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Hyouka
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Yuichi Nakamura
Hōtarō Oreki (voice)
22 eps
Satomi Sato
Eru Chitanda (voice)
22 eps
Daisuke Sakaguchi
Satoshi Fukube (voice)
22 eps
Ai Kayano
Mayaka Ibara (voice)
22 eps
Miho Miyagawa
Female Teacher (voice)
1 eps
Yui Makino
Mitsuishi (voice)
1 eps
Kiyohiro Yamaguchi
Male Student (voice)
1 eps
Ryota Osaka
Male Basketball Club Member (voice)
1 eps
Kaito Ishikawa
Baseball Club Member (voice)
1 eps
Kunihiro Hosoya
Baseball Club Member (voice)
1 eps
Shunsuke Kanie
Baseball Club Member (voice)
1 eps
Tetsuo Goto
World History Teacher (voice)
1 eps
Shinya Takahashi
Calligraphy Club Member (voice)
1 eps
Arise Sato
Hyakunin Isshu Club Member (voice)
1 eps
Asuka Konno
Female Student (voice)
12 eps
Yuki Ono
A Capella Club Member (voice)
1 eps
Yuichi Iguchi
Occult Club Member (voice)
1 eps
Yoko Hikasa
Quiz Research Society Vice President (voice)
1 eps
Ichitaro Ai
Male Student (voice)
11 eps
Shiori Mikami
Mori (Manga club member) (voice)
10 eps
Yoshihisa Kawahara
Koreyuki Tani (voice)
11 eps
Kanae Itou
Confectionery Research Society Member A (voice)
1 eps
Yumi Uchiyama
Noriko Shimizu (voice)
2 eps
Nozomi Masu
Confectionery Research Society Member B (voice)
1 eps
Natsuki Kitakata
Ariyoshi (Manga club member) (voice)
2 eps
Eiji Miyashita
Male Student (voice)
9 eps
Sachiko Okada
Maruta (voice)
1 eps
Hiroshi Naka
Vice-President Shibazaki (voice)
1 eps
Aoi Yuuki
Matsushiro (Manga club member) (voice)
8 eps
Daichi Endo
Shrine Parishioner (voice)
1 eps
Naoya Nakanishi
Operator (voice)
1 eps
Satsuki Yukino
Tomoe Oreki (voice)
6 eps
Mami Koyama
Youko Itoigawa (voice)
2 eps
Ryotaro Okiayu
Masashi Tougaito (voice)
2 eps
Takumi Yamazaki
Mr. Onomichi (voice)
1 eps
Aki Toyosaki
Rie Zenna (voice)
1 eps
Yui Ogura
Kayo Zenna (voice)
1 eps
Yukana
Fuyumi Irisu (voice)
8 eps
Katsuyuki Konishi
Takeo Kaitou (voice)
2 eps
Miyu Irino
Jiro Sugimura (voice)
2 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Hyouka actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Hyouka reads strongest on Bingeability, Cliffhanger Intensity and Humour.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The story
What it's about
Oreki Houtarou is a minimalistic high school boy. One day, he joins the Classic Literature Club at his elder sister's request. There he meets Chitanda Eru, Fukube Satoshi, and Ibara Mayaka. Chitanda is a calm beautiful girl but she turns into an embodiment of curiosity once she says, "I'm curious." Fukube is a smiling boy with a fantastic memory who calls himself a database. Ibara is a short girl and is strict with others and herself. They begin to investigate a case that occurred 45 years ago. Hints of the mystery are buried in an old collection of works of the former members of Classics Club. The collection is titled "Hyouka."
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E20
Mishap-py New Year
At New Year's, Eru invites Hotaro to join her in paying her family's respects at the town shrine. When Eru agrees to run a quick errand, however, she and Hotaro find themselves in an unexpected and compromising situation.
- Directed by Rika Ota
S01E22
The Doll That Took the Long Way Around
Hotaro is enlisted by Eru to appear in a Dolls' Festival parade that her local shrine holds every year. When construction work unexpectedly causes a last-minute detour, it leaves the participants wondering what went awry.
- Directed by Yasuhiro Takemoto, Taichi Ishidate
- Written by Shouji Gatou
S01E02
The Prestigious Classic Lit Club's Activities
Eru grows bored of the club's lack of activities, and suggests that they prepare an anthology to submit for the school's culture festival in the fall. While tracking down previous anthologies, the club discovers a mystery in the school's library.
- Directed by Hiroko Utsumi
- Written by Shouji Gatou
S01E19
Does Anyone Have Any Idea?
Hotaro tells Eru that he can come up with a plausible explanation for any situation she can think of, so when a seemingly mundane schoolwide announcement is made, she challenges him to figure out the reason behind the announcement.
- Directed by Taichi Ogawa
S01E01
The Revival of the Time-Honored Classic Lit Club
"Energy conservationist" Hotaro Oreki joins the Classic Lit Club at his high school at his sister's behest, to keep it from being shut down. Also joining the club are his best friend, Satoshi Fukube, and Eru Chitanda, a curious girl who enjoys mysteries.
- Directed by Yasuhiro Takemoto
- Written by Shouji Gatou
S01E21
The Case of the Homemade Chocolates
While in middle school, Satoshi rejected Mayaka's Valentine chocolate, so this year, she works even harder to present him with a Valentine's Day masterpiece. But when it turns up missing, the search is on to discover what happened to it.
- Directed by Hiroko Utsumi
- Written by Maiko Nishioka
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S01E22
The Doll That Took the Long Way Around
- Directed by Yasuhiro Takemoto, Taichi Ishidate
- Written by Shouji Gatou
S01E21
The Case of the Homemade Chocolates
- Directed by Hiroko Utsumi
- Written by Maiko Nishioka
S01E17
The Kudryavka Sequence
- Directed by Taichi Ishidate
- Written by Shouji Gatou
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Hideaki HattaProducer
Writing
- Maiko NishiokaWriter
- Shouji GatouWriter
- Katsuhiko MuramotoWriter
Direction
- Noriyuki KitanoharaDirector
- Yasuhiro TakemotoDirector
- Taichi OgawaDirector
- Eisaku KawanamiDirector
- Naoko YamadaDirector
- Rika OtaDirector
Music
- Kohei TanakaOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
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