The sweet “aww”-inspiring tale of school life comes to a close!! As the school year concludes and the building empties with the newly graduated students planning to leave for good, Miyamura wanders the hallways one last time. Wondering who he would be if he had never gotten to know his friends—if he had never met Hori—Miyamura breathes in air steeped in nostalgia before finally stepping out under the blue sky to start a new chapter of his life…
now, im just going to unload my feelings because i have things to say.
i genuinely loved how this story started. it was cute, feel-good, and funny. however, after hori and miyamura got together, the story started to stagnate and i felt as if nothing interesting was going on at all. a lot of volumes felt like filler and i waited for things to pick up again but...there was nothing. i still enjoyed reading the volumes but i also can't deny that they were underwhelming. i love the interactions in their friend group and the domestic horimiya moments but beyond that, there was nothing for me to be invested in the story anymore. i also don't like how hori becomes too violent at times, hurting miyamura during her fits of anger. i wanted her to have some kind of character development where she starts to think of miyamura's feelings before lashing out because of jealousy and anger but once again, that didn't happen.
volumes came and went but there was almost no plot in sight, and no hori character development in the works too. i was curious as to how this series would end because how can you conclude a story that has been stagnant for too long?
i was definitely disappointed by how this story ended. i think horimiya has lost a lot of its essence and ended in an underwhelming note. i definitely love how miyamura grew as a person and became more outgoing with the help of his friends but that's about it. this story ended abruptly, leaving a lot of loose ends and inconsistencies unaddressed.
these are just my personal feelings, though. im happy if this story gave you refuge and happiness. at some point, horimiya gave that to me too. i will miss these characters but i can't deny that im very disappointed by this manga. it could have been so much better if not for its lack of structure and character development.
I can't believe this came to a close. This was like a warm blanket that enveloped me in warmth everytime I read it and gave me all fuzzies. I will surely miss the whole gang. The only thing I wished more was a more stable epilogue where we saw each character. We saw Sota's future though and it was adorable. There was nothing wrong to say about the story at all. It was cute through and through.
(WARNING! This is kind of a long review/rant, so if you don't wanna read it all, I don't blame you. Real real reeeaall short summary: I started loving it and ended up not hating it, but feeling like I was robbed of something "more". The high rating despite all that is thanks to Miyamura.)
Horimiya starts GREAT. So great, in fact, that I gave it a 10/10 straightaway, within the first few chapters (or: the first volume). Hori is interesting, Miyamura is charming, Souta is cute... what could go wrong?
And really, up until they got together, it was still a solid 10 to me. We were getting to know the characters and I quickly fell in love with Miyamura (well, how couldn't I?). Hori... still seemed interesting. You see, both of them had a side to hide from their classmates: for Miyamura, it was his emoness tattoos and piercings. For Hori, it was............... uuuhhhh... [looks at smudged writing in hand] housework?
Y'see, I barely understood it myself. Is the author implying that popular girls aren't able to do housework? that they don't do it all? One of the things that makes Hori terrified of people finding out her 'secret' is that she doesn't wear makeup while at home... as opposed to the rest of us girls, who wear makeup from the moment we're born until the moment we die!
What's funny and kinda sad is that at some points, she does go out and pass by her friends without wearing any makeup, but NO ONE RECOGNIZES HER. As if she becomes a whole different person (physically) and therefore impossible to spot lol
Regardless... I started my Hori ranting too soon. Back to when they finally got together, I still shipped them, and I was ecstatic to see what else we'd be getting considering that the manga is a little over 120 chapters and by then we were still in the 30-ish. I thought: this is a romance manga, I'm gonna get TONS of romantic fluff!
PROBLEM #1: ROMANCE, PLS? As soon as they get together, the romantic moments kinda... fizzle out. They still happen, but at more sporadic chapters and with less focus. As if... that wasn't the WHOLE POINT of the story.
Instead, the focus shifts on the slice of life moments of... their classmates. Well, them too, but them with their classmates. Yay friendship!! But uh... that's not why I came here. I'm here for Hori and Miyamura, not Hori, Miyamura and Crew.
If you're not really interested in the romance and want a funny manga with a big cast, have at it. You'll probably enjoy it a lot. But if you ARE looking for romance first and foremost... hmmm... you could give it a try and end up as frustrated as I am.
It gets to the point when the story focuses on even other characters romances instead of Hori and Miyamura. As if, you know, "they're already together, what more could you want?"
Or maybe even Daisuke didn't know what to do with the rest of the story, so she resorted to focus on the side characters. Sigh.
