Chizuru Mizuhara

Chizuru Mizuhara is the professional rental-girlfriend name used by Chizuru Ichinose in Rent-a-Girlfriend. She is a university student and aspiring actress who becomes entangled in Kazuya Kinoshita's family life after a rental date.

Chizuru Mizuhara behind the rental persona

Disciplined, compassionate, and guarded, Chizuru maintains a polished professional persona while hiding insecurity about her career and grief over her family. She dislikes Kazuya's dishonesty but repeatedly helps him when others would be hurt.

Acting ambition, family grief, and Kazuya

Chizuru studies acting, works through the rental service, and carefully separates her public identities. Her relationship with Kazuya deepens through the film made for her grandmother Sayuri, while rivalry with Mami, Ruka, and Sumi complicates feelings she resists naming.