Rent-A-Girlfriend Season 4 has received a new journey-themed date visual, which stars Mini Yaemori. The visual is set in a snowy environment and sees Mini posing with a mini snowman.
This is the fourth season’s fifth date visual. This tradition of date visuals stretches back to the first season.
Additionally, it was revealed that the anime will have its Japanese streaming premiere on July 1 JST.
Rent-A-Girlfriend Season 4 will have its Japanese broadcast premiere on July 4 JST (effectively July 5 at 2:23 AM JST) and will run across a split-cour format. The anime is based on the romantic comedy manga by Reiji Miyajima, which Kodansha USA describes as:
In today’s Japan, “rental” services can deliver an afternoon with a “friend,” a “parent,” even a fake girlfriend! After a staggering betrayal by his girlfriend, hapless freshman Kazuya gets just desperate enough to give it a try. But he quickly discovers how complicated it can be to “rent” an emotional connection, and his new “girlfriend,” who’s trying to keep her side hustle secret, will panic when she finds out her real life and Kazuya’s are intertwined in surprising ways! Family, school, and life all start to go wrong, too… It’s sweet but naïve boy meets cute but ruthless girl in this 21st-century manga rom-com!
The Rent-A-Girlfriend manga started serialization in Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine in 2017 and has 40 tankobon volumes as of April 2025. The first season of the TV anime adaptation premiered in July 2020.
The manga has also inspired a spin-off titled Kanojo, Hitomishirimasu and a 2022 live-action drama. A MAGES-developed visual novel was released in 2024.
Update: Added streaming premiere date.
Staff (reprising unless stated otherwise)
• Director: Kazuomi Koga (first two seasons)
• Series composer: Mitsutaka Hirota
• Character designer: Kanna Hirayama
• Animation production: TMS Entertainment (Seasons 2 and 3 had production assistance from Studio Comet)
Cast
• Shun Horie as Kazuya Kinoshita
• Sora Amamiya as Chizuru Mizuhara
• Aoi Yuuki as Mami Nanami
• Nao Touyama as Ruka Sarashina
• Rie Takahashi as Sumi Sakurasawa
• Yu Serizawa as Mini Yaemori
Source: @kanokari_anime
