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やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている。 #11
やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている。11
まちがい続け、いつまでも手の届かない答え
一色いろはの依頼を受け、バレンタインデーのイベントを手伝うことになった奉仕部。そのイベントには三浦や海老名、川崎などいつものメンバーも加わり、より大規模なものになっていく。穏やかで暖かな空気の中、だんだんと見過ごせなくなってくる小さな違和感、慣れないことで戸惑っているのだと自分に言い聞かせようとしても誤魔化せない気持ち。
本物から目をそらしてでも、この時間がずっと続けばいいのかもしれない--。
何も気づかないほうが良かったのかもしれない--。
提案される「彼女の相談、彼女の依頼」。
雪は静かに降り積もり、彼ら、彼女らの今という景色を変えていく。
一色いろはの依頼を受け、バレンタインデーのイベントを手伝うことになった奉仕部。そのイベントには三浦や海老名、川崎などいつものメンバーも加わり、より大規模なものになっていく。穏やかで暖かな空気の中、だんだんと見過ごせなくなってくる小さな違和感、慣れないことで戸惑っているのだと自分に言い聞かせようとしても誤魔化せない気持ち。
本物から目をそらしてでも、この時間がずっと続けばいいのかもしれない--。
何も気づかないほうが良かったのかもしれない--。
提案される「彼女の相談、彼女の依頼」。
雪は静かに降り積もり、彼ら、彼女らの今という景色を変えていく。
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July 10, 2021
Bitter? Or sweet?
Youth is never so much an active discernment between moments that are viscerally harmful and moments that are too savory to ignore, but rather, youth is the gradual devolution of unbridled curiosity into the heady fog uncertainty. Insofar as this novel series has illuminated how often and in what ways the contemporary youth experience is a minefield of the disingenuous, MY YOUTH ROMANTIC COMEDY. . .#11 exposes the precepts of adulthood to be little more than the singed vestiges of innocence put to the flame.
Valentine's Day is approaching. Nobody really cares, thankfully, but the cultural and communal ferrying of pseudomeaning are inescapable. Hikigaya and the Service Club entreat the requests of a handful of regulars: Saki Kawasaki seeks a chocolate recipe for beginners; Yumiko Miura seeks a humble (believable) excuse to gift chocolate to Hayama; Iroha Isshiki seeks a means to blow more of the student council's budget, gift Hayama chocolate, and escape into the frivolities of the season. It's a lot to take in. However, strangely, almost deceptively so, the solution to all of these queries is rather simple. Why not hold a baking workshop?
The setup is brilliantly straightforward. There are no awkward classroom alliances. There is no strained, feigned glad-handing in deference to those who haven't earned it. And there are zero if/then bifurcations to entreat, should the club's plan crash and burn. The setup, again, is straightforward. The Service Club will host a baking session at an area community center a few days before Valentine's Day. Participants can practice their cooking skills. And for the more romantically-inclined attendees, they can use the boys as "taste testers," to avoid the embarrassment of gifting chocolate in public (or, in some cases, risk being turned down for their effort).
And yet, what begins as an effortless if not routine summation of his peers' thoughtless and ephemeral affectations, Hikigaya slowly comes to view his experience in an otherwise thoroughly successful event as the prelude to an increasingly painful and increasingly foggy descent into emotional ruin. But as readers of MY YOUTH ROMANTIC COMEDY. . .#11 will find, it's not always this way. For much of the novel, it's actually quite the opposite. Hikigaya is satisfied with the Service Club's work. Yukinoshita's teaching skills are on point. And Yuigahama's eagerness and energy continues to carry the day.
But something's off. There is a tightness in Hikigaya's chest. What could it be? Things are going well, aren't they? Yes and no (Hikigaya: "I don't really feel like I've grown [..] I'm always doing the same thing," p. 118). MY YOUTH ROMANTIC COMEDY. . .#11 isn't about observing the new and obvious disasters native to spiraling youths. It's not about the bright flashes of frivolity that illuminate the awkward, it's about sitting quietly and ruminating on the shadows cast by said illumination.
