Dammit the titles gave me back memories. I grew up reading those

You are missing the point of Hyouka. The novel was created in style of British style mystery, but with everyday slice of life mystery instead of murders and such. Unlike the usual story of US mystery novels, the Brits usually writes their novel in a laidback manner, preferring a closed room mystery of investigating instead of action and fight. This can be seen even in modern Brit series, like Midsomer Murders which if you are not used to the Brit style might be boring due to all the dialouges. For Hyouka to actually capture this quirk is in itself quite an acheivement

This post has been edited by linkinstreet: Jul 9 2012, 07:28 PM

Freakign hipsters. "Manga" club but you are cosplaying vocaloid? Compared to Mayaka who is cosplaying a character from a 1970 manga and she made her costume herself they reminds me of new cosplayers now

both

THOSE SUBTLE BODY GESTURES! HNNGHH!!

Btw new OP reminds me of this




This post has been edited by linkinstreet: Jul 16 2012, 03:19 PM

Goodamit Sugita went Kirinarimasu.

BAAAAKAA~

Satoshi is Hastings to Oreki's Poirot. He will try to solve the mystery as how a "traditional" solver would do it, but Oreki will just use his little grey cells

Oreki is under Eru's thumb completely, and Satoshi is officially jelly of Oreki

>ignoring Jesus Yamato, the biggest Gary Stu of all, loved by Japanese that he survived 10 years in that poll without dropping

Kyon, Jesus and Zero will never drop from the ranking, so it's like the best 7 actually

Depressing episode, and being Ayako and Tanabe are really suffering. Oreki reveals himself to be an evil mastermind

dammit Hyouka needs to be a daily anime, not weekly

This just one episode manage to clear up some stuffs involving a lot of people at once. For example Irisu. Born into a well to do family, she is forced to show a brave persona. And she also have to use people around her. So much that she really don't have much real friends around her. And yet there were glimpse of the real her. The normal girl behind all that facade that she has built around her. Her enthusiasm at the magic show shows a somewhat childish and immature mind behind that somewhat mature face. The same can be said when she picked up some stuffed animals, something that is not befitting her image. Ironically she chose a frog, which could mean she is waiting for her prince to take her away from all this. It's not surprising that the person that she liked is the student council president, Kugayama, who manage to foil her every attempt to use him with his awesome swag.

And that's also why she was jealous with Eru. Eru followed everything that she told her to, but yet she did it somewhat differently. Eru was honest, something that Irisu can't, and when she realised that, she knows that what she taught Eru does not suit her, since she is too direct. In the end she can never be like Eru, who has friends.

TL;DR, being Irisu is suffering

This post has been edited by linkinstreet: Aug 15 2012, 12:42 AM

Oreki: I am curious
Eru: I am curious to why is Oreki-san curious

KyoAni blog shows how much work they put inside each ep. Sassuga KyoAni