Anima Yell!

Kohane Hatoya’s most lovable trait is also her greatest flaw. She loves to help others no matter how far she has to go in order to get the job done. Her biggest inspiration to do so comes to light when she sees what cheerleading looks like for the first time in middle school. Now a highschooler but as enthusiastic as ever, Kohane wants nothing more than to start her very own cheerleading squad. She's encouraged by her best friend, Uki Sawatari, who often has to help her get out of trouble.

There is just one problem: Kohane does not have any experience in cheerleading. She has absolutely no idea what to do, what to wear, or how to perform. To make matters worse, she has been scared of heights since childhood, and this new sport is full of stunts pulled far from the ground for a girl her size. Enter Hizume Arima, a former cheerleader who wishes to leave her pastime behind. Unfortunately for her, Kohane recognizes Hizume, and will stop at nothing just so she can lead the new squad, even if it means facing her childhood fear.

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Adaptation:	Anima Yell!
Side story:	Anima Yell! Ouen Douga

Matsuda, Risae
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Kamata, Hajime

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Yoshizawa, Takashi

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Satou, Masako

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Hiramitsu, Takuya

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"Jump Up↑ Yell!! (ジャンプアップ↑エール!!)" by Kaminoki Koukou Cheering-bu [Kohane Hatoya (Yuka Ozaki), Hizume Arima (Yuina Yamada), Uki Sawatari (Mikako Izawa), Kotetsu Tatejima (Tomori Kusunoki), Kana Ushiku (Haruka Shiraishi)]

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"One for All" by Kaminoki Koukou Cheering-bu [Kohane Hatoya (Yuka Ozaki), Hizume Arima (Yuina Yamada), Uki Sawatari (Mikako Izawa), Kotetsu Tatejima (Tomori Kusunoki), Kana Ushiku (Haruka Shiraishi)]

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Dec 23, 2018

Stark700

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Anime almost feels like a religion sometimes. Anyone who is a faithful follower will recognize that the concept of CGDCT (“Cute Girls Doing Cute Things”) always has a spot in every season. It’s 2018 and we had series like Yuru Camp that expressed the joy of comfy camping, Comic Girls to showcase the concept of manga crafting, and even Harukana Receive about beach volleyball with sexy sporty girls doing athletic things. Manga Time Kirara seems to never run out of ideas and their family of magazines will probably never disappear in our time. Before I die, Anima Yell is another show that I checked ... off the bucket list that I didn’t regret.

Anyone familiar with Doga Kobo will easily know their talent that usually adhere to schoolgirls and slice of life. Anima Yell doesn’t derive far from their usual trend although it has an interesting concept about cheerleading. From the first few episodes, we are introduced to Kohane Hatoya, an energetic schoolgirl who have fallen in love with the sport of cheerleading. What’s her goal? It’s basically to form a club with her friends and share their passion and joy. Say hello to the main cast consisting of Hizume Arima, Uki Sawatari, Kotetsu Tatejima, and Kana Ushiku.

Now I’ll be honest. If you’re not familiar with Doga Kobo’s other works, then it may be hard to embrace this show. Their modus operandi generally has a female main cast that sometimes also consists of soft shoujo-ai. You can see them through some of the character interactions although Anima Yell is light on this. There is one episode with a short plot about how to get the crush of a girl while other episodes consists of teases. The center of attention is Hizume Arima, the cool girl and ace of the group. At school, she’s admired as a beauty and often attracts attention whether she likes it or not. It’s no secret that other girls wants her and that even includes one of the group’s own members, Kana Ushiku.

But let’s go back to square one for a bit. The one that started this all is the ultra-upbeat girl, Kohane Hatoya. While she isn’t a child prodigy with impressive skills, there’s no doubt that her personality is influential to others. She is always helpful and can make friends with just about anyone. This even includes Hizume, the cool girl who isn’t easy to open herself to others. Kohane’s love for cheerleading borders on obsession and often causes hilarious scenes between her and others. My impression of Kohane is that she’s pretty much the poster girl of selling the main context for this show. She’s there to deliver her passion and is ready to be received by the audience. There are many episodes where her personality enables others to see what she enjoys in. And such, her group grows more in a positive way.

For such a charming anime, you may wonder what to be aware of the main plot. Honestly, it’s very loose as each episode presents itself like a storybook. It ties the whole show together through the essence of cheerleading with a great amount of colorful personalities. Each of the main cast is diverse enough to stand out individually. However, I do admit that some characters are less likable to others. Personally, I find Kotetsu Tatejima’s timid personality to be borderline annoying. Her lack of confidence sometimes feels embarrassing to watch and is no doubt in my mind the weakest link in the group. This is a sharp contrast compared to Hizume, the girl with previous experience in cheerleading. In fact, the series even has background story about why she got kicked out of her old squad until she decides to embrace the love of cheerleading again. Beyond the main cast, there isn’t much to say about any others as most of the episodes consists of throwaway characters. In other words, any minor character you see rarely appears again and easily forgettable.

