Anime 39547 Yahari Ore No Seishun Love Comedy Wa Machigatteiru Kan Reviews Filter Check 3

I will preface this by saying that I'm not a fan of dramas but I do find one occasionally that is written so well that I actually enjoy it, so take that how you will.

Having watched the entire show I can say that this season is more of the same as the second season, so if you didn't like that like I didn't then don't put yourself through this like I did.

Story 1

Story is rather nonexistent, as is expected of a slice of life. This show is all about the characters.

Art 3

The art is bland and still worse than first season which at least had ... some flair to it.

sound 5

Sound design is mostly mediocre, that's about all I can say for that.

character 2

The characters are at best stupid, and at worst boring. Most of the show is characters talking, which I find ironic, when you take into account that any forced drama in the show could be fixed in a span of one conversation, but that never happens. The conversations the characters have are not interesting, and for the most part how the characters have the conversations is not interesting either, which I feel is a genuine problem in a show about people talking. The show shows you that not everything is alright between the characters, but never actually gives any reason for why that is.
The author really seemed to want to write smart characters that are good at reading people. At this point I really have to ask, why did it seem like a good idea to make the most antisocial characters in the show be these gods at reading people and talking? This makes no sense at all since you really can't be good at talking and reading people if you never talk to any of them, this is not however the biggest problem in the writing. Second terrible thing about the writing of the characters is that they are not good at reading people, or good at talking, they are omniscient, and everybody else just believes what the main characters say no matter if it makes sense or not. These characters just walk up to any situation and immediately know everything that is going on, and then state something and everything the characters say is just taken as a fact.
Hachiman has few genuinely well written bits in conversations, but I feel that those are more few and far between the further into the show I get.
Yukinoshita has the personality of wet tissue paper, I really don't get why people like her.
Komachi brings the only point to raise the character score above 1.

Enjoyment 1

This show has a few enjoyable bits, but when I can count those bits from all twelve episodes on one hand I really have to wonder why I even bothered with this show.


Closing thoughts

This show tries to be realistic but it ends up boring, it tries to be a romance but I've seen better chemistry in hentai, it says that its a comedy but the funny bits stopped at season 1, and it tries to be a human drama but there is no conflict even though the characters act like there is.
The main character has any chemistry with maybe 2-3 side characters we barely see, and the side characters we do see are frustratingly badly written.
You might like this show, and more power to you if you do, but I could not recommend this to anyone with a clear conscience.

To me Oregairu has always been the Rick and Morty of anime. It's pretentious, it's pseudo deep, it wants to be so intelligent and clever yet fails to do so. For the life of me I have tried to understand what people see in this series besides waifus and I really can't. Oregairu Kan offers no real change in that regard, other than more Yui, which for me is the only reason I didn't give this a 1/10.

Everyone who reads my MAL reviews knows I am very generous when it comes to scoring and hand out 9s and 10s very easily. Yet, I've given ... this season of Oregairu my 2nd lowest score ever. Why? Simple. The main point of this season is the kids trying to plan a prom, which doesn't even exist in Japan in the first place. But, ok. I can see doing something fresh and original for your senior year.

The PTA don't want the kids throwing a prom, and it's literally 6-7 episodes of this pseudo deep, melodramatic garbage about them convincing the parents to consent to a prom. On top of a weak story, I am incredibly petty. Meaning that if my waifu loses, I will lower my score of a series. I won't go into details on the winner for risk of spoiling people, but when a character with little to no development, characterisation or personality wins, I immediately become disinterested. It's not even just about who won, it's about them getting no real development.

Oregairu wants to shove so much down your throat and the fans want for you to just accept it as good writing. Well, I am here to disagree with that narrative. I think Oregairu at best is a decent series. I feel most of what Oregairu fans think Oregairu is, can be found done better in other series.

I am well aware that my opinion of the story/show will not be popular and people will be upset, but it is what it is. I'm never going to sugarcoat how I feel about something. Speaking of Feel, the animation, art and everything are all really well done as we've come to expect from the 2nd season.

Overall, Oregairu-Kan was a very hard watch and painful experience for me. If you liked the first two seasons and or the books, you'll probably enjoy this one. I just couldn't and am glad it's over to be able to forget it. Oregairu-Kan gets 4 Yahallo's out of 10.

Now that the journey for the genuine article has ended, the progress from the previous season was severed. For the plot have went off the rails, and devolved to it's weaknesses, dragged to death, the substance has abandoned ship. For what value has left? When it's was already spent. What words could have been said, was tainted, it's pretentious already. A social commentary, as everyone perceived, but rarely seen for what it really is, a mirror hidden in plain sight, a work of self reflection for it's own audience. It should have ended earlier already, nothing else is left to said, the melodrama has made ... the water bitter, in the river of a good end. As we follow our beloved hero, through the dreaded snow of boredom, the season of winter, as it comes. As it becomes a shell of it's former self, the underwhelming encore has ended, the last dance if you will.

MINOR SPOILERS

Guys! do you know what fanservice is? you are wrong, it's not just ass and big tits, it's about giving the audience a delusion, for example we like actions and good fight in an anime and companies know about this now they might give us action and good plot with meaningful message and decent dialogues or they might just focus on just the Action and visual effects and just create fake drama

Let me make one thing clear, i am not a fan of turning my brain off

This season is way worse than the previous ones, right of the bat you can smell the dogsh*t, ... the opening starts and you see some Yuri vibe in it, it's episode one the two girls are holding each others hand while gazing at each other for what 15 minutes?! you honestly have to be totally clueless to not see what's going on

