My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, As I Expected
My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, As I Expected (Yahari Ore no Seishun Rabukome wa Machigatteiru, localized as My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU) is a Light Novel written by Wataru Watari, illustrated by Ponkan8 and published by Shogakukan, running since 2011.
Hachiman Hikigaya is a cynical, cynical young man.He is asked to a report about "his high school life" and the result is so depressing that his teacher Shizuka decides to do something about his situation. Basically, she forces him to join a club whose function is helping the other students. The only other member of the club is Yukino Yukinoshita, that is beautiful and smart, but somehow seems to be as lonely and cynical as Hikigaya is. Soon they are joined in by Yui Yuigahama, who is well more lively than the other two but have her own kind of problems. Together, they try to help the problems other students face. But don't believe they can always find the perfect solutions. After all, as Yukino points out, they're only there to "help".
Along with three manga adaptations (two of them being gag manga Yonkoma), an anime series adapting the novel was released in 2013, with a sequel series in 2015.
- Alliterative Name:
- Yukino Yukinoshita.
- Yui Yuigahama.
- Blatant Lies: Hikki's story about "a friend of a friend" is obviously about him, to the point Yukino figures it out almost immediately.
- Brutal Honesty: Something that Yui loves about Yukino, because she loves the honesty, even if it hurts her.
- Defrosting the Ice Queen: What Shizuka expected by putting Hikigaya in the Volunteer Service Club.
- So Beautiful It's a Curse: Yukino is a cute girl that boys love to fawn over. Who could hate her? Other girls, that's the answer. A lot.
- Tall Poppy Syndrome: Yukino suffered from this in the past, that makes Hikigaya reflect about how often is the people on the highest points that suffer more.