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Characters that appeared in Wataru Watari's My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, as I Expected. Currently under heavy construction.


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Service Club Members

    As a group 
  • Bookworms: Both Hachiman and Yukino, with the latter fitting this trope to a T. Yui, in contrast, almost always plays with her mobile phone while they're reading.
  • Breakfast Club: Or rather, "Service Club". The club's purpose is ostensibly to help the school's students solve their problems, but as Hachiman notes early on, it also doubles as an "isolation ward" for students Hiratsuka-sensei considers to be problematic with the intention of reforming them, i.e. Hachiman and Yukino.
  • Connected All Along: Played for Drama. A year before the series began, Hachiman ran in front of a moving car to stop it from killing a dog. The dog survived but the car broke his leg. He was hospitalized on what would have been his first day of high school, and so when he actually did join school upon recovery, he was already an outcast due to his classmates already forming cliques before they even knew he was supposed to be their classmate, which helped cause his future loner persona. The owner of the dog was Yui, and Yukino was in the car that ran him over. This causes a rift two separate times: Hachiman learning it was Yui's dog made him think she was only nice to him out of guilt, so he coldly breaks off their friendship, not realizing she never even knew that was him until after learning Komachi is his sister. It takes Yukino's best efforts before Yui and Hachiman reset their friendship. The second time happened when Haruno arrives to pick Yukino up after the Chiba Village summer camp in Episode 8. Yui and Hachiman both recognize Haruno's car is the same car that nearly killed him, and Yukino never told them about it. Hachiman, who believed Yukino always told the truth (however harshly), feels betrayed because he assumes she was lying when she said she doesn't know him in their first meeting. It takes until Episode 12 before she proves him wrong too.
  • The Confidant: Many characters find the Service Club trustworthy enough to share their troubles with, even when they wouldn't tell their closest friends.
  • Contemplation Location: When they've no cases to solve, the classroom used for the Service Club is this place for them to think and rest from the people.
  • Fire-Forged Friends: In the beginning, they're just three random people in one club. Come Culture Fair, they're partners and friends who trust and rely on each other. By the second season of the anime, they become even more protective of each other to where they won't let others insult any one of them no matter how true those insults may be.
  • Freudian Trio: While Yui is generally cemented as The McCoy due to her emotional focus, Hachiman and Yukino tend to take different roles depending on the request made. However, Yukino is more often The Kirk (while brutally honest, she's very good at understanding emotions), and Hachiman is more often The Spock, being the pragmatic, goal-oriented logical thinker.
  • Newcomer Saves the Day: After all the romantic tension was finally undone at the end of the series and the trio seems to be broken off for real, Komachi and Iroha remake the Service Club and recruit Hachiman, Yukino and Yui once again, and so bonding the trio together again.
  • Nice Mean And In Between: Counts for the first season, since in the second and third season Hachiman and Yukino significantly mellowed out and have become reasonably nice people. Yui is always nice by default, while Hachiman and Yukino can switch the other two roles. Yukino is very good at emotional understanding, actually is a caring person, but also brutally blunt, and especially at the beginning she's rather mean towards Hachiman. Hachiman, as cynical as he is, is ultimately a Nice Guy too, but in some situations, he lacks emotional understanding, and the methods he uses to solve problems can be quite questionable.
  • Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: They all have issues, that's undeniable, but they're all good, well-intentioned guys and work well together.
  • Series Goal: To help the ones in need, but they have different ways of doing it. What they have in common is that they are selfless and benevolent people, only that they show it in different ways:
    • Yui is always kind and friendly, and has no problems interacting with anyone; however her initial flaw is being agreeable to a fault, subsuming her own desires in order to keep the peace.
    • Hachiman is the one who has, besides his extreme pragmatism, his selflessness (also meant as his poor opinion of himself) as his Fatal Flaw. He's convinced he's so self-assured that he will deliberately sabotage his reputation to get the results he wants.
    • Yukino is very prideful and idealistic. She wants other ones to come to her so she can help them, and can't stand when other ones are so damn lazy that they simply want to "run away" and do nothing to get better.
  • School Forced Us Together: Oregairu forces three students: Hachiman, Yukino and Yui (a lesser member of the Girl Posse), to work together as a team in the Service Club at the bidding of Hiratsuka-sensei. They eventually become Fire-Forged Friends with time, and ultimately, an unwanted Love Triangle.
  • Sliding Scale of Cynicism Versus Idealism:
    • Yui is idealistic, always sees the best in people, and is always friendly to everyone. Her problem, however, is that before she became friends with Hachiman and Yukino, she did not have any genuine relationship, and that was what she was looking for.
    • Hachiman is The Cynic and a Knight in Sour Armour: he's a good person and has good intentions, but he really lacks a positive outlook on life and firmly believes in the Status Quo.
    • Yukino is in-between. While she does have a rather cynical outlook on life as well, she still has her idealism and thinks things can change. She analyses other ones' flaws to try to change them and turn them into better people.
  • True Companions: Well, we have a self-destructive, extremely pragmatic, and disenchanted guy with no ideals and future perspectives, and two girls, one who is lonely and shielded and wants to change the hypocritical and petty society that surrounds her, and the other one who is outgoing, optimistic and happy-go-lucky, but has issues with being herself for real. They become really close to each other, and they're all kind-hearted and caring individuals overall.
    • Honorary True Companion: Iroha becomes this after her appearance in the series, being an integral part of the Service Club after the second season of the anime, helping (mostly) Hachiman, Yukino, and Yui, and even revives it with Komachi in the next year after the trio try to disband the club at the end of the series.
  • Two Girls and a Guy: The trope is played in an uncommon way because the guy is the protagonist. On the romance side of things, one girl is interested in the guy. The other girl's interest is somewhere between ambiguous and non-existent depending on who you ask. Although the guy finds both physically attractive, he doesn't want a relationship with either.
  • We Help the Helpless: Their club mission is to offer a hand to anyone in need. And especially, as the founder of the club, Yukino's goal is to get people to come to her to become more competent and upstanding.
  • We Work Well Together: Although each member has their own skills (Hachiman logically and philosophically, Yui socially and emotionally, and Yukino balancing them, excelling in terms of realistic longview), and tend to prefer to use their own methods to solve the problem, whenever the trio works united, they always get the best results.

    Hachiman Hikigaya 
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    Yukino Yukinoshita 
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Voiced by: Saori Hayami (Japanese), Melissa Molano (English)

Yukino is the leader of the Service Club, of which she is the sole member until Hachiman joins her. She is smart, beautiful, and is nicknamed the "Ice-cold Beauty" for her icy demeanor. She has a twisted sense of "noblesse oblige", and believes that it is the duty of the exceptional (in other words, herself) to help the "lost lambs" of the world. Her personality often leads her to be disgusted at the naivete and lack of understanding what life really is of others, particularly Yui's, and she does not hesitate to show it. Still, she's very selfless and even states she always helped everyone, even people she didn't know, despite the way others treated her. She becomes best friends with the latter, and even in her demeanor she becomes kinder and friendlier.


