Following its penultimate episode, the highly anticipated 13th and final episode of Horimiya: The Missing Pieces, is set to air on September 23, 2023.
To further hype up the finale, a promotional video has been unveiled by the show's staff, which provided fans with a summary of the season, as well as a glimpse of what's to come. A key visual was also released alongside the video, adding to the excitement surrounding the series' conclusion.
Horimiya has not only been wildly popular in the manga world, but it has also seen success in the form of multiple animes and has developed a dedicated fanbase. The previous anime adaptation consisted of 13 episodes and premiered in Japan in February 2021. Building on this triumph, the announcement of the second anime series, Horimiya: Piece, arrived on March 25, 2023.
The new episodes feature untold stories from the manga that were not covered in the initial adaptation, with the original voice cast, including Haruka Tomatsu, Koki Uchiyama, Yuka Terasaki, Seiichiro Yamashita, and Yurie Kozakai returning. And, Crunchyroll simultaneously streamed the show in both Japanese and English.
The series is based on Daisuke Hagiwara's beloved high school comedy Horimiya, which itself was an adaptation of 2007's original shonen web comic, Hori-san to Miyamura-kun, written and illustrated by Hiroki Adachi, under the pseudo name Hero. Running in Square Enix's Monthly G Fantasy magazine since 2011, Hagiwara's adaptation concluded in March 2021 under Hero's supervision. Square Enix released the final compiled volume in July 2021, followed by the English version by Yen Press on May 23, 2023. An additional epilogue chapter was added to provide a fitting conclusion to this cherished tale.
The series revolves around a popular high school girl, Hori-san, who in reality, is simple and family-oriented. One day, she has a random run-in outside a classroom with Miyamura-kun, a seemingly average and gloomy fanboy, who's attractive but has a bad-boy streak and is covered in piercings and tattoos. The two unexpectedly bond and decide to help one another.
The final episode of Horimiya: The Missing Pieces is set to air on Sept. 23, 2023, on Crunchyroll.
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