This anime or this Series (from the season 1 to 3) is about fake drama, this has always been my problem with it
It’s so poorly written, for example at one point Hikigaya and Yukino have different opinion and they decide to do things on their own (so far so good) but then suddenly Yukino says “hey btw whoever loses will have to listen to one request of the winner”, why did she offer that? it is so obvious that the whole point of this stupid and FAKE prom drama is this moment, so that there can be an excuse so these two Losers demand something from each other, but this isn’t the end yet, after she suggested that idea everyone leaves the room and Yukino pours something in her eye so it look like she is crying, why did she do this? well because yukino is a ((( StRoNg InDePeNdEnT Woman ))) so we are not allowed to see her cry, this whole act is there to give us the idea that she is upset guys! but she is holding it inside, (it’s as stupid as crying under rain, it’s overused garbage),
at some point i was just wondering does this anime thinks so low of it’s audience that it has to play dumb or this is just an awful anime, like this is insultingly unintelligent romance anime which is NOT a Comedy, Cringe is NOT funny, it never has been and it never will be

There is also a problem with dialogues, they don't make sense, in fact the don't make sense AT ALL, what are they talking about?? Yukino suddenly starts saying i want to be stronger or something! and other characters suddenly say but are you sure about that? honestly f*ck this anime

The characters are Extremely shallow, hey i'm sad, hey i'm antisocial, hey i act stupid, hey i'm the popular guy, hey i'm the popular guy's girlfriend , hey i’m the secondary character who exist for some reason, it is embarrassing

Story? well it's still airing but i'm 100% sure it's going into the wasteland

Art? not bad but what's the use? we are here for character development not art

Sound? i like the ending song

Enjoyment? i think you know

Yahari season 3 is the continuation of the weird and infructuous attempts of the two main characters to open to society. During the second part of season 2 both of them started to express their desires and frustrations, and little by little started to abandon their former twisted personalities.

Sadly this setting is poorly developed and most of the comedy that made the drama watchable and at some point enjoyable at season 1, is gone.

Confusing dialogues:
During most of season 2, in an attempt to depict the social opening and inner struggle of the main cast, they created inconsistent personalities and dialogues. This mixed with the short ... amount of episodes per season and rushed story, ended up with a show that is hard to understand.
Season 3 takes the difficulty of understanding the dialogues even further. First because they are talking about more complex subjects than previous seasons. Second, because you have to remember a lot from the previous seasons and you have to read forums to fill some plot holes. Third because it got so cringy to read what they are saying that it becomes an obstacle.

Original plot is gone:
In season 1 and some part of season 2, there was a different plot and pacing, so the drama was exposed softly and was endurable. Now that is gone, this season is even more dramatic than season 2. You won't find the silly group of two antosocials, a silly girl and a violent teacher that solved the problem of the girly tennist or the insane novelist, anymore.
For me, this was one of the worst things, because even with the confusing dialogues, I had fun watching the characters doing their stuff and the silly love triangle starting to bloom in first season. If you take that out, and leave the rest you have nothing.

The way they treat Hachiman, and how it all feels so unreal:
I think that they treated him better in season 1 though.
Sometimes I feel bad for hachiman because they say in his face he is ugly, that they hate him, even his sister and the supposed waifus.
So If this plot intends to depict some degree of real social interactions, I don't understand why Hachiman hasn't left everyone for treating him that way.

Confusing dialogues 2:
I am not exaggerating, all dialogues are like the last dialogue from season 2. You remember how you were happy to understand a bit of the story decoding the dialogues and at some point in the last 10 minutes an avalanche of nonsense ended it? Well all dialogues feel like that sudden not understandingness.

Age of the viewer:
Even if you are a teenager, swimming in the endless sea of depression and hormones of your age, you will find painful to watch the dialogues even if you can bare the over exaggerated drama.

Conclusion:
I don't recommend this to anyone even if you want to see how the story ends. Because you will be better reading the end from a forum, you won't expend 12 x 20 minutes of your life trying to understand the dialogues, your time is more valuable this show doesn't deserve your time.
It is sad but happens, and one has to learn when to abandon an anime because it sank itself in its own trash.

This review will be about s3 ultimately but is heavily based on the experience of the series as a whole.

As we at long last have reached the apotheosis of Oregairu’s, I’ve to look back at all developments and regretfully admit that I’ve never understood Oregairu and its intentions with its commentary essentially. Oregairu has touched a lot of people’s hearts, and at some point, in time I, too, was engaged in Hachiman’s social loneliness endeavours – yet I stand here confused and appalled by how shallow everything turned out to be.

This season was easily an ultimate snorefest if I’ve ever saw one. Outside the ... occasional decent character interaction - which are sparse to find – the entire season focuses on one central task and the resulting conflicts that come with this task. Summarized as the following: The main 3’s relationships as a group, Yukino’s mother problem and Hachiman choosing his waifu. The first two leave room for exploration, yet in a span of 12 episodes the results are deficient.
This task at hand being a prom. Yes, you’ve heard me right. This entire season is focused on planning a simple western-themed prom which is a completely different event organized separately from the other school events. This event is commissioned by Iroha as it is her wish to do a prom and for it to be this year.

Why is this so hard? Because Yukino’s mother, the menace, the villain, the antagonist so to speak – at least as far as this series is concerned – is part of a committee that generally oversees these types of events and because of reasons do not approve this prom to be held. Why? The series never really goes in depth or any details really, on what the exact reasons are for the disapproval and we do get is really vague and odd. One such wishy washy reason is “they didn’t like the images on social media”, but the solution to that is to simply not allow the students to upload any photos to social media then? Right? Sounds easy to me. But no, that is not enough. The committee wants it to be cancelled and done for. Because they are depressed boomers or something.


Henceforth this whole conflict lasts us 10+ episodes where the rest of our time is spent with the characters roaming together the – very easily forgotten and mostly irrelevant – side cast to help with the task and Yui and Hachiman hanging out.

