Hachiman Hikigaya is a cynic. "Youth" is a crock, he believes--a 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 cope with a job that requires--gasp --optimism?

Hachiman Hikigaya might be in a club with two hot girls, but this isn't going to turn into a rom-com. He might give out his number, but his phone will remain untexted. And the only true cutie around here? Yeah, that's a guy. Now, Hachman the loser, Yukino the ice queen, and Yui the bimbo have to find some way to put the "service" in "Service club"-but so far they've scored zero points in the game of high school life.