Horimiya

Description

From Yen Press:
A sweet "aww"-inspiring tale of school life begins. At school, Kyouko Hori is known for being smart, attractive, and popular. On the other hand, her classmate, the boring, gloomy Izumi Miyamura tends to get painted as a "loser fanboy." But when a liberally pierced and tattooed (not to mention downright gorgeous) Miyamura appears unexpectedly on the doorstep of secretly plain-Jane homebody Hori, these two similarly dissimilar teenagers discover that there are multiple sides to every story and person.

Original Manga
Official English

Type

Manga

Related Series

Hori-san to Miyamura-kun (Adapted From)

Associated Names

Horimiya - A Piece of Memories Short Story Collection

Horimiya: Horisan ile Miyamurakun

Хоримия

Хорімія

هوريميا

هوری-سان و میامورا-کون

होरिमिया

โฮริมิยะ สาวมั่นกับนายมืดมน

ホリミヤ

호리미야

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Amarante Scans

Dragon&Fly Scans

forty-four minute scans

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Latest Release(s)

v.17 c.127 by TSP & Sho Habby Scans & iltrof 1 year ago

v.17 c.126 by TSP & Sho Habby Scans & iltrof 1 year ago

v.17 c.125 by TSP & Sho Habby Scans & iltrof 2 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

17 Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

Starts at Vol 1, Chap 1 (S1)

Ends at Vol 17, Chap 127 (S1 + The Missing Pieces) Out of order, Skips: Chap 14-15, 28, 41-42, 56, 65, 71, 81, 85, 88-90, 92, 97, 99, 101-102, 106, 108-109, 111, 113-114, 119, 123-125

User Reviews

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5 topics, 17 posts

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User Rating

Average: 8.6 / 10.0 (1987 votes)

Bayesian Average: 8.57 / 10.0

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Last Updated

October 21st, 2024 3:35pm PDT - 6 months ago

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Genre

Comedy Romance School Life Shounen Slice of Life
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Author(s)

Artist(s)

Year

Original Publisher

Square Enix

Serialized In (magazine)

GFantasy (Square Enix)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Manga Up! Global (Digital)

Yen Press (17 Volumes; Complete)

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #485

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Monthly Pos #579

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3 Month Pos #798

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6 Month Pos #1053

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Year Pos #1000

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List Stats

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Horimiya Manga is About to Publish Its Final Chapter

4 years ago

does it get better past ch40

7 years ago

Trope

10 years ago

"Hurr not shounen" crap

12 years ago

Horimiya?

12 years ago

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Horimiya

by FancyChubbyCat
11 years ago

Rating: N/A

Love this manga, waiting for the new chapters just puts me in so much pain.

While it's actually shonen, it seems a lot like shoujo. The plot may not be going anywhere but I find it more interesting than most mangas I've read lately. The romance is cute and isn't the biggest focus (friendship seems to be the bigger thing). The romance. It's hilarious as hell. The art is a bit simple yet I find it really cute. The characters are well written and developed. Our protagonists: Hori is not like many female heroines, she has genuine strength and is independent. Izumi isn't like the typical "strong, smart, and perfect in every way" sort of guy like in many shoujos and primarily-romantic-shounens yet he somehow manages to seem really cool and absolutely adorable. The romance isn't full of sexual tension or any other problem, it's sweet and fairly innocent (though there are implications of something..."mature... in a certain chapter). The romance also isn't something full of sexual tension, cliches, love triangles, and basically so many annoying things romantic mangas have and just don't even need. This manga is so lighthearted, cute, relaxing, and fun to read.

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Likable Female Lead Indeed

by Lightbrand
12 years ago

Rating: 8.0 / 10.0

It's not often you see that tag here at Baka-Updates, and boy does it make a difference in an otherwise pretty standard story.

The male lead isn't overly awkward when it comes to the female lead even though he was given the typical traits for a male lead in this genre (never had girlfriend before etc) but instead of blushing and twitching whenever the girl's around (like many other MCs), this guy just go "ok cool" and go with it. He doesn't shy away from a likeable girl wanting to be with him.

And speaking of likeable girl, the female lead isn't a childhood friend, ice queen, idol. She isn't a tsundere, clingy, (overly) violent. She's a normal girl who has a lot on her plate which gives her a very mature aura although sometime she wish (and the audience too) she could enjoy her teenage life more.