Speaking of Yui, I don’t understand her either. Not her infatuation with Hachiman and Yukino, nor why she is so focused on her “I am a greedy person who wants everything” shtick as if it’s a morally detestable wish or why everyone treats the act of Hachiman choosing his waifu as some act that will ruin the entire dynamic. By the end of the show they make it such a big deal for Yui to arrive to the clubroom yet when they actually meet it is just… fine. Obviously! Because there was never a reason to be concerned about all that to begin with! Yui for the most part in this season runs around in emotional inner monologues that are really corny and cries fat hot tears. And that’s really all she does. She is emotional support and consults Hachiman in his “Yukino won’t speak to me because she wants to do everything on her own now” problem but that’s all there is. Besides that, you would be a fool to think there was ever a chance for Yui to begin with. This whole rollercoaster was a hoax. Simply looking at the first volume cover spells out the answer to the “Who will he choose” question for you, like almost every LN. Don’t let anyone convince you Oregairu is not part of the mold. Yui has always been a third wheel in the romance aspect and as much as the series tries to persuade me that this is not the case, it hardly does a good job in actually executing so.

In regards to Yukino’s mother, the series has been teasing Yukino’s conflict with her for a long while, but it essentially only ever resulted in teasing. This season is allegedly the first time she actually is forced to face her and it ended up being an utter disappointment. I honestly expected a more intense arc about how her family has been imposing very strong authoritarian values about leadership onto her as she is a rich girl coming from an – implied – influential family of some sort, and how that has psychologically ruined her in ways that hinders her to interact with other people. The series tries to imply all these things, and with trying to imply I mean it is vigorously stated - and narrated - by almost every character, that Yukino is socially inept, just like Hachiman, but of a different kind.
Since I have already mentioned it in passing, it is not just that, but literally every character has something to say about the love/friendship triangle. It honestly seems like every single person in this school is highly concerned with the dynamic of these three teenagers. It is repeated ad nauseum and makes up 70% of the runtime. Nobody ever states their relationships and relations to other people as often or even at all as many times as Oregairu characters do it. It is bizarre.


Anyways, what really makes me scratch my head is the presentation of Yukino’s mother and older sister. The older sister especially just seems to appear to spout some pretentious dialogue, pseudo-psychoanalyse the main cast and then leaves with a smug smirk being happy in her accomplishment in making the characters uncomfortable. It’s very lame and obnoxious. She is irritated by her upbringing of having to try hard for her accomplishments and I guess feels insulted by Yukino getting help and support by friends. Boohoo. So sad.

The mother is presented as an ultra conservatist. She has her hair up in a traditional Japanese hair bun, she arrives anywhere she goes in a kimono, she is forcefully friendly and threatening. But that’s it. That’s all to her character. She never insults the characters; she isn’t really that rude. The final – and only, really - confrontation Yukino has with her mom this season is where she tells her that she seeks to continue her father’s business (we don’t even know what these people’s work is) and the mom just… accepts it. It makes the big sis mad but the whole scene was reasonably calm. What are the consequences here? Is Yukino’s mom simply strict? Is this really what tortures Yukino so much? I don’t understand.

And of course, I still don’t understand whatever horrifying implications it would bring to rely on your friends and ask them for help occasionally, but this series makes it a really big deal that helping your friends is somehow awful. I can understand that letting your friends handle all your real-life problems is bad, especially if these real-life problems are rooted in abuse, but it is hardly presented in a mature, understandable way. Hell, we don’t even know if there is any abuse here. The only way I can tell that this hurts Yukino in any way is by the show telling me constantly, as well as Yukino acting like a kicked dog anytime Hachiman takes initiative in any way. There seems to be zero psychological consequences otherwise. So basically, inconsequential. As are most conflicts and headaches in this show.

The dialogue is – unironically – pretentious and on the nose. Episodes will end with puffed-up monologues leading to title cards so pompously worded it almost never not made me erupt in hysterical laughter.

The characters range from archetypical to bland background characters - basically anyone except the main 3. The series wants to act like the side characters actually matter to the plot and anything that happens in it, but no matter how many key visuals with 15 characters on it you throw at me I am aware of the truth, and the truth is they are accessories at best.
Oregairu was always very ‘anime’. The characters are very typically ‘anime’ and the drama is predictably ‘anime-ish’. A little over the top drama has never hurt a good man but it will become repetitive and exhausting if the drama comes from presumptions and alienating thought processes by the characters. Season 2 already pushed the limits of my suspension of disbelief and this season has put the final nail in the coffin. Oregairu has to have the roughest mono- and dialogues in any anime I’ve seen. It edges on poetic parody.

Nobody talks like this, especially not teenagers. All in all, I can only describe watching Oregairu as an alienating experience. Nobody communicates in human ways, nobody words things in human ways, nobody is even socially awkward in ways that are believable. Characters have weird, up-their-arse life philosophies about the world and feel morally just or superior in comparison to other characters because of shallow non-explored reasons, because this is only highschool and not an epic thriller like ‘Monster’. Essentially it results to barely any commentary in regards to anything. Conflicts are completely inconsequential to anyone psychologically and do not impact their life significantly whatsoever. It is true that eventually Hachiman becomes a more likeable person, but I also think Hachiman was occasionally right in calling out people on their bullshit.

And then there is the show’s production too. Hand on asscheeks: It looks like shit. This anime has the worst lighting I’ve seen in my goddamn life. Especially modern productions. The series manages to completely overlight scenes and any light emits light from a 3k Watt source apparently. Imagine opening your phone in the middle of the night, now imagine that feeling but it’s the middle of the day from several different spots around you. That’s what it looks like.

The backgrounds are generic rubbish: Badly drawn, pseudo-realistic, plasticy, generic buildings inseparable from any other, use of CG chairs, and such a heavy blur over the entire thing, it feels like you forgot to clean your glasses. Everything is orange. Am I wearing glasses with an orange filter or is the show like that? I can guarantee you it’s just the show. This Oregairu season is simply hideous. The only saving grace is that the character art isn’t off model for most of the characters and general lack of animation errors but dear god is it ugly. So damn ugly.

The female characters have a constant blush effect on their cheeks and below their eyes (you know the rosy spot), glossy lips and shiny eyes. The show is just “shiny” now, but not in good way. You can tell they are trying to gloss up the girls so you just think “They are so pretty OwO” the whole time. This overpolish actually diverts your attention away from the serious intentions, and when compared to every male character just looks jarring.

