The author of the Kanojo Okarishimasu ( Rent-a-Girlfriend ) manga, Reiji Miyajima , shared one of his first drawings on his official Twitter account.
In the post, Miyajima compares the old drawing with one of his more recent ones of the character Chizuru Mizuhara and adds the hashtag #独学でここまで成長したからお前も頑張れ (I grew up a lot alone, so you can too). Artists use this hashtag as a way of supporting aspiring people, showing “how bad they used to be too”.
In the post he wrote “ Not exactly self-taught! Thanks to the teachings of many teachers who took care of me and the influence of many works, I can draw! “.
Reiji Miyajima's Kanojo Okarishimasu manga has been published by Kodansha in Weekly Shonen Magazine since July 2017, with 27 volumes to date. Furthermore, the manga received a spinoff last year, titled Kanojo Hitoshirimasu , focusing on the character Sumi Sakurasawa.
Synopsis
In Japan, lonely people have a new way out… Online services for renting country, children, and even girlfriends! When Kazuya's true love rejects him, he becomes desperate enough to try, and he is shocked by how cute and caring his surrogate girlfriend is. But she wants to keep their “relationship” a secret, and there's a complication... she goes to the same university as him... and her grandparents are neighbors?! This is how Kazuya discovers that she is not friendly at all in “real life”.
Finally, the first season of the anime was aired in 2020 by the studio TMS Entertainment directed by Kazuomi Koga, the second season is still being released.
Staff
Kazuomi Koga is directing the anime at TMS Entertainment, and Mitsutaka Hirota is supervising the script, Minoru Akiba is the art director. Kanna Hirayama is doing the character design and HYADAIN is composing the anime's music. The halca singer performs the closing song. Both The Peggies and Halca created original music specifically for the anime.
Source: Reiji Miyajima Twitter
