Hachiman Hikigaya is a high schooler who has decided that youth is a lie people tell each other, and he gets drafted into a club that solves other students' problems. Three TV seasons, 38 episodes, and a story that starts as a dry comedy and slowly stops being one.
Plus 3 optional extras.
3 titles · 38 episodes · ~15 hours
The three TV seasons are the whole story and run in a straight line: 13 episodes, then 13, then 12. Watch them in that order. The three OVAs are separate short episodes that were sold with the Japanese games rather than broadcast, so they sit below as extras — worth finding if you can, but nothing in the main story depends on them.
Start here. Thirteen episodes that introduce Hachiman, Yukino and Yui, and establish the club that drives everything after it. Mostly episodic, and lighter than what follows.
Thirteen episodes, and the point where the series stops being a comedy about a cynic and becomes a story about three people who cannot say what they mean. The studio changed, so the art looks different.
Twelve episodes that finish the story. It aired five years after the second season, but picks up directly from it, so go in with that season reasonably fresh.
A single side-story episode written by the original author, set after the first season. Skipping it costs you nothing in the main plot.
⚠ Never broadcast. It was released on Blu-ray with the limited edition of the first Japanese game in September 2013, so it is hard to come by outside Japan.
The same idea as the first OVA, this time paired with the second season. A one-episode aside rather than part of the through-line.
⚠ Never broadcast. It was bundled with the limited edition of the second Japanese game in 2016.
An after-story set past the end of the third season, adapting the bonus novellas that came with the season's Japanese Blu-rays. If you track down any of the three, make it this one, and watch it last.
⚠ Never broadcast. It was bundled with the limited edition of the third Japanese game, released in April 2023. No English title has been announced.
There is only one real decision to make here, and it is what to do with the OVAs. The three TV seasons run in a straight line and cover the entire story: the first season is 13 episodes, the second, My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU TOO!, is another 13, and the third, My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Climax!, is 12. Start with the first season, which sets up the Service Club and Hachiman's habit of solving problems by making himself the target. The second season is where that habit stops working and the relationships between Hachiman, Yukino and Yui come under real strain — it is the turn the whole series is built around. The third season finishes the story properly, with no cliffhanger and nothing held back for a sequel. As for the OVAs: each is a single episode written by the original author, but none of them were broadcast. All three were bundled as Blu-rays with the limited editions of the Japanese visual novel games, which makes them awkward to track down outside Japan and is why they are listed as extras rather than mixed into the main run. The 2023 one is the odd case — it is an after-story set past the end of the third season, so if you do find it, watch it last.
My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU (Oregairu) has 3 seasons in the main run — 38 episodes altogether.
| Title | Type | Episodes | Aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU | TV Series | 13 episodes | April 2013 |
| My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU TOO! | TV Series | 13 episodes | April 2015 |
| My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Climax! | TV Series | 12 episodes | July 2020 |
| Title | Type | Episodes | Aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU OVA | OVA | 1 episode | September 2013 |
| My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU TOO! OVA | OVA | 1 episode | October 2016 |
| My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Climax! OVA: Dakara, Shishunki wa Owarazu ni, Seishun wa Tsuzuiteiku. | OVA | 1 episode | April 2023 |
3 titles · 38 episodes · ~15 hours
Where each part of the anime lines up with the source, so you know where to pick up reading.
Only spin-offs that tie into the main story are listed here — anthologies, fan books and the like are left out.
There is nothing to pick up here, which is unusual. Wataru Watari's light novel series finished at 14 volumes in November 2019, and the third season adapts through the end of that final volume, so the anime and the source stop at the same place. What exists beyond it is side material rather than a continuation: short-story volumes numbered with a .5, an if-story series that follows an alternative route, and a set of after-stories released with the third season's Japanese Blu-rays, which the 2023 OVA adapts. Yen Press publishes the novels in English. There is also a manga adaptation, which retells the same story rather than extending it.
Start with the 2013 first season. Its thirteen episodes introduce Hachiman, Yukino and Yui and set up the Service Club, and both later seasons assume you have seen it. There is no prequel or alternate entry point to worry about.
Three seasons: 13 episodes, then 13, then 12, for 38 in total. The third season, SNAFU Climax!, adapts the light novels through to their final volume, so the anime ends where the source ends. There is no cliffhanger and nothing left to read to find out how it turns out.
You do not need them — all three are single side-story episodes and none of them carry main plot. Finding them is the harder problem: none were broadcast or simulcast. Each was released on Blu-ray with the limited edition of one of the Japanese visual novel games, in 2013, 2016 and 2023 respectively, so they were never given a wide release outside Japan. The 2023 one is the most worthwhile, since it is an after-story set past the end of the third season.
Crunchyroll streams all three seasons. Sentai Filmworks licensed the series outside Asia, and the third season also streams on HIDIVE, which carries the English dub. If you specifically want to watch dubbed, check HIDIVE first.
The first season covers volumes 1 to 6, plus the short-story volume 6.5. The second season covers volumes 7 to 11. The third season covers volumes 12 to 14, ending with the final volume, so there is no point in the novels to pick up from after the anime.
Both are side material rather than a continuation. Ketsu is an if-story that follows an alternative route for one of the main characters, and Shin is a set of after-stories that came with the third season's Japanese Blu-rays — the 2023 OVA adapts them. Neither changes or continues the ending the anime gives you.
