Was Watching Hyouka Again For The Third Time! Just Can't Get Enough Of This Anime!! #hyouka #hotarou

Sasaki in first year:

Sasaki in second/third year:

🧐🧐🧐

It truly is beautiful TwT

This doujinshi

OMG! Go and like this yuuram doujinshi. I’m crying! Part 1 |  Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | It’s about Yuuri and Wolf doing the New Year’s prayers on Earth and Wolf’s like we did it last year, why must we do it again. And Yuuri’s explaining like it’s a brand new start, like a blank page to forget the bad things. And Wolf’s like I don’t want a blank page. And then the sun comes out, and Yuuri’s like the weather is beautiful I’m sure good things will happen this year . And it shines on Wolfie making him all sparkly and Yuuri’s like, it’s really perfect. And then the last one is him saying I don’t wanna start from scratch either. And Wolf’s like what did you say? And he’s like nothing. I’m gonna try hard being a maou this year, too. So beautiful. TwT

This is literally happening to me right now!

𝙃𝙖𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙙𝙤𝙣𝙚?

The golden moment from when Yuuri was called henachoko!! Most-henachoko-King-in-history and haughty-whatever-sama-Royal-Highness!!

Yuuram in Novel 1

Because yuuram is life, I will make a megapost that will include every yuuram moment in every novel and extra story we have available in English so far. 

I’ll make a post per novel and then make the megapost that will link to them when I have them all. They’ll be long but who doesn’t need a reminder of these wonderful moments in their lives? 

To make it fun, I challenge you to count the times that Yuuri calls Wolfram beautiful.

Let’s begin! 

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Novel 1. ch.3 -The first time Yuuri sees Wolfram-

“As for the super beautiful shape of the fourth person, even I might be able to match his physique physically. It can’t be helped because characteristics like the length of the legs is a racial feature, like height and shoulder width and body weight. Since when did I become someone who only worries about body build. Maybe, because of that day when the second pitcher said, "You, since you’re a small target, it’ll be hard to throw a ball into you”.

Even if our bodies are evenly matched, when I just glanced up, I’ve already been defeated. How can he be this beautiful! Because of them, his face emits an aura. Although it’s likely to seem that way because of his dazzling blond hair. His looks and voice are like an older Vienna chorus boy. His white skin seems transparent, and his irises are an emerald green that make me think of the bottom of a lake, and furthermore he doesn’t have a split chin. He’s an angel, definitely an angry angel. However, being in this place, he’s also probably a beautiful Mazoku.“

—————————————————————— Novel 1. ch.3 -Gunter talking about Shinou and Daikenja - cuz it applies

"Shinou is the darkness, and the Daikenja is the light. They yearn for each other, love each other, and are born bearing each other’s colors in body. In short, darkness is light, and light is darkness!”

—————————————————————— Novel 1. ch.4 -Yuuri slapping Wolfram-

It seemed like he wasn’t going to stop attacking under any circumstances. Wolfram gulps down his glass, and because he’s beautiful the way he glares this way is all the more fierce. (…)

There are moments when my small-town sense of justice can’t be suppressed. As a catcher, that’s a fatal flaw. It’s very disadvantageous in life.

Right in front of me I had slapped that beautiful face.

—————————————————————— Novel 1. ch.6 -The reason why Yuuri chose sumo for the duel-

The common people wear trunks, while the rich people or nobles generally wear panties with ties on the side. As a gung-ho noble, Wolfram would almost positively be wearing the panties. I don’t want to see him in his underwear, but he has a figure that looks like it’d come off easily during the match. If that happens then the match is mine. You’re immediately defeated if it falls off. There is a rule for that.

(..) From the start I take a low position, and with a quick forward movement I struck Wolfram’s waist while he was unprepared for a lunge. Instead of a loin cloth I took hold of his belt. It was an instant victory.

—————————————————————— Novel 1. ch.7

-Wofram pov: sort of good-looking brat-

If he was going to kill him, then kill him. Although it was humiliating that this sort of good-looking brat had him by the neck, it was much more honorable to die like a warrior, than kneel and beg for his life.