What does it take for a person, like Miura, to devote so much energy to hunting down and grasping for herself a known emotional resolution? A private conviction she's sought so ardently for so long? Regardless of how Hayama cares for the girl, what is it that drives Miura to fight so fiercely for the boy? The answer isn't as clear as one might think.
What does it take to gain the trust of someone like Kawasaki, breadwinner and all-star big sister, who unfailingly guides and protects those in her care? The girl is rough on the outside but kinder than kind on the inside. But even so, she never backs down, and she knows how to take what she wants to do what needs to be done. The answer here, about how to properly earn the girl's affectionate smile, is equally elusive.
What does it take to motivate a young woman like Yukinoshita, brilliant by all measures, who rejects every mold set out for her? Yukinoshita is coming into her own but she's also running out of time. It's a paradox for the ages: The only reason the girl cannot successfully articulate how she sees her future is because she's never been given the opportunity to do so before.
This is the fog. These are the shadows. Romance. Family. Friendship. Which of these are necessary? Obligatory? Perfunctory? MY YOUTH ROMANTIC COMEDY. . .#11 asks a dozen unanswerable questions. This is the tightness in Hachiman Hikigaya's chest. For the longest time, he's convinced himself he can keep clear of the slipstream, the desultory arrogance of youth run amok. But Hikigaya is starting to feel something for his Service Club members, and he has no idea what he should do about it.
Hikigaya's hesitation over Yuigahama's whispered intrigues and overtures have grown more certain as the girl's intrigues and overtures become more outspoken. Can the young man look into her eyes, for once, and know her desires? Furthermore, Hikigaya's observation of Yukinoshita's fractured family life appears to align, fault line for fault line, with his view of the girl's personal weaknesses. Will the young man ask her if she needs help? For once in his miserable life? And if she dares to beg his help, will he step up?
Simmering here is a sinful hiccup of Service Club dynamics the author hasn't entertained since very early in the series: What would happen if either Yuigahama or Yukinoshita were to betray or sabotage one another, for the sake of Hikigaya? Yuigahama's "delicate, wistful smile" betrays her answer. Her smugness is uncommon but precise; "I'm not as nice as you think I am" (p. 184), she says, using Hayama's words, but with greater gravity.
Hikigaya knows what he yearns for. But are his interests justified? And if not, is that okay? It's difficult to excuse what's worth wanting if one cannot clearly view the consequences of a relationship's failure as well as its growth. Alas, there are so many different dimensions to teenage heartbreak that it's hard to know where to begin.
"I'm sure these feelings, these relationships, should never have been defined. I shouldn't have given them names. I shouldn't have found meaning in them. Once they're given meaning, then they lose their other functions. [..] I'm sure it would've been easier if I could fit them into a mold, but I hadn't done that, because I'd known. I'd known once you give them form, the only way you can change their shape is by breaking them." (Hikigaya, p. 141)
Miss Hiratsuka has an inclination to instruct Hikigaya that it's best not to push aside the fog, the shadows, and the uncertainty he feels. If something "feels wrong," then that's because something is wrong. One can only grow as a person by sorting through the messy, the awkward, and the unruly.
This truism manifests rather grotesquely when Yukinoshita's sister and mother enter the fray. The mother disingenuously berates the girl for staying out too late and lending her talents to people and matters that are of less concern than the contrived future laid out before her ("I'm worried you'll make the wrong choices," p. 139). The sister does what she always does: antagonize (Hikigaya: "Every single thing Haruno Yukinoshita does means both nothing and everything," p. 86). Haruno knows her kid sister wishes to break away from the staid family mold of the ascendant politician, but she's oblivious to the collateral damage incurred by pushing Yukino too hard, too fast.
