Horimiya

Horimiya (ホリミヤ) is a Japanese manga series written by Hero and illustrated by Daisuke Hagiwara. It is an adaptation of the original Hori-san to Miyamura-kun^[b] webcomic written and illustrated by Hero. The manga is currently serialized with sixteen volumes in Monthly G Fantasy, published by Square Enix. The series is licensed in English by Yen Press. Set on interception of the lives of two high school students, the popular and seemingly perfect Kyouko Hori, and the quiet, gloomy Izumi Miyamura, who discover each other's secret which is their hidden selves and fall in love.

Horimiya
First tankōbon volume cover of Horimiya, featuring Izumi Miyamura (left) and Kyouko Hori (right)
ホリミヤ
Genre	Romantic comedy
Manga
Written by	Hero
Illustrated by	Daisuke Hagiwara
Published by	Square Enix
English publisher	Yen Press
Imprint	GFantasy Comics
Magazine	Monthly G Fantasy
Original run	October 18, 2011 – March 18, 2021
Volumes	17
Anime television series
Directed by	Masashi Ishihama
Produced by	Yuuta Kawana Kozue Kaneniwa Toshihiro Maeda Tomoko Fujimura Narumi Odagiri Eiji Maesaka
Written by	Takao Yoshioka
Music by	Masaru Yokoyama
Studio	CloverWorks
Licensed by	Crunchyroll[a] SA/SEA: Medialink
Original network	Tokyo MX, GYT, GTV, BS11, MBS
English network	SEA: Animax Asia US: Crunchyroll Channel
Original run	January 10, 2021 – April 4, 2021
Episodes	13
Anime television series
Horimiya: The Missing Pieces
Directed by	Masashi Ishihama
Produced by	Yuuta Kawana Toshihiro Maeda Tomoko Fujimura Narumi Odagiri Noriyoshi Uchibayashi Fumi Miura
Written by	Takao Yoshioka
Music by	Masaru Yokoyama
Studio	CloverWorks
Licensed by	Crunchyroll[a] SEA: Medialink
Original network	Tokyo MX, MBS
English network	US: Crunchyroll Channel
Original run	July 1, 2023 – September 23, 2023
Episodes	13

A 13-episode anime television series adaptation was produced by CloverWorks and aired from January to April 2021. A 13-episode sequel titled Horimiya: The Missing Pieces building the relationships between the characters and recapping moments in the first season aired from July to September 2023.

Plot

The story focuses on the growing relationship between two high school students, Izumi Miyamura and Kyouko Hori.^[1][2] Both of which are completely different people outside of school.^[3][4] Miyamura, despite his bookish-otaku appearance, is not book smart.^[4] He is a stereotypical "bad boy" with many piercings, tattoos. Meanwhile Hori, who despite her ostentatious appearance, excels in academics, and has a family-loving character.^[4]

Production

Beginning October 2011, Daisuke Hagiwara started collaborating with Hero on a spin-off of the latter's romantic comedy webcomic Hori-san to Miyamura-kun, titled Horimiya. Hagiwara worked as the artist, while Hero continued writing the story. The manga is currently serialized in Monthly GFantasy, published by Square Enix. Yen Press acquired the license in North America. Currently, the series has seventeen volumes, with the seventeenth being a bonus epilogue.

Media

Manga

Volumes

The Horimiya manga, illustrated by Daisuke Hagiwara, was serialized in Square Enix's Monthly G Fantasy from October 18, 2011, to March 18, 2021 and collected in 16 tankōbon volumes.^[5][6][7] A seventeenth volume containing new chapters was released on July 18, 2023.^[8] Horimiya was published in English by Yen Press.^[9]

