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Review: Hyouka | The Slice-of-Life Gem That Deserves to Be Rediscovered [ENG-ESP]@jessuses1381340d
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  1. Hyouka 「氷菓」 (2012, 22 episodes)@onlyjob465d

    Very good intellectually satisfying show about joys of curiosity. Mundane is not mundane if you pay close attention and protagonists investigating trivial things always manage to find something interesting and unexpected. Everything about this show is positive. It reveals beauty hidden within seemingly ordinary things. All characters are likeable. All people are doing their best -- that positive portrayal of youth is unusual in western mainstream culture. This show have a lot of subtlety which is nearly forgotten/abandoned in most contemporary higher intensity shows.

    Delivery gets even better as it goes. Awesome culture festival arc, to which several episodes are dedicated. Excellent and amazing arc about unfinished movie ending (my favourite).

    With great attention to details, the show entertains viewers with logic and deduction, as well as with long and meaningful dialogues, although not too deep.

    Low-intensity non-traumatising show set in high school. There is no fighting, no monsters and nothing supernatural whatsoever.

    https://myanimelist.net/anime/12189/Hyouka


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  2. Re-watching "HYOUKA"... because why not???@tegoshei817d

    I have been planning on re-watching ***HYOUKA*** for the longest time and the monthly quest gave me the final push. Part of the quest is to introduce or talk about an anime under the *school anime* genre and this anime immediately came to mind. I guess, it's really one of my favorites back in 2012.

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    I consider this as one of my favorites back then *(and I suppose even until now)* because I can relate to one of the main characters ***Oreki Houtarou***. Oreki is a freshman high school student who wants to live his life conserving as much energy as he can. He has this motto that goes along the lines of ***If I don't have to do something, I won't... and if I do, I'd do it quickly.*** He loves conserving his energy.
    He wanted to do the same as he entered high school, but his plan was shattered by his sister. His sister somehow forced him to save the school's Classics Club from disbandment. He'd only have to join, so the said club would continue to exist. He thought that since the club is memberless, he might as well take it to get rid of his sister's rumblings and get a club room for himself.
    This thought got shattered once again because once he entered the club room... someone was there!

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    Eru Chitanda or Chii-chan was already there. She has the personality which is pretty much the opposite of Oreki. She's bubbly and is a cute ball of curiosity. I really love it when she says, "KININARIMASU~!!!!" which is I'm curious! in English.
    Every time she does this to Oreki, he has no choice but to entertain her curiosity but still saving as much energy as he can. Two other freshman joined them in the club later on.

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    The two other characters, Fukube Satoshi and Ibara Miyaka, were also Oreki's classmates from middle school. With these four, the classic's club started solving mostly trivial but interesting and intriguing mysteries which somehow had an effect in their everyday life. And I must add, most of these matters started from Chii-chan's curiosity! *(I just love her so much!!!!)*
    Let me share a promo video below...
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    If you're curious, then check it out! The name ***HYOUKA*** was also deciphered in the first few episodes of the anime. :) It has 22 episodes and each is packed with curiosity, mystery and interesting stuff! I'll continue re-watching the rest of the episodes later.
    Ohh... I also love Hyouka soundtrack!!! Both the OP *(Yasashisa no Riyuu)* and ED *(Madoromi na Yakusoku)* are epic that I remember LSS-ing to them more than 10 years ago... it's just nostalgic listening to them again. And they're from KyoAni, so the art style and animation style is expectedly amazing! I love KyoAni animation style and I especially love how the character's eyes are so expressive. It's a personal preference... <3
    Anyway, I'll end this post here. I hope you give this anime a chance if you still haven't watched it yet. :) Thanks for reading and see you around!
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  3. A boy looks on as his girlfriend prays to Buddha at a Buddhist temple in Kyoto. A beautiful moment from the anime 'Hyouka'.@vedicsamurai2785d

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  4. Hyouka Anime Review@hououinkyouma3120d

    Are you an anti-social person, with a rosy but otherwise boring life? Someone who deep inside feels you are charismatic and people of the opposite sex should be very interested in you, even if you act like an uncaring person that would normally make everybody to be fed up with you? Then Hyouka is the show for you! - @thatanimesnob

    I like Hyouka. I have watched it a couple of times and I am still angry for not getting a proper ending for the romance in it. It evoked feelings of nostalgia for an old fantasy of a small group of friends who are perfectly complementary to each other.

