Audience reviews
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sketchesofpayne
I watched this when it first aired and thought it was pretty good (especially as a mahou shoujo fan). Coming back to it years later after having seen the prequel and sequel series and watching it a couple more times I think it's excellent.
I love the abstract eastern-mysticism theme. I got a better feel for the characters the second time through. The visual design is unique and appealing. The voice acting is excellent, as is the music.
It's not really playing the "subversion" card, rather it's being straight-up slice of life to get the viewer attached to the characters so that when tragedy befalls them it actually means something. In fact, I feel these events are more tragic than a character dying. The Taisha organization isn't evil. They're inept humans dealing with things they don't f…
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[SPOILER FREE REVIEW]
(be careful because there are loads of spoilers on the internet, but luckily not here :) )
I am in love with this anime. I must say that it was not what I first expected, but I am a huge fan of it now. I hope my review will be helpful to decide if it is also something for you :)
What am I going to discuss in this review?
- Short summary of the anime
- Why watch this anime?
- short list of Pro's & Cons
- Best order to watch the anime series And for fans of Madoka Magica:
- Is it similar to Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica?
- in what ways are they similar?
Short summary of the anime
YuYuYu (short for Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru, since it is a bit a long name to keep repeating) is about a group of girls that started a hero club to help people with everyday problems, to m…
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Hello! This is my first review (most overused excuse ever, right?). English is not my native language, so I'm sorry for mistakes.
*I'll do my best not to contain any spoilers.*
*Also, this review will be long because I love to write!*
When I first started to watch Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru (YuYuYu) back in July 2015, I really expected it to be lighter Madoka Magica. I had heard many people talk about it and refer it as ''the most underrated anime of 2014''. When I finally got to see the first episode, I was pretty surprised to see Slice of Life-elements - I thought this was sad anime!
Hero Club's Five Tenets:
"Give a good greeting."
"Try not to give up."
"Sleep well, eat well."
"If you're troubled, talk to someone!"
"You're likely to succeed if you try."
Story:
YuYu…
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Every time I see an anime cover with a cute magical girl/s, I always get the feeling that it's going to be similar to Madoka Magica. I tried the show out just to confirm my curiosity and what do you know, it is similar to Madoka but do not think the show is a Madoka rip-off because it's not.
(There will be SPOILERS in my review)
[Story]: (8.8/10) (SPOILERS)
The story takes place in the era of the gods, Year 300. Yuuna Yukki lives an ordinary life as a second year middle school but she's also a member of the "Hero Club", where club activities involve dealing with a mysterious being called "Vertex".
This is now the second Madoka-esque anime that I have seen (First being Selector Infected WIXOSS) and I wasn't even searching for this anime. I just found it on Netflix, I saw the cover and…
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A very enjoyable, well-rounded show that wonderfully tells a story through emotions, color and flowers.
Imagine an anime being born from the visual appeal of No Game No Life, the moe from YuruYuri, and the plot of Madoka Magica having a threesome.
Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru is that anime.
The art is so crisp and clean, flaunting all those magnificient colors and oftentimes showing the beautiful contrast between hope and despair.
The music is really lovable. It's lively, yet ominous at the same time.
There were also these subtle references that I always find entertaining and interesting to spot. Just knowing that something is a reference to something else is fun and gives you a sense of achievement.
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Yuuki Yuuna is a Horribly Boring Character. She's relatively one-dimensional, oblivious, airheaded, naive and childish in her ideals, which isn't inherently boring, but the world she lives in RESPECTS that allowing her simple and repetitive nature to prevail against any and all problems to the point where you begin to wonder if there's any point in growing up at all.
I, like many others, stumbled upon the show "Yuuki Yuuna is a Hero" after hearing it compared to the illustrious Madoka Magica and were drawn to it by people saying that it was "better than Madoka". As a massive fan of Madoka Magica, I was initially very excited: someone made a better version of one of my favorite shows of all time? I had even heard people saying that Madoka had been their favorite show until they watched Yu…
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How far will you push yourself for the sake of others even when you know every step you take may hurt you? Welcome to the world of Yuki Yuna is a Hero where hope is sometimes all that’s left to stand on, but it might just be enough to get you over the line. A story following a school hero club thrust into an unexpected fight, Yuki Yuna starts slow but finishes with a bang to make for a magical girl experience that ranged from frustrating to thrilling.
