Horimiya, Vol. 17 - Special Edition: A Piece of Memories

ホリミヤ [Horimiya] #17

by Hero, Daisuke Hagiwara (artist)

School may have ended, but there is no end to the sweet “aww”-inspiring tale of Hori and Miyamura! Snapshots of the lives of Hori, Miyamura, and the gang, a brand new story by the original author HERO, and the Hori edition of the final story revealed at the traveling Horimiya exhibition in 2021 have all been collected into this volume celebrating the finale of the original series!

Genres: Manga, Romance, Slice Of Life, Comics, Young Adult, Graphic Novels, Fiction

186 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 18, 2023

Reviews

[Mark · Rating 3 out of 5]

Despite the series concluding last volume, here’s another volume of antics. Because if there was ever a series that didn’t know how to quit while it was ahead, it’s Horimiya.

I’m aware that I am mean, occasionally brutal, to the adventures of Hori and Miyamura. But it comes from a place of such admiration for the early volumes of the series. I have said my piece on that front; one of my most popular reviews is a single paragraph griping about this series’ turn to the mundane.

So what’s left to say? Look, if you just want to hang out with these characters for one last time, this is exactly that. There is no growth, no revelations, no nothing. It is just a little victory lap, mostly unearned, but for a certain audience that will be more than enough.

At least one story, about a blustery day that manages to wreck everybody’s hair, is a ton of fun and shows what this could be when it was at its peak, though it really doesn’t have an emotional core. It’s just goofing around.

The flaws consequently keep peeking through and reminding me of the things that don’t work. Hori remains eternally cranky; the story where she’s being outdone at so-called girl stuff by Miyamura is straight out of an 80s sitcom it’s so hack.

It’s rather a shame, since Hori has a really beautiful monologue at the very end of things. It’s a very heartfelt little section that really digs into her feelings, but it feels way too little, too late since she’s been so continually shrill in the actual series.

Shockingly, they also decide to emotionally kick Sakura once again, which is this bizarre fixation the story seems to have. Or I just notice it because she deserved so, so much better than she got. Yes, it’s not framed that way in the story, but still feels cheap.

Yoshikawa continues to deny that there’s anything between her and Tohru either, so hope you weren’t expecting any closure there. She gets more time with the gross teacher, another character written from something decades prior.

It’s not bad, it just is not for me. I bought it to say goodbye one last time to characters I used to love. I don’t think it’s me, it’s them. I have reread earlier Horimiya and it is so charming and enjoyable with a solid cast and an emotional core. This is the large cast and goofing around with little point that it devolved into.

There’s even a beach scene, just because, which goes so light on fan service and any sort of story that I genuinely am not sure what the point of it is. I’m not trying to encourage it, but if you’re doing it, at least do something with it.

3 stars - and so the sun sets, again, on the series. This is just a little bit extra for the people who wanted it and, if you were well done with this story by this point, there’s nothing here that makes it essential in any way.

[Yasminnnnn_nn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Im doneee, I would give the series overall a 4 stars, I really liked hori and miyamura but after thier romance was set the plot became more episodic, when I wish it had focused more on the side couples and made their endings more clear. Also hoped we had seen more of the dynamic of their parents especially in thier past and of sota in the future.

[haya · Rating 5 out of 5]

This story is beautiful and I’m so sad it’s finally over. I wish the epilogue was longer

[Katie❄️ · Rating 3 out of 5]

I mean… this released after the anime. So that’s backwards. So…nothing new just the anime put to paper form. Disappointed.

[Katarzyna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ugh

[A’ n h Kate ྀི · Rating 5 out of 5]

Kết thúc rồi sao giờ còn phim

[-moonprismpower- · Rating 5 out of 5]

Crying so hard. I absolutely loved that the graduation chapter was repeated again, just so we could hear Hori’s side of it. Such a sweet moment….How Miyamura changed her world just as much as she changed his. I hope these two stay together forever!!!!

[mio · Rating 5 out of 5]

horimiya my beloved<3333

[Xoxi Muñoz · Rating 4 out of 5]

me encantó la manera en la que buscaron darle un cierre mostrando más interacciones entre personajes, y rogando que jamás vuelva a pasar lo del estornudo a los Hori 🤣

[Punkfruit · Rating 5 out of 5]

<33

[daniella ❦ · Rating 5 out of 5]

not a day goes by that i won't yearn for a man like miyamura <3 he is forever my baby girl

also daisuke hagiwara really cooked with how beautiful he made everyone in this volume like forget the haters this is always going to be my favourite series and i will never ever get tired of this silly little story which is part and parcel as to why it took me so abysmally long to finish this final extra volume. even though it's been finished for a long time to actually let go of this dumb little story was too much for me

also iura i will always be so fond of you!!!

[Kim David Schröder · Rating 5 out of 5]

Es ist unmöglich, Horimiya nicht zu mögen

[Kayt O'Bibliophile · Rating 5 out of 5]

Full 17-volume review

It's simple: Kyouko Hori is smart, attractive, outgoing and popular. Izumi Miyamura is quiet, gloomy, and gives off loser vibes. Everyone knows just from looking what kind of person each of them is.

Except...when she's not at school, Hori is the primary afterschool caretaker for her younger brother and keeps house. And Miyamura's long hair and dour vibes cover up his unacceptable-in-school piercings and friendly personality. When these two inadvertently come across each other in their after-school alter-egos, they start getting to know each other.

This story is a great mix of humor and seriousness. It's not that Hori and Miyamura and putting on another identity for school, it's just that they have "public" selves and "private" selves. As they get closer, we see how their private and public selves fit together—they remain themselves no matter what, but it's also clear that they're increasingly willing to share parts of themselves with each other that their other friends won't see.

As the series goes, the spotlight expands to include close friends, and the narrative gives them plenty of time in the spotlight, too. By the end, you have the title characters, another 5-6 who get almost as much time, and then a handful who got less, but still got multiple chapters dedicated to their own stories (in addition to frequent appearances as secondary characters). The cast of characters doesn't get too big, but it does drive home that Hori and Miyamura are very much embedded in their own families and social groups, like real people.

One of the things that impressed me most about Horimiya is the lack of a villain. There is no evil character or group gunning to tear Hori and Miyamura apart or trying to destroy their school lives. The drama and tension in this series instead comes from much more realistic sources: old classmates you're not sure you want to remain friends with; having an unrequited crush where no one is demonized or does anything wrong, but the crush-er still gets hurt because they want what they can't have; making mistakes; not knowing how to handle emotions.

Don't mistake this as me saying this series is staid. There is plenty of action and emotion to go around, and I appreciated that it came from a variety of sources that seemed more natural. And there is plenty of humor to go around; this is a series that never fails to make me laugh.

The series really ends in volume 16. This 17th volume has some bonus stories, which makes it worth it for anyone who enjoyed the full run, but don't expect any big reveals in this extra book.

[Tachan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Petit tome bonus histoire de retrouver tout le monde une dernière fois le temps d'histoires courtes pleines de chaleur humaine, de drôlerie et d'amitié. Le quotidien de nos héros revu une dernière fois, au lycée, chez Hori, à la plage. C'est mignon, c'est doux, c'est frais. Comme on s'est attaché à eux, ça fait plaisir de les retrouver une dernière fois. On s'amuse de leurs bêtises. On sourit de les voir tourner leurs professeurs en bourrique. On est attendri par leurs histoires de coeur. Et surtout ça fait du bien de voir de si belles amitiés qu'on espère voir perdurer dans le temps. Un tome très chill qui fait un bien fou.

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[loosy · Rating 4 out of 5]

4/5 stars — i really enjoyed this one, maybe because it was actually framed as a series of vignettes rather than a regular volume. i thought hori’s monologue at the end was sweet and i wish we had gotten to see that version of hori more often!!

overall i’d say this series was a 3.5/5. the main thing keeping me from rating it higher is how they developed hori into this angry, often abusive girlfriend for laughs and didn’t continue her original story of having to work so hard around the house and the contrast between that and her perfect appearance at school.

[La_Pal_de_la_licorne · Rating 3 out of 5]

Le tome 17, lui, est plus convaincant. Ce n’est pas une suite, mais une série de souvenirs inédits qui permettent de dire au revoir aux personnages en douceur. J’ai particulièrement aimé relire le dernier chapitre du point de vue de Hori, un ajout vraiment intéressant.

Si vous êtes fan, le tome 17 vaut le détour.

En bref, une belle manière de tourner la page sur Horimiya, mais pas indispensable pour tout le monde.

[Joanna]

Oh what a nice slice of life. Everything after they got together became more or less the same and I got a little bored after the 13th volume so it’s good that it has ended. It ends on a nice note, not too much revealed in the epilogue so you can only look back and be fond of their high school years. It’s good. No dive into the adult reality. Just a fun period of their life.

[Mindi · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a really cute special edition that lets fans reminisce about the series with some new content. This is one of my favorite high school romance mangas, and so I really like it when new special volumes are released now that the series is over. I love all of these characters so much.

[Skye (Skye's Scribblings) · Rating 5 out of 5]

4/25 Such fun hanging out with the group one last time! So glad I finally got my hands on a copy. The edition I received was a boxed set that included a regular manga book + a thin art book. I couldn't find any information on what to expect so it was a pleasant surprise.

[Yeon · Rating 5 out of 5]

đọc tập mới mà bồi hồi nhớ mấy tập cũ quá ToT

[Monica Sangalang · Rating 5 out of 5]

I will stand by that for me this is the greatest romance anime ever

[Thanh Dat · Rating 5 out of 5]

Trọn vẹn 🥰

[Amelia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bardzo fajny dodatek do serii + świetny pomysł na pokazanie zakończenia z perspektywy Hori 🫶

[Emily · Rating 4 out of 5]

<3

[bea &#x1fab4; · Rating 5 out of 5]

my family for real god still need just one more volume with a horimiya wedding or the friend group in college please please!!!!

[aya · Rating 5 out of 5]

je suis tellement pas objective
je les aime trop

[Olivia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kisah penutup Hori, Miyamura dan kawan kawan.
Kurang aaa we want moreee

[Hills · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’m going to miss these characters so much

[Laura · Rating 4 out of 5]

Flashback clips without a through-line, but still fun

[Kate · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’d marry this whole series in a heartbeat