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Anime has a long history of female worship, which can have varied reasons and expressions.

Rent-A-Girlfriend, or RAG, as it shall be known, takes this up a notch as the main character, I don’t even want to call him a protagonist, having a moment of weakness after being dumped, decides to use a PG-13 callgirl service. He ends up, through a series of mishaps, lying to everyone in his life and draining the money his parents gave him for school to maintain the lie and retain the callgirl as his “girlfriend” (escort), eventually even falling in love with her as he does.

If this were a comedy pointing out the hilarity of the simp lifestyle or a drama about the dangers of women using their allure to draw men into sinkholes of despair, it would be a top notch series. Unfortunately, the show instead tells the audience that the callgirl isn’t just a flawed person doing a job because she needs the money, but elevates her as a goddess-tier woman.

In this age of OnlyFans and Tinder, young men need a dose of reality about the nature of women. RAG is the opposite.

Anime has a long history of female worship, which can have varied reasons and expressions. Rent-A-Girlfriend, or RAG, as it shall be known, takes this up a notch as the main character, I don’t even want to call him a protagonist, having a moment of weakness after being dumped, decides to use a PG-13 callgirl service. He ends up, through a series of mishaps, lying to everyone in his life and draining the money his parents gave him for school to maintain the lie and retain the callgirl as his “girlfriend” (escort), eventually even falling in love with her as he does. If this were a comedy pointing out the hilarity of the simp lifestyle or a drama about the dangers of women using their allure to draw men into sinkholes of despair, it would be a top notch series. Unfortunately, the show instead tells the audience that the callgirl isn’t just a flawed person doing a job because she needs the money, but elevates her as a goddess-tier woman. In this age of OnlyFans and Tinder, young men need a dose of reality about the nature of women. RAG is the opposite.

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Isn't this similar to the whole host/hostess situation they already have in Japan?

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In a sense, yes. The geisha is a long-standing tradition in Japanese culture, but the geisha’s interactions of artifice, whether sexual in the form of the courtesan (“oiran”) or merely entertainment, were never intended as a substitute for a home, a wife and a family.

Today, young men in metropolitan Japan are eschewing the relationships and exclusively pursuing the “geishas,” whether maids in cafes, hostesses, or even “rental girlfriends” in increasing numbers, as birth rates have been cratering and fewer are opting to wed.