![]() It all came to a head, and I’ll be blunt about it so spoilers, with the release of chapter 218 in late 2021. People, it seemed, collectively changed their minds about KanoKari. Something that pretty rarely happens in my very niche line of work in being a professional political anime hater. First, proving the story is not well-written, then, proving a lot of the show’s premises are false, then proving all the creepy shit and sexism that’s there is actually there.īut then, something magical happened. I always figured “the KanoKari essay” would be an uphill battle. The show’s female lead, Ichinose Chizuru, was slated to be the best female character of the year, only missing out on the title in the 2020 Crunchyroll awards because she competed against the legendary Kaguya Shinomiya from Love is War. The most popular anime podcast around, Trash Taste, called it the best new anime in Summer 2020, and the second-best anime overall after the returning anime Re:Zero. See, there was a time, in late 2020 to early 2021, where saying “ Rent-a-Girlfriend is a bad show” was a hot take. People I know have tackled this show, like the joyce-stick system who I will always say got it first and got it right with their video. But, until now, for various reasons, I’ve sort of just sat back and watched the discussion unfold. ![]() As usual I have a lot of Things to Say About Stuff (tm). This essay will still hit a lot of those beats. How the show is designed to make you think that progress is being made as it regurgitates the status quo again and again and again.ĭon’t get me wrong. ![]() How people are mistaking a pretty girl with a spicy ‘tude for an actual, uh, character with agency and a personality. How I’ve watched this show with people who have various experiences with abusive partners and how they’ve told me those experiences track with the show almost 1:1. It would be this whole thing about how everyone basically ignored the fact that the main character of this thing acts almost exactly like an abuser. And how it’s only popular because there are too many damn incels who would rather jack off to a pretty fictional girl than clean themselves up and get on Tinder. Now, if it were 2020, I’d write a whole thing. But it only really rose to prominence in Summer 2020 with the release of the anime adaptation by the same name. So, just to get everyone up to speed, Rent-a-Girlfriend is a manga that started serialization in 2017. The chapter is the first time the story sheds a light on the owning class’s lol, lmaoīut could you imagine? Like, KanoKari? Being profound? Ah, that’s funny, that’s funny. To the point where even romance, an intimate and almost universal emotion, is rendered a commodity to be bought and sold on a market for profit. The economic mode of production we all find ourselves subject to forces us into a performance without end. In this moment, the story acknowledges the psychological toll of romance under capitalism. For a story that takes, as its premise, a service where women act as a man’s perfect girlfriend for a man for a fee, it is probably the most introspective the story has ever been about its characters.
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