>"When I started writing Rent-A-Girlfriend, I asked myself, 'How can I NTR my own readers, and how much NTR will my readers take?' Frankly, I'm surprised it's lasted this long... Manga readers are very tolerant to netorare these days. "
>"...By continuing to buy my manga even though they'll never get what they want (laughs) readers, are kind of like Kazuya... I imagine my readers as being pathetic like Kazuya. They want Kazuya to succeed with Chizuru because they see themselves in him..."
>"I will never allow that to happen. "
>"The money that my readers so stupidly squander (laughs) on Rent-A-Girlfriend is sort of like, uh, you can kind of tell... (sic), kind of like Kazuya spending his money on Chizuru."
>"Honestly, at this point, my manga has become something like a social experiment. I don't want anyone to think I take this seriously...I want to know just how far I can push this and still have these horrible people buy my manga."
>"Next week, Kazuya will eat a piece of dog shit off Chizuru's shoe and orgasm from it. That's you, readers. That's what I think of you."
-Reiji Miyajima, 2025 Interview With Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine