Ponkan 8 – författare

CONFLICT, CHANGE, AND CHOCOLATE At Iroha Isshiki’s request, the Service Club is now helping with a Valentine’s Day event-and once Miura, Ebina, Kawasaki, and the rest of the “it crowd” are involved, the task spirals into a surprisingly major undertaking. Despite the relative calm, though, there’s a sense of dissonance that’s becoming increasingly difficult to ignore... and feelings that can’t be rationalized away. As much as Hachiman would like to keep his relationships the way they are, something is bound to change.

ALL GOOD THINGS MUST COME TO AN END The calendar reads March, but the buds of new hope are far from blooming. Yukino, Yui, and Hachiman are finally trying to articulate their feelings and act on them-but doing so means irreversibly changing their relationships. As much as they would like things to stay the same forever, a new day cannot dawn until the beautiful sunset gives way to night. If they want to move forward, they must put an end to this chapter of their lives. Before they even have time to worry, though, the credits start to roll…

AT LONG LAST, SPRING IS HERE AGAIN After all the hardships, struggles, and mistakes, the only thing Hachiman, Yukino, and Yui can do is ask the same questions in search of new answers. Yes, it’s the same routine, but each day is always new. Hachiman has struggled to answer truthfully, and his relationships have suffered for it—but it’s time for that to change. This romantic comedy has gone wrong enough times. The story may be coming to an end, but youth lives on.

Each person's experience with youth is unique, and two girls in particular have a very different view: the most powerful junior and cutest troublemaker Iroha Isshiki, and everyone's little sister Komachi Hikigaya. Will the two eccentric younger heroines provide a breath of fresh air to the Service Club, or is the club's future in peril? Get ready for a changing of the guard! This volume contains short stories not included in the collected volumes, as well as a totally new story!!

The Service Club is especially busy these days now that they're handling requests via email. Even without the excitement of a major event, sometimes just the day to day is all the drama you need...

Don’t let the sports festival go foul! Immediately following the school’s cultural festival, the sports festival is about to get underway, and the Service Club already has its next case: Student council president Meguri Shiromeguri asks for their help in making the sports festival the most exciting one yet. However, the event is missing a committee chair. Yuigahama and Yukinoshita have experience in similar departments, but they decide to nominate Minami Sagami instead—the chair of that fateful cultural festival where it all went wrong. Has the Service Club bitten off more than it can chew?

As Hachiman's summer vacation continues, the topic of Yukino comes up. She's had an influence on everyone around her, but what does Hachiman think of Yukino?

Who thought it would be a good idea to put the biggest, most cynical loner in school on the cultural festival committee? What's done is done, and Hachiman wants nothing more than to work as little as possible. But when the committee chair can't be bothered to even show up, Yukino and the others have to pick up the slack. As the event draws ever closer, will they be ready in time when half the staff is half-assing it?

There's a new student council president, and the Service Club's first job for their new leader is to help set up a Christmas event with another school. The problems keep piling up, but Hachiman keeps taking on task after task by himself! What's going to happen to the relationship between Hachiman, Yui, and Yukino from here?

Soubu High’s queen bee, Yumiko, has come to the Service Club with a forlorn expression and a request: Find out Hayama’s plans for his educational track. Now it’s up to Hachiman to deduce the truth, and he’s well aware that cracking the flawless facade of the most popular guy in school is no small feat. But the attempt may just lead to some revelations—about Hayama, himself, and the weight of expectations.

Hachiman, Yui, and Yukino are back on the same page (more or less), and now the Service Club can devote its full attention to salvaging the joint Christmas event with Kaihin High School. But even they’re having trouble with the stranglehold Kaihin student president Tamanawa has on the planning, with his endless parade of pointless meetings! Hiratsuka-sensei might hold the key to breaking through, and it’s…tickets to Destiny Land theme park?!

Haruno orders Hachiman to leak the plans. Falling right in Haruno’s trap, Yukino’s Mother goes to the school to put a stop to the prom! And as Yukino and Hachiman discuss what happened with their little “competition,” something between them begins to shift…

The sports festival comes to a close. Next comes the school trip to Kyoto! There, the Service Club receives an unusual client with an unusual request-to help with a romantic conundrum!

The fake prom scheme has run its course, so it’s time to end the charade and relax a little with a karaoke party! But as the festivities wind down, Yui has a very personal request for Hachiman…one that has him thinking seriously about her. With the real Soubu High School prom on the horizon, what better setting is there for some classic teen drama?

