Rent-A-Girlfriend, Vol. 2

You can rent a girlfriend, but can you buy love? Hapless freshman Kazuya, reeling from a bad breakup, buys a few hours at the aquarium with the beautiful, polite Chizuru. But rock bottom might be so much lower than he thought Family, school, and life all start to go wrong, and to make matters worse, Chizuru is much more than the pretty face and sweet demeanor he thought he'd bargained for

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 college girlfriend, 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 It's sweet but na ve boy meets cute but ruthless girl in this 21st-century manga rom-com