Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru (Yuki Yuna is a Hero)

In her everyday life, Yuuna Yuuki is a hero. As proof, she is in her middle school's Hero Club, where she does her best to help others and bring a smile to everyone's face.

But Yuuna, always up to any task, is about to become an even bigger hero. Mysterious destructive forces called Vertexes begin threatening the world she loves, and the Hero Club is called upon by a strange phone app to save it. Along with her best friend Mimori Tougou, as well as sisters Fuu and Itsuki Inubouzaki, they must transform into magical girls in order to battle the Vertexes.

In between studying and putting on shows for kids, Yuuna and the Hero Club must fight for the very existence of their world and face the harsh truths behind their own powers, all the while discovering what it truly means to be a hero.

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Adaptation:	Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru
Other:	Yuuki no Baton, Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru Churutto!
Prequel:	Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru: Washio Sumi no Shou
Sequel:	Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru: Yuusha no Shou
Summary:	Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru: Hidamari

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Yuuki, Yuuna

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Terui, Haruka
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Tougou, Mimori

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Mimori, Suzuko
Japanese

Miyoshi, Karin

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Nagatsuma, Juri
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Inubouzaki, Fuu

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Uchiyama, Yumi
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Inubouzaki, Itsuki

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Kurosawa, Tomoyo
Japanese

Nogi, Sonoko

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Hanazawa, Kana
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Maeda, Toshihiro

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Kinoshita, Tetsuya

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Hayashi, Youhei

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Fukuda, Jun

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Opening Theme

	1: "Hoshi to Hana (ホシトハナ)" by Sanshuu Chuugaku Yuusha-bu (讃州中学勇者部) (Haruka Terui, Suzuko Mimori, Yumi Uchida, Tomoyo Kurosawa) (eps 2-3)
	2: "Hoshi to Hana (ホシトハナ)" by Sanshuu Chuugaku Yuusha-bu (讃州中学勇者部) (Haruka Terui, Suzuko Mimori, Yumi Uchida, Tomoyo Kurosawa, Juri Nagatsuma) (eps 4-12)

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	1: "Hoshi to Hana (ホシトハナ)" by Sanshuu Chuugaku Yuusha-bu (讃州中学勇者部) (Haruka Terui, Suzuko Mimori, Yumi Uchida, Tomoyo Kurosawa) (eps 1)
	2: "Aurora Days" by Sanshuu Chuugaku Yuusha-bu (讃州中学勇者部) (Haruka Terui, Suzuko Mimori, Yumi Uchida, Tomoyo Kurosawa) (eps 2)
	3: "Aurora Days" by Sanshuu Chuugaku Yuusha-bu (讃州中学勇者部) (Haruka Terui, Suzuko Mimori, Yumi Uchida, Tomoyo Kurosawa, Juri Nagatsuma) (eps 3, 5-8, 12)
	4: "Inori no Uta acoustic guitar ver (祈りの歌 acoustic guitar ver)" by Itsuki Inubouzaki (Tomoyo Kurosawa) (eps 4)
	5: "Inori no Uta (祈りの歌)" by Itsuki Inubouzaki (Tomoyo Kurosawa) (eps 9)
	6: "Aurora Days" by Mimori Tougou (Suzuko Mimori) (eps 10)
	7: "Aurora Days" by Yuuna Yuuki (Haruka Terui) (eps 11)

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Dec 25, 2014

Paulo27

Recommended

**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 ...

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Dec 29, 2014

emberreviews

Mixed Feelings

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 magical girl series with an incredibly blatant attempt to cash in on the "little girls suffering" idea that Madoka Magica had popularized back in 2011 and is continuously called upon again and again within the anime industry because it continues to print money. While in the past I may have suggested that Selector Infected WIXOSS was also riding the Madoka Suffering Train, at least it also had a plethora of new ideas to bring to the table. Yūki Yūna is an absolutely shameless clone of Madoka, from the suffering girls to the horrifying world backdrop.

