Rent-a-Girlfriend Confirmed for Season 6, Adapting the Cohabitation Arc

A sixth season is on the way

The official account for the Rent-a-Girlfriend anime confirmed on June 26 that the romantic comedy will return for a sixth season. The announcement landed just after the fifth season aired its final episode, and the production team marked the news with a freshly drawn commemorative illustration rather than a trailer or a premiere date.

According to the official post, the sixth season will adapt the manga's Cohabitation arc (Dousei-hen), the next stretch of the story that follows college student Kazuya Kinoshita and his rental girlfriend Chizuru Ichinose. The choice of arc is the most concrete detail in the reveal, signaling where the adaptation will pick up from here.

What we know so far

For now this is a production confirmation and little more. The official announcement did not include a release window, a broadcast date, or new staff and cast information, and reports from The Fandom Post and Crunchyroll likewise note that no timeline accompanied the news. Fans hoping for a premiere date will have to wait for the follow-up updates the official account says are still to come.

What did arrive with the announcement is a celebratory illustration drawn by character designer Kanna Hirayama, showing the series' cast raising glasses together in a toast. It is a fitting send-off for the fifth season and a placeholder of sorts until the production shares firmer details.

Background

The Rent-a-Girlfriend television anime first premiered in July 2020 and has steadily worked its way through the source material across multiple seasons. The fourth and fifth seasons adapted the manga's Hawaiians arc, with the fifth season, which was originally announced as the second cour of the fourth, wrapping up its broadcast and streaming run this June. The sixth-season reveal followed immediately after that finale.

The series is based on Reiji Miyajima's manga, which has run in Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine since 2017 and has grown into a long-running hit, with Kodansha USA Publishing releasing it in English. Across its seasons the anime has tracked Kazuya's tangled arrangement with Chizuru as it slowly shifts from a transactional rental into something more complicated. The Cohabitation arc that season six will cover marks a notable step forward in the central relationship, which is part of why the announcement drew immediate attention from fans even without a date attached.