Before start the review, I'm gonna say that the title of this show is a complete "bruh", because this isn't neither a comedy nor a romantic story.
Back to the review, we gonna analyze the main issues that this show offered us through it's duration:
1. Hachiman: Is basically a cynical and a social withdrawn. His character development during the anime was... true, he didn't have a development, a huge mistake in any type of story if you ask me. Having a character with a huge potential of character development, how it was posible that he didn't have a significant change? I don't know. Why the writer used the same joke about the schoolar life during all the episodes? Didn't he have another jokes instead? Mystery. Why was the necesity of constantly show pretentious and edgy monologues? No fucking idea and it makes more hard to watch the show if you ask me. Knowing that Hachiman stayed in his archetype, this monologues were, basically, wasted time. Another thing that really annoyed me about this character is the fact that the rest of the cast, directly and indirectly, supported his cynism. This is a terrible message that, at least this season, left. Wouldn't it have been better than the writer have the decency to, at least, explore the other side of the premise, where he shows the school life isn't necessarily something bad? No fucking idea. In addition, having this cynical attitude, how it's possible that some friend or his family didn't say or do anything with him for having this attitude? This is a fucking nonsense. I see many kids being punished or, at least, having a bad reputation for having this type of attitude, also, with this, the anime didn't show any type of consecuences, so this makes that the message that the anime tries to deliver be even worse if you ask me.
2. Yui and the secondary characters: They are basically a plane characters. They don't have their own motivations and/or purpose to be part of this show. Their only function it's to cheer the cynic of the protagonist. Talking specifically about Yui, wouldn't have been better that, knowing that she was the potential love interest for Hachiman, was the keyword to change the attitude of the protagonist? Mystery.
3. Yukina: Basically, a typical Mary Sue that can do everything she wants including the attitude of look down on everyone. Wouldn't have been better try to change this type of behavior like many anime with similar characters did? No fucking idea. Also, this is the main problem with the "perfect" characters, most of time, it negates any chance of character development. Despite the attempt of this between the relationship of her and Yui, she's still being a Mary Sue and, thanks to this, hard to empathize with her.
4. Romance?: It's incredible to me that in the 13 episodes there was not the slightest approach to a potential romance between the protagonists (like I mentioned with the case of Yui). Isn't this dishonest with the premise, title, and purpose of any rom-com? I do not know. Despite that Yui showed some interest, the issue is with Hachiman, which stayed in his initial archetype to the end. So, in effect, there was no real progress in the romantic aspect if you ask me.
5. Soundtrack and animation: Both were below average. Personally, the opening and ending turned out to be quite unpleasant to listen to.
6. Plot: There's no plot here. It has the slice of life format. It was an attempt with the backstory of Yui, but it ended being that without a conclusion. Why the writer tried to put a sub-plot if he doesn't gonna end it? Mystery.
CONCLUSION
With all the points mentioned before, we can conclude that this anime didn't bring anything new to the rom-com genre. Instead, it show us how important is the character development and a good plot in any story in order to not finish as an empty and boring experience like this show.