—————————————————————— Novel 1. ch.8

-Wolfram accepting the proposal-

He looked away from me oddly, lifting his chin diagonally in an unnatural way.

“And so young partners…”

Leaving behind a meaningful phrase, the aged one left the room.

—————————————————————— Novel 1. ch.8

-Wolfram being cute-

“Are ‘grip’ and 'bat’ the names of the weapons you’re used to using?”

“No no. On of the pieces of gear you use for baseball is like a stick, as well as a glove and ball, and the pitcher throws and the batter tries to hit it, and if he does the batter becomes a runner, and the catcher takes out the runner.”

“As I thought, a life and death match.”

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Novel 1. ch.8 -First time he calls Yuuri henachoko-

“At any rate a worthless maou like you can’t even ride a horse by himself! I can gallop with extra luggage on my horse without any trouble, even if you seem uncertain. You’re the first maou to be such a henchoko, so it can’t be helped!”

“D-don’t call me a henachoko!”

—————————————————————— Novel 1. ch.9 -Second time he calls Yuuri henachoko -

“My older brother should have arrived there by now, so everything might already be under control. It isn’t that dangerous, but since you’re a henachoko don’t go where I can’t see you.”

“Don’t call me a henachoko.”

—————————————————————— Novel 1. ch.9 - When they meet Adalbert-

“Don’t listen to him!”

Wolfram’s voice sounded hoarse as he shouted. The uneasiness made my shoulders tremble.

“Ah, huh, you could talk?!”

“Don’t listen to that guy! He’s…”

It wasn’t just my shoulders, but my arms were wrapped around his waist and his entire body was trembling. As he turned his head to face forward I could see beads of perspiration forming at the nape of his neck.

“That man, he betrayed us… He’ll try, to bring you, into his group, too.”

“Wolfram, if it hurts then don’t talk.”

(….)

“From the looks of it, they’re not planning on killing you. It’ll be troublesome if you get hurt trying to resist. Go with Adelbert for now.”

“But, you and everyone…”

“Don’t worry about us.”

I take in his words. If I leave them behind, what will happen to them?

Wolfram whispers briefly again.

“Hurry and go, Yuuri!”

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Novel 1. ch.9 -Interesting foreshadowing-

“No, I’ll shout, I’m allowed to shout! I’ll be Japanese until I’m twenty, even if I have the soul of the maou, I’ll be Japanese until I come of age. I think Japan is more peaceful that this country, so even if you tell me to stop I’ll continue talking! I oppose war, completely oppose, I’ll oppose it my whole life, even if in death I’ll oppose it!”

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Novel 1. ch.10 General knowledge -Gunter

“As I explained to you, majutsu is a quality of the soul. Your majesty, having the soul of the maou, can make the four elements obey you gladly, without going through the trouble of taking the oath and such things.”

—————————————————————— Novel 1. ch.10

-Are you seeing this, Gyun-gyun!?-

From the far side of the corridor, the blond with wavy hair comes running. The intense navy blue uniform suits him; the mazoku Prince Wolfram. 'Although he’s a man he’s this beautiful, Günter’ I muttered in a sigh.

—————————————————————— Novel 1. ch.10

— Golden wings—

“Appearing without any treasure, don’t embarrass my older brother and me!”

Before I could open my mouth to respond, Wolfram grabbed my chest and fastened a shiny golden decoration to me.

“Hey…”

“My uncle Bielefeld gave this to me when I was a child. It doesn’t have any special origin, but it suits someone who hasn’t gone out on the battlefield, let alone military merit. Anyway, considering Yuuri can’t even ride a horse, he’s the most henachoko king in history.”

“Don’t call me a henachoko~.”

“All right, settle down.”

When he says all that in unnaturally fast speech, Wolfram half-runs away.

The present fastened to the left side of my chest is a gold bird with both wings spread. Conrad smugly gazes after his little brother’s back.

“It seems Wolfram has taken a liking to Your Majesty.”

“Eeeeeh?! That Haughty-Whatever-Sama Royal Highness!?”

