Hyouka

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Synonyms: Hyou-ka, Hyouka: You can't escape, Hyou-ka: You can't escape, Hyoka
Japanese: 氷菓
English: Hyouka
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Type: TV
Episodes: 22
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Apr 23, 2012 to Sep 17, 2012
Premiered: Spring 2012
Broadcast: Mondays at 00:00 (JST)
Licensors: Funimation
Studios: Kyoto Animation
Source: Novel
Genres: MysteryMystery, Slice of LifeSlice of Life
Theme: SchoolSchool
Duration: 25 min. per ep.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 8.071 (scored by 628363628,363 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #5162
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #92
Members: 1,341,741
Favorites: 26,748

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Synopsis

High school freshman Houtarou Oreki has but one goal: to lead a gray life while conserving as much energy as he can. Unfortunately, his peaceful days come to an end when his older sister, Tomoe, forces him to save the memberless Classics Club from disbandment.

Luckily, Oreki's predicament seems to be over when he heads to the clubroom and discovers that his fellow first-year, Eru Chitanda, has already become a member. However, despite his obligation being fulfilled, Oreki finds himself entangled by Chitanda's curious and bubbly personality, soon joining the club of his own volition.

Hyouka follows the four members of the Classics Club—including Oreki's friends Satoshi Fukube and Mayaka Ibara—as they, driven by Chitanda's insatiable curiosity, solve the trivial yet intriguing mysteries that permeate their daily lives.

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1: "Yasashisa no Riyuu (優しさの理由)" by ChouCho  (eps 1-2, 4, 6-8, 10-11)
2: "Mikansei Stride (未完成ストライド)" by Saori Kodama (eps 13-16, 18-20, 22)
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Ending Theme

1: "Madoromi no Yakusoku (まどろみの約束)" by Satomi Satou & Ai Kayano (eps 2-4, 6-11)
2: "Kimi ni Matsuwaru Mystery (君にまつわるミステリー)" by Satomi Satou & Ai Kayano (eps 12-14, 16, 18, 20-22)




Reviews

Oct 24, 2023
This is kinda hard one. Hyouka is somehow special but not exactly what I've been expecting.

At the start I have to say, it's really fancy mystery anime. You can find some clues to some mysteries yourself and indeed, how the story goes forward, you can analyze some mysteries on your own. Basically is there group of friends "running" around the school and solving different types of mysteries. Around their schoolmates, their school, their free time or even around their group or teachers.

For me, personally, the anime was really really difficult to start with. The beginning isn't that fancy and there is basically no chemistry between ...
Nov 15, 2023
Mixed Feelings
Plot: Slow start but intriguing enough to continue watching because of the directing, interesting character introductions and plot. The first half had a good balance of sleuthing and school slice of life. However, Hyouka’s plot and pace started declining for me during the cultural festival — the jumonji affair. At this point of the anime, I felt that they had run out of mysteries and so was dragging that one mystery out. I got increasingly annoyed with how the mains were running everywhere but not doing anything actually helpful. A complete waste of time even though I was looking for an anime to waste some ...
May 3, 2021
Great Art and animations but extreme boring anime overall.
No main storyline, no Romance, no character development.
Only a lot of useless and boring little arc.
22 episodes of nothing but wasted opportunities...

It's not possible that there are all these positive evaluations on a work of this kind. probably years ago there was an exaggerated hype for the animations and for the aesthetic aspect of the characters which I admit is very nice.

But the story in this anime doesn't exist, nothing is told. Only small and absurd mysteries of everyday life. Some nonsense, some easy to resolve.

A great wasted opportunity. a great romantic story could ...

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