Music and voice performances are all generic, forgettable, nothing to say about these. One track sounds like it is straight from animal crossing. Another from Clannad.
One tiny thing I also wanted to mention is the teacher. She is Hachiman’s mentor character and has a few scenes with him in this season as well and I consider her role in the story kinda odd and problematic? In season one she hits him over the head a few times, and there are semi-romantic implications between them. In the last episode they dance together and she – deadass – falls on-top of him. They don’t touch but I very deeply clenched my teeth together at that scene. She seems to be there to up the harem factor more so than anything.

And with that I am at the end of my review. I do not like Oregairu. I do not like this season especially. In fact, I would even say I hated it. Whatever anyone says, do not be fooled by anyone that Oregairu actually does social commentary, love triangles or highschool drama well. If you want a cynical MC watch Hyouka. If you want a great RomCom watch KareKano or Love is War. If you want better romance, especially watch KareKano. If you want a good highschool show all these 3 are miles ahead of this one. Or you know, watch this whole 7 year long built up disaster and judge for yourself.

Overview


Story: 2/10 – Boring, pretentious, self-important. Inconsequential conflicts.
Art & Animation: 3/10 – Ugly as fuck
Sound: 5/10 – Mediocre
Character: 3/10 – Nothing humane.
Enjoyment: 2/10 – I absolutely hated it.
RomCom: 1/10 – It speaks for itself
Overall: 3.0 (range: 2.5 – 4.0)

TLDR: A very poor buildup to what is a generally good ending to an outstanding anime series. Sprinkled with some emotional moments supported by the amazing production done by Studio feel. I will miss this series for the experience for the foreseeable future.

[Light Spoilers Ahead]

Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru, or My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, As I Expected is many things. A pilgrimage destination for people who set out to quench their thirst for finding something genuine masterfully created genre-breaking romantic comedy full of ironic tension and witty dialogue, a journey exploring the themes of self-realization, inferiority complex, cynicism, and social ... awkwardness.

At least, that was what we were promised. The first two seasons of Oregairu did this well by introducing its characters, showing how each of them interacts with each other, unpacking everyone's secret desires and motivations with a conclusion of a competition overarching this entire series/

So now, after five years of waiting, we get our conclusion, and all I can say is that Oregairu Kan (meaning climax in Japanese by the way) is one massive letdown.

Let's break it down, shall we?

Story: (3/10) Starting with the positives, the most remarkable aspect of Oregairu is how deep the superficial scenarios are. I'm not going to spoil anything because I want you to read this knowing nothing but a general analysis, but many scenes in the stories, if you look hard enough, have profound significance all surrounding one central concept, "there is no happy ending for everyone in a romantic comedy." So if you're going to watch Oregairu Kan, keep a mindful eye and notice how the characters interact, the environment around them, and the relationship dynamic everyone has with each other to notice trends you don't usually see in romance dramas.

Now we get to the bad stuff. As good as Oregairu is at making their scenarios have deeper meanings, it also screams melodrama. The main goal of the entirety of Oregairu Kan is nothing special, planning a high school prom, but they made it seem like a life or death scenario that it was almost laughable. The worst part of it was that the whole planning of the high school prom lost focus and at some points, forgot about what they were trying to do. At one point, it jumped quickly from "we're concerned about how this will turn out" to "okay, it's fine let's just do it" out of nowhere. I thought I missed something, so I went back, but no, I was right that it jumped the gun on the prom idea without much resistance with the "main antagonist" saying that "you know, the people will still get mad over this", which is basically saying that the conflict was never even resolved in the first place.

The story also focused way too much on one character and essentially, the story became about her when she shouldn't have become the focus because she's not the love interest in the end. A lot of the story evolved from a story about acceptance about losing your love to becoming a cry bait for audiences over the fact that she lost. But I'll talk more about this in characters.

Characters: (2/10) Not enough Saika this season? Automatic one.

Okay, but on a serious note, my statement has some truth in it. But not just Saika, just everyone else. A lot of the characters we saw and were built upon in the previous seasons were all rendered useless in this season. Either the characters have no plot significance or impact, plot devices to remind Hachiman of one fact that he forgot, or literally background noise to what's going on.

But the largest offender was that Yukino, the main girl of this story, was pushed to the sides. No, the main focus of this story was Yui, or as the light novel readers will say, "Yui cry bait." I'm not saying that it's a bad thing, a few episodes dedicated to that should have been good enough, but the worst part was that so much of the airtime was dedicated to Yui and Hachiman together, implying that they will be together in the end. But no, in the last-gasp effort, Studio felt realized that this story was entirely about Yukino and quickly wrapped it up towards the end with no buildup at all of the chemistry between Yukino and Hachiman.

Art: (10/10) As for art, I can describe it as "unnecessarily beautiful." We saw it with the drastic art style change in Zoku: the subtle facial expressions from the characters, ESPECIALLY Yui, the sunset shading on all of the characters' faces and setting, even the iconic finger/hand animations, all of it is unnecessarily beautiful. I understand the fantastic animation is to bring out how tangible the emotional scenes are between the character interactions, so I'm going to keep the art at a 10 because of how effectively Studio feel pulled it off, but it still doesn't take away the fact that Oregairu is unnecessarily beautiful.

Sound (9/10): I think out of all the OSTs even from the first and second seasons, this season definitely stood out the most. The opening and ending themes doesn't only sound good with the seiyuu singing spectacularly, but the lyrics as well have a special connection to the message of the anime itself. Take the example from the opening theme: "One after another, Happy ever after, At the end credits roll, What I hoped for, Won't appear on the screen, No matter how long I wait" just talking about how Oregairu needs a conclusion, but it won't damn right be a happy one. I also can't mention sound direction without talking about the ending theme. The cherry ending theme with both Yukino and Yui sings speaks volumes, especially when the more mellow single seiyuu versions of the ending theme plays in the more emotionally impactful scenes. And oh, do those scenes hit like a truck(-Kun)!

