History YMMV / Horimiya

* HilariousInHindsight:
** In chapter 4, Hori off-handedly says to Miyamura that he looks thin enough to fit into her clothes. It turns out (in a much later chapter) that he ''is''. And then some. To her predictable chagrin.
** In the anime, Hori's father is voiced by [[Creator/DaisukeOno Jotaro]]. Another [[Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveisWar very popular Rom-Com]] has one of the main protagonists' father voiced by [[Creator/TakehitoKoyasu Dio]]. Both fathers have very similar laid-back and trolly personalities and end up being popular with fans. It seems the Jotaro vs Dio rivalry transcends time and space.

* AcceptableTargets: Skinny men. Not one chapter goes by without at least one joke about how scrawny Miyamura and/or Sengoku are.
-->''If you put them together, they add up to a whole person."
--->-- '''Toru'''

** Miyamura's makeover. He cuts his hair and removes much of his piercings rather early into the series after he and Hori publically announce their relationship. The fact that this came after Miyamura hearing some of his classmates bad-mouthed Hori on her taste in guys made this change really contentious. Later story beats looked to address this by tying in his makeover to his finally coming out of his shell and trauma from middle school. Some found this to be a satisfying change for Miyamura while others thought it just made him into a "[[BeautifulAllAlong generic pretty boy]]" and his original design was still the better one.

** Yuki became one as a result of being the center of the TriangRelations dilemma between herself, Toru, Sakura and Yanagi. Yuki starts to develop feelings for Toru but CannotSpitItOut, but opts to fake date him to both give her an out to turn Yanagi down while also discourage Sakura from pursuing Toru. Yuki's indecisiveness and jealousy ends up being the major driving point on this storyline. Some found this to make Yuki one of the most relatable characters in the story while others despised the fact that she both held the ConflictBall and ultimately got off scot-free without ever really being called out for it.

* DesignatedHero: Hori. She is very possessive of Miyamura, physically abuses him, and is a bully to Sengoku.

* AuthorsSavingThrow:
** In the [[http://dka-hero.me/hm001_030/pict_com_015.html original webcomic]] and OVA, the student council was more malicious. Remi messes up the calculations on the student council worksheets and throws them away. While flirting with Sengoku, she makes Sengoku promise to protect her from anything. When Sakura calls out Hori, she forcefully drags her out to the middle of the hallway just to scold her in front of everyone. After Miyamura reveals Remi is at fault, [[NeverMyFault none of the student council members apologize]]. All these actions make the student council look like bullies, so some adjustments were made in ''Horimiya''. Instead of what happened in the original version, Remi accidentally loses the sheets when she bumps into Miyamura and the scene where Sakura drags Hori out was removed. In the anime adaptation of ''Horimiya'', the conversation Remi has with Sengoku at the vending machines was cut too, and after Miyamura reveals Remi's mistake, all of the student council members apologize.
** The anime ironically enough seemed to have taken the below complaint in EightDeadlyWords to heart as the majority of the focus of the anime is on Hori and Miyamura's romance to the point where many of the aforementioned slice of life chapters and a number of characters gets adapted out. Unfortunately, it had the side effect of the ambivalent sentiment regarding the supporting cast growing lower, as the anime still includes pivotal scenes for them but they now lack the buildup and context to make the audience empathize with them.

* WhatAnIdiot: Miyamura's former middle school class-mates/bullies think it's a good idea to continue where they left off -- right in front of Hori. They do so because they think they can drive him into further isolation by getting her away from him. It doesn't end well for them.

** Miyramura's makeover. He cuts his hair and removes much of his piercings rather early into the series after he and Hori publically announce their relationship. The fact that this came after Miyamura hearing some of his classmates bad-mouthed Hori on her taste in guys made this change really contentious. Later story beats looked to address this by tying in his makeover to his finally coming out of his shell and trauma from middle school. Some found this to be a satisfying change for Miyamura while others thought it just made him into a "[[BeautifulAllAlong generic pretty boy]]" and his original design was still the better one.

