Review of Horimiya

First of all, I'd like to make a thing clear: the anime in itself (as a whole), isn't bad. At all. Horimiya here Horimiya there, for a time Horimiya was a really famous romcom which pulled up my expectations as I love rom-coms & rom-drams (you can skip the brackets [] ) [ so watching stuff like GAMERS! (which obviously isn't that good of an anime :'D ) and Toradora (one that y'all prob know if you are making a mal) makes me laugh and I enjoy those moments where I chuckle or when I start to sob because the story starts getting sad (DISCLAIMER,I CANNOT PHYSICALLY CRY AFTER DOING THE TRIO OF YLiA, Anohana & Clannad After story!!!). Basically, My hopes were very high for the (back then) up and coming great series Horimiya.
Though at start the fame really drove me away and all those HM pfps made me puke, I decided to watch.
My ratings are 7/9/8/3/7/7, I'll go one by one explaining my choices:

-The Story is fairly average, several animes follow the same "basic" storyline, with the characters first being a bit awkward but finally understanding each other, but with lots of complicated love stories between different characters developing throughout the story and basically "slowing down" the development of the 2 characters we actually give a damn about: Tooru x Miyamura (Fight me on that point I dare ya)

-THE ART WAS GRANDIOSE, nothing more to say. Art is really a thing that changes perspective on the anime, and they were able to ace the colours and the scenery.

-Do you really have to know sound?.

-Right. Characters. I think they were all too rushed. They were unfinished, things certain characters said *coughYukicough* basically had no sense whatsoever and the pace at which their relationships developed were truly bad. The only character which was digestible was probably the girl named Sakura, who was the most interesting character to watch. Miyamura seems very interesting at first with a mysterious past and how it "haunts him" but the more you learn the more you understand that he's basically just a normal kid who just is a bit more self-centred than usual, I understand how characters such as Miyamura makes 12 year olds with "depression" but Oh boy it pissed me off. Then most of the characters just acted like middle schoolers: Tooru skipping from one love to another, Yuki never admitting loving Tooru infront of him but breaking another girls heart selfishly, Honoka not liking boys because she is scared of them ... (RIGHT I MESSED UP, SOME ARE GOOD CHARACTERS OTHER THAN SAKURA :( )

-Even after hating the characters, I have to say that some things were really positive and I enjoyed clicking on the "next episode" button. I laughed at the quick skits that sounded natural between friends, and the characters (boys, the girls were a bit boring) had a real synergy between them like real friends. The 2nd last episode caught me off guard and the 7th (CH37 :O ) has some turning of events ;).

Overall, right, If it weren't for the cheap side romances, the characters that were forcefully added (aka honoka), the episodes devoted for Yuki's self guilt and the very "deep looking" shallow past of Miyamura...(Ive got more but thats not the point.), the very cute feel to Horimiya did hit somewhere around my heart. And the main "idea" was positive enough to not make myself regret watching it. Though I should admit to changing tabs and doing other things cause the story became too generic, I enjoyed watching HM.

The anime is talking about a part of my life I have yet to experience, and watching this made me realise that 3 years is short and that, so long as someone needs you, you should be happy. As Doggy Kun said: "I wanted to protect her (...) wanted to push her (...) but in the end, she was also the one protecting me (...)" something like that, I don't remember much :P. ]

IF you have free time, watch Horimiya so that when someone speaks to you about HM you can proudly say all the reasons why the show is too childish even though "They did it withoyt protection" :V