A genre of adolescent male Wish Fulfillment, which has become rather popular in recent years.
The hero is usually a geeky loser, terribly unlucky at love. He is either unable to get a date at all, or has had his sensitive poet's heart broken by a cruel bitch who was only toying with his affections, forcing him to withdraw from all feminine companionship. Exactly how strongly this is exaggerated [...] [tvtropes.org]