Then comes the problem, there's hardly any drama when these two are together, if one of them confess their feelings they'd no doubt get along fine themselves. The problems can only exist from external sources (classmates, parents, personal history). But not from within those two and their chemistry, this is a story where they are cute together and you enjoy seeing them together unlike the ones such as a harem story where the problems are from internal sources (the relationship itself) and often you roll your eyes at the character interactions.

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Side dish romance

by hotcocoa
11 years ago

Rating: 9.0 / 10.0

What's great about this comic is that it's mainly just school life and comedy. Romance does come in eventually, but it's not overpowering and there aren't dumb chapters dedicated to puppy love drama or immediate love rivals. That's what makes it more shounen and less shoujo; the lack of retardedness.

Props to the artist for drawing normal-fitting clothing 'cause seriously, don't you get tired of boob-sock shirts sometimes? U go Hagiwara.

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A manga worth reading

by Poopee6
8 years ago

Rating: 9.0 / 10.0

I agree with previous reviews that this manga may be going downhill or that these mini chapters are getting really annoying. Maybe it's all in preparation for some grand ending or something, I don't know. However, I decided to reread the manga from the beginning up to where it was and I cried so many times. The relationships and they way the story is played out is simply beautiful. This manga does such a good job portraying all the personalities and feelings of each character that it takes my breath away.The mangaka does a truly wonderful job in tying in all the characters' stories and relationships along with everyday problems and comedy. I love how during the serious moments of Horimiya, you can sense it amongst the characters' expressions and body language (i.e when souta found out they had sex or when miyamura proposes on the snowy day) and the art depicts it so amazingly well. These chapters reminded me exactly why everyone is so drawn to this manga in the first place. I hope that the mangaka will be able to return to depicting our favorite couple the way he always has been and this manga will go down in history with its previous glory.

... Last updated 8 years ago

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A little different (But in a great way)

by imaginesomethingworthwhile
10 years ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

Edit after finishing the story: It feels completely unfinished, sadly. Not quite sure why we got glances at the MC's family as opposed to the MC and the friends that have been developed in the past 100+ chapters... Biggest complaint is that we never get a romantic partner for the adorable and lovely Sakura Kono, second biggest complaint is the lack of resolution on all the building plot points over the last couple arcs. Still beautiful art all the way through, though!

Hello all you prospective readers!

Now, I love this story- it's funny, cute, and lacks the annoying drama that overwhelms other manga with similar story lines. If you're looking to read a story with secret identities that take on the presence of Misaki's in Maid Sama, you won't find it here. These traits the MCs want to keep hidden are the premise for a funny comedy with a little bit of romance sprinkled in. The description above, with the focus on the true versus false personalities/traits is just the start of this manga. Once the MCs are able to accept these things about themselves, the manga just turns into a honest-to-goodness fantastic slice of life/school days comedy that I cannot get enough of. If you're up for a lightheated rom com to take a break from the drama filled manga of today, this is your cup of tea.

Side note, the only other thing one should take into account (besides the not focused on personalities thing) is that when I realized this was labeled shonen, I laughed. This is so typically shojo I was blown away that you could see it as a shonen. Not saying that boys shouldn't read it- I think you'd love it- but its very shojoy.

Enjoy!!

... Last updated 4 years ago

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Great start but kind of fading

by dyingatmidnight
11 years ago

Rating: N/A

It starts off so great!! Like everyone else has said, they've got this great premise and really great down to earth relationship and then the focus starts to shift. Suddenly we've got too many side characters and stories and entering into typical high school manga cliches (what's a high school manga without a sports festival apparently). Its feels like it's plateaued. Even the relationship between the the two leads has sort of settled.

All that being said it's a really refreshing manga, romance wise it doesn't really fall into any tropes (none that I can really think of at the moment anyway) and its definitely worth the read in that regard. I'm enjoying it despite the drag it's currently experiencing and I'm hoping it'll find it's feet again.

ETA: So three years later, I'm still following this manga but I sort of feel like nothing is really happening now, it feels kind of aimless. Hori and Miyamura's relationship has become sort of one dimensional/comic relief? It's lost some of its appeal for it. Not enough to drop it just yet but it certainly doesn't have the same draw that it did at the start.