There's also the matter of someone getting the bright idea to insert multiple episodes of slice of life-style comedy that served more to pad out the run time than to get us acquainted with the characters, and by the time we had our third slice of life episode in a row, the pacing had slowed to such an unbelievable crawl that I had considered dropping the series and not even doing this review. Additionally, the tonal shift between cutesy fun and heavy action leaning towards horror creates an incredibly unstable and schizophrenic tone for the series overall. With Madoka, the tamer and more relaxed episodes were confined to the first few episodes, but once the rug was pulled out from under us, the pacing grew more and more intense until it threatened to swallow up everything by the end of the series. With Yūki Yūna, the pacing shifts far too much in the first two thirds of the series for us to get a grasp of the true stakes.

However, despite all that, the payoff that occurs when we hit the final third of the series was really solid; predictable, but solid. It also does take a very slight variance away from Madoka, mostly to avoid plagiarism, and ends up gaining its own level of disturbing horror in terms of the "little girls suffering" motif. There is also a very definite exploding point that happens, and once it does, the series really does pick up the pace from there and sprints towards the conclusion. It's just unfortunate that this doesn't happen until the show is almost 70% finished, and at least 40% of that is an annoying slice of life borefest. For that, I'm sure that we can once again thank our head of series composition, Makoto Uezu (Akame ga Kill!, School Days). There were also quite a few gag-worthy moments in the script that were so unbearably cutesy and friendship-loving that I almost wanted to take a break after each episode and switch to Black Lagoon for a few minutes. As for the ending, I won't spoil it, but it certainly didn't deserve the ending that it received, and you can take that for either good or bad.

The characters aren't really anything new either, yet it's still pretty satisfying to watch their world start to crumble around them. Yūki is our standard heart of gold "I can do no wrong as long as I believe in the power of friendship" lead character, aka Madoka Kaname without the indecision, and I was actually surprised by how little screen time she got compared to the others. Mimori is Yūki's best friend who is bound to a wheelchair due to an accident that cost her part of her memory, and her friendship with Yūki ends up being a rather interesting point of development for her. Fū is the slightly older, mentor character of the group who has to deal with the fact that she got everyone involved in this situation in the first place, while Itsuki is Fū's little sister who honestly just seems to be there to further Fū's development. Finally, we have Karin, who could not be more like Kyoko Sakura if she tried; an outsider who is initially put off by how well the group functions together but gradually grows to like them. On a more general note, aside from Fū and Mimori, it was rather disappointing to see that everyone else's character development was done in a rather direct and low effort way, whereas Fū and Mimori are the only ones that really seem to experience any true sense of psychological terror.

The animation was produced by Studio Gokumi (Kiniro Mosaic), and let's not beat about the bush on this one: the animation for this series was incredibly mediocre. While the idea of making the girls cute did get executed well, it was executed almost too well, and some of the girls' expression were so full of sunshine and rainbows that it make me rather uneasy. I do have to praise them for the other emotions that filled the character's faces though, as you really can feel the absolute terror pouring out of them during the final third of this series, especially with Fū. Aside from that, most of the animation was pretty bad. The Vertexes were rendered in almost eye-bleeding 3D, the fights scenes weren't that spectacular and the girls were often replaced with 3D models for said fight scenes, and while the set designs in the parallel world were very ominous and intricate, the backgrounds in the real world felt incredibly generic. On a quick side note, I really would like to know why the wheelchair chick got so much of the gratuitous fan service. It seemed horrifically out of place and started giving me Katawa Shoujo flashbacks.

There is currently no dub for this series yet, and I wouldn't imagine one coming out in the near future.

The soundtrack was composed by the group MONACA, and the soundtrack as a whole ends up being one part Yuki Kajiura imitation and one part generic slice of life background music. However, it's in those imitation Kajiura tracks that we find some really solid and meaty chunks that drove home the intensity of some of the more exhilarating scenes. The opening theme "Hoshi to Hana" was performed by the main voice cast and plays us in with a rather subdued pop track, while both ending themes "Aurora Days" and "Inori no Uta" were also performed by them and end each episode with a soft ballad.

Overall, in regards to a recommendation on Yūki Yūna is a Hero, I'm left asking myself a single question to determine my decision: is there something that this anime brings to the table other than what Madoka Magica has already done and done better? To be honest: no, it really doesn't. Any enjoyment that can be gleamed from this show can just as easily be achieved by rewatching a much better magical girl deconstruction.

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Dec 25, 2014

MarlyTT

Not Recommended

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