Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru. Episode 8 Discussion

RedArmyShogun said:
Silly Hachiman, you gonna die alone and in a ditch where you'll be forgotten lulz.

Lol@ Deathnote ref.

On a serious note I do think Hiki will regret his way of thinking. And he lumps people into his own way of thinking far too much. Such as saying when in danger people only help themselves, or that all people are fundamentally bad, or he doesn't have the need for companions or women. And I notice alot of you here eat that shit up without seeing two things. Maybe part of it is as you are teenagers and arn't truely alone day to day no more than his dumbass is.

One. Hiki fails to notice he breaks his own opions all the time.

Getting hit by a car to save a dog, going out of his way to help others, then look at all the people he has on hand to help him, all the people that come to him. He's a idiot that can't see HE is the good guy, and for selfless reasons. And judging by what he says friends are he has them. I wonder when and if he will ever notice this all.

And two he thinks he's alone, yet he has people that talk to him at school, he has a sister and parents at home. Maybe he doesn't have a lot of these false friends, but he is far from alone and lacking in human contact. When the only human contact you have is from when you need to go to a store that is something to bring up. Unless you are a shut in you have to deal with people, and from what I seen of shut ins they either go down a deranged path of self enjoyment and are little more than sycophant in a manner, or horriblly depressed. And people can change the world >> Just need to take a battle axe to the parts that won't change. lulz.

BloodyNightsky said:
You know what's weird?
To think that if you're in a crowd,it means automatically you're a friend.There are alot of relationships that are one-sided.I love how people belive in appearences.
Of all relationships I had were one-sided,those who still persist it means it comes from me too.
I havent saw Hikki helping anyone unless he senses the chance to shine.Hikki waited for an opportunity to shine,he had that idea building in his mind for long time.
Keep follow him close,he never did something unless asked or he noticed a chance to shine,to be better than someone.If you ask someone it means to appreciate him,that's why he waits to be asked.Either way you cant change someone who's fine with how he is.

iLostReason said:
LMAO.Win of the episode for me, i laughed so bad at this that i almost spilled my juice.

logos99 said:
what a great anime after watch this i can see another point of view about live

just my opinion
yukino is the one who hit hikki because she recognized the dog in the mall,
why hit and run because yukino family reputation at stake so maybe the driver or somebody else decided to run away.
when the teacher force hikki to join the club i think it's just coincidence because if it's planned by yukino or somebodyelse why have to wait until he is second year

and i think the preview was about yui talk to yukino.

Archie74 said:
Is that a trap? Saika.

I'm asking because Hikigaya's continued pseudo-homoerotic attraction is starting to get uncomfortable.

NervousWreck said:
I like how hachiman just stopped and stared at yukinon when he saw her swimsuit! haha I hope they get closer. He lowkey likes her.

Sairyuu69 said:
An episode which starts like that can only be good. <3

StopDropAndBowl said:
Meh, that was a pretty ridiculous "solution". Didn't make a lot of sense either, as the girl is still alone and probably still unhappy. Guess she got her moment to feel good about herself though, so I suppose that works. Would have been better just to suggest she go out and join a club or something. Still, it's a show about a loner so I guess the loner needs to come up with the answer.

psy8hillme said:


Oh crap. My eyes are naturally drawn to 'her'. - Hikigaya Hachiman, 2013

CNagy said:
Regarding Hachiman's solution: there were no other options guaranteed to fix the problem in the one chance that they had to attempt it. Rumi being alone was not technically the problem. The problem was that Rumi's former group of friends ostracized her. While getting the group to accept her again would certainly have fixed her problem, Hachiman noted correctly that there was no way to get the group to accept her. Thus, the only way to fix the problem of a group that ostracizes her is to destroy the group.

Rumi is trapped by the group dynamic. She isn't simply alone, she is in a them vs. her situation. Technically speaking, she is more specifically an outcast than a loner (though it may be more correct to view the former as a subtype of the latter.) That's why she can't just start over in middle school; some of the group will end up in the same school, they will continue to ostracize her, and others will pick up on that fact and join in. By destroying the group, there is no them vs. her, there is no group dynamic because there is no group. It's a different world and she is free to make new friends if she wants.

But she also acted to save her fake friends. Her feelings of friendship were genuine, and that's why she didn't thank Hachiman. She wanted to get back into the group, even if she had given up on that happening. Now there is no group, she can never be in that group, and she may never be friends with those girls again. It isn't the solution she wanted, even if she recognizes that it was the solution that she needed. And seriously, she may not even recognize that--she's in elementary school. Hachiman created a new world for her, but this new world doesn't have in it what she wanted from the old world.