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EP. REVIEW: My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Climax

Might just be my denseness but I haven't really sensed a romantic vibe between Yukino and Hachiman through the series, not until the hidden picture behind the teddy at least.

So, Richard, what score are you going to give the show if it turns out that it won't pay off in a way that doesn't come off as Yukino surrendering to Hachiman's will?

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The prom is a service club project

I absolutely have no idea how this wonderful mess of a story is going to end, but after what I saw in this episode... I think the 8man/Yukinon shippers shouldn’t celebrate victory just yet. Even if he didn’t end up with Yui or Iroha, it seems pretty unlikely for him to develop something with Yukino when, in words I myself couldn’t have put better, “there is a fundamental lack of trust and respect of her needs” (aka the relationship), at least up till now.

Their friendship already seems to be headed towards a bitter end, which makes me wonder how Yui will react to it, given she was the only one with the guts to come up with a plan to save it, by putting all cards on the table, and the only one of the 3 MC’s who really seems to have grown during this schoolyear - 8man came out of his shell and Yukino has finally made up her mind, but the original issues and flaws in each one’s character still remain, further exacerbated by their painful return to form, so to speak.

There’s also that dangling “loser does what the winner requests” clause, which just like Yui’s cookies in 8man’s drawer, I’m sure will come back to haunt us all by the time this ends.

]It seems to have been taken from the Student Council by Yukino's mother and given to the service club. They were supposed to help the Student Council make it happen, only Yukino's mother knows why Yukino has all the responsibility for it now.

I would find Yukino acceptable as a character if she actually talked to people rather than at them. I went into this arc wondering how Yukino would work with Iroha, considering Iroha's Hachiman like nature towards manipulation only to find out Yukino treats Iroha like a piece of furniture.

No, that's unfair as Yukino has respect for school property. As always, remember Yukino has a codependent personality so while she looks like she tries to accomplish projects that shouldn't be done by one person all by herself, she's actually trying to overcome said deficit... by doing group projects by herself. Uh huh, that makes sense.

Why do I get the feeling that in Yukino's family, using people is fine but depending on people? That's crossing the line.

The show spent three season comparing Yukino to cats and cats are among the least codependent domesticated creatures on the planet. If you want to show she's codependent, Yukino should be compared to dogs like Yui is.

So, yeah, I'm still not buying the whole "Yukino is codependent" plot. It's like when Haruno caught Hachiman staring at the Rolls and she remarked "No, you don't have to worry, there are no scratches on it." That family has no emotional tact at all.

Birriaman wrote:

I absolutely have no idea how this wonderful mess of a story is going to end, but after what I saw in this episode... I think the 8man/Yukinon shippers shouldn’t celebrate victory just yet. Even if he didn’t end up with Yui or Iroha, it seems pretty unlikely for him to develop something with Yukino when, in words I myself couldn’t have put better, “there is a fundamental lack of trust and respect of her needs” (aka the relationship), at least up till now. Their friendship already seems to be headed towards a bitter end, which makes me wonder how Yui will react to it, given she was the only one with the guts to come up with a plan to save it, by putting all cards on the table, and the only one of the 3 MC’s who really seems to have grown during this schoolyear - 8man came out of his shell and Yukino has finally made up her mind, but the original issues and flaws in each one’s character still remain, further exacerbated by their painful return to form, so to speak. There’s also that dangling “loser does what the winner requests” clause, which just like Yui’s cookies in 8man’s drawer, I’m sure will come back to haunt us all by the time this ends.

I just want to point out that Yui had no actual plan in mind to solve Yukino's issues; as per own words, "she wanted it all" as in, she wanted to go out with Hachiman while still keeping Yukino as a friend, essentially saying "either make a move or I will". Had Hachiman not spoke up, things would have pretty much returned to how they were before: Hachiman would still search for his "genuine thing", and Yukino would forever live in Haruno and Hachiman's shadow, the only difference is that Yui gets a boyfriend.

Kuzu wrote:

Birriaman wrote: I absolutely have no idea how this wonderful mess of a story is going to end, but after what I saw in this episode... I think the 8man/Yukinon shippers shouldn’t celebrate victory just yet. Even if he didn’t end up with Yui or Iroha, it seems pretty unlikely for him to develop something with Yukino when, in words I myself couldn’t have put better, “there is a fundamental lack of trust and respect of her needs” (aka the relationship), at least up till now. Their friendship already seems to be headed towards a bitter end, which makes me wonder how Yui will react to it, given she was the only one with the guts to come up with a plan to save it, by putting all cards on the table, and the only one of the 3 MC’s who really seems to have grown during this schoolyear - 8man came out of his shell and Yukino has finally made up her mind, but the original issues and flaws in each one’s character still remain, further exacerbated by their painful return to form, so to speak. There’s also that dangling “loser does what the winner requests” clause, which just like Yui’s cookies in 8man’s drawer, I’m sure will come back to haunt us all by the time this ends. I just want to point out that Yui had no actual plan in mind to solve Yukino's issues; as per own words, "she wanted it all" as in, she wanted to go out with Hachiman while still keeping Yukino as a friend, essentially saying "either make a move or I will". Had Hachiman not spoke up, things would have pretty much returned to how they were before: Hachiman would still search for his "genuine thing", and Yukino would forever live in Haruno and Hachiman's shadow, the only difference is that Yui gets a boyfriend.

I never said it was a plan to solve Yukino’s issues. It was a plan to solve Yui’s own issues - getting into a relationship with 8man while keeping her friendship with Yukino alive. And no, it was not a good plan. It was a very cruel and deceptive plan that took advantage of Yukino’s deeper, more serious, codependency and insecurity issues. Yui flat out admits to it when she says “I’m not a good girl” and by already expecting 8man to go against it.

The problem here is that Yui is actually a very likeable person, so it comes across as counterintuitive that she would manipulate her friends that way, something she probably did while feeling extremely guilty but did nevertheless because she was being driven by desperation, something the latest episodes have shown she seemingly was right about. But she did at least have the guts to try SOMETHING, which she actually went out of her way to do, which is so much more that I can say from the other two dumbnuggets.

Thanks for the complements. I'm glad the reviews are proving insightful.

As for whether Haruno is acting for or against Yukino, I think that, at least in her mind, she is helping Yukino--forcing her to realize her own limits, the unfair nature of the world, and the need to stand on her own.

While the villain of this episode might seem to be Yukino's mother at first glance, far worse is the puppet master behind the scenes, Haruno. Throughout the series, Haruno has showed up at the most inopportune times to make her sister's life harder. In fact, even before that, she enjoyed terrorizing her younger sister growing up—and it's not hard to imagine why: jealousy.

Haruno is the opposite of Yukino. She always had a plan for her life laid out in front of her. While Yukino was expected to do nothing, Haruno was expected to do everything—to be the perfect child and heir. From Haruno's viewpoint, Yukino has freedom—endless possibilities for her life—while even as an adult, Haruno's a slave to her family's expectations.

However, the trick isn't that Yukino lacks something—hence why should couldn't find it. Rather, it's that she still has something Haruno and Hachiman don't have: hope.