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Hello everyone! I hope you enjoy my detailed psychological analysis of Horimiya, episode 6! I am both surprised and sad to see Izumi's "hot guy" haircut, forced by gossip and indirect bullying.

Now that Hori's dad has gotten more camera time since last week's episode, I continue to be amused and confused about what type of person he is. What a man of mystery. However, the following points are clear.

1) Hori comes from a more secure attachment style than I previously thought, with how comfortable she and her mom are around the dad (still might be a deadbeat dad, but we shall see).

2) Izumi and his haircut, probably for the first time, symbolize his stance of confronting the gossip and other people's judgment instead of running away, which has been his approach up to this point. That is, empowerment.

3) We see the behavioral difference between Izumi's close friends and classmates, and how they reacted to Izumi's haircut. This is a key stark contrast in the episode.

Let's see what next week's episode brings!

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MrGiamMY999

Will this be the end of the Miyamura’s parents slander? Poor guys were never shown in the show doing anything bad and they’ve been taking Ls from you since episode 1 😂 Jokes aside, I noticed this in other shows too but I really like how despite you formulating your own theories you stay mindful that they are just theories and stay perceptive to things that may contradict them!

Jan Negrey

1. Remember that next episode has an important after credits scene. I will write the rest of analysis later.

Jan Negrey

2. Miyamura works in his family's cake shop. So he interacts a lot with his family, but not necessarily at home. Which might create it's own problems. 3. Speaking of family and work - it sounds like (based on this episode) - Hori's father has a work that demands him to be possibly up to 18 months somewhere else and then he can go home for like 6 months. That's an assumption, but that is sadly how a lot of people who are forced to work and want to keep their good jobs, work. Especially guys. 4. There is patriarchal model of home in Japan, but there is also model of family based on oldest living member of the family, which can be (and often is actually) a matriarch. Also it kind of differs between areas. We're in the city, where people are far more liberal and open. 5. Miyamura has been coming to Hori's home for..over a year now? Something like that.

Jan Negrey

6. Honoka Sawada is an interesting character. I think she is the first one who has like Grade 1 trauma (with possibility of Izumi being bullied to self-harm, being close and Hori being de facto abandoned by her mother when she was sick being a bit further). And yes, I think she looks similar to Miyamura on purpose. Or rather she attaches herself to Miyamura, because he looks similar to her brother. 7. Stealing a candy, I mean, Miyamura took her candy from Hori's mouth. Unless she pushed it to him, that kind of implies tongues at work. I did stuff like that to a girl, when we were in Junior High. Kind of implies consent, because it would be hard to take it without. I did give the girl back her candy BTW. I'm not gonna comment on what happened next, except saying that I was good at giving massages and my home was 150 yards from school and the bra does make massage harder. And you have no idea how many girls came to my house during school for...massage. Still it didn't go any further than massage.

Waiting4Erik

This is one of the best episodes in the series. So much happens. We’ve now seen every member of the Hori family go out of their way to get some alone time with Miyamura. It’s hilarious that Kyosuke asked Izumi - out of concern for Izumi - if he’d been dumped right in front of Kyoko. He doesn’t ask Kyoko if she dumped him or if she’s ok. No, he’s got to know if his new buddy Izumi is ok lol. Not sure if it was intended this way, but Kyosuke pulling the deadbeat dad trope of “going to the store for a pack of cigarettes” rather than watch the horror movie was wild. They did an amazing job casting voice actors for Hori’s dad both in Japanese and the English dub.

Psychotherapist Reacts

Really? Haha yeah despite Hori’s dad catching nonstop Ls from me, I have a feeling he’ll be one of my favorite characters haha

Waiting4Erik

There’s a good argument to be made that the title isn’t just Kyoko+Izumi, but all of the Hori’s+Miyamura. The relationship starts and continues because of Sota wanting to play with his Big Bro. Hori’s mom was supposed to get Miyamura’s first name while Kyoko was present, but her mom made sure Kyoko was out shopping when Miyamura came over. And now her dad got bath and bed time with Izumi. Izumi has Honoka as a rival for Kyoko’s attention, but Kyoko has her entire family vying for Izumi’s attention.

Alyce

Yaaaay, Horimiya is back with my favorite yapper over analyzing everything. Let's goooo.

Budoy

there some eps where theres credit scene, i just forgot with eps it is.

JAMES D'ALESSANDRO

Sawada is a jr. In Japan they only go to high- school for 3 years. At least in all the anime I have watched. My high-school was the same way, but changed to a 4 year high-school a few years later. Oh, and I thought Kita wanted a romantic relationship with Rio.

Psychotherapist Reacts

I wasn’t entirely sure about Kita and Ryo, and many viewers said it wasn’t romantic but pure admiration haha

JAMES D'ALESSANDRO

I can see that, but she did tell Bocchi that she wanted to be Ryo's girl. I think this is exactly what you said it is

Jon Daux

So Miyamura "stole" the candy from her mouth. As in, he literally took the candy from her mouth when he kissed her, it wasn't just to taste the flavour on her lips. It was a slightly odd time but I don't see it as Miyamura being odd, rather its his growing confidence. You could argue there a slight 'forbidden' element to that kiss given that it was in secret when their friend was right there, although it's not actually forbidden or anything lol. "Stealing candy" is surprisingly not an uncommon trope in anime I guess, though I've not thought about it before.

Skraith77

Hori's reaction to being told by "her boyfriend to go to class" was a subtle foreshadowing of things to come... :D

Jeremy Herttna

Izumi is super slick. From taking Horis candy from her mouth with a kiss, to his almost perfect second kiss before Kyosuke the third wheel interrupts him. Also, Sawada is such an interesting character that doesn't get as much screen time as she should. I know it's tough to give everyone enough spotlight when the cast is pretty big and the series is so short. I hope you'll give the second season a look. It really gives a lot more depth to the rest of the cast since this first season really just focuses on Hori and Izumi.