At first things where all boring but you'll get to enjoy the whole series afterwards. It is a shoujo anime but it doesn't have a lot of romantic scenes and love stories and I, myself am very tired of watching romantic love animes. Moving on,
STORY (7) - It is just a typical everyday high school life but I have to admit there are scenes in Oreki's school that are much fun to watch than any other schools in any other animes. I can't say that the story is unique because it's like a touch of Clannad and Detective Conan. Clannad is an anime about a guy who is very lazy but a troublemaker. He kind of resemble Oreki. In Detective Conan, there are a lot of crime scenes or a lot of mysteries that will be solve just like in Hyouka. It's just that Detective Conan is more advanced and more bloody than Hyouka. Then again it has a good story and interesting plot.
Art (9) - It has a precise art and creative looks to the character but I just think I've seen this artwork before. Some parts of this anime is realistic some parts were not really catching my attention. But they did a pretty good job on doing the animation.
Sound (5) - I didn't really enjoy the Openings and the Endings of this anime. I can't even remember the songs. It didn't made me excited or I didn't sing-along with the music. On the other hand, the sound effects were impressive.
Character (6) - Interesting Characters but really boring. The only character whom I liked the most was Satoshi. He is by far the funniest character in this series. The other characters were not amusing and funny at all. On the bright side, I admire the intelligence of each character. Especially Oreki, he is very smart.
Enjoyment (7) - It didn't actually gave me that aspiring and interesting moment. I didn't cry on the sad parts of it and some of the jokes were indescribably corny. I can't explain how I finished this series because it took me a while before I watched the last episode. It actually took me 3 weeks to finish it but all the other animes that I watched only took me 3 days, some even 1 and a half and those series have 26 episodes while this one has 22. From the start until the 15th episode, everything got boring and unusual to watch. Then I said that at least I must know the ending.So the ending wasn't half bad. Episode 16 until 22 were a bit cliche but it was enjoying.
Overall (7) The truth is, Hyouka is a good anime that will extremely keep you guessing about what's gonna happen next. Yeah, sure some parts of it were boring but sooner or later you will realize that it's not a total waste of time.
SPOILER: Actually I just remembered that most of the people who I saw when they commented about Hyouka's Ending said that it was a bit convincing but some didn't like it. In my opinion, I think it was a good ending. At last, an anime that ended without a love between the main characters.
So, do you think I would recommend this anime to all of you? Well I'm not quite sure. To be honest, I don't even know if this was an awesome series or not but I'm quite sure about this: If you want to watch a detective conan-ish with a touch of characters in Clannad then this is the anime for you.