The Yukinoshita family is a strange, dangerous amalgam of hope and hopelessness: the mother swells with sadness and she unnecessarily pities the second daughter; the first daughter, herself more pitiable for how she constantly lurches for that which entertains but does not fulfill, unknowingly abrogates her sympathy; and the second daughter, sensing contradictions all around her, trusts no one.
This novel surreptitiously conspires to squeeze out of its characters the answers to questions too painful to think aloud and too grand to resolve with so little advanced notice. What does Yukinoshita want out of life? What does Hikigaya want in a personal relationship? What will Yuigahama sacrifice to finally claim the emotional virtue she needs to be her true self? MY YOUTH ROMANTIC COMEDY. . .#11 compels the Service Club members to voice what they need. The book compels its characters ask, at every turn, what it is they are demanding of those closest to them. Yukinoshita, Hikigaya, and Yuigahama have each been put the flame and it's not entirely clear who will emerge, hopeful or hopeless, bitter or sweet, ember or ash.
Youth is never so much an active discernment between moments that are viscerally harmful and moments that are too savory to ignore, but rather, youth is the gradual devolution of unbridled curiosity into the heady fog uncertainty. Insofar as this novel series has illuminated how often and in what ways the contemporary youth experience is a minefield of the disingenuous, MY YOUTH ROMANTIC COMEDY. . .#11 exposes the precepts of adulthood to be little more than the singed vestiges of innocence put to the flame.
Valentine's Day is approaching. Nobody really cares, thankfully, but the cultural and communal ferrying of pseudomeaning are inescapable. Hikigaya and the Service Club entreat the requests of a handful of regulars: Saki Kawasaki seeks a chocolate recipe for beginners; Yumiko Miura seeks a humble (believable) excuse to gift chocolate to Hayama; Iroha Isshiki seeks a means to blow more of the student council's budget, gift Hayama chocolate, and escape into the frivolities of the season. It's a lot to take in. However, strangely, almost deceptively so, the solution to all of these queries is rather simple. Why not hold a baking workshop?
The setup is brilliantly straightforward. There are no awkward classroom alliances. There is no strained, feigned glad-handing in deference to those who haven't earned it. And there are zero if/then bifurcations to entreat, should the club's plan crash and burn. The setup, again, is straightforward. The Service Club will host a baking session at an area community center a few days before Valentine's Day. Participants can practice their cooking skills. And for the more romantically-inclined attendees, they can use the boys as "taste testers," to avoid the embarrassment of gifting chocolate in public (or, in some cases, risk being turned down for their effort).
And yet, what begins as an effortless if not routine summation of his peers' thoughtless and ephemeral affectations, Hikigaya slowly comes to view his experience in an otherwise thoroughly successful event as the prelude to an increasingly painful and increasingly foggy descent into emotional ruin. But as readers of MY YOUTH ROMANTIC COMEDY. . .#11 will find, it's not always this way. For much of the novel, it's actually quite the opposite. Hikigaya is satisfied with the Service Club's work. Yukinoshita's teaching skills are on point. And Yuigahama's eagerness and energy continues to carry the day.
But something's off. There is a tightness in Hikigaya's chest. What could it be? Things are going well, aren't they? Yes and no (Hikigaya: "I don't really feel like I've grown [..] I'm always doing the same thing," p. 118). MY YOUTH ROMANTIC COMEDY. . .#11 isn't about observing the new and obvious disasters native to spiraling youths. It's not about the bright flashes of frivolity that illuminate the awkward, it's about sitting quietly and ruminating on the shadows cast by said illumination.
What does it take for a person, like Miura, to devote so much energy to hunting down and grasping for herself a known emotional resolution? A private conviction she's sought so ardently for so long? Regardless of how Hayama cares for the girl, what is it that drives Miura to fight so fiercely for the boy? The answer isn't as clear as one might think.
