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やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている。 #8
やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている。8
彼は変わらない。だから周囲は変わっていく
雪ノ下雪乃は「……あなたのやり方、嫌いだわ」と、否定した。
由比ヶ浜結衣は「人の気持ち、もっと考えてよ……」と弱々しく呟いた。
後味の悪さを残した修学旅行を終え、日常に戻った奉仕部。三人の関係はまたぎこちないものに戻ってしまうのか……。
そんな折、奉仕部に新たな依頼が持ち込まれる。内容は生徒会長選挙に関わるものだった。
お互いのやり方を認められないままの奉仕部の三人は、それぞれが別のやり方で依頼に対することに。
ばらばらの奉仕部。分かっていた。この関係はいつまでも続かないことも、自分が変わることができないことも。
――君のやり方では、本当に助けたい誰かに出会ったとき、助けることができない――
自然消滅か、空中分解か。誰のやり方でも奉仕部は解散を免れない。
その行動は誰がために。――それでも自分のやり方を貫き藻掻こうとする“彼”は、大きな失敗を犯してしまう――。
雪ノ下雪乃は「……あなたのやり方、嫌いだわ」と、否定した。
由比ヶ浜結衣は「人の気持ち、もっと考えてよ……」と弱々しく呟いた。
後味の悪さを残した修学旅行を終え、日常に戻った奉仕部。三人の関係はまたぎこちないものに戻ってしまうのか……。
そんな折、奉仕部に新たな依頼が持ち込まれる。内容は生徒会長選挙に関わるものだった。
お互いのやり方を認められないままの奉仕部の三人は、それぞれが別のやり方で依頼に対することに。
ばらばらの奉仕部。分かっていた。この関係はいつまでも続かないことも、自分が変わることができないことも。
――君のやり方では、本当に助けたい誰かに出会ったとき、助けることができない――
自然消滅か、空中分解か。誰のやり方でも奉仕部は解散を免れない。
その行動は誰がために。――それでも自分のやり方を貫き藻掻こうとする“彼”は、大きな失敗を犯してしまう――。
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First published November 19, 2013
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April 27, 2016
To begin with, I apologize for not posting any reviews lately.
So let me start of by saying that this is one the best teen reading novels ever. Simply because it keeps the reader entertained. Also another reason why this series is amazing is because of the plot. It relates to modern day teenagers and it is also is always interesting to view the world from another perspective.
In this particular book, the most interesting part of the story is when the main protagonist Hikigaya gets into a sibling argument with his cute little sister Komachi. As the story progresses the main character starts to run into relationship problems with his "friends". This book of the series is currently my second favourite. Simply because I also have a sibling and can relate to how the main character feels.
I strongly encourage all teenagers and young adults to read this series because not only can it help you in life with communication skills, it can also help you how to determine what type of people are around you. Plus in the modern day who doesn't like a romantic novel. I can guarantee that you won't be bored because as soon as I read it, it immediately sucked in my attentioned and before I knew it I had finished the book.
So let me start of by saying that this is one the best teen reading novels ever. Simply because it keeps the reader entertained. Also another reason why this series is amazing is because of the plot. It relates to modern day teenagers and it is also is always interesting to view the world from another perspective.
In this particular book, the most interesting part of the story is when the main protagonist Hikigaya gets into a sibling argument with his cute little sister Komachi. As the story progresses the main character starts to run into relationship problems with his "friends". This book of the series is currently my second favourite. Simply because I also have a sibling and can relate to how the main character feels.
I strongly encourage all teenagers and young adults to read this series because not only can it help you in life with communication skills, it can also help you how to determine what type of people are around you. Plus in the modern day who doesn't like a romantic novel. I can guarantee that you won't be bored because as soon as I read it, it immediately sucked in my attentioned and before I knew it I had finished the book.