Besides the openings and endings, the rest of the OST was also really good, even at times calling back to some old themes and OSTs from the past Oregairu seasons.

Enjoyment (4/10): All in all, I can say that Oregairu Kan could have been great. The art and sound direction were impeccable, the past two seasons had good buildup to this point, all for it to be "destroyed" in the final season, the "Kan" as you can say. It wasn't bad by any means, the emotional scenes hit hard, the art was outstanding, the soundtrack was great, and everything was wrapped up very nicely. I'm just saying that this season could have been so much better.

Now would you excuse me while I go read the light novel so I could have a better experience with a writer that actually knows how to write a good buildup to a good conclusion.

My Equation Total Overall: 4/10

(TLDR at the bottom and spoilers ahead)

Each season on oregairu has a distinct identity, while not much happens in the first season it is enjoyable seeing the constant back and forth between Hachiman and Yukino while Yui tries to mediate between the two personalities. The second season has the bonds between the characters deepen, so it’s kind of enjoyable as a character drama. If the first season is the comedy part of the title the second season is the love part of it.

So how does season 3 create its own identity?

It doesn’t, it is a an overgrown tumour ripped of the back of the second ... seasons back and presented as its own season and were forced to see It crawl to what can hardly be considered ending.

The third season can be split into two distinct sections, Yui getting over the fact that she won’t be with Hachiman and the club will eventually grow apart and the rest of the series. This first part conceptually sounds quite interesting but then why does some thing that could be solved in a few episodes take up the majority of the series? I'll tell you why pacing. Season 1 adapted 6 light novels, season 2 adapted 5 and season 6 adapts 2. Because of this the final season is a slog, stretching every moment as far as it can go, and because of it the final season isn’t a triumphant finale but a boring conclusion that takes too long to finish.

“I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.”

This also largely revolves around Yukino's ability to decide things for herself and stop being "co-dependent" the issue with this, apart from taking the whole season to sort out, is that it is nothing new. In the second season Hachiman had to learn not to shoulder everyone's burdens so we have seen these struggles before, making the season just feel even similar to the previous season, further preventing this season to have its own identity.
Oregairu is often praised for its deep philosophical themes, but I ask you what are they? The so-called "philosophical themes" are just surface level nonsense that you can get an even better Idea about by reading a Wikipedia page on it, which would take significantly less time and probably be more interesting.

And then the ending, what this called "love story" has been building up to for 38 episodes (Ignoring the ova's) is a confusion and then Yukino runs away, 38 episodes for this. No satisfying payoff, no conclusive finale, just this and then a minute of extra stuff that purposely avoids giving us any information about Hachiman and Yukino and then credits roll leaving nothing but disappointment.

TLDR:

If you like the previous seasons you'll like this. For everyone else though it is a boring slog through uneventful arcs leading to a disappointing conclusion.

I want something Genuine


How about shut the fck up? lul

Oregairu is the type of stuff that is killing the writing in Anime industry. At least the generic isekai openly admit that they suck. This, however tries to be more than what it really is and that is a very poor highschool drama filled with extremely cringe-worthy and corny characters acting way too unrealistic for their age.

Honestly this didn't deserve past the first season. Problem with Anime like these are that characters acting far too unrealistic and mature for their age and that makes things extremely uninteresting like NO. I am not going to take them ... seriously unless it's a seinen show with actual grown up characters.

Season 3 wasn't anything different. In fact, it somehow surpassed the first 2 seasons in being absolute cringe-fest. It became more dramatic than the first 2 seasons combined. The producers being biased towards Yuigahama and we were forced to see her cry at every single thing.

Yukino continued to had mommy issues. Yukino's sister continued being an annoying shit with her half-assed dialogues that were supposed to carry some heavy weight but since this anime just tries way too hard, they weren't.

Yui... Yui is genuinely one of the most annoying characters I've ever seen in Anime.
Someone gets in an accident, Yui starts crying. Someone forgets to eat their breakfast, Yui starts crying. Pattinson tested positive for Covid-19, Yui starts crying. Nvidia launches 3000 series, Yui starts crying. Microsoft buys bethesda, Yui starts crying even though she has an xbox.

This girl will just start crying at anything. From Episode 4-11, everything else was on one hand but Yui being annoying was constant.

The comedy in this show is really poor. Whenever Hikigaya try to pull out a Arraragi by start rapping out of nowhere it results in nothing but absolute cringe.

Hikigaya's younger sister was still liable for a punch in the face with all her "Points" thing.

Rest of the side characters were just as forgettable.

Oh yea, season 3 revolved around the idea of the "Prom" as if it wasn't a borefest enough. They kept on going with what kind of "relationship" they have and they have "requests". Again, making too big of a fuss of issues that aren't even that big because that's what this show literally is.

Other then that, there really isn't much to say since 70% of the whole season was just Yui crying.

People who wanted Hikigaya x Yukino would cream their pants and that's about it.

to put it shortly, no. Do not bother with this please. There's other Anime out there or other mediums too. This season 3 should've never existed. Heck, in a parallel universe we might actually get Kaguya-Sama season 3 for this dumpster fire

Sorry, what I'm saying may be selfish, but please raise your standards.
This anime could be fun. However, many of the stories in the anime were not logical at all and the exaggeration was too much.
But my main problem was the end of the story, especially the last two episodes.
hachiman, who in the rest of the anime cared a lot about their friends' feelings, suddenly became badly selfish in the last two episodes, so much so that in the end I hated the male character. Of course, not because he chose Yukino Yukinoshita. Because this issue was clear from the first part. But because of the ... way he treats Yui Yuigahama.
The anime seems to have a happy ending and everyone is happy, but I think the Yui was very neglected by her two main friends. The male character who cared for all the characters in the anime throughout the story and did everything to help them, but did not pay the slightest attention to the feelings of Yui Yuigahama, while he could have rejected her much better.
Yukino was somewhat the same in the last two episodes, and while she knew that her best friend had been rejected, she did not sympathize with her in the slightest.
I hope the site's rating system provides a section for professional critics to see the real rating of an anime. Because one of the reasons I chose this anime was its seemingly high score, but in the end I was disappointed with that.