What does it take to gain the trust of someone like Kawasaki, breadwinner and all-star big sister, who unfailingly guides and protects those in her care? The girl is rough on the outside but kinder than kind on the inside. But even so, she never backs down, and she knows how to take what she wants to do what needs to be done. The answer here, about how to properly earn the girl's affectionate smile, is equally elusive.
What does it take to motivate a young woman like Yukinoshita, brilliant by all measures, who rejects every mold set out for her? Yukinoshita is coming into her own but she's also running out of time. It's a paradox for the ages: The only reason the girl cannot successfully articulate how she sees her future is because she's never been given the opportunity to do so before.
This is the fog. These are the shadows. Romance. Family. Friendship. Which of these are necessary? Obligatory? Perfunctory? MY YOUTH ROMANTIC COMEDY. . .#11 asks a dozen unanswerable questions. This is the tightness in Hachiman Hikigaya's chest. For the longest time, he's convinced himself he can keep clear of the slipstream, the desultory arrogance of youth run amok. But Hikigaya is starting to feel something for his Service Club members, and he has no idea what he should do about it.
Hikigaya's hesitation over Yuigahama's whispered intrigues and overtures have grown more certain as the girl's intrigues and overtures become more outspoken. Can the young man look into her eyes, for once, and know her desires? Furthermore, Hikigaya's observation of Yukinoshita's fractured family life appears to align, fault line for fault line, with his view of the girl's personal weaknesses. Will the young man ask her if she needs help? For once in his miserable life? And if she dares to beg his help, will he step up?
Simmering here is a sinful hiccup of Service Club dynamics the author hasn't entertained since very early in the series: What would happen if either Yuigahama or Yukinoshita were to betray or sabotage one another, for the sake of Hikigaya? Yuigahama's "delicate, wistful smile" betrays her answer. Her smugness is uncommon but precise; "I'm not as nice as you think I am" (p. 184), she says, using Hayama's words, but with greater gravity.
Hikigaya knows what he yearns for. But are his interests justified? And if not, is that okay? It's difficult to excuse what's worth wanting if one cannot clearly view the consequences of a relationship's failure as well as its growth. Alas, there are so many different dimensions to teenage heartbreak that it's hard to know where to begin.
"I'm sure these feelings, these relationships, should never have been defined. I shouldn't have given them names. I shouldn't have found meaning in them. Once they're given meaning, then they lose their other functions. [..] I'm sure it would've been easier if I could fit them into a mold, but I hadn't done that, because I'd known. I'd known once you give them form, the only way you can change their shape is by breaking them." (Hikigaya, p. 141)
Miss Hiratsuka has an inclination to instruct Hikigaya that it's best not to push aside the fog, the shadows, and the uncertainty he feels. If something "feels wrong," then that's because something is wrong. One can only grow as a person by sorting through the messy, the awkward, and the unruly.
This truism manifests rather grotesquely when Yukinoshita's sister and mother enter the fray. The mother disingenuously berates the girl for staying out too late and lending her talents to people and matters that are of less concern than the contrived future laid out before her ("I'm worried you'll make the wrong choices," p. 139). The sister does what she always does: antagonize (Hikigaya: "Every single thing Haruno Yukinoshita does means both nothing and everything," p. 86). Haruno knows her kid sister wishes to break away from the staid family mold of the ascendant politician, but she's oblivious to the collateral damage incurred by pushing Yukino too hard, too fast.
The Yukinoshita family is a strange, dangerous amalgam of hope and hopelessness: the mother swells with sadness and she unnecessarily pities the second daughter; the first daughter, herself more pitiable for how she constantly lurches for that which entertains but does not fulfill, unknowingly abrogates her sympathy; and the second daughter, sensing contradictions all around her, trusts no one.
