History Manga / YuruYuri

%%* CastFullOfGay: Just what would ''[=YuruYuri=]'' be without this trope...

* SempaiKohai: Chinatsu refers to Yui (and Kyoko) as "senpai".

* CrazyPrepared

''[=YuruYuri=]'' (aka ''Happy Go Lily'' aka ''Lazy Lily'') is a SliceOfLife comedy manga written and illustrated by Creator/{{Namori}}. The manga began serialization in Ichijinsha's {{yuri}} anthology ''[[Magazine/YuriHime Yuri Hime S]]'' in 2008, later moving to the main ''Comic Yuri Hime'' magazine in 2010 where it is still ongoing. It has also been adapted to anime, with the first two seasons airing as part of {{Summer 2011|Anime}} and {{Summer 2012|Anime}} lineups.[[labelnote:Production]]Both seasons were produced by Dogakobo Studios under the direction of Creator/MasahikoOhta.[[/labelnote]] Building up for the third season, ''[=YuruYuri=] San☆Hai!''[[note]]Let's Go! or Yes, Three![[/note]] aired in {{Fall 2015|Anime}}, and 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]]

* CuteMute: Rise's mouth moves, but the only one who can hear her is [[HotScientist Nishigaki-sensei]]. Also revealed to be [[spoiler: present during most of the events of the series, [[OutOfFocus just offscreen]]]].

* PlentyOfBlondes: Three blondes in the series - including the resident HotScientist Nishigaki-chan.

** In Season 1 Episode 7, while Sakurako goes on a "date" with Himawari at a diner, the latter is innocently reaching for things on the table, causing her [[{{Gainaxing}} breasts to bounce a little]]. Sakurako gets a bit angry at it, then tells her that boobs aren't allowed, while [[ThanksForTheMammaries squeezing one of them.]] Himawari is understandably confused about what Sakurako just did.

''[=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]]''. It has also been adapted to anime, with the first two seasons airing as part of {{Summer 2011|Anime}} and {{Summer 2012|Anime}} lineups.[[labelnote:Production]]Both seasons were produced by Dogakobo Studios under the direction of Creator/MasahikoOhta.[[/labelnote]] Building up for the third season, ''[=YuruYuri=] San☆Hai!''[[note]]Let's Go! or Yes, Three![[/note]] aired in {{Fall 2015|Anime}}, and 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]]

''[=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 Creator/MasahikoOhta.[[/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]]

** Sakurako has a big hissy fit in Season 2 Episode 3 after a few days without Himawari to tutor her, instead spending time teaching Chinatsu to knit a scarf. This culminates in her [[CryCute tearfully lashing out on Himawari]] in the middle of the classroom.

* CryCute
** Yui in Season 1 Episode 11, while [[spoiler:convincing Kyouko not to disband the Club]].
** Sakurako in Season 2 Episode 3 tearfully lashes out on Himawari on spending more time with Chinatsu teaching her how to knit a scarf than tutor her. Turns out Himawari was knitting her a scarf for Valentine's.
** In Episode 11 of Season 2, Akari tearfully realizes that she just doesn't have the heart to change her past, because she'd lose all her good memories of the past year. Then, when she returns to her timeline, practically the main girls, as well as Rise, Nishigaki-sensei and Akane are making missing-person pictures of her, and all the main girls cry TearsOfJoy once she reappears.

* WeWantOurJerkBack: Season 1 Episode 11 focuses on Kyouko going into a CranialEruption-induced OutOfCharacterMoment, where her personality changes so drastically to the point of actually wanting to shut down the Club. Yui [[CryCute breaks down crying]]. Parodied almost immediately afterwards where Akarin's personality changes just as drastically. Everyone readies their random blunt objects and surrounds her.

* HotSpringsEpisode

** The tallest in her age group, even taller for her [[TomboyishPonytail upright ponytail]], she is very much the voice, the firebrand, the elected council (vice) president (the actual student council president is [[OutOfFocus invisibly]] [[HeWasRightThereAllAlong ghostlike]]). In complete contrast, Ayano is the only character with the presence to have a nonstandard background at the end of her eyecatches. With Chitose in tow (often literally), she is beloved of the habit of blasting right into any setting, anywhere (most often yelling for '''TOSHINOU; KYOUKO!!'''), in a DistaffCounterpart of DynamicEntry - if there is such a thing (the viewer is always shown the DutchAngle of this). The habit of dynamically entering and yelling regardless of circumstance does catch up to her though... (LaserGuidedKarma, below)
* LaserGuidedKarma: Once upon a time, Sugiura Ayano finds herself approaching the door of the Student Council room from without, when she suddenly hears... odd sounds emanating from within. And [[InnocentInnuendo what does it sound like]], but that Sakurako has finally decided to consummate her childhood marriage with Himawari!! After some eternal seconds of standing stock still and listening, Ayano cracks and blasts in loudly yelling, only to be met with Sakurako's scream of warning. She looks down and sees [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes a snake]] parking itself on her foot...

