Highlights
- The last episode of Horimiya focuses on characters like Sakura, Yanagi, and Honoka who haven't received much attention before. There's a theme of inferiority complex and how it affects their behavior.
- Sakura and Yanagi hit it off at the bookstore but act awkwardly around each other due to their shared feelings of inferiority. Sakura sees Yanagi as cool and cute, while Yanagi is unaware of his strengths and focuses on what he likes about Sakura.
- Honoka misunderstands Sengoku's intentions when he wants to move her poster to a more visible spot. She thinks he's looking down on her when he just wants to help others see it. The next episode will likely focus on Yanagi's character.
The last episode of Horimiya focused on characters who didn't get much attention in the original anime, such as Sakura, Yanagi and Honoka. There's a running theme in the episode, which is how the characters perceive the situation based on their inferiority complex, and act awkwardly because they're dominated by their feelings of inferiority.
For example, when Sakura meets Yanagi at the bookstore, she discovers that they both like the Weekly Shinobi (a blatant Naruto rip-off magazine) and they hit it off soon after. The problem is that they both act awkwardly around each other because of a shared inferiority complex. Sakura thinks that Yanagi is as cool and cute as a character from the manga she reads and more cool than her, while Yanagi is not even aware of his strengths and only focuses on what's good about Sakura and how she encourages others around her.
The same thing happens with Honoka later in the episode. She tries to put up a poster on a bulletin board to help other club members in her class recruit more students. But since the girls in her class shun her, she thinks Sengoku is looking down on her feelings by wanting to remove her poster from the bulletin board, when in fact all he wanted was to move it to the entrance bulletin board where it would be more obvious to the eye.
Horimiya: The Missing Pieces Episode 8 Release Date And Time
Episode 8 of Horimiya: The Missing Pieces will be released on Saturday, August 19th. For viewers in Japan, the new episode will be available on local networks like TOKYO MX, Tochigi TV, Gunma TV, and BS11. International fans can enjoy it on Crunchyroll. Keep an eye on the schedule given below to stay up-to-date with the latest installment of the series:
- Pacific Time: 7:30 AM
- Mountain Time: 8:30 AM
- Central Time: 9:30 AM
- Eastern Time: 10:30 AM
- British Time: 3:30 PM
- European Time: 4:30 PM
- Indian Time: 8:00 PM
The next episode is titled Yanagi-Kun, so it will probably focus on Yanagi's character. The official synopsis mentions that the episode will explore Yanagi's sleeping and smiling habits from the perspective of a girl who's interested in him. So we will certainly get to see more sides of Yanagi than just his cute and awkward sides from the previous episode.