This is the unaired 13th episode that should have closed out season one, and it arrives as pure relief after watching the Neighbours' Club's jokes start cannibalizing themselves by midseason. You get the cast at their sharpest, arguing their way through whatever ridiculous scenario the show threw at them, without the premise collapsing under its own repetition. Kodaka and Yozora finally feel like they're actually learning something about each other instead of just circling the same punchline. It's the episode that reminds you why the initial joke landed so hard: four people with genuinely broken social skills forming a club to learn friendship is only funny if you believe they're actually trying.

The Neighbours' Club is back in this unaired thirteenth episode of Haganai. Short on ideas for an activity, Kodaka proposes that the members pass the time by writing a relay story together, with each person picking up where the one before stopped. Things fall apart almost at once: everyone steers the tale toward their own tastes and tries to top the others, leaving the story wildly inconsistent. The single OVA is a comedy with romance in the mix.