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At the end of the episodes involving the movie, 10-11 iirc, just before the
ending credits there is the subtitled text "Why didn't she ask EBA?" which I
don't understand.

This wast touched on at this [Yahoo Answers
link](https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130806114319AAUOitO) but
did not help my understanding.

Is this a joke from the translator? If so, what does it refer to?


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What does "Why didn't she ask EBA" mean in Hyouka?


Each of the _Hyouka_ novels has a Japanese title and an English sub-title (the
English sub-titles are present in the Japanese novels - they are not the work
of a translator). At the end of each episode of the anime, the sub-title of
the novel that the episode was adapted from is displayed; for the movie arc,
that's "Why didn't she ask EBA?".

The English sub-titles are mostly references to mystery novels and at the same
time thematically relevant.

  * The first novel, "the niece of time", is a reference to Josephine Tey's _The Daughter of Time_. The arc is about Sekitani Jun, whose niece is Chitanda.
  * The second novel, "Why didn't she ask EBA?", is a reference to Agatha Christie's _Why Didn't They Ask Evans?_. Indeed, the whole affair would've been resolved quickly if Irisu had had just asked Eba how the film was supposed to end.
  * The fourth novel, "Little birds can remember", is a reference to Christie's _Elephants Can Remember_. The thematic relevance of this one is unclear to me.
  * The fifth novel (not animated), "It walks by past", is a reference to John Dickson Carr's _It Walks By Night_. I haven't gotten around to reading this volume yet, so I don't know what thematic relevance exists, if any.


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Probably because Kurako Eba, Hongou's bestfriend knew everything how Hongou
wanted to end the film from the start. But since Irusu interrupted the whole
scene making it a "script writing contest" as stated by Houtaru, it became
more complicated.


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I think, it also can be relate, to the episode, when they're already know the
whole story behind Hyouka or sekitani jun incident from their library teacher.
Its like there're already person that had close relate to incindent but the
whole time they didn't notice that, until Houtaro found out their teacher
childhood name.

Its like, why they didn't ask their teacher from the fisrt place? Its similar
to Agatha cristie novel "why they didn't ask eva?" Because in that novel, Eva
was a big key of the mystery, but novel characters didn't notice it from the
first place


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