  • A-Cup Angst: She doesn't react well when people compare her bust size with the likes of Yui, Yumiko, Shizuka or her sister, Haruno.
  • Academic Athlete: She excels at sports and studies. On the sports side, however, she admits to lacking in stamina.
  • After Action Patch Up: After Hachiman hurts himself while trying to help Hayato, Yukino offers to clean and bandage his knee.
  • Alliterative Name: Yukino Yukinoshita. These names are even written with the same kanji: 雪ノ下 雪乃.
  • All-Loving Hero: In her own way. While she despises others because of their pettiness and mediocrity, she's willing to do her best to help them and make better people out of them.
  • Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: She has black hair, is The Stoic (though not so much as she looks), and is repeatedly described as beautiful.
  • Always Someone Better:
    • Take your pick: beauty, academics or sports and Yukino is this to everyone at school. However her sports position is a little nebulous because she has poor stamina in her words.
    • Ironically, she feels this way towards Hachiman in terms of progress in the service Club since strictly speaking he's slightly ahead of her in terms of results. She takes this seriously because when Hiratsuka-sensei entered Hachiman into the club, she made them compete with each other on this, with the winner being allowed to make the loser do whatever they wished.
  • Animal Motifs: Her demeanor as well as her animal preference make her seem a bit catlike, in contrast to Yui's dog - and she's afraid of dogs, to boot. She's openly affectionate towards cats and tries to speak to them sometimes.
  • Beauty Equals Goodness: Often described as the most beautiful girl in her school, and definitely a kind-hearted person despite her bitterness. Then, she's ultimately the Big Good who thinks of balancing logical and emotional undestanding, as well as of the long-term consequences of the club's deeds.
  • Berserk Button: Strangely enough, insulting her favorite mascot Pan-san. It's one of the first hints of Yukino's more naive and clumsy side.
  • Betty and Veronica: The aloof, melancholic and shielded Veronica to Yui's cheerful, down-to-earth and outgoing Betty for Hachiman's Archie.
  • Big Good: Shizuka states that Yukino is the member who has the best long-term vision for the club, in contrast to Hachiman who tends to solve more cases with no regard for the long-term consequences.
  • Birds of a Feather: With Hachiman. Both are sarcastic bookworms with a matching sense of humor. Both share their cynical view of the world, and, at the same time, feel the obligation to help those they encounter. Both have a truckload of painful social experience. Though she believes, unlike Hachiman, that people can change and become better, both believe in genuine kindness, and it's because of their natural honesty that they ultimately understand each other. It's this mutual understanding that helps them become a couple by the end of the series.
  • Blessed with Suck: Her beauty, social standing and familial expectations of her have done her very little favors throughout her life, and have only served for her to become increasingly isolated from her peers.
  • Book Smart: She holds the number 1 rank in her class.
  • Bookworm: And how! She's practically always seen reading, and overall she has a huge interest in culture. After all, she's a top student.
  • Borrowed Catch Phrase: Yukino starts using Hachiman's catch phrase "source: me" and its variants by episode 3.
  • Broken Ace: Outstanding beauty and academical achievements did nothing but make her classmates scorn her, leading to her current shielded personality.
  • Broken Bird: Her cold and distant personality is the result of a life of getting shunned, bullied and harassed because of her beauty and talents. She becomes kinder later on in the second series, where also her relationship with her family is revealed.
  • Broken Pedestal: To Hachiman, who initially admired her for being a strong-willed person and for always telling the truth. This illusion breaks when he realizes that Yukino knew that he was the one her car ran over and pretended to have never met him during their first meeting, and as a result the two grow more distant towards each other.
  • Brutal Honesty: One of her defining personality points, and also the reason Yui likes her so much. Though it is less about a need to be honest and more with the fact that she is a direct person by nature.
  • Bully Magnet: In elementary and middle school, she was bullied and ostracised by other girls who were jealous of her beauty and talents. Accordingly she adapted and is now able to perceive when people are acting as such.
  • Byronic Heroine: Although to a lesser extent than Hachiman. Yukino is extremely intelligent and multitalented, very conflicted inside, has a Dark and Troubled Past and quite dislikes the society she lives in. She's also definitely melancholic, and doesn't like herself too much, even though she's well aware of her skills and starts out as a pretty haughty and aloof character. Still, deep down, she's a really good person, kind and compassionate, and wants to help others.
  • Cannot Spit It Out: She has developed feelings for Hachiman, but doesn't give him chocolate and doesn't confess to him because her best friend likes him too. However, things change in Season 3, and in this case she really has issues with Yui, even avoiding her.
  • Character Catchphrase: "I don't lie." Due to this catchphrase, it really hits Hachiman hard when he realizes she has lied to him before - to an extent, anyways (see Exact Words).
  • Character Development: She Took a Level in Kindness and changes her behaviour even more than Hachiman. Besides becoming nicer, she finally reveals the fragility and the sadness she hid before; Yukino is ultimately a very insecure person, and has identity issues.
  • Childhood Friends: With Hayato, or at least their parents know one another and they went to grade school with each other.
  • Chronic Hero Syndrome: Though Yukino does not actively go out of her club helping people, preferring them to come to her - making this a rather twisted sense of noblesse oblige - she outright tells she always helped everyone, even the ones she didn't know. Probably has something to do with her Utopia Justifies the Means idealism, as the goal she has while she helps others is to make better people out of them, and make the world a better place through this.
  • Clingy Jealous Girl: Though subtle, she doesn't seem too happy when she sees Hachiman on a double date with Kaori. And later when she finds out Yui went shopping with him alone note , her reaction strongly hints that she wouldn't be happy seeing him with another girl, despite her claims that he disgusts her. And in episode 12 of season 2, she frowns after overhearing Kaori mention she'll give Hachiman some chocolates that year.
    • Much more explicit in the light novel where she gets more outwardly jealous, often talking much colder to him. A good example being her trying to force Hachiman to eat extremely bitter chocolate after he tasted Iroha's chocolate. Also at volume 10.5, after the discovery of their supposed date with Iroha, she assigns almost all duties of writing a newspaper like writing, proofreading, coverage, photography etc. to Hachiman with a cold hearted look. Fortunately he was saved again courtesy of Yui.
  • Color Motif: Yukino tends to dress in quiet, subdued, black or white colors, which are occasionally accented with the formal purple. Many of her more emotional moments with Hachiman often take place at night time, where the atmosphere is dark and quiet.
  • Compliment Backfire
    Yukino (after knowing that Hachiman detected her sister's facade): Despite your rotten eyes - or perhaps you can see because they're rotten.
    Hachiman: Is that supposed to be a compliment?
  • Cuteness Proximity:
    • Plant a cat nearby and see how cold stoic beauty turns into meowing lunatic. Not that she'd ever admit it aloud.
    • Has the same reaction to anything relating to Pan-San, with casual insults to it resulting in her becoming enraged instantly.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: A family of Jerkasses and schoolmates who mistreated her. Yukino's past is shrouded in mystery and revealed to us in her moments of vulnerability, when the layers around her heart lose their strength and show the true nature of what this poor girl carries with her.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Near constantly, but especially towards Hachiman, eccentric characters (Yoshiteru) and jerks (Yumiko).
  • Death Glare: Her favourite way of communicating with people... at first.
  • Defrosting Ice Queen: Towards Yui, gradually warming up to her and becoming close friends. Also towards Hachiman to a much slower degree. By the end of the series, once they've become a couple, Yukino is basically pure sugar with Hachiman.
  • Deuteragonist: Yukino's backstory as well as her development alongside Hachiman is one of the main plot points of the series. Of the three main characters, Yukino's family issues are the most prominent which ties into her motivations.
  • Establishing Character Moment: Threefold in the first episode:
    • The very first shot of her shows her sitting alone reading a book and Hachiman realising who she is, establishing her as a Bookworm who's popular enough that even a social outcast like Hachiman can recognize her on sight.
    • When helping Yui make cookies, she states that those who don't even imply minimal effort have no chance of succeeding, reflecting a core belief of hers. She also calls out Yui for trying to be the same as everyone around her, calling it annoying, which Yui comes to admire her for, showing Yukino as a very frank but ultimately well-meaning girl.
    • Towards the end of the episode, Yukino claims that taking solace in trying your hardest at something even if you fail is nothing more than "a shallow sense of self-satisfaction". This provides early, valuable insight into Yukino's pride, which as noted below, proves to be her Fatal Flaw.
  • Exact Words: At the end of the cultural festival, Yukino insists that she never lied to Hachiman: she didn't know him... but she does now.
  • Extreme Doormat: Haruno constantly hints that the reason Yukino will never surpass her is because she does not know how to be proactive or do what she wants. This is seen in the nature of the Service Club, which requires people to come and ask things of her and never the other way around. In addition, her need to be perfect is to please her family, not herself, and her reluctance to express her feelings to Hachiman is due to not wanting to hurt Yui.
  • Family Honor: Implied to be a value of Yukino's and one of the reasons why she wouldn't want anyone to think she and Hachiman are in a relationship.
  • Fatal Flaw:
    • Pride. It prevents her from ever backing down from a challenge or openly admitting her faults, and while she wants to help others, the girl doesn't want to be helped by others. It is also the cause of great self-esteem issues when Yukino does not succeed as much as she believes she should.
    • Like Hachiman, she's a selfless person, but her fault in this case is different: when Hachiman is about to play the role of the "bad guy", she sometimes stops his social suicide playing the role herself instead of him. Another flaw of hers is when others start piling their responsiblities on her; she doesn't know how to refuse them, so she just takes them all on herself.
  • Foil: While they share many similar qualities like their social rejection and Brutal Honesty, Yukino actually foils Hachiman in the sense that while Hachiman adamantly denies himself happiness out of the notion that society is terrible and cannot be changed, Yukino formed the Service Club to change the world and herself. While both Yukino and Hachiman are social outcasts, their ostracization happened differently, which ends up informing their perspective on society; while Yukino was often bullied by jealous peers for being talented, Hachiman was naturally awkward and repeatedly failed at making friends.
  • Forgotten First Meeting: Turns out Yukino did know of Hachiman before he joined the club; it was her car that hit him. She just pretended to forget about him. Hachiman's flashbacks also imply that she was one of his unrequited crushes in middle school, and her rejection of him was one of his most bitter memories of that time.
  • Four-Philosophy Ensemble: Definitely the Realist. Stated by Shizuka to be the most foresighted member in the Club, and exhibits both cynical and idealistic traits (e.g. she's clearly not the most trustful person around, but at the same time believes in making the world a better place through helping people).
  • Four-Temperament Ensemble: Melancholic, to a lesser extent than Hachiman, as she's more idealistic. But she's still an aloof Broken Bird, who is in truth very selfless and wants to help others.
  • Friendship Moment: Despite adamantly refusing to acknowledge him as a friend, at least until the end of Season 1, she has a few moments with Hachiman, such as defending him when he is insulted by Tobe.
  • Genre Savvy: Anytime she dislikes an idea, she tries to deconstruct it, listing all the stereotypical things that will likely happen and why the idea will fail.
  • Good Is Not Nice: As with Hachiman, played straight at first but later subverted. Yukino is a nice person in truth, but her initially cold demeanor would rather say the opposite. Early on she's even more openly Brutally Honest than Hachiman, but like him, a really good person at heart. Her harshness had to do with several issues and insecurities.
  • He Is Not My Boyfriend: To Hachiman, with increasing frequency. Especially after anyone listens to their bickering for some time. No longer the case at the end of the series.
  • Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Yui. Yui's friendship with Yukino is also a driving force for her as she tries to get Yukino to open up. This causes some angst for her once it becomes clear that they like the same person.
  • Hyper-Competent Sidekick: She ends up being this to Sagami during the culture festival. While vice-chairman in name, she's basically the chairman while Sagami is Authority in Name Only.
  • Hypocrite: Despite repeatedly saying that she hates how Hachiman does things (and most certainly meaning it), Yukino has a bit of a martyr complex herself. Specifically, she has one when it comes to her family, as she's perfectly willing to even distance herself from her friends if it means earning her parents' approval, despite it being very clear that they do not have her best interests at heart. However, this is very much a case of Tropes Are Tools, as her and Hachiman helping out each other with their respective complexes is what ultimately leads to them becoming a couple.
  • Hypocritical Heartwarming: Barely a day goes by when she doesn't snark at or make fun of Hachiman for her own amusement, but she gets really pissed if she catches anyone else doing the same thing (even if she doesn't voice it out loud).
  • Hypocritical Humor: She calls Hachiman's critique of Yoshiteru's light novel too harsh after having just torn into him herself.
  • Iconic Item: Has red ribbons tied to her hair for purely aesthetic reasons, which help distinguish her from other similar girls from other series.
  • The Idealist: A more brutally honest example than most. In contrast to Hachiman who believes that people cannot change, Yukino tries to focus on bettering others rather than having them focus on dragging others down.
  • Idiot Hair: A long, heavy strand of it, which curiously becomes more prominent as the series progresses and she gets closer with Hachiman.
  • In-Series Nickname: "Yukinon", courtesy of Yui.
  • Indifferent Beauty: Yukino acknowledges the fact that she's beautiful, but does so in a very matter of fact way. She actually looks down on the idea of deriving excess pride in something as shallow as good looks or good grades, as she makes clear while criticizing Hachiman's argument for his own self worth.
    Yukino: Simply put, deriving self-confidence from the superficial, such as your grades or your looks, isn't flattering at all.
  • Inferiority Superiority Complex: Her initially cold, harsh and haughty personality had to do with the fact that she's a very insecure person.
  • Intelligence Equals Isolation: Hiratsuka implies this is the case for Yukino.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Early on Yukino has a stoic, snarky and quite cold and distant demeanor; however, she really has a noble heart, has empathy towards other people, and her goal is to help other ones to make better people of them. She's actually a deeply good and selfless person, who states she's always been helping others, even the ones she doesn't know. That said, it's ultimately a facade, as she really isn't a jerk at all by nature - give her some Character Development and she becomes a genuinely Nice Girl.
  • Kindhearted Cat Lover: She reveals her sweet side to cats — something she rarely does - or at the very least did - for people. In contrast she's definitely afraid of dogs.
  • The Kirk: Because she is able to understand the emotions of others while also keeping the club's objectives in mind, Yukino strikes a balance between the goal-oriented Hachiman and the innately sympathetic Yui. As the club founder, most decisions ultimately come down to Yukino's discretion.
    • She initially had some traits of The Spock, since she was overly critical and Brutally Honest, and Hachiman had to balance her at times.
  • Knight in Sour Armour: A less straight version than Hachiman, as she is more idealistic, but she's bitter because of her past, her desire is anyways to do good through her ideals, and she still is unambiguously heroic.
  • Last Lousy Point: She has beauty, intelligence and affluence, but has not really good social skills (though she gets better). Haruno's main gripe with her stems from the fact that Yukino also lacks initiative and is trying to follow her footsteps even when Yukino was given more freedom than Haruno in her endeavors by their parents.
  • Leg Focus: The light novels dedicate plenty of paragraphs towards describing her pretty legs.
  • Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: The dark to Yui's light. She's serious, blunt, melancholic and thoughtful.
  • Lonely Rich Kid: Yukino comes from a family more than wealthy enough to afford her an apartment suite to live in all by herself. Her mother pressured Yukino into making herself as perfect as possible, but her resulting superiority led to her being socially ostracized. Her bitterness for having to grow up with the pressure of perfection also caused Yukino to resent and distance herself from her family.
  • Meaningful Name: Her full name means "snow under snow," and just like her name suggests, she is cold and impossible to reach. She's in truth kind-hearted, but practically unable to trust anyone.
  • Messianic Archetype: Despite her Brutal Honesty, her intention of helping others and make the world a better place through better people is really noble.
  • Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold: More envied than misunderstood, but still qualifies. Underneath her stoic, quite cold demeanor, because of which she is often seen as a haughty Ice Queen, there's an incredibly good heart with noble intentions.
  • Nice Girl: Shizuka already describes her as a very sweet girl at the beginning, despite her behavior. Like in Hachiman's case, it becomes very evident through Character Development that she is indeed a genuinely well-meaning, nice and kind-hearted person.
  • "No. Just… No" Reaction: She is visibly offended at how Hachiman deliberately belittles himself to spare Kakeru from Hina's rejection and outright tells him that she hates how he handles things. Henceforth, things remain awkward between the two of them for the rest of the story.
  • No Sense of Direction: One of her rare "weaknesses" to the point where she walks in the direction of a blank wall at an animal show despite having a map with her and later whilst shopping with Hachiman at a shopping mall for a present for Yui. Hachiman narrates how she lost her way four times before finally finding the store she was looking for when they were following her lead.
  • No Social Skills: Or at least, not perfect ones; she's very competent and others respect her, but she came across as rude because of her straightforwardness. That's a thing she shares in common with Hachiman due to her Friendless Background. She gets better, though.
  • No Sympathy: While her goal of helping people is noble, she does not show sympathy to those who, in her eyes, simply wish to "run away", seeing them as weak cowards.
  • Not So Above It All: Yukino, despite trying to be as perfect as it gets, is easily coerced into doing things when accused of being afraid of something, lowers her shields around Service Club members (if ever so slowly), and can sincerely enjoy the sports festival (Hachiman accidentally spoiling the victory with his schemes notwithstanding). Not to mention her relationships with cats.
  • Not So Stoic: As she opens herself to her friends, naturally she becomes more vulnerable and prone to these moments.
    • She cracks after Hachiman pours his heart out when asking for her and Yui's help.
    • She is on the verge of tears when Yui confronts her about her reluctance to hurt others.
  • Odd Friendship: With Yui. Despite their vast differences, Yui suddenly likes Yukino, finding her very cool and sincere, and the two become friends. While Yukino initially sees Yui as a bit clingy, she develops a deep feeling of friendship for her. After all, Opposites Attract, and basically what they have in common is that they have a good heart.
  • The Paragon: Yukino explains that the Service Club's purpose, rather than simply helping people, is to teach others to help themselves, which stems from her own beliefs.
  • Pet the Dog: Even if she doesn't see the purpose on a certain outing, she will come along simply because it would make Yui happy.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Yui's red. Where Yui is outgoing and emotional, Yukino is cool, calm and collected. Not that Yukino isn't emotional, it's simply hard for her to show her emotions.
  • Relationship Upgrade: Near the end of the series, Hachiman finally admits his feelings to her. Yukino says yes.
  • Renaissance Man: Her skill range is very impressive, being at the top of her class in all subjects, skilled in sports such as tennis and other athletic competitions, possesses great leadership skills, is a competent cook, and can even sing and play the guitar expertly. This wide skill range is due to her strict upbringing and desire to compete with her older sister.
  • Repetitive Name: Yukino Yukinoshita.
  • Running Gag: Yukino having very poor stamina and getting tired easily.
  • Sheltered Aristocrat: Has shades of this, displaying ignorance of certain common everyday things such as Hachiman having to explain to her how to play a claw crane game and how to get a drink at a self-serve bar, the latter of which she apparently considered novel enough to observe with "sparkling eyes."
  • Sibling Rivalry: Completely one-sided on her part; her older sister sees the whole rivalry thing as cute.
  • So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Because she's so beautiful and popular, she attracted unwanted attention from people, suffered bullying from other girls that were jealous of her good looks and her upperclassmen harassed her frequently.
  • Statuesque Stunner: She's very beautiful and quite tall, with a slim yet athletic figure.
  • Stepford Smiler: At the beginning. With the exception of her many smug smirks, at first most smiles that come from her are identified as fake by Hachiman. But when he understands they're genuine and true, he remains speechless.
  • The Stoic: She's usually aloof and serious when she's with other people, and expressing emotions in front of them is very hard for her. Does Yukino ever express powerful emotions, especially positive ones like genuine joy? With her Character Development, she will, but still in front of people she trusts, such as Hachiman or Yui.
  • Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Or, ultimately, a Character Development from mostly ice to mostly sugar. Yukino initially prefers to maintain an air of superiority and distance to hide her vulnerabilities and will only rarely lower her shields. Hachiman once jokingly called her cute and Yukino, having been caught off guard, launches into a long rambling to hide her embarrassment. Later on, she opens herself to Hachiman after he did the same for her.
  • Tall Poppy Syndrome: Was a victim of this in junior high.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: When she started out, while still a good person, she was aloof and sometimes even unfriendly, despite her noble goal. She defrosts and becomes kinder thanks to Yui (and to a lesser extent, also Hachiman).
  • Training from Hell: Her idea of whipping Totsuka into shape.
    "First, laps around the track until you die, then practice swings until you die, finishing with practice matches until you die. How's that?"
  • Trash Talk: In response to Yumiko, twice. While Yumiko is saying she won't go easy on her in tennis, Yukino replies that she will be going easy on her. The second time is when Yumiko insults her for being haughty and says she dislikes her, and Yukino responds she outright despises her.
  • Troubled, but Cute: She grew up in a family of manipulative jerks, was bullied because of her beauty, intelligence and talents, and the result is that she became a sad and bitter loner, with an aloof and cold demeanor. Underneath her facade, there's a heart of gold, and a sweet and altruistic girl who in the end of the second season, after understanding what her best friend feels for Hachiman, avoids to make advances and wants them to be the True Companions they have become.
  • Tsundere: More of a type A in the first season, while she leans more towards type B in the second season (see Sugar-and-Ice Personality).
  • The Un-Favourite: She grew up in the shadow of her older sister who won the attention of her mother. As a result, Yukino developed a need to be perfect, wanting to impress her family, but also holding a sort of bitterness towards them, too.
  • The Unfettered: Downplayed Trope. She actually has good intentions and a noble goal, and she by no means lacks morals. But, with the exception of Yui and Hachiman, Yukino does not allow the opinions of her peers to influence her in any way: she maintains her goal and her way of thinking. Subverted for her family, where Yukino will very much be The Fettered, going out of her way to impress them, and becoming frustrated if she fails to.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Yukino can be considered partially to blame for Hachiman's continued isolation in high school. By accidentally hitting him with her family car, he was put out of commission and could not socialize during the vital first few weeks of school.
  • Utopia Justifies the Means: With her help of people, the goal is to change the world in order to avoid the downfalls of human nature. For example, the tendency of the talented to suffer for their gifts. Her means of doing so involves bluntly criticizing people at times: after all, as she states, they do not give a starving man a fish, but instead they teach him how to fish and make him independent.
  • Verbal Tic: Yukino always ends all her inquisitive phrases with the "-kashira" suffix in the Japanese version, which is usually typical of ladies of more noble stature.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: She greatly dislikes Hachiman's often distorted and overly cynical ideals, stubbornness and rotten attitude, but she also cares for and trusts him, though she would never admit it (at first, at least).
  • Weaksauce Weakness: She's morbidly afraid of dogs and thrill rides, the latter of which stemmed from her older sister messing with her as a kid.
  • Weirdness Magnet: According to Hachiman, she attracts airheads, such as his sister Komachi and Yui herself.
  • Well, Excuse Me, Princess!: Even as they grow closer, snide banter remains the foundation of her relationship with Hachiman.
  • When She Smiles: Her true, genuine smiles leave Hachiman speechless.
  • Will Not Tell a Lie: Is known for telling the truth no matter how harsh it might be, though she is capable of half truths and clever semantics. However, Hachiman finds out Yukino did lie when she claimed she didn't know him before their initial meeting. This puts quite a bit of strain on their relationship. It veers to the better when she clarifies that she indeed did not know him back then, but rather knew of him, and that it's now that she knows him.
  • Worthy Opponent: Considers Hachiman this in terms of Snark-to-Snark Combat.

