Yuuna Yuuki Yuusha ends

Rarely we find an anime series that elicits such uniform and congenial response from bloggers... or former bloggers (Twitter killed animeblogging). Kuro: "#yuyuyu finale particularly bad. 7 mins of fighting solved with WILLPOWER then the rest shameless attempt at last min drama." And: "The drama was literally pointless too. They could've ended the episode 5mins earlier without it and nothing would change". Mike: "The ending of #yuyuyu shows that emotion and aesthetics unmoored from logic ultimately proves unsatisfying." Nova: "Oh right, Yuyuyu, it's over. Typical non-comedy Kishi anime. Too many twists, feels shallow and rather uninvolving."

Nova went on to post a proper write-up later:

I picked YuYuYu up around mid-season [...], and the decent first few episodes raised some initial interest.

Flashy and cool, with an opening that leaves a thirst for more, but soon its polished façade breaks to reveal shallow and mediocre writing, mistimed comedy, haphazard pacing, and unnecessary plot twists piling up. Eventually it stumbles into a hasty ending that tries to bite way more than it can chew, and leaves the audience with little else than uninterested confusion to remember it by.

Magical girl anime is all about the girls, and in its frantic attempts at executing a heavyweight plot YuYuYu makes the fatal mistake of forgetting about something as elementary as this. Tougou is the only girl who gets at least a bit of development, while the rest of the Hero Club members are left more or less ambiguous. It’s rather ironic that being the titular character, Yuuna is pretty much the least fleshed out of the bunch.

In addition, Togo is not particularly sympathetic, if realistic.

Liked: Meh
Rewatch: Not worth it

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