History Literature / Hyouka

* TheFaceless: Oreki's elder sister, Oreki Tomoe. The most we get is everything under her nose. [[spoiler: Pause Episode 16 at just the right time, though, and you can catch just the bottom half of her [[eyes]].]]

* TheFaceless: Oreki's elder sister, Oreki Tomoe. The most we get is everything under her nose. [[spoiler: Pause Episode 16 at just the right time, though, and you can catch just the bottom half of her [[eyes http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_m8hbffoMLC1r67ekro2_1280_9654.jpg]].]]

* TheFaceless: Oreki's elder sister, Oreki Tomoe. The most we get is everything under her nose. [[spoiler: Pause Episode 16 at just the right time, though, and you can catch just the bottom half of her eyes.]]

* TheFaceless: Oreki's elder sister, Oreki Tomoe. The most we get is everything under her nose.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Chitanda, apparently suffers from some sort of neurological disorder that affects her memory and prevents her from maturing beyond the mentality of a four year old.

* AttentionDeficitOhShiny: Chitanda has to ask the student council president to give the Culture Club more spa-- [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=XsEiCKWjBY0 wow, look at all of the cool festival activities!]]

* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Eru to Houtarou.

** While taking care of a customer at the Classics Club's culture festival stand, his inner thoughts while half-smiling were "Damn, I can't smile."

* AlternateCharacterReading: Discussed regarding the word 犠牲 (either ''gisei''/"scapegoat" or ''ikenie''/"offering") in the foreword to the second volume of ''Hyouka''. [[spoiler:This may be because Sekitani was forced to be this scapegoat, but came to take the position willingly]]. This trope is also the origin of the term "Kanya Fest". It appears to be a simply shortening of "Kamiyama", but [[spoiler:the "Kanya" is actually written 関谷 (Sekitani) to honor him]].

* ChainOfDeals: At the beginning of episode 12, Oreki's sister gives him a broken fountain pen for no particular reason as he leaves for the school festival. Later on, a fashion club member asks to use it as an accessory, giving Oreki a voucher for a free make-over in exchange. In the next episode, another student arrives to buy an anthology from the Classics Club booth and Oreki gives him a heads-up that his fly is down; Oreki gives him the safety pin from the back of the voucher so he can fix it. The student then gives Oreki his toy water pistol in return. The next episode, Oreki trades the gun along with an anthology to two members of the confectionery research club for two packs of cookies, as well as a pack of wheat flour. Oreki then gives the flour to Satoshi to help Mayaka in the cooking contest (by tossing it down from a window instead of actually going down there himself, [[BrilliantButLazy naturally]]). In the episode following, Mayaka (at his request) repays him by giving him a mirror from her [[Anime/{{HimitsuNoAkko-chan}} Akko-chan]] cosplay.

** As mentioned in episode 10, Fukube [[spoiler:hints at Irisu being a ManipulativeBitch]] by assigning Strength to Oreki, as the image depicting Strength is [[spoiler:a lion being tamed, or controlled, by a young woman.]]

* OvershadowedByAwesome: [[spoiler:Satoshi]] implies he feels this way towards [[spoiler:Houtarou.]]

* DullEyesofUnhappiness: Episode 16; Oreki is about to talk of his thoughts on the Juumoji case, which excites Chitanda. But when he denies her curiosity by telling her it involves an "adult topic" and she can't hear him out, her reaction is nothing less of this trope. It's pretty hilarious.

* EmbarrassingOldPhoto: In episode 12, photos of Chitanda in various cosplay outfits were taken when she participated in a special stall during the school's SchoolFestival, Kanya Fest. When she drops by the booth to see how Oreki is doing and then quickly leaves in episode 13, Oreki can't help but notice the tip of a maid outfit dress in the paper pile.
** She later comes back for the pictures and realizes the envelope has been opened.

** The ending credits for episodes 1-11.5 feature Chitanda and Ibara in a planetarium, on a circular bed, their feet at opposite ends but facing each other. Holding hands. [[RevolutionaryGirlUtena Sound familiar?]]

* AmbigiousDisorder: Chitanda, apparently suffers from some sort of neurological disorder that affects her memory and prevents her from maturing beyond the mentality of a four year old.

