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Speaking of crunchy roll.

Are their forums still dead as?
I didn't even know Crunchyroll had a forum lol

It isn't on their homepage either, how odd. I had to google "Crunchyroll forum" for it to pull up :uwot:
 

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So, last week I finally got around re-reading/reading Horimiya :poggers: After I forgot about this manga for 4 years and only got reminded of it once I saw Miyamura's card last year lmao And I just finished :peepopbirthday: Honestly those 122 ch went by fast, especially if I compare it with FMA, but the chapters were both shorter and had less text in them, so it makes sense.

First things first:
1) I thought I read about a half of it back then, but as I was re-reading it seem like I read about 80 ch instead of 60;
2) I also remembered chapter from 60-ish to 80 better than I did the earlier ones :TzuyuKek: So it made it really easy for me to guess which chapters I binge read and which I was reading as they were coming out lol;
3) Everybody in this manga shares one braincell except for Kyousuke, that man doesn't have any lmao;

Honestly, I really liked it, it was fun and silly, a tiny bit sad, but also fluffy and cute; sometimes really f stupid, but in a good way mostly lol and I ended up liking all of the characters - with my faves being Miyamura, Ishikawa, Kouno and Kyousuke. But y'all the author made it so easy for fans to write fanfics about the boy characters, coz some of the things these men did and said were just so- :TzuyuKek: They litearally acted like they don't have girlfriends lol
Also, Miyamura is such a smooth bastard it's sometimes scary, the things he did to Hori with a straight face like they were nothing :Slime:

And now time for my rant/review/spoilers
Yes, I wrote much more here, listen I'm not good at talking about stuff I like okay

As I said I really enjoyed the manga, but I do have 2 issues with it:
1) Hori - at the beginning, before she and Miyamura get together, she is fine, likable and has more than one role in the manga; tho it's mainly taking care of the house and her little brother since her parents are rarely home and that caused her to not have time to hang out with friends after school. As I was reading it seemed obvious to me that at one point this will cause some sort of problem and lead to Hori's growth as a character afterwards, but instead her mom just showed up out of nowhere and started acting like a proper parent, then her dad also showed up and until the end they were very present in the story (her dad more than her mom). Her having to take care of everything and having a hard time was never brought up again and that whole plot was basically showed under a rug, and I am just so confused? Why was this part of her character if it was left unresolved; it's especially jarring when you compare her to Miyamura who actually had his past issues resolved.

And I feel like skipping this whole plot lead to another issue with Hori - her in vol 5 - 9, when her and Miyamura finally started to date. In these volumes she mostly had one role - being Miyamura's violet and easy to piss of girlfriend. While Miyamura and other guys got to hang out together and show what type of friends they are to one another, Hori was barely ever in the chapters where girls were hanging out; she mostly was with Miyamura or was alone thinking about him. She had few good moments in there, but mostly she was just bland or outright annoying, her getting pissed of coz Miyamura dared to talk to his female classmate and then getting punched to the face really isn't cute or funny, especially the nth time it happens.

It was like the author just gave up on Hori, despite her being literally the main character, but thankfully she got better and got to be more than just Miyamura's gf from 10th volume till the end and tbh since she barely did anything without Miyamura I'd say her being like this didn't took away too much from those few volumes, coz there was really a lot of chapter focused on the guys, girls or other pairs.

2) the timeline - in volumes 1 - 9 we see the character go from being 2nd years to 3 years who almost graduate and the time flows rather swiftly? They don't spend too much time in one season and move on to the next with ease, but after the new years eve chapter, it honestly felt like the author forgot they were supposed to be graduating? I mean even before christmas/new years you would expect 3rd year students to have some talks about exams, university, future, etc., but it didn't happen, neither did it happen after the new years chapter. Instead there are 7 volumes of stories which could take place whenever, but instead they all apparently take place in the first 2 months of the year :Slime:
Listen, I really like those 7 volumes and I can only assume the author planned to end manga earlier, but then plans changed and it got extended, but it was really weird having so many stories taking place in 2 months, when like half of their high school life took only 9.

And so that's the end of my rant/review lol
 

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her getting pissed of coz Miyamura dared to talk to his female classmate and then getting punched to the face really isn't cute or funny, especially the nth time it happens.
this is why I dropped the anime.. I didn't find it funny and I was willing to overlook it first 1-2 times it happened but then I started to feel that almost every scene btw them are like that :sweat:
 

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this is why I dropped the anime.. I didn't find it funny and I was willing to overlook it first 1-2 times it happened but then I started to feel that almost every scene btw them are like that :sweat:
I looked up episode summer ups and it seems most of the anime is based off the first 9 volumes with few plots being from latter ones; so it makes sense it felt like that :Slime:They skipped the parts where she stopped doing it
 
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I looked up episode summer ups and it seems most of the anime is based off the first 9 volumes with few plots being from latter ones; so it makes sense it felt like that :Slime:They skipped the parts where she stopped doing it
not anime emphasizing bad parts but skipping the good parts :Slime:
 

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What other animes do you like?
:TipPar:
the ones below and a few others, for mind/psychological games, my all time favorite is Liar Game :christmasblob:
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Favorite Anime: Hunter x Hunter, Death Note, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Detective School Q
(other people might not consider A:TLA as anime but I considered it as one because it has Asian influence for both the plot and character design)
Favorite Manga: Skip Beat!, Detective Conan, Akatsuki no Yona, Beauty Pop
(I usually watched anime first before continuing to manga)
Favorite Characters: Heiji Hattori, Kyoko Mogami, L, Gon, Toph, Iroh, Hak, Shin-Ah, Al (Fma:B)
 
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I really want to read Liar Game
And I also love Skip Beat
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it's good! I recommend it!
omg SB fan :heartublob::heartublob: I am not sure what's happening with the most recent arc, but I will have to re-read them.
I am sad that they didn't continue the anime :sadpepe: I would love to see all the arcs getting animated
My other favorite shoujo is Akatsuki no Yona if you haven't seen or read it :TipPar:
 
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