YMMV / YuruYuri

• Accidental Innuendo: In Season 3 Episode 5 of the anime, Yui suggests a t-shirt that says "I am AHO" for Kyouko to wear. Kyouko loved it.
• Broken Base:
  • Fandom opinion is split over which season of the anime is superior. Fans of the first particularly dislike the decreased focus Kyouko has in the second, as well as the increased focus on the first year students. Fans of the second season find this change in humor refreshing.
  • With the third season, there's a split between those who don't mind its more cutesy, slice of life approach, and those who prefer the more manic style of the first two seasons.
  • The series is often criticized by fans of "more serious" Yuri Genre works because despite how the manga runs in a yuri magazine and the girls' feelings for each other being more explicit than in most Schoolgirl Series, the series never directly concerns lesbian relationships and only uses Ship Tease between the girls for fanservice and comedy. At the same time, fans and other people pay attention to the fact that this series was conceived as an Affectionate Parody of Yuri and a similar fanservice, appealing to the apparent parody of Cast Full of Gay and Chitose's fantasies.
• Cliché Storm:
  • The series itself is an example of one, as well as consciously discussing it. Almost every "couple" tends to parody certain clichés from the Yuri Genre, like Tomboy and Girly Girl, Twincest and Teacher/Student Romance. Also, the anime starts with Akari being Late for School, with a slice of toast hanging out of her mouth; very few anime can get more cliched than that.
  • The Secrets of the Super Prominent Protagonist gag Show Within the Show looks similar to The Grand List of Console Role Playing Game Clichés. Good thing we have TV Tropes to list them easily.
    • "Oversleeps often"
    • "Girls fall from the sky"
    • "Extremely adaptable"
    • "Found a Legendary Sword"
    • "Powers awaken at a crucial moment"
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Akane Akaza, Akari's older sister. She didn't appear in the first season, but she was already getting fanart before she made her official animated debut, and she had plenty of fans beforehand. Her appearances starting in Season 2 were welcome ones.
• Fan Nickname: Some fans call the show "Relaxed/Soft Lesbians" which is another way the Japanese can be read.
• Fridge Logic: So, why did Kyouko smell Ayano's shoes, again?
  • She smelled them because they smelled like green tea, and she knew that because she smelled them!
• Growing the Beard: The first five chapters of the manga are solid quality-wise, yet they're also a fairly standard Seinfeldian "manga about nothing" where the characters fill time with random conversations while Namori-sensei struggles to come up with a direction.^note  Tellingly, she later redid these chapters to make them resemble later volumes more. Then comes chapter six, where Kyoko realizes Akari lacks presence and calls an intervention to Retool her into a more interesting character, commenting on and deconstructing its own nature as a manga. For the first time the gonzo, fourth wall-breaking shenanigans formed the actual plot of a chapter, and this gaveYuru Yuri its own identity.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • In the fourth episode, Ayano declares she wants to go to "Fai Fai Beach!" In 2019, a Namori-designed character named Fai Fai would, indeed, have a beach episode.
  • In "Yuru Yuri Everyday", Kyoko nicknames Akari "Ringo"^note  Apple . In Momokyun Sword, which starred three-quarters of the Yuru Yuri cast, Ringo was the name of Shiori Mikami's character.
  • The Doga Kobo seasons started the "No Bulli" meme, which would later become heavily associated with Satania McDowell from Gabriel DropOut. Not only is GabDro another Doga Kobo show, it has pretty much the exact same production crew, including the same director, lead writer, and dozens of animators.
  • In one chapter, Kyouko sees Nadeshiko and Hanako at a diner and enthusiastically tries to strike up a friendship after she sees Nadeshiko reading a copy of a magazine with Mirakurin on the cover. Yui drags Kyouko away and apologizes profusely for the interruption. Ironically, Yui and Nadeshiko would later become very close online friends when they start adventuring together in Namo Namo Fantasy 14, without either of them knowing who the other is.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • "Waaai, <item>! Akari <item> daisuki!"^note translation:"Akari loves <item>!" As demonstrated by the Akari Daisuki Twitter bot.
