As charming as the animation is for the machinations of Oreki’s mind, the problems needing to be solved are usually quite boring. Yet instead of making a Buddhist statement on finding beauty in the ordinary, Hyouka plays up the drama of its mysteries and portrays Oreki as some kind of Ultimate Detective.Īt least Danganronpa has the spectacle going for it. ![]() Hyouka is a celebration of the mundanity of life, and with inconsequential questions come inconsequential answers. What on earth is going on here? What happened to the mysteries? Fear not, for they were never really there. Fortunately, this good friend of Oreki is being crushed on by someone that has spent so much time in Manga Club that she only knows how to be a tsundere girl. Oreki’s best friend is no better, with his facade of carefree happiness ready to crumble into melodramatic outbursts of jealousy at any moment. There is good reason for him to be, as his principal companion is an insufferable dimwit who only manages to seduce him with the power of moe. ![]() In such musings, one has to wonder if Oreki hates being in his own anime. There’s no escaping the unbearable curiosity of Eru Chitanda.”
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