My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Climax! OVA

Oregairu wasn't the same after Season 2 sadly. First two Seasons were really something else. Oregairu Zoku was a masterpiece with so many great scenes it was so hard to beat by a mile. In the third Season, the direction went in a more romantic approach. However, it felt like the show only had the same name, but lost some of its greatness somewhere between the 5 years gap of waiting for the 3rd Season. The same goes with this OVA. We have a continuation what happens after the finale of Season 3, but it looks like they just wanted to quickly wrap it upas a whole. At least I could enjoy my beloved music and some funny moments. As a very huge fan of this show, I won't say I'm disappointed, more like a little bit sad they couldn't finish this show with the very last scene from Shin novel. To me, that was the true finale of Oregairu.

This OVA does not stay faithful to the "epilogue" part of the Light Novel known as "Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru Shin." Thus, feel studios should most definitely be criticized for believing that they can make a better ending for this incredible series. However, this isn't even the worst part. Feel studios not only did not stay faithful to the the final light novel, they produced a terrible OVA that ruined many of the characters and left out the scenes that every fan of Oregairu wanted to see from Shin. This OVA is a disgrace to Oregairu; instead of watching this OVA,the reader of this review should read Shin and enjoy the actual final canon of Oregairu.

I love Yui as much as the next guy but studio feel goes for a shameless cash grab here. There were so many brilliant hachiman yukino moments that were SO well written in Oregairu Shin. Call me whatever but I got butterflies reading the LINE interactions between hachiman and yukinon. And what do we get? A fucking date between hachiman and yui that doesn't even happen in the source material. Even if you are a yui fan, nobody wanted the OVA to give closure to yui's feelings about hachiman, yui already knew she lost, her wish was literally for hachiman to make yukino happy. Itwas supposed to be moments between hachiman and yukino animated. The studio played too much into fanservice and trying to make money instead of doing what is right. The sad part is that it probably worked too. People are happy that they got to see Oregairu animated one last time, no matter how it went. Anyone who truly had appreciation for Oregairu really should not have appreciated this OVA as it just repeated the last few episodes of season three/last few chapters of the LN. They ignored the true ending and tried to compromise to appeal to the masses. Oregairu is my favorite anime and light novel and my message to the fanbase is to do better: don't be satisfied just because they gave us an OVA, don't be satisfied with watari as he tampers with the story to make money, don't be satisfied with all of the nonsense fanservice put out to appeal to the japanese audience. For it is the spinelessness of the fanbase, particularly the japanese audience, that led us to the travesty of a situation it is today. I love to watch Oregairu but this OVA was a heartbreaking finale. 1/10

This OVA is an absolute dumpster fire. I have never written a review about ANYTHING before but I must say this disappointed me enough to lead me to vent here. I watched this anime back in 2020 and would say this anime was definitely in my top 3 romcoms. Emphasis on WAS. I discovered they made an OVA for s3 which made me so so excited as it’s been a while. It’s extremely frustrating how this OVA completely ruined everything I loved about this anime. - I was never rooting for Yui but I loved her as a character. She was self-aware, knowing Hachiman and Yukinoliked each other, and was supposed to quietly back off after KNOWING they were going out. This OVA decides to ignore the heartbreak scene in s3, along with the whole Yui arc, and instead turns her into a homewrecker who chases her best friend’s boyfriend, successfully reentering her into the tiring love triangle trope that should’ve been concluded at the end of s3. - Hachiman? SO OUT OF CHARACTER. Well, the same can be said about literally any of the characters. Why is he leading Yui on after her confession when he has a whole fricking GIRLFRIEND. HELLO? 8MAN YOU WERE THE ONE WHO CONFESSED TO YUKINO. Seeing him resist hugging Yui pmo. That whole date shouldn’t have even happened and it literally doesn’t because, surprise surprise, it doesn’t happen in the novel. - Why is Yukino being weirdly passive that her best friend is trying to take her man? She literally just laughs it off when Yui says if Yukino doesn’t keep watch of 8man she might take him. God I get that this was a harem, but what made it so unique was that 8man was supposed to CHOOSE. And he did choose. Because we all watched s3 right? He chose Yukino. If he had feelings for Yui (he didn’t) he wouldn’t have confessed to Yukino in the first place. Conclusion: This is fanfiction. If you watch this, do not see it as a continuation of s3, but rather a fanfic due to a blatantly biased company. All the Yui content is NOT canon, it was the company’s decision to pull it from their arse. This exists purely to attempt to revive the Oregairu fandom and squeeze more money out of fans. Their greed sickens me. A HUGE disappointment. 0/10.