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Yuru Yuri

Dec 24, 2015

Secret Santa 2015 Review

I've been planning to watch this show for a long time ad the event was the final push I needed to start watching it. Here's what I thought about it:

Yuru Yuri is basically a "cute girls doing cute things" kind of show, which means there's no overarching plot and it ultimately depends on the characters and their hijinks. Sadly it takes a lot of time to actually get funny (in my case I started to enjoy it from episode 6 onward). To make matters worse, the mood changed completely in the penultimate episode and added some unnecessary drama that didn't last longer than said episode. 

Animation-wise, the anime was full of pastel colours that enhanced the moe aspect of the show and overall it was pleasing to the eye. 

The voice actors did a good job and the background music was nice, though quite forgettable. Though the highlight of this section were both the opening and the ending. While I'm not particularly fond of J-Pop the songs were really catchy.

Overall this show could have been better and I can't help but feel a bit dissapointed, but given it has been progressing positively (penultimate episode aside) I'll give the second season a try to see if it improved.

5/10 story
7/10 animation
6.5/10 sound
5/10 characters
6/10 overall

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Etue Dec 24, 2015

Yuru Yuri's first season is probably the least enjoyable for me. While it does have freshness going for it in the end it lacks a bit in involving you with the characters in the first few episodes. Season two improves on this and focusses on the most interesting pairings which to me makes it better than the first season. The third season swaps colour palate and style a bit and while I like the first colour palate better in the end it is probably the most consistently enjoyable season outside of episode 11 which drops the bat. What I'm saying here is, nice review and I hope you enjoy the second season more if you ever try it.