... Last updated 8 years ago

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Started as fun, is now progressively getting worse.

by kimpoiot
9 years ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

First of all, I love, and I mean LOVE feel good manga.

I started to read this manga because I felt it was like Bonnouji but with more chapters. Was happy with the progression in the early chapters. Jokes were hilarious as f*ck. MCs are not cliched, stereotypical shoujo protags. There's not much drama going on. Relationship progress is going slow but steady, at least there isn't much stupid misunderstandings that are becoming common with shojou mangas nowadays. It was a generally a fun read.

Then it started to slow down. It became stale, bland, boring even. Romantic progress has basically stopped, except for a few moments like the Christmas and New Year chapters. Jokes aren't even hilarious anymore after reading it for the nth time. It basically became filler. The charm that it has once had is now gone. Reading it is becoming a chore. They're going nowhere now.

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HORI THE QUEEN!

by MissModern
11 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

Absolutely love the characters in here - especially Hori and Miyamura. Anyway, this manga is about a popular, pretty girl and a gloomy-looking boy who find love within each other and their story together. It's a cute story with quirky characters that AREN'T annoying. Now, que the ships and fan girls!

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I was super surprised by this

by NightAir
11 years ago

Rating: 9.0 / 10.0

For one thing, though, I'm usually the biggest critique when it comes to high school romances (I really like slice-of-life though, so if anyone pulls that off well in theirs, I'm all there). For another, I really have a favoured tendency towards male characters with short-hair.

When I started reading this, it was because I wanted something that wasn't stereotypical shoujo-esque. I read using mangapark so y'know, what gives, right? It was filed under Josei (which I rather like because it's a bit more realistic in terms of relationship expectations), so i thought why not. (Edit: I see here that it's listed as shounen on mangaupdates, which really explains a lot about why it isn't just overbearing romance as far as the eye can see, "you're the only one for me"-esque drama llamas) I was surprised and thrilled by what I got--I thought, okay, well, even if the male lead's design isn't my thing, I guess I'll give it a shot.

Imagine my surprise--this manga's really, really cute and sweet. Not overbearingly so, but in the just-right increments for me. I love the development of their relationship before they start really developing feelings (i think it begins roughly around chapter 14)--I love slow romances. With female leads that usually take care of the home, I expected some really obnoxious siblingship sacrificing, or just being a doormat. Nope, but ehh. Miyamura's personality seems to develop into a sardonic one in the later chapters once we learn about the fact that he actually has friends (not bad, but idk, I felt it could've been better developed).

Anyway, I really liked tons of elements to it. However, in the earlier chapters, it follows a weird shoujo-trap cliche of setting up for common themes: like, "oh no, my best friend is interested in the guy I like", or, "I just wanna be able to have fun with other people, but I can't because I have to look after my family first"--but it never gets addressed or it really never feels like a huge thing? (The second one isn't even spoiler because we're introduced to that from chapter one, and she seems to be doing fine, like taking care of her brother isn't really hurting her in anyway 😕 However,

when she gets sick, we get this exposition of her and just being like 'naw mama you go to work i'm not a kid anymore it's okay!' when she was sick as a child--and while it's an inherent part of how she became what she is, I feel like that's not solid enough for me (maybe I have different expectations, who knows).

Anyway, a not bad manga--I really think positively of it, and I'm looking forward to a lot of foreshadowed character get-togethering

(I'm looking at you, Toru, Sakura--those two are such cuties I'm just ripping my face in half every time I think about it) , its balance on friendships the characters have (it could be stronger, but considering how manga usually portrays it or fails to, I'm always grasping for it), and I really like what kindness this manga does to its secondary characters (Hori's parents, etc). I'm looking forward to the ride. Peace!

... Last updated 11 years ago

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Absolutely recommended!

by shi suisen
12 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

It's a pretty nice and light-hearted story. Even though the whole "hiding my true identity in school" thing is not really original, but I think the execution of it is quite well done. The story is nothing too cheesy or dramatic.

The characters are quite likable people. We have a female lead that is quite cool-headed, a nice and friendly male lead. The pace and flow of the story is quite alright. I love the art too, it's neat and well-drawn. Overall, a great and simple manga that is sure to warm your heart. 🙂

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