I completed Hori-san to Miyamura-kun just yesterday, after planning to watch it and the winter 2021 adaptation by CloverWorks (Basically A1 Pictures, as both of them are owned by Aniplex, and A1 also produced The Promised Neverland anime adaptation) for weeks after stumbling upon the Horimiya trailer on youtube. I loved the artwork of trailer, and on MAL, I saw the OVA listed as alternate version in the Horimiya page. I haven't read the manga, but the OVA is one of the best romcoms I have ever seen, regardless of the inconsistencies in its artwork. It is just so fucking good, and the cliffhanger at the end of the 4th episode makes me want more of this beauty. And I'm damn sure CloverWorks (along with A1 Pictures) will do amazingly!
Anyways, I came here just to comment this after seeing your review. Have a great day, or a great night, wherever you are.
Peace✌.
Thank you. Yeah, sometimes it takes swinging back around to see the appeal in something didn't see the draw to at first. Angel Beats, Spice & Wolf and Eden of the East were all titles that I watched was unimpressed and then revisited at later times that proved to be pretty meaningful for me the older I got. It may not be this title, but I am sure you will experience that as well at some point.
He's scrambling to get his life together, to not let his grandma/family down. He has some very basic goals in life (getting through college, not disappointing his family & finding a good woman) and he's struggling to achieve them outside of the safety of the typical high school setting these kinds of romcom's take place in. He has the judgment of most of the guys I knew including myself in my early twenties. He's sexually frustrated and prone to not seeing through twisted controlling women.
I get the distaste for characters like Kazuya, I really do. But I think it more often than not comes from a place of either thinking we're higher than that (which might reveal some of the youthful arrogance I had in high school) or it could be that his tendency to being a dumb kid in their young 20's is too honest to our own personal experiences.
For me as someone in my mid-late twenties I can laugh at this because I've been there, and I haven't seen this depressing phase of life so playfully, comically spun in this medium. If you haven't hit that phase of life yet, you will, and if you are currently going through it, I feel for you. I mean that sincerely btw.
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Anyways, I came here just to comment this after seeing your review. Have a great day, or a great night, wherever you are.
Peace✌.
I get the distaste for characters like Kazuya, I really do. But I think it more often than not comes from a place of either thinking we're higher than that (which might reveal some of the youthful arrogance I had in high school) or it could be that his tendency to being a dumb kid in their young 20's is too honest to our own personal experiences.
For me as someone in my mid-late twenties I can laugh at this because I've been there, and I haven't seen this depressing phase of life so playfully, comically spun in this medium. If you haven't hit that phase of life yet, you will, and if you are currently going through it, I feel for you. I mean that sincerely btw.