    Yui Yuigahama 
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Voiced by: Nao Tōyama (Japanese), Cat Thomas (English)

Yui is a cheerful, outgoing girl who becomes the Service Club's first "customer", asking them to help her bake cookies for "a certain someone." Her problems lie not with her personality, but with her inability to deal with issues by herself. She believes that talent is inborn, and often aspired to be like others until Yukino changed her way of thinking. Following her experience with the Service Club, Yui begins to attend Service Club sessions after school as well, despite Yukino's objections early on. While she's kind, helpful and selfless like the other two main characters, she doesn't manage to be brutally honest as them, always trying to be as nice as possible and to befriend others. Though, she becomes more honest and brave, helped by Hachiman and Yukino, who may be harsh but helped her growing nonetheless.


  • Alliterative Name: Yui Yuigahama.
  • All-Loving Hero: Yui, in contrast with the other main two characters, especially Hachiman, is very optimistic, idealistic and totally above misanthropic tendencies and cynicism. She's pretty naive and doesn't find it hard at all to trust others and express her emotions.
  • Ambiguously Bi: When asked by Yukino's big sister what she thinks of Yukino, Yui can't help but talk like a lovestruck highschool girl as she explains. This is while she's already hinted to have romantic feelings for Hachiman. Considering that Hachiman himself is also Ambiguously Bi...
  • Animal Motifs: Her choice of pet and overall personality likens her to a dog.
  • Audience Surrogate: In contrast to Hachiman and Yukino who espouse larger philosophical ideas, Yui is presented as more down to earth and more in-line with a normal high school student's behavior. This doesn't mean that she's not able to keep up with Hachiman's and Yukino's conversations and line of thinking, however.
  • Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: In the episode where, to "scare" children, she wears a devil dress which leaves her belly exposed.
  • Betty and Veronica: The cheerful, down-to-earth and outgoing Betty to melancholic and shielded Yukino's Veronica for Hachiman's Archie.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: As sweet, positive and cheerful as she is, you don't want to see her angry. Hachiman actually manages to bring out a more snappy, irritated side of her.
  • Buxom Beauty Standard: She has a well-endowed figure that even Hachiman can get distracted by.
  • Call-Back: Yui's baking lesson from her first appearance finally gains relevance when she bakes cookies for Hachiman 9 volumes later, confirming he was the one she wanted to learn baking for.
  • Cannot Spit It Out: It becomes a little obvious that she likes Hachiman, but she never states her feelings to him. Part of it is due to him stopping her before she gets a chance, and later she feels it would be unfair if she took advantage of various situations with him.
  • Catchphrase: "Ya-hello!"
  • Character Tic: Whenever her friends are going through something emotionally taxing, she touches their hand, her way of telling them she's got their back and to help them calm down. She does this both to Yukino and Hachiman.
  • Classical Anti-Hero: A bit airheaded and ditzy at times, and has to overcome hindrances and insecurities, but is otherwise quite intelligent and perceptive and evolves into a stronger person.
  • Clingy Jealous Girl: While it doesn't show up much, she doesn't seem to like it if another girl expresses interest or even just gets uncomfortably close to Hachiman, such as the student council president when she wanted help with the athletic festival in episode 13. She also gets a little upset when Hachiman shows a lot of interest in going to a maid cafe in episode 5 with Zaimokuza. And when she overhears Kaori mention she'll give Hachiman some chocolates, she frowns at him.
  • Cloud Cuckoolander: A bit of this, as Yui is somewhat airheaded and quite naive, and doesn't think too much how other ones could react when she tends to be clingy towards them. She's pretty level-headed and does not like to burden others, though, and just wants to be kind and supportive.
  • Color Motif: Yui is typically dressed in bright, feminine colors and, notably, her hair is a warm peach. Played for Laughs when Hachiman accompanies Yukino to buy a present for Yui. He suggests that Yui would like something "colorful, fluffy and dumb-looking". Yukino expresses how the comment is harsh yet cannot disagree with him.
  • Conflicting Loyalty: Yui holds the precarious position of being friends with both the popular students (Yumiko, Hayato) and the loners (Hachiman, Yukino). Unfortunately, Yumiko is not happy about Yui's intermingling and initially pressured her into picking a side.
  • Cuddle Bug: Yukino is her favorite person to cuddle with.
  • Cute Monster Girl: When dressed as a devil in Season 1. The midriff dress was meant to scare children, yet they just find it funny, and on Yui it's just cute and sexy.
  • The Cutie: Yui doesn't have a mean bone in her body, consistently providing her friends with kind, sincere support. The only thing she must learn is not to be a complete people pleaser, and that's something she overcomes.
  • The Ditz: Subverted. She can be a bit of an airhead and tends to be naive, but if you see her as dumb, then you'll be proven to be wrong. While Hachiman and Yukino initially see her as somewhat dumb, lacking the philosophical orientation they have, she's in truth a reasonably intelligent individual, gets good grades and is far more observant than she looks at first glance. She may have had issues with being herself at the beginning, although she gets better. And all in all, despite her overall very optimistic nature, she actually reveals to be perceptive and more realistic than she looks, and grows a spine both through Character Development and thanks to Hachiman and Yukino who help her becoming more honest, also thanks to their own honesty itself.
  • Embarrassing Nickname: Came up with "Yui Yui" for herself when it was pointed out that nobody has given her a nickname. She got tired of it quickly though. It didn't even come up in the anime.
  • Endearingly Dorky: She can be a bit of an airhead at times, but her antics are endearing to Hachiman and Yukino, who suddenly stop being dismissive of her kindness.
  • Fiery Redhead: Has peach-colored hair and is a happy-go-lucky, outgoing and quite Hot-Blooded Genki Girl.
  • First-Name Basis: It doesn't take long for her to refer to most people by their first names, regardless of how well she knows them.
  • Foil: Yui represents what Hachiman and Yukino generally are not: expressive, with a warm and extroverted behaviour, and inviting, but also naive and idealistic (though, in truth, Hachiman and Yukino are Not So Above It All, especially Yukino who has a very idealistic goal).
    • Unlike Yukino, Yui has a good relationship with her mother.
    • She also foils her clique. Along with Hayama, she stands out as more insightful than her peers in noting the politics of the class. However, she struggles to rectify many of the conflicts due to her kindness and preference for keeping the peace.
  • Four-Temperament Ensemble: The sanguine. Led by her emotions, very cheerful, bubbly, energetic and a bit airheaded.
  • Genki Girl: The most upbeat and outgoing of the Service Club members.
  • Grew a Spine: Yui always opts to do the nice thing, even if she doesn't necessarily always agree with it. However, her decision to finally confess to Hachiman, despite knowing Yukino also likes him, signals that she is developing into a more brave, honest person.
  • The Heart: Shizuka hints that even if she doesn't contribute as much as Hachiman or Yukino in terms of results, Yui's presence is the glue that keeps the rest of the Service Club together.
  • Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Yukino. Despite their differences and the abrasiveness of the latter at the beginning, they become very close.
  • Hidden Depths: She's by far more perceptive and intelligent than she looks. She is, although not particularly outstanding, a good student, and her emotional and social intelligence is one of her best features. In some situations, she's also the Only Sane Man in her group, as she's more down to earth and diplomatic than Hachiman and Yukino.
  • Hopeless Suitor: Feels she's falling into this, particularly in season 2 after seeing how much closer Yukino and Hachiman seem to have gotten. She still hasn't given up by the sequel novel even though Yukino's officially dating Hachiman by then, and even in another where she's actually with Hachiman he reveals he's dating her in part due to pity.
  • Hyper-Competent Sidekick: The light novels go into greater detail over her role as Ebina's production assistant during the Cultural Festival storyline, namely, being the one rallying the class into making the latter's outlandish directions a reality. Even Ebina's moment of Hyper-Awareness in the anime was originally hers in the novels.
  • Hypocrite: Sadly, in a certain sense she's a hypocrite too. She has issues with being herself and always appears to be happy, even when she doesn't like a situation. She gets better, though; after all, what she was looking for are genuine relationships, which she did not have at first. There's also a bitter irony later when she realizes she's in love with Hachiman. She learned from him not to compromise and bury her own desires just to please other people; however, because she knows he's falling for Yukino, she restrains herself from admitting her feelings. It takes her a while to be honest with herself and confess to Hachiman even while he's dating Yukino.
  • I Just Want to Have Friends: A motivator for her relationship with Yukino and maybe even Hachiman. Although it depends on how the viewer sees her relationship with Yumiko's clique.
  • Lethal Chef: Can't cook to save her life. Yoshiteru passes out after eating a little bit of food she made in the OVA. Hachiman then forces himself to eat the rest of it, and though Yui is touched by that, he really did it because he didn't want Saika to have to eat it and suffer the same consequences.
  • Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: The light to Yukino's dark. She's naive, outgoing, kind and always happy.
  • Matchmaker Crush: This is one interpretation of her actions towards the end of Season 2/Volume 11. She is trying to get Yukino to admit her feelings towards Hachiman despite being attracted to Hachiman herself.
  • The McCoy: She tends to be the most openly nice and easily emotional of the three, thinking primarily in terms of her emotional desires.
  • Meaningful Name: "Yui" can mean "bind," the same way she is often called the glue that keeps the Service Club together. When seated, Yui is always positioned between Hachiman and Yukino.
  • Morality Pet: Downplayed Trope. Yukino isn't amoral by any means, make no mistake - instead, she has a heart of gold and is possibly the most outright altruistic character in the entire series. But Yui is Yukino's only friend, and Yukino tends to show unambiguous concern towards her while gently correcting her when she sees flaws and hindrances in her. It would be more correct to say that Yui doesn't change Yukino's morality, she just makes Yukino less brutally honest and snarky from the beginning - though, in the end, the girl does extend her softer side to others later on.
  • Ms. Fanservice: Despite being generally considered as a more traditional beauty than Yukino, she's the one who provides more Fanservice. This is largely due to her large breasts and her wearing a devil dress exposing her belly during the first school trip.
  • Naïve Everygirl: Quite the typical happy-go-lucky, popular, pretty teenager, and while not stupid, she's naive and a bit ditzy.
  • Nice Girl: Very kind and sweet, and freely interacts with Yumiko's clique as well as the more independent (or lonely) Service Club without any problems. Is there anything dislikeable about her personality?
  • The Nicknamer:
    • Strictly refers to Hachiman as "Hikki", and Yukino as "Yukinon". It is noted by the others that they never actually accepted her nicknames, she just wouldn't stop saying them so they had begrudgingly got used to it.
    • In the "Birthday Song for You" drama CD, she refers to Zaimokuza as "Chuuni."
  • Non-Uniform Uniform: It's more unkempt than most; her shirt is untucked, and in the first season, she didn't wear the ribbon with the winter uniform.
  • No Sense of Personal Space: Is extremely clingy towards Yukino, which greatly discomforted her at first.
  • Odd Friendship: She forges a friendship with Yukino despite — and in some ways because of — the great differences between them. Despite being different from each other, they're both kind-hearted, pure, and altruistic girls, after all, and that's essential for a real friendship.
  • Only Friend: The only person Yukino is shown to unambiguously and unhesitatingly allow herself to be friends with.
  • Only Sane Woman: Is sometimes given this role since she is the most "normal" and down to earth out of a cast of socially odd people. She tends to be the one lampshading the Hikigaya siblings' weird relationship, or Hachiman's behavior towards Totsuka.
  • Perpetual Smiler: The most cheerful of the bunch, though she has her own insecurities to deal with as well.
  • Plucky Girl: Yui's cheerful disposition has proven to be quite resilient, never taking offense when she is mistreated. Few things can make her cry and even fewer things can keep her down for long. Still, she can be a bit of a tsundere when Hachiman annoys her.
  • The Pollyanna: Oh yes. Kind, compassionate, optimistic and by no means cynical.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Yukino's blue. Where Yui is outgoing and emotional, Yukino is cool, calm and collected. However, look above, Yukino is in truth Not So Stoic...
  • Repetitive Name: Yui Yuigahama. Subverted in the actual Japanese Kanji.
  • Rose-Haired Sweetie: It's more of a peach color, but her personality fits the bill, though it should be noted that it is dyed.
  • Running Gag: Mishearing and confusing English words said by Hachiman and Yukino.
  • Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: The Energetic Girl to Hachiman's Savvy Guy. She's lively, cheerful and optimistic, while he's reserved, cynical and sarcastic.
  • Smarter Than You Look: While she's naive and a bit airheaded, she's actually pretty smart (though not as much as Yukino or Hachiman) and perceptive, and even gets quite good grades.
  • Spanner in the Works: Called this by Hiratsuka because she suddenly thrust herself into the club dynamic when the teacher meant for the club to be solely for Hachiman and Yukino, and Yui only happened to be the first "client". It worked out for the best in the end.
  • Stepford Smiler: Especially in Season 2, when the bond between the members of the Service Club begin breaking down due to Hachiman's actions, though signs do appear in Season One.
  • Straight Man: Often plays this role in response to Hachiman and Yukino's commentary.
  • Tsundere: Type B. She's easily one of the nicest characters in the series, but Hachiman tends to bring out her more annoyed and embarrassed side, due to his overly cynical and snarky comments directed to her.
  • The Watson: Yui often requires Hachiman and Yukino to explain their more complicated ideas in a way that's convenient for both herself and the audience to understand. She's rarely the one who ultimately solves a problem, but she is considered vital to the process, nonetheless.
  • You Are Not Alone: Despite Hachiman and Yukino getting together in the end, they remain friends and she even repairs her relationship with Yukino, becoming closer than ever by series' end now that they're all honest with one another.
  • Undying Loyalty: Best shown at the very end of season 3, when she says the girl (Yukino) who's basically dating the guy she likes (Hachiman) is her most treasured friend, and her wish is to be friends with Yukino "forever."