Yuuram in Novel : 1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|13|14|15|16|17 

JingYi being JingYi... (I almost mistook him for WuXian...)

Here’s your chance to steal Lan clan headbands╭( ･ㅂ･)و 

P1: I wanted to see XiChen big bro with his hair down…

P2: When out traveling, SiZhui seems like the responsible one in charge of waking everyone up on time. JingYi…could get out of bed on time, but he won’t be fully awake XD

I completely agree! And I am seriously looking forward to more of YuuRam scenes💜 And Takabayashi-sensei's work is really great! Such beautiful and unique characters and such an entertaining story line! I do hope she starts writing again!

(maruma) Novel analysis - Are the novels 1 to 4 a rip off?

This is information that fell onto my lap this week, if the person who brought it to my attention wants to talk about it, so be it. Otherwise, let me just say, it wasn’t me who discovered it.

The full analysis is under the cut.

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What were some of the biggest challenges in this project and how did you overcome them?

I did exactly that. I started with the anime. I loved the Royal Couple so much that I wanted more content and so I got to know about the manga(since I'm not a LN reader). Then I found out a few artwork which were done by Temari-sensei and turned out to be the novel illustrations. I was that of Wolf and Yuuri from Seisakoku arc and I just couldn't contain my curiosity when I realised there is more content. So went ahead and read the Novels from the Seisakoku arc. Then after finishing it and realising the character difference and the amazing work of Takabayashi-sensei I went ahead and read the whole LN from Vol 1 to 17 again. It was highly satisfying!! It is a beautiful work! Truly a masterpiece! With the characters and story line being so wonderfully unique and entertaining in its own way. And the LN is dark!! It is so good that way.

Is this show done? How about the novels its 2019 and i just started watchingthe anime.where does the anime leave off in regards to the manga/novel

Hi anon!

Anime and manga are finished, the novels aren’t (although the story line is way ahead of the others).

In my personal opinion watch the anime first, then read the manga , lastly read the novels, so you go from worst to best format.(If you read the novels first it will be impossible to watch the anime.)After about chapter 40 in the anime, it goes its own way separate from the novels. Same with the manga after chapter 96.Both of these take place at the end of the Caloria arc (novel 8).If you really can’t be bothered to read the early novels (which are completely different and so much better than anything else in this series), then read novel 8, to sorta understand where in the anime/manga you left off, and then start with novel 9 (Seisakoku arc) for new material. You will be missing out on: 1) Yuuri being a completely different character   2) Wolfram’s character development. 3) The yuuram relationship development. But hey, if you wanna skip everything that’s good in this series is up to you.Cheers!

I just want Takabayashi-sensei to work her magic already and write up the next volume! That beautiful yet exasperating cliffhanger and those extras really don't help my curious little heart!

Your analysis was great as always! I feel like there is someone there who is invested in this series just as much, if not many times more, like me.

Hi! Just wanna say I love ur blog (low key check it all the time to see if there’s anything new) but what do you believe the next book will mostly be about, what to expect from where we left off?

Hi @verydonutturtleexpert! Thanks for checking my blog, I’m sorry I’m not updating as often as I used to. It’s just a temporary thing, I’m sure I’ll be posting more often soon.  Speaking of, November 2020 is the 20th anniversary of maruma, so I hope everyone’s preparing for the celebrations.  As for what I expect the next book to be, I think it will have a lot of the info we’ve seen in some of the post novel drama cds, the manga, and the extras stories. I’ll explain why I’m taking these as reliable info soon.

My opinion on what might happen in the next novel(s)

First, let’s start with the afterword for novel 17: In it Takabayashi sensei said that the next novel will be titled: "The Ma!Light Burns in the Darkness! “ and that Wolfram might take a bit of a protagonist role in it . This makes sense because on the last chapter of novel 17, we could see that Shinou was threatening Yuuri’s and all of Wolfram’s family’s lives, if Wolfram dared to spill the secret to Yuuri.  This means that what’s happening behind closed doors can only be witnessed by Wolfram and not Yuuri, and why Yuuri can’t tell us what’s happening. 

