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Overall:3

The concept of rental girlfriends in a romcom was a very interesting idea and I really expected this manga to be a "masterpiece" as a lot of reviewers here claim but I was utterly disappointed.

Characters:2

The MC is a 20 year old virgin, he's really pathetic and he acts like a highschool boy. There isn't anything wrong with it, it's actually a good thing that we can see a character develop from this to a slightly better person while the story goes on but in the latest chapter which I have read(144) this guy still lies to his family for no good reason, has a trial ... gf that loves him? And he let's her be his gf because "IdOnTwAnNaHuRtHeRfEeLiNgS" he's either gonna go with the main heroine which he actually has feelings for or just go full harem cliche and finish it with everyone ends up being happy together which is very unlikely based on the story so far.

The "rental girlfriend" Chizuru Ichinose is actually the only toleratable character for me. She has a dream of becoming an actress, works hard for it, helps the stupid MC lie to his grandparents (wait what) and is a good person in general. She was inspired by her grandmother and movies/theater?(I forgot what she watched) to become and actress, her grandfather was very supportive towards her dream.

Ruka Sarashina is a girl who has a heart disease that makes her heart beat a lot slower than the average person's. She meets the MC then her heart beats fast af for some reason then the MC says a nice thing to her and she decides to be his girlfriend. Now this is very realistic indeed it's almost as if she's not one of those harem girls that loves the MC for some reason.

The other characters are extremely retarded. Why? They think Chizuru is another person when she wears glasses and uses a different hairstyle, the MC's dad think he borrowed money from Chizuru(Is that what comes into your mind first when your son who didn't have a girlfriend for years suddenly has a very beautiful girlfriend?).

Story:1
At the start of the story a massive amount of coincidence and actions that don't make sense happen. The entire fucking story only happens because of their grandparents and idk man doesn't that seem really weak? Yes it is. The story from then on progress in a very stupid ridiculous and slow way, it's so slow it almost turned into a slice of life manga. Finally!! Some development finally happen in the 100th chapters but yeah no nothing's probably gonna happen until the 500th, this story is stretched out for too long and I'm just uninterested in the repeating dates with different girls. It was fine with Mizuhara at first but they just keep adding girls and it's not it's gonna be better with more girls, in hentai that might be the case though. Even though the story is not very good I should be able to enjoy this right? No, I'm not enjoying looking at this MC dig his own grave for 100 chapters and then he finally does something, but did he just say "your dream is my dream?" What the hell I thought only couples did that?or family idk. The guy clearly doesn't have his shit together, often addresses it to himself and other people so he is aware but he doesn't really do anything about it. This guy's 20 years old. He's a nice guy, average nice but he needs to start thinking about his life dude. He spends too much, looks at cleavage,thighs,ass, every part of a girl in every chapter, lies to his family for no good reason, has a trial girlfriend because why not? It's not like I have feelings for this other girl and I'm probably gonna hurt this trial but who cares? She's cute. I would've enjoyed this manga better if his fish was the main character. The movie making arc was great, the MC finally does something logical, every character plays their part, there's development but that just doesn't make up for all the shit that happened on the first 100 chapters.


Art:7
It's fine I'm not really an art critic but it looks good to me soooo.

Enjoyment:2
I just can't enjoy ridiculous coincidences, horrible harem girls, pathetic MC that doesn't change(he's a little nicer now but not nice enough so I can't hate him), adding more girls doesn't help, and so much lies for no good reason I know I've been mentioning him lying to his family lot he doesn't stop there, the guy's digging his own grave and I'm frustrated af here looking at him.

Could've been really better
Would easily be a 10/10