Audience reviews
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RozhodneNeJenda
As someone who is a great fan of romance anime and has seen a lot of them, this was by far the worst one I’ve ever had the chance to witness. Don’t get me wrong. I’ve heard that the manga is much better, and even though I haven’t read it, I’m inclined to agree, because I can’t imagine anything worse than this.
I’ll keep it simple: the whole anime is rushed, and therefore you have no chance to form any connection with the main characters. It focuses more on the side characters, who, in my opinion, are not very interesting. To me, for someone to say that Horimiya is a good anime or, god forbid, the best is absolutely unimaginable.
I understand that some people may not be as experienced with romance anime as I am, but I still expect that if you are not completely clueless and have any real…
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7.5/10 (This review is for the entire series: S1, S2, OVA)
It’s said not to judge a book by its cover. Horimiya is no exception. The series high production values, rich cast of characters, and lack of dramatic cliches make it strong contender in the SOL genre. It’s refreshing to watch lovable characters discover themselves, something we all can relate to. Horimiya also has some of the most realistic portrayal of teenage behavior ever seen in an anime.
Yet the lack of conflict presented, deeper character work, and extremely poor pacing make it hard to recommend to the mature viewer. It isn’t shown how our key players change, but told through tedious monologues. We see our leads grow, but how? Why? These gaps are left to the imagination, resulting in an extremely disappointing watch. Its po…
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Hori and Miyamura was one of the most toxic relationships I've seen in a while
Hori is an angry girl with masochistic tendencies, but it didn't matter to me. The problem started when she forced Miyamura to beat her against his will, and how did the director show this? what a cool guy!! His schoolmate admires him!
But the problem is even deeper.
In another scene, Hori's father asks her not to treat Miyamura so badly and not to yell at him, and Hori's reaction? Yes, as usual, she said to shut up and continued to rant, which she does throughout the series
Contrary to what the series wanted to show, Miyamura did not change at all.
Miyamura remained the quiet and secretive young man who allowed the demands of others to prevail over him. That's why he was able to tolerate Hori so much. Why s…
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Title: Horimiya
Story
I watched Horimiya because of the many positive reviews. Therefore, I went in with relatively high expectations. UNFORTUNATELY, these were not met in any way. Both the plot and the characters barely convinced me. It was just a copy and paste of other romance animes like Toradora or Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun.
Again, we have a tsundere girl who becomes aggressive towards the male main character. The girl is a super genius, popular, and desirable, while the boy is just average, unattractive, and without friends. Both fall in love with each other within a short time. They didn’t have any past together either. Very contradictory is Miyamura's statement in one episode (I don’t remember which) that he loves Hori because she doesn't judge anyone by their appearance. However,…
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I don't get how this anime ended up on anyone's favorites list. Is it the animation, art style, or voice actors? Because it definitely can't be the plot—it's nothing special. No climax, just a regular couple with a plain story about a quiet boy and loud girl. Usually, I'm so in love with those kinds of plots but this anime somehow managed to ruin it. I found myself more interested in the side characters' romantic stories, which says a lot. It feels like those who love this anime haven't watched many other romance anime before. It's more slice of life than romance—something you can casually watch, but it doesn't grab you. Somehow, it managed to keep me bored throughout all 13 episodes. I only finished it because I wanted to know what the hype was about, but honestly, I still don't see why p…
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Horimiya causes the sort of boredom that causes people to believe in hell in order to have something to look forward to. Describing what happens in Horimiya is like one of those zen koans: watching the show and not watching it is basically the same thing.
Characters are bland, flavourless, flat, and uninteresting. The story’s the usual misunderstandings, fights over the girl, the boys kiss and make up and make up aimless conversations that go nowhere, with a lot of bad comedy that isn’t unfunny but isn’t funny either. There’s nothing terrible but it has no point. It just exists.
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Everyone seemed to like this show for some reason, so I decided to watch it too. Little did I know, I was going to end up hating the main girl SO MUCH. I seriously liked EVERY CHARACTER except.. THE MAIN CHARACTER! HORI. She was so annoying, I didn’t like her personality at all. She was so selfish and controlling, treated everyone like crap and only kind to the male lead. And when you watch an anime you need to like the main character or else the show will be very painful to watch.
