Mar 10, 2024
Since one of my favourite stories is finished in a manga form, why not to make a review and say once again how much I like Oregairu and why I hate some of it.
It is pretty faithful to the original light novels, I think only additional volumes were scratched from here, yet they weren't that interesting in the first place, other than that, it is still the same good old story that I like, with less text and much more pictures.
The art is really solid, it is not Oh Great or other good artist, but it doesn't need to be (unfortunately), what we have ... is still pretty good. I was blessed to find good scans.
Now to the story, it explores our characters more than anime, but less then light novels. Yukinoshita is not that bad as in light novels. Here we are, let's talk my main problems with the story - Yuigahama and Yukinoshita doesn't deserve any love for being main characters, they are not interesting for me at all. I hate Yukinoshita - after rereading all light novels two times, after watching all 3 seasons 2 times, after reading this manga adaption once I can finally say that her hate towards Hikigaya is nothing more than a bullshit. So you think If a person have eyes that clearly tell to you that this person is very tired, or they are not lively enough, doesn't mean that you should treat this person like garbage. I always hated half of oregairu for this reason alone - there weren't really any reasons to treat Hachiman like garbage, he wasn't even doing any harm to other people, he was kind to them most of the time. He just didn't want to be close to them, since he liked his way of living. Yuigama is nothing more than a useless version of Setsuna from white album 2, Setsuna was a compelling character that honestly, if you think rationally is a perfect pair for Haruki, not Kazusa.
Hikigaya Hachiman is a person that has problems, yet he was pushed against his will to the club to help people, inside of there a girl who hates him for no reason, simply because she has a rich family doesn't mean that I will like her just for that, her behaviour towards him made me hate her till the end, I do not like her. The same applies to Yuigahama, I must it that she wasn't so aggressive towards him, yet she still does the same things as Yukinoshita. He was the one, who saved her dog, yet her behaviour is also something that I don't like anyway. She doesn't deserve to be with him either.
It must look like that I am defending one and saying that other two are garbage character - yes and no. There are two reasons why I changed my opinion about the trio - the first one is bad behaviour towards him, and the other one is White Album 2.
Hachiman needed some help, I understand it, being in this world without anyone to rely on is a very harsh and cruel reality that I will never anyone to experience, but Shizuka-sensei should of made a different decision, not take him to this fucking girl and make it even worse, she should of start helping him in person, maybe it sound a little bit too much, but you should , that she thinks of him as the best student that she ever had, also she does things that no other teacher would do - going to eat ramen together, speak about personal things too much, getting into her car and other things. So she could do this private session to change him with care, I think she failed as a teacher to him, throwing him there and leving to understand everything on his own is a bad decision.
Another problem is White album 2 - if you don't know what is this, then it is simple - a love triangle where you understand who will win right away, problem is Oregairu takes a lot from it, but doesn't go very deep like White album 2 did, Setsuna and Kazusa as main girls are literally one of the best thing that this industry has ever made, nothing can come close to how good they are, this is why a fight between fans who is better is always going to be so weird - both of them are fantastic, flawed characters. Oregairu on the other hand has a fantastic protagonist, but bad heroines, not bad in a way of flawed characters, but simply not enough to make them compelling characters.
Shizuka is not a bad pick for Mc, yet she is old, so no. Iroha, Miura and Kawasaki Saki are the ones that I will think as a girl that should of been with mc.
The biggest spoiler to all of this is the author itself - he didn't really give us a lot of these characters on screen, he just forgot about them most of the time, so fanfiction is great for this reason only.
Iroha is great, she doesn't treat him like garbage, only weird misunderstandings, she used to be my favourite girl even before playing white album 2. Her arc is very good - from a girl who chases a popular guy to understanding that she wants something real, or perhaps geinuine, then her phrase to Hachiman about taking responsobilty for changing her to the core. Yet after it the athrour didn't give a fuck about her, and we never really see anything with her.
Kawasaki Saki and Miura are only great in fanction, simply because they don't have a lot in original oregairu.
I like this girls, because I they are my type of girls, but Miura is my favourite girl because she is my ideal type of a girlfriend.
Instead of writing Yui's story, Wataru should of been writing about these three girls, not these two garbage of a character.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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