    Iroha Isshiki 
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Voiced by: Ayane Sakura (Japanese), Luci Christian (English)

Iroha is a 1st year at Soubu High School and the club manager of the soccer team; later taking on the job of student council president. Hachiman initially sees her as a "not cute Komachi" or a "better version of Sagami." She puts up a facade in front of others to create a cute appearance, and she only shows her honest self to Hachiman. Considered by Hachiman to be the second most rotten person in the world, only losing out to Hachiman himself.


  • Affectionate Nickname: Only refers to Hachiman as Senpai, which is notable since he is the only one she does this with, and she uses it endearingly so.
  • Alliterative Name: Iroha Isshiki.
  • Annoying Younger Sibling: How Hachiman treats her, since he can't turn off his "Komachi training skills" when he's around her.
  • Ascended Extra: Was first introduced only as the manager of Hayama's club in a side volume. Later gets the spotlight with her request and even gets a side volume that's pretty much dedicated to her. At this point she might as well be a permanent member of the Service Club.
  • Beneath the Mask: Iroha acts childish and cutesy, but she's actually highly perceptive, and can be self-centered and manipulative. She has her Character Development, though.
  • Birds of a Feather: Iroha can be described as a female version of Hachiman without the loner aspect attached.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Subverted. Hachiman's first impression of her is this, since he saw her as a more skilled version of Sagami. However, not only Iroha grew on him, but she is also a genuinely good-natured individual, able to be a charmer due to her cuteness and a bit of a mischievous streak, yet she means well, and her heart is in the right place.
  • Blackmail: Uses the receipts from their date to force Hachiman to help her with the Student Council's newspaper.
  • Blatant Lies: When she's showing her honest side she tends to do this quite a bit. Usually with a forced correction at the end.
  • Brilliant, but Lazy: Is actually quite good at her job, she just lacks any motivation to do so; and is far more willing to get someone else to do the labour.
  • Catchphrase:
  • Caught the Heart on His Sleeve: Her favorite gesture towards Hachiman, usually gripping onto it to drag him off somewhere.
  • Character Development: Goes from slightly bratty and self-centered to a genuinely selfless and kind individual.
  • Cute Clumsy Girl: What she wants other people to see her as, so she can take advantage of them treating their cute Kouhai nicely. Notably Hayama and Hachiman are the only ones she doesn't use this facade for.
  • Cute Sports Club Manager: Is the manager of the soccer club.
  • Deadpan Snarker: She has a sharp sense of humor and is not above making snide remarks.
  • The Determinator: How Hachiman views her, and states constantly how he admires her for it.
  • Does This Remind You of Anything?: Her way of searching through her clothing in front of Hachiman and the other two girls was described in a way that resembled a strip tease. The noises she made while rummaging through them certainly didn't help.
  • Double Meaning: Her conversation with Hachiman when she fed him some chocolate was full of this. Her question on whether or not he hated "this sort of sweet things" is implied to be about her personality rather than about the chocolate. His response is a bit ambiguous, but it ties nicely into his "sugar, spice, and all thing's nice" analogy in the previous side volume.
  • Dumb Blonde: Subverted - she sometimes played dumb a little, but that was the image she actively cultivated so people will offer to help her. Iroha is actually very clever and intelligent, though sometimes her younger age does show. She loses this more mischievous side of her, though, and becomes more mature and serious.
  • Everyone Loves Blondes: Is specifically noted to be a natural blond. And she's definitely cute.
  • Exact Words: Teaches Hachiman a lesson on underhanded tactics when she points out that the bet they made was only based around her winning, and that nobody mentioned her paying for lunch if he won.
  • Friendless Background: She states to have no friends besides the Club. This heavily implies that she's selective and really only looks out for genuine relationships.
  • Hidden Depths: While she appears lazy and manipulative, she is actually a hard worker and quite responsible when she actually puts the effort in. She is also surprisingly sentimental, while her habit of constantly taking photos can be seen as a habit of vanity, to her it is about storing memories.
  • Honorary True Companion: Despite being last introduced, she quickly becomes one of the series' main characters, and her role in the story is pivotal to the Service Club as a whole. Without her, the Power Trio of Yukino, Hachiman, and Yui would never have reunited, and it is because of her (and Komachi) that the Service Club was revived the next year to begin with.
  • Hopeless Suitor: Her confession to Hayama gets rejected.
  • House Wife: As another parallel to Hachiman, this is what she wants to be. She plans on retiring soon after to getting married for an easy life.
  • Iconic Sequel Character: With all the screentime she gets from her introductory arc onwards, it can be very easy to forget that she wasn't in the first season.
  • Indirect Kiss: Gives one to Hachiman in volume 11 while taste-testing chocolate.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Very downplayed. Early on she comes across as somewhat manipulative and a bit bratty and mischievous, with a tendency to tease Hachiman a bit, but she's a good person at heart, and Hachiman even states it in the third season. Ultimately, she's a friendly Nice Girl, and has her Character Development where she becomes more selfless.
  • Just Smile and Nod: Her response to the overly complicated and pretentious brainstorming of another student council is to smile and agree with everything.
  • Knight of Cerebus: Doesn't match the typical example of the trope, however her request coincided with a particularly troubled period for the Service Club.
  • Loophole Abuse: How she was eligible for the election. While the president is typically a second or third year student, the rules do not specifically prohibit a first year student from the position, nor does it specifically prohibit candidates that did not actually agree to run.
  • Love Confession: Gives one to Hayama, but is rejected.
  • Manipulative Bastard: Is considered "dangerous" by Hachiman because she knows how to use her cute appearance and status as an underclassman to her advantage. The trope is actually subverted as, while she is able to use her pretty appearance to get what she wants, she's actually a genuinely kind and good-natured individual.
  • My Friends... and Zoidberg: Hachiman occasionally talks about her in this way, much to her irritation. Though to be fair, she also has a bit of a habit of doing the same to him.
  • Nice Girl: Starts off as somewhat self-centered and mischievous and evolves into a genuinely kind and selfless girl.
  • Not a Date: Has one with Hachiman while using "research for spots to spend time with Hayama" as a pretense to do so. Played for Laughs when her affections for Hayama are deliberately placed in parallel to Hachiman's obsession over Saika.
  • Odd Friendship: She is cute and popular, yet gets along swimmingly with a loner like Hachiman, and she doesn't really care if they are seen together. Though, it must be said that, while she's superficially popular and well-liked, she states that she doesn't have any friends outside the Club.
  • Oh, Crap!: Has a minor and comedic one when she accidentally shows Yukino and Yui the picture she took of her and Hachiman during their date.
  • Running Gag: Her constant rejections towards Hachiman, which also serve as a good indicator of her Character Development with him.
  • Shipper on Deck: Implied to be one for Miura and Hayama, judging by her nod of approval after she motivated Miura to cheer for him during the marathon.
  • Ship Tease: Quite a lot with Hachiman during, and notably after, her arc.
  • Smarter Than You Look: Is surprisingly perceptive on the emotional reasons why people take certain actions, which makes a nice contrast to Hachiman who can only understand the logical reasons.
  • Smitten Teenage Girl: What her crush towards Hayama appears to be.
  • Student Council President: Goes to the Service Club to avoid becoming this. Ends up taking the job anyway after Hachiman convinces her.
  • The Tease: A less fanservice focused example, but she still fits. In-universe they refer to it as her "appeals", which is basically her using her cuteness to try to get something out of someone, especially Hachiman early on.
  • Third-Option Love Interest: Considered by many people to be an actual contender, aside from Yui and Yukino, in winning Hachiman over. The post-series OVA pretty much confirms her to be in the running.
  • Tranquil Fury: A humorous example, but this is how she displays her anger when she misinterprets one of Hachiman's statements as him saying she was unattractive.
  • Wham Line: Towards Hachiman at the very least, her exclamation that she wants something genuine too really throws him off.

Class 2F

    Hayato Hayama 
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Voiced by: Takashi Kondo (Japanese), Scott Gibbs (English)

Hayato is a central figure in class 2F and the ace of the football club. Well-liked by his peers, he is extremely kind to other people, including Hachiman, and often selflessly offers his help to others. He is one of the few people who seems to understand Hachiman's intentions, though he knows their different positions and philosophies will never allow them to be friends. He is a former friend of Yukino's, and envies Hachiman's ability to help her.


