Rent-a-Girlfriend Crowdfunding Campaign Reaches Its Goal In 25 Minutes

Writer Reiji Miyajima revealed on Sunday, Feb 27, 2022, that the crowdfunding advert for Kanojo, Okarishimasu (Lease A Girlfriend) reached its purpose of 6 million yen ( about $52,000 ) simply 25 minutes after it was launched.

The marketing campaign has already hit over 8.1 million yen as of writing the article.

Miyajima launched the crowdfunding marketing campaign on Campfire to pay for an commercial inside Tokyo’s Shibuya Station to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Lease-a-Girlfriend manga in July 2022 and the upcoming second season of the TV anime adaptation.

By way of this, he additionally wished to expertise the feelings of the principle character Kazuya Kinoshita, who ran his personal crowdfunding marketing campaign in one of many Lease-a-Girlfriend manga collection’ arcs.

The commercial will run for one week on the Hachiko 2 board, simply contained in the JR Shibuya Station hall from Hachiko Sq., between July and September of this yr. It’ll characteristic life-sized illustrations of the 4 fundamental feminine characters with a thank-you word for crowd funders.

Since promoting in Shibuya’s key thoroughfares will be extremely costly resulting from excessive demand, the creator took this chance to open his first crowdfunding.

He is not going to solely arrange an advert but additionally produce crowdfunding restricted items and illustrations that he couldn’t put out earlier than.

Lease-A-Girlfriend is a Japanese manga collection written and illustrated by Reiji Miyajima. It has been serialized in Kodansha’s Weekly Shōnen Journal since July 2017 and has been compiled into twenty-four volumes as of December 2021. The collection is licensed in North America by Kodansha USA, which launched the primary quantity in English in June 2020.

An anime tv collection adaptation by TMS Leisure aired from July to September 2020 on MBS’s Tremendous Animeism block. A second season will premiere in 2022.

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