Haganai: I Don't Have Many Friends (僕は友達が少ない)

Shut up! There's no way;

she so did not do that.

Oh yes she did, and, girl...

Yeah!

Hurry up! We're gonna get in trouble

if we're late again!

I know, I'm trying!

So you went ahead and bought 'em?

Yep! Brand new shoes!

I'm gonna be super fast today!

Just you wait!

You'll be eating my dust!

Oh, whatever!

Miss Takayama,

please return to the faculty room as soon as possible.

Yeah, that one made me cry a lot, too.

Why is he in the library?

You girls are late again!

We're sorry.

Get changed immediately and start running laps!

Okay.

-And get a better attitude! -Okay!

So Sena.

Where are you going now?

I did bring that movie I was talking about

if you wanted to see it.

What's wrong, Sena?

I forgot my gym clothes.

Do you wanna go back to that same store again?

I was just about to ask you the same question!

I... I'm so sorry!

-Oh my God, we almost died! -He is totally the worst!

Kyou, you're so exaggerating.

I am totally not!

I'm telling you; they both almost died

like right there in the hallway!

Um, no it's not, like at all!

Who's in there talking?

She must be on a cell phone or something.

Come on you always say that.

I know that girl.

She's in my class.

Yozora something.

Mikazuki, I think.

But I've never heard her laugh like that in class

or, well, ever.

She always looks pissed as hell.

Kind of like she's about to murder someone.

I've never really seen her talk to anybody.

Crazy.

Hold on this is officially weird.

She's not talking on the phone at all!

What the hell?

Who's she talking to?

Is there somebody hiding in there?

A girl talking to an invisible thing

in an empty classroom at dusk.

You know, this sounds exactly

like the beginning of a book I just started reading.

Next, after various obstacles,

I discover her secret and ultimately defend her

by fighting and killing "a thing not of this World".

Then we would, naturally, uh, Fall in, uh, love.

I guess.

You know what Tomo I think I do remember that...

Huh?

That's what she usually looks like.

But she was so cute when she was laughing.

What do you want?

I... I was just wondering.

Do you, like, see ghosts and stuff?

What?

Uh, no. cause ghosts don't exist.

Well then, who have you been talking to?

You were watching me?

Look. I was having a conversation

with my best friend ever.

She's made of air okay!

You have an air friend?

What the crap is that?

It's exactly what I said it was.

You've heard of an "air guitar" before, haven't you?

She's like that but cooler.

So let's see.

You pretend someone is there and talk to them

like they're talking back to you?

I'm not pretending.

Tomo exists you big jerk.

See she's right here next to me!

For example Tomo and I were just talking about this one time

when we went to a theme park

back when we were in middle school.

This group of guys was totally hitting on us

while we were there.

I mean it was ridiculous

so I decided to pretend one of them

was going to be our hot new homeroom teacher.

You just said you were pretending!

Shut up! The point is it really happened!

Oh really?

How much of it really happened?

The part where I was in middle school.

So only ninety--nine percent of it was a complete lie?

I was hoping the amusement park

would at least turn out to be real.

Seriously who would want to go

to an amusement park by themself?

You just admitted you were alone!

Stop! Go ahead and get over it

because Tomo is unbelievably adorable.

That chick is off her rocker.

This cannot end well.

So this is really about self-- preservation.

What is that look for?

I dunno.

Wouldn't it be a lot easier for you to just,

you know, make a real friend instead.

Not an "air" friend like adorable Tomo.

But an actual living person.

Yeah well I would if I could thank you.

Shocking that you can't.

And just who are you to talk?

You're that new kid everyone's afraid of,

isn't that right?

I've been at this school for well over a month now.

I'm hardly a new kid.

What's your name?

It's Kodaka Hasegawa.

It seems to me you have no right to say anything

about having friends Kodaka.

First name basis already?

So an entire month has passed

and you still haven't made a single friend yet.

Wouldn't you say that's a little pathetic?

Hey! You only have an air friend!

Where the hell do you get off?

There's no reason to be rude to her.

My friend Tomo is adorable and crazy smart.

And she's also an amazing athlete

and the absolute best friend a girl

like me could ever hope to have!

What's more.

She would never even dream about stabbing me in the back.

It's not a mystery.

There's nothing else I can do.

I don't know how to make friends.

Yeah, I'm not really that great at it either.

Did you not have any friends at your old school?

Of course I did.

Don't you still talk to them?

He said he would text me, but I haven't heard from him.

Maybe you misunderstood and just like,

thought you were friends.

Maybe shut up.

Fine, then.

You know, if you wanted,

you could try to pay someone to be friends with you.

No. That's so lame, gah.

Come on. A small stipend every week

for spending time together at school.

Like a prostitute?

What is that, a friend--stitute?

No, it's a basic contract.

Yeah. There's nothing wrong with a contract!

Or you could just ask someone to be your friend.

I've seen people do that on after school specials,

but I don't really get it.

You ask someone to be friends,

and the moment they agree, a friendship is suddenly formed.

Even if you'd never spoken to each other before then.

What if you never even talk after getting approval?

Can you still consider that person to be your friend?

Yeah, well I guess I can't really blame you.

It's not my thing either.

Besides I'm pretty independent

so it's not like I need to have any friends.

Right.

Not having friends must be so hard on that poor girl.

Condescension has to be my least favorite thing

in the whole world.

Well.

I can understand.

For whatever reason,

people think if you don't have a lot of friends

there's something wrong with you.

I don't think that's true, though.

At least I hope it's not.

I'm perfectly fine being alone.

Having a few general acquaintances at school.

Those types of superficial friends are enough for me.

Yeah, but still.

I have to admit.

It would be nice to have a real friend.

-What about school clubs? -No way.

Why's that a bad idea?

Because we're in our second year.

Club--based friendships have already been established.

It'd be too embarrassing to join one now.

Not to mention completely obvious.

I guess that's true.