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As a result, Chitanda’s insatiable curiosity awakens, she clasps Oreki’s hand in both of hers, pushes against him, and with her hypnotic-like eyes, convinces him to help her investigate how she ended up locked inside the room. And thus begins the first, albeit brief and simple, mystery. There are a total of 3 major mystery arcs, in addition to several episodic ones. While the mysteries that occur during the major arcs are very well developed, the mysteries that occur over the course of a single episode are not always difficult for the audience to figure out—in fact, at times the answers are dead obvious. Change is always scary, but less so for people who are self confident and have a steady ground beneath their feet, whereas Houtarou doesn’t have that steady ground beneath his feet. We see Houtarou struggle, climb and fall down – doubt himself, get support and find a new path to try and climb back up again.

The last scene of the show is the unresolved romantic scene. A scene that does not fit in with the actual storytelling, but it was a wonderful portray of Houtarou’s progress. Dear readers, I wish that through reading ‘Hyouka’ you will better experience or cherish the memories of a youth that is still ongoing or has already passed, and be stained with some colours of youth. A scream is a shout that burns away one’s life, a breath to shout until you’re hoarse. I scream is a powerful way to prove that you are alive, to showcase youth’s ultimate stance. Chitanda’s curiosity towards the whole system of things and her rigorous consumption of energy, Satoshi using his energy only in the things he deems important, and Ibara’s obsessive attention towards details due to her strict attitude.

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However, keeping up because the subject is a spin-off of something you did study only lasts for so long. Thus when relying on previous efforts stopped going as well as he wanted it to, he lowered his own standards in order to not having to face the fact that he wasn’t doing as well as he could. Which, in turn, had to be protected by something, his feeling of pride was on the line after all. He was smart, thought of himself as someone who could perform at the top of his group of peers and suddenly he couldn’t keep up. He has gotten accustomed to living a life of energy conservation, and seeing as Oreki Houtarou is still a lazy teenager, what is easier than feigning ignorance?

And even though the fact that he couldn’t voice his thoughts at the very end does indicate that he is not there yet, he has come a long way. Live life to be happy and make the future shine brightly for you, so you can escape the gray life you feel imprisoned in. At the end the Mystery Movie arc his confidence gets crushed, and later restored meaning of hyouka again by finding new reasons to believe in himself, yet he still wants to share his findings. He sheepishly tricks Chitanda (and by that I mean ‘making Chitanda realize he’s too proud to boast but really wants to share his experience’) into asking what he found out after realizing that his script didn’t match up with that of Hongou.

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The reason I want to press attention to this is because it shows Houtarou hasn’t fully changed yet. Houtarou realizes that he can’t even confess his crush while she might as well have said that she loves him when she told him that she wanted him to see the place she lives at and where she will return to. And yet the doubt keeps eating away at Houtarou, as he probably just wished that Chitanda would have straight up confessed to him.

This addition of boy meets girl romance completely shatters it. It’s ironical how they couldn’t blend the romance with the script after succeeding at doing so with almost every other feature of the story. But “a high school life is supposed to be rose colored” says Houtarou, and with that, the text allows the image to make magic. There are only a few scenes where the color palette changes but when it does, it matches the script perfectly and in a synesthetic manner, illustrates the MC’s feelings and the shift of tone in the story.

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Self-deprecation is the act of undervaluing oneself, accomplishments and qualities, sometimes to the point where one could deny having said qualities and devaluing the worth of accomplishments that person certainly could be proud of. While restoring Jun Sekitani’s youth, Oreki constantly reflected on his own youth. To have a protagonist whose mental frame of mind moves in turmoil in response to the incidents around him is what is most charming about Honobu Yonezawa’s writing of youth. Due to Kadokawa’s mistake in sale tactics, when Hyouka was first pubslihed, its sales numbers weren’t up to expectations. However, a work like this was sure to establish and receive an extensive support of light novel readers.

But, like Oreki, they seek and solve their objectives not because of their woes or inner struggles, but in spite of them. This is true of every member of the club, including supporting characters Satoshi and Mayaka; but for the sake of brevity, this piece will be focusing on Oreki’s female co-lead, Eru Chitanda. Hyouka focuses on the misadventures of a high school’s dying Classic Literature Club. Ultimately sustained by a group of students who end up getting more than what they bargained for, the club soon becomes the center of a makeshift investigation into the school’s past over a student protest that happened on campus years ago.

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Up to this year (2011), this has become Honobu Yonezawa’s longest and most certainly signature work. The Classic Literature Club is composed of these four, who work together like a school detective group. With the age-old Kamiyama Highschool as their stage, they join hands to unravel all sorts of mysteries that appear in their daily lives. Simply put, regardless of whether readers recognize Honobu Yonezawa from his signature piece or from the unchanging style of his works in the last few years, these were all built off the basis of a combination ‘Everyday Mystery’ and ‘YA Mystery’. This base has since accumulated, extended its reach and varied itself. Probably because Kurako Eba, Hongou’s bestfriend knew everything how Hongou wanted to end the film from the start.

Fan Translations of the original Hyouka novel series can be read here. This includes the yet-to-be adapted volumes It walks by past and Even though I’m told I now have wings. If you post a question after sending a gift to someone, your question will be displayed in a special section on that person’s feed. Ederlyn Peralta is an Anime & Manga Features Writer for CBR.

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Satoshi Fukube, who knowns an incomparable amount useless facts and yet is unable to come his own conclusions. And Mayaka Ibara, who focuses on perfection and has a tendency to add in a poisonous tongue. “Inu wa Doko da” was an experimental piece that let Yonezawa burst out of the framework of the ‘Everyday Mystery’ genre. Though he becomes the boss of a social group, this piece continues to brim with the essence of youth. His “Shoshimin series” falls closer in line with that of a light novel, but even then, they also lean towards this created genre. At the end of the episodes involving the movie, iirc, just before the ending credits there is the subtitled text “Why didn’t she ask EBA?” which I don’t understand.

Backgrounds, while having a darker, brooding look to them at times, can turn refreshingly vibrant, warm, and colorful at unexpected moments. However, the most notable feature to mention may be the director’s infusion of surrealism with the ordinary. It happens in practically every episode and is often used to suggest something about a particular character (either Chitanda or Oreki), or the atmosphere of the mystery being investigated. Self-deprecation is the keystone of the foundation on which Houtarou’s motto to live by is built.