Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru. Zoku OVA

This OVA for the second season is a single normal episode. Most of the time in this episode is taken up by Hachiman going on a 'date' with Iroha and near the end when Yukino and Yui see a picture he goes on a short date with them too. That's the entire OVA. There's no drama and it's really chill compared to the second season.

The characters are the ones described in the paragraph above. The animation, voice acting and music are the same as or similar to the second season.

It doesn't really add anything to the story aside from maybe shedding a bit ... more light on Iroha and doesn't seem like it's required to understand the story. It is however a nice break from the awkwardness/drama so I'd recommend watching it because of that.

Somewhat of a mediocre OVA... which is strange because the first season's OVA was fantastic.

This OVA does not continue the story of the second season but is rather a one-shot side story. It does not really advance the relationship of the characters and does not reveal any important information, it's a bit more like the first season in that regard , given that it's mostly light hearted and flows pretty smoothly.

However, the big flaw is that almost the entire run-time is dedicated to Hachiman and Iroha rather than Hachiman / Yuigahama / Yukinoshita. This is a massive downside to the OVA since Isshiki Iroha, ... love her or hate her, is not a main character, she became a strong supporting character in the second season but not strong enough to usurp most of the runtime of an OVA from the main cast.

So I found myself struggling to complete this OVA. Not good, not recommended, can be easily skipped.

This series is so dumb it manages to screw up even the most basic of rom-com tropes and make it painful to watch. I'm largely biased about anything fun this show tries to do because of how much I've grown to hate these characters over the course of two dreadful seasons. I don't want to see them having fun, because it reminds me of all the suffering they've put me through.

I dislike the younger girl with blondish hair who's always hitting on the protagonist in the same breath that she's rejecting him. "Hey Hiki, let's go on a date. Ew gross I meant as a ... friend you pervert. Wow Hiki I really like you. Ew you think I like you, what ever gave you that idea you pervert go die." I guess I can give them that it's a realistic depiction of how awful teenage girls are to deal with in real life, but it's like geez who hurt you? I also hate her because functionally within the narrative she's basically identical to the pink hair girl already established when she was introduced. Their hair color and personality are similar enough that I genuinely get them mixed up most of the time and don't bother separating them in my mind because I know it doesn't matter.

The 3 way date he goes on next is even more infuriating because any time the 3 main characters are on screen together it just feels so painful and awkward and makes me want to die. They both clearly like protagonist-kun but all 3 of them apparently hate talking to each other and especially hate voicing their motivations or actions and we're just supposed to guess. I don't care about any of their feelings and I'm just so sick of it all, I really can't take much more of this show. I'll watch the 3rd season out of spite to see how they try to end the stupid love triangle but I pretty much guarantee no ending they come up with will be satisfying for anyone because the only good ending would be for all 3 of them to die horribly in a bus crash or something, or be forced to live out Amane's tragic backstory from Grisaia over and over again. 4/10