Hachiman Hikigaya, a student in Soubu High School, is a cynical loner due to his traumatic past experiences in his social life. This eventually led to him developing a set of "dead fish eyes" and a twisted personality similar to that of a petty criminal. Believing that the concept of youth is a lie made up by youngsters who face their failures in denial, he turns in an essay that criticizes this exact mentality of youths. Irritated by the submission, his homeroom teacher, Shizuka Hiratsuka forces him to join the Volunteer Service Club—a club that assists students to solve their problems in life, hoping that helping other people would change his personality.
However, Yukino Yukinoshita, the most beautiful girl in school, is surprisingly the sole member of the club and a loner, albeit colder and smarter than Hikigaya. Their club soon expands when Yui Yuigahama joins them after being helped with her plight, and they begin to accept more requests.
With his status quo as a recluse, Hikigaya attempts to solve problems in his own way, but his methods may prove to be a double-edged sword.
Note: Includes volumes 6.5, 7.5, 10.5 and 14.5.
My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, As I Expected has finished publishing and it has 168 Chapters. It is also Known as: やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている。, Oregairu, My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU
Genres: Comedy , School Life , Romance
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Top 9 Light Novel Like My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, As I Expected (Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru.) [2024 List]
9. Jaku-Chara Tomozaki-kun
This is a walkthrough of life (a shitty videogame)!
Life is a bad video game. This cliche phrase is, sadly, a reality.
However, life doesn’t have simple, easy rules. What it does have is irrationality and inequality. The strong say that they have a lot of freedom, but the weak have no choice but to live an overwhelmingly disadvantaged lifestyle.
Therefore, it’s a shit game. There’s no mistake because I, the best gamer in Japan, declare it to be shit.
— However, that person, who is on the same level as me, goes around saying “Life is a great game.”
The school’s perfect, strong-willed heroine, Hinami Aoi. Furthermore, “I’ll teach you the rules of life (game)”?
…Normally, I wouldn’t believe in those words. However, Hinami Aoi is a character that doesn’t even fit in a normal frame at all!
From the winner of the 10th Shogakukan Light Novel Award for Excellence. A jaku-chara takes on life’s strategy guide, but with instruction from a bishoujo!
Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 弱キャラ友崎くん, Yowa-chara Tomozaki-kun, Jakusha Character Tomozaki-kun, The Low Tier Character "Tomozaki-kun"
8. Kanojo, Okarishimasu
Kinoshita Kazuya is a regular college student who was just dumped by his girlfriend for another guy. Feeling down in the dumps, he decides to use an app called Diamond to hire Mizuhara Chizuru, a rental girlfriend, to make himself feel better. From their first meeting, she seems to be the perfect girl for him, but is there more to her than meets the eye? And how will their not quite typical relationship develop?
Rent-A-Girlfriend is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 彼女、お借りします, I'd like to Borrow a Girlfriend
7. Chitose-kun wa Ramunebin no Naka
“Chitose Saku from Class 5 is a playboy scumbag.” —Even with such rumors about him circulating around the school’s underground board, Chitose Saku is a member of the ruling caste of Fuji Highschool. The people who gathers him were all of dignified appearance and wholesome personalities. The girl closest to him with the aura of a princess, Hiiragi Yuuko. A diligent girl who’s popular amongst boys, Uchida Yua. The bubbly ace of the basketball club, Aomi Haru… etc. While enjoying the new school term with his group of friends, Saku was requested to reform a certain social-withdrawn student. Is the start of his fulfilling harem story, or what is it—?
Source: Shogakukan
Chitose-kun is Inside a Ramune Bottle is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 千歳くんはラムネ瓶のなか, Ramune no Bin ni Shizunda Biidama no Tsuki, ラムネの瓶に沈んだビー玉の月, Chiramune
6. Onanie Master Kurosawa
Kakeru Kurosawa is an antisocial junior high school student. He rarely associates with his classmates, and he looks down on them. But this behavior is topped off by a certain bad habit, his closely guarded secret: every day after school, he sneaks in to the rarely used girls' toilet on the 3rd floor and masturbates in a stall.
