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REVIEW: Yuruyuri Episodes 1-7 Streaming

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Akari, Yui and Kyoko are three childhood friends who in high school form a club called the Amusement Club.

Uh... Actually, they are in MIDDLE school, which is why much of the fantasy girl-girl nosebleed gags make the show a bit icky to me, in addition to being bland and usually un-funny.

I feel like a lot of people criticizing this show are people who do not like yuri. Like, at all. Because if you're someone who likes yuri even a little, I can't imagine you disliking this show the way this review does. I'm a yuri fan, though, and Yuru Yuri is going to go down as one of my all-time favorites in anime (and I've seen plenty of anime). I've seen things like K-ON! and Minami-ke (though not Mitsudomoe) and none of them have come close to this.

I feel like the review spent a lot of time nit-picking, but in the end if you don't like the comedy and character interactions you're not going to like anything about it. It's definitely not for everyone, but I'm wondering if it has actually hit its target audience.

So, yeah, I love YY. I actually re-watched episode 10 almost immediately because I just found it so amazing, something that is extremely rare for me to do (I think I've only done it once in the past out of the 150+ series I've seen, and it was a show I was re-watching anyway). It saddens me that there is so much hate for it, but what can you do?

I like Yuri I like Aoi Hana and Sasameki Koto actually I love those shows. In fact, the main reason I tried this show out was because Yuri was one of the genres this falls under. What I don't seem to like (as I've discovered from watching this, Nichijou, and K-on!) are shows which are based off of 4koma manga in which a group of teenagers are in a series of comedy vignettes.

Red Fox of Fire wrote:

I feel like a lot of people criticizing this show are people who do not like yuri. Like, at all. Because if you're someone who likes yuri even a little, I can't imagine you disliking this show the way this review does. I'm a yuri fan, though, and Yuru Yuri is going to go down as one of my all-time favorites in anime (and I've seen plenty of anime). I've seen things like K-ON! and Minami-ke (though not Mitsudomoe) and none of them have come close to this. I feel like the review spent a lot of time nit-picking, but in the end if you don't like the comedy and character interactions you're not going to like anything about it. It's definitely not for everyone, but I'm wondering if it has actually hit its target audience. So, yeah, I love YY. I actually re-watched episode 10 almost immediately because I just found it so amazing, something that is extremely rare for me to do (I think I've only done it once in the past out of the 150+ series I've seen, and it was a show I was re-watching anyway). It saddens me that there is so much hate for it, but what can you do?

I like Yuri I like Aoi Hana and Sasameki Koto actually I love those shows. In fact, the main reason I tried this show out was because Yuri was one of the genres this falls under. What I don't seem to like (as I've discovered from watching this, Nichijou, and K-on!) are shows which are based off of 4koma manga in which a group of teenagers are in a series of comedy vignettes.

I'm not sure where you get "40 year old writer" from. I can't really find any biographical data on Namori. Although I can't read Japanese, Namori's site lists his or her first published work in 2006. I'd say late 20s or early 30s would be a better guess imo.

It's like what would happen if guys tried to watch Uta no Prince-sama 1000% without the Niconico comments that lampoon it. Both are shows that are heavily focused towards a certain demographic, and those who are outside of that demographic will be repelled. It's very, very rare that a late-night slot anime actually appeals to a wide range of fandom. Typically they all have their own little chunk that they're pandering to.

I have to agree with the poster who said something about bar and being lowered etc. I am baffled, mystified how a pretty good mystery show like Dantalain no Shoka gets bland to medicore reviews and there is next to no one to defend it. But something as brainless as YuriYuri has people claiming it to be some masterpiece or one of their favorite shows. Im a guy, but I can accept yuri yaoi, if the show still has substance like say 07 ghost, kyou kara maoh, no 6, etc. But this show has none of that. The bar is not lowered, the bar is lying on the ground; and I must point out for the record a show about yuri lolis selling well in Japan is far from suprising, and even further from indicating it has any quality if anything its an inverse relationship. I mean I don't understand why each new show released each season is like Yuri, anything else will have unreasonable expectations, and this dreck will be praised.

Producers are pandering to groups that they know will buy their product... or at least they're trying to. As of right now that means moe, boobs, and fujoshi shows... which if you look is the bulk of the late-night/early-morning anime. If they try to do something that's not focused in these areas... then they run the risk of it being unprofitable. And since the industry is on shaky ground as it is, no producer wants that.