    Hyouka is a slice-of-life/mystery series. The protagonist Horeki wants to live a grey high school life by preserving as much of his energies as possible and doing his best to be average at everything and by not participating in any of the activities and yet even without trying he is shown to posses a knack for solving mysteries.

    Satoshi Fukube is Oreki's best friend (for reasons I can't understand) and he also has a photographic 'database-like' memory(he also gets edgy midseason for dorama purposes).

    Mayaka Ibara is the class representative sort of character(she also has a crush on Satoshi dun dun duun) and Chitanda is the deuteragonist of the story, the cute representative of the school's Classic Literature Club, a plot device to motivate Oreki to socialize moar (under the guise of solving mysteries for her completely unrealistic curiosity).

    When this anime was popular I remember there was some debate about whether Hyouka should be categorized as a slice-of-life or mystery anime. It is slice-of-life in that it is mundane and the mysteries are mundane too. There are no murders, robberies, plots to start WWIII etc... The stakes are low. I think that Sherlock Holmes said that the little things are the most important referring to his interest in things that most did not and these characters too seem to want to get to the bottom of a mystery regardless of how much unimportant it is, it is admire if not mildly autistic.

    For example if I remember correctly the first 'mystery' they solved was about who accidentally locked the door of their club's room after they had managed to open the door. They spent what felt like 10 minutes on this, it doesn't matter that the door is now open, the combination of their personalities needs to know how it happened. In reality of course most people would spend maybe 30 seconds thinking about this and then would move on with their lives thinking that this was superfluous. And if someone did obsess over such things all the time; then it wouldn't be a cute girl from a local semi-aristocratic family, it would be an unpopular weirdo.

    Is this a deconstruction of the mystery genre, then? Not really because if it had been then the stakes would have been so high that everything including the detective's life and everything he cares about would be at stake but the detective would just treat it as a puzzle. This on the other hand is the same old mysteries but in mundane crimeless setting of an ordinary Japanese high-school.

    'Remember that? Remember this? There were a lot of references to classic mystery novels, what-with all the main characters dressing up as Arsene Lupin and Sherlock Holmes in the second ending and some of the mysteries themselves were presumably derivatives of the plots of classic mystery novels although I am not an expert of these things in one mystery arc in which they try to figure out the intentions of a writer for a school they name drop various fictional detectives including Poirot and SH and some others I couldn't recognize.

    A lot of people found the mysteries lacking but I think that they were the best part of the anime, some people read mystery novels for the puzzle aspect and the charismatic fictional detectives and not for character development or for the high stakes. And I just happen to be some people. The creative cut scenes during the explanations of the mysteries probably helped too...

    The romance is inconclusive. Not to put too fine a point on it. This is a fault found in many anime unfortunately - I know, I know, those of us who viewed this series did it for the cock teasing but don't lie to yourself when you say that ant-climactic ending did not ruin it.

    I give this anime a 6 out of 10. The presentation is faultless, even the episode in which the characters sit around a table and do nothing but talk was made interesting by the special effects, but there isn't much here: sure you could write whole books about the student protests in the 1960s briefly mentioned as a plot point.

    Or you could go on a tangent about the poorly discussed themes of the value of spending time with others when you are young(I say poorly discussed because Chitanda is bait to get this point across but only manage to negate the message of the show with her unrealistic character constructed out of thin air to appeal to lonely guys who think they are intellectuals).

    In short, emotional manipulation and pandering are not a substitute for a good self-contained story and romances that go somewhere.

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