Kakeru's shadowy routine remains undisturbed until one day, when a diminutive girl from his class, Aya Kitahara, almost discovers him. Their meeting begins a coming-of-age story dealing with blackmail, bullying, revenge, heartbreak and ultimately, redemption.
Masturbation Master Kurosawa has finished publishing and it has 31 Chapters. It is also Known as: オナニーマスター黒沢, Onani Master Kurosawa, Masturbation Master Kurosawa
5. Ore wo Suki na no wa Omae dake ka yo
Question: What would you do, if a girl you're interested in would confess to you? On top of that, what if there was another girl as well? A cool upperclassman adored by the whole school and your cheerful, energetic childhood friend. I bet you would be over the moon. Thing is, what if there was an unexpected problem about the contents of that confession?
ORESUKI: Are you the only one who loves me? has finished publishing and it has Chapters. It is also Known as: 俺を好きなのはお前だけかよ, Ore wo Suki na no wa Omae dake ka yo
4. Koten-bu Series
Oreki Houtarou is a self-proclaimed "energy-saver" - that is, he will not actively waste energy doing things that aren't necessary. Though he had no interest whatsoever in joining any clubs upon entering Kamiyama High School, he was commanded by his older sister Tomoka to enter the school's Classics Club, which was in danger of getting abolished as all previous members have graduated. Together with his old friends Fukube Satoshi and Ibara Mayaka, as well as the elegantly ladylike and curiously inquisitive Chitanda Eru, the newly reformed Classics Club find themselves involved in all sorts of mystery-solving escapades. Houtarou soon finds out that the Classics Club, as Tomoka has promised, is actually "quite interesting".
Koten-bu Series is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 〈古典部〉シリーズ, Hyouka
3. Monogatari Series: First Season
This entry includes the first season of the Monogatari series:
Vol. 1-2: Bakemonogatari
Vol. 3: Kizumonogatari
Vol. 4-5: Nisemonogatari
Vol. 6: Nekomonogatari: Kuro
Monogatari Series: First Season has finished publishing and it has 107 Chapters. It is also Known as: 〈物語〉シリーズ ファーストシーズン, Bakemonogatari, Kizumonogatari, Nisemonogatari, Nekomonogatari: Kuro, Monster Tale, Kizumonogatari: Wound Tale, Fake Tale, Black
2. Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai
Hasegawa Kodaka has transferred schools, and he's having a hard time making friends. It doesn't help that his blond hair tends to make people think he's a delinquent. One day, he runs into his bad-tempered solitary classmate Yozora while she's talking animatedly to her imaginary friend Tomo. Realizing that neither of them have any actual friends, they decide that the best way to alter this situation is to form a club and start recruiting.
That is how "Rinjinbu" was formed, a club specifically designed for people who don't have very many friends. As other lonely classmates slowly join their little club, they'll try to learn how to build friendships through cooking together, playing games, and other group activities. But will this group of relationship-challenged misfits really be able to get along?
Haganai: I Don't Have Many Friends has finished publishing and it has 145 Chapters. It is also Known as: 僕は友達が少ない, I Don't Have Many Friends, I Can't Make Friends, Haganai, Bokutomo
1. Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e
Koudo Ikusei Senior High School is a leading prestigious school with state-of-the-art facilities where nearly 100% of students go on to university or find employment. The students there have the freedom to wear any hairstyle and bring any personal effects they desire. Koudo Ikusei is a paradise-like school, but the truth is that only the most superior of students receive favorable treatment.Ayanokouji Kiyotaka is a student of D-class, which is where the school dumps its “inferior” students in order to ridicule them. For a certain reason, Kiyotaka was careless on his entrance examination, and was put in D-class. After meeting Horikita Suzune and Kushida Kikyou, two other students in his class, Kiyotaka’s situation begins to change.
Classroom of the Elite has finished publishing and it has 110 Chapters. It is also Known as: ようこそ実力至上主義の教室へ, Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e
