Yuri Seijin Naoko-san (2012)

Yuri is good; Yuri is great, let us thank Yuri for our food. By Yuri's hands we are fed, give us Yuri our daily bread. Amen. *Ahem* Yuri Seijin Naoko-san is good. My name is Neimaj, and thank you for taking the time out of your day to read this review.

Kekeke. If it really ended there, the review would still be longer than the OVA itself. Seriously, Yuri Seijin Naoko-san is really good. Twenty-eight minutes. That's the amount of time this OVA had to leave a good impression on me. And oh boy, did it leave an impression. Naoko-san is such a wonderful character. She ... came to planet Earth with a single goal in mind, to conquer it! By yurifying it! "That's a goal I can get down with," I thought to myself. I love her purpose, voice, and character design. Naoko-san is an alien from the planet, Yuri. Her entire character is obsessed with making girls go gay. She lives in a treehouse right above a young girl's home by the name of Misuzu. Misuzu, coincidentally, had an older sister with the same name as Naoko-san. Misuzu does ponder whether or not her sister is Naoko-san, but that idea never comes back up, unfortunately. That's definitely the most intriguing part of this story. And most of what I've said is the story. Naoko-san loves with a human family and bizarre things happen, like in Alf, or Urusei Yatsura, or any other show similar to this. However, Naoko-san is much more entertaining.

Now, I typically dislike "Straight Man vs. Funny Man" comedy in anime. I promise, this is connected to Naoko-san, just let me speak about this for a quick second. So, the double act structure in comedy with a "Tsukkomi" and a "Boke" I find this style of humor to be very obnoxious in anime, because the jokes get very repetitive and predictable in such a short period of time. There are a few exceptions of this style of humor being well done, e.g., Arakawa under the Bridge. In Arakawa, the straight man (Rec) is surrounded by a bunch of crazy people (Everyone living under the bridge) and the jokes/situations work, because of the strange nature of the characters. They're weird and wacky people that have some depth to their character. Although, some of the jokes do get ran into the ground later on in the manga. I brought this up because Yuri Seijin Naoko-san does an excellent job with this style of humor, considering how likable and charming the characters are. They're all full of personality. Watching Naoko's jokes bounce off of Misuzu is very entertaining. Did I forget to mention that this OVA is hilarious? It does a masterful job at creating these funny visual gags with gorgeous and fluid animation. Every single frame looks amazing! Even the OP was astonishing to watch. One of the weirdest OP's I've seen in a while. The ending of the OVA also does a good job at transitioning to the ED, which was also a great watch.

I didn't feel like it was appropriate to give this OVA anything higher than a nine, mostly because not much actually happens. You can't really do much in twenty-eight minutes. Y'know what? I'm going to give this OVA a 9 out of 10, just for the hell of it. Why not. It doesn't do anything wrong. I'm tired of giving the same scores whenever I make these reviews. It was a brief experience and I enjoyed a lot of it. I only wish it was longer. My scores:

Story: 6/10
Art: 8/10
Sound: 9/10
Characters: 8/10
Enjoyment: 8/10
Overall: 9/10

"Yuri Seijin Naoko-san" is an OVA with really no plot. I somehow enjoyed it tremendously.

Story. [Spoilers]
Misuzu is a regular junior high student that is excited to see her older sister, as she rushes home, she opens her sister's room only to find an "alien" obsessed with yuri is now staying in her home.
After that they just have short little adventures and many skits in the rest of the episode. Until, it's towards the end. There is a scene where Misuzu has a fever and wakes up to her older sister taking care of her. After the ending song, the scene is then remade but ... with Naoko taking care of her and her other family members gathering in the room. I thought that the scenes seemed nostalgic and the story took a pretty serious turn when the end came near.

Art/Animation.
The animation is fluid and just plain great. ufotable has yet to disappoint me with their high standards of animation. Its art style is unique while the colors are nice and complementary.

Sound.
Now I really couldn't remember the OST itself. I don't even know if it had one. The ending really spoke out to me though, it was good at setting the tone for the upcoming scene. The animation during the ending theme was BEAUTIFUL. Honestly, and the song seemed so melancholic and very different from the electronic and high-pitched opening.

Characters.
The characters really have no development whatsoever. They really don't need any of that though. The characters reactions to the perverted things that spew out of our favorite yuri citizen Naoko-san, are really all we need.

Enjoyment.
I loved this OVA. The characters and situations were so bizarre and pretty funny. I had a really empty feeling at the end of the OVA because I knew that there wasn't another episode. It really deserves one, after the other plot point of Misuzu's sister, I really wanted to see more of this series.

Overall.
Watch it if you want some fun and got some time to kill.

Not worth seeing. Lesbians beware. Fucking leave.<3
Watch Revolutionary Girl Utena, Hidamari Sketch, Haibane Renmei, Asagao to Kase-san or read My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness instead.

The gross and pedophile fueled nightmare that is this supposed Shoujo Ai-Comedy makes my skin crawl with it's infuriating attempt at constructing comedy out of cute female characters making sexual advances and sexually assaulting cute underage characters, presenting it all as a entirely normal and fun affair.
The attempts at reminding us of it's "problematic" qualities(yes, it's not really just problematic, it's asinine) consists of one joke about attacking a pedophile ring with a weapon built to take out suns and another ... one that ends in the sister telling her younger brother(both children) that his erect penis is "normal".
How this is supposed to make anything this short does excusable remains entirely unclear.
I am not amused, this disgusts me.
End funding for this shit.