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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?

Hachiman Hikigaya is a cynic. "Youth" is a crock, he believes - a sucker's game, an illusion woven from failure and hypocrisy. But when he turns in an essay for a school assignment espousing this view, he's sentenced to work in the Service Club, an organization dedicated to helping students with problems in their lives! How will Hachiman the Cynic cope with a job that requires - gasp! - optimism?

Hachiman Hikigaya's travails in the Service Club continue! When his younger sister Komachi comes to the Service Club with a problem involving Hachiman's stoic, intimidating classmate Saki, he's faced with a challenge. How's he supposed to break through Saki's unflappable and frankly frightening demeanor? Is it possible that Hachiman's notorious cynicism is actually going to be good for something, for once?

A summer break without anyone around is the perfect scenario for loner Hachiman Hikigaya, but Hiratsuka-sensei knows just how to shatter his dreams. Instead of a quiet vacation, the members of the Service Club (as well as Hayama's circle of popular students) are helping out at a children's day camp. While elementary school is a distant memory for these teenagers, Hachiman ends up meeting a young kindred spirit--a loner named Rumi Tsurumi!

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!

Hachiman Hikigaya might be in a club with two hot girls, but this isn't going to turn into a rom-com. He might give out his number, but his phone will remain untexted. And the only true cutie around here? Yeah, that's a guy. Now, Hachman the loser, Yukino the ice queen, and Yui the bimbo have to find some way to put the "service" in "Service club"-but so far they've scored zero points in the game of high school life.

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?

Hachiman Hikigaya is a cynic. "Youth" is a crock, he believes--a sucker's game, an illusion woven from failure and hypocrisy. But when he turns in an essay for a school assignment espousing this view, he's sentenced to work in the Service Club, an organization dedicated to helping students with problems in their lives! How will Hachiman the Cynic cope with a job that requires--gasp!--optimism?

Everything is as usual. No friends, no girlfriends, no social life...or so it should have been, but there's been this uncomfortable and unfamiliar feeling growing inside Hachiman. Was it really the absence of a certain girl from the club room that made him feel this way? But there's no way that either Hachiman or Yukino would have the social skills to solve that kind of problem, and their efforts lead to nothing but misunderstandings.Hachiman shares a bittersweet moment with Totsuka, witnesses Zaimokuza's wailing and roaring, and sees a side of Miss Hiratsuka that he was never meant to see...and then gets tricked into a strip card game?!Surrounded as they are by all these characters rampaging alone in all the wrong directions, will the Service Club ever go back to the way it was before? Presenting: the third volume of the twisted loner teen romantic comedy.

It's summer break, andHachiman is continuing his leisurely life of solitude-until Miss Hiratsukaforces the Service Club back together to volunteer at a campground. For somereason, Hayama, Miura, and their crew of normies are there, too... Thus begins acompulsory, youthful season of fireworks, tests of courage, nighttimeconversations, and bathhouse incidents, with no escape for Hachiman. Summer isindeed a minefield for the loner...

Hachiman's summer break iscoming to a close, when Yui suddenly comes to visit his house. Not only that,but Totsuka has an invitation for him, as well as a request from a classmate--heeven runs into Yukino's sister at the fireworks festival! Hachiman is determinednot to get close to anyone or have any expectations, but even this stubbornloner can't ignore the changes occurring in his relationships with Yukino andYui...

As usual, Hachiman Hikigaya's warped personality prevents him from having any enjoyable moments of youth. The days all the seem the same until suddenly, an 'incident' occurs in class. This is a problem that no one who had any semblance of a normal high school life could solve, but if it's Hachiman, just maybe...

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.