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やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている。 #2
やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている。2
話題沸騰！ひねくれ男のダメ青春第二弾！！
相も変わらず、ひねくれ者故に友達も彼女もいない高校生・八幡。毒舌残念美少女の雪乃、ちょっぴりおバカな結衣と美少女2人と奉仕部で過ごすも、だらだらとマンガを読むなどする日々。
リア充とはほど遠い0点の青春を送る八幡たちに奉仕部に持ち込まれた新しい依頼は、クラス内での「事件」の解決だった！？
得意技はクラス内で気配を消すことと人間観察。適職は忍者と豪語する八幡の能力が発動！？
どう考えても頑張りどころを間違え、さらに加速するひねくれ男のダメ青春。新キャラ登場＆八幡の妹・小町も活躍の第二弾登場！
第3回小学館ライトノベル大賞、ガガガ大賞作家の渡 航（わたり・わたる）が残念系ラブコメに参戦。売り切れ店続出で大注目のシリーズ。
1巻の帯に続き2巻も人気ライトノベル作家のお墨付きを得て、勢いはさらに加速！
相も変わらず、ひねくれ者故に友達も彼女もいない高校生・八幡。毒舌残念美少女の雪乃、ちょっぴりおバカな結衣と美少女2人と奉仕部で過ごすも、だらだらとマンガを読むなどする日々。
リア充とはほど遠い0点の青春を送る八幡たちに奉仕部に持ち込まれた新しい依頼は、クラス内での「事件」の解決だった！？
得意技はクラス内で気配を消すことと人間観察。適職は忍者と豪語する八幡の能力が発動！？
どう考えても頑張りどころを間違え、さらに加速するひねくれ男のダメ青春。新キャラ登場＆八幡の妹・小町も活躍の第二弾登場！
第3回小学館ライトノベル大賞、ガガガ大賞作家の渡 航（わたり・わたる）が残念系ラブコメに参戦。売り切れ店続出で大注目のシリーズ。
1巻の帯に続き2巻も人気ライトノベル作家のお墨付きを得て、勢いはさらに加速！
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First published July 20, 2011
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January 16, 2020
"School wasn't just a place where you took classes. At it's heart, it's a microcosm of society, a miniature garden populated by every type of human being on this Earth. And so in high school people have their wars and disputes through the form of bullying, and just like any stratified society high school has a clear social hierarchy. Of course, since it's a democracy, the theory of strength in numbers apply too. The majority - and those with majority of friends - rule."
- Hachiman Hikigaya
- Hachiman Hikigaya
August 10, 2017
Nowhere near as incisive with its invective, and nowhere near as brilliant with its emotional detachment, the experience of Hachiman Hikigaya in MY YOUTH ROMANTIC COMEDY . . . #2 is less the traumatic underpinning of youth gone quietly awry than it is the raw materialization of conscientious complacency. Hikigaya is still bold, brooding, and filled with hatred for the world . . . only less so. This second volume in this light-novel series views Hikigaya less as a secular individual against the teeming masses, and instead pries open the character's emotional inclination toward the group of so-called friends in his so-called club at his so-called school.
To be fair, MY YOUTH ROMANTIC COMEDY . . . #2 does retain the pragmatic, loner qualities of young male teendom. However, beyond this boilerplate, the narrative lacks a common voice, and it suffers from abnormally slow pacing. There are, to wit, long stretches of the novel in which nothing happens. The first 50 pages of the book are a good example, with little of consequence occurring beyond characters milling about their classes, shadowed by Hikigaya's paranoid over-explanations (as if it were necessary for him to fill in or re-educate readers on what they didn't miss between books).
This second volume is softer and more lumbering than the first. Most prescient is how the author deliberately contrives an array of dull and lingering conversations as vehicles for students to solicit help from the Service Club. The author seems averse to having characters engage directly. Characters often take a more circuitous route: using hints, whispers, midterm exams, sideways glances, and more, to explore or explain their motives. In other words, the author is writing this as if it were an anime program, and not an actual novel. Bad idea.
Many of these roundabout dynamics should have been omitted. The new-to-class truant is avoiding responsibility? Okay. But why pop the character in and out of the story, stringing readers along for the duration of the book? It's such a waste of energy. Instead, just throw her into the mix and let the characters engage and adapt.
