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Originally Posted by Hyper
Great writeup. I'll have to disagree with you on one point though. I don't think Hyouka is slice-of-life at its best because I don't think it's quite a slice-of-life, unless we want to call any "realistic" show a slice of life (which is one way to define it, I admit.) I agree with ahelo about Hyouka being layers upon layers of characterization. It has a clear direction to go, abeit very slowly. I know you didn't label Hyouka as "just" a slice-of-life, but I always feel a little strange when someone called Hyouka that. It's like when someone call Evangelion a mecha show I guess. It is, but not quite.
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I see your point--since there's no real defined genre of almost exclusively "character-driven" anime, it really is hard to classify Hyouka. Note that hardly anyone thinks it's appropriate to classify it as simply a mystery anime akin to the venerable Detective Conan franchise, even though mysteries are the other constant throughout the series, besides a heavy emphasis on characterization.