No.	Original release date	Original ISBN	English release date	English ISBN
1	March 27, 2012[10]	978-4-7575-3543-5	October 27, 2015[11]	978-0-31634203-2
Pages 1–6 Page 6.5: Myamura
2	November 27, 2012[12]	978-4-7575-3806-1	January 26, 2016[13]	978-0-31626869-1
Student Council Stress and De-stress Happy March Birthday Young Izumi A Sudden Shower So Stubborn I Like
3	April 27, 2013[14]	978-4-7575-3951-8	April 26, 2016[15]	978-0-31635662-6
That's Okay Food I Like Green, White & Red Rebellion The Faraway Spring That Fateful Summer's Day Summer Cold
4	October 26, 2013[16]	978-4-7575-4107-8	July 26, 2016[17]	978-0-31635664-0
Page 21–26
5	April 26, 2014[18]	978-4-7575-4297-6	October 25, 2016[19]	978-0-31635667-1
Pages 27–34
6	October 27, 2014[20]	978-4-7575-4325-6	January 24, 2017[21]	978-0-31635673-2
Page 35–42
7	May 27, 2015[22]	978-4-7575-4658-5	April 18, 2017[23]	978-0-31646932-6
Pages 43–50
8	November 27, 2015[24]	978-4-7575-4814-5	July 18, 2017[25]	978-0-31656019-1
Pages 51–56
9	May 27, 2016[26]	978-4-7575-4998-2	October 31, 2017[27]	978-0-31647330-9
Pages 57–63
10	November 26, 2016[28]	978-4-7575-5167-1	March 27, 2018[29]	978-0-31641605-4
Pages 64–71
11	August 26, 2017[30]	978-4-7575-5460-3	June 26, 2018[31]	978-1-97532750-7
Pages 72–81
12	May 26, 2018[32]	978-4-7575-5731-4	December 11, 2018[33]	978-1-97532922-8
Pages 82–90
13	February 27, 2019[34]	978-4-7575-6032-1	January 28, 2020[35]	978-1-97535964-5
Pages 91–100
14	December 27, 2019[36]	978-4-7575-6452-7	July 21, 2020[37]	978-1-97531392-0
Pages 101–109
15	September 18, 2020[38]	978-4-7575-6848-8	July 13, 2021[39]	978-1-97532472-8
Pages 110–118
16	July 18, 2021[40]	978-4-7575-7282-9	May 23, 2023[41]	978-1-97534731-4
Pages 119–121 Last Page Extra Pages 1–3
17	July 18, 2023[42][43]	978-4-7575-8634-5 (RE) 978-4-7575-8635-2 (SE)	October 22, 2024[44]	978-1-97539142-3
Prologue Pieces 1–8 Epilogue

Anime

Main articles: Horimiya (TV series) and Horimiya: The Missing Pieces

Further information: List of Horimiya episodes

A 13-episode anime television series adaptation of Daisuke Hagiwara's Horimiya was announced on September 17, 2020. The series was animated by CloverWorks and directed by Masashi Ishihama, with Takao Yoshioka handling series' composition, Haruko Iizuka designing the characters, and Masaru Yokoyama composing the series' music. It aired from January 10 to April 4, 2021, on Tokyo MX and other channels.^[45][46] The opening theme song is "Iro Kōsui" (色香水; "Color Perfume") performed by Yoh Kamiyama, while the ending theme song is "Yakusoku" (約束; "Promise") performed by Friends.^[47]

Funimation licensed the series and streamed it on its website in North America, the British Isles, Mexico, and Brazil, in Europe through Wakanim, and in Australia and New Zealand through AnimeLab.^[48] On February 5, 2021, Funimation announced that the series would be receiving an English dub, which premiered the next day.^[49] Following Sony's acquisition of Crunchyroll, the series was moved to Crunchyroll.^[50] Medialink has licensed the series in Southeast Asia and South Asia, and streamed it on Bilibili only in Southeast Asia.^[51] The company later began streaming the first episode on their Ani-One YouTube channel for a limited time, from February 13 to March 15, 2021.^[52] They also licensed the anime to Animax Asia for TV airing.^[53]

A second anime series, titled Horimiya: Piece, was announced at AnimeJapan on March 25, 2023. It features stories from the manga that were not adapted in the previous anime.^[4] The series aired from July 1 to September 23, 2023.^[54] The opening theme song is "Shiawase" (幸せ; "Happiness") performed by Omoinotake, while the ending theme song is "URL" performed by Ami Sakaguchi.^[55] Crunchyroll streamed the series under the title Horimiya: The Missing Pieces.^[56]

Reception

Volume 2 of Horimiya reached the 15th place on the weekly Oricon manga charts and, as of December 2, 2012, had sold 43,735 copies;^[57] volume 3 reached the 32nd place and, as of May 4, 2013, had sold 75,124 copies;^[58] volume 4 reached the 21st place^[59] and, as of November 10, 2013, had sold 96,786 copies;^[60] volume 5 reached the 8th place^[61] and, as of May 11, 2014, had sold 171,530 copies;^[62] volume 6 reached the 2nd place^[63] and, as of November 16, 2014, had sold 208,788 copies.^[64]

Horimiya was sixth in the Nationwide Bookstore Employees' Recommended Comics of 2014.^[65] At the 6th Crunchyroll Anime Awards in 2022, Horimiya won Best Romance while Izumi Miyamura was nominated for Best Boy.^[66] The second anime series, Horimiya: The Missing Pieces, also won Best Romance while it was nominated for Best Slice of Life at the 8th edition in 2024.^[67]

Notes

1. In North America through Crunchyroll, LLC (formerly known as Funimation).
2. Japanese: 堀さんと宮村くん, Hepburn: Hori-san to Miyamura-kun