PROBLEM #2: HORI As seen by my intro, I'm kind of not of a Hori fan. But it didn't start like that! I wasn't particularly fond of her, but I liked her brother and her dynamic with Miyamura. There was a lot of room for growth, and while Miyamura DID GROW (going from an excellent character to an even more excellent character 100/10 precious little cinnamon roll too good for this world too pure), Hori did THE OPPOSITE.
Ladies and Gents, she did not grow. She did not stagger. She got WORSE.
Violent. Mean. Not "playfully mean" but legit mean mean. Whereas in the beginning there was no sign whatsoever of a mean bone in her, suddenly, she became the most tsundere character you can think of!
She physically abuses Miyamura CONSTANTLY. She's jealous to a sick point where she doesn't let Miyamura have male friends (or female, for that matter). If she sees him being nice to someone, she snaps. If she sees someone being nice to him, she snaps. And he just smiles and puts up with this bullshit, as if it's not the most abusive behaviour ever.
If she were a male character, this would've been considered hella problematic. But she's female, so the whole situation is played for laughs. Well, I'm not laughing.
Miyamura, throughout the entire story, does his best. He starts to open up more, talk more, he even CUTS HIS HAIR because some teenagers were talking smack about Hori dating a weirdo. But what they didn't know is that the weirdo WAS HER.
They get into fights because she freaks out for no reason. He gets physically hurt because she freaks out for no reason and lashes out on him. And yet he is patient, and often times is the one who apologizes first even though HE DID NOTHING WRONG!!
And everybody in Horimiya's universe think that's okay. *sigh*
PROBLEM #3: ...ENDING? So. We got very little romance after they got together. Hori became a bitch. Could I expect a satisfying ending?
Of course not.
Remember when I said Daisuke didn't know what else to do? Well, she didn't know how to end it either. We got......... meh. I read all the chapters and the bonuses, looking into every corner to see if there was something I was forgetting, but nope. The ending is just... that.
And I'm being as vague as possible here so as not to spoil it for those of you who are still interested in this story.
To summarize my thoughts about the ending: there was no ending lmao
But I suppose I should've seen this coming the moment this manga went south. It's SUCH A SHAME though. Horimiya has 2 things that many manga would die to have: cute art and Izumi Miyamura.
Without exaggeration, he's THE BEST THING in the entire manga. One of the very best characters I ever met and with one of the best character arcs. Too bad they wasted 80% of his greatness here. He's the only reason why I'm giving it a good rating lol
You're free to read this manga if you want to. But if I could have given myself a heads up before I picked it up, I would've.
This story came at a difficult time in my life. It made me feel several emotions, but above all it made me happy. I loved the characters (some more than others), but the ones that will always be in my heart are Miyamura and Hori (even Yanagi lol). The friendships that are forming and as Hori's family accepted Miyamura, were things I loved very much. The art-style is beautiful and this story will always be important to me. Thank you Hero for creating such a funny and beautiful story!
Aaaaaaaaahhh I loved this volume so freaking much! We get to see a time-skip for Hori's brother Shota; and also 20 years back in time we see how Kyosuke and Yuriko (Hori's parents) got together!
THIS MANGA IS EASILY ONE OF MY FAVS. I love this manga so much and I can't believe it's over. All the characters were well-written and hilarious yet realistic. Every character had a depth to them and the dynamics of each relationship was depicted incredibly well. I just loved how there was a considerable lack of drama, but still, it was somehow engaging. This is definitely a comfort read for me and I honestly shed some tears because of how much I'll miss these characters.
Si estás esperando leer una reseña objetiva, lo siento mucho, no lo vas a encontrar. Es el último volumen de una serie que ha sido mi espacio seguro por muchísimo tiempo y a la que le estoy eternamente agradecida.
Se ha convertido en mi comfort serie, una serie a la que recurriré en mis momentos más tristes porque me hace feliz. Me saca mil y una sonrisas y amo a todos y cada uno de los personajes. Miyamura se lleva parte de mi corazón, Hori y el calor de su hogar ya forman parte del mío; Yuki, Tooru, el consejo estudiantil formado por Kono-San, Remi y Sengoku; Shindo, Sawada, Iura, Moto-chan y el bello de Akane. Son mi pequeña familia, son personajes que me han calado muchísimo y que es solo pensar en ellos y ponerme feliz.
Me entristece decirle adiós a una serie que me ha traído tantas alegrías, con la que he llorado y reído a partes iguales y que me ha hecho conocer a personas tan maravillosas. Hori y Miyamura siempre serán un hogar para mí donde comer pasteles y ver películas de horror serán el sinónimo de mi felicidad.
