My Teen Romantic Comedy is Wrong as Expected/ Yahari Ore no Seishun Rabu Kome wa Machigatteiru

My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU or My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU (やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている。 Yahari Ore no Seishun Rabu Kome wa Machigatteiru, lit. "My youth romantic comedy is wrong as I expected."), also known in the short forms Hamachi (はまち?) and OreGairu (俺ガイル?).

Ahahaha. I kept on laughing when I watched this anime. Why? Because I love his twisted way of thinking. Hachiman is an anti-social creature with a remarkable talent in influencing people with his pessimistic but realistic opinions. He thinks literally, out of the box and with his crude personality, he answers question in science with words like, “Animals generally form groups. Carnivores have a hierarchy, and those that don’t manage to get to the top of the food chain will live a life of constant stress. Herbivores have their own problems, like being forced to abandon their own survive enemy attacks. As you can see, being in a group brings no advantages to the individual. Thus, I choose to be the bear, a beast that refuses to form groups with others. It’s an animal of isolation that’s not at all worried about its solitary lifestyle. Let’s not forget that bears get to hibernate as well. Oh, what a wonderful existence. If I’m ever reincarnated, I most certainly would like to be reborn as a bear.” One day he was brought by his guidance counselor to a room and introduced him to outlandishly gifted woman named Yukino Yukinoshita. Together, they formed the service club which intends to help others. Their first client Yui Yuigahama became part of their club as well. They got along well in a sense but circumstances suddenly hindered them from becoming closer to one another.

On the first day of high school, Hachiman had an accident while trying to save Yui’s dog. He wasn’t able to attend school for three weeks. Yui thought that if such did not happen, things could have been different for Hachiman. He might have been a “better” person. Hachiman, on the other hand, thinks that Yui’s feelings for him are purely out of guilt. Thus, he indirectly rejected her. He also distanced himself from Yukino when he found out that the car which rammed into him belongs to her.  In the end, they managed to settle their misunderstanding.





His point of view is plausible but it lacks emotion. Not for others but for himself. He say things that hurt others but unknown to others, he also bears the pain of reality. He shoulders the anger of others while making them do what needs to be done. His classmates thought he’s evil. For me, he’s a man who clenches his fist and accepts that somebody needs to be inhuman to make the others human. Am I getting anywhere here?

By the way, I'm still reading the light novel version so I might post again about this ;)