Mar 21, 2021
Hori-san to Miyamura-kun, or as we all know, Horimiya, just wow.
I rarely write reviews, actually no let me rephrase that. I never write reviews. I've only ever written 1 and that's for my all-time favourite anime, Tsukigakirei. So, me writing this review, it's a big thing for me, certainly left a big impression on me too as a whole.
OH BTW SPOILERS ALERT - and also it's all just my personal opinion, so, yeah.
Story: 10/10
At first when you read Horimiya you think "oh shit here we go again with these 2 main characters who are polar opposites and then they get together somehow by
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coincidence and then as soon as they got together, the manga ends immediately." Well they got us in the first half not gonna lie, but the second half is where we all got it wrong. Horimiya, like the anime Tsukigakirei (of which I really really recommend if you want to watch a romance anime that doesn't stop as soon as they got together), puts a lot of effort in showcasing the relationship between the 2 main protagonists, Hori-san and Miyamura-kun. It showcases their relationships with family members, their relationship with friends and complicated love triangles with one-sided love and jealousy and sympathy. It showcases the ups and downs in a relationship like when both Hori-san and Miyamura-kun fights. Every chapter is like something new, something you probably wouldn't be expecting at all, and that's slice of life for you, but with a bit more spice and enjoyment added to the flavour.
Art: 10/10
The art style and the visualisations and everything seems to be top quality. Don't get me wrong, there are insane fight scenes and all those nonsense, it's just down to earth school life with relationships, and I find it pretty. I like it. A lot.
Character: 10/10
The characters, they all feel unique, in a sense. They all have different personalities, like Miyamura with a much darker look on life (at the start), Hori-san with a much sadistic masochistic behaviour that no one expected, Yoshikawa with her tendency to hide her feelings from everyone with a smile on her face, Ishikawa with his attention to detail (he noticed Yoshikawa not smiling at all, thus pointing it out to her that she smiled for the first time as soon as he made her smile), and the rest of course but that'll take too long to read, so we'll leave it here. Plus, there's no funky unrealistic haircuts too, maybe funky hair colours but the manga's mostly black and white so we can ignore that.
Enjoyment: 10/10
This is just my personal opinion, but I really really enjoyed reading Horimiya. Horimiya is something that I can just read at any given moment of time - I could be taking a shit, I could be having a bad day, I could be exhausted from studying, hell, I could even be bored, and yet this manga never fails to lighten me up and make me smile like a 5 year old child. Doesn't matter what mood it is, Horimiya is something that you can just take a step back and relax to, no matter what.
Overall: 10/10 :)
Would recommend reading it slowly whilst listening to slow beats/music like joji or lofi music so you can get the grasp of the manga and understand the characters much more in-depth.
I'm probably gonna cry because it ended so quick unexpectedly and then I'm gonna re-read the entire thing again, so, yeah.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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