Review of Horimiya

Maybe I'm not being objective. Maybe I watched this show at the right time in my life for it to have such a big impact on me. Maybe it dug up some very personal memories from the most fragile part of my life. Maybe you don't give a shit. I'm not writing this review on behalf of anyone else who watched the show. I'm writing this review for me. Yeah, the story has its cliches, the characters are fairly generic, and its built from the ground up to be a 'sappy' rom com but you know what? It does that perfectly. I've said it before and I'll sayit again, something that knows what it is and doesn't try to be more than that does not need to be better to achieve anything more. It's ignorant to say it needs to be different for the sake of being 'better'. Maybe you love coke. But why would you tell Mountain Dew to be more like coke because you don't like it as much? Hiromiya succeeds at being what it is. And maybe that 'it' is not what you would have liked it to be. That's perfectly fair and you have the right to say so and criticize it. But it doesn't fail. It's not a heavily flawed anime that achieves nothing. It's not a weed in a flower garden. It's beautiful for what it is.

I'll never recommend Horimiya to anyone. I love it. But I also love The Protomen and JDatE, but I've never gone and been like "hey you gotta hear/read this". It feels personal. It feels like I love it because I'm me. And something like that almost reinfores your identity in a way. It tells you more about who you are.

I loved this show. And maybe, you'll feel the same way.