Yuru Yuri San☆Hai!

And so the series is finished. If you don't count the 10th anniversary OVA, and some chibi episodes, anyway. I gotta say that I enjoyed every minute, I came here for the moe and that's what I got. It didn't really feel like a conclusion to be honest. Usually the way you end a CGDCT series is by having them graduate or something. At the end of this I'm pretty sure they're all still in high school, or middle school? I don't remember which it's supposed to be. Kids in anime never look or act their age. It probably says somewhere in a synopsis but ... I'm too lazy to take the 5 seconds to go look.

No ships set sail, but Ayano x Kyouko got pretty close this season. She went from not being invited to comiket a second time to actually having a real movie date. They're cute together, and while my duty as a God-fearing Christian prevents me from fully supporting any homosexual ships in any meaningful way, it was still fun to watch. Deus vult, reclaim the Holy Land.

They seemed to have dropped Akari's meme trait of not having a personality or screen presence. Or at least they didn't draw as much attention to it. I think the author probably felt bad for using her as a punching bag so much. She's been through enough. There was an episode that straight up didn't include her, though. We also didn't get much more of the older siblings Akane and Tomoko. I like their dynamic and how it leads into the whole other complicated love pentagon situation.

Sakurako is still the best at being the dumbest. While Kyouko has her moments of being dumb, her abilities to get good grades (when she tries) and produce her own manga show that at least some of it is probably her just acting out for attention. Sakurako is genuinely just really stupid, and I love it. I think every CGDCT anime needs a "the dumb one" and she fits the bill a lot better than Kyouko ever did I think.

Anyway those are just some of my thoughts and ramblings on the series, 8/10 pretty good overall.

I'll be going over the entire series as a whole.
Honestly, there's not a lot of Shoujo ai shows that are good, especially not comedy. At least in my experiences, that's the case. Yuru Yuri, while it does not execute anything on a particularly high level, it plays off the shoujo ai genre to its advantage to make it more appealing and unique compared to say, their "orthodox" slice of life comedy counterparts.
What gets turned from a token perverted character in love that gets swatted away by whatever female that he is attracted to in a slapstick fashion actually become something a bit more than their ... archetype, and of course, I'm talking about Chinatsu. While annoying in how her most redeeming trait is still her liking Yui, the fact that their relationship is still more of that of intimate friends and that Chinatsu is more focused on the "pure" side of love rather than the typical archetype of "haha she's so hot" makes her more tolerable and better yet, she's not a punching bag for Yui since her actions and intentions are not fueled by such motivations. Chinatsu is able to incorporate herself into the story decently well while also functioning as still the base archetype of a girl madly in love.
The same can be said for Ayano, you kind of get the idea. While she does function as a typical tsundere character, she's a bit more than just a shy girl in love. The fact that she can still interact with Kyouko and not go into complete heat is already a bit better than what the typical tsundere character can do.
Chitose...yeah she's just a basic character, the only unique feature apart from her basic "perverted fantasy nosebleed" character base is how she's friends with Ayano, which makes an interesting pairing, and also props Ayano up a lot more when facing interactions with the rest of the group.
Sakurako and Himawari both initially are seen to be just rivals that try to get in each other's way, but you quickly realize that they actually are good friends and interact each other in a good way. Honestly, not too much to talk about those two, but I never minded their presence and it's like seeing another pair of Yui and Kyouko at times.
Ok, going to the big guns now: Yui, Akari, and Kyouko. Kyouko clearly is the de-facto "leader" of the Amusement club, where she sets the tempo for a lot of the scenarios and settings that the group goes on. Overall, she's an essential cornerstone character in which her hyper and energetic personality envelops the group. Overall, it's nothing new, but at the same time, the author does a good job of letting Kyouko do her thing, which is introduce chaos and entropy to the story in an interesting fashion. I never really got bored watching her for how versatile she is, and how much she adds to the story. Akari makes for a sort of victim sometimes of the pranks and other shenanigans that go on in the Amusement club, but at the same time, she's also just another good supporting member where her role is similar to that of Yui's: reacting to the stuff that other people do, while also contributing to the conversations and activities that the group is having. Yui's a good supporting character for Kyouko with her retorts and straight man performance. Her relationship with Chinatsu actually makes her a lot more interesting than she normally would be, and it's these character dynamics that make Yuru Yuri a good show. While none of the characters are too interesting by themselves, but setting up all of these relationships in various settings and scenarios, it makes for a lively show.
Is it amazing? Well, no. Did it make me chuckle at times? Yes. It's a unique experience when most shoujo ai comedies are terrible.

After watching the first two seasons of Yuru Yuri, I was really excited about the third one, and watched it as soon as I finished the second season. The problem turned out to be the show took a very different route, and failed in its purpose.

So the first season established some funny inside jokes and good character description, so it made the show funny and cute, which are a very good combo. The second season continued the things that made the first season a success, but added some relationships to promote the yuri aspect of it, making it all the better. We see relationships form, ... and progress throughout the season.

However, the third season breaks this trend - it is decided that all the inside jokes should stop, and change the pace of the season completely separate to the first two, making it more slice of life, and less Yuru Yuri.

I definitely see why they did it - they decided to focus on the "yuri" aspect of it, which is definitely welcome. However, adding a few extra yuri scenes doesn't really cut it for me, because we see almost no development of the relationship, and instead get frustrated by the encounters. Because it took the serious route, it lost all of the original Yuru Yuri touch, and it failed at being serious with no character development, which caused the whole season to fail. I forced myself to watch it because I really hoped it got better, but except for one episode, it was really boring.

However, the worst part was Chinatsu. I get that some people might like how she loves her senpai Yui, and she does some crazy things to get her attention. Although I find it cringey, I get that some people like it, and it was pretty chill throughout the whole thing, so I largely wrote it off and continued to enjoy the show. However, I felt like most of the time that was the ONLY thing happening, and by god did it get annoying. We just have this girl getting close to raping Yui and being super cringe about it, and basically ruining everybody's day with it. I mean, I was hoping somebody would beat her up or kick her out or something, but alas, it did not happen.

Although the rest of what I said really added to lowering the rating of this show, the Chinatsu thing was just awful. I was dying of boredom and fury at the end for her even existing. If you didn't really like her, you should never watch this season or you will be very disappointed.

My main reason for writing a review for this show is because it is an absolute DISGRACE this got higher ratings than both previous seasons, because it doesn't compare to the enjoyment of the first two. They were funny, cute, and full of yuri. This was boring, completely threw away the idea of Yuru Yuri, and failed at having any significant impacting yuri. You cannot just change the pace of the show like that - it just broke the flow of the show.

If you really liked Yuru Yuri, I would probably recommend because it will keep you awake at night if you don't finish it, but it's something that you can easily skip, especially if you didn't enjoy the series much.