Story
This is probably the first show I’ve watched where the enjoyment I got out of it was hampered by comparing it to another show. I heard the talk before watching about how the anime was a ‘rip-off’ of the 2011’s massive hit which shook the magical girl genre, Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica. The answer? Yes and no. Character traits and roles…
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It's my first review on MAL, and I decided to give it to one of this unpopular anime..
This is the first anime that makes me scream, "OH GOD, PEOPLE SHOULD WATCH THIS!"
I've rewatched this series for 4times now, so I decided to give it a review.
I'll avoid any spoiler as I write.
Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru, or Yuuki Yuuna is a Hero. (YuYuYu for short)
Story: 8.5/10
In post-apocalyptic age where humans are in near of extinction, humans still live each other peacefully. The story focused on a group of middle-school girls in a club called Hero Club.
A Club that has a purpose to help other people who need.
They're living their happy ordinary live until one day they suddenly dragged in different world(?), no I'll say it's a different environment.
Being the chosen girls by their God, Shinju…
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Good emotional payoff but not worth suffering through its mind-numbingly boring plotting.
★☆☆☆
Spoilers from here on, because this is less of a review and more analysis.
- SPOILERS -
I was told this show was going to be like Madoka Magica, and they were partially right. Except Madoka was great all 12 episodes, even the first three slow ones have replay value once you understand the full context. Madoka Magica is pitched as a magical girl show with dark tones and little cute girls suffering. Yuki Yuna attempts the same except I’m the one that’s suffering because it’s so boring. The emotional payoff—while fantastic—is NOT worth it.
Look, there’s only so much time and energy we all have. We work, we go home, and our free time is precious. I can work through my Steam library of 300 games,…
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Imagine you have Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica in high school with a happier setting and thus the outcome will be Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru!
I'm not saying that Yuuki Yuuna's a rip off from Madoka Magica, Yuuki Yuuna has it's own originality. Moving on, may I present to you the second (and hopefully the last) anime that made me cry.
Story (10/10)
I think I already pointed out the story but for those that have yet to watch neither of the anime that I stated earlier, read on.
Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru is not just a fluffy show where "cute girls do cute things" or in short moe, yes there are moe in this series but there's more than that. The series just shows you what happens if you give out powers to young girls that are undergoing puberty. There will be one point when you'll feel like t…
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Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru – “You’re likely to succeed if you try” Many have claimed it is just a Madoka copy, and yes the character designs are Madoka based. That I can’t refute when Yuuki looks exactly like Madoka and Fuu looks very much like Mami. But once you start to watch the story and understand what is going on, Yuuki Yuuna is its own story, with its own characters, and its own beauty.
Story – 8/10
In an alternate world everyone worships a divine being known as the Shinju. The Hero Club is a small group of four girls who do random tasks to help others, when suddenly they get transported to another world in which they have now been tasked with protecting the Shinju from twelve “Vertexes” that will try and destroy it.
As we follow them through their struggles the story, despite al…
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In an age where a single idea can be copied, transmuted, inverted, and manipulated in millions of possible ways, the phrase "That's just a rip-off of ______" has become increasingly more common. For example, I've heard many arguments that Nagi no Asukara is just a rip-off of From the New World, and while there certainly are similarities between the two, it's quiet a stretch to say that a romance drama is just a rip-off of a dystopian horror series. However, there are times where the degree to which something is copied is so severe that "rip-off" really is the only way to describe it. So, when a title gets to that point, is there still enough enjoyment to be gleamed from this newer series to justify its existence?
I supposed it'd be best to address the elephant in the room first: this is a…
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Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru is part of a multimedia project of LN, VN, videogame, manga and anime. And despite of it, the anime is completely able to stand on its own.
The story is one of the strongest points, but for you to understand this you need to watch the series from the right point of view. As a Slice of Life the story is about the characters, sure world building is important, but ultimately the story focuses on the 5 main protagonists, it makes you care about them, their lives and it gives a proper conclusion to them.
The art is pretty good for a studio with low budget like this one, at the start the CGI is noticeable, but after a while you learn to appreciate the backgrounds, the town and all the locations, you can see they put a lot of job on this.
The OST is a solid 10/10,…
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Can you hold it in your heart to believe in yourself to be a hero? Can you do that while knowing that while you carry out your promise to protect the world, you have to watch as you feel like you're failing that same promise to your friends? Are you truly capable of being a hero knowing what sacrifices have to be made and what you can lose along the way? Do you have the willpower to be the spark that lights the candle of hope surround by a shroud of despair?
Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru (YuYuYu for short) is an anime that asks five girls of the Sanshu Middle School Hero Club these questions. Can they handle it? Well...I can't spoil things so you'll have to go find that out yourself...If you read the discussions first before watching the episodes..I will go to your house and cave your shi…
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A show that might be overlooked for its frontal advertisement. Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha (Yuuki Yuuna is a Hero) isn’t your typical ‘cute girls doing cute things’ type of show. Well, it is for some parts or at least the first 10 or so minutes of the pilot episode. Then, we realize the show is a lot more after a strange message on a cell phone that transports the girls into a world of the unknown. If ‘magical girl’ is something you’re familiar with and find enjoyable, then this show may be a treat.
To trace back a bit, the show is an original work animated by Studio Gokumi. Director Seiji Kishi is in charge of this project while Takahiro (author of Akame ga Kill) does the series planning. What this brings to mind is a strange collective of individuals to craft the series’ story. By all means,…
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(This has been adapted from my reddit thread)
When it comes to helping others, some do it for the joy it brings to others while some do so to bring happiness to oneself. It doesn't matter the reason; just being there for someone in his or her time of need makes all the difference in the world. It also doesn't matter the scope, either.
Whether it's working at a soup kitchen, babysitting the neighbor's kid, or saving an animal from a burning building, it's not the grandness of the act, but the act *itself* that means everything. And more often than not, these people are bestowed with the title of "hero." Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru is a dark horse capitalizing on this idea, with more to the phrase than at first perceived.
**STORY**
YuYuYu (what I'll be calling it from here on out) follo…
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-Spoilers Ahead-
The brilliant minds behind Angel Beats and Akame ga Kill joined forces in an attempt to capitalize on their respective "talents" and made what some people call "one of the most underrated masterpieces of the season" without an ounce of irony. This series is pretty much everything wrong with modern anime, and there are plenty of reasons as to why. It's just so up its own ass pretending to be not a grimdark show in a vain attempt to fake out the audience for so long that it ends up boring, and when it actually gets to the grimdark it was leading up to, it does in the most hilariously incompetent way possible. Many of its other problems include the asinine pacing, lack of character interaction and development, and complete lack of subtlety, which all seem to go under the rad…
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Who else watches pretty much anything that comes out at least ep 1 or ep 2 to see if they like it? I'm also one of those person who watches series at least 1 or 2 ep to see if I'll drop it or watch it, at first no doubt about it, the characters were so CUTE and that really helped me to watch it...then I didn't care about how cute they were now, the plot caught my eyes, and I was pretty much getting really close really really close to dropping this series, but then....oh boy I'm glad I did not drop it
Yuuki Yunna is prob one of the highly underrated series of fall 2014(by my guess from views on kissanime.com crunchyroll, wao, sites that I use). I somewhat had a gut feeling that I would like this series and as each ep. came out weekly ratings 6.50ish and now look where it's at, slowly, but…
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**NOTE: This anime is a sequel to the LN 'Washio Sumi wa Yuusha de Aru', it's highly recommended that you do NOT read it before this, don't even look at its synopsis as it contains spoilers, it's recommended however that you read it after finishing this anime as it gives good backstory for some of the characters and works well as a tissue burner.**
Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru (Yuyuyu henceforth to avoid confusion with the character) was one of the least anticipated tiles for Fall 2014, but as a fan of both the SoL and mahou shoujo genres I figured it'd be a decent watch but didn't have high expectations for it, the PV hinted at a mundane show about nothing in particular with some magic to mix things up.
Upon looking at the staff list however and seeing names such as Seiji "Nice Show Woul…
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I did not know what to expect when I began watching Yuuki Yuuna is a Hero. The previews teased that it was going to be another slice-of-life series, but looks were deceptive. While it has some SOL elements, at its core it's a magical girl show, and a pretty serious one, too. Here’s my final review of the entire series, as of 12/26/2014. If you just want an overall recommendation without any other details, feel free to skip to the tl;dr section at the very bottom.
The Plot In a Nutshell:
Middle school girls in a "Hero Club" perform small everyday acts of heroism in the normal world, but also become heroic magical girls protecting the planet from strange creatures called vertexes.
Background/Influences:
Yuuki Yuuna is an original series created by Takahiro (Akame ga Kill!), and it blends e…
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