December 22, 2019
Malaise. In the event everyone agrees to the facile delusion that keeping everything the same will make life easier for them . . . therein lies only malaise. Classmates discuss the same subjects, but the fervor is gone. Classmates compete at the same activities, but the camaraderie is gone. Classmates playfully bicker in-between periods, but the intuition is gone. MY YOUTH ROMANTIC COMEDY. . .#8 proves, as Hikigaya intuited in the previous volume, change is inevitable, but only when one is willing to kill the parts of oneself that make one memorable.
And so the question remains, how much are Hikigaya, Yukinoshita, Yuigahama, and the others willing to sacrifice of themselves to become better people?
MY YOUTH ROMANTIC COMEDY. . .#8 is an impeccable but difficult read. Intrinsically, the novel is a constant hearkening to the darkest and least resolved emotional tremors that shake and rattle the cockles of youth. Hikigaya wrestles with depression, anxiety and an open acknowledgment of the fruitlessness of everything. In this volume, the malaise of he and his peers dutifully severs any expectation he or his Service Club friends possess in their belief that they are above the arrogant and petty expectations one might have for surviving those emotional tremors or their aftershocks.
In the midst of this whole charade of pretending things are okay when they're not, the Service Club is handed an impossible task: Iroha Isshiki, first-year student and the vapid manager of the soccer club, was jokingly nominated as the sole candidate for student council president. The club is tasked with ensuring she loses the nomination, despite the fact that she's the only candidate on the ballot. The novel tracks the highs and lows and hidden nooks and crannies associated with self-image when crafted for specific/explicit purposes. Isshiki is shallow but she's not dumb; she's arrogant but she's crafty; she's undeserving of esteem but works hard, provided she has the right motivation (Plainly, Isshiki is "[a] bitch in fluffy sheep's clothing," p. 208).
Does the club get another candidate to fill the position? Does the club destroy the electoral system altogether? Or does the club take the nuclear option -- the Hikigaya approach -- and eviscerate the student body for bullying a girl into political office merely because she's better at attenuating her façade than her peers? The Service Club nearly tears itself apart while searching for the right answer. Yukinoshita and Yuigahama are adamant that Hikigaya must no longer put himself on the chopping block for others. But what options remain for individuals circumscribed by backward institutions and derelict forces of pretense that would rather manufacture grace than fade from prominence and lose face?
MY YOUTH ROMANTIC COMEDY. . .#8, surprisingly, doesn't allow its characters to take the easy way out. In fact, this volume goes the extra mile to show how much of a toll Hikigaya's troubleshooting takes on those who shoulder the blame for society's errors. Everyone wishes they acted on their subjective reality, guided by objective truths, the way Hikigaya does, but nobody is willing to bear the burdens that result.
Many of the characters subconsciously fear Hikigaya will self-destruct as a consequence of this never-ending cycle of exposure, detonation, and faux-reconciliation. And they may have a point. Hikigaya's malaise infects his family's social dynamic, creases and cracks the strata of his club friendships, and may well be the keystone holding everyone else's sanity in place. If Hikigaya breaks down, then what happens to everyone else? The answer is unclear.
For the Service Club, Yukinoshita considers running for the student council herself (But can she work multiple jobs, tend the council, and navigate her studies at the same time?), as does Yuigahama (But can she reconfigure her social hierarchy to compensate for the brain drain the council work would entail?).
In the classroom, Hayama makes a grand overture, attempting to speak truth to the terrible guile required to be popular in high school but fails on an absolutely grand scale. The boy is a Greek tragedy: all that is great and miraculous about him and all that is pitiful and undesirable about him are visible only to those who wish to discern those facets about his personality for themselves ("[A] usurper pretending to be a savior," p. 132).
Outside the classroom, Haruno Yukinoshita meddles, again, but notably only far enough to spur her prodigies into action and never to linger long enough to witness the damage she's caused. Indeed, "her mask hides [a] much darker reality underneath" (p. 104).
In MY YOUTH ROMANTIC COMEDY. . .#8, everyone is trying to pull off a Hikigaya, attempting to resolve their problems by detonating the bonds currently tethering objective truths to the fictions they arrogantly hold dear. Everyone is trying to force themselves into the orbit of the chaos surrounding them to mediate reality on their own terms.
