Episode sixteen opens with Satoshi prepping himself for his great mystery adventure. Having resolved last episode to finally come out ahead of Oreki for once, he arrives at the festival bright and [...]
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So, we’ve arrived at the penultimate episode of the Kanya Festival arc and the answers to all the mysteries are starting to slowly unveil themselves (some courtesy of Oreki). The Classics Club is [...]
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The Last Target  Now now now, where to start. The threads laid throughout the previous episodes are finally forming a tangible image, the mystery in it all becoming clearer and clearer with the stars of the Kanya Festa arc, Satoshi and Mayaka, edging towards the critical point, bursting with pent up emotion. Hyouka captures the [...]
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「ワイルド・ファイア」(Wairudo Faia), 「十文字事件」(Juumonji Jiken), and 「最後の標的」(Saigo no Hyouteki) “Wild Fire”, “The Jumonji Incident”, and “The Last Target”
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…and the chain of thought is broken. Snap. *sheds tears* I’m not focusing on Mayaka getting pissed, or even Chi-chan’s Curiosity (and her landing as a Rover), instead we will focus on Satoshi getting frustrated at Oreki (because he’s freaking Holmes, perhaps?). Another Christie reference noted: The A.B.C. Murders. This one is noted first this season in Episode 2 of Jintai. Also, is Oreki’s sister involved in this plan? I have a bad feeling about this. The scriptwriters want to tell the viewers “Hey, hey, his sister’s responsible for this” — which makes up a great distraction. The bases to call his sister off is incomplete though, so ignore that p[ossibility for a while.  I watched the episode again, and noticed that Chitanda goes Sadako when her curiosity requirements are not fulfilled. This makes her a common character, not just a cute character. Let’s see what will happen to her in the next episodes.
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I’m sure I’ve mentioned that I like school festivals in anime before, but this arc is probably the most entertaining one yet. All these subplots are surprisingly coming together to create the most intricate, thought-provoking mystery yet. There’s so many things to consider & re-consider, with so many different people who might be the culprit, [...]
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This arc still is going on? I thought that by now, the characters would have solved things by now, but they really are teking their time solving everything. So this episode did something very interesting in terms of mystery: it toyed with its conventions. What I mean by that is that in this episode it [...]
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The search continues to catch the thief that has been attacking various clubs. From the look of things, they haven’t caught the thief despite being closer.  Most of that help obviously came from Hountarou’s sister, which her face never gets shown fully. It makes me wonder why the producers want to do this? Perhaps they [...]
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I had a feeling that Mayaka’s missing manga would play a huge part in this mystery, but I had no idea that it might very well be the key to connecting everything together. Hm, I was actually surprised. On the subject of her favorite doujin manga, it does look like it harkens back to the [...]
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