My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, as I Expected, Vol. 1
by Wataru Watari
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Hachiman Hikigaya is a cynic. "Youth" is a crock, he believesa sucker's game, an illusion woven from failure and hypocrisy. But when he turns in an essay for a school assignment espousing this view, he's sentenced to work in the Service Club, an organization dedicated to helping students with problems in their lives! How will Hachiman the Cynic c...
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