Hi guys, my fellow anime otaku, let’start to rewatch My Youth Romantic Comedy is Wrong As I Expected . This is a recap/review of the show. It is my first anime review blog. Hope you like it.

Spoilers are present ahead, read at your own risk.

It feels good when you’ve happened to watch an anime that brings so much joy to your heart. As someone who loves watching different shows from mainstream or popular shows to the most underground indie shows, looking for a masterpiece that really suits your taste is like finding your eye contacts dropped somewhere at your yard. Wataru Watari a Japanese light novel author creates a comedy slice-of-life masterpiece that I’ve never seen before. I’ve been living for 25 years in this world and have watched different films and series from top Hollywood shows to the most local shows, but Oregairu or Yahari Ore No Seishun Wa Machiaggate Iru is so great to compare to them.



The story is about a student Hikigaya Hachiman who decided to live his school life alone. He accepts to spend his school life as a loner, no friends, and an obvious introvert. His teacher Hiratsuka-sensei, who read his ridiculous write-ups about “evil youth life”, counsels him to stop being a loner and suggests him to live his life on how most youth should live it. She immediately forces Hachiman to enter the Service Club as a new member. The Service Club has only one member at that time; she’s Yukino Yukinoshita a Class 2J – International Class student in the same year as Hachiman. Yukino is also a loner and has no friends like Hachiman. Their difference is that Hachiman chose to spend his youth as a loner and disregard the importance of people around him while Yukino advocates changing the people around her and intends to spend her youth happier as possible. In other words, Yukino still hopes for the better while Hikigaya already gives up and embrace his situation. Nonetheless, they are almost similar in so many points that make the club an intellect clash between the same poles of a magnet. Service Club is a club that helps students to solve their problems. It was formed solely by Yukino for whatever reason which not even mentioned anyway. The tale of these two loners began as different characters ask for help about their personal problems and clashes of ideas after ideas presented intellectually throughout the show between our two protagonists.



Oregairu is generally a slice of life anime that offers several scenarios most of us could relate unless you’ve already born as a rockstar or has some tremendous prideful mental tendency. Its title has “comedy” and “romantic” on it but the comedy here are mostly smart jokes which are not for everyone while the romance is almost nothing until the second season.



I feel interested and curious about how artfully written the dialogues of the characters. It’s very mindblowing to hear their dialogue. They’re easy to comprehend and surprisingly brilliant. Hachiman’s monologues have a bunch of awesome smart points and figures of speech that I’ve never heard before. Example of one of his monologue is: “Animals naturally form packs. Carnivores form social hierarchies within their packs. Those that fail to become alphas harbor the burden of failure until they die. I’m sure herbivores feel guilt as they sacrifice their comrades to evade their predators and live on. In this world, forming packs yield to no benefit for the individual. Thus, I chose the way of solitary bear, which does not form packs. The bear finds no anxiety in living alone. He is proud. He is a lone wolf.”



He is referring about his class gathering in groups as the “animal packs”. The alpha is the more influential and charismatic within the group while those who are not part of the group “the herbivores” submit easily to more influential group in the class whenever they want something. The scene shows you the student playing his PSP easily get daunt by Tobecchi – a part of Hayama’s group (the most influential group in his class). He insists that forming groups doesn’t benefit everyone. That’s why he claims he chose to be a loner or “solitary bear”. Yukinoshita also has her pieces of quotes too. When Yuigahama expresses to Yukino that at least she’s not the only one who has no talent in cooking, Yukino then replies: “Could you stop trying to match the people around you? Don’t you feel ashamed trying to blame your own clumsiness, unsightliness, and foolishness to others?” Blunt, it may be but she has a point.



Another thing that feeds my enjoyment of this series is how fun listening to them bickering on each other – especially between Yukino and Hachiman. There are several scenes of Hachiman justifying his outlook according to his past experience, and then Yukino roasts him sarcastically. One of which is in Episode 2 where Yui asks his number.



The three main protagonists from left: Yui Yuigahama, Yukino Yukinoshita and Hikigaya Hachiman

Yui: You sure your fingers aren’t just weak because you don’t have anyone to text.



Hachiman: How rude. I texted girls in middle school too. You see when we changed classes, I took out my phone and ask her number, she said “I guess we should exchange numbers” At the very least, I was that social.



Yukino: “I guess? Sometimes kindness can be cruel.”



Hachiman: “Hey don’t look down on me! I texted her after that, you know.”



Hachiman: “She was a very healthy and reserved girl. I mean I texted her at 7 pm, and she replied the next morning ‘Sorry I was asleep. See you at school.’ She was that healthy.”



Yui: “That’s like…”



Yukino: “She pretended to be sleep and ignored your text. Hikigaya, stop averting your eyes from reality.”



There are plenty of dialogues like this that you could relate to. The musical score also is on point on every mood of the scene. Combined with its subtle animation, the atmosphere of the series seemed beautifully integrated. The first season shows mostly the slice of life, comedy, and few sights of drama. After watching this anime you would feel like the story is just about Volunteers’ Club doing their thing. Well, the second season is where the plot thickens and the characters development gets complicated. My Youth Romantic Comedy is Wrong as I Expected Too or Oregairu Season 2 is like the climax point of whatever entails from the first season.

To continue the discussion for the next season of our anime Oregairu, wait for the next update of my blog. Thank you for reading my first blog.