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Haganai: I Don't Have Many Friends
Anime Review by Linda Yau
Making and keeping friends can mean a lot to a person's social livelihood. If there happens to be a flyer on the local bulletin board that advertises a new local Neighbor's Club, with a hidden agenda of making friends. Is this a group worth to be joined? That is the premises in school life title of Haganai: I Don't Have Many Friends.
It starts with high school student Yozora Mikazuki and the suggestion from new transfer student Kodaka Hasegawa to begin a club that draws in fellow members who didn't have any friends to begin with.
 Each member that eventually joins the Neighbor's Club all have their own issues and limited social skills of interacting with others. The club acts as a practice location. How to make friends often means to find commonality in interests, and this was initially explored with comedic outcomes through PSP adventure and visual novel games. Even sharing a common nabe meal is also experienced.
Haganai's protagonist, Kodaka is easily and superficially seen as a delinquent because of his mixed race heritage. His father is Japanese and his mother was English. At this time he lives with his little gothic loli vampire-affectionate sister, while his father works abroad.
 The club's president is Yozora, and she has an imaginary air friend. She is not at all willing to interact with other people, and constantly belittles the club's third joining member.
This third member is Sena who is the daughter of the school's president. She is quite voluptuously endowed, and this sets her at odds with finding female friends, which she really wants to make. Reading their interactions definitely portrays both potentially as either live long rivals or the best of friends.
 In terms of read alike, Toradora for how it is unimportant to judge people at face value or Haruhi Suzumiya, and any other school life plot shows for similar events. The title Haganai is a shorten version that Hirasaka used of this title's original title. Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai. Under certain grammar situations, Wa in Japanese can be read as Ha.
This is a series that is adapted from a light novel series that is created by Yomi Hirasaka. This particular manga drawn by Itachi, follows closely to the original light novel series. The other manga adaptation has another storyline and is written and illustrated by two different people in Japanese only. There is also two anime seasons that was adapted from Haganai. This has been licensed by Funimation.
Reviewed by Linda Yau, July 2013
Below: Scenes from Haganai: I Don't Have Many Friends.
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