{"id":33186,"date":"2025-09-20T12:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T12:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/33186\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T12:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T12:12:09","slug":"rent-a-girlfriend-animes-5th-season-debuts-in-2026-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/33186\/","title":{"rendered":"Rent-A-Girlfriend Anime&#8217;s 5th Season Debuts in 2026 &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>5th season serves as 2nd half of 4th season, which debuted on July 1<\/p>\n<p>The staff for the anime of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=147124\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reiji Miyajima<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=32921\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rent-A-Girlfriend<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/manga.php?id=22150\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kanojo, Okarishimasu<\/a>) manga revealed on Saturday the anime&#8217;s fifth season will debut in 2026. The fifth season is technically the previously announced second <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/lexicon.php?id=123\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cours<\/a> (quarter of a year) for the fourth season. The fourth season ended on Friday in its 12th episode.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2024-07-11\/rent-a-girlfriend-anime-gets-4th-season-in-2025\/.213128\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fourth<\/a> anime season debuted on July 1 on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=23418\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DMM TV<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=19769\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">d Anime Store<\/a> streaming services. The season then debuted on television on July 4 in the &#8220;Animeism&#8221; programming block on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=10442\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MBS<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=552\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TBS<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=10212\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BS-TBS<\/a> channels. The fourth season was originally slated to air for two cours with a break in between. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=7606\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crunchyroll<\/a> is again <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2025-06-01\/crunchyroll-to-stream-my-dress-up-darling-season-2-rent-a-girlfriend-season-4-more-anime\/.224976\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">streaming<\/a> the series as it airs.<\/p>\n<p>Character designer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=130869\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kanna Hirayama<\/a> drew the below illustration to celebrate the news.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"424\" height=\"600\" alt=\"rent-5\" border=\"1\" src=\"\/thumbnails\/max600x600\/cms\/news.8\/229004\/rent-5.jpeg\" class=\"lazyload\"\/>Image via <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/kanokari_anime\/status\/1969235077231231193\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rent-A-Girlfriend anime&#8217;s X\/Twitter account<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 \u5bae\u5cf6\u793c\u540f\u30fb\u8b1b\u8ac7\u793e\uff0f\u300c\u5f7c\u5973\u3001\u304a\u501f\u308a\u3057\u307e\u3059\u300d\u88fd\u4f5c\u59d4\u54e1\u4f1a 2025<\/p>\n<p>The staff at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=292\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TMS Entertainment<\/a> returned from the third season for the fourth season. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=55117\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kazuomi Koga<\/a>, the director of the first two seasons, replaced the third season&#8217;s director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=79606\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shin&#8217;ya Une<\/a> in the fourth season. The fourth season and fifth season are covering the Hawaiians arc.<\/p>\n<p>The anime&#8217;s third season <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2023-02-16\/rent-a-girlfriend-anime-season-3-premieres-in-july\/.194956\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">premiered<\/a> in July 2023. Crunchyroll <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2023-05-20\/crunchyroll-licenses-rent-a-girlfriend-season-3-horimiya-the-missing-pieces-5-more-anime\/.198238\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">streamed<\/a> the season worldwide except in Asia.<\/p>\n<p>The second season premiered in July 2022. Crunchyroll <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2022-05-28\/crunchyroll-to-stream-blue-lock-orient-2nd-part-rent-a-girlfriend-season-2-anime\/.186103\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">streamed<\/a> the anime as it aired.<\/p>\n<p>The first anime season premiered on the Animeism programming block in July 2020 and aired for 12 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/daily-briefs\/2020-06-15\/rent-a-girlfriend-anime-listed-with-12-episodes\/.160638\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">episodes<\/a>. Crunchyroll <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2020-06-10\/crunchyroll-to-stream-rent-a-girlfriend-anime\/.160476\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">streamed<\/a> the anime worldwide except in Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Crunchyroll describes the story:\n<\/p>\n<p> Kinoshita Kazuya is a 20-year-old failure of a college student. He managed to kiss his girlfriend once, but was dumped after a month. &#8220;Ugh&#8230; Damn it. I never want to go through that again.&#8221;<br \/>\n\tCompletely spiteful, Kazuya uses a certain method to date a girl. He goes to their meeting place and suddenly hears,&#8221;You&#8217;re Kazuya-kun, right?&#8221; A beautiful girl brushing her long, black hair behind her ear was there, smiling at him. Her name was Mizuhara Chizuru. Something real is born after just a single rental! A reckless rom-com filled with love and excitement is about to begin!<\/p>\n<p>Miyajima <a href=\"https:\/\/natalie.mu\/comic\/news\/240542\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">launched<\/a> the manga in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=88\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kodansha<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/manga.php?id=6457\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weekly Sh\u014dnen Magazine<\/a> in July 2017. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=15577\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kodansha USA Publishing<\/a> is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2019-07-06\/kodansha-licenses-6-new-manga-acquires-saiyuki-chobits-clover\/.148703\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">publishing<\/a> the manga in English. <\/p>\n<p>The manga also inspired a live-action <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2022-05-12\/rent-a-girlfriend-manga-gets-live-action-show-starring-naniwa-danshi-idol-ryusei-onishi-hiyori-\/.185615\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">series<\/a> that premiered in July 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Sources: Rent-A-Girlfriend anime&#8217;s X\/Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/kanokari_anime\/status\/1969235077231231193\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">account<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/natalie.mu\/comic\/news\/641075\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Comic Natalie<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"5th season serves as 2nd half of 4th season, which debuted on July 1 The staff for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-33186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}