So I read some discouraging comments... [spoiler]

vanillaskynet said:
you're definitely right, someone said the something on reddit. The focus of the manga will slowly shift from hori and miyamura to the others then they pretty much disappear later on and the story become just about gags....gags without any continuity.
However I've also read that this shift happens after hori and miyamura get married, maybe some saw the engagement as a marriage?
I actually browsed through some of the (very) later chapters of webcomics on the mangaka's website and didn't recognize the story and characters, I wanted to confirm it on my own you and the guy on reddit were right. I honestly think the shift of focus has already began.

The artist and mangaka of horimiya seems to be following the original webcomics frame by frame except for maybe that very dark/kinky sex scene lol and pretty much every dark aspect of the original, most people don't realize how dark the original is

Oh if you're wondering what I meant by kinky sex scene

vanillaskynet said:
Oh btw I have some (new) news about this topic! @jak123 and everyone else

Hagiwara Daisuke (The mangaka/artist of Horimiya) apparently took all of this in consideration when he began working on the series. He decided to include/work in the later gag chapters into the ongoing/progressing story because in the original webcomics by HERO, Daisuke(or anyone who read the webcomics) noticed that the gag chapters had some connection to the main story and did show some progression to the main story. The gag chapters at first seemed independent and inconsistent but most of them were actually referring or took place at different points or in between the ongoing plot driven chapters. As we know the gag chapters come very later on on the original webcomics (we shouldn't forgot that the webcomics were 4-koma style that's why the gag chapters worked/seemed normal) but even though the gag chapters had their own plots they can be seen as side stories that were going on or happening during the earlier main chapters of the story/webcomics so all Diasuke had to do and is already doing is to include them into the main (ongoing) story in Horimiya(so they're not side stories anymore but are just funny parts of the story we're already reading) so in that sense we're already reading those gag chapters lol.

After learning about this lots of things started to make sense, I bet you'll noticed some weird inconsistencies in the story like the funny chapter where miyamura mistakenly hits hori's chest/breast with his elbows but thought he hit her ribs and apologized for hitting her ribs and hori became self conscious about breast sizes(well the whole chapter become about cup/breast sizes, with the girls and boys having their own separate conversations on the matter) this chapter is an example of a gag chapter that fits into the ongoing story but there's something off about it that I remember lots of readers pointed out, miyamura acted like he hadn't seen hori's chest/breast before and when he was asked about it he denied it but we all know they had sex some chapters before that where hori visibly had no shirt on, so why is miyamura denying seeing hori's chest later before? The weird part wasn't just the fact that he denied it, he didn't seem to have a clue how big or small it was when he wanted to defend Hori some readers thought maybe he was lying (a very good liar) or the mangaka made a mistake but it's a bit of the latter, HERO wrote that chapter as a gag chapter so there was no need for it to be consistent with an already known fact just like most 4-koma style manga, but Daisuke has to leave it as it is because really who cares right?, that chapter was light hearted and a gag and does not affect the story at all because since its a gag it is not referred to again. I bet it's going to be a bit difficult to fit all the gag chapters into the ongoing story because with some of them it isn't as obvious to tell which earlier part of the story it is referencing or when it took place. HERO also takes liberty with some of gags and makes them longer so Daisuke makes them to long funny chapters(which we see lots of now, like the chapter where they sleep over at the Prez's house. So I hope now you can tell when a chapter is a gag chapter or not or reread the older gag chapters. Unfortunately or fortunately(for those who like the gag/funny/light hearted chapters) this means we will be seeing a lot more of the gag chapters since there were more of them in the webcomics(lots of them!)

The great thing about Daisuke's decision is that it's what made Horimaya into a hit and a successful manga out of the pool of romance manga being released in Japan. Imagine if Daisuke redid/drew everything according to tge webcomics and did the gag chapters later, the series would have definitely been different especially if he included every dark and mature elements of the webcomics. Horimaya's ability to mix comedy and romance well is what we like most about it and Daisuke's decision to slip in just a bit of the mature elements was wise as well

Wow I didn't realize how long this comment was, my job can be very boring at times lol at least I can read manga at work ;)

jak123 said:
But does that mean it will continue being about Hori and Miyamura?

vanillaskynet said:


Yes and no, the good thing is it will still be about and include Hori and Miyamura till the end but there will be some chapters(a lot more at this point in the story) that won't really be about them or show any progression in their relationship. What Daisuke is trying to do it to divide up the attention paid to gag vs main story, but there is a lot more gag(some which includes Hori and Miyamura so that's a plus)

Lacie_Madness said:
@vanillaskynet where i can read this?

vanillaskynet said:


What do you mean, read what?
Where to read the original webcomics? Or where I heard the "news" from?

Lacie_Madness said:


The webtoon please :D

vanillaskynet said:


Hey sorry I didn't get back to you sooner but the original webcomic is up on the original mangaka HERO's website ( http://dka-hero.com/top.html ) it's on the left side of the webpage under comics and it's free for you to view/read. Now the issue is it's in Japanese and I don't know if you can read Japanese or not but if you can go ahead but if you can't you can still look the pages if you don't care about the art style. Unfortunately when it comes to translations, I've seen a few English translations of some chapters around the web but I don't think anyone or group is actively translating the whole webcomics so you'd probably not be able to find any translation to keep up with it especially since horimiya is doing so well and it's been translated

AnimeSoap said:
That won't happen. Side character focus is inevitable and necessary, but it won't stop covering hori and miyamura.
I'm looking forward to where it will go, graduation is pretty close.