At the request of his older sister, student Hotaro Oreki joins Kamiyama High School's Classic Literature Club to stop it from being abolished, joined by fellow members Eru Chitanda, Satoshi Fukube and Mayaka Ibara. The story is set in Kamiyama City, a fictional city in Gifu Prefecture that the author based on his real hometown of Takayama, also in Gifu. The fictional Kamiyama High School is based upon the real life :ja:岐阜県立斐太高等学校|Hida High School. They begin to solve various mysteries, both to help with their club and at Eru's requests.
Hyouka is the first novel in the Classic Literature Club series, written by Honobu Yonezawa and published by Kadokawa Shoten on October 31, 2001. As of November 30, 2016, six volumes have been published in the series. A seventh novel has been confirmed by the author on Twitter. Short stories are published in Kadokawa Shoten's Yasei Jidai magazine.
Manga
A manga adaptation, titled Hyouka and illustrated by Taskohna, started serialization in the March 2012 issue of Kadokawa Shoten's Shōnen Ace. Kadokawa Shoten published 12 tankōbon volumes from April 26, 2012 to May 25, 2019. The manga adapted the first four novels, same as the anime series. A sequel series was announced to start in the August 2019 issue of Shōnen Ace.
Anime
A 22-episode anime adaptation of the first four novels was produced by Kyoto Animation and directed by Yasuhiro Takemoto, with Shoji Gatoh handling series composition, Futoshi Nishiya designing the characters and Kohei Tanaka composing the music. The series aired in Japan from April 22 to September 16, 2012. The first episode premiered on April 14 at a special event at Kadowaka Cinema, Shinjuku. A bonus original video animation episode was streamed online on UStream on July 8, 2012 and was later released on Blu-ray Disc with the third manga volume on January 12, 2013. The series has four pieces of theme music: two opening themes and two ending themes. The first opening theme, used for the first 11 episodes, is "Yasashisa no Riyū" by ChouCho, and the second opening theme from episode 12 onwards is "Mikansei Stride" by Saori Kodama. The first ending theme, used for the first 11 episodes, is "Madoromi no Yakusoku", and the second ending theme from episodes 12 onwards is "Kimi ni Matsuwaru Mystery"; both ending themes are sung by Satomi Sato and Ai Kayano. Funimation licensed the anime and released it on home media in North America on July 4, 2017 with an English dub. Anime Limited released it in the United Kingdom in 2017 and 2018.
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In October 2017, it was reported that the novels have 2.05 million copies in print.