 At the same time we have the post novel drama cd 71,  ”I can't sleep tonight". In it, Yuuri goes to Conrad to cry about how “Wolf hasn’t been around at night (he sneaks out in the middle of the night) and omg is he cheating on me!?” There’s also talk about Jozak’s recovery and how he has been visiting Murata at Shinou’s Shrine, and how Murata kicked Yuuri out when Jozak arrived, claiming he (Murata) had a cold. Now it seems that Murata and Jozak are plotting or doing something (yes a lot of love for this ship). The point is that they’re hiding something from Yuuri. Could it be they found out about the boxes that Wolf brought back without permission? Clearly Murata and Jozak are investigating whatever is happening with Wolf and Shinou. Why the drama cd? The drama cd was written with supervision of GEG and sensei, and it talks about everything that happened in the novels. (Wolf, Jozak, Murata).

Onto the manga: The manga was written by GEG, who we can assume had seen the plans sensei had for the following novels and ending, so we can imagine she tried her best to summarize that into the manga (without making Shinou the bad guy he’s being portrayed to be in the novels).

In the manga Wolfram falls into the box and is saved by Yuuri. This could very well be the case in the novels as well, with Yuuri finding out what Wolf’s been hiding and risking his life to save him.

If this happens, then the title will have a perfect double meaning: The bright light of Wolfram shining in the darkness (of Yuuri not knowing what’s been hidden from him), and the light of Yuuri/Wolf in the darkness of the box .

 Now, I don’t think Shinou will just make the boxes ‘disappear’ like in the manga (that was a very rushed ending). Instead, with Shinou as the enemy I expect a final battle to unfold. (possibly in following novels)

Most boxes except for Earth (Gwendal's) are in Shin Makoku’s possession, and probably in Shinou’s Shrine. They had Wind box after the Caloria arc ; Fire box after the Seisakoku arc, and Water box after the Prison arc.  I don’t think Saralegui is about to surrender the Earth box anytime soon so we can expect a battle with Wolf/Yuuri/Conrad(?) fighting with the boxes against Shinou . We do not know if Conrad can actually use the box at will or not). A fight with the 4 boxes would be great , but the ending seems so near and Earth box so far away (at least an arc away). Unless sensei uses a plot like “Maxine has it in Seisa and he ships it over to Shin Makoku" , which would be hilarious and fit the plot, but who knows.

What I can tell is that the climax is near... you can tell by the introduction of the ultimate enemy, Shinou, who has been toying around with everyone. It’s payback time.

In the Prison arc (nv 16, ch1), Murata said that there was a place where the boxes could ‘rest’ forever, but with Shinou’s plans to control them, it seems impossible that they could go on that last quest to put the boxes to rest until the ultimate enemy is vanished.  So I can see the novel ending with the death of the immortal Shinou, and we finding out how he became immortal, what he did to Daikenja, etc.  (I can even see Wolf maybe dying at some point to get Yuuri to use his ‘regeneration’ magic on him).

Whether sensei feels like doing some extras and following through with ‘putting the boxes to rest’ is unknown.  And this is what I think the story might have been like... IF we wouldn’t have had the ‘bad ending’ (It comes equally to anyone I) turned to drama cd (Trick or Treat), turned to canon(It comes equally to anyone II)! Where Yuuri, at some point, during this entire mess, IS SENT BACK TO EARTH! While and I quote’ everyone is in danger int he other world’. So... yeah, I don’t know what to do with that. Maybe the box thing from the manga was changed, and instead Yuuri was shipped to earth and now he’ll be back and then we’ll have the ultimate fight? Also, how long was Yuuri unconscious in the hospital? A week? A year? Impossible to know. So yeah, that’s what I’m guessing might happen in the next novels.  Oh! And don’t forget Yuuri might need to get his head fixed cuz in  ‘Do you want an exorcism?”, which also has the post novel 17 info of Yuuri getting another voice in his head (Uesama Kai) after the water box incident , there was an explanation about getting the ‘people in his head’ to fulfill their wishes so they would stop manifesting.... but maybe that won’t get fixed for a while.