Seasons 1&2 are good. Season 3 sucks donkey-eggs. Consider yourself warned. I regret starting this series. (╥_╥)

OreGairu is a romcom. This is the final season. This should be the part where the main character (MC) and main heroine (MH) discover meaningful reasons for liking each other. Unfortunately, OreGairu decided to skip that step. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'm 100% fine with the MC and MH getting together (truly), but for the love of God give me one reason to care about her. I can respect that she's quiet, respectful, and dignified, but... actually... no I can't... because it's fucking boring. I guess we're supposed to be smitten with her ... amazing ability to plan school events?

The only semi-interesting thing she does is insult the MC, which he seems to enjoy for some perverse reason, but that is literally all she has. You would think they'd use this season to flesh out their relationship, but that's nearly impossible to do when they're constantly apart and/or interacting in some boring/clinical activity like event planning (seriously!?). Throwing them together all cutesy-like in the last 2 episodes does not a great romance make, ffs.

Instead of showing us a satisfying love story between the MC and MH, this season spends 10/12 episodes highlighting the love and dedication that the 2nd-place girl has for the MC only to do a 180 in the last 2 episodes and bukkake all over her. If studio feel had taken 1/10th of the effort they put into making that poor girl cry and put it into giving the MC and MH some chemistry, then I probably wouldn't be writing this review, but here we are.

I've been reading some reviews, and it seems that 99% of people fall into one of these camps:

1. "I read the light novels" - i.e. it makes sense if you read the book

The light novels do a much better job of setting up the MC and MH. Instead of being left to interpret every goddamn awkward silence, you can actually read what the characters are thinking, which sounds kinda fucking helpful. Of course, every fanboy of this show is a pretentious douche-nozzle who claims himself able to "analyze" every scene, so I guess I'm just retarded. Apparently, MC is constantly idolizing the MH and thinking about her all the goddamn time. Why the MC likes the MH is anyone's guess. In the anime, he seems to get on a lot better with pretty much every other girl, but wtf do I know.

2. "MH is my waifu"

She didn't get much screen time, and her personality is flatter than her chest, but who the hell cares? You won, mate! Congrats. Best anime ever. 10/10.

3. "2nd-place girl is my waifu"

Oof... that's rough. At least you can take solace in the fact that the MC is a fucking loser. She deserves better anyways, right? Just imagine her getting together with literally any other guy and it's all good. Her love for the MC never made sense anyways.

4. "Kouhai is my waifu"

Despite never being a real contender, I gotta say that Iroha was by far the most interesting to watch, and probably the only girl that the MC had actual chemistry with. Just one more example of how studio feel had its heads up its butt.

5. "Yuigahama-mama is my waifu"

Ah, I see you're a man of culture as well. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

6. "I don't have a waifu"

Don't you fucking lie to me.

Conclusion:

Unless you're a 14 year old edgelord with a nadeshiko fetish looking for your next wish-fulfillment fix, I seriously recommend skipping this series. It starts out strong, but devolves into a blasé wish-fulfillment romcom where the MC and MH get together because the writers say so. Literally throws away everything that made it good in the first place.

After two decently good seasons, Yahare/Snafu was on a long hiatus for 5 years. You would expect that with this ample amount of time the author of the light novel would create more complexity and sophistication in his work especially since this is what the show tries so hard to sell, however Yahari Season 3 is here to prove that wrong

Story:
The story becomes much like a high school cringefest drama. People that are scared to admit they like someone, coming up with insanely high IQ mental masturbation techniques to convince themselves they are doing something worthy. The 'high IQ deep talks' also make little to ... no sense and at times it seems very obvious that the anime is just trying to make a dialogue sound deep for the sake of it.

Art:
The art is decent however the lack of frames is pretty astonishing from start to end and it's very surprising considering this anime came after several years and a ton of delays.

Sound:
The voice actors did a good job but with the horrible lines they were given. Often repetitive, it did them no service to play part for this anime

Character:
This is probably the worst part of all. It is extremely horrible and I'm going to try and explain this in fewer words than I need to.
Basically, everyone other than the main characters completely lack any form of dimensional thinking. A lot of the characters are added purely out of fanservice type, such as the femboy fantasy 'Totsuka', the hardcore yaoi shipper girl whose name I can't remember because she had no other purpose, an anime/weeb 'Zaiogomosa'. The previous seasons still had a decent amount of dimensions to all of these characters but this season was just downright trash.

Yukino Yushikta: Yukino was shown from season 1 itself as an incredibly smart girl. She would analyze things well and cared not for melodrama. However this season is entirely melodrama. They made a strong independent girl into a much more shy, cute, adorable type in order to appease to the otaku palate. In my opinion this is a disservice to her character. She was by no means an ideal female but her composure breaking in every scene of season 3 is just lmaoo

Overall:

Overall this season was full of melodrama. The only show that beats this one in terms of melodrama is Your Lie in April. However I will admit that there are people who can love this season more than any other. Let me explain that further

If you are 14, I can definitely see the appeal of this show. However for anyone that's mature but still enjoys watching anime, doesn't care about fanservice or anime trying to appease the otaku's palate, this show is downright garbage.

Teruu singing out,

I really wanted to like this anime, season 1 would be the best, season 2 so so, but season 3 completely destroyed it
This is most pretentious anime I have ever seen in my life
Fod God´s sake, which teenager talks like Yukino and Hachiman in real life?
Most of things Yukino and Hachimans say doesnt make any sense
They made story about prom so dramatic as people´s life depend on that
Yukino acts like someone who has autism
Hachiman is Mary Sue character, who knows everything, has solution for everything, and everyone love him
What a joke of anime and pretentious as hell.

I found the first season interesting, I even liked the second, but for God's sake, what is this third season?

