He stands out among the other students in his school, but not in a good way. So to hide all these features of him, he has grown shoulder length hair and wears a jacket, even in the hottest of days. In this way, the act of piercing his ears comes as a response to the bullying. In his flashbacks, we see Miyamura get bullied and ignored by his classmates, we also get to see him do his piercings by himself with a safety pin, side-by-side to those events. He can definitely pass off as a side character because he’s that unremarkable among students. Miyamura on the other hand, is a gloomy student who barely converses with others. Hori only shows her simple and imperfect side to those she cares about a lot-like her family, her close friends like Yuki. It’s not easy being popular and act perfect when you are not. You can see the burden that is pushed onto her. In one scene, a bunch of girls saw Hori near the supermarket, one of them exclaimed how she resembles Hori, but then they say that she was too ‘simple’ to be Hori. She has a side she doesn’t want to show to others. After all, its the people around us who decide our social standing, not us. Everyone looks up to her, this pushes a burden onto her, she always has to maintain her perfect-girl attitude in front of everyone else. Kyoko Hori is a popular girl at her school, almost like an idol for students. Horimiya (Full title: Hori-san to Miyamura-kun) at first glance, might seem like the typical “Popular girl dates unpopular guy” story, but it isn’t. The simplicity of Horimiya is what makes it stand out from other rom-coms, and is part of the reason why the manga was crazy popular, long before the adaption. On one hand, we have stuff like overwhelming drama like White Album, on the other hand, we have Horimiya, which balances between drama and simplicity so elegantly. Horimiya feels like it’s about to cross that line between a light-hearted rom-com and an over the top romance drama, but it never does, which is a good thing (A reference from the Oscar winning film, Parasite).

After reading the manga for so many years, I was also happy to hear the news.

It might not be an exaggeration to say that Horimiya is Winter 2021 most anticipated anime right after SnK final season. After years, when everyone gave up on an adaption, there was an announcement. Horimiya is one of the most anticipated adaption ever.

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