A not so merry Christmas Christmas is almost here, but everything Hachiman has wanted, everything he might have wished for, is gone. Ever since the student council elections, the Service Club members have been at an awkward standstill. Something is broken between them, but they gather in the clubroom with the hope that things will just go back to normal. That’s when Iroha Isshiki, the new student council president, brings in a request to help her with a joint Christmas event with another school. Hachiman decides to lend a hand, but not on behalf of the Service Club—he’ll do this one on his own.

SUMMER CAMP IS A MINEFIELD FOR A LONER... Ahh, summer break. No school, no responsibilities, and no friends to pass the time with--until Miss Hiratsuka drafts the Service Club (plus a few normies) into volunteering to supervise an elementary school camping trip. But Hachiman has a knack for sticking to the sidelines and is prepared to survive this awkward outing with as little conflict as possible--until he meets a little girl who's already started down the path of loner-dom herself.

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?

Don’t let the sports festival go foul! Immediately following the school’s cultural festival, the sports festival is about to get underway, and the Service Club already has its next case: Student council president Meguri Shiromeguri asks for their help in making the sports festival the most exciting one yet. However, the event is missing a committee chair. Yuigahama and Yukinoshita have experience in similar departments, but they decide to nominate Minami Sagami instead—the chair of that fateful cultural festival where it all went wrong. Has the Service Club bitten off more than it can chew?

The sports festival comes to a close. Next comes the school trip to Kyoto! There, the Service Club receives an unusual client with an unusual request-to help with a romantic conundrum!

A LONER'S SOCIAL LIFE SHOULDN'T BE THIS COMPLICATED, RIGHT? Excitement is building among the students for the big overnight trip to Kyoto-a school event rife with potential for both budding romance and traumatic memories. And sure enough, right before they leave, the Service Club has a surprising visitor who asks for romantic advice. Unfortunately, this may conflict with a request from someone else before the trip...and Hachiman is finding it harder and harder to stay out of the growing web of relationships in his class.

Nothing ever changes. No friends, no girlfriends--nothing but a solitary life at school... So why is Hachiman so uncomfortable? Maybe it's the fact that their club room is one girl short. There's no way Yukino and Hachiman can solve the problems born from this chain of misunderstandings. The bittersweet time with Totsuka, preparing for battle with Zaimokuza, a secret side of Ms. Hiratsuka...and strip poker? Surrounded by characters sprinting headlong in the wrong direction, will the club ever return to normal?