My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU

## My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU **My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU** (やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている, *Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru*) — commonly abbreviated as *OreGairu* — is a 2013 anime television series produced by Brain's Base, adapted from the light novel series by Wataru Watari. The franchise spans three anime seasons and is one of the most highly regarded school romance-drama series in modern anime, celebrated for its unusually nuanced writing and its refusal to reduce its characters to simple archetypes. Hachiman Hikigaya is a cynical, antisocial high school student whose "Life Counseling" essay — in which he argues that youth and friendship are illusions for people who can't face the truth — earns him a forced enrollment in the school's Service Club, run by the beautiful but cold Yukino Yukinoshita. The club takes on requests from other students and helps them solve problems. As Hachiman's ruthless problem-solving methods repeatedly produce results at great personal cost to himself — he is willing to make himself hated if it solves the problem — both Yukino and the cheerful class idol Yui Yuigahama begin to see past his defenses to something more complicated underneath. The series is a rare school drama that takes its characters' intelligence seriously and explores the ways loneliness and pride intertwine.