  • Academic Athlete: Turns out he's not only the soccer ace, a track and field champ, an apparent judo-ka and, according to Saika, the only one at their school who could get scouted, but he's also number two overall in their high school, right behind Yukino.
  • Accidental Misnaming: Subverted. At first, he also refers to Hachiman as "Hikitani-kun" the way Tobe does, all the way to episode 8 of season 1. However, at the end of the episode, it turns out Hayato knows Hachiman's correct name "Hikigaya" all along but chose to refer to him as "Hikitani" for unknown reasons. Afterward, he drops both the misnaming and the "-kun", and is the only one in his group to refer to Hachiman by his correct name.
  • The Ace: One of the top students in the school, the best athlete, plays the guitar and is a hit at karaoke, and is just an overall talented individual. Hachiman comments that 'Hayama's specs are just way too high.'
  • Accomplice by Inaction: He's described as "everyone's Hayama Hayato," and while he's very popular at school, it also means he essentially can't choose sides in an argument, and must remain on the sidelines even when he wants to help. Hachiman observes that "high achievers" are less able to deviate from peoples' expectations than "low achievers" like himself, which is why Hachiman can take actions and solve problems that Hayato, for all of his strengths, can't.
  • Ain't Too Proud to Beg: In episode 4 of season 2, he bows and begs Hachiman to go on a double date with Orimoto and her friend. Hachiman initially refuses, until Haruno calls and tells him Hayato would normally never beg in that manner, then threatens him into going.
  • Alliterative Name: Hayato Hayama
  • The Atoner: He regrets that he wasn't able to help Yukino when she was bullied, and not only was Yukino unable to forgive him until recently, it's implied Haruno refused to even let Hayato attempt amends.
  • Beneath the Mask: Hayato isn't the All-Loving Hero he appears to be, and despite being considered a confident leader, he's hampered by his role as "everyone's Hayama Hayato" to the point where it's strongly implied that he has no real say over his own life. He's on the extreme tatamae side of the tatamae/honne spectrum and does everything he can to keep his "true self" hidden; once Hachiman figures it out anyway, Hayato starts letting the mask slip around him, even dropping it entirely when discussing Yukino during the prom arc.
  • Big Man on Campus: He's treated like this in school due to his good looks, good grades, athleticism, and kindness, to the point where his fans have established cheers for supporting him. Hachiman lampshades that Hayato is basically his complete opposite in terms of popularity, and occasionally he weaponizes it, like using Hayato to draw a crowd to the judo match.
  • Bishie Sparkle: Hayato does this in his public persona, though it's just for show: It never appears when he's being serious, and all but disappears as the series progresses.
  • Broken Ace: He's far more cynical than he lets on, and due to his reluctance to hurt anyone, he's practically incapable of solving anything by himself — something that he's well aware of and hates. He repeatedly states to Hachiman that he's not the perfect Nice Guy everyone thinks he is.
    • In Episode 11 of Season 2, he admits that he feels inferior to Hachiman and hates him as a result. It's a bit longer before we learn why: Hachiman is able to help and support Yukino in a way that Hayato never could.
  • Bros Before Hoes: Attempts this in episode 4 of season 2, after getting tired of hearing Orimoto and her friend constantly mocking Hachiman. However, this is downplayed as they're not actually bros, and both would flatly deny being friends.
  • Bystander Syndrome: He's thoughtful enough and perceptive enough to understand when others like Hachiman are being mistreated, but he rarely intervenes directly due to the conflict that could result. It's implied that this stems from his botched attempt to help Yukino when she was bullied, when his involvement only made things worse.
  • The Charmer: He has a likable personality and notably strong charisma, with many girls commenting on how attractive and cool he is and many guys considering him equally admirable, occasionally bordering on Even the Guys Want Him. Saki is one of the few who disagree, but even Hayato's failed attempt at charming her in the light novel made Hachiman grudgingly admit to being 'half in love' himself.
  • Chick Magnet: Popular among girls, attracting the affections of Yumiko, Iroha, and Orimoto's friend among others, including girls from other schools. When he briefly becomes "available" after rumors arise about him dating, he's apparently turning down at least a confession a day. According to Yukino, this is why Hayato stopped accepting Valentine's chocolate, as he'd get so many in elementary school that the classroom would be filled with tension the next day.
  • Crowd Chant: Has several dedicated to him, courtesy of his fans during things like the tennis match, the judo tournament and even a karaoke party. Hachiman is baffled and wonders if the other students get together to practice these.
  • Death Glare: Hayato is surprisingly good at these, whether he's playing the bad guy in Hachiman's plan to help Rumi or turning a genuine glare on Hachiman when the latter tries to pry into his business; it leaves such a strong impression on Kaori that she changes her tune after the "double date," and pressures Ooka so much that he can barely explain the rumor he heard about Hayato and Yukino. Hachiman notes that it's extra effective because Hayato's whole attitude shifts so drastically from his usual Nice Guy demeanor.
  • Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: Occasionally drops into a blank, cold gaze when confronting Hachiman, it's rendered like this in the @comic manga, usually accompanying a Death Glare or emotional turmoil.
  • Failure Knight: It is implied he tried to help Rumi because something similar happened to a girl in elementary school, and he was unable to help her. He later admits that he hates the frustration and inferiority he feels when having to rely on Hachiman because his own ideals and values prevent him from finding a way to help everyone when they most need it.
  • Foil:
    • He's Hachiman's perfect opposite: Popular, sociable, good-looking and kind, though not without his faults. While superior to Hachiman in almost every area, he's constantly outmatched when it comes to solving other people's problems. Both ultimately have good intentions, but use different methods: while Hayato is perpetually kind but reluctant to intervene if it means hurting others, Hachiman is willing to hurt himself and others if it gets results. Hayato is a "high-status" individual and adored as such, but meeting those expectations leaves him with little autonomy over his own life, while almost everyone starts out with zero expectations for Hachiman, but existing outside the pecking order allows him the freedom to take action and grow as a person. They also both have a tendency to settle conflict without addressing the core issues, thereby putting off or brushing aside the true problems, and slowly attempt to change this about themselves. This extends to their relationship with Yukino: She and Hayato were childhood friends, but his failure to support her wholeheartedly led to their estrangement, while she and Hachiman clashed in the beginning, but his determination to help her even when she didn't want him to ultimately leads to Yukino and Hachiman getting together.
    • Both he and Yukino are not only popular, but have high social status, are highly intelligent and excellent students. However, while Yukino tries to change people for the better through Brutal Honesty, Hayato generally tries to prevent things from getting worse through diplomacy. Their roles and attitudes regarding their families are also contrasting: Hayato, as an only child, is the heir of the Hayama and accepts the role he was given, while Yukino, as the "spare" to her older sister, had to prove herself in her mother's eyes and decides to follow her father's footsteps of her own volition.
  • Four-Philosophy Ensemble: He's the Conflicted; where Hachiman is firmly The Cynic, with a pragmatic, pessimistic worldview, Hayato is deeply conflicted between his kind, friendly and optimistic side and his more cynical one; being such a conflicted individual himself makes him naturally unable to solve conflict-laden situations, and in the end he relies on niceness to preserve the status quo.
  • Girls Like Musicians: It doesn't come up often, but the light novels list one of his hobbies as playing guitar, which he does in a band with his friends during the school festival; late in the novels, Hayama's turn at karaoke basically turns into a mini-concert.
  • Hero of Another Story: He's the central figure of his circle of friends, with his own problems he has to deal with, and would likely be the protagonist in a different story. The Author's Notes to the Volume A light novel comments that Hayato and his clique are just supporting characters in Hachiman's story, but that it would be different if Hayato was the main character.
  • Hidden Depths: Initially seems like an overly nice but somewhat oblivious popular guy, but he's far more perceptive of Yukino and Hachiman's methods than most; the latter parts of the series delve further into the divide between his outward persona and his actual self, as well as the motivation behind the way he is.
  • Hypocrite:
    • Invoked. He snaps on Kaori Orimoto for her relentless teasing of Hachiman; however, he states that by doing so, he's been trying to mend what he neglected to do towards Yukino by demonstrating that Hachiman's methods, however effective, aren't methods that make Yukino happy.
    • Hayato has a habit of complaining about how he doesn't like Hachiman's conflict resolution because it's needlessly cruel. Just the same, he ends up asking Hachiman to intervene on his behalf because he thinks that Kakeru confessing to Ebina will ruin the dynamics of their clique. Hayato acknowledges this and apologizes for it, though Hachiman rejects the apology.
    • Hayato tells Hachiman that he should stop sacrificing himself for others, which Hachiman comes to consider the ultimate hypocrisy because Hayato, by living as "everyone's Hayama Hayato," has always been sacrificing himself for the sake of everyone else's expectations. He describes calling out Kaori's incessant belittling of Hachiman as one of the most painful things he's ever had to do.
  • Lovable Jock: Unusually for a show about outcasts, the most popular guy in the school is both really nice and really likable. The only people who dislike him are "outcasts" like Hachiman and Zaimokuza, and even then, it's a more general resentment of Hayama's status as an "elite."
  • Magnetic Hero: He's so popular and charismatic that he's able to attract the admiration of people from different classes, and even different schools.
  • Morality Chain: The only one who Yumiko complies to. Hayama usually has to rein in her more abrasive tendencies.
  • My Greatest Failure: His failing to defend Yukino during her youth, allowing her to become isolated, drives most of his actions regarding the Service Club. As a matter of fact, he's more than aware of his own propensity towards inaction, which is an aspect that he wants to correct at all costs.
  • Nice Guy: Deconstructed: He's definitely a nice person, but his drive to meet everyone's perception of him as the Nice Guy often leaves him helpless to address the basis of the conflicts around him.
    • He himself claims that he is not as nice as he appears to Hachiman on several occasions, saying that Hachiman is simply forcing that perception onto him, which Hachiman eventually admits is true.
    • By volume 10 it is pretty clear that his unrelenting optimism is mostly a facade, and his actual personality is more cynical and conflicted than he lets on. Hachiman more or less tells him to show his true self, but Hayato still isn't willing to do so, due to the risk of hurting or disappointing others.
  • Non-Uniform Uniform: He wears a bolo tie in place of the regular tie.
  • Not So Similar: Makes a "Not So Different" Remark to Hachiman in regards to his friendships, believing he and his circle will still be close regardless of what path they take, precisely because their relationships are "shallow."
  • Real Men Take It Black: Hayama's drink of choice is Georgia BLACK canned coffe, in contrast with Hachiman's sugar-loaded MAX Coffee. As with Hachiman, it hints at Hayama's Hidden Depths: He's more 'adult' in outlook than his youthful exterior would imply, and his true personality is more jaded and "bitter" than his carefree outward persona.
  • Rejected Apology: Hayato is on the receiving end of at least two.
    • He apologizes to Hachiman after Tobe's failed confession, having gotten the Service Club involved despite knowing of Hachiman's self-destructive gambits, which Hachiman angrily rejects because he sees the apology as pity.
    • He's implied to have apologized or attempted to apologize to the Yukinoshita sisters for failing to help Yukino when she was being bullied. Yukino is eventually able to accept his apology, but Haruno refuses to forgive him for hurting Yukino and disappointing Haruno herself.
  • Repetitive Name: Hayato Hayama.
  • The Rival: He hates the fact that, despite being superior to Hachiman at almost everything, he still loses to him at the most important things, like having the will to help others regardless of the consequences.
  • Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Initially one-sided, as Hachiman holds a general bias against him as part of the popular crowd. Eventually, Hayato states that he probably wouldn't have been able to befriend Hachiman if they had met prior the events of the series. By the second season, Hachiman has essentially become a symbol of things Hayato despises about himself and he outright tells Hachiman that he hates him, though it's strongly implied that their mutual declarations of hatred are akin to recognizing each other as worthy opponents, and a refreshing bit of honesty.
  • Slave to PR: Hayama is obsessed with not rocking the boat, to the point where he won't directly intervene in any conflict if it could damage the image he's cultivated or the equilibrium of those around him. It's implied that it stems from the childhood incident with Yukino, where his intervention only made things worse, leaving the two of them estranged and convincing Hayama that taking no-one's side is better than choosing one side over another.
  • Status Quo Is God: A firm believer in this, he would much rather have everything remain static than resolve an issue if it could potentially cause harm, or make a choice that could hurt or disappoint someone else. This is even why Hayato is the only one seriously training for the marathon: He doesn't particularly want to win, but he won the previous year and people expect him to win again.
  • Stepford Smiler: As cheerful and easy-going as he seems, he lets his mask down around Hachiman, revealing a much more conflicted individual. Hachiman even notes that the ease with which Hayato can smile so constantly, despite what Hachiman knows he's actually like, is somewhat frightening.
  • Tareme Eyes: His eyes noticeably droop downward, giving him a gentle appearance and fitting his seemingly more optimistic and cheerful personality, in contrast to the more cynical Hachiman, who has Tsurime Eyes.
  • We Used to Be Friends: Hayato and Yukino's families are close, and as a result they spent most of their childhoods together. However, they had a falling out when Yukino suffered severe bullying in middle school and Hayato failed to help her. As a result, Yukino has become more distant, while Hayato holds onto deep feelings of guilt.
  • Worthy Opponent: Hachiman views him as one, due to his popularity with the other students and his usual cool demeanor. In Hayama's case, it's played with, as he admits that if they were equals he could tolerate losing to him. Precisely because Hachiman is the way he is why he doesn't want to lose to him.

    Yumiko Miura 
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Voiced by: Marina Inoue (Japanese), Christina Kelly (English)

Yumiko is a popular girl from class 2F with a pompous personality. She is the main female figure in Hayato's clique. Due to her popularity, she has no trouble making friends and thus has little to no understanding towards people who have social troubles. She brushes off anything she doesn't understand as "making no sense".


  • All Love Is Unrequited: She has a crush on Hayato. The latter hints that he is aware of her feelings but only considers her a friend.
  • Alpha Bitch: To everybody outside her social circles, particularly loners like Hachiman and Yukino. In most of her earlier appearance, she's insulting the Service Club and actively bullying Yui anytime she wants to hang out with Hachiman and Yukino. And while she's still arrogant and lowkey elitist, she's still a very good friend to the people she cares about.
  • Animal Motifs: The snake in episode 2 represents her mean streak.
  • Anti-Hero: She could be seen as sort of an antagonist, but she's not a villain. She's self-centered and easily gets angry for personal reasons, but is a good person deep down and cares very much about her friends.
  • Big-Breast Pride: In episode eight, her first reaction to seeing Yukino refusing to show herself in a swimsuit, covering her body because of her A-Cup Angst is a smug "I win".
  • Buxom Beauty Standard: She has a well-endowed figure and seeing her in a bikini triggers Yukino's A-Cup Angst.
  • Clingy Jealous Girl: When she spots Hayato on a date with Orimoto, she attempts to interrupt them, although she loses her balance due to trying on some boots. Hachiman gets Hayato out of there before Yumiko recovers from her fall. Later in the season when she hears the rumor that he might be dating Yukino, she doesn't take it very well and ends up confronting the latter about it.
  • Dumb Blonde: Downplayed. She lacks the capacity to think deeply like Yukino and Hachiman can and can get confused when speaking to them.
  • Evil Is Hammy: She's definitely hammy and pompous, and while she isn't a bad person by any means, she's still a jerk and can be somewhat antagonistic towards the main characters. Especially, she's jealous of Yui, thinking she prefers spending time with the service club than with her.
  • Foil: To Yukino; both characters are stubborn, somewhat haughty popular/former popular girls who are good friends with Yui. The major difference is probably the harsh social experience that Yukino faced to fuel her beliefs. Yumiko, on the other hand, cannot understand the struggles of a social outcast at all. Yumiko indeed is extroverted, easily approachable but self-centered, while Yukino is introverted and has a cold attitude, but is actually very selfless and wants to help others.
  • Four-Temperament Ensemble: The choleric. She's definitely extroverted, spontaneous, and even hammy, but also arrogant, self-centered and hostile towards loners.
  • Hidden Depths: While she dislikes the Service Club members, it's shown that she has learnt to know better than to antagonize them. This shows that she's aware that regarding Yukino and Hachiman, she knows she's effectively Locked Out of the Loop by virtue of who she is and her social position. It's also shown that in spite of her haughtiness, she looks after her friends.
  • Indirect Kiss: The @comic manga has a bonus comic where Yumiko gets flustered over one of these, thinking she has Hayato's iced tea; it's actually Yui's, but Hina decides to let Yumiko have this one. note 
  • It's All About Me: Yumiko's self-centeredness is one of her more prominent traits. Everything needs to be to her benefit, and she does not take sharing Yui with the Service Club well. She mostly grows out of this as she reaches an understanding with those outside her clique, even if she's still abrasive about it.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She often comes off as a downright jerk, as she acts really abrasive to those not within her clique, is arrogant, and has a mean streak, but is also very aware of the actions and feelings of her closest friends, and will attempt to make sure that they don't get hurt. This balance is best shown when she confronts Hachiman over his involvement with Ebina (who doesn't want to date anybody) and Tobe (who wants to confess to Ebina).
    • Despite chewing Yui out in Season 1 Episode 2 over Yui's association with loners like Hachiman and Yukino, when Yui comes clean about how they're the reason she's got less anxiety over wanting to fit in with everybody and still wants to be friends with her, Yumiko accepts her explanation and agrees to stay as Yui's friend. Even the chewing out she gave to Yui beforehand was motivated because she thought Yui was abandoning their friend group which Yumiko wants to maintain.
    • Iroha is her low-key love rival for Hayato's affection and attention. They both want the same guy, and they're not exactly friends to begin with. But when Iroha looks exhausted at the Christmas event in Season 2 Episode 9, Yumiko is the first to check to see if she's okay and offer her water, something that surprises Iroha.
  • Large Ham: She's pompous, highly concerned with her personal popularity, and It's All About Me is her default attitude.
  • Lovable Alpha Bitch: Fits this trope to a T. She has a big ego, is vain, arrogant and shallow, but she's actually a good person deep down, and very kind and considerate towards her friends.
  • Loving Bully: While she's bossy and arrogant even towards a sweetie like Yui, who is also her friend, she ultimately means well.
  • No Sympathy: She has a hard time relating to the struggles of social outcasts, coldly stating it's their own fault for not having better social skills.
  • Not So Stoic: Under her tough girl act hides a fragile but motherly figure. She can easily break in tears if confronted by people she can't deal with and takes care of Iroha when she needs it while completely ignoring the fact that she's also her love rival.
  • Ojou Ringlets: She's at the top of the social food chain and wears her ringlets proudly.
  • Pet the Dog: She's very thoughtful and kind to Ebina and Iroha, and willingly chooses to maintain her friendship with Yui after being confronted by Yukino in Season 1 Episode 2.
    • In a sense, her requesting the Service Club for help in Episodes 11 and 12 show that she actually does trust them to help her after all. Even if she had to swallow her pride out of desperation, she's learned to value their input after all.
  • Popular Is Dumb: While not exactly stupid, she is a bit ditzy and naiive. She often gets confused when talking with Yukino and Hachiman. Most evident when they were trying to help Tsurumi during the summer camp. She was incredibly naiive about how to help her because of her popularity.
  • Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: To Yukino. The two never miss a chance to express how much they despise each other when they are together, though they do eventually reach an understanding.
  • Smug Snake: During her tennis match against Yukino, and when she glances at Hachiman in the first episodes there's even a snake Animal Motif that represents her mean, arrogant streak.
  • Undying Loyalty: Inarguably one of her best and most redeeming qualities. Even if she is vain and if her relationships do start fairly shallow, she genuinely cares about the people around her, wants to keep those friendships, wants to deepen those friendships, and looks out for them even when there's no personal benefit to her.

    Saika Totsuka 
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Voiced by: Mikako Komatsu (Japanese), Margaret McDonald (English)

Saika is a member of the Tennis Club who, despite having an effeminate demeanor, always asserts himself as a boy. He is called "The Prince" by his female classmates. On their first meeting, Saika asks Hachiman to join the tennis club, but was brushed off by Yukino. Saika then asked the Service Club to help him improve his tennis skills so that he may properly train others. He eventually became one of the few people in class 2F who enjoys talking to Hachiman, and often hangs out with him.


