Yuru Yuri

After a year in grade school without her childhood friends, first year student Akari Akaza is finally reunited with second years Yui Funami and Kyouko Toshinou at their all-girls' middle school. During the duo's first year, Yui and Kyouko formed the "Amusement Club" which occupies the now nonexistent Tea Club's room. Shortly after Akari joins, one of her fellow classmates, Chinatsu Yoshikawa, pays the trio a visit under the impression that they are the Tea Club; it is only once the three girls explain that the Tea Club has been disbanded that they can convince Chinatsu to join the Amusement Club—a group with no purpose other than to provide entertainment for its members.

Based on the slice-of-life manga by Namori, Yuru Yuri is an eccentric comedy about a group of girls who spend their spare time drinking tea and fawning over each other, all while completely failing to even notice the supposed main character Akari amongst them.

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Toshinou, Kyouko Main

Ootsubo, Yuka Japanese

Akaza, Akari Main

Mikami, Shiori Japanese

Funami, Yui Main

Tsuda, Minami Japanese

Yoshikawa, Chinatsu Main

Ookubo, Rumi Japanese

Sugiura, Ayano Supporting

Fujita, Saki Japanese

Oomuro, Sakurako Supporting

Katou, Emiri Japanese

Ikeda, Chitose Supporting

Toyosaki, Aki Japanese

Furutani, Himawari Supporting

Mimori, Suzuko Japanese

Matsumoto, Rise Supporting

Gotou, Saori Japanese

Funami, Mari Supporting

Uchida, Maaya Japanese

Yoshizawa, Takashi Producer

Oono, Ryousuke Producer

Oota, Masahiko Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

Ebina, Yasunori Sound Director

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Jul 29, 2023

SamayuJung

Recommended

Tomato onesie waifu my beloved.

Story:
Yuru Yuri (2011) is a comedy anime about friends who get together during and afterschool to have fun together, with the twist that they secretly find each other attractive while some of the girls are not afraid in the slightest to express their true feelings. This story has made me laugh very hard on many occasions and I am confident you will find it fun to watch as well.

Art Style:
The art style in Yuru Yuri (2011) is very round and adorable. The characters are very cute, just as they are likeable. The character designs are very simple with the ... art style being rememberable. The animators definitely achieved a certain look that they were going for, with this cute, bubbly aesthetic. They are, however, two characters that are related in the series and look very much alike, so this might be confusing for newer audience members to tell them apart.

Sound:
The voice actors did a very good job at making the girls sound cute and approachable. All of the characters are friends, and the seiyuu's do a fantastic job of making them sound like they get a long but can still joke around with each other.

Character:
Plenty of the main characters have a lot of the same interest and goals, which is why they are club members, and friends. However, it could get a tad bit dull that many of the same characters have a lot in common. The supporting cast fit right along with the main characters with the only main difference being the amount of screen time. There was very few character development, but I see that appropriate with this being a comedy.

Enjoyment:
I would personally rewatch this show to revisit the comedy. This series was rememberable, and I can see myself enjoying it the more I endure this franchise. In my opinion, this anime can only be disliked if the viewer isn't a fan of the genre. This show is pretty much what you'd expect from seeing the genre, rating, and characters.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Aug 11, 2024

vegemikey

Mixed Feelings

This show made me feel really uncomfortable at worst, and maybe got a chuckle at best.

The main problem with YuruYuri is that the characters are 13 years old, yet are depicted in suggestive/outright sexual contexts. This combined with incest and forced kissing are just not the right mix for what should probably be a wholesome SOL anime. There's a few episodes which really did nothing except make me feel gross, and I nearly dropped the show twice.

The show actually has a few funny moments, and an alright set of characters. I only had real issue with Chinatsu, a self-imposing prick who does nothing but subtract ... from the anime. The best episodes were the few without her.
There's also this running gag where Akari has "little presence" but this gets old quick and feels more like cheap bullying for laughs.

In short (toward the beginning) this show is essentially a softcore lolicon Yuri fan-service compilation with some storyline to keep it going. It picks up a little but gains no real depth, and feels like it's written to be enjoyed by probably the worst guy you'll ever meet. Incels unite!!

Watch it if you want but it's not a big recommendation from me (and I normally love any SOL show), I've heard okay things about season 2 so might watch that, although I heard those same things about this season, and it's clear how that turned out.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Nov 18, 2017

SuspiciousScout

Not Recommended

Yuru Yuri is one of those shows I was curious about, wondering why it was so popular. I decided to give it a go, and I can't really understand why so many people like it so much.

My biggest issue is two things: The characters are incredibly bland and annoying, and it's not very funny... At least to me.



Honestly, it was difficult finding any of the characters likeable. The only two I enjoyed throughout the whole run were Kyoko and Akarin. Everyone else is basically a walking stereotype like Ayano, Yui, or Chitose. Ayano is your textbook tsundere and really loves Kyoko for no real good ... reason. Sakurakou and Himawari are just there for the breast jokes. Chitose only exists to impliment some yuri fanservice... Do you see what I'm getting at here? Everyone feels like they're simply pawns to make an unfunny and predictable joke. It was so one-note and by the book that I had a hard time laughing at anything.

I really disliked Chinatsu in particular because she ended up being so unlikeable. A very stuck-up and pretentious girl who's only defining trait is hating Kyoko and being madly in love with Yui. I'm not exaggerating when I say that's what happens when the show tries focusing on her, one of those two things happen. Or maybe both. There also was a part in episode 11 that made me dislike her even more, but I won't spoil it. Nothing about her is a good character to me, and the show would have been much better if she wasn't part of the main cast.




Now for the jokes, which unfortunately don't land well most of the time. Like I said earlier, a lot of the comedy stems from the characters which are all very stereotypical so you can see what's coming a mile away. What's worse is that they like to really hammer in the same jokes over and over across the entire season. Was Chitose getting a nosebeleed and fantasizing about Ayano and Kyoko being together not funny the first time? Well too bad, because it's going to happen many, many other times! You can really tell what's going to come up just because it all is painfully predictable. There were a few times were they threw curveballs and made me laugh, but it was very few and far between. There's one joke in particular which just felt way too mean spirited, which is Akarin barely having any screen time despite being the supposed protagonist. It's a cute funny joke at first, but overtime it just ends up being kinda hard to watch because it feels like the world is against her and nothing goes her way. There are even times where she doesn't appear for an entire episode just because of a short gag in the beginning. Maybe I'm looking too deep into it, but I really didn't find that funny and just became grating after a while.


So overall, I really wanted to like Yuru Yuri, but just ended up really bored and wanting it to be over near the end. The characters did absolutely no favors as they made the show very bland and predictable, and hardly any of the jokes landed for me.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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