* ChainOfDeals: At the beginning of episode 12, Oreki's sister gives him a broken fountain pen for no particular reason as he leaves for the school festival. Later on, a fashion club member asks to use it as an accessory, giving Oreki a voucher for a free make-over in exchange. In the next episode, another student arrives to buy an anthology from the Classics Club booth and Oreki gives him a heads-up that his fly is down; Oreki gives him the safety pin from the back of the voucher so he can fix it. The student then gives Oreki his toy water pistol in return. The next episode, Oreki trades the gun along with an anthology to two members of the confectionery research club for two packs of cookies, as well as a pack of wheat flour. Oreki then gives the flour to Satoshi to help Mayaka in the cooking contest (by tossing it down from a window instead of actually going down there himself, [[BrilliantButLazy naturally]]). In the episode following, [[hottip:Mayaka:At his request]] repays him by giving him a mirror from her [[Anime/{{HimitsuNoAkko-chan}} Akko-chan]] cosplay.

* ChainOfDeals: At the beginning of episode 12, Oreki's sister gives him a broken fountain pen for no particular reason as he leaves for the school festival. Later on, a fashion club member asks to use it as an accessory, giving Oreki a voucher for a free make-over in exchange. In the next episode, another student arrives to buy an anthology from the Classics Club booth and Oreki gives him a heads-up that his fly is down; Oreki gives him the safety pin from the back of the voucher so he can fix it. The student then gives Oreki his toy water pistol in return. The next episode, Oreki trades the gun along with an anthology to two members of the confectionery research club for two packs of cookies, as well as a pack of wheat flour. Oreki then gives the flour to Satoshi to help Mayaka in the cooking contest (by tossing it down from a window instead of actually going down there himself, [[BrilliantButLazy naturally]]). In the episode following, [[hottip:Mayaka:At his request]] repays him by giving him a mirror from her cosplay.

*** The following episode, Ibara and Kouchi cosplay as [[HimitsuNoAkkoChan Akko-chan]] and [[ArtOfFighting King]] respectively.

* ChainOfDeals: At the beginning of episode 12, Oreki's sister gives him a broken fountain pen for no particular reason as he leaves for the school festival. Later on, a fashion club member asks to use it as an accessory, giving Oreki a voucher for a free make-over in exchange. In the next episode, another student arrives to buy an anthology from the Classics Club booth and Oreki gives him a heads-up that his fly is down; Oreki gives him the safety pin from the back of the voucher so he can fix it. The student then gives Oreki his toy water pistol in return. The next episode, Oreki trades the gun along with an anthology to two members of the confectionery research club for two packs of cookies, as well as a pack of wheat flour. Oreki then gives the flour to Satoshi to help Mayaka in the cooking contest (by tossing it down from a window instead of actually going down there himself, [[BrilliantButLazy naturally]]). In the episode following, Mayaka repays him by giving him a mirror from her cosplay.

* ChainOfDeals: At the beginning of episode 12, Oreki's sister gives him a broken fountain pen for no particular reason as he leaves for the school festival. Later on, a fashion club member asks to use it as an accessory, giving Oreki a voucher for a free make-over in exchange. In the next episode, another student arrives to buy an anthology from the Classics Club booth and Oreki gives him a heads-up that his fly is down; Oreki gives him the safety pin from the back of the voucher so he can fix it. The student then gives Oreki his toy water pistol in return. The next episode, Oreki trades the gun along with an anthology to two members of the confectionery research club for two packs of cookies, as well as a pack of wheat flour. Oreki then gives the flour to Satoshi to help Mayaka in the cooking contest (by tossing it down from a window instead of actually going down there himself, [[BrilliantButLazy naturally]]).

* ChainOfDeals: At the beginning of episode 12, Oreki's sister gives him a broken fountain pen for no particular reason as he leaves for the school festival. Later on, a fashion club member asks to use it as an accessory, giving Oreki a voucher for a free make-over in exchange. In the next episode, another student arrives to buy an anthology from the Classics Club booth and Oreki gives him a heads-up that his fly is down; Oreki gives him the safety pin from the back of the voucher so he can fix it. The student then gives Oreki his toy water pistol in return. The next episode, Oreki trades the gun along with an anthology to two members of the confectionery research club for two packs of cookies, as well as a pack of wheat flour. The flour is then given to Satoshi to help Mayaka in the cooking contest (in the most dramatic of fashions).
** All in all, it was a pretty fun chain, no matter how random the objects were. Several people were made happy in the process, and the Classics Club won a contest to increase their popularity.

* AttentionDeficitOhShiny: Chitanda has to ask the student council president to give the Culture Club more space-- [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=XsEiCKWjBY0 look at all the cool festival activities!]]

*** The following episode, Kouchi dresses like [[KingOfFighters Kim]].