Story. Rating: 2
Very boring, but very boring indeed. They focused on that event, this damn dance. It all revolves around how they're going to get acceptance to do a dance. KKKKKK I'm sick of this crap. And as always young people stalling. A loving triangle that only this season will be focused intensely, to finish still well, (like any windup I've ever seen). No matter how bad the story is if it's boring annoys me and so note 2.

Art. Rating: 8
It's as good as the ... second season.

Sound. Rating: 7
Good. The open and the ending more or less.

Characters. Rating: 5
So almost the same thing, JUST MORE ANNOYING.

Rating: 4.30

Achei interessante a primeira temporada, até gostei da segunda, mas pelo amor de deus, o que é essa terceira temporada?

História. Nota: 2
Muito chata, mas muito chata mesmo. Focaram nesse evento, nesse baile maldito. Tudo gira em volta de como vão fazer para ter aceitação para fazer um baile. KKKKKK estou cheio dessa porcaria. E como sempre jovens enrolando. Um triangulo amoroso que só nessa temporada vai ser focado intensamente, pra terminar ainda bem, (como qualquer enrolação que já vi). Não importa o quão ruim seja a história se ela for chata me irrita e por isso a nota 2.

Arte. Nota: 8
Está boa como a da segunda temporada.

Som. Nota: 7
Bom. A open e a ending mais ou menos.

Personagens. Nota: 5
Tão quase a mesma coisa, APENAS MAIS IRRITANTES.

Nota: 4.30

Translation done on bing, lazy to put into English.
Tradução feita no bing, preguiça de colocar pro inglês.

What is happening in anime industry?

I wrote a review before but someone else described way better what I really feel about this. Anger and hate. But I hate myself more waste time on complete it. Im glad if you loved all of this false drama while I thinking about HOW could people enjoyed this? You can laugh on me because this show hurt my feelings and my soul. So this is my opinion as respectful it can be. /Minor Spoilers/

I liked the first season the most. The way how the main characters are connected with each other by the way of the accident keeped me ... interested. But the second season for me was the worst experience of my life. Just so excruciating and boring. When things turn out the worst possible way and everyone love it and okay with. This is not genuine or real guys. This is madness. I don't even know what are the writer's directors and the studio even thought when they throw this shit out.

Story, 2/10

Well unfortunately it doesn't make any sense. There is no Deep meaning or whatsoever. It's hard to describe how is nothing happening but slowly killing you. We have three main characters they form the volunteer club in their school. So they supposed to HELP others.

The PLOT: Students have minor Problems. --> They ask help from the most "reliable club." --> The club members kindly tells them how worthless they are. After that they overreacted the Problem to made it ENORMOUS --> So they can undertake it...Basically a psychological pull which should be dramatic, turn out Hoax and fake.

We also need to talk about the genre's of the show. Romance , Comedy, school ,slice of life and Drama? These things are rarely can be found in this. The shade of romance is lost between a unrequited love and a guy who shown no emotions at all. Even Hyouka had more romance which isn't a love story at the first place. On the comedy part. There were scenes that could make you smile, but the overused jokes made it forced not funny. The slice of life which brings the reality in to makes it more boring. And drama which I would love to see. [ Ends up being made by the characters it sefls. ]

However my main concerns was with the characters , because they killed the show fundamentally. As a RomCom we want to see characters development at least..

Characters, 1/10

The characters try to act realistically but end up acting weird and unlike their age. The conversation they had was way more aged than theirs. Very often become meaningless. The characters act wasn't enough smooth to empathize whit, rather seemd played.

* Hachiman our main protagonist,

At first I liked the way he thought about things. And I would love to see how an antisocial kid can changes and fits into society. So I was excited how tings turn out for him.BUT. His actions was cruel and seemed unfriendly. It's supposed to feel sorry for him that he takes over ( assumed everyone's problem's). Just because he thinks himself less. The throw back will show oppositely as it does. The way he solved the Love confession was the most jackass move I saw. It was cruel to both parties, but also to LOVE itself !! I hated that he can do WHATEVER HE WANTS doesn't matter it's bad or can hurt someone's feeling with. They DON'T CARE! Because Hachiman is the most realistic MC.

* Yukino

I think I didn't like her at all. She was cute when she shows her childish side ,but besides that she was a rude and selfish person. As Hachiman she is free to fuck anybody she wants. The way she speaks was the most noticeable how unsuitable it was according to her age.(but as I mentioned all characters are struggling with this problem.)

* Yui,

Yui was the girl who supposed to bring some light and happines in the club. She was happy and full of energy. Ended up emotionally broken. I think I was sorry for her, but now she is just as wrong as the others.
Yui crying, and says things like :.
"-You know , girls are like crying for no reason."

So the characters are trash and we get more annoying and not really memorable ones too. They are fake , one dimensional plot devices for the two main Hachiman and Yukino. They control everyone like they are GODS. No one can make any choice without these two being involved.. Even Yui just there to suffer and tortured herself.. just there for these two interest. And everyone is okay with that.

Art, 7/10

For me it's not important to be at a spectacular level. I liked it and its upgraded every season but I don't recognized any significant changes from season 2. Maybe just clearer. Although this is not an action anime but the characters movement could have been improved better.

To summarize it,

I watching anime to rest and charged up some positive emotions from. This show made me stressful and sad. The story doesn't take me away at all. I see the possibilities in it, but as a whole, it takes more out of you than it gives. This doesn't changed a bit in season 3.

I CAN'T RECOMMEND THIS TO PEOPLE WHO ARE IN DEPRESSION or have hard times. Since this show could cause drawbacks.

