Title: Broken Glass
Author: GenericOregairuFan
Rating: T
Genre: Mystery/Drama
Status: WIP
Fandom: My Teen Romatic Comedy SNAFU
Pairings: None
Summary: Hayama Hayato is dead. Suicide, at Miura Yumiko's birthday party. Or at least, that's the police verdict: Hachiman has never been one to accept things at face value...
Link: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13134847/1/Broken-Glass

Don't be turned off because of the fandom, this is mainly a murder mistery, you don't have to be too knowledgeable of the setting of the anime, you can enjoy it as it is, the author does a good job of giving all the characters some background so that you can fill in the blanks yourself even if you haven't seen the anime.

As of now it has nine chapters, around 40k words, so only a chapter or two to finish the story. It is well written, I could only spot some minor mistakes here and there, and it kept me engaged in the story enough to give it a second read and try to find the solution to the murder.

I would rate the story so far with a 4.5/5, pending the ending, because even with some longer chapters I didn't feel the need to skim sections of text, neither did I find anything that broke immersion.

 

Cool, thanks for the rec, will check it out.

Any other Oregairu stories you favour? I presume you've tried God Emperor Penguin'sEven Hikigaya Hachiman can write a Love Letter .

 

I don't think I can recommend any other story for someone who doesn't particularly care about the anime, they are all average in my opinion, or a guilty pleasure.
Out of those, I would say the ones that I remember the most are Obsession and Interwined, both by 80K Hikigaya.

 

Basically, it's a brilliant deconstruction - and reconstruction - of the typical anime rom-com, and through its very likeable, sympathetic and all-too-human characters we get a wonderful exploration of love and cynicism and coming-of-age.

This review (non-spoilerish) gives a pretty good summary of what people enjoy and admire about Oregairu.