This novel surreptitiously conspires to squeeze out of its characters the answers to questions too painful to think aloud and too grand to resolve with so little advanced notice. What does Yukinoshita want out of life? What does Hikigaya want in a personal relationship? What will Yuigahama sacrifice to finally claim the emotional virtue she needs to be her true self? MY YOUTH ROMANTIC COMEDY. . .#11 compels the Service Club members to voice what they need. The book compels its characters ask, at every turn, what it is they are demanding of those closest to them. Yukinoshita, Hikigaya, and Yuigahama have each been put the flame and it's not entirely clear who will emerge, hopeful or hopeless, bitter or sweet, ember or ash.
September 24, 2017
damn cliffhangers
April 23, 2018
Here we go, I am finally up to date with this series (well, until we get an English translation for volume 12). It was a great journey and I really came to like the main trio. The author has a really interesting cynical view on society and at the same time a really strong desire for idealistic, genuine relationships. It is brilliant how he portrays these feelings in his characters, especially in Hachiman and Yukino of course. As I said in earlier reviews, the afterwords are great so make sure to read them as well. The actual volume ended up with a huge plot twist which will lead us to the climax of the story. I liked the whole series but these last 3 volumes were on a different level. Anyway this series has great potential if it can deliver a good ending and a nice answer to the questions and problems it built upon in these 11 volumes. I am looking forward to read the climax of these books and to know whether we will find a genuine answer after all.
November 8, 2023
Argh, día de San Valentín. Se vienen las complicaciones… ¿verdad?
No, en realidad no. Sí, hay dos chicas que quieren darle chocolates a Hayama Hayato y sí, él decide evitar los problemas no tomando nada de nadie, pero eso tiene arreglo, aunque en esta ocasión es Isshiki quien organiza la solución: un taller de repostería (antes del día de) donde se puede dar a probar un postre sin ninguna otra implicación. Oh, claro: el Service Club ayuda… pero esta vez casi solo en el evento propiamente dicho. Hikigaya pegando carteles, Yukinoshita enseñando a cocinar y Yuigahama aprendiendo y así. ¡Todo está bien, en serio! incluso el hechho de que algunos alumnos de Kaihin participen no causa tantas perturbaciones y la gente realmente disfruta el momento.
Sí, entre esa gente está incluido el mismo Hikigaya.
Entonces, ¿por qué ha estado sintiendo que algo va mal? ¿por qué le parece que, a veces, Yuigahama lo mira de una forma particular? ¿por qué ciertos incidentes relacionados con Yukino lo afectan tanto? ¿por qué cuando Yukinoshita Haruno insinúa que la relación actual entre los miembros del Service Club no es algo genuino estalla este terrible, terrible sentimiento en su pecho? ¿y por qué no puede negar la veracidad de tal insinuación ni siquiera ante él mismo?
Ah. Después de todo, las cosas entre los tres han estado cambiando, ¿he?. Despacio, silenciosamente y no de un modo rotundo, pero… sí. Las palabras no dichas y el subtexto que hay detrás de acciones sutiles permiten confirmar esto.
Y los problemas familiares de Yukino (problemas con su madre, con quien no sabe —y quien no sabe— cómo disipar la tensión existente y con su hermana, que busca empujar y empujar hacia un cambio definitivo) no ayudan.
Pero aun así, al final.
"Nunca avanzamos, simplemente damos vueltas y vueltas en el mismo lugar, para siempre".
Oh, bueno. Ellos podrían continuar tal como están ahora. Es tan cómodo así…
...Sí, no. Eso —lo que sea que tengan— no se mantendrá inalterado permanentemente. Hikigaya Hachiman lo dice claramente, Yuigahama Yui desea que lo haga pero acepta que no puede ser y Yukinoshita Yukino…
No, en realidad no. Sí, hay dos chicas que quieren darle chocolates a Hayama Hayato y sí, él decide evitar los problemas no tomando nada de nadie, pero eso tiene arreglo, aunque en esta ocasión es Isshiki quien organiza la solución: un taller de repostería (antes del día de) donde se puede dar a probar un postre sin ninguna otra implicación. Oh, claro: el Service Club ayuda… pero esta vez casi solo en el evento propiamente dicho. Hikigaya pegando carteles, Yukinoshita enseñando a cocinar y Yuigahama aprendiendo y así. ¡Todo está bien, en serio! incluso el hechho de que algunos alumnos de Kaihin participen no causa tantas perturbaciones y la gente realmente disfruta el momento.
