My youth romantic comedy is wrong, as i expected

Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru. (Brains Base) – Genre: Comedy, Romance, School

A high school club made up of social outcasts. It’s a been there, done that concept, but this series with the verbose title provides a unique spin on the cynical high school anime experience. Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigattieru (otherwise known as “My youth teen comedy is wrong as I expected, “My Teen romantic Comedy SNAFU, “Hamachi,” or “Oregairu”) centers around the “Volunteer Service Club,” which helps people who come to them with requests. The odd thing about the club is that it only has one member at the start of the series. The sole thành viên is Yukino Yukinoshita (CV: Saori Hayami, as in Tsuruko from Ano Hana), a pretty girl who has grown distant from others because of how they view her.

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Our “hero” of this twisted fairy tale is Hachiman Hikigaya (CV: Takuya Eguchi, as in Kazuya from Gosick), whose misanthropic perspective is a byproduct of the social trauma that he’s been subjected to lớn all his life. This causes his personality to be constantly sour, but still comical & always very ironic. The third core member of the club is Yui Yuigahama (CV: Nao Touyama, as in Kanon from The World God Only Knows 3), a ditzy but kind-hearted girl who has difficulty making good friends.

Most episodes have the club solving some sort of trouble that is presented for them, all while idealism & realism clash. Hikigaya claims that the general youth populace is full of kém chất lượng crap, và trouble typically arises when he has to lớn cooperate with the societal hypocrites known as his classmates. For all intents & purposes, Hachiman Hikigaya is the Holden Caulfield of the anime world. It’s this embodiment of the antisocial mentality that I think a lot of people (myself included) can relate to in some khung or another. While Hikigaya most definitely steals the show, there are other very interesting characters that we meet along the way lượt thích a helpless otaku-chuunibyou & an irresistible trap character.

High school series often get bashed for being cookie-cutter & mundane. Sure, there are no big monsters to lớn fight or evil demons to vanquish, but they can sometimes show that the most sinister demons are the internal ones. The fact there is fear, hatred, and jealousy that naturally exists in the human heart, và that they control much of our actions might be more terrifying than any monster.

Oregairu shows us that high school can be a battlefield lượt thích no other, và the strongest weapons are words and wit. This is how Hikigaya chooses to lớn fight, with verbal assaults on the human psyche. There isn’t much worse for a high school teenager than lớn have his or her true colors exposed, especially by a nobody lượt thích Hikigaya. Of course, this method of warfare doesn’t actually vì chưng favors for Hikigaya’s public image really, making him a tragic anh hùng of sorts.

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Despite all the doom and gloom about the human condition, Oregairu maintains its status as a romcom. Hikigaya’s inner và outer monologues are hilarious to lớn listen to, & banter between him và his intellectual equal Yukino are great. Yui mostly just sits there, not understanding. Some might argue that she’s a useless character in this regard, but I disagree. Yui’s different from Yukino & Hikigaya. She’s much more optimistic và I think it says a lot that she’s able khổng lồ infiltrate the self-defense walls that they have put up for themselves all their lives.

The only problem I really had with Oregairu was the disappointing animation quality. As much as I love Brains Base (my đứng đầu three favorite series were produced by them), their production unique is incredibly inconsistent. The character designs are great, but the animation just looks very unclean. It makes me wonder what would happen if it were done by any other studio… Though it must be said that I love the OP and the ED.

Speaking of other studios, I can’t help but compare Oregairu to SHAFT’s Monogatari series, both of which are heavily driven by dialogue. The relationship between Hikigaya & Yukino is also reminiscent of the one between Araragi and Senjougahara. I might get flak for saying this, but I lượt thích to think of Oregairu as Monogatari without the ghosts, pretentious animation, & roundabout conversations.

Oregairu is about real people with real problems. Even for people lượt thích Hikigaya or Yukino, who think they have the world figured out, have a thing or two khổng lồ learn from each other and the world outside of their little bubble. The series has a distinct lack of concrete romantic development, though, I guess that’s khổng lồ be expected with the title that it has. Because of how the characters are, the story works without needing romance, but I definitely wouldn’t mind seeing some in the possible future. With characters like these, romantic elements actually makes things much more interesting. While no 2nd season has been announced as of yet, a PS Vita trò chơi is set lớn be released in September, as well as an spin-off episode.

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If you wanna watch an intellectual, comedic high school anime series (and aren’t put off by the animation), definitely give Oregairu a chance. Your enjoyment level may vary depending on how much you resent society.