But these desultory deconstructions always fail, because the detonations carry too far . . . or the bonds are too strong . . . or the gravity cinching these wayward youths together is too unpredictable. Hachiman Hikigaya's emotional instability in this volume is difficult to bear but represents the author's unending fascination in articulating the necessary reality that in many cases, the consequences of doing what is right are often greater than the penalties for doing what is wrong.
And so the question remains, how much are Hikigaya, Yukinoshita, Yuigahama, and the others willing to sacrifice of themselves to become better people?
MY YOUTH ROMANTIC COMEDY. . .#8 is an impeccable but difficult read. Intrinsically, the novel is a constant hearkening to the darkest and least resolved emotional tremors that shake and rattle the cockles of youth. Hikigaya wrestles with depression, anxiety and an open acknowledgment of the fruitlessness of everything. In this volume, the malaise of he and his peers dutifully severs any expectation he or his Service Club friends possess in their belief that they are above the arrogant and petty expectations one might have for surviving those emotional tremors or their aftershocks.
In the midst of this whole charade of pretending things are okay when they're not, the Service Club is handed an impossible task: Iroha Isshiki, first-year student and the vapid manager of the soccer club, was jokingly nominated as the sole candidate for student council president. The club is tasked with ensuring she loses the nomination, despite the fact that she's the only candidate on the ballot. The novel tracks the highs and lows and hidden nooks and crannies associated with self-image when crafted for specific/explicit purposes. Isshiki is shallow but she's not dumb; she's arrogant but she's crafty; she's undeserving of esteem but works hard, provided she has the right motivation (Plainly, Isshiki is "[a] bitch in fluffy sheep's clothing," p. 208).
Does the club get another candidate to fill the position? Does the club destroy the electoral system altogether? Or does the club take the nuclear option -- the Hikigaya approach -- and eviscerate the student body for bullying a girl into political office merely because she's better at attenuating her façade than her peers? The Service Club nearly tears itself apart while searching for the right answer. Yukinoshita and Yuigahama are adamant that Hikigaya must no longer put himself on the chopping block for others. But what options remain for individuals circumscribed by backward institutions and derelict forces of pretense that would rather manufacture grace than fade from prominence and lose face?
MY YOUTH ROMANTIC COMEDY. . .#8, surprisingly, doesn't allow its characters to take the easy way out. In fact, this volume goes the extra mile to show how much of a toll Hikigaya's troubleshooting takes on those who shoulder the blame for society's errors. Everyone wishes they acted on their subjective reality, guided by objective truths, the way Hikigaya does, but nobody is willing to bear the burdens that result.
Many of the characters subconsciously fear Hikigaya will self-destruct as a consequence of this never-ending cycle of exposure, detonation, and faux-reconciliation. And they may have a point. Hikigaya's malaise infects his family's social dynamic, creases and cracks the strata of his club friendships, and may well be the keystone holding everyone else's sanity in place. If Hikigaya breaks down, then what happens to everyone else? The answer is unclear.
For the Service Club, Yukinoshita considers running for the student council herself (But can she work multiple jobs, tend the council, and navigate her studies at the same time?), as does Yuigahama (But can she reconfigure her social hierarchy to compensate for the brain drain the council work would entail?).
In the classroom, Hayama makes a grand overture, attempting to speak truth to the terrible guile required to be popular in high school but fails on an absolutely grand scale. The boy is a Greek tragedy: all that is great and miraculous about him and all that is pitiful and undesirable about him are visible only to those who wish to discern those facets about his personality for themselves ("[A] usurper pretending to be a savior," p. 132).
Outside the classroom, Haruno Yukinoshita meddles, again, but notably only far enough to spur her prodigies into action and never to linger long enough to witness the damage she's caused. Indeed, "her mask hides [a] much darker reality underneath" (p. 104).