It’s a pretty basic shoujo story - and there’s nothing wrong with that, but I just couldn’t like this show, no matter how hard I tried. HORI is just the worst main character ever.
I liked everyone else tho! :3
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I was really looking forward to this anime, especially since it was so positively received by the anime community on TikTok, but unfortunately it falls short in critical areas, namely: pacing, storytelling, and the overall anime direction.
I'm a big fan of the manga. That being said, I'm not usually one to tout the source material to say it's always better than the adaptation. In many cases, I actually prefer the anime over the manga because there are certain scenes that are just better animated, like fight scenes which can get pretty confusing in black and white panels. Animes also have the unique opportunity to fix issues that existed in the manga, such as pacing and transitions, or improve certain aspects to make scenes more impactful such as as adding character development or subtle v…
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On the surface, Horimiya is a finely polished anime—Glistening character art, bright lighting, realistic backgrounds, glittery visual effects. Every voice actor's suited their character, and their performances are convincing. Both the opening and ending credits are slickly animated with the utmost care and talent. The original soundtrack is average, but it fits every scene. Though I was immediately drawn to this anime for its impressive technical qualities, they weren’t good enough to overlook the subpar writing.
Beneath the superficial presentation, Horimiya is a computer-generated romantic comedy story that thinks in cliches: It merges tropes from the mediocre rom-com anime with the worst parts of sappy shoujo dramas. I should start by saying, I have never read the manga and this subpar…
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To give out a 1 out of 10 score to something in the entertainment industry implies that whatever you just consumed is the bottom of the barrel of its respected medium. I would not necessarily state that Horimiya is the bottom of the barrel of anime outright, as there are better candidates that are more fitting of such a title due to being very aggressively bad. It’s not that this is offensively bad like some would consider School Days to be, or very in your face bad and gross such as Green Green. There is an abundance of low budged and obscure show’s like Mars of Destruction that one would consider more „objectively“ bad. However, out of anything that has come out that doesn’t have piggy bank budget or offensive/disturbing themes, Horimiya is easily the single worst anime I’ve ever had to…
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"Hori is toxic" "Hori is a -phobe" "This anime deserves a 1 because of that ONE THING"
Those are the words you hear often if you live past the year of 2020 mostly thanks to Twitter. This take is typically comes from western 'audiences'. Don't listen to those kind of takes for this anime/manga. Those come from close minded individuals who lack the understanding of context and most importantly, understanding that HUMANS ARE COMPLEX AND IMPERFECT PEOPLE. Especially in high school.
If you are of High School age and STILL don't understand that people have different opinions, then you are going to fail in the real world. Name one perfect human that has no flaws. I bet you $1 million you can't find one. Especially in anime.
And that's the beauty of Anime. Subtlety and context are what create a…
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First of all: do not be fooled, this is 100% shojo anime. If you ask why male character behave like idiots, start punching each other for no big reason, those are stereotypes of shojo manga.
Bland, shallow and not memorable to the point that I was interrupted watching an episode and forgot about it for a couple of days to find out I did not finish it.
This is a romcom that doesn't deliver neither good romance nor good comedy.
Compared to Oregairu or Toradora... nothing to write home about except only one thing: they try to do the progress of a romance backwards.
They meet and start playing house even before saying their names. They confess and introduced to parents before holding hands. Everybody thinks they are dating but they do not think so. And so on.
Does it make it interesting?…
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Overall: 5/10
Horimiya came in as a rom-com I've never heard of, but being so highly praised by many I decided to give it a watch. And I can safely say after 13 episodes, that this rom-com is just like many others, despite all the claims of being genre-subverting and unique.
Horimiya had great potential, I'll give it that. But that could be explored with the story and characters were basically thrown out the window after 2-3 episodes, making it another run-of-the-mill rom-com.
Story: 3/10
I didn't read the Horimiya manga until around EP 8, because that was when I started thinking to myself: are we ever going to explore the themes the synopsis laid out? The idea of not judging others by their appearance, the potential for further exploration of themes of depression, bullying, societal nor…
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Welp, sasuga Cloverworks. Finishing all three of their anime this season without any future continuation other than the Special episode of Wonder Egg.
If this season was longer, at least 20 episodes, then it would have adapted all the great and high points of the manga. But nah, cloverworks was like "let's just rush this thing so that we won't do another season later lol". The pacing of the anime is so rushed that anyone with more than two brain cells could see that they are skipping a lot of scenes.
