History Manga / YuruYuri

* NotWhatItLooksLike: In the OVA, Chinatsu spills some tea on her, making it look like she wet herself. Yui walks in and is shocked at first, though Chinatsu quickly explains herself. Of course, she needs to change her clothes, so Yui offers her track suit. As Yui is helping Chinatsu to change, Kyouko walks in, seeing Yui's hand on Chinatsu's wet skirt.
--> '''Kyouko:''' "Whatever pervertiness is going on... I want in!!!"
--> '''Yui:''' "You misunderstand, you pervert!"

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In "You and Me and the Student Council", Sakurako's voice sounds an octave higher and five years younger than the obnoxious, throaty howling we all know and love.

** The Fourth Wall gets savaged a lot more often in the manga, to make announcements (like when the series got picked up for animation) or once to explain how they're NotAllowedToGrowUp - and in a quarterly magazine no less, leaving Himawari and Sakurako agonizing over the fact they'll never get to settle their rivalry with the student council elections that are being perpetually skipped over by the magazine's publishing dates.

* CuteAndPsycho: Chinatsu comes off as fairly sweet in her first appearance - and afterwards (especially around Yui), but many moments of pure, burning insanity can be seen in her art and actions.

*** In one chapter, Ayano encounters Yui hunched over trembling. Ayano thinks something serious happened to Yui, and Yui is too embarassed to admit that she just stubbed her toe while skipping.

* OnlySixFaces: The main difference between the girls appearance is in the hair, and variety of facial expressions, but they have really similar faces. Akari and Chinatsu have near identical faces, just as well as Kyouko and Sakurako, and Ayano and Himawari.

** Sakurako drops her childish act and hostitily towards Himawari upon learning that Himawari was starving herself.

* RubberFace: Yui does it to Kyouko in Season 1 Episode 3 - and throughout, as does Himawari to Sakurako.

* SecretKeeper: While Akari doesn't know about her sister's obsession with her, when Kyouko peeks into Akane's room, she sees a lot of evidences in there. Then in Season 2 Episode 11, after Akari is invited into her room, Akane cleans up everything inside and stuffs all of it inside her closet. It gets to the point where her sister can't sleep because she's sharing the bed with Akari.

** Akari uses her lack of presense to conceal game pieces, a tactic formerly used by Momoko Touyoko from ''Manga/{{Saki}}''.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: Rivalun wears a bikini top, resulting in an very embarrassed Ayano when she's forced to cosplay as her.

** Also, Chitose's twin sister, Chizuru, who fantazises about Chitose/Ayano.

* SchoolgirlLesbians: The main premise of the series, though despite many of the girls having very obvious crushes on each other, most of them are one-sided. In the ''Ohmuro-ke'' manga SpinOff, Nadeshiko is one of the few more explicit examples and is actually trying to hide the specific identity of her girlfriend.

* DCupDistress: Himawari always feels embarrassed ([[BelligerentSexualTension especially around Sakurako]]) by the fact that she is incredibly stacked for a thirteen-year-old.

* NoDialogueEpisode: A manga chapter focusing on Rise is naturally free of any spoken words, following her as she makes trades with the rest of the main cast.

* TheAct: Parodied when Chinatsu gets a cold and becomes absolutely flawless at everything she does, including art class.

** To ''Manga/Citrus'', a fellow ''Comic Yuri Hime'' series:

** In the third season's fifth episode, Nadeshiko is seen reading a magazine with a panel of Yuzu from ''Manga/{{Citrus}}''.

* [[CastFullOfGay Cast Full of Lesbians]]: Just what would ''[=YuruYuri=]'' be without this trope...

** The second season used a lot of original material since Doga Kobo ran out of manga. By the time Namori wrote enough chapters for a third season, Doga Kobo and the Production Posse of director Masahiko Ohta, screenwriter Takashi Aoshima, and composer Yasuhiro Misawa had all moved on to ''Manga/HimoutoUmaruChan'', so production duties were assigned to Creator/TYO, who made a much more straightforward adaptation. It removed all of Doga Kobo's original flourishes (like Akari's CouchGag introduction), didn't reuse any of Misawa's music, had a darker and more muted color palette, replaced the distinctive Doga Kobo hair highlights with what look like cigarette burns, and in general focused on static shots of characters speaking rather than the kinetic energy of a typical Masahiko Ohta series. When it came time for the tenth anniversary special, Studio Lay-Duce (who'd already worked with Namori on ''Anime/ReleaseTheSpyce'') apparently agreed, since it's much closer in tone and style to the first two seasons.

** The ''Ohmuro-ke'' SpinOff web comics are pretty much named after the ''Manga/MinamiKe'' series.

* SpinOff: Has three so far! ''[=YuriYuri=]'', ''Risetto!!'', and ''Ohmuro-ke''.

* LostInTranslation: Ayano's eyecatch features her posing in front of Buckingham Palace, a reference to her catchphrase "Bakkin Buckingham".[[note]] ''Buckingham Penalty'' [[/note]] However, the English language subtitles changed the line to "Fine Irvine", so the backdrop becomes a complete nonsequitur.

