Summer 2023: Horimiya: The Missing Pieces

Synopsis

Although admired at school for her amiability and academic prowess, high school student Kyouko Hori has been hiding another side of her. With her parents often away from home due to work, Hori has to look after her younger brother and do the housework, leaving no chance to socialize away from school. Meanwhile, Izumi Miyamura is seen as a brooding, glasses-wearing otaku. However, in reality, he is a gentle person inept at studying. Furthermore, he has nine piercings hidden behind his long hair and a tattoo along his back and left shoulder. By sheer chance, Hori and Miyamura cross paths outside of school—neither looking as the other expects. These seemingly polar opposites become friends, sharing with each other a side they have never shown to anyone else. (MyAnimeList)

Horimiya: Piece features stories from the manga that are not adapted in the main Horimiya anime.

Comment

Vina Nurziani – The Indonesian Anime Times

I was convinced that the Horimiya anime would end in just one season with the way they skip the story to the last story arc in the manga. But it turns out they make another season of Horimiya served in “pieces”. Somehow I have this conflicted feeling about the entire Horimiya anime series. I wonder why they produce this anime in the way that we have “the main content” in the first season and “complementary content” in the second season, rather than the usual “continuation”. So to understand this turn of events, I reexamined Horimiya manga chapters. Horimiya indeed has a lot of stories told in fragments and the progress of each character’s development and relationship is quite subtle. The main season made those two elements obvious by taking the scenes that have more importance into the screen first. Then in Horimiya: The Missing Pieces, these subtler signs of character development and relationship progress take turns. For example Miyamura’s change of mindset about the school’s sports festival, and also how Kono and Yuki become closer because of it despite them liking the same person. But still, I’m glad that one of my favourite serials has another season of anime adaptation. I’d like them to move and talk some more. Lastly, Horimiya having omoinotake in the anime opening just fills me with happiness.

(Both Horimiya and Horimiya: The Missing Pieces are available on Bstation. The manga has been published in Indonesia by Elex Media Komputindo with the same title, with the latest volume released being volume 16.)

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The Indonesian Anime Times