Sí, entre esa gente está incluido el mismo Hikigaya.
Entonces, ¿por qué ha estado sintiendo que algo va mal? ¿por qué le parece que, a veces, Yuigahama lo mira de una forma particular? ¿por qué ciertos incidentes relacionados con Yukino lo afectan tanto? ¿por qué cuando Yukinoshita Haruno insinúa que la relación actual entre los miembros del Service Club no es algo genuino estalla este terrible, terrible sentimiento en su pecho? ¿y por qué no puede negar la veracidad de tal insinuación ni siquiera ante él mismo?
Ah. Después de todo, las cosas entre los tres han estado cambiando, ¿he?. Despacio, silenciosamente y no de un modo rotundo, pero… sí. Las palabras no dichas y el subtexto que hay detrás de acciones sutiles permiten confirmar esto.
Y los problemas familiares de Yukino (problemas con su madre, con quien no sabe —y quien no sabe— cómo disipar la tensión existente y con su hermana, que busca empujar y empujar hacia un cambio definitivo) no ayudan.
Pero aun así, al final.
"Nunca avanzamos, simplemente damos vueltas y vueltas en el mismo lugar, para siempre".
Oh, bueno. Ellos podrían continuar tal como están ahora. Es tan cómodo así…
...Sí, no. Eso —lo que sea que tengan— no se mantendrá inalterado permanentemente. Hikigaya Hachiman lo dice claramente, Yuigahama Yui desea que lo haga pero acepta que no puede ser y Yukinoshita Yukino…
June 5, 2024
Much of the volume felt like filler, especially .
In the latter part, the story picked up steam so I consider this a good volume still. In particular, I liked how Yui's approach to her friendships was portrayed metaphorically. The scene was my highlight of the volume. Yui truly is a shallow person.
In the latter part, the story picked up steam so I consider this a good volume still. In particular, I liked how Yui's approach to her friendships was portrayed metaphorically. The scene was my highlight of the volume. Yui truly is a shallow person.
March 16, 2018
The relationship btwn Hikkigaya, Yukino, and Yui reach a breaking point. Discomfort is felt by all those in the group. Notably, Haruno questions Hikki's character, as she assumed he was not the one to be this oblivious or cowardice to not notice the straining atmosphere permeating from the Service Club.
However, in the end, a Yui makes a bold declaration: She will fight for Hikki's feelings. However, Yui's actions may instead, be actually to force Yukino to act on her own emotions, as Yukino is too afraid to let her feelings be known.
However, in the end, a Yui makes a bold declaration: She will fight for Hikki's feelings. However, Yui's actions may instead, be actually to force Yukino to act on her own emotions, as Yukino is too afraid to let her feelings be known.
October 23, 2021
I really Enjoyed this volume. Valentine's Day rolls around and the Service group gets asked by Different Girls(who hate each other) to help them give Chocolate to their crushes. It gets decided to put together a Valentine's day Baking event. Then the Service club gets some Personal issues and tries to solve their personal issues.
October 8, 2017
Ah, It's very similar to the last book where nothing happen. :/
April 9, 2018
This is without a doubt the best slice of life series out there.
June 5, 2021
Un volumen con un principio bastante normalito, pero con una segunda mitad que empieza meter leña al fuego del clímax final, se podría decir que es el preludio del último tramo.
June 19, 2021
ปัญหาหัวใจที่หน่วง หมุนๆๆวนๆๆ ไม่ไปไหนเหมือนชิงช้าสวรรค์
January 23, 2021
Wataru Watari is just prolonging thē story, and I really hate it. I believe that volume 10 was the final volume.
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