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But most importantly: Chitanda begins to show cracks and dents in her character that takes away that acrid new-car smell and potentially reveals an actual person. The conclusion to which is as obtuse as it needs to be, finally dispensing with any illusion of the audience being able to predict the outcome. The six episode bonanza - set during a bustling, technicolor school festival - gradually unfurls with sidestories for each character that eventually dwarf the middling missing item mystery at its centre. Then the longest arc in the series, the "Juumonji Incident", drops the veil and lets the characters, and most importantly the subtext, of the writing breathe.
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Like a Stepford wife who wandered into the wrong franchise, Chitanda lives on the wrong side of the uncanny valley for a sizeable wedge of the series and seems too perfect with her insidious quirks targeted directly for the audience's gooey, lucrative core.
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The obvious foil to Oreki's "energy conservation", she is a disturbing and precisely engineered porcelain doll refined by the studio's trial runs with Asahina in Suzumiya Haruhi, Mio in K-On! and the conglomeration of the Lucky Star cast. And until the closing story arcs, this is all there is to know of her.
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The previously mentioned Mio-alike is the typical Japanese Beauty archetype with straight, jet-black hair (a feature not lost on the animators who evidently poured hours into the gratuitous keyframes of the first episode), a polite and naive disposition and daughter of a respected local land baron. Satoshi and Mayaka are early favourites, providing some much needed levity and energy to tiresome "mysteries" around the school but end up being arguably the strongest aspect of the show with a denouement that is as infuriatingly inconclusive as it is entirely in-line with the whims of a modern teenager. The former are the most forgettable and while the latter may comprise the bulk of the series, it isn't until well into the mid teens that characters begin to hit their stride.Īn opening salvo serves up the uninspiring lead Oreki whose extended drawl and lethargic attitude may be true to it's light novel source but it means that interest has to come from the other three members of the "Classics Club". Ostensibly this is a mystery show with each case being either a one-shot or stretched out to three episodes or more. Hyouka is their next work after Nichijou (or the K-On! movie for chronology purists) and initially drew ire for its glacially sedate pace as well as one of the protagonist's aesthetic similarity to fan favourite Mio.įollowing its own tempo, the series is content to plod determinedly along sometimes wallowing in the most pedestrian of storylines while others frolicking through names and motives with little care for foreshadowing or context. Contention follows any Kyoto Animation production adoration and scorn is heaped upon them as a studio as much as their output ( or absence thereof).