The expanded story understandably brings with it the more standard tropes of romantic comedy, but that doesn't excuse the author from abdicating the narrative elements and character dynamics that made the title so loveable in the first place.
Yukinoshita, for example, has a considerably diminished role. The girl's chilly demeanor and frank disposition remain unchanged; and yet, the author's interest in charting her relational growth is in direct conflict with her uniqueness. In MY YOUTH ROMANTIC COMEDY . . . #2, while there are moments when her banter with Hikigaya are fantastically on point, there are also moments when her banter is dry, stilted, and severed with a surprise word of agreement (read: evidence she's "getting along").
Is this a consequence of a growing cast (fewer page-time for the primary female protagonist)? Is this evidence of a more coherent interweaving of character motives ("To have friends is to accept the difficulties that come with them," p. 82)? A pessimistic reader will surely fail to reconcile one of these questions with the other.
More pragmatically, it appears the pairing of Yukinoshita and Hikigaya is getting an nudge. Fun, yes. But it could do more harm than good. If Yukinishita is at her best when fully at odds with Hikigaya, then why mess with the formula? Yukinoshita isn't made more relatable by being "on the same page" as others. No. She's made more relatable by her breezy indignation of the idiocy of her friends -- that is to say, when she stays true to her own interests no matter the situation (and no matter the consequences).
MY YOUTH ROMANTIC COMEDY . . . #2 is fun. Not as sharp as the first volume, but still quite fun. Yuigahama's affection. Totsuka's insufferable cuteness. Hikigaya's bored exterior. It's all there and it's all quite fun. Hopefully, future stories will be less meandering and will return to the singular, biting ungratefulness that lends Hikigaya his unique voice.
To be fair, MY YOUTH ROMANTIC COMEDY . . . #2 does retain the pragmatic, loner qualities of young male teendom. However, beyond this boilerplate, the narrative lacks a common voice, and it suffers from abnormally slow pacing. There are, to wit, long stretches of the novel in which nothing happens. The first 50 pages of the book are a good example, with little of consequence occurring beyond characters milling about their classes, shadowed by Hikigaya's paranoid over-explanations (as if it were necessary for him to fill in or re-educate readers on what they didn't miss between books).
This second volume is softer and more lumbering than the first. Most prescient is how the author deliberately contrives an array of dull and lingering conversations as vehicles for students to solicit help from the Service Club. The author seems averse to having characters engage directly. Characters often take a more circuitous route: using hints, whispers, midterm exams, sideways glances, and more, to explore or explain their motives. In other words, the author is writing this as if it were an anime program, and not an actual novel. Bad idea.
Many of these roundabout dynamics should have been omitted. The new-to-class truant is avoiding responsibility? Okay. But why pop the character in and out of the story, stringing readers along for the duration of the book? It's such a waste of energy. Instead, just throw her into the mix and let the characters engage and adapt.
The expanded story understandably brings with it the more standard tropes of romantic comedy, but that doesn't excuse the author from abdicating the narrative elements and character dynamics that made the title so loveable in the first place.
Yukinoshita, for example, has a considerably diminished role. The girl's chilly demeanor and frank disposition remain unchanged; and yet, the author's interest in charting her relational growth is in direct conflict with her uniqueness. In MY YOUTH ROMANTIC COMEDY . . . #2, while there are moments when her banter with Hikigaya are fantastically on point, there are also moments when her banter is dry, stilted, and severed with a surprise word of agreement (read: evidence she's "getting along").
Is this a consequence of a growing cast (fewer page-time for the primary female protagonist)? Is this evidence of a more coherent interweaving of character motives ("To have friends is to accept the difficulties that come with them," p. 82)? A pessimistic reader will surely fail to reconcile one of these questions with the other.
More pragmatically, it appears the pairing of Yukinoshita and Hikigaya is getting an nudge. Fun, yes. But it could do more harm than good. If Yukinishita is at her best when fully at odds with Hikigaya, then why mess with the formula? Yukinoshita isn't made more relatable by being "on the same page" as others. No. She's made more relatable by her breezy indignation of the idiocy of her friends -- that is to say, when she stays true to her own interests no matter the situation (and no matter the consequences).