All I can say is this must be the most predictable and cliche ending ever in terms of anime, manga, tv series or movies and they milked the story till they killed it, they should have stopped with season 1 since it had everything and you enjoyed every moment during the season but they kept push the romance aspect of the story in season 2 and started killing anime and what made the characters likable, but I said maybe they will fix it with season 3 they may fix the dreadfulness of season 2, oh boy I was wrong it kept the same shit os ... season 2 and nothing really happens in season 3 the same scenario kept playing from the first episode till the 11th big big disappointment after a great start

I recommend people who want to try it just watch the first season and stop we didn’t need to continue after it
It’s simple to SAO great start then shit after shit

First season 8/10,

second season 4/10

Third season 2/10

This is my first ever review, because this is the first time I feel so angry at an anime that I need to write it down.

This season is just a waste of time, the plot comes to a screeching halt after the season 2 finale and nothing fucking happens for most of this season. It simply didn't need to be 12 episodes, it could have been done in 6 or less, they should have just done a movie.

The side characters are almost completely absent, Hachiman's lost his wit and all the fun and comedy of the show has been sucked out. There was seriously only ... one scene in the whole season that I found vaguely amusing.

I sat through 12 episodes to see how it ends, and again it's the most lackluster, inconclusive shit you could imagine.

I can't think of a single character or story element that I enjoyed, so honestly I think I would have been happier if this season never happened, and that in itself says it all.

Sometimes, though a 2nd sequel maybe good, it just logical that if one was to make a 3rd sequel it is suppose to be better than the 2nd, if not then better not make it at all and just leave as a manga or LN...This is how I see this 3rd sequel, so, I'm not gonna be beating around the bush, I'm gonna just make it as simple as it is....."

Story-Poor 3: Just as what MAL's synopsis said , the service club are back again, but instead of a more interesting plot it was more like based on the premise where a student council member ... , Isshiki, Iroha comes in with a proposal to help her wish of having a High School prom a reality, where in fact that should have been the student council's job anywayz...what's annoying is 2 things , all that beating around the bush thing and that prom thing were simply annoying. If I were Hachiman , i would have done a tsundere thing on Iroha and just tell her "You're a member of the student council, why don't you do, Baka Onna!?"

Art-Mediocre 5: As usual the same illustration, same old uniform, same old no panchira thing and same old on everything.

Sound-Mediocre 5: Not gonna comment.

Character- Poor 3: On the 1st and 2nd , the characters were fine in my book, but in this 3rd sequel , I find annoying when them service club members allowed themselves to be manipulated by Iroha Isshiki, in fact thought this series' airing , she is basically the mover around here, while Hachiman, Yukinon, and Yui continue to beat around the bush with their feeling for each other , TBFH, I'd wish that them girls they just say what they wanna say to that Hachiman guy and mean it. Hachiman, as much as I hate to say it still plays this asshole who up to now still doesn't know how to be an asshole , why? Cu'z up to now he is still this dichotomy where he hates normies but helps out anyway , Yukinon like Hachiman still plays this bitch who doesn't know how to be a bitch and we have Yui who still rows in two rives , lets face she already has her own set of friends and yet she still manages to be in a club that only has 3 members including her...Another characters who adds to this anime's complication , were Yukinon's mom whom I can't wrap my head as to what she really wants and Yukinon's big sister whom I have no idea as to what's her problem.......

Enjoyment -Decent 4: Cu'z I feel like it's a chore to watch given that this would be the last of the Oregairu anime.

Overall- Poor 3: IMAO, this final sequel wasn't up to par with the 1st and 2nd sequel , due to it's shallow plot, in fact this would have been better off leaving it as either an LN or a manga..........

Plot - Ok let's see let's just make the stories even more boring and unlearn everything from the 2nd season, it really is a disappointment seeing how well was the 2nd season, the story felt aimeless and had no direction and when an event happen it has little pay off, honestly most episodes were really boring and progressed nothing to the story whatsoever which i really disliked, 3/10

Characters - they also never changed even when they did it was only for small changes and the season also my main complaint of only focusing on other characters other than the main trio sadly wasn't fulfilled... and ... also i WISHED for at least one episode focusing on best girl isshiki which is a big no no for me because i'm sort of biased but biased aside i didn't really liked how characters never developed as much as they did in this season and like i hated how bad they treated my girl yui they literally shoved her from the fricking finale god damn, 2/10

Production - everything was alright nothing to care here about, 5/10

Speciality - [SPOILERS] Iroha Isshiki the only reason i even continued this dumpster of a season even when i knew 99% she won't win i had the 1% THAT she might do and at least both iroha and hachiman had a great chemistry and he also had a decent chemistry with yui as well and i know that the whole reason yukino and hachiman are together because they are meant to be together but damn it would've been alot nicer if he ended up with either yui or iroha god damn it my day is ruined and my disappointment is immeasurabl, 3/10

Enjoyment - That shit was bad i guess season 2 was peak huh, my final rating is 3/10
i sleep

Oh thank goodness it's finally f*cking over. I never have to sit through another episode of this nightmare, with the exception of a single OVA for this season they promised sometime in the future. The scores for this show seem incredibly divisive, and I think that can be largely chalked up to the demographics of the people watching. Are you a dumb kid in high school who gets off on drama and thrives on pointless gossip and love triangles? Maybe this is for you. The protagonist continues to be the most unlikable piece of sh/t in existence and doesn't even deserve to be in a ... love triangle. I'm not joking when I say the show was a more enjoyable experience when I opened up a seperate tab in each corner of the screen and watched for episodes at once each at 2x speed or faster. It was actually hilarious seeing all the predictably stupid events transpire simultaneously. Here's where he finally tells side-chick B that he doesn't like her. Over on that screen at the same time he's finally going on a date with side-chick A. On both of those screen it looks like the same exact scene is playing out at around the same time in two completely different episodes. Wow. Pointing out how stupid it all was turned out to be way more fun than the actual show. Of course trying to perform a lobotomy on yourself with a rusty hatchet would also be more fun.

The only time I can remember genuinely laughing at something when the show was actually trying to be funny was that impromptu rap battle protagonist-kun had with the guy who likes to wave his hands around a lot. Every subplot was stupid and it makes me violently angry thinking about how much of my time this show has wasted, even at 2x, 3x and finally 4x speed it still felt like it was going to slow. 3/10