** The running gag of Hori's RomanticizedAbuse kink, in which she gets excited whenever Miyamura acts like an abusive BastardBoyfriend. It straddles the line with the fanbase considering the gag funny or not. Not helping matters is Miyamura himself is consistently uncomfortable with it, which pushes the gag further into CringeComedy territory.

** Miyamura's complete makeover after their RelationshipUpgrade proved to be rather [[UnnecessaryMakeover divisive]] with some fans, partly because the speed at which he does it made it come off as Miyamura caving to peer pressure [[note]]Miyamura was judged by their classmates as not being a good fit for Hori, something she in the past completely shot down as something that bothers her[[/note]] while others feel this stripped aways part of Miyamura's quirky charm of his personality outside of school.

->''If you put them together, they add up to a whole person."
-->-- '''Toru'''

* EightDeadlyWords: Due to adapting ''Omake'''s chapters and ignoring the endgame plot, some readers got tired of the story past [[spoiler:Miyamura's Christmas proposal]] and admitted to being neutral to low regarding of the cast besides Hori and Miyamura, given their development takes up a lot of chapters as well.

* AmericansHateTingle: Fan reactions to Tanihara, Miyamura's former middle school bully, depend on which side of the Pacific you're on. In Japan, he's decently popular for acting like a {{Tsundere}} in trying to make up with Miyamura but being terrible at communicating it, and he scored tenth place in the character popularity poll. In the West, fan reactions are generally negative due to his introductory scene where he gives Miyamura a BreakingSpeech until [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend Hori beats him up and scares him off]] and the anime showing that [[spoiler:he framed Miyamura for causing their middle school class pet rabbits to die, leading Miyamura to be completely ostracized]]. Consequently, Western fans feel like he already crossed the MoralEventHorizon, and think that Miyamura forgiving him [[KarmaHoudini let him get off with no punishment for his past actions]]

** Miyamura's two early instances of violence against Sengoku [[note]]Sengoku blames Hori over an accident with the Student Council due to miscommunication.[[/note]] and Ishikawa [[note]]Ishikawa accidentally, and weakly, slaps Miyamura compared to hitting him in anger[[/note]] comes off as even more disproportionate on Miyamura's part than they did in the manga.

** Makio Tanihara, Miyamura's former middle school bully. He's introduced with a bad first impression to both Hori and the reader alike, still trying to harass Miyamura in the present, until he [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend gets scared off by Hori]]. Shindo implies and later chapters confirm that [[TheAtoner Tanihara actually wants to mke up with Miyamura]] but sucks at it, but the added detail of him [[spoiler: framing Miyamura for causing their middle school class pet rabbits to die, leading Miyamura to be completely ostracized]] was considered a bridge too far for readers.

** Yuki became one as a result of being the center of the TriangRelations dilemma between herself, Toru, Sakura and Yanagi. Yuki starts to develop feelings for Toru but CannotSpitItOut, but opts to fake date him to both give her an out to turn Yanagi down while also discourage Sakura from pursuing Toru. Yuki indecisiveness and jealousy ends up being the major driving point on this storyline. Some found this to make Yuki one of the most relatable characters in the story while others despised the fact that she both held the ConflictBall and ultimately got off scot-free without ever really being called out for it.

* TearJerker: After [[spoiler:Tooru rejects Sakura's confession]], she goes on to see Tooru and Yuki together. She acts as the weight of the world is off of her shoulders now that she's [[spoiler:confessed]] and gotten that out of the way, but after Sengoku gets the message and tries to comfort her, she immediately breaks down crying. LoveHurts, indeed.

* TheWoobie: Miyamura in his younger days. He was neglected and isolated by his peers and put down whenever they felt like it. It got to the point where he was having destructive thoughts about wanting them to disappear. [[spoiler:It hasn't completely disappeared even though he's in high school and mostly away from them but he won't defend himself no matter what they say.]]

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Hori has become one in the fanbase due to her violent and jealous tendencies, particularly because of how she takes it out on Miyamura. On the flip side, she is still very supportive and caring towards him and knows exactly how unreasonable she is, even once becoming concerned that he won't care about her anymore.

