I offer my condolences to everyone who happened to see the chapter 218 leaks. This manga has run its course and has decided to try whatever it can to stay relevant. I cannot even begin to express my genuine disappointment. I read 217 chapters for this ????
Edit - The problem is not that Umi had sex with Chizuru, because he didn't and it would be okay if he did because it's Chizuru's business who she decides to fuck. The problem I have is that Kazuya imagined himself getting cucked and got hard to it, ruining all his character development and Reiji drew 8 pages of borderline hentai.
Edit 2 - The chapter wasn't as bad as I thought it would be but it is still completely pathetic and disgusting.
I think Reiji just wants to draw doujins
I know this is an old thread. but I think he does doujin arts from the series in his patreon. While I'm not 100% sure, since it's been a while, I think he said in an interview that he did something like that, so fans don't have to rely on third party artist, they can just get what they want from the original source (himself).
I might be mistaken, and Reiji is not the one who said it, but I get a feeling that he was the one mangaka that I heard saying that.
I just started the anime out of curiosity,
currently on episode 2 and i already want to drop it.
Okay so, I just went and checked the leaks... One question, was he imagining all of that or did that happen for real?
Kazuya is imagining it, Chizuru did no such thing lol
That's reassuring but woah, even after 200 chapters kazuya hasn't changed a bit ?
From what I have seen in anime so far it seems there isn't any story in this but Is there any progress with the character relationship/interactions, or is every chapter is just Kazuya getting "depressed" blaming himself and then fappping
I don’t think it ruins the manga at all it’s really just the main character being the character he has been all along and imagining a worst case scenario of someone else getting with his girl, but somehow getting turned on by it?? I know Kazuya doesn’t always make sense to me either. What’s tough for me is that Chizuru is my favorite character and now people gonna view her as a hentai character or something when she didn’t even do anything, another character just imagined her having sex and the author went overboard with what he drew
you hit the nail on the head, i legit feel the same way especially what you said about chizuru in the end. I liked her character too and honestly I liked her the way she already was but it was so out of pocket for Reiji to just do something like this even if it was technically “ imaginary.” like bro keep it in ur imagination don’t actually draw it like that lmao
yeah i agree completely.
After getting "rejected" by Chizuru it's possible that kazuya would imagine her with umi (who is better than kazuya in every way possible) and feel sad about it
My problem with the chapter is the fact that he gets turned on by HIS IMAGINATION OF HIMSELF GETTING CUCKED (just like he did with Mami at the beginning of the story) and the fact that Reiji decided to draw 8 whole pages of what is basically a hentai.
OFF TOPIC BTW
I feel like people will still try to analyze everything, including his fantasy, in the chapter but so far my idea of everything is that
Despite Kazuya’s efforts to try to redeem and make himself into a better man, after getting rejected he ultimately falls back to square 1 and sinks even further as he imagines VIVDLY the worst possible case and although his feelings for chizuru are strong his body betrays his mind showing that he is still weak, the end alexa cue marvin’s room
wait, he gets rejected??? bruh
well, actually It wasn’t the rejection you think it is, basically before kazuya could actually say anything chizuru ran away bc mami was about to spill the truth to kaz’s grandma. so she ran away to protect kazuya but kaz being the overthinking fish that he is assuming the worst.
maybe I’m just mature but the sex scenes aren’t the end of the world to me, Berserk has some extremely graphic and honestly disturbing sex scenes and is one of if not the highest rated manga on this site, Evangelion shows Shinji masturbating over Asuka’s unconscious body in the hospital and Evangelion is thought of as a deep, thought provoking work. I’m not really offended at all I just think it was really outta pocket
I love Berserk from the bottom of my heart. I loved End of Evangelion. The graphic scenes and nudity add to the gritty realism of the Berserk world and the masturbation scene drives home how helpless and alone Shinji is. We've already seen Kazuya fap to being cucked before. I didn't need 8 pages of the same thing again especially when it's very clearly fanservice. (Rent-a-Girlfriend and Berserk or Evangelion shouldnt even be brought up in the same conversation lmao)
just saying that a sex scene doesn’t necessarily ruin a work and that some works are still really highly regarded despite having such scenes, I just think much less of Kazuya now but I never read the manga for him in the first place, I did root for him because he’s trying to get with a girl way out of his league but this was just sad, I don’t know how I could root for him now
You did not just compare the bullshittery from chapter 218 to Berserk and Evangelion, you just did not.... Man, this is why I hate KanoKari fans. You're forgetting that Chizuru is a fan-favourite character. So seeing your fan-favourite character being cucked and saying it doesn't ruin the manga makes you mature?
I would hate Berserk too if Guts got a boner while seeing his loved one being fucked by someone else. Please pack your bags.
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Berserk is kinda weird with how it handles sex, since it doesn't go far enough with the rape to make it as fucked up as it should be IMO, and gives most women very attractive (model-like) bodies, while not showing the struggle or distress to a sufficient degree.
The fucked up thing about sexuality is that Guts could very well have that happen to him, just as a woman being raped might experience an orgasm;
that's a pretty uncomfortable truth (though (male) writers seem to be more than willing to 'confront' it happening to women... not to any seriously psychologically analysed degree of course).
But you seem to conceptually hate Guts having the instinctual reaction of being turned on, yet not have that response to Casca experiencing an orgasm...
It doesn't really make sense to me as anything other than an ''but Guts is me'' thing or something, or ''but Guts is cool''.. IDK
I think Wolf Guy Ookami no Monshou is a story in which rape is portrayed sufficiently shockingly, which is also why I would not recommend it.
I think Berserk would be better if it simply didn't make every naked woman have such a perfect body, it starts to feel like it's fanservice, and if it gave far more distressed and struggling unattractive behaviour, that would be good too.
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this tweet and the first reply to it have all 8 pages !NSFW LINK! https://mobile.twitter.com/zerods_/status/1475707261729316869
what exactly is going on? Can someone explain it to a non-manga reader (that doesnt give a shit about the series) Thanks.
The mangaka had Kazuya (the mc) try to confess to Chizuru (the main girl) after 216 fucking painful chapters only for her to run away because of a side plot. Kazuya then imagines Chizuru having rough sex with a hot guy named Umi and gets turned on by it while swimming and starts crying under the water. The main character got hard from his own fantasy of himself getting cucked and the mangaka decided to draw 8 full pages of Chizuru getting fucked by Umi.
What is up with people expecting quality from a manga called ''rent a girlfriend'' ??
And apparently the problem is that someone else has sex with a female character besides the main character?
How is that unexpected or a detractor for people that started reading a story titled ''RENT A GIRLFRIEND''????
The first and foremost most clear thing the title implies is that people are gonna rent the same girl, this is so clearly set up in the very title of the manga, I don't see how anyone not into NTR started reading it (?_ ? )
I dropped this manga maybe on chapter 150 or 130 something. Based on what I saw in the latest chapter, I did not regret dropping it, the progression of the story is sht ( took too long for confessions and sht used of other side characters). And now the author pulled up some sh*t, I am so disappointed, really thinking how [redacted] the author is.