#8 Kazuya Kinoshita and like every woman on Earth (Rent-A-Girlfriend)

If you enjoy getting frustrated at every turn with an anime character, Rent-A-Girlfriend is the show for you. As one might surmise from the title, Rent-A-Girlfriend is about a high schooler named Kazuya Kinoshita who uses a rental dating app. Kazuya, however, is a degenerate who, upon going on a date with Chizuru Mizuhara, publicly shames her for doing her job. He then coerces her to keep up their charade by lying to their grandmothers about their romantic status.

I couldn’t limit Kazuya to just having a toxic relationship with Chizuru because he has a frustrating relationship with just about every woman in the anime, barring Sumi Sakurasawa. Much like how It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is a spiritual successor to the misadventures of the Seinfeld gang, Rent-A-Girlfriend is what would happen if Scott Pilgrim’s main character never learned to stop being a self-important P.O.S. While the manga gives him a glimmer of character development, the damage of his past pigheadedness, and characters routinely never calling him out on it, is far too great to ignore.

Read More: Rent-A-Girlfriend Is A Surprisingly Honest Comedy About Paying For Intimacy