Nyoro-n Churuya-san

| Elegy to the ~Nyoron | The real art of drama.
Nyoro-n Churuya-san focuses on the struggle of a lively school girl suffering from severe dwarfism. A girl named Churuya who fights frantically to obtain what is denied to her. Churuya's very own forbidden fruit, smoked cheese.

Churuya’s world is unlike any other, it’s a place where the inhabitant wear emotionless expressions whose gazes are filled with indifference and scorn. Hysterically staring at her while wearing slick smiles whenever she isn’t looking. Churuya-san story ingeniously explains a tragedy of sorts that encompasses the concept of egoism. Put in simple words: "This cheese is mine. You can’t ... have any."

The malice of the twisted world she lives in is mainly depicted by a cynic boy named Kyon, one of Churuya's classmates. Uncaring, malicious, and sharp tongued as he is, Kyon puts Churuya through countless hardships with false promises of giving Churuya a small taste of her adored smoked cheese. As the story progress, the viewer witnesses how this fiend slowly transforms Churuya into a constant source of mockery for his personal amusement. However, his heartless deeds aren’t restricted to Churuya-san as another one of the classmates of Churuya-san named Ryoko shares a similar predicament. She’s enamored with the same very man who treats Churuya worse than beasts. All too soon, what is feared the most by Ryoko becomes a reality in her eyes as well. It is well known that history has to thing to repeat itself. Unfortunately for her, this tyrant already prepared his own agent for her before she could notice. Kyon doesn’t hesitate make her despair in every chance he gets entirely ignoring her pure feeling towards him, thinking that it’s too easy. Far too easy to let it go.

In this world, Haruhi, Yuki, Itsuki and even Mikuru are a shell of their former selves. They are no longer who they used to be. They are empty shelves with the sole mission is to contribute to Churuya’s anguish. Disguised as Churuya's close friends they carefully weave their webs around her seeking for right opportunity of ridicule further. There is no trace left of their past kindness and caring for her friend. Now, they’re all dull and ruled by immense apathy. All of them devoid of common sense and compassion towards her smoked cheese-starved friend.

Because of the distressing events in her short life Churuya has developed the peculiar condition of saying ~Nyoron whenever something upsetting happens to her. These words uttered from Churuya’s lips are a cry for help that express both anxiety and frustration, words of grief that has no equivalent to any language known to man. Byproducts from a well hidden daily misfortune cause by smoked cheese deprivation.

Being called names, abused, trampled all over and then discarded like yesterday’s newspaper. Churuya is pushed around mercilessly in inhuman ways that breaks the heart and touches the very soul. Churuya’s tale is a journey to find her own utopia where she can be happy. A place where she isn't discriminated against for her liking of smoked cheese. An utopia where the world is painted yellow. A land where there will always be cheese for her.

Next time you're eating cheese. Don't take it for granted. Think of the little people. Think of Churuya-san.

I came in expecting big things. I came out with bruises cause the thing that was inside was HUGE it took up most of the room!! This is just too adorable, with a little bit of dry humor in it that makes it so refreshing like this can of pepsi I was just drinking. I mean it's 2 am now, yet after watching this, my mind subconsciously thinks its 2 xu (ie the time keeping system used in Happiness land). How many times in our lives have we all thought to ourselves "Nyoron," when we couldn't get what we wanted, whether it be smoked cheese ... (materialistic gain) or Kyon-kun (emotional satisfaction), so this is kind of depressing too if you think about it.

Episode #5 stands out for me the most. #11 also touched upon something interesting when the blue haired girl wanted to cross out her name on a test to "identify" with her crush, yet it turns out he wrote his name all along. I've always believed in following what you believed rather than letting other's opinions influence yours, because if you follow them and suddenly their opinions change, you'd be stuck... that's not to say you can't take their opinions in the first place as long as it's rooted within reason. This way, when you find out that they "had their name written all along," you'd still be safe.

*realizes a pattern in the last 3 reviews written on MAL where not more than 30% found my reviews helpful, while glancing at this one*
Nyoron... (jk)... 13 episodes x 2 min = 26 minutes, all you have to spare... recommended!

I watched this while taking a shit. Needless to say, it was the greatest shit I have ever, and will ever, take. I fucking love smoked cheese.

I must say, with Nyoro~n Churuya san, anime as a medium has reached its magnum opus. This is the last anime I will ever watch, as I know nothing will ever compare. It would be unjust to call Nyoro-n Churuya-san the Ulysses or Beethoven of anime; rather, it would be apprpriate to call Ulysses the Nyoro-n Churuya-san of literature, and Beethoven the Nyoro-n Churuya-san of composers. I love smoked cheese.

The plot? Fantastic. I found it extremely immersive. I ... love smoked cheese.

The characters? Fantastic. They were very deep. I love smoked cheese.

The art? Fantastic. The characters almost looked real. These visuals put Miyazaki to shame.I love smoked cheese.

The sound? Fantastic. My ears came. I love smoked cheese.