I finally finished the manga, I loved the snippets we got into the future and the past, they were completely adorable. I had some mixed feelings throughout the mange regarding Hori's strange character, but I feel that she and Miyamura complemented each other by the end? Also the What if chapter brought tears to my eyes, and I can see how they all made each other better. It sllightly tackles trauma caused by bullying as well. Overall, I enjoyed the earliest volumes better, but it was sweet, romantic, hilarious, had gorgeous art, and I did enjoy it by the end.
the reason i love horimiya is becuase its ✨different✨ hori isnt a quirky dumbass with no friends and miyamaru isnt a hot popular introvert who only shows affection to the quirky dumbass. hori is oHMYGOD HORI IS THE FEMALE VERSION OF A REGULAR ROM COM GUY AND MIYAMJRA IS THE QURKY DUMBASS WTF
Graduation arrives for Hori and Miyamura, which gives one last chance for things to get resolved. Somebody probably should have mentioned that to the author though.
This nearly gets me, it really, truly does. After waiting for such a long time, the saga of Hori and Miyamura comes to an end and just reuniting with all these old friends feels especially great. It starts even better by reminding the reader of how strong the art has always been.
There’s lots of silliness - Miyamura’s escapade at the graduation ceremony is just such unbridled glee and incredibly realized that it made me smile just seeing it. Remi’s extended bit stumping for the zoo makes for another great little moment as well.
We get a glimpse of what might have happened had nobody gotten together in the end. We get a very fun little bonus section that follows Hori’s brother in high school, plus another character who’s been with us for a while, along with their burgeoning romance.
It seems fantastic. But, then you look at everything that you aren’t getting. Do Hori and Miyamura really do anything romantic this volume? No. Is there closure for anybody else? No. All that fun stuff I just mentioned suddenly looks like a lot of wasted time when so much is left in the wind.
I get it, a lot of manga like to end nebulously, but this is a little much. I really did like the way that Miyamura comes to terms with how he was at the start of the series, but that’s just a retread of him talking to his middle school self.
And it’s not just Miyamura’s story anyway. I think I said it before, but you could write a paper about how badly Hori got done by this series; she just got meaner and meaner as things went on and it’s one thing to be a girl boss and another to be a grump all the time. It’s like her dimensions got sanded down as the series went on.
Make no mistake, I am always being hard on Horimiya because it was so incredibly good at the start. The first few volumes are sublime and, had it wrapped up or stayed focused on anything other than digressions, we’d be talking about an all-time classic. I know it’s still beloved, but the bitter aftertaste of all those wasted volumes will always be there for me.
Yet, in the moment, it’s stronger than it has been for a while and just turning your brain off turns this into one last hurrah with characters you’ve probably grown to love. Upcoming additional volume notwithstanding, of course. There is value to this, even diluted down.
And, of course, the one bit of closure they manage is to make sure one of my favourite characters is officially done dirty one more time. Thanks a bunch, book.
If you haven’t lost your love for this series, I think you will be happy with this. I know that high school isn’t the end of anything, but I’d like a little more finality than just trailing off into a bit of a shrug. I can safely say without the first eight volumes or so, however, nobody would care about this and, for me, this is the strongest example of a manga series that can coast for twice its length on goodwill entirely established at the start.
3.5 stars - I’m absolutely torn on this, but if I am realistic, it’s my history with the series that both buoyed this volume for me and sunk it at the same time. I think I’ll leave that sentiment there as my final statement, vague and nebulous, which seems about right.
Ahh finally finished reading Horimiya!! First things first, this is definitely one of the cases where the manga is better. The anime cut so much and was way too fast paced imo(I still enjoyed it though, and the animation was just mwah).
I loved how included the side characters were, especially Sengoku and Remi<3 But although the volumes tended to stray from a “plot,” I think this manga was supposed to be more focused on smaller fun stories rather than one large plot.
The time skip with Sota and the flashback with Hori’s parents were such cool extras. I really wish we could’ve seen more about Hori/Miyamura and the rest of the gang though, especially some of the characters that were on and off about liking and wanting to date each other.
My only other thing about this series was that Hori’s character extremely bothered me in a lot of the volumes, which I understand might’ve been moments crafted for comedic purposes, but it just made me dislike her a lot after a while :(
I'm so sad that it's ending. this manga is one of my favorites. i love hori and miyamura, i love their quirks and personalities, i love their character developments too. who would've thought miyamura, the gloomy kid who often got bullied is one of the popular students in his school and loved by many. he even got his own stalker fr.
i also love the side characters and side couples too. it's nice to see sota's story from the future and kyoko's parents' past story. i could careless about remi-sengoku tho bc i don't like her. my favorite (beside hori and miyamura) definitely is yukitoru. but unfortunately they didn't show us more closure. and for 2nd couple, their screentime IS SO LITTLE WTF.
and as much as i love this series i hate that they're literally losing their own plot bc they were adding too much fillers. such a waste
No me puedo creer que haya acabado de leer Horimiya después de tantos años 😭😭 los voy a echar tanto de menos... Eso sí ,me deben un tomito profundizando en el vínculo entre Yuki y Toru.
