Hyouka

Hyouka (氷菓) is a 22-episode anime produced by and directed by  originally aired from April 22, 2012 to September 16, 2012. The first episode premiered on April 14, 2012 at a special event at Kadowaka Cinema,,. An OVA episode  was streamed online on on July 8, 2012 and was later released on Blu-ray Disc with the third manga volume on January 12, 2013.

licensed the anime and released it on home media in North America on July 4, 2017 with an English dub. released it in the United Kingdom in 2017 and 2018.

Plot
"Everyone wants to live their high school life to make many good memories". This high school student motto doesn't interest Houtarou Oreki. He doesn't want to "waste" his energy on relationships, sports or other activities. Instead, what he wants is to "save his energy" by all means and spend his high school life being as plain as possible.

But his life changes when he receives a letter from his older sister Tomoe Oreki in which she wants him to enter the Kamiyama High School Classic Lit Club, which was in danger of getting disbanded as all previous members have graduated. Being afraid to refuse his sister, Oreki does so, thinking that this won't change anything in his life as he expected to be the only club member. But he finds out that he was wrong - when he enters the club room, he sees a beautiful girl, standing near the windows and looking outside. She notices Oreki and introduces herself. Her name is Eru Chitanda from Class 1-A and a member of the Classic Lit Club. After some time, his old friends Satoshi Fukube and Mayaka Ibara join this club as well.

They begin to investigate a case that occurred 45 years ago. Hints of the mystery are buried in an old issue of an anthology called Hyouka published by the Classic Lit Club in the 1960s.

Characters

 * See List of characters

Locations

 * See List of locations

Japanese

 * Hyouka Blu-ray Limited Edition
 * Hyouka DVD Limited Edition
 * Hyouka DVD Regular Edition
 * Hyouka BD-BOX

English

 * HYOUKA: The Complete Series - Part One - BD/DVD Combo
 * HYOUKA: The Complete Series - Part Two - BD/DVD Combo