While Horimiya starts off cute, with a potentially beautiful and complicated story, it eventually boils down to something silly and at times bloated.

HoriMiya comes to an end without fanfare or fireworks but a reflective goodbye.

As the holidays come around, it pushes many to take their relationships a bit more seriously, especially with some graduating soon. Hence hard conversations come about.

The focus is taken off Kyoko and Izumi’s relationship as Shu Iura gets properly introduced and developed, and we get other random stories.

Episode 10 slightly breaks away from the eccentricities of Kyoko and Izumi’s relationship to put a microscope on Yuki and Toru’s continued farce.

Izumi’s middle school bully is introduced, as well as Kyoko’s developing kink of being treated badly.

We explore why Remi likes Sengoku, Miyamura’s attempt to be more aggressive and watch as Yuki learns someone has a crush on her.

Kyoko continues to struggle to get intimacy from Izumi as Toru finds himself in the middle of a love triangle.

A new character is introduced, who presents a complication in Hori and Miyamura’s relationship is introduced. Also, Hori looks for Miyamura to step up a bit.

It may have finally happened – Kyoko and Miyamura might be together! That is if Kyoko’s dad doesn’t get in the way.