** Miyamura's two early instances of violence against Sengoku [[note]]Sengoku blames Hori over an accident with the Student Council due to miscommunication.[[/note]] and Ishikawa [[note]]Ishikawa accidentally, and weakly, slaps Miyamura compared to hitting him in anger[[/note]] comes off as even more disproportionate on Himyamura's part than they did in the manga.

** The anime ironically enough seemed to have taken the below complaint in EightDeadlyWords to heart as the majority of the focus of the anime is on Hori and Miyamura's romance to the point where many of the aforementioned slice of life chapters and a number of characters gets adapted out.

* {{Narm}}: Because of the [[AdaptationDistillation brisk pace]] in which the anime adapts the manga, some of the early instances of Miyamura's violent tendencies make him come off as even more of a ComedicSociopath than the manga intended.
** Miyamura's headbutting of Sengoku. The anime got rid of the scene which implied that Sengoku's wrongfully blaming Hori was premediated, so it makes Miyamura's headbutt less karmic as a side-effect.
** The escalation of Miyamura's fight with Ishikawa. In the manga, Ishikawa strikes him in the heat of the moment by accident. The anime adapts this into a really weak slap, making Miyamura's beating him to a pulp even more disproportionate than it was in the manga.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: In the [[http://dka-hero.me/hm001_030/pict_com_015.html original webcomic]] and OVA, the student council was more malicious. Remi messes up the calculations on the student council worksheets and throws them away. While flirting with Sengoku, she makes Sengoku promise to protect her from anything. When Sakura calls out Hori, she forcefully drags her out to the middle of the hallway just to scold her in front of everyone. After Miyamura reveals Remi is at fault, [[NeverMyFault none of the student council members apologize]]. All these actions make the student council look like bullies, so some adjustments were made in ''Horimiya''. Instead of what happened in the original version, Remi accidentally loses the sheets when she bumps into Miyamura and the scene where Sakura drags Hori out was removed. In the anime adaptation of ''Horimiya'', the conversation Remi has with Sengoku at the vending machines was cut too, and after Miyamura reveals Remi's mistake, all of the student council members apologize.

** Makio Tanihara, Miyamura's former middle school bully. He's introduced with a bad first impression to both Hori and the reader alike, still trying to harass Miyamura in the present, until he [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend gets scared off by Hori]]. Shindo implies and later chapters confirms that [[TheAtoner Tanihara actually wants to mke up with Miyamura]] but sucks at it, but the added detail of him [[spoiler: framing Miyamura for causing their middle school class pet rabbits to die, leading Miyamura to be completely ostracized]] was considered a bridge too far for readers.

** Given we know how the manga is going to end via the webcomic, characters saying or suggesting certain things is funny. [[spoiler: So stuff like Hori's teacher assuming Miyamura got her pregnant in chapter 4, or Miyamura introducing Yuriko and Kyousuke as his parents to Ishikawa in chapters 15 and 66, respectively,]] can be seen as humorous nods to forward events.

** Makio Tanihara, Miyamura's former middle school bully. He's introduced with a bad first impression to both Hori and the reader alike, still trying to harass Miyamura in the present, until he [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend gets scared off by Hori]]. While he eventually became TheAtoner, the added detail of him [[spoiler: framing Miyamura for causing the classes pet rabbits to die, leading Miyamura to be completely ostracized in Middle School]] was considered a bridge too far for readers.

** On the other end, Hori's rather explosive and violent outbursts straddles the line of how much the fandom would be willing to tolerate. It doesn't help matters that the mangaka wings back and forth between when her violence towards Miyamura is played for laughs or drama. This divide reached its breaking point in a chapter where, in a fit of anger over Miyamura re-piercing a hole in his ear, Hori accidentally slams a door into his face causing his ear to bleed.

* ValuesDissonance: The RunningGag of Miyamura's desperation to keep his body tattoo a secret. In Japan, it's considered a social stigma.