  • Akari the Anti-Bully Ranger. She even has her own Twitter.
  • Welcome to Yuri Heaven◊.
  • Pretty much anything involving Kyouko and her iconic tomato onesie.
• Memetic Molester: Chinatsu with Akane.
• Moe: The entire cast looks and acts in an extremely cute manner.
• Nausea Fuel: Chitose's frequent nosebleeds actually come with a sickening "squishing" noise that actually sounds like "Squick". And even worse is Chizuru's drooling.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Episode 10: Chitose trying to stop a nosebleed. It pours out of her huge, bloodshot eyes.
  • The first episode has an in-universe example for Kyouko when she goes into Akane's room. The music sounds like something out of a horror movie and she is noticeably shaken by the things she sees inside.
  • The ending animation of S208, drawn Chinatsu-style.
• Rule of Funny: The stage play of Snow White was Doga Kobo's final episode, for which they pulled out all the stops. But it never explains how the Amusement Club can put on a play when they're an unregistered club the school doesn't know about.
• Ship-to-Ship Combat: Any pairing vs. any pairing. With so many overtones and so many pairings, this is expected, even in the yuri community.
  • This is truly epic◊ within the Kyouko/Yui/Ayano triangle.
  • Ship Mates: That's not to say there aren't any pairings that get along. Almost everyone ships Sakurako and Himawari, so to go with this pairing you can have the "Friendship Pairings" where everyone ends up with the person they are closest to, this one ends in the most pairings. Then there is the "Sexual Tension Pairings" where those that have expressed interest for another character, end up with said object of affection. Sakurako and Himawari, of course, manages to be in both pairing types.
• Suspiciously Similar Song:
  • Mirakurun's transformation music/character song sounds an awful lot like the second opening theme of Haruhi Suzumiya.
  • One piece of incidental music that plays during 'sporty' scenes like Chizuru's volleyball test and Kyoko's armwrestling game sounds like a Muzak version of "Eye of the Tiger".
• Tear Jerker:
  • Episode 3 of the second season while Sakurako watches Himawari help Chinatsu make a scarf for Yui....... The music doesn't help.
  • The eleventh episode of the second season in which Akari must decide whether or not to change the past and face the consequences of losing her old memories in the place of new ones.
  • Mirakurun's Heroic Sacrifice in the season one finale. Though she is back again in season two.
• Unfortunate Character Design: From a distance, Chitose and Chizuru's glasses look like a frowny mouth and puffed out cheeks, and their actual mouth looks like a double chin, turning them into disgruntled chibi characters. Especially apparent in the season three ED.
• Unpopular Popular Character: There are Akari fans who hate seeing her as the show's Out of Focus Butt-Monkey, and there are fans who think that this makes her more interesting. Word of God has even latched onto the latter opinion.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Little Girls?: The series might be about cute middle-school girls, but it has plenty of yuri and it's clearly for a male audience. There's also the running joke about how Akari's older sister Akane secretly has a very incestuous obsession with her.
• The Woobie: Poor, poor Akari. She breaks down crying in the very first episode, after her friends' attempts to reinvent her image only end up making her feel worse. And from that point on, the show goes out of its way to make sure she's either neglected, miserable or both.
• Woolseyism:
  • In the manga, Ayano uses the pun Bakkin Bakkingamu, or "Buckingham (Palace) Penalty". This has become somewhat iconic, to the point of being the subject of her eyecatch, an Image Song, and even a major scanlation group took their name from it. However, Crunchyroll instead uses "Fine Irvine" since the pun doesn't make sense in English.
  • Chapter 156, which involves a discussion about the weather, is titled "Genki no Ko" ("Genki child"... or given the context of YuruYuri's all-female cast, "Genki Girl") - a Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title on the film Tenki no Ko ("Child of the Weather"), released in English as Weathering With You. Fan translations retain the pun by renaming the chapter "Weathering with YuruYuri".

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