Hyouka 11:
I'm tired of typing out Minimal Effort Sherlock, so from now on it will simply be abbreviated MES. Poor Houtarou is the only one I assign a nickname.
Surprise! The arc wasn't actually over yet! WHAT A TWIST! mnightshayamalan.jpg Nah, I probably should have saw that coming when the previous episode ended with BUT WHO WAS ROPE?!
An interesting real conclusion to this arc indeed. The chatroom conversations are quite interesting in this portion of the story, once I'm able to match up characters with their chats it adds a fascinating new angle to their intentions. Meanwhile, MES finally figures out what his Tarot sign means, and everyone else's while he's at it.
I've come to like Irisu's character, but not because she's a nice person. In fact she is quite the opposite. She is inherently selfish and manipulative but cloaks her intentions in multiple layers of obfuscation. Ultimately, even though she was lying in order to make MES do what she wanted, he actually did something she entirely did not expect. He proved that her lie was actually correct, and was the only person who was able to deduce what Irisu was actually trying to accomplish, and in the process he also exposed her selfishness and manipulativeness.
All 3 other members of the Classics Club are pretty essential sidekicks for MES. Whether they realize it or not, they are the ones who compile the knowledge that he needs to deduce his solutions, they do most of the heavy lifting in terms of listening, reading, and observing between the lines, and they are the ones who provide valuable feedback to disprove his theories when they have unsatisfied holes in them. MES can't do what he does without their help.
It seems the festival arc is next.
I'm kind of hoping the running will take my mind of this foolish addiction lmao. I want to be fit before I go away for my 5-6 months of training this year, mainly so I don't feel like I'm dying
