Its the dumb slice of life manga you didnt know you needed and the best slice of life manga you havent heard of. Yugamikun doesnt have any friends. Im sure most of us here have gone trough a period where we were a bit outcast in some way. So Im sure all of you had the same reaction as me when reading the title Sounds a bit relatable....Interesting. Though itd give valuable messages about friendship and heartwarming scenes youd think it would be more oriented to people without friends or at least socially uncomfortable people because itd try to fill the loneliness of its reader with entertainment and hope by showing a lonely guy getting friends through effort and courage. Well it is nothing of the sort. This manga is nothing palliative. THIS MANGA DOESNT TRICK YOU IT LOVES YOU Though Im a fan what I hate about a lot slice of life animanga is that theyre purely palliative. It doesnt actually encourage you to be or do any better it just shows you characters having the time or their lives instead of you. You watch the former loner mc living his best life so you dont have to its contradictory because these type of animanga should or were meant to make you try to enjoy life and it ends up being an self insert show where you fantasize about having that dreamy life that the mc has. Since it doesnt cure you to the core it only heals you you feel like theres no need to be cured so youre satisfied with the healing but the healing was originally supposed to cure you?... I dont know if Im being very clear but I hope you get it. Now Im not totally blaming the animanga industry even though some of em animanga undeniably use its viewers loneliness to put them in the slice of life hole sometimes its just the viewers who ignore the message and go for a selfsatisfaction reading session. Now what I want to go with this is that if you think this manga is about a random lonely mc gradually making more and more friends to make you realize : if he can you can. Youd be DEAD wrong THE MESSAGE STRONG POINTS 220https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/815968088075665418/1029095641932112013/IMG20221010201512.png This absolutely goated chad doesnt have friends because he doesnt want them. Now you might think that its a selfdefense thing where he acts tough as the only saving for his ego for being an outcasted kinda like Hikigiya Hachiman from Oregairu well youd be dead wrong too. He literally doesnt need them. Might have scared you away before with that serious stuff but do not worry this manga isnt complex AT ALL. In fact it is excessively stupid and silly. The humor is omnipresent and the story is self deprecating. Now does that means that the manga is for braindeads and that its never serious ? No its somewhat deep and give valuable messages about society and relationships. Now Im not gonna lie if youve watched or read many slice of life animanga and has been around anime for a while its nothing groundbreaking. I think where this manga stand out from others is at its core message Yugamisama doesnt want and doesnt need friends. Dont take it falsely the point of the story isnt to minimize relationships importance or to convince you not to make friends. Chadgami doesnt reject social interactions he rejects the idea of a friend. Gonna keep it short but what is a friend? Youve probably had very superficial relationships and many of us just make friendship for convenience. Not to be alone in a new class for social acceptance inclusion self satisfaction even for money and a shoulder to cry onto. Im not trying to make you think friendships are bad because it goes against all my convictions and its literally necessary for a human to have relationships but the word friend implies a lot of things. True homies do anything for their homies but it can lead you to consistently do things you dont want to for people who dont deserve it. You never know whats in another persons heart you can begin to feel a strong connection toward someone but this person doesnt think of you as important. In some cases they just befriend you for benefits just like you start relationships for selfish reasons. Always trying to fit in and being obsessed with trying to have friends can lead you to basically become a mob hiding your real personality to be easilyliked and accepting everything because you dont want to upset anyone. Yugami kun doesnt need any of that. It may seems like a cowardly too much of a handful to bother mindset but I dont see it as that. He actually takes courage not to depend on others. Hes not a lazy defeatist person hes an hardworker. All this time spend on himself allowed him to know and love himself. He does sports studies enlarge his knowledge make experiences. His nofriends mindset isnt an excuse not to try anything its an opportunity to become a better individual everyday. Hes always true to himself. Hes my model honestly. His nameless relationships may be more valuable than the fake friendships people have. His character is so interesting you never know why he does the things he does how he became like that and if hes just a self centered asshole or an altruist guy. I have no idea how the author made any character somewhat interesting with that chad as the mc. Youd think he drives the fck outta the plot but again youd be wrong. Every character and plotline is important and he doesnt influence everything and many would actually argue that the main character isnt even him lmao. CONCLUSION Ive talked a lot about the substance but the form is neat too. The drawings only get better every chapter and theyre actually hilarious. The plot twists pacing characters developments and such are decent to good and solid. This is definitely worth reading Im not promising you a flawless masterpiece with a complex story but Im promising you a fun and entertaining story with a somewhat original message. Its simplicity is its charm. Many slice of life animanga entertained me but few made me want to be a better person and god 3 full days passed since Ive finished this and I still have that 3am turning my life around rush