  • Ambiguously Gay: The amount of affection he shows to Hachiman may raise a few eyebrows, although there aren't that many other boys Saika interacts with for comparison.
  • Bishie Sparkle: Turns it into a weapon in episode 13 of the anime where Totsuka is actually so cute he incapacitates several other boys.
  • Birds of a Feather: In a certain sense, with Yui. They're very cute individuals, and the only ones who show unambiguous kindness and true friendship towards the main characters.
  • The Cutie: Unlike most of his classmates who use facades to gain acceptance, Totsuka seems to be genuinely sweet and innocent.
  • Dude Looks Like a Lady: He's notably small, slender and cute, and often wears short-shorts to better accentuate this. Most characters initially assume he is a girl. But the narration has been sure to remind us that Saika is indeed 100% a guy.
  • Effeminate Voice: To match his girly looks, the anime has Saika voiced by women in both Japanese and English.
  • Even the Guys Want Him: Episode 13 has some of the guys fawn over him.
  • Four-Temperament Ensemble: The phlegmatic. Very kind, friendly, quiet, and a bit shy.
  • Gay Option: Hachiman perceives him as the homosexual route in an imaginary Dating Sim. He has his own ending in the Playstation Vita game!
  • Hero-Worshipper: Admires Hachiman for his supposedly "cool" selfless personality.
  • If It's You, It's Okay: Hachiman, despite knowing Totsuka is a guy, doesn't really have any problems privately remarking how cute he is. He also doesn't ever push Saika away whenever the latter is being somewhat affectionate towards him.
  • Irony: Even with several attractive girls surrounding him, Hachiman is initially more physically attracted to Saika from the moment they meet.
  • Modesty Towel: And he wears it up to his chest for no apparent reason.
  • Nice Guy: One of the few people who befriends Hachiman without a few rough edges. He doesn't have a mean bone in his body and is kind, sincere and supportive towards Hachiman.
  • Non-Uniform Uniform: He always wears the P.E. uniform, even during class.
  • Obliviously Beautiful: A rare male example who excels in feminine beauty. He seems blissfully unaware of how cute he looks and the responses he gets from men and women alike. Dude's beautiful.
  • Only Friend: He is the first person in the story for whom Hachiman shows sincere affection, and whose friendship is reciprocal.
  • The Reliable One: Saika is one of the only few characters whom Hachiman trusts from the get-go, way before his clubmates Yukino and Yui. Saika would seldom, if ever, say no to Hachiman's requests and offers his help towards anything he needs from him.
  • Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: He's the sensitive guy to every other boy in the series, especially in his very delicate appearance. He tries to be as manly as possible, though.
  • Ship Tease: Consistently with Hachiman. Anytime the two interact, plenty of blushing occurs between them.
  • Talking in Your Sleep: He often murmurs Hachiman's name in his sleep.

    Saki Kawasaki 
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Voiced by: Ami Koshimizu (Japanese), Teresa Zimmermann (English)

Saki is Hachiman's classmate who looks like a delinquent but was formerly a model student in junior high. She cares deeply for her brother as she hid her name and age to work in night-shift part-time jobs in order to pay school fees and reduce her family's load.


  • Accidental Misnaming: A Running Gag in the light novels, which was unfortunately Adapted Out in the anime, involves Hachiman forgetting Saki's name and going through a list of possibilities in his head every time they meet.
  • Adaptation Distillation: Much of the Ship Tease between her and Hachiman is omitted in the anime, presumably to allow greater focus on Yukino, Yui, and Iroha.
  • Advertised Extra: The anime gives her pretty high billing in the opening song of season 1, but after Episode 5, she just doesn't show up outside of brief cameos, and even when she's enlisted to help make clothes for everyone at the culture festival, her appearances are still very short moments.
  • Ascended Extra: A strange example. In the light novels, she's the fourth option love interest for Hachiman, right behind Yui, Yukino, and Iroha, but almost all her moments with him are Adapted Out of the anime, leaving only her most plot-relevant scenes, which all boil down to how she helps further the Service Club's goals even if she has to be dragged along to do it. But Season 3 changes that a bit by giving her more focus, keeping some of her Ship Tease with Hachiman, and having her take direct part in helping the Service Club when it came to the prom arc.
  • Big Sister Instinct: Hachiman commented on her rare smile. The cause of her once in Hachiman's lifetime smile was her brother. Plus, if Hachiman so much as discomforts her brother, she usually glares at him. This becomes pretty much her most prominent trait in the anime, with most of her scenes involving her taking care of her younger brother and sister.
  • Birds of a Feather: She develops a crush on fellow reclusive loner Hachiman, and only after witnessing what a caring older sibling he is, like Saki herself.
  • Cannot Spit It Out: In the light novels, she clearly develops an attraction to Hachiman after getting to know him as he is fulfilling her brother's request. Unfortunately, she is too shy to admit it, and her interactions with him usually devolve into her stealing awkward glances at him. Hachiman finds this strange and becomes insecure over it.
  • Cool Big Sis: Tries to act like one for her younger siblings, such as taking on a night job to help pay for her brother's tuition, or helping her younger sister to make chocolates for Valentine's Day.
  • Demoted to Extra: Season 2 still has her showing up in cameos, even having an extended scene where she becomes a Sitcom Arch-Nemesis with Yumiko, but she gets even less focus than Season 1 (which had all of Episode 5 focused on her actions and decisions).
  • The Drag-Along: She never seems eager to interact with others and usually needs to be coerced into cooperating.
  • Face of a Thug: A female version, normally with a callous and annoyed expression on her face.
  • Freak Out: In Episode 1 of Season 3, when she tells him where to find Sagami (not knowing he's looking specifically for Sagami at the time), he says "I love you, Kawasaki!" She drops her phone, her face turns bright red, and she loses her shit.
  • Foil:
    • Saki's willingness to work hard contrasts Hachiman's desire to be a lazy House Husband. Despite this, both are loners who have siblings that they care deeply for.
    • Also foils Yukino as Saki comes from a family that struggles to support their children while the former comes from a family of privilege. Also, while Saki cares for her siblings and would do anything for them, Yukino has a bitter one-sided rivalry against her sister.
  • Hates Small Talk: A traits she shares with Hachiman. She rarely speaks to others from her side, and dedicates very little time and effort to conversations that come her way.
  • Hidden Depths: As Hina reveals later, Saki makes her own clothes and accessories and is pretty good at it.
  • Huge Schoolgirl: She's tall and looks like a female delinquent, giving off an intimidating first impression.
  • Ice Queen: A milder case but still, she's rarely shown without a detached and callous disposition.
  • Innocently Insensitive:
    • The reason she works as a barmaid at nights (which is illegal for someone her age) is to earn her own money to get into college because she wants to avoid being a burden to her family. Komachi, however, helps her realise that in doing so, she's causing Taishi to believe that he's being a burden to her.
    • She believes that Yukino has it really easy due to how wealthy her family is and as such can't understand her situation, but anyone who knows what Yukino's family is like knows that her life has been anything but easy.
  • Japanese Delinquent: Subverted as she isn't actually one, but with her disregard for proper girly dress code, poor attendance at school, tough attitude, and loner status, Saki has a few typical traits associated with delinquents. She's also tall and intimidating.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: Anytime someone tries to call her out on her unsavoury behavior (like lying about her age so she can work as a barmaid at nights), her usual response is that they could never understand her situation. While this is obviously a way to avoid admitting she's in the wrong, and the remarks she makes are pretty uncalled for and touch on sensitive subjects for the people in question (i.e. Shizuka being a Christmas Cake and Yukino's family), she has a point, which is evident by the fact that nobody she says it to has anything to say in their defense.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Downplayed. She's normally rather cold towards others, but she's ultimately reserved and aloof instead of a jerk. She's a mature girl who cares very much for her family and tries her best not to burden them, working very hard.
  • Loner-Turned-Friend: A mild case where Saki still prefers being left to herself but knows she can rely on Hachiman's group if need be and vice-versa.
  • Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold: She looks like a delinquent, is a loner, and can have an abrasive attitude, but she's actually a good person.
  • Monster Brother, Cutie Sister: Downplayed. Saki isn't ugly but certainly is feared because of her loneliness and looking at first sight as a Japanese Delinquent. But she's so protective of her little siblings as Hachiman is with Komachi.
  • Nice Girl: Played With. She Used to Be More Social at first but became quite cold because of her melancholy due to balancing work and school to help her family. This reveals that despite her attitude, she's a kind-hearted and compassionate person deep down.
  • Non-Uniform Uniform: She forgoes the ribbon and blazer, which adds to her delinquent look.
  • Really 17 Years Old: Saki lies about her age in order to work as a bartender.
  • Repetitive Name: Saki Kawasaki.
  • Ship Tease: With Hachiman. While the anime cut out most of their scenes (in favor of Yukino, Yui, and Iroha) to streamline the plot, Season 3 Episode 1 has an extended scene where they bond over their shared love for their respective siblings. He brings up how Saki's brother could go to a public school so she could have more free time to herself, a suggestion Saki appreciates. She even freaks out a bit when she hears Hachiman say "I love you" to Komachi, reminding her of the time he gave her a Freak Out by saying "I love you" instead of thank you to her one time.
    • In Season 2 Episode 11, when all the girls are baking cookies for Valentine's Day, Kaori mentions if she ever gave chocolate to Hachiman. Yui, Yukino, Iroha, and Saki all react less than positively at the idea.
    • In Season 3 Episode 1, a brief flashback to the culture festival is shown. Hachiman was looking for Sagami, and when Saki tells him where the entrance to the rooftop is, Hachiman immediately rushes past her and says "I love you, Kawasaki!" Cue Saki's epic Freak Out.
  • Shy Blue-Haired Girl: She is distinguished by her striking blue hair and asocial behavior. This is downplayed in that she is more aloof than shy, but whenever she interacts with Hachiman in the novels, well, see Cannot Spit It Out above.
  • Statuesque Stunner: Despite her cold and aloof attitude, she's definitely attractive, and one of the tallest girls in the series.
  • Tomboy: Has a lot of masculine habits, and greatly dislikes getting dressed up in girly attire.
  • Tsundere: Type A towards Hachiman in the novels, after the infamous rooftop incident but signs show even before that. She acts dismissive of Hachiman, but actually trusts him a great deal and always comes to his aid when he needs it.
  • Used to Be More Social: Was formerly a very kind sister, but trying to balance school and work has caused her to adopt a much colder, unsocial demeanor.
  • When She Smiles: And laughs for bonus points. This happened in Season 3 Episode 1, where she sees Hachiman and Komachi having a sibling argument. Saki's red-faced scowl (after remembering Hachiman's mess-up as detailed under Freak Out above) turns into a smile, then seconds later she laughs before taking her leave with her sister Keiko.

    Kakeru Tobe 
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Voiced by: Chado Horii (Japanese), Gareth West (English)

A member of Hayato's clique and classmate of Hachiman's. Tobe is a bombastic, foolhardy individual, well known for his cheerful demeanor but also for his quite poor grades. Like most of class 2F, Tobe regularly mistakes Hachiman's name as "Hikitani."


  • Accidental Misnaming: He never gets Hachiman's name right, referring to him constantly as "Hikitani."
  • All Love Is Unrequited: His crush on Hina is not reciprocated.
  • Ascended Extra: To a certain extent in the anime, being the only identifiable one among Hayama's clique from Season 2 onward, despite being introduced with two other boys who were just completely forgotten about.
  • Being Evil Sucks: He disliked playing the role of the bad guy while helping some girls at summer camp.
  • Book Dumb: He's implied to be a poor student as his friends often tease him about his grades.
  • Class Clown: How Hayato describes him, but Yukino concludes he's more of an Attention Whore.
  • The Ditz: Often seen as this due to his very jolly behavior and poor grades; however, while he's Book Dumb, it's not clear if he's outright dimwitted in other areas.
  • Face of a Thug: Due to his dyed hair and loud personality, he's noted to give off an unruly vibe, but he's actually harmless. Tobe can also invoke this trope and make himself look genuinely frightening when he wants to.
  • Innocently Insensitive: He always calls Hachiman by the wrong name, though Hachiman doesn't care enough to bother with correcting him.
  • Keet: Tobe is almost always in a jolly mood, and his motions are very dramatic and bombastic.
  • Large Ham: Not as hammy as Yoshiteru, but still counts. He's often pretentious, lund and dramatic in his attitude.
  • Nice Guy: He's generally a good-natured guy and doesn't like hurting others.
    • Zigzagged towards Hachiman, in that he would regularly tease and mildly bully him before eventually coming to respect him.
    • He's very kind towards Iroha, as she is the manager of Tobe's soccer team, and is often seen taking time to lend her a hand with her student council duties.
  • Non-Uniform Uniform: He wears a pink sweater with his uniform.

    Hina Ebina 
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Voiced by: Nozomi Sasaki (Japanese), Natalie Rial (English)

A close friend of Yumiko and Yui's, and a member of Hayato's clique. Hina appears to be a rather unassuming character, but she is actually a proud fan of Yaoi and prone to passionate ravings about her interests.


  • Beneath the Mask: Her interest in boys love is genuine but it's heavily implied that she deliberately plays up the role both to put off boys from potentially asking her out and to preserve her place in her clique.
  • Bespectacled Cutie: Her glasses distinguish her as a sweet character, but they also tend to light up when she senses the possibility of a Slash Fic.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: She's hammy, eccentric and quirky, and kinda lives in her own world (mostly made of Yaoi fantasies).
  • Empty Shell: Not literally, but Hina stated to Hachiman that she was rotten inside, one of the reasons why she's unable to be in a relationship.
  • Hidden Depths: She is actually a decent leader, and acted as director of her class's cultural festival. She is also keen enough to notice Tobe's crush on her, but rejected him because she felt she was not mature enough for a relationship. It's also implied that she has some idea about what's going on with Hayato: Not only did she go to him first about the Tobe issue, she later tells Hachiman that Hayato "doesn't slip up that easily" and will find some way to keep their clique from having to change, because "meeting everyone's expectation is who Hayato-kun is." Her expression is notably cold during this conversation, and Hachiman wonders if this is part of her true personality.
  • Hyper-Awareness: She has an eye for detail and could immediately tell Saki's clothes and accessories were handmade.
  • Hypocrisy Nod: While assisting Hachiman with his dummy prom plan, Hina comments that he'd really be better off simply being honest to Yukino about his own feelings but admits that she doesn't really have a right to criticise him given that she herself went through extremely convoluted means of indirectly asking Hachiman to sabotage Tobe's confession just so she wouldn't have to reject him directly.
  • Large Ham: She can get very worked up over the possibility of boys getting intimate with other boys.
  • Lovable Sex Maniac: She may have perverted fantasies about gay boys 24/7, but she's nonetheless a Nice Girl who cares for her friends.
  • Morality Pet: To Yumiko, who displays a genuinely kind and motherly side towards Hina despite being quite the Alpha Bitch.
  • Nice Girl: Despite her quirkiness and eccentricity, she's otherwise a reasonably kind and decent individual, and acts as a Morality Pet towards Yumiko.
  • Nosebleed: She gets dribbles of blood while having boy-on-boy fantasies.
  • No Sense of Personal Space: When she gets riled up, all respect for personal space of others goes out the window.
  • Proud to Be a Geek: She is a proud member of the Yaoi fandom and believes openly embracing your interests is the key to happiness and social satisfaction.
  • Shipper on Deck: Hina openly supports every pairing that involves her male classmates, although it seems her OTP is Hayato x Hachiman.
  • Ship Tease: With Hachiman. After helping her avoid Tobe's confession, Hina jokes that she wouldn't mind dating if it were with Hachiman, although it's ambiguous if she was actually being serious or not.
    • Although she herself dismisses a possible relationship with Tobe, she later seems to lose her taste for pairing him with other guys; since Ebina's still happy to ship any other combination of males, it's implied that she's starting to consider him as a potential partner for herself.
  • Slash Fic: She apparently imagines her own using her male classmates.
  • Yaoi Fangirl: Likes to fantasize about Hachiman and Hayato together, or any pair of boys, really.

