![]() Again, I have to give it up for Hyouka, because it’s that rare school life show with a mixed cast that treats both genders as equally important – and truth be told, the guys are really the more interesting and complicated characters here. ![]() It’s really been the best slice-of-life and the best mystery scene-setting we’ve seen thus far.Īlong the way we’re also seeing some of the best character development we’ve had in the entire series as well. And now as those shapes solidify, we’re seeing that those two plots are not only real, but connected to each other. Then a couple of plots began to slowly reveal themselves like dim shapes forming in a mist, just at the corner of your vision and barely recognizable as more than just random vapors. The first couple of episodes were dedicated almost entirely to building the atmosphere at the festival, and did so brilliantly – and the clues were so subtle and the time-wasting so joyful that you hardly noticed they were even there. ![]() It may not be everybody’s cup of tea, but for me there’s something almost genius about the way this arc has built on itself, laying out a succession of seemingly unrelated (and immensely entertaining) time wasting events and slowly but surely tying them all together. I would never imagine a school festival arc could stretch out this long and still be compelling, but then I’ve never seen a school festival arc quite like this one. ![]() There was always an insidious quality to the way the show wormed its way into the consciousness, not with conventional plot so much as mood, but this arc has seen the show really firing on all cylinders. I have to give full credit to Hyouka, a series that’s really raised its game in this culture festival arc. ![]()
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