Yuuki Yunna is prob one of the highly underrated series of fall 2014(by my guess from views on kissanime.com crunchyroll, wao, sites that I use). I somewhat had a gut feeling that I would like this series and as each ep. came out weekly ratings 6.50ish and now look where it's at, slowly, but surely, this series got better as it went on.
Story/Enjoyment/Art
I'm not going to review the series into details of the plot, but the plot was what made me really change my mind of this series(watch the series yourself for full detail of-course :D)
The series starts of with a club know as the hero club, witch does a lot of community services in a way, after being "it" the hero club(4 members at start) are randomly taken into another dimension where they fight these "vertex" where they have to defect 12 vertex and their battle would be over, so they thought...the series starts of really light and simple, and as I was watching my enjoyment was slowly dropping down on it until a bit more into the series their was a lot of hints of a different factor in the plot, the dark areas of the plot. Honestly it has been a while when I last saw a series that has brought some tears to my eyes. I would have to say this series felt really really close mahou shoujo because of the slow start and from the plot just giving hints and hints and here it is.... a twist, but I wouldn't say that this is another mahou shoujo despite the fact both series girls transform and fight, they do have their differences. The artwork of the other dimension is also really similar to mahou shoujo. And the ending is one of the difference, but just because it ended this way, that did not mean it was over(or so i thought).
Genres: Slice of Life, Fantasy, Magic
Being in a part of a club pretty much that will lead to the slice of life event
the dimension world that they are taken to brings out the fantasy genre to the series
I'm not fully sure if I would be able to consider this as magic, it felt more like it was super power/action, but also there wasn't much action at all, the hero club members didn't really use magic, but they did got their powers from something else may have consider it as magic
Characters
YES, these characters were so.....CUTE, when they transformed to their hero form.... EVEN CUTER, but...it's not just their cuteness, their development as a character went really well, even tho as you might be able to tell, the plot will be around Yuuki Yuuna because of the title, but the plot did have room for development of other main characters which was really good, even a character that came in later had development, because this is a 12 ep series don't be expecting one whole ep. about one character, their developments were quick and simple and may even bring some tears to your eyes or heart warming at the very least?
Sound
The sound was not really well I can honestly say from my view, the opening itself felt a bit dark to it, and then the ending it felt a bit more light? happy? it was a bit weird for me, but it didn't effect my enjoyment of the series. I would say the OST is a bit balanced with some dark theme, sad theme, light theme OSTs.
Last Ep on Christmas
what can I say? after eating lunch with the family and opening presents and then finally getting to watch anime, I can really say, I enjoyed my afternoon a lot more then I thought. If you were one of those person who has only watched ep 1-6 or so, sit on your chair, turn on that comp, watch in HD, and enjoy your Christmas/your day. Entirely a worth watching series if you ask me.
