Ponkan 8 – illustratör

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!

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.

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...