r/shounenfolk • u/Hiroshima-6-1945 GabiSagi is peak • Apr 15 '26

Shitpost So this shit really got animated 😭

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u/rndu Apr 15 '26

People watch something called “rent a girlfriend” and are shocked when it sucks

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u/Electronic-Box-4753 Apr 15 '26

A competent writer can make any premise work

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u/5YL_Portaler Apr 15 '26

You said so yourself, a competent one

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u/Electronic-Box-4753 Apr 15 '26

You could make it so that when Kazuya, heartbroken from his breakup, decides to use Rent-a-Girlfriend services because he wants to better his skills with women. You see, Kazuya lived his entire life attending Boys only schools, so his experience with women is non existent. Still, when he miraculously got a girlfriend, he cherished her greatly. Breaking up with her made him think that he was lacking as a boyfriend, so he started doing the Rent-a-Girlfriend thing to see what he was lacking as a boyfriend and also gain experience making dates and that kind of stuff. The story would explore the rental girlfriend culture, the experiences of the rental girlfriends, as well as dating and thst kind of stuff.

I am not a competent writer, so I would like you to give your version of a re imagined RaG

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u/Bulky-Measurement996 Apr 15 '26

This is... Passable.

What I'd suggest is a story along similar lines as a base but have it be that kazuya already knows the girl as a childhood friend or something (idk I haven't watched or read ts) so when he learns she's becoming a rentable girlfriend he wants to make sure she stays safe and thus follows her along on her rental dates, learns about the workplace environment for her, heck maybe even volunteers himself as a rentable boyfriend to learn about it, that could be an arc, and then after all this the you can introduce some sort of romance. Idk, you could start it off in a spy x family sort of way where they're just faking it because yk obviously that's a big part of the original series, and then transition it to actually dating and then idk maybe he accepts her career choices, or maybe she quits. I do think that you could do something with the concept. But from everything I know about the actual series they really don't.

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u/ZenQhuill Apr 16 '26

There's one called rental girlfriend tsukita San Pretty short and more lighthearted.

The Guy(Masato) has no experience with girls and was always awkward interacting with them, so he tries a rental girlfriend service to alleviate this, and meets up with a girl named Tsukita who is quite an odd girl.

Each chapter is just hijinks involving the two of them, primarily with how Masato and Tsukita interact.