    Minami Sagami 
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Voiced by: Minako Kotobuki (Japanese), Caitlynn French (English)

A seemingly sweet and unassuming girl who in actuality pretends to be so to gain attention. Her desire for recognition leads her to becoming chairman of the school's culture festival. She comes to the Service Club to request aid as her duties as chairman are more than she bargained for.


  • Attention Whore: Hachiman deduces she is this. Even her attempt at fleeing from her chairman obligation was implied to be a cry for attention.
  • Authority in Name Only: What she quickly turns into as Yukino ends up running the show, while Sagami basically does nothing. While initially glad to have someone else doing her work for her, this ends up damaging her ego as she realizes how useless she is. This may also contribute to how harshly Hachiman tells her off later.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: While she's not a bad person, she pretends to be nice and innocent, but actually has a big ego and would rather depend on others to do her assigned work.
  • Break the Haughty: Played straight then subverted. She gets effortlessly upstaged by Yukino and when looking for reassurance, Hachiman gives her a brutal "The Reason You Suck" Speech instead. But in the end, she gets what she wants. Hayato comes to her defense and she's seen as a victim of Hachiman's abuse, thus salvaging her reputation.
  • Character Development: In the Light Novels, Sagami is made the chairman of the athletics festival and, while not exactly happy about the circumstances, is shown to have learned from her experience with the cultural festival and makes a real effort to do what she can to make things run smoothly. It's even shown that, while certainly not friendly with him, she doesn't hold any further resentment towards Hachiman and, after running into him by chance whilst cleaning up, she politely asks him to let her pass through.
  • Compliment Fishing: She milks compliments from others whenever possible, usually feigning Heroic Self-Deprecation.
  • Deliberately Bad Example: To contrast Yumiko and Hayato's circle of friends, Sagami embodies a more antagonistic popular character who actively foists responsibility onto other people while reveling in her title.
  • One-Shot Character: In the anime, Sagami has had no other appearances outside the school culture festival. In the Light Novels, she plays a fairly important secondary role during the Athletics Festival.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Courtesy of Hachiman after she disappears before the closing ceremony for the school festival in episode 12. He gives a highly critical analysis of her hypocrisy that is so brutal that even Hayato, the residential Nice Guy, got physical because he thought it went too far.
  • Repetitive Name: Minami Sagami.
  • The Resenter: She is not at all happy when Yukino effortlessly upstages her as leader during the culture festival.

Other Recurring Characters

    Shizuka Hiratsuka 
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Voiced by: Ryōka Yuzuki (Japanese), Heidi Hinkel (English)

Shizuka is Hachiman's teacher, a language teacher who serves as his future advisor/counselor. She is aware of Hachiman's supposed "problems", and takes steps to ensure he is freed from them, her first move being to force him into joining the Service Club. However, she appears to have some quirks of her own: she is a young smoker, she is very sensitive about her age, and she is often prone to quoting or copying scenes from popular shounen manga. She also never remembers to knock before entering the Service Club's classroom, much to Yukino's chagrin.


  • Age Insecurity: She is a 30-year-old teacher who refuses to admit her age. She gets upset whenever the subject is brought up.
  • Berserk Button: Mentioning her age or single status will either result in pain (in Hachiman's case) or just make her depressed. It's so bad that she couldn't even stop Saki from working as a bartender despite being underage because she brought up her still being single.
  • Buxom Beauty Standard: Her buxom figure is why she's considered a Hot Teacher, and she's one of the women who can trigger Yukino's A-Cup Angst.
  • Cool Car: Drives a sleek red 2005 Aston Martin V8 Vantage coupé.
  • Cool Teacher: Although her students do not always show her respect, Shizuka genuinely cares for their growth and success, especially Hachiman's.
  • Corporal Punishment: Shizuka regularly uses it as a threat to keep Hachiman in line. She even strikes him from time to time to force him to do his club duties, and sometimes because he simply pushed her Berserk Button.
  • Death Glare: Used one on Komachi in the OVA when the latter claims that none of the three contestants in wedding dresses won. She was about to claim herself as the winner, until Shizuka sends a prolonged glare at her, scaring her into declaring the latter as the winner. It leaves Komachi sobbing with Hachiman having to console her while Shizuka celebrates her "victory".
  • Four-Temperament Ensemble: The choleric (or sanguine when more relaxed). While she's caring and a good person, she's also very short-tempered and easily pissed off, especially when someone mentions her age and her Old Maid status. Hachiman says it's no surprise she hasn't found a man yet.
  • Got Volunteered:
    • She likes to do this to Hachiman a lot.
    • In the OVA, she herself ended up getting volunteered to do a special article on marriage, but laments to the other characters that she doesn't have enough experience in those aspects to do it. Unfortunately, none of the other students do either, as they're a little too young to be thinking about married life.
  • Hot Teacher: Her looks are great, but apparently her short-tempered and somewhat quirky personality drives away men. Hachiman however believes those men just don't have good taste.
  • Hypocritical Humor: Despite her reprimanding of Hachiman for his cynical outlooks, Shizuka tends to hold a similar spiteful attitude towards people with successful social/love lives. In an extra section of the light novels, she reviews her class's future goals and scolds Hachiman for his rotten opinions, and then immediately, subtly looks down on Yui's desire to be friends with everyone after graduating.
  • Intergenerational Friendship: With Hachiman.
  • Ironic Name: Shizuka means "quiet", which doesn't exactly fit her; while she's a genuinely kind person, she's also very touchy, short-tempered and extremely age-sensitive.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Not normally, but can be quite violent and brash towards Hachiman, as she's highly annoyed by his laziness and overly cynical view of the world. However, she deeply cares for him and all her students, and always wants to do her best to help them.
  • Labcoat of Science and Medicine: Subverted. Shizuka inexplicably wears a lab coat despite actually being a Japanese language teacher.
  • Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places: Her romantic relationships never seem to work out because of her personality, thus leaving Shizuka worrying if she will ever find the right guy. Ironically, the guy who seems to appreciate and understand her best and can even fluster her on occasion is Hachiman.
  • Nice Girl: Except for her harsher moments with Hachiman, who turns her into a Jerk with a Heart of Gold towards him, she's a very kind, friendly and caring teacher.
  • Old Maid: It is mentioned that she is somewhere around her thirties, and several characters pray for someone to marry her already. In the OVA Hachiman states that if this takes too long, he'll have to be the one to do it.
  • Phrase Catcher: "Ms. Hiratsuka, please knock!"
  • Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: She occasionally drops very old manga references, which Hachiman will take as a sign of her age. Reaches a meta level in the last episode of the anime, where she references the first volume of the light novel, to which Hachiman replies "that's so 10 years ago already."
  • Running Gag: Never knocking before walking into the Service Club, to Yukino's annoyance.
  • Sensei-chan: She's attractive, relates well to her students, and her relationship with Hachiman strongly resembles what could be friendship.
  • She Cleans Up Nicely: When she shows up in a wedding dress during the bridal contest in the OVA, the others are stunned at how beautiful she looks in it, even Hachiman.
  • Ship Tease: Has quite a bit with Hachiman, actually. Most notably in Episode 8 of the second season, when she laments that she can't get married because she misreads people. Hachiman states it's other people's fault for having bad taste, making Shizuka blush, and mentally admits if he were ten years older, he might have fallen in love with her.
    • The last two episodes of Season 3 give the two of them several scenes alone with each other. In one of them, she pretty much says she likes him (not romantically, but still), and later, they dance together without any music and Shizuka accidentally steps on Hachiman's foot, causing him to fall on his back and her to land on top of him, after which they spend a few seconds staring at each other before getting up.
  • Smoking Is Cool: She's a smoker, and especially likes to do so while giving Hachiman advice to look cool, which he lampshades.
  • Statuesque Stunner: A tall, very beautiful young woman.
  • Supreme Chef: Though her plate seems unusual in the bridal contest during the OVA, Hachiman states that it tastes really good.
  • Vague Age: Shizuka deliberately keeps her exact age a mystery. In the anime, she states that she's around 30 (but not specifically).
  • Yandere: Played for Laughs - her text messages are beyond scary to Hachiman, which get progressively more desperate-sounding the more he ignores them. He implies that could play a part in her turning off other men.

    Komachi Hikigaya 
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Voiced by: Aoi Yūki (Japanese), Hilary Haag (English)

Komachi is Hachiman's younger sister who, different from her brother, is cheerful and lively, and is a member of the student council in her school. She understands that her brother has a corrupted personality but still cares for and relies on him regardless.


  • Affectionate Nickname: Iroha refers Komachi as Kome-chan (kome meaning rice) since she shares the same name with Akitakomachi cultivar.
  • Annoying Younger Sibling: For Hachiman. In a nice way, however.
  • Catchphrase: "I'm sure that line scored me a few points."
  • Cloudcuckoolander: A bit of an airhead and a Third-Person Person. However, while she can be forgetful, she's also quite sly when she uses ways to make Hachiman come out of his shell.
  • The Confidant: For Hachiman. Komachi is the only person her older brother is comfortable sharing his problems with.
  • Cute Little Fangs: Pops up whenever she is doing her cute little sister routine.
  • The Cutie: She's Hachiman's adorable little sister after all. She's nothing but a cute, kind and sweet young girl.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Tends to snark at her brother though usually to rile him up or simply to tease him.
  • Endearingly Dorky: Komachi is definitely adorable, and kind of an airhead at times.
  • Foil: Besides being the opposite of her brother, she's also one for Haruno. While both characters encourage their respective siblings in various ways, Komachi tends to be more supportive and helpful whereas Haruno is more willing to provoke to see what will happen.
  • Genki Girl: She's overall very lively, and even tends to be rather excited about things, especially when Hachiman is around. She's also very outgoing and easily emotional.
  • Genre Savvy: Interestingly she's considered the "expert" on marriage in the OVA. Though Yukino did claim the former has experience in taking care of a deadweight, referring to Hachiman. And for the most part her answers do seem to match what they were expecting on what to write about regarding marriage for an article.
  • Hidden Depths: Despite appearing on the surface to be the only person Hachiman has a perfectly stable relationship with, Komachi is, in her own way, just as put-off by his attitude as anyone else in the series, even admitting to the man himself that if she weren't related to him, she'd avoid him like the plague.
  • Idiot Hair: Same as her mother and brother.
  • Incest Subtext: Lampshaded quite a bit due to the siblings close relationship, but mostly Played for Laughs. However when she was describing what type of man she would fall for, it sounded suspiciously similar to a certain fish-eyed protagonist...
    • Particularly when Iroha shows up, it becomes noticeable that Hachiman has a tendency to dote on girls younger than him, possibly influenced by how he treats his sister.
  • Infectious Enthusiasm: Her Genki Girl behaviour sometimes rubs off on other characters such as Yui.
  • Innocent Fan Service Girl:
    • She has no problem being in her underwear in front of Hachiman.
    • She also shows off her different attires in front of Hachiman to get a reaction from him.
  • Large Ham: She easily gets excited, is very enthusiastic and energetic, and doesn't normally keep her emotions to herself at all.
  • Manipulative Bastard: Heavily downplayed, but she has some shades of this towards Hachiman (who shares this trait to a much bigger extent, though still meaning well). She has good intentions towards her brother, and, in fact, the major difference is that her schemes are meant for the latter to come out of his shell, while Hachiman just wants people to throw away their emotions and helps them in the most cynical ways.
  • Morality Pet: She fits the trope, but Hachiman is definitely not amoral, just very snarky and Brutally Honest (if not a bit of a Jerkass). Despite their mutual snarkiness and banter, Hachiman clearly cares about his sister and dotes on her, showing her far more tenderness than anyone else. Komachi in turn tries to have him come out his shell more.
  • Nice Girl: She's a very kind, caring and friendly girl, who deeply loves her brother and tries to do her best for him. She also likes helping other people.
  • Parental Favoritism: According to Hachiman, she's the most important member of the family in terms of attention, losing only to the cat.
  • The Runaway: Tired of her parents never being home, Komachi once ran away from home when she was younger. Hachiman was the one to comfort and bring Komachi back home, and the two gained an unbreakable trust since then.
  • Shipper on Deck: Ships her brother with Yukino. Or Yui. Or presumably just about anyone else she thinks is plausible. She probably just wants to help out his social life. In the post-series OVA, as the other girls allude to their own respective intentions towards Hachiman, Komachi simply appears amused at her brother's situation.
  • Sibling Yin-Yang: Personality-wise, she and her brother are almost nothing alike. Hachiman is an introverted, cynical grump, while Komachi is a lively, optimistic Genki Girl.
  • Thicker Than Water: Even though he annoys her sometimes, Komachi says she always forgives Hachiman because he is her brother.
  • Third-Person Person: Often refers to herself as "Komachi" when speaking about stuff she's doing, as opposed to "I" or "me", which is usually typical of more preteen-aged anime characters, even though Komachi is just two years younger than her brother.
  • Title Drop: Drops the title when her scheme to get her brother a girlfriend is ruined in one of the side-stories.
  • Token Mini-Moe: She's cute and adorable, and the youngest among the most recurring characters.
  • Tsundere: A type B just like Yui. Komachi is also one of the nicest and sweetest characters in the series, and yet Hachiman is absolutely able to make her feel annoyed and hopeless with his antics, with her temporarily becoming a little cold to him.

    Yoshiteru Zaimokuza 
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Voiced by: Nobuyuki Hiyama (Japanese), Andrew Love (English)

Yoshiteru is a student from class 2C who suffers from adolescent delusions. He sees Hachiman as a friend after being paired up with him during physical education lessons. While he is somewhat annoying, he has a group of otaku friends he's on good terms with. He aims to be a light novel writer.


