I once complained that Candy Boy had a misleading title. The upside, which I failed to appreciate at the time, is that it was the good kind of misleading: the kind that surprised you with lesbians. Yuru Yuri’s deception isn’t so generous. It has yuri in the title, another word that’s 3/4 yuri, and a space in the middle that presumably symbolizes female genitalia. Either this was the most lesbian show ever or it was the world’s most unethical case of domain parking.
Yuru Yuri is good when it’s about lesbians doing lesbian things (hereinafter “yuri”). Yuru Yuri isn’t good when it’s about middle school girls telling each other crappy jokes (hereinafter “yuru”). The first season had a passable 50/50 yuru/yuri ratio. The yuri was enjoyable but only so much as middle schoolers could make it. I wasn’t crazy about the yuru, but it was sufficiently spread out not to get tiresome, and once in a while the jokes were actually funny.
Yuru Yuri (Season 1): +
The second season had an awful 75/25 yuru/yuri ratio. It’s like each episode flipped a coin to decide if it was going to be a yuru episode or a yuri episode, and even when yuri won it was deferred to the second half. Some of the episodes, without exaggeration, had more yuri in the commercial bumpers than the actual episodes. I think I’ve finally discovered why. Many recent anime have gone with random words and/or symbols to denote sequel seasons. Yuru Yuri went with balls.
Yuru Yuri ♪♪ (Season 2): ~
The drop in yuri wasn’t the only problem. The yuru dropped in quality as it rose in quantity. Aside from the comical victimization of Akari, I can’t recall any of the yuru being any good. In fact, I can list all four episodes of Yuru Yuri Balls I found watchable:
- episode 1
- episode 7
- episode 11
- episode 12
All the other good parts were in the first season. No wonder the best episode of Yuru Yuri Balls had a time machine.
The second season also produced the worst song ever.
In conclusion, the entire anime should’ve been about Akari’s sister molesting everyone.
I agree with everything in this post.
Almost wanted to give it a pity + based solely on episode 12, but I’ll be fucked if I can actually remember anything that happened this season.
I mustn’t be pushing the envelope the way I used to. Let me try again. Ahem.
Chinatsu’s sketches aren’t so bad.
I too agree with everything in this post.
Thank you for standing by my slightly inaccurate transcription of Grandpa Simpson’s onion rant.
I agree with everything in this post *completely.*
If I’d known everyone was going to agree with me, I would’ve written another post on Queen’s Blade.
For the record, I haven’t even watched Yuru Yuri. I just wanted to fit in.
Dang. And I was going to refer it to my friend that likes lesbians. But now, I can’t honestly tell them it has lots of yuri in it. And the intro was pretty atrocious.
“my friend that likes lesbians” is redundant. Why would you be friends with someone who doesn’t like lesbians?
There’s some yuri for the taking, but many other shows will get you more yuri for your buck.
Maybe because some people just like to have friends? Some people just like spreading the love. Not in a romantic or sexual kind of way. Just a friendly kind of way.
I had an old friend, come back all those days, who watched dickety four episodes of this show instead of watching Bartender, which I was so fervently recommending. I don’t think I’d ever been so disappointed in someone, excepting that one time he took exception to my car getting forty rods to a hogshead.
Maybe his glaucoma just got worse. Or maybe he’s upset that the president is a Demmycrat. Either way, there’s no excuse. I would’ve chased him for up to dickety-six miles until he gave in.
As a rule, I don’t watch these shows that go past the level of alliteration to the point of being phonologically similar pairs. E.G. I refuse to watch Tari Tari as well, since that’s actual repetition.
Also, as an aside, ever wanted to get an example of an Allophone besides “Night Rate” and “Nitrate” ? Have fun digging around for that. Why? Linguists fucking suck and can’t create simple lists of words in order to provide examples, instead they ramble on about explanations no one cares to understand and they refuse to give relevance to.
Google “List of Allophones” “Examples” and see how many actual lists you get.
Does Hunter x Hunter count? Only recently did I learn you’re not supposed to pronounce the x. If not, Toradora was pretty good, though technically that’s one word.
After 5 minutes of Googling, I somehow know less about allophones than I did 6 minutes ago.
Guess I should watch this then.
Agreed. This will be next on my list.
On second thought, I take that back.
After watching the final episode of Koi To Senkyo To Chocolate, I’m just not going to mess with perfection.
Does Koi To Senkyo To Chocolate have yuri? If so I’m in!
Nah, Strawberry is code for lesbian. Chocolate is totally straight.