Enjoyment? Fantastic. After taking that shit, I attempted to shove it back up my ass so I could take it again as it was very enjoyable. Unfortunately, I failed. I love smoked cheese.

Overall? Fantastic. I love smoked cheese.

Forget Haruhi season 3. I'm looking forward to a season 2 of Nyoro-n Churuya-san.

Story: 3, Art: 7, Sound: 9, Character: 7, Overall: 7
Lol is really all I can say when it comes to the writing in this ONA for the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. It somehow makes "Nyoro-n" the punchline for everything, and still be funny! It's funny and creative, but it's like it was written up when everyone had the midnight giggles and were bored to tears.
The art is smooth but not detailed. Voice acting is perfect since it's still the cast of the main series. The music is simple but appropriate. Characters are all hilarious and enjoyable. But ... Mikuru seemed a bit off her normal self. Basically a short little comedy for laughs.

Parental Caution:
Rated G
Nothing inappropriate is present in this anime.

"A good anime is classified by personal opinion. A masterpiece is indisputable" - Jesus Christ 2015

Rarely in the anime universe are there perfect animes. Cowboy Bebop had its flaws, Neon Genesis had a debatable ending, and Attack on Titan took too long for a second season. As far as we can see, and I speak for the whole of the MAL community, hell, everyone who watches anime knows that School Days and Mars of Destruction have been the farthest we've gotten to that perfect anime. Enter Nyoro-n Churuya-san. This anime is perfect in every shape and form. The characters are solid, the animation is nice, ... sharp, and flows well. The voice acting sounds like they were voiced by angels themselves. The story, the fucking story. That's the main thing that makes Nyoro-n Churuya-san the perfect anime.

Churuya, the girl known as "that bright energetic (possible lesbo) girl". In this anime, we see not the energetic side of Churuya, but instead a darker side of her, as well as the darker side of the Haruhi universe and the characters in it. The story revolves around Churuya's tragic, heartbreaking struggle for survival, being starved by the SOS Brigade, and her only desire is for food. The only food at the evil club members disposal is smoked cheese, and they use said smoked cheese to taunt Churuya throughout the anime, prompting interesting and gruesome events. At the start, it seems cheerful, but watch on and you'll see how sickening the SOS Brigade really is. Churuya's struggle for survival will not only inspire you, but will wrench every last tear out of your tear ducts.

Nyoro-n Churuya-san is the perfect anime we've been looking for, and it definitely deserves its tenouttaten rating. Thank you.

Nyoro-n Churuya-san was one of the most out there and random Animes I have ever watched. After finishing Haruhi-chan, I was still craving more Haruhi-related randomness, so I decided to watch Churuya. It was killer. I enjoyed Churuya's childlike way of looking at the world and her rabid obsession with smoked cheese. My only problems with this anime are:
1. I didn't quite like the art style. The way that all of the Brigade member's faces are just a series of lines arranged to make a face seems to reflect a sort of laziness.
2. Yūko Gotō didn't do the voice exactly the same. I know that's ... a sorta picky thing to say, but that's just the way I am.

However, I enjoyed watching the show with my favorite episode being 7, featuring Churuya's Great Great Adventure, a video game starring the one and only Churuya-san.

Hee-hee, after watching this, I really wanted to try smoked cheese. I really like Churuya-san now, she's really cute. This anime had some really funny moments that I really enjoyed, and it's something that if you like anime series you can finish quickly, you might like. I finished it in one night. Mostly jokes about smoked cheese, and total random-ness, with just some dashes of cute moments, and you have Nyoro~n Churuya-san. If you watch it, I hope you enjoy it, and if you're deciding if you should watch it or not, I think you should. Thanks for reading! :D

This ONA series is based off a four-panel gag manga so naturally you can't expect that much in the way of plot. But I expected this to still be a little bit entertaining. Hetalia and Azumanga Daioh are also based off four-panel gag manga strips and they are funny.

The art style looks incredibly lazy and badly drawn. The humour basically revolves around little inconveniences happening to the main character who responds by going "nyoro.."

There are no funny gags or hilarious situations like you would normally find in anime. It is basically just a little chibi girl asking for smoked cheese randomly and going "nyoro..." ... every time things don't go her way. The characters are loosely based off the character in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya but most of them don't act like they normally would. Mikuru Asahina's voice actress has changed completely. All in all, despite it only being 13 little shorts it is still not worth watching.

A masterpiece of its genre. Truly inspiring.

Nyoro-n Churuya-san is literally one of the few anime, if you could call it this way, that were able to make me laugh. Its nonsense, the way the character are so stupid, even their stupid design is something I love.
Watched it with the English Dub, truly exilarating. I would like to say something else (because I'm forced thanks to MAL guidelines), but I have nothing else to say about this piece of art.

But what's with smoked cheese anyway? Does it even exists? Why did they choose it as the main "subject" of the opera? And why Churuya-san, of all ... characters (even if I love her)? Japan is truly a land of wonder sometimes.