  • Badass Longcoat: He is rarely seen without his signature trench coat, which he apparently wears to unsuccessfully invoke this trope.
  • Big Fun: The largest character in the series, and by far the silliest of the bunch.
  • Bromantic Foil: Considered more eccentric than Hachiman, and is unable to even talk to girls. His traits make Hachiman look almost normal in comparison.
  • Calling Your Attacks: While playing tennis, he gives ridiculous names to every move he and Hachiman make.
  • Cannot Talk to Women: He tries to avoid this problem by directing everything he has to say to Hachiman, unable to make eye contact with the girls.
  • Can't Take Criticism: He is terrified of his light novels receiving poor reviews and comes to Hachiman and Yukino for some friendly consultation. Not the best idea.
  • Cloud Cuckoolander: Is he ever. He really lives in his own world.
  • Ditzy Genius: He knows very much about historical shoguns, magic, light novels and video games; that said, he is a huge cloudcuckoolander who absolutely lacks common sense, and the novels he tries to write always end up being terrible.
  • Eyes Always Averted: He cannot talk to women, so when he asked for help, he usually only talked to Hachiman, avoiding even eye-contact with Yukino who also asked things when he went to Service Club for critics about the light novel he's writing, going very nervous when Yukino confronted him about didn't get any attention from him, not even looked her.
  • Fat Best Friend: Type A/C mix. He's usually yelling his ideas and mixing everything with anime culture. He also can't talk to girls.
  • Four-Philosophy Ensemble: The Apathetic, especially compared to Hachiman's The Cynic: while Yoshiteru is a chuunibyou cloudcuckoolander who lives in his own world of fantasies and delusions, Hachiman is grounded in reality, with a very cynical, pessimistic and pragmatic view of it.
  • The Friend Nobody Likes: One of the few characters who weirds out the Service Club more than Hachiman usually does. Nevertheless, Hachiman ends up hanging out with Yoshiteru, considering him as a friend and relying on him on a few occasions.
  • Geek Physique: He's the fat variant.
  • Gentle Giant: He's tall, chubby and a Nice Guy.
  • Large Ham: All the time. Seems kind of par for the course when you're being voiced by Nobuyuki Hiyama.
  • Mr. Imagination: Yoshiteru is a full-blown Chuunibyou, and sees himself and Hachiman as historical feudal figures. In line with this, he usually speaks in feudal-era Japanese even in regular conversations.
  • Nice Guy: Despite his hamminess and delusions, he's a kind, honest and decent guy, and a good friend who has genuine interest in helping Hachiman.
  • No Indoor Voice: Is almost always yelling, the only times he isn't is when someone beats down his self-esteem.
  • Out of Focus: His role is extremely limited after his arc. While he's seen from time to time, he doesn't play into the plot very much.
  • Serious Business: He's considered a "specialist" on maid cafes, and criticized that Yui doesn't put her spirit into it when she dressed up as a maid.
  • Shipper on Deck: Unlike most characters who ship Hikigaya with either Yui or Yukino, he ships Hikigaya with Totsuka.
  • Stout Strength: In the tower toppling game, he was able to push several other boys at once.
  • True Companions: He considers Hachiman one, and the feeling is ultimately mutual. He's one of the very few friends Hachiman has.

    Haruno Yukinoshita 
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Voiced by: Mai Nakahara (Japanese), Olivia Swasey (English)

Haruno is Yukino's older sister who is even more outstanding than Yukino: same talents, but better social skills. However, unlike Yukino, she shows a good attitude towards other people, even if she has to lie about her true feelings most of the time. While Yukino holds strong animosity towards her, Haruno sees her sister who's constantly trying to overtake her as cute.


  • The Ace: Highly intelligent, heir to the family business, a brilliant musician and conductor, extremely beautiful and a social butterfly. The hurdle she leaves for Yukino is very high.
  • Always Someone Better: Is this to Yukino, being the person she aspires to surpass. While they're both extremely well-endowed when it comes to intelligence and talent, Haruno is more outstanding for a reason: her social skills are by far better than Yukino's.
  • Armor-Piercing Question: At the end of Season 3 Episode 10, she asks the one thing she has no answer for.
    Haruno: Does anything genuine actually exist?
  • Big Sister Bully: Likes to provoke Yukino every chance she gets. Yukino even attributes her fear for roller coasters to her sister's schemes whenever they went to an amusement park, and she and Hayato mention that Haruno used to do things like scaring them by rocking their car on the Ferris wheel and abandoning them when she was supposed to be watching them. While she does love her sister, her lingering resentment towards Yukino manifests in those coldhearted "pranks" and "jokes" which Hachiman finds borderline repulsive.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Played With; she's mischievous and can have a somewhat antagonistic attitude, but she isn't a bad person. She has some Manipulative Bastard, teasing Big Sister Bully and The Gadfly tendencies, but she's mostly harmless, and genuinely means well.
  • Bond Breaker: A rather complicated example, because she thinks it's the only way for the Service Club to grow as people. This is best shown during Season 3, when she says the one word that best describes the Service Club is "codependency." What that does is drive a wedge between all three Service Club members, as it makes Yukino realize she needs to be more independent, which causes her to distance herself from her friends. This leads to Yui feeling useless in both her relationships with Yukino (she can't help her Best Friend as much as she wants) and Hachiman (she's a Hopeless Suitor for him and it becomes most glaring without Yukino in the picture). This in turn leads to Hachiman's growing anxiety over his friendships with both girls, the future of the Service Club, the girls' own relationship with one another, and his realization that a Love Triangle does exist between them as much as he wants to avoid it. This does nothing to help the Service Club as people at all, and it only serves to deepen their already-existing issues with each other, like a still-open wound stinging in the wind after the bandaid is ripped off. It isn't until Hachiman talks to Shizuka that he realizes Haruno was wrong and "codependency" was intentionally misused by Haruno to separate the group.
    Hachiman: So what, you want to see sincerity? I feel like I'm being mugged for my feelings instead of my wallet.
    Haruno: You're not that far from the truth.
  • Broken Ace: Heavily implied that she is not completely happy with her position in the family. Unlike Yukino, she has no choice in representing the family, and she often mixes in genuine hostility with her desire to improve her sister.
  • Brutal Honesty: Not her natural behaviour, but it often amuses her; however, despite her mischief, she ultimately has good intentions: her teasing of Yukino can veer in this direction, turning from light jabs into harsh criticisms, but all for the sake of trying to make a point with her.
  • Buxom Beauty Standard: She has a very well-endowed figure and is only a small part of the reasons she's so popular. This also part of her Always Someone Better dynamic with Yukino, as Haruno's large bust is likely the answer as to why Yukino has A-Cup Angst.
  • Cool Big Sis: Despite the resentment she gets from Yukino, Haruno still adores her.
  • The Dreaded: Played for Laughs in season 2. Hayato tells Hachiman that if Haruno really doesn't like you, she would make it a point to destroy you, at least socially. She also gets Hachiman to go on the double date with Hayato and the two girls from his middle school, something he had refused to do when Hayato asked. From each of their encounters, it's clear that she's the one character who makes him consistently uncomfortable.
  • First-Name Basis: She always calls Shizuka by her first name, which is odd considering she used to be her teacher. note 
  • Foil: In a series about socially awkward characters, Haruno's flawless social skills are a bit jarring.
    • She's heavily implied to have been through a much worse family situation as Yukino due to being the older sister. However, while Haruno freely puts up a facade as part of her responsibilities, Yukino remains rather cold and unapproachable (obviously, mostly because of her Brutal Honesty).
    • She's also one to Shizuka, being the second oldest character after her and outside the age range of the main cast. Like Shizuka, she also sees their problems and insecurities and attempts to help them sort. However, her methods are far more questionable; Shizuka guides her students and advises them, but ultimately lets them solve their own problems. Haruno however directly confronts them on their issues and calls them out for it, and basically chooses her words carefully to force a confrontation.
    • While the series title itself regards the characters' attempts at developing friendships and relationships as fraught with peril and prone to mistakes, Haruno's interactions seem to give off an impression of always working in her favor. She never seems to be blindsided in any conversation she has with anybody, unlike most of the cast who always seem to risk making things awkward for themselves and others.
  • The Gadfly: She likes to poke fun at Hachiman and her sister any chance she gets, all for the sake of her own amusement. She really starts ratcheting this up in season 2.
  • It Amused Me: The way she acts and speaks towards Hachiman and Yukino, and Hayato at times. She'll often say provoking things or attempt some Brutal Honesty mostly because she finds it interesting.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: While she may be callous and somewhat petty, a lot of her criticisms of the main cast are right, and it is them realizing it that helps jumpstart their character growth in Season 3.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While she teases and manipulates, and sure, she can be a little callous and petty, with a somewhat mean sense of humor, her intentions are not bad. Instead, she's the only one in her family who genuinely has good intentions towards Yukino, despite her kinda antagonistic attitude. Hayato comments that she'd just destroy anyone she didn't like, so antagonizing people seems to be her somewhat twisted way of showing affection.
  • Karma Houdini: Freely pokes at the wounds of the main characters without any repercussions or retorts. Though her comments are at least partly for the improvement of others.
  • Lovable Alpha Bitch: She's popular, beautiful, manipulative and teasing... And a textbook Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
  • Manipulative Bitch: She knows how to move people along the paths she wants them to walk. Using her knowledge of people's emotional insecurities and anxieties, she's able to put people in situations where she gets to laugh at them after making them uncomfortable. It's a big reason why Hachiman is so uneasy around her.
  • Meaningful Name: Her first name contains "Haru" which means "Spring", a season of energy and possibilities. 'Haru' also represents the Sun in names, which also reflects her sunny disposition. Contrast with Yukino's name.
  • Ms. Fanservice: In all her glory. Very beautiful, with large breasts and also very teasing.
  • No Sense of Personal Space: She gets rather close to Hachiman in episode 6 when they first meet. Whether this trope was exploited by Haruno is ambiguous.
  • The Resenter: Haruno, having always been set as the inheritor of the family business, holds a bit of jealousy towards Yukino for being given the option to live freely by their mother, but wastes it by trying to chase after her.
  • Shadow Archetype: She's basically what Hachiman could've become if he never got any support from his friends and family.
  • Shipper on Deck: Wants Hachiman and Yukino to get together, or not. It's hard to tell with her sometimes.
  • The Social Expert: She's a master of reading others, which gives her the appearance of a social butterfly, but Hachiman deduces it is indeed a fabricated personality.
  • Stepford Smiler: Hachiman notices from their very first meeting that everything about her was just one big facade.
  • Trickster Mentor: As opposed to Shizuka who gently steers Hachiman in the right direction, Haruno will provoke and antagonize Yukino into action, though she has her sister's best interests in heart.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: In keeping with her being exactly how Hachiman would have been if he truly was all alone, Haruno takes downright ruthless methods to force people to grow out of their insecurities, at the cost of their relationships with one another. She's completely correct about what's wrong, but she's not always right about how to solve it precisely because she's what would happen if Hachiman had no family support or genuine friendships. She's the ultimate mirror held to Hachiman about what not to do to help people, minus the martyr complex (which is entirely his own doing).

    Rumi Tsurumi 
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Voiced by: Sumire Morohoshi (Japanese), Savanna Menzel (English)

A primary school student the Service Club meet while volunteering at a summer camp. Rumi is a quiet girl who struggles to fit in with her classmates after they senselessly ostracize her.


  • Alone in a Crowd: Everyone is enjoying their summer camp experience, and Rumi spends it isolated, bitter and unwanted.
  • Big Damn Heroes: She thwarts Hachiman's plan at giving her classmates A Taste of Their Own Medicine by saving everyone despite how poorly they've treated her.
  • Birds of a Feather: Rumi considers Hachiman, Yukino and herself "different" from the others because all three know what it feels like to be rejected.
  • The Bus Came Back: 5 volumes later and in season 2 of the anime, Rumi and her classmates return, and she's still being isolated.
  • Hair Intakes: Her hairdo has two of what look like cat ears.
  • I Just Want to Have Friends: She's too proud to admit it, but Rumi desperately wants friends.
  • I Work Alone: Having been isolated for so long, Rumi has learned to be self-reliant, though she does not necessarily like it.
  • Nice Girl: Contrarily to her aloof and cold appearance, she's actually a kind and compassionate little girl who helps even the ones who mistreat her. She just considers her presence as a hindrance to others and ultimately doesn't rely on anyone.
  • Repetitive Name: Rumi Tsurumi.
  • Small Role, Big Impact: You can literally count the episodes she appears in on one hand, yet Hachiman's encounter with her in season 2 is what causes him to finally realise his solutions to problems really aren't solutions at all, which is arguably the single most important part of his Character Development.
  • A Taste of Their Own Medicine: She admits she used to join in and tease other kids because everyone else was doing it, but this time, she's the one who's suffering.
  • Tsundere: Although she insists she wants to be left on her own, in reality, she truly wants and enjoys the company of others. However, when Hachiman is the one coming to her side, she rejects him at first but it doesn't take her long to show that she wants him to stay with her.
  • Wise Beyond Their Years: Rumi is very mature and intelligent compared to her classmates, even looking down on them for being "kids."
  • You Remind Me of X: Hachiman notes that Rumi is basically a younger Yukino and could easily end up just like her.

    Kaori Orimoto 
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Voiced by: Haruka Tomatsu (Japanese), Kira Vincent-Davis (English)

Orimoto was Hachiman's former classmate in middle school who now attends a different high school. Her rejection of him emotionally scarred him, contributing to his present cynical self.


  • Alpha Bitch: Downplayed. During middle school, she did exchange texts with Hachiman out of pity and gave the "let's be friends" speech line when he confessed to her. Played more straight when they meet again and she lacks any form of delicacy when talking to him.
  • Bad Date: Goes on a double date with Hachiman and Hayato, with her interests clearly directed towards Hayato and her mocking Hachiman the entire time. By the end, Hayato reveals that he orchestrated the date just to give her a "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
  • Brutal Honesty: A negative example. Unlike Hachiman and Yukino, who bluntly point out people's flaws as a means to help them, Orimoto has a tendency to freely speak her mind without any consideration for the feelings of others, especially not Hachiman, and many of her comments cross straight into Dude, Not Funny! territory.
  • Catchphrase: "Sore aru!" which is often translated as "Preach it!" She says this constantly during committee meetings involving the student council and the Service Club, even when it's clear she has no earthly idea what the hell people are saying.
  • Character Development: Slightly. After Hayato tears into her, she learns to be a bit more sensitive when talking with Hachiman. For instance, when she sees Iroha and Hachiman together, she refrains from making her usual comments and actually tries to be a normal person around Hachiman.
  • Deliberately Bad Example: Kaori as a whole represents the kind of person Hachiman and Yukino actively try not to be. She is foolhardy, careless about her interactions with others, and is an active participant of herd mentality.
  • Innocently Insensitive: She's not really antagonistic, but she tends to be very callous when talking about details of Hachiman's past.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's not a bad person, and is rather kind deep down, although she's often inconsiderate and brutally blunt. She actually is (somewhat) nice to Hachiman when she's not mocking him and attempts to be friends with him.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech: On the receiving end; after an entire day of her mocking Hachiman, Hayato lays into her about how incorrect her opinions of Hachiman are and that he hangs around girls far better than her.
  • Small Role, Big Impact: Doesn't have much screentime (doesn't appear on screen until Season 2). But her rejection of Hachiman played a big role in shaping his cynical, anti-social persona and severely damaged his self-esteem.
  • Yes-Man: Played for Laughs. Turns into one during the community festival committee. She just blindly agrees with anything and everything said by her classmates, despite how absurd some of those claims were. Likely due to lack of interest on her part.

Alternative Title(s): Yahari Ore No Seishun Love Come Wa Machigatteiru, My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU

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