The Season 5 finale of Rent-A-Girlfriend dropped on Crunchyroll on Friday, and the official account wasted no time delivering the follow-up news Singapore fans of the series had been hoping for: a sixth season is confirmed, adapting the manga’s Cohabitation arc (also known as the Dousei-hen).
What the Cohabitation Arc Covers
The Cohabitation arc is exactly what it sounds like: Kazuya Kinoshita and Chizuru Ichinose end up sharing a living space, a development that forces a situation the rental-girlfriend arrangement has spent five seasons carefully avoiding. Without spoiling Season 5, the Hawaiians arc laid the groundwork for this shift — and the Cohabitation stretch is widely regarded by manga readers as the point where the relationship dynamics finally start to move in ways that feel earned.
Character designer Hiroshi Hirayama marked the announcement with a celebratory illustration showing Kazuya, Chizuru, and Mini raising glasses together — appropriately festive rather than informative, which is exactly what you’d expect from an announcement this early in production.
What We Know (and Don’t Know) About Season 6
The announcement carries almost no production specifics: no premiere window, no broadcast schedule, no new staff additions. What is confirmed is that TMS Entertainment continues as the production house, director Kazuomi Koga remains at the helm, and the full voice cast returns — Shun Horie (Kazuya), Sora Amamiya (Chizuru), Aoi Yuki (Mami), and Nao Higashiyama, Rie Takahashi and Yu Serizawa for the rest of the main cast. Same team, next chapter.
What This Means for Crunchyroll Viewers in Singapore
Crunchyroll has been the home for the series since Season 1, and Seasons 4 and 5 both streamed with same-day simulcast for Singapore subscribers. There’s no reason to expect Season 6 to change that arrangement, though nothing is confirmed until Crunchyroll makes an official licensing announcement.
Rent-A-Girlfriend has always generated strong reactions on both sides — it’s one of those titles where the discourse is half the entertainment. But Seasons 4 and 5 have generally been received as the series getting its narrative house in order, and the Cohabitation arc is specifically the stretch that manga readers most often point to when they say the story gets good. If you’ve been on the fence about continuing after any previous season, this might be the arc worth waiting for.
Keep an eye on Crunchyroll and the manga-anime section here for a premiere date when it drops.