoxious than a Jehovah's Witness, and even the ex has nothing to do but psychopathically romp around stalking our hated dork. And Kazuya heroically lies, lies, lies to create new misunderstandings and more room for this whole idiotic endless circle that will surely span 200+ manga volumes. The saddest part is that this manga has a clear audience goal: to give non-existent hope to all those closed-minded, self-important boys who think that by sitting at home and being totally passive, they'll stumble across the interest of X many perfect beauties. Who will give their hearts to him if he smiles at them. Well, I've given plenty of reasons and warnings, the rest is up to you. A worse 2 stars. (30/04/2021)