Episodes: 22
How: Fansub
Rating: 2.5 out of 5
Summary: {from mal} Oreki Houtarou is a minimalistic high school boy. One day, he joins the Classic Literature Club at his elder sister's request.
There he meets Chitanda Eru, Fukube Satoshi, and Ibara Mayaka. Chitanda is a calm beautiful girl but she turns into an embodiment of curiosity once she says, "I'm interested in it (Watashi, Kininarimasu)". Fukube is a smiling boy with a fantastic memory who calls himself a database. Ibara is a short girl and is strict with others and herself. She loves Fukube, but he always dodges her approaches.They begin to investigate a case that occurred 45 years ago. Hints of the mystery are buried in an old collection of works of the former members of Classics Club. The collection is titled "Hyouka."
Thoughts: This show nearly bored me to death for the first six episodes, Episode seven is where it started to climb out of the pits of mediocrity into something much more entertaining to me. Until episode eighteen that is, That's where it got back into it's "meh" stage but still...
In the end it was all over the place, I was never sure what to expect after each little mystery ended. Some of the mysteries were just simple others were quite entertaining and took some thought to figure out. It was an "Okay" little show...
Who we have....
Houtarou Oreki - The "Main Character". His quest in life so far is to "save energy", Doing the least amount of work he possibly can and still survive High School. Of course this quest is his is destined to fail now that he's met Chitanda.
He's amazingly good as putting things together, he's perceptive. Every little mystery that has met the group he has solved one way or another and with seemingly little trouble. It wasn't quite said in the series but, It was pretty obvious that he holds some sort of attraction to Chitanda.
The only reason he joined the Classics Club is because his older sister {who was also a member of the club at one time} asked him to in order to prevent it from being abolished.
Satoshi Fukube - The "Best Friend", His memory is amazing and is a natural database of random stuff.. He's a bit of a Sherlock Holmes fanatic and really seems jealous of how easy it is for Oreki to figure mysteries out.
He's a bit of a jerk, At least to Mayaka. He use to become obsessed about stuff and is attempting to be more laid back.... Bleh.
Eru Chitanda - The "Main Characters Love Interest". She's curious about everything, Even tiny things that make you want to reach into the screen, slap her and scream "who cares!". I guess she's a bit on the cute side, Oreki can't seem to say "No" to anything she wants but really....
Anyways, She's the only daughter of one of the four remaining wealthy farming families. She joined the Classics Club basically to figure out what happened to her Uncle 45 years ago. Since the Club had basically no members in the beginning, Chitanda was given the spot as Club President.
Mayaka Ibara - The "Girl with the unrequited Crush", Last to join the Club I kind of figure she only does it because of her feelings towards Satoshi. She's also a member of the Manga Club and works in the Library, People in the Manga Club really seem to be hard on her.... At least certain ones.
Anyways, She went to the same Middle School as Fukube and Oreki... Apparently they were all friendly but she and Oreki really don't seem to get along.
Oddly, I probably liked her the most... I never wanted to smack her or anything and I actually felt bad for her when the Manga Club girls picked on her and Fukube was just a jackass to her at Valentines Day.
Favorite Character{s}: Oreki - I liked his energy saving attitude, The fact he obviously had a thing for Chitanda was rather cute. He couldn't say "No" to her no matter what...
Least Favorite Character{s}: Satoshi - He was just a jerk, a jealous... irritating jerk.
