My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU (やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている。)

So tell me... how's this your "go to" solution?

See... it's easy.

I've made a world where no one gets hurt.

The culture festival and the athletic festival ended with no huge mistakes,

and in the blink of an eye the collective school temperature dropped,

and a cold wind blew.

Furthermore... my surroundings are even bleaker.

But it's always like that.

Hey, bro!

Why're you're leaving me out? What am I Hikitani? Or is it Whatatani!

Yeah Yeah, very funny.

By the way, my name from the beginning has never been Hikitani.

Yahello!

Huh... Oh.

You'll be at service club today, right?

Yeah.

Okay. See you in the club room.

Hachiman!

Hm?

We need to pick our group for the Kyoto trip... our teacher said we can do it during our homeroom class.

Really? Seems like everyone has already made up their groups.

You really think so?

Because I haven't found a group to join yet...

Uh...

I want to protect that smile!

Would you like to be in a group together then?

Mm...

Hey!

Hellooo!

Hey, where'd ya go Hayato?

Are you becoming a loner like Whatatani?

Can't I go to the bathroom by myself.

By the way, Tobe, you're using that joke way too often.

Joke about him too much and you'll sink to his level...

you need TO BE better than him.

OH... so now it's about me! Cut me some slack, man!

Thanks!

Your tea's going to get cold.

Huh?

My mouth burns easily.

I wish our school had picked somewhere more exciting for our trip, like Okinawa.

Kyoto is pretty lame isn't it?

Actually there is quite a lot to do in Kyoto.

We can see and experience this country's culture first hand.

I don't think that's why we're really going.

Really? Then why do you suppose they make us go on these overnight school trips?

They're giving us an imitation of society.

When you go on a business trip with your boss, you don't get to choose where you stay or even what's for dinner.

But if you compromise, it can be fun in its own way, it's like practice for deceiving yourself in the future really.

Your school trip doesn't sound like it's very much fun, Hikki.

Come on surely even someone like you has to have one or two things you're looking forward to seeing?

Maybe.

Like bathing with Saika...

Well, I haven't had a chance to look up anything about it yet.

Have you, Yukinon?

Well, let's see.

There's Ryoan-ji, and Kiyomizudera temples...

but I would also really like to go and see the famous places around Rokuon-ji and Jishou.

Rokuonjishouji...

Don't mix them up.

They do kinda sound like pretty cool character names though.

Sorry to have gone and confused you two,

their more common known names are Kinkaku-ji and Ginkaku-ji.

So why didn't you say that in the first place?

And I guess...

that's about it.

You know a lot!

What are you, a travel book or something?

She's way too excited about this.

Having knowledge about Kyoto is just general knowledge, isn't it?

Hm?

What is it?

Oh it's nothing, nothing here to see at all!

Come in.

Hey!

Can we help you?

He needs a consult about something. So I brought him to you.

Ah, it's nothing I mean nothing I need to talk to Hikitani about.

We came to ask for a favor, right?

But I can't talk to him... not about this kind of thing, his reliability is less than zero at this point!

Jerk...

You can't just walk into our room and say that.

Well, it IS Hikigaya's fault, so it can't be helped. He's just like that.

I'm sorry...

I'll need to ask you to leave the room now.

That's fine, just let me know when you guys are done in here.

Where you going? Just sit back down.

They're the ones who are leaving.

They don't have manners or understand politeness.

There is no need to listen to them or to their rude pleas for our help at this time.

I'm going to kindly ask you guys to please leave us again.

Yeah, you guys are really annoying.

Ah... we're very sorry.

Let's go now, Tobe. We can figure it out on our own.

I'm sorry but we can't go, we just gotta do this.

Um... actually, I just...

What!

So basically... you wanna confess to Ebina and ask her out, correct?

Yeah, that's exactly right!

But she'll probably just give me the cold shoulder.

Ah... you don't wanna be rejected.

This is gonna be so fun and super exciting!

You've got this!

I don't think it's really all that easy.

You may be right...

Honestly... I don't think we'd be useful.

What? It's okay... we can help him!

Please?

What... don't try to force this decision on me.

Hikitani... please...

Hikitani... Please, man!

No, no, no. You're being too polite in asking me... you're not really meaning it...

And you're still getting my name wrong.

Please Yukinon, Tobecchi's looks pretty troubled about this.

If you really think he looks that troubled, then I guess I'll think on it.

Hey Yukinoshita, you've really been spoiling Yuigahama lately.

Okay, we'll do it.

And what should we do, specifically?

Well, I... I'll just come right out and ask you...

could you be my moral support?

Perfect!

I suppose we can understand your feelings on this.

However, this could be a bit risky for you.

What do you mean risky?

Risky. The danger or the possibility of suffering a loss.

I know what "risk" means Yukinon, what I meant was what kind of risk.

First he confesses, then she rejects him.

So you already know she'll do that?

But not only that.

The next day, it's natural that everyone in the class will know, as well, right?

It's okay if they know. But then you start to hear them talking about you.

So it seems like creepy Hikigaya confessed to Kaori!

Whoa, poor Kaori! I'm glad I didn't tell him my email address!

You'll be made the subject of everyone's gossip...

and there's a tiny risk you'll get hurt.

Wait was that another one of your stories...

Believe me there are others.

For example, if you confess to one of your good friends, your relationship after that is...

Okay, okay, we get it.

We'll be really careful on that front.

Well, gotta go to club practice.

Okay, well for now, let's start with some of Tobe's charming points.

I'm friends with Hayato!

You're immediately depending on others!

Surely you've got something else?

How about... he's always cheerful?

If it were that easy, then bald people would be popular.

Yukinoshita?

Let's see...

Annoying... no that doesn't work, what about loud?

Or how about noisy...

Or maybe lively will work. What do you think?

Okay, I got it.

Change of plans.

So fast!?

Yes, instead of looking for Tobe's good points, we'll change him into Ebina's type.

Oh, I see!

There's something else. We should figure out what Ebina's thoughts are about Tobe?

Huh?

Yea... I wonder that too.

Oh, well that seems to be obvious.

Yeah... me too... I really wanna know what she thinks of me!

You sure about that?

This is the final judgment, there's no turning back.

Well, if we don't know we can't really move forward with this, right?

Alright... Let's hear it.

Well I think.. She believes you're just a really good guy.

Oh, that's unfortunate.

When girls say "a good guy" it 100% means "I don't care."

Wow... that's a good thing, isn't it?

Your thinking is the only good thing.

I've got it!

Exploring Kyoto will be a great time to put this into action.

If I remember correctly Hina said she likes Kyoto.

If that's the case...

we have to make a situation where Tobe and Ebina are together alone.

I wonder if we can make that work.

Come in.

Excuse me!

Oh, it's Hina!

Hey there, Yui! Hello Hello!

Oh... Ya hallo!

Huh, what is that? Some sort of tribal greeting?

And Hello hello, Yukinoshita and Hikitani!

Hey.

Why don't you please come in and join us.

What's up?

Um, well...

It's about Tobecchi...

I've got a bit of an issue.

You mean with Tobecchi? What is it?

Well... Tobecchi is...

Tobecchi is what?

Lately...

it seems as if Tobecchi is getting really close to Hayato and Hikitani!

Which means Ooka and Yamato are getting sooo frustrated!

I want to see them indulge into their relationships more!

But with this new angle, the love triangle will be spoiled!

Well that's...