Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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With over 15 million copies in print, Rent-a-Girlfriend is a very successful romantic comedy manga. It's been running weekly for nearly a decade. But the author, Reiji Miyajima, constantly slows down the story and acts like the main character he created, Chizuru Mizuhara, is real. So is he a creep? Or is it all an act designed to troll people and get marketing buzz? Or somewhere in between?