* GeographicFlexability: In seasons one and two, Nanamori Middle School is on the edge of a sprawling forest with a giant ravine. In season three (animated by a different studio), the trees around the Tea Ceremony club room are just one little copse in the middle of a suburban neighborhood.

''[=YuruYuri=]'' (aka ''Happy Go Lily'' aka ''Lazy Lily'') is an ongoing 2008 SliceOfLife comedy manga written by Creator/{{Namori}} that originally ran in Ichijinsha's {{yuri}} anthology ''[[Magazine/YuriHime Yuri Hime S]]''. Two anime adaptation seasons aired as part of {{Summer 2011|Anime}} and {{Summer 2012|Anime}} lineups.[[labelnote:Production]]Both seasons were produced by Dogakobo Studios under the direction of Masahiko Ohta.[[/labelnote]] Building up for the upcoming third season, ''[=YuruYuri=] San☆Hai!''[[note]]Let's Go! or Yes, Three![[/note]] airing in {{Fall 2015|Anime}}, a medium-length movie special, ''[=YuruYuri=] Nachuyachumi!''[[note]]A cute way of saying Summer Break, i.e. "Summer Vacachuun"[[/note]], was released {{direct to video}} in Japan in February 2015 and focused on the girls going on a summer camping trip. Two episode-length follow-up specials, ''[=YuruYuri=] Nachuyachumi!+'', aired later in the summer.[[labelnote:Production]]Both Nachuyachumi! and San☆Hai! were produced by Pony Canyon and TYO Animations and directed by Hiroyuki Hata.[[/labelnote]]

** The second season used a lot of original material since Doga Kobo ran out of manga. By the time Namori wrote enough chapters for a third season, Doga Kobo and the ProductionPosse of director Masahiko Ohta, screenwriter Takashi Aoshima, and composer Yasuhiro Misawa had all moved on to [[Manga/HimoutoUmaruChan]], so production duties were assigned to Creator/TYO, who made a much more straightforward adaptation. It removed all of Doga Kobo's original flourishes (like Akari's CouchGag introduction), didn't reuse any of Misawa's music, had a darker and more muted color palette, replaced the distinctive Doga Kobo hair highlights with what look like cigarette burns, and in general focused on static shots of characters speaking rather than the kinetic energy of a typical Masahiko Ohta series. When it came time for the tenth anniversary special, Studio Lay-Duce (who'd already worked with Namori on Anime/ReleaseTheSpyce) apparently agreed, since it's much closer in tone and style to the first two seasons.

** The second season used a lot of original material since Doga Kobo [[OvertookTheManga ran out of manga]]. By the time Namori wrote enough chapters for a third season, Doga Kobo and the ProductionPosse of director Masahiko Ohta, screenwriter Takashi Aoshima, and composer Yasuhiro Misawa had all moved on to [[Manga/HimoutoUmaruChan]], so production duties were assigned to Creator/TYO, who made a much more straightforward adaptation. It removed all of Doga Kobo's original flourishes (like Akari's CouchGag introduction), didn't reuse any of Misawa's music, had a darker and more muted color palette, replaced the distinctive Doga Kobo hair highlights with what look like cigarette burns, and in general focused on static shots of characters speaking rather than the kinetic energy of a typical Masahiko Ohta series. When it came time for the tenth anniversary special, Studio Lay-Duce (who'd already worked with Namori on Anime/ReleaseTheSpyce) apparently agreed, since it's much closer in tone and style to the first two seasons.

* ArtEvolution: In the earliest chapters, everyone's heads are significantly larger in proportion to their bodies. Himawari has [[http://i.imgur.com/NmdZkVg.jpg long luxurious plaited twintails]], before shrinking down to barely nothing.

* DecoyProtagonist: Namori didn't have a clear direction for the manga at first[[labelnote:*]] ''she redid the first four chapters years later and took potshots at her early characterization'' on the opening page[[/labelnote]], and when she introduced Chinatsu and the Amusement Club love triangle, Akari's page time plummeted. In keeping with her fourth wall-breaking style, Namori had the others [[DiscussedTrope discuss Akari's lack of presence]] and come up with ways to make her stand out in the narrative. Namori settled on "girl who wants to have presence but fails miserably", which she later said makes Akari a more interesting and relatable character. But as Namori developed her surreal aesthetic further, gradually that aspect of Akari's character faded away.

* DecoyProtagonist:
** The opening and ending credits, as well as the first few minutes of the first episode make it seem obvious that Akari is the main protagonist. However, she loses focus quickly (i.e. mid-way through the first episode) which leads the girls to [[DiscussedTrope talk about it]] and try to make her stand out more. Also, Kyouko (who gets the spotlight after Akari loses it) [[LampshadeHanging claims on the previews that she is the main character]].
** By season 3, this trope has fallen by the wayside. Jokes about Akari's lack of presence are sparse, and she gets about as much screen time as the rest of the ensemble.