I'm not even a big manga fan because of how they beat the dead horse, just going on and on without any end insight. But if they did one thing correctly, then it's the characters. Here in the anime, there's nothing like that anymore. The characters here are all friends in a superficial level.…
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[Overall Score: 8.5]
Horimiya is one of the most anticipated adaption ever. After years, when everyone gave up on an adaption, there was an announcement. It might not be an exaggeration to say that Horimiya is Winter 2021 most anticipated anime right after SnK final season. After reading the manga for so many years, I was also happy to hear the news. Did it live up to my expectations? Yes.
Horimiya feels like it’s about to cross that line between a light-hearted rom-com and an over the top romance drama, but it never does, which is a good thing (A reference from the Oscar winning film, Parasite). On one hand, we have stuff like overwhelming drama like White Album, on the other hand, we have Horimiya, which balances between drama and simplicity so elegantly. The simplicity of Horimiya is w…
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(TLDR at the bottom, thanks for reading.)
Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou (often referred to as kare kano) is a 1998 rom-com anime from Gainax and J.C staff, it ran for 26 episodes but fell into production hell after episode 18 due to director Hideaki Anno leaving the production.
On an unrelated note horimiya is an adaptation of a manga which in turn is an adaptation of a webcomic. Have you ever watched a romance anime, maybe you have watched more than 1 romance anime? In that case, you have seen horimiya. It is the culmination of every other romance anime that has come before it and because of this is completely creatively bankrupt. Even some of the less common trope horimiya uses don't affect the story in any meaningful way. It's great that Hori and Miyamura get together early but this doesn't…
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Romcom is a tricky genre. It's hard to tell exactly what you are getting just by looking at the synopsis. Most of the times, you get your generic romcom with intolerable characters, and at other times, you find something like Horimiya.
For quite a long time, Horimiya has been a pretty massive name in the manga community, but it wasn't until recently that it started garnering attention from the anime viewers. Despite what some people may believe, the 2021 adaptation of Horimiya isn't actually its first anime adaptation. Before this, an OVA based on the much less popular web comic was released 8 years ago, which didn't gain much attention. But after a new anime adaptation based on the more popular manga began airing, it pretty much immediately received widespread popularity among anime fans…
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Finally the hypetrain arrived to the final destination and I can write this: I don't get this anime. First of all I will say, I am a manga reader and I had a huge problem with the source material. And like in the source material, I just can't understand what this anime wants to be.
First of all, it wants to be a slice of life AND a romcom. And here we get a problem of different pacings for those two things. For romcom you need progression, for slice you need a lot of fillers. So imagine my surprise when anime decided to speed through content, cutting both slice of life interactions AND chopping the development of our main couple. Let me point out, that there was a big problem in manga in terms of pacing: first it ran through main couple, finished the main plot and went after the secondary…
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"You are worth more than you know, capable of more than you think, and loved more than you can imagine."
Undoubtedly the rom-com of the season, Horimiya has the potential to be great in every aspect of the genre, but the elephant in the room is obviously CloverWorks and the production team behind this show: the classic case of quantity over quality. I'd like to think that we're playing a baseball match with CloverWorks for Winter 2021: Strike 1 for the horrible adaptation of The Promised Neverland (Season 2), Strike 2 for the abominable business practices of hampering Wonder Egg Priority's Behind-the-Scenes tragedy of director Shin Wakabayashi and his production team, and finally Strike 3 for what is a total-misfire repeat of Strike 1 of going for a loose and inconsistent adaptation of th…
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I have mixed feelings toward Horimiya, mainly due to its inconsistency. One day the comedies fine, the characters are likeable, and the extremely generic story doesn’t feel problematic; while the next day the comedies gone stale, the characters feel as basic as the storyline, and I’m dying at the contrived drama. Majority of the time, it’s the latter. It feels like they blatantly don’t know what they’re doing. But there’s still something in Horimiya that managed to keep me invested, despite the aforementioned complaints. I’ll try to break down both sides of the spectrum throughout this review, since I’m split down the middle.
Horimiya started off super strong. At first glance, I was intrigued by the characters. The whole concept of “not judging people off their appearances” was interestin…
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