MY YOUTH ROMANTIC COMEDY . . . #2 is fun. Not as sharp as the first volume, but still quite fun. Yuigahama's affection. Totsuka's insufferable cuteness. Hikigaya's bored exterior. It's all there and it's all quite fun. Hopefully, future stories will be less meandering and will return to the singular, biting ungratefulness that lends Hikigaya his unique voice.
August 11, 2021
"'So are you allergic or something?'
'No, that's not the problem… Um, cats can disappear, you know? So, they make me kind of sad,' [Yuigahama] confessed, very unlike her usual chipper self. Her eyes were timid and sad. Her pace slowed, and I naturally slowed to match her. 'I used to live in an apartment complex. Back then, there was a fad of secretly keeping a pet cat.'
'First I've heard of a fad like that.'
'Kids living in apartments go through phases! You can't keep pets in an apartment, you know? So you can take in a stray cat and hide it from your parents. But at some point, it disappeared…' She giggled evasively.
So that's why she didn't like them. I wonder how losing the cat had affected her at that age. She'd treasured it so much, bonded with it and gotten close, but even so, it had disappeared. Maybe wondering why it had run off had made her resent it. She might have even felt betrayed. But she probably knew by now that cats leave their owners when they sense they're about to die. Now that she was older, I wondered how Yuigahama looked back on the parting. Maybe she regretted it."
'No, that's not the problem… Um, cats can disappear, you know? So, they make me kind of sad,' [Yuigahama] confessed, very unlike her usual chipper self. Her eyes were timid and sad. Her pace slowed, and I naturally slowed to match her. 'I used to live in an apartment complex. Back then, there was a fad of secretly keeping a pet cat.'
'First I've heard of a fad like that.'
'Kids living in apartments go through phases! You can't keep pets in an apartment, you know? So you can take in a stray cat and hide it from your parents. But at some point, it disappeared…' She giggled evasively.
So that's why she didn't like them. I wonder how losing the cat had affected her at that age. She'd treasured it so much, bonded with it and gotten close, but even so, it had disappeared. Maybe wondering why it had run off had made her resent it. She might have even felt betrayed. But she probably knew by now that cats leave their owners when they sense they're about to die. Now that she was older, I wondered how Yuigahama looked back on the parting. Maybe she regretted it."
March 31, 2018
This was a nice read. The main plot was about Kawasaki in this volume which showed us a little reality and that not everything can be solved so easily. There are tons of references and if you do not know much about the Japanese culture they can be off-putting. Luckily I did not have this problem. The characters are complex and changing. The ending was a really strong one, Hikigaya's thoughts can be really deep when he is not thinking about random stuffs.
July 4, 2017
I think the reason why I like the SNFU books as much as I do is because of how different they are from other English language light novels on the market. It's refreshing to read a story where no one is reincarnated in an alternative universe or granted super powers. It just a simple (but clever) high school romcom.
March 8, 2018
Tập 2 dùng giấy mỏng hơn tập 1, nhẹ hơn tui cầm cũng thoải mái hơn. Cậu Chán dịch mềm mại hơn bạn Thảo Aki, tui đọc dễ vào hơn.
Đọc nguyên tác mới thấy thực ra Brain’s Base chuyển thể khá tốt, nói chung ấn tượng về 8man trong bản chuyển thể thế nào thì đọc nguyên tác cũng hình dung ra y như vậy, không thiếu một phân không thừa một ly.
Đọc nguyên tác mới thấy thực ra Brain’s Base chuyển thể khá tốt, nói chung ấn tượng về 8man trong bản chuyển thể thế nào thì đọc nguyên tác cũng hình dung ra y như vậy, không thiếu một phân không thừa một ly.
October 8, 2020
Is it odd that I heard “Hello Alone - Yui Ballade Version” after I read the last chapter?
Yes, I did read the translator notes. Lots of detail that didn’t come across as important when watching the anime.
I’m going to be able to meet my 2020 reading goal after I finish reading all these books, right?
Yes, I did read the translator notes. Lots of detail that didn’t come across as important when watching the anime.
I’m going to be able to meet my 2020 reading goal after I finish reading all these books, right?
October 12, 2017
Like the first volume, this is more of a collection of loosely linked stories than a proper novel. The final story is quite good and captures the teenage experience in a way most LNs don't, but the rest of the book has a certain there-ish quality to it.
June 16, 2019
this volume is normal. It isnt different from anime version. It is less funny than vol 1. But finally, i could understand why Hachiman and Yuigahama have trouble in their relationship. Because there wasn't anything new so i couldnt be patient to finish this book early like vol 1.