In MY YOUTH ROMANTIC COMEDY. . .#8, everyone is trying to pull off a Hikigaya, attempting to resolve their problems by detonating the bonds currently tethering objective truths to the fictions they arrogantly hold dear. Everyone is trying to force themselves into the orbit of the chaos surrounding them to mediate reality on their own terms.
But these desultory deconstructions always fail, because the detonations carry too far . . . or the bonds are too strong . . . or the gravity cinching these wayward youths together is too unpredictable. Hachiman Hikigaya's emotional instability in this volume is difficult to bear but represents the author's unending fascination in articulating the necessary reality that in many cases, the consequences of doing what is right are often greater than the penalties for doing what is wrong.
November 2, 2023
En el que Isshiki Iroha no quiere ser la presidenta del consejo estudiantil, por lo que hace una petición al Service Club, pero no por las razones que los miembros de dicho club piensan (aunque al final se deja influenciar para asumir el cargo por conveniencia, así que está… bien, supongo), Yukinoshita Yukino decide que se postulará para el puesto de presidenta (porque esta vez no permitirá que Hikigaya implemente una de sus soluciones… y posiblemente también porque quiere hacerlo), Yuigahama Yui decide que será egoísta, competirá contra Yukinoshita y no dejará que su club se disuelva (lo que al final no es necesario, pero felicidades por el esfuerzo y así) y Hikigaya… ay, Hikigaya. Él se equivoca. Mucho. No hace ningún autosacrificio, pide ayuda y evita que el club inicie su camino hacia la disolución… pero podría o no haber malinterpretado a Yukinoshita en el proceso.
Todo esto, por supuesto, da una conclusión en la que las interacciones dentro del Service Club se vuelven un poco más que forzadas y un poco menos que actuadas.
Ah, sí: aquí también Hikigaya se encuentra con alguien de su pasado y revive un viejo trauma, Hayama intenta ayudar a su manera (lo que en realidad no sale tan bien) y Orimoto Kaori cree que empieza a entender… algunas cosas.
Todo esto, por supuesto, da una conclusión en la que las interacciones dentro del Service Club se vuelven un poco más que forzadas y un poco menos que actuadas.
Ah, sí: aquí también Hikigaya se encuentra con alguien de su pasado y revive un viejo trauma, Hayama intenta ayudar a su manera (lo que en realidad no sale tan bien) y Orimoto Kaori cree que empieza a entender… algunas cosas.
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April 8, 2020
Light novels, especially this series, is the closest I feel, modern day equivalent, of when our ancestors await the next week's newspaper with bated breath to read the next episode of Dickens or Dumas. Those novels go on and on, for example, the Count of Monte Christo we read today is an abridged version. The light novels today can go on more than 10 volumes. The level of investedness into the world and the characters and the relationships back then is closest to how people get invested into Breaking Bad or Mad Men. The coming of the television and the internet seemed to signal the end of such literary life. But in anachronistic Japan, it seems the printed word of yonder have not died yet. The serialized fiction that breathed life into our ancestors' days is still here. The light novel.
April 12, 2018
A time has come when Hachiman's way of doing things backfired at him. This volume made some nice character development for a lot of characters. Its also possible that the plot was the strongest in this one so far. I really liked how Hachiman after 7 books finally forced to look into himself and he also has to realize that he is not alone anymore. And the ending was great too, I am curious what those words will mean in the last volumes.
November 3, 2017
The Service club's survival is put on the line, as the club is forced to aid Iroha Isshiki devise a means to prevent her self from being elected as the student council president. A rift opens between all 3 members of the Service Club members, as Yuighama and Yukino are no longer willing to idly watch Hikigaya solve problems with his underhanded tactics.
September 7, 2017
excellent!
April 30, 2018
First ever book I've picked up. Got hooked, and continued there. Yes, it all started from an anime, surprise surprise~
November 27, 2019
The main protangist gets a lot to think about, how he goes through life, and what others think of him. This should set-up, the next few novels well.
February 8, 2021
Brilliant
April 26, 2025
yuigahama sweep
February 28, 2015
The execution was bland.
January 10, 2019
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