Hachiman Hikigaya

Hachiman Hikigaya lives by the conviction that youth is nothing more than an elaborate illusion people choose to believe in. Shaped by the wounds of past social failures, he has developed an unnervingly calm and analytical way of reading people and situations. Forcibly enrolled in the Service Club by a concerned teacher, he routinely resolves others' problems through acts of deliberate social self-destruction—burning his own reputation to protect those around him. Beneath his detached exterior lies a quietly burning desire for something genuine: a relationship untainted by pretense or performance.