Well, they've done it again. Thanks to Doga Kobo’s colorful art style, Anima Yell stands on its feet as an adorable show with cute girls. Cheerleading in this series is portrayed as an upbeat sport and the characters (especially Kohane) show great enthusiasm. There’s an abundant amount of character expressions that often stretches themselves over the line with its humorous gags. Kohane is the main culprit of this due to her excitement about cheerleading. Often, she just pushes any situation into such direction and it’s pretty damn priceless. The character designs for the cheerleading outfits themselves are well decorated with vibrant touches and stylish colors. Surprisingly, I’m also impressed by the overall direction of the choreography. There's even excitement expressed by the body language of their performances. Their performances in this show also keeps its pace and carries an adamant momentum that's hard to keep eyes off of. I’m not a big fan of cheerleading but there wasn’t one episode that made me walk away from those performances. Well done again, girls.

I bet anime fans are questioning in today’s world if we have too many shows about “cute girls doing cute things”. Now, we have cute girls doing cute cheerleading things. But really, Anima Yell isn’t here to jump on the bandwagon. Instead, it’s a show that has a lot of heart thanks to Kohane’s club with her friends.

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Dec 23, 2018

Shingster

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Please note this review is intended to be read by those that have finished watching Anima Yell and while care has been taken to minimize story related spoilers there may still be spoilers within character analysis. You have been warned.

Based off a popular manga of the same name Anima yell is a comedy, sports and school genre based anime that gives us the opportunity to see what will happen if a girl who loves to be helpful and caring towards others were to come across an activity and sport that would not just allow her to improve the way in which she can help ...

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Dec 23, 2018

KANLen09

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Once again, another 4-koma CGDCT adaptation action, but this time, we're off to "chair"...er I mean, cheerleading!

We all know the deal with high school girls, especially when they move on from middle school, and the big deal with Year 1s are always with enrollment...and of course, mandatory clubs to join for their years of high school life. Well, not with one person by the name of shortie Hatoya Kohane, whom by the sight of cheerleading, mentions: "I found something I wanna do, and that is called...CHAIR!" Her childhood friend Uki Sawatari finds it a joke..."Chair" (literally)?

Eventually, this act of kindness (from Kohane) forwards that ... joke up to experienced-but-frightening Hizume Arima, their own homeroom teacher Inukai (whom she obliges), shy-with-stage-fright(ened) Kotetsu Tatejima (or Kotecchan), and eventually Hizume's old cheerleading group-cum-crush-of-a-teammate Kana Ushiku (through Hizume's bidding). these 5 characters would form the Kaminoki Highschool Cheerleading Club, which is the "create a high school club" archetype, while maintaining the SoL-moe aspects throughout the series.

So, similar to 4-koma manga adaptations is where there isn't really existence of a story (or plot if you will), because certain things will eventually loop the same old boredom once through, then recycles the jokes all over. But, what salvages the series are the characters, starting with the MC Kohane herself. She is kind, she sometimes act like a chirping bird due to the way she converses with the others, and at times attempt even the silliest jokes that turn to regret soon. But what Kohane has going for her is the never-say-die spirit, even when at the slightest amount of cheer for encouragement (mostly Basket-senpai for their school's girls' basketball team). That's where Uki comes in as a mum-like feeling of watching over Kohane as a kid, and also guiding over others and learning cheerleading with everyone else. Not to mention the childhood friend love, it exists here as sort of means of infatuation between Uki's secret desires and the elusive Kohane.

Kotetsu (or Kotecchan) is the shy, reserved one, but does to her excellence when alone. So it's no wonder when she shivers at the thoughts of presenting herself to others outside her comfort zone, and goes into her blank space of thought. But with bit by bit of push, she eventually makes it so that her fear of showcase doesn't hinder her emotions and in direct force, transforms her fear into fun.

Hizume and Kana's on-the-rocks relationship is something worth to take note for. For one, when Hizume was pitched the cheerleading regime once again from hopeful Kohane, her dark past was something of a trauma that she could not shake off, due to insider competition and rivalry, so much so that when she left her old group, that burden of perfection was gone. But now with Kohane, Hizume realized that releasing her old strides and making them new with promises that assure the group can stay motivated, that is where she begins to rally the fun in cheerleading, and even rivals never denying the change that made her a better person (but she constantly fears Kohane's 2nd thoughts of leaving cheerleading, which are damn hilarious). As for Kana, let's just say that her boasting to Kohane and Co. for underestimating Hizume's greatness causes her to have an infatuation, the look-up-to model for perfection, that in turn, directs her love for Hizume in pure Yuri fashion (always nice and funny to see her blemish in hot-red-full facial expression in Hizume's presence). Other than agree-to-disagree, she coaches Kohane and others to do things correctly and give aspiration as means of encouragement.

What I do like about the characters is that no matter their intriguing chemistry with one another, they constantly pull off funny and hilarious one-liners that just doesn't make any logical sense, even if there are a few in-betweens. Hizume's constant fear of casual backlash, Uki and Kana's obsession with their significant others, even Kotecchan's depressional moments, good stuff.

Again, Doga Kobo's aesthetics always pull it off in the simplest but lavishing way possible, and it's nice to see good art and animation that blends very well in showcasing simple story and not-so-complex character designs and the like. A firm nice touch is what this series need, and it's more than enough. Same goes with the music, well, mostly cheerleading music (apart from OP and ED), which again is a nice compliment to the journey of these 5 characters which presents their form and conformance to one another, that despite their differences, they can trust one another and dance to the beat with synchronization.

Somehow lately, CGDCT shows are quite mainstream now, but if you find yourself loving moe-blobs dancing and cheering around like nobody's business, then this show's for you. If you decide to learn cheerleading yourself, this series is also a good place to begin, so get your body moving to "chair"-leading!

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