Everything up to the film arc is average. Watchable but nothing particularly standout. The festival is pretty good though. I remember it having like a few dumb parts though. The payoff is legit however.
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Winter 2014 Anime |OT| I've got to find a dandy guy who killed my dad in the space
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Everything up to the film arc is average. Watchable but nothing particularly standout. The festival is pretty good though. I remember it having like a few dumb parts though. The payoff is legit however.
KuwabaraTheMan
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Hyouka only had 22 great episodes.
Admiral Woofington
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That's three separate recommendations for Kino's Journey. Really need to watch that. But I hear it's depressing or at least dark, so I need to sandwich these shows between happier shows. For example my plan:
Happy show
Texhnolyze
Happy show
Happy show
Ghost Hound
Happy show
Happy show
Casshern Sins
Happy Show (x20)
Happy show
Texhnolyze
Happy show
Happy show
Ghost Hound
Happy show
Happy show
Casshern Sins
Happy Show (x20)
Yeah. It just may not be for him. I certainly have a long list of anime thats like that. Kill la Kill and Attack on Titan to name two recent examples.
And given what he's said so far, I'd probably tell him to cut his losses and move on.
I assume you included 11.5. Otherwise someone might shoot you.
santeesioux
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Yeah, the Roku works fine as well.
R_thanatos
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You've made some mistakes.
First everyone can see the gun. What ordinary people shouldn't see are the flamme effect representing magical energy.
Second brother hasn't amnesia . he is brainwashed.
My bad.
hosannainexcelsis
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11.5 is the only episode of Hyouka I don't like.
Word.
Freezasaurus
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I'll recommend it as well. It's one of my favorites. I don't know if I'd describe it as dark. It's not overly depressing. I'd say it's an objective examination of human nature. But it'll definitely hit you with those feels at some points.
KuwabaraTheMan
Banned
I never watched 11.5.
Kino's Journey can get dark but it's more of a detached, bemused darkness most of the time.
11.5 and that one stupid deadly sins episode were not good at all.
I've been told to at least wait to the 2nd arc, so I'll do my best with that. The show isn't repulsive to me, it just doesn't really interest me. I get that the idea here will be that Chitanda's interactions with Houtaro will pull him out of his shell, but in the mean time it feels really bland to me. The episode I just watched was a pool episode where the answer to the mystery was so painfully obvious that I couldn't decide if it was less interesting watching three of them try and solve it with enthusiasm or Houtaro continue to zombie his way through things.
I don't hate this show 2 episodes in. I don't anything it. It's like tasting unflavored ice cream or something. I mean, a pool episode right after a "mysteries of the school" is a really, I dunno, "safe" start to the show, you know? It doesn't feel like it's going anywhere with its ideas. It's just doing standard anime scenarios. For a pool episode it wasn't offensive. None of Sword Art Online's hilariously creepy groping happened, for instance. The fan service has been, in fact, kept incredibly modest. To the point of unremarkability. The episode also doesn't do anything to make its pool episode stand out. I'd say the setting was irrelevant to the episode's plot, except that the episode's plot isn't exactly worth talking about, either. There were character interactions that are going places, sure, but all the road signs lead to destinations I have already been, if you take my meaning.
I don't think Hyouka is bad. I just don't think it's anything special. But I'm only 2 episodes in, so I'm not qualified to make anything resembling a final judgment of the show.
What?
hosannainexcelsis
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Episode 6 had some fun character interactions and foreshadowing.
Pool episode, what? I think you watched episode 11.5 instead of episode 2.
Well I mean, there was some manner of chemistry between Houtarou and his sister, I guess. I would agree that it rates a .02 on the incestuous subtext meter, but mine's broken since Nisemonogatari.
My bad. The episode is labeled "Special #1" which I assume is how it wound up in my queue following episode #2. Contemporary anime has a way of doing that kind of thing.
Um are you sure you're watching this show in the right order?
Wait.... I'm pretty sure episode 2 was not the pool episode. It should've been the book episode.
Lol you watched episode 11.5.
I guess I am not yet so corrupt as to assign any percentage of incestuous subtext to their interactions.
KuwabaraTheMan
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Who knew that Hyouka's episode ordering could be so confusing.
They never show her eyes because they're just like Chitando's.
anime is a sickness
No, it's just fluff. I mean, his attitude makes more sense after watching the film arc, but as an episode it's not a significant one.
Not really. It does lead into episode 12 and is a bit of a conclusion after the film arc.
That depends. Are you firehawk?
Kino's Journey is basically a series of dark pseudo-parables. They're dark, but it's not really tragic or a character drama (for the most part). It's more detached.
"In the Kanya Festival, Chitanda and Tomoe share eye contact in a hallway and Chitanda said: "I feel like if I've seen that look before." Hinting that Tomoe's eyes resemble Oreki's."
rip
Yes. You would've missed out on a bit of Hotarou's little episode if you didn't watch it after the second arc. It's subtle but noticeable.
His attitude didn't seem any different from the first episode. He grunted and remained stationary.
There has been occasional overlap of opinions there.
You'll see once you've, well, watched the first cours of the show or whatever. The difference is between disinterest and disappointment.
Well okay then.
More like depression lol.
They read it wrong. It's the eyes that stare at her out of a mirror everyday. For without realizing it, Chitanda had entered an endless recursion of time; the only outsider to intrude upon this recursion was her future self.
Hellsing321
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No Its pointless. Also it doesn't exist.
kininari;masu
e: what if its like smutterfly effect where future chitanda's trying to get oreki to pair up with chitanda & satoshi with mayaka so she doesn't get crushed to death by an enraged fat mayaka in the future
Admiral Woofington
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Ugh.
I'm cursing at myself for not seeing the Sherlock and Minecraft Holmes similarities. Which just reminded me the new season of Sherlock is out.
chickdigger802
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silver spoon s2 1
more silver spoon
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I don't think its just fluff. You get a bit more of the developing Chitanda/Oreki relationship.
Man how good would Steins;Gate have been if it was KyoAni instead of White Fox?
It's pretty fluff. You get to see what happened between episode 11 and 12 but it could be done without.
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