“Let me throw your life out of alignment.” The prom goes off without a hitch, and Yukino announces the end of the Service Club’s activities. Hachiman just can’t accept it, though. Hachiman’s actions are a big surprise, but what are they...?

A sudden accident first brought together Hachiman Hikigaya, Yukino Yukinoshita, and Yui Yuigahama. Then they became the Service Club, helping others with their woes while working through their own complicated emotions. As the club now fulfills one last job—throwing the best interschool prom they can—the trio must think about how their relationship has changed and what future lies ahead for them. Their youth romantic comedy, mistakes and deviations and all, concludes here!

Planning for the Soubu High prom continues, and Yukino is steadfast about working without Hachiman and Yui. But when she receives complaints from parents worried about moral impropriety, it might just put the kibosh on everything. Even worse-the parents’ representative is Yukino’s mother, whose disarming social grace makes negotiating all but futile! Can Hachiman help without going back on his word to Yukino? And as he spends more time with Yui, where will his feelings take him?

Ah, culture festivals. The best way to survive such a troublesome chore is...don't answer when someone talks to you, and act obviously annoyed. Employing his loner skills to the fullest, Hachiman is ready and willing to run at the first sign of responsibility. Unfortunately, while he's busy skipping homeroom, he ends up being chosen for the culture festival committee...

THE NEW YEAR BRINGS NEW RELATIONSHIPS—AND NEW FEELINGS. Hachiman is enjoying a relaxed winter break—until he runs into Yukino and Hayato and realizes he may know less than he thought about their history and relationship. Rumors are already circulating by the time classes resume, and when a new request comes to the Service Club, Hachiman will have to look beneath the surface to see a new side of his schoolmates...

A LONER'S SOCIAL LIFE SHOULDN'T BE THIS COMPLICATED, RIGHT? Excitement is building among the students for the big overnight trip to Kyoto-a school event rife with potential for both budding romance and traumatic memories. And sure enough, right before they leave, the Service Club has a surprising visitor who asks for romantic advice. Unfortunately, this may conflict with a request from someone else before the trip...and Hachiman is finding it harder and harder to stay out of the growing web of relationships in his class.

This loner’s web of relationships is only getting more tangled… The school trip has left a bad taste in everyone’s mouths, and as the Service Club tries to maintain its daily routine, someone comes to them with a request regarding the election for student council president. However, when the three club members squabble over how to fix the problem, they go their separate ways! Hachiman Hikigaya knows his relationships can’t stay the same forever, yet he’s certain he himself is incapable of change. When he finds something worth protecting, will his methods be to everyone’s benefit, or will they be another colossal mistake?

A not so merry Christmas Christmas is almost here, but everything Hachiman has wanted, everything he might have wished for, is gone. Ever since the student council elections, the Service Club members have been at an awkward standstill. Something is broken between them, but they gather in the clubroom with the hope that things will just go back to normal. That’s when Iroha Isshiki, the new student council president, brings in a request to help her with a joint Christmas event with another school. Hachiman decides to lend a hand, but not on behalf of the Service Club—he’ll do this one on his own.

Cold Hands, Warm HeartS It may be the dead of winter, but a sudden drop in temperature isn’t enough to stop the Service Club from buzzing with activity. Students are still coming by the clubroom to ask favors of the crew. From a certain boy’s vapid request to Iroha’s unrelenting pleas for help, Yuigahama and Yukinoshita just can’t seem to catch a break. Neither, it seems, can Hachiman-especially given his preoccupation with good times, the future, precious days off, and everything youth represents…

As Valentine’s Day approaches, Yumiko is back with another request for the Service Club! She wants to figure out a way to give Hayama some chocolate, but standing in her way is his well-known policy of never accepting gifts on February 14. Hachiman, Yui, and Yukino decide to hold a cooking class as camouflage for some sweet exchanges, but their plan may lead to some unforeseen results-including a reminder of the unspoken feelings among the three of them…

WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD FOR THE SERVICE CLUB? After the Valentine’s Day event and the trip to the aquarium, Hachiman, Yukino, and Yui decide on their next step-but suddenly, the Service Club receives a huge request! Yukino feels she must answer the call, even if she regrets her choice… Everyone has to grow up someday, and not every person you meet along the way will stay with you. Until that day comes, though, there is only the present. What answers to their dilemma do these three hold close to their hearts?