Pero en el último tomo nos dan 2 regalazos que me han encantado 💜
Estoy super contenta con la relectura que he hecho. Me he vuelto a reír con las escenas más top del manga, pero sobre todo ha merecido la pena por qué me he enamorado de todo el elenco de personajes, incluidos aquellos que hace unos años me daban igual o no empatizaba con ellos.
تموم شد...باورم نمیشه... همراه این پایان زیباش تموم شد...انتظارشو نداشتم! این مجموعه مانگا احساس عجیبی داشت و برام دوست داشتنی بود بهتون پیشنهاد میکنم اگه سال اخر دبیرستان هستید یا تازه دبیرستانو تموم کردید بخونید شاید هیچی از زندگی ما شبیه اون ها نباشه شاید چیزایی که تو مدرسه تجربه میکنن مثل ما نباشه اما هیچ وقت هیچ وقت احساسات عوض نمیشن...تو این تفاوتی نداریم با اون ها احساسات داخل مانگا برام قابل لمس بود!
داستان مانگای ما هم سراسر عاشقانه نیست و بنظرم اجتماعی ماننده...زندگی اجتماعی دبیرستانی هایی که قراره وارد جامعه بشن بعد اتمام دبیرستان ارزش خوندن دارع قطعا نمیدونم چرا انقدر کم طرفداره انیمشو خودم حتما میبینم و مانگا هم وقتای دلتنگی میخونم دوبارع مانگاش واقعا زیبا و قشنگه بنظرم ی جایی توی این روز هاتون براش بزارید
Hey, Horimiya is over! ♥ This final volume was full of emotions, anticipated backstories-witnessing Yuriko and Kyousuke's meeting was a blessing- and of course...graduation. Even with its ups and downs, and rather mellow volumes from midway onwards, Horimiya is a manga classic of the shoujo genre. Miyamura's journey to self acceptance and the development of all the characters during those -almost- 10 years made for a lovely manga and a sweet, satisfactory ending.
Sungguh, serial ini begitu mudah "dicerna" sehingga sesimpel itu menjadi salah satu manga fave hha. Tanpa terasa, ini berkembang dengan baik dan berakhir dengan apik. Semua karakter digambarkan dengan baik dan lucu namun tetap realistis. Setiap tokoh mempunyai kedalaman dan dinamika hubungan yang membuat semua terasa begitu sederhana namun indah. Pada beberapa sesi memang agak terkesan kurang "mendrama"nya, tapi tetap saja, itu sungguh bacaan yg menarik utk pembaca cowok LOL. Ini jelas merupakan bacaan yang menghibur dan sejujurnya akan terasa betapa pembaca akan merindukan karakter-karakter ini.
Reading this manga has definitely been bittersweet. The concept and the story was ok, and the characters are really likeable but there has been chapters for a long time that you can't help but just be called "fillers".
For me, the manga ended hopeful and open endedly. I feel like while it was good to see Miyamura be happy, I think the story could've been wrapped around more nicely? Like I feel like there were still a lot of things that could have been done and could have been said.
Well, here's to hoping this manga gets a sequel or something.
I wish the ending of this had more development of Toru's and Yuki's relationship, but other than that it ends in a nice place. It's a romantic comedy and they certainly could continue to write more antics though. I'm not sure I'll ever get sick of the characters. I have heard with the success of the anime that the author and artist are planning on making more manga, so maybe?
So sad to see one of my all-time favorite series end. Were there flaws in it? Yes. But at the end of the day I didn't care about that. I started reading this series a long time ago and it holds a special place in my heart with a lot of nostalgia attached to it. But if I miss it I can always reread it.
I really like all the side stories ✊🏻😭 Highschool!Sota was super cool hngggh— I love his personality 🤧
Finally, we've come to the last volume 🥺 I still can't let go of this manga, so expect me to re-visit this soon enough, especially when life feels like crap❣
This was so cute like always. I can't believe this was the final volume! This was one of the very first manga series I picked up about 2 years ago. I'm going to miss these characters. (Might just have to read it again!!) This manga series is definitely going to hold a special place in my heart!🩷