January 1, 2021
I dont know if I'll continue on with the series, Hikki's just too pathetic.
And again, the sleaziness is too much, the sexualization is totally unnecessary
(tbh, I'll probably come back to the series just because I loved the anime so much but who knows)
And again, the sleaziness is too much, the sexualization is totally unnecessary
(tbh, I'll probably come back to the series just because I loved the anime so much but who knows)
June 13, 2017
A good second book in the series. The novels seem to be a little bit less subtle than the TV show though, which is a bit of a shame, as that is something which made the show so good.
July 7, 2017
Second half is Kawasaki's story.
Komachi also shows up.
Maid outfits were good :|
Komachi also shows up.
Maid outfits were good :|
March 24, 2018
Actual rating: 3.5
I thought it wasn’t a good as the first book, but I still enjoyed reading it and will definitely continue the series.
I thought it wasn’t a good as the first book, but I still enjoyed reading it and will definitely continue the series.
May 16, 2018
Again with calling Yuigahama a slut, even though she and Hikigaya are supposedly friends now.
March 20, 2020
رواية جميلة بحق لا يتختلف عن الصورة التي وضحت لنا في الانمي
October 2, 2020
Amazing...
April 29, 2022
This series doesn't disappoint. I love the characters and all their interactions, which somehow always get me to laugh. Excited to see what the next volume has in store for me !
June 19, 2023
I feel like although it is more interesting than most light novels, I cannot read more than this book in the series. Farewell to this series before it hurts my way of thinking more.
May 2, 2024
Loved the anime and can't get enough of it, so I'm giving the light novels a try. They're quite close to the anime, but it is a treat to have the perspective entirely in Hachiman's monologue.
July 8, 2018
The novel is better than the, already a masterpiece, Series
September 8, 2017
A solid continuation to the "dreadful" life of Hikigaya, and the misfortunes that befall him, as he continues to aid people in the service club, alongside his friends.
Pros:
- Faster development of plot
- Even further character development; even for side characters, such as Kawazaki Saika
- Hikigaya is changing; no longer a loner, better able to interact with friends
- Yui's true feelings are being revealed
Pros:
- Faster development of plot
- Even further character development; even for side characters, such as Kawazaki Saika
- Hikigaya is changing; no longer a loner, better able to interact with friends
- Yui's true feelings are being revealed
July 19, 2017
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November 5, 2024
3.5 - É inferior ao 1, muito por conta do arco da Kawasaki que é enrolado e chato e do Hayama que é meio whatever. Mas ainda dá pra tirar boas risadas kkkk
March 24, 2016
In my own opinion this is still a really marvellous book to read it is very entertaining and also sometimes it has hidden rude joke somewhere in there too.
This book is mainly a about a high school loner doing his thing and then one day he was sent to a service club and from there on he has many adventures with his fellow students. You get to see through the eyes of the main character hikigaya hamachi who doesn't really like or love anyone in particular and also he hates the world.
This is a very interesting book because you get to see the world through another persons perspective which is very entertaining. Also most of the time this book will leaving thinking through you right now and past self to see whether or not you are just like him or any of the other characters in this series.
This book is mainly a about a high school loner doing his thing and then one day he was sent to a service club and from there on he has many adventures with his fellow students. You get to see through the eyes of the main character hikigaya hamachi who doesn't really like or love anyone in particular and also he hates the world.
This is a very interesting book because you get to see the world through another persons perspective which is very entertaining. Also most of the time this book will leaving thinking through you right now and past self to see whether or not you are just like him or any of the other characters in this series.
November 3, 2015
Yet, another good read with our beloved narrator, Hachiman, and the awkward Services Club. Yukinoshita, still the same old Ice Queen, probably has the best, outstanding moments in this light novel so far. Everything about her is just pure icy cold and she does not take shit especially from Hachiman. Surprisingly, there is some small character development for Yuigahama throughout the novel. Entertaining read overall and the addition of some cute Totsuka scenes even makes it infinitely better. And the last chapter about Hachiman's beliefs of 'nice girls' is certainly heart-wrenching.
February 4, 2015
I need book 3!
August 5, 2015
...these are so damn easy to read and yet they're not as shallow as they seem.
I love that.
I love that.
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