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Protaganist Similar To Hikigaya Hachiman (Oregairu)


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Hi this might be quite a difficult one (I am not sure), but here goes:

I am looking for a VN where the protaganist of the visual novel is similar to Hikigaya Hachiman from Oregairu (anime)

Here is his character description as written on MAL

"Hachiman is the story's main protagonist, an isolated, friendless boy who is pragmatic to a fault. His most prominent feature is his set of "dead fish-eyes." He firmly believes that "youth" is simply an illusion created by hypocrites, for hypocrites, born from the ashes of past failures. In this state of apparent corruption, he is coerced into joining the Service Club by his futures advisor in the hopes that exposing him to the world will change his personality, and ultimately make him a "better person." He is called "Hikki" affectionately by Yui."

I am not so fussed about the "youth is an illusion" part, that is kinda aload of BS, but he is pretty clever, generally thinks life is aload of BS and cba to talk to people (and acts like he cba when he talks to them) but does grow a bit as the story goes on.

Honestly he is pretty much me when I was 15-19 (altho with a harem that, for some strange reason, I never got...whats up with that? lol), hence I am interested to play a VN with a similar protag

As usual my only requirements are I dont really want nukige (unless you strongly +1 its story), or any r$pey stuff, ideally it would have some romance in there.

 

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If you extract the endless bitterness and complaining, I can list some.  To be honest, there are no identical ones in the VNs I've read so far (surpassing six hundred).  In particular, the isolation thing... truly isolated protagonists in VNs tend to be timid or psychotic with nothing in between, so that was pretty much out of the question from the beginning.  So... I focused on protagonists who have a somewhat colder view on life and a pragmatic outlook on most situations.

https://vndb.org/v10804

https://vndb.org/v14760

https://vndb.org/v18881

https://vndb.org/v10642

https://vndb.org/v11726

 

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Hey thanks for these a few of them do look good, altho I should have mentioned English translated is quite necessary! The top one (Why I Became an Angel) will be fine when the translation released tho. Actually that protagonist looks amusingly similar to Hikigaya lol. He is not a psychopath, just a sociopath

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8 hours ago, FinalCloud said:

 Actually that protagonist looks amusingly similar to Hikigaya lol. He is not a psychopath, just a sociopath

Hikki isn't a sociopath... he is just really really negative, bitter about his experiences, and has given up on having a decent social life.  Sociopathy is an outgrowth of extreme Narcissism that results in the individual being incapable of empathizing with others or considering others to be anything other than tools, obstacles, or decorative artwork. 

Edit: As an example, a sociopath is the type of person who will arrange the death of a rival because that person happens to be in the way (obstacle), use even their own family to get ahead in life (tool), or ignore a man bleeding out on the sidewalk without even an stabbing of conscience (decorative artwork).

Edit2: Just to be clear, there are people who will act this way even if they aren't sociopaths, but a sociopath will literally not feel any guilt or regrets in doing so.

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Kazami Yuuji https://vndb.org/c567 from Grisaia series comes to mind https://vndb.org/v5154

Just less cynical then what you were describing. He mostly acts CBA towards others, or has rather frank opinions of others (but doesn't go out of his way to be rude, he simply says what's on his mind at the time). His way of thinking is a bit eccentric (ie, trying to apply military logic in a high school setting, and even putting the other students through drills when they ask for help). His quotes are pretty funny at times.

Game itself is a comedy high school slice of life affair. That turns pretty tense when picking a heroine's route. Back stories on the girls are quite dark.

The sequel https://vndb.org/v7723 focuses on Yuuji's past, while also teasing the 3rd game in the trilogy.

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Hey, yea I have had some recommendations for that VN already. And as I said to them, the main reason I have avoided it was that I saw the anime already. But I was convinced to give the VNs a go as well so they are in my list to play -.-. Based on the anime I would say Yuuji is not really the same, although I see what you are trying to say.

I am quite surprised there are not more protags similar to Hikigaya, I guess maybe a protagonist like that can lead to a bit of a boring VN. Still, you would like to hope that it was easier to find a protagonist like that than a protagonist that is a r$pist, sadly not lol...

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