* LighterAndSofter:
** Chizuru's fantasies about Chitose and Ayano are definitely a lot less... dramatic than Chitose's about Ayano and Kyouko.
** On a meta level, Season 3 of the anime is this for some, mostly due to the cast's characterizations feeling more stable: [[{{Tsundere}} Ayano]], for example, has a lot less Tsun moments and a lot more Dere ones, [[CuteAndPsycho Chinatsu]] has fewer {{Yandere}} moments and even [[TheStoic Chizuru]] has mellowed down considerably.

* LoveBubbles

* MurderTheHypotenuse: PlayedForLaughs in episode 12 of Season 2. During a play of Literature/SnowWhite, Chizuru (who is an Ayano/Chitose [[ShipperOnDeck shipper]]) plays the huntsman while Kyouko is Snow White. Chizuru fires her gun, which hits the spot [[ShipTease between Kyouko's legs]], then laments that she missed. She then pulls out 2 [[CoolGuns/SubmachineGuns submachine guns]], and [[ATeamFiring begins firing]] [[GunsAkimbo two-handed]] at Kyouko, and only gives up when she runs out of bullets.
* NegativeContinuity:
** Anytime it seems like the main cast have been vaporized by one of Nishigaki-sensei's explosions, it will get exactly ''zero'' follow up. Examples include the anime's second season finale and the manga's chapter 174.
** ''How'', exactly, can the Amusement Club put on a stage play version of Snow White when they're an illegal club the school doesn't know about? Ehhhh ... shut up, it's Doga Kobo's final episode and they're pulling out all the stops, it doesn't have to make sense.

* NightmareFuelColoringBook: Chinatsu's drawings...[[ThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow what is going on in that girl's head?]] *shudder*

* BilingualBonus: In the OVA, the Amusement Club and Student Council are going camping - so in the interests of safety Chinatsu (nicknamed 'Chiina') employed [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant her arting and crafting powers]] and created some [[http://img.ctrlv.in/img/15/11/24/5653f39050410.png Bear Repellent Bells]]! She comes super early out of excitement, and upon seeing Yui gives her one. While still reeling from the shock:

** Episode 12 takes Akari's misfortune UpToEleven.

* WorldOfTechnicolorHair: Nearly everyone has unusual colors, like bright red, purple or blue. Funnily enough, it's typically the characters with ''normal'' hair colors who are pointed out; Yui's normal black hair gets lampshaded when the rest of the Amusement Club can't think up a fruit-based nickname for her, as does Sakurako's hair when discussing {{Sentai}} colors for members of the student council:

--->'''Kyouko:''' Purple, white, blue, light brown.
--->'''Yui:''' Wait. That last one...

* FracturedFairyTale: The second half of Season 2 Episode 12 is basically the main girls' SchoolPlay take on ''Literature/SnowWhite''... complete with their eccentricities taking the bulk of the tale, starring Kyouko as an ExtremeOmnivore Snow White, Nana and Rise as the evil queen and the (barely audible) magic mirror, respectively, Chizuru as the {{BFG}}-[[GunsAkimbo wielding]] huntsman (allowing her to project her animosity to Kyouko, triggered when Kyoko theatrically pleaded for her life), and Seven Elves portrayed by Ayano ({{Tsundere}}), Chitose ([[{{Meganekko}} Glasses]]), Yui ([[BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine Retorting]]), Chinatsu ([[CuteAndPsycho Evil]]), Himawari ([[GagBoobs Boob]]), Sakurako ([[TheDitz Stupid]]) and Akari ([[TheGenericGuy Remarkably Unremarkable]]). The poisoned apple was turned into a tomato (associated with Kyouko after [[CallBack she wore a tomato-themed pajama during last season's finale]]), and Yui also doubled as the PrinceCharming.

* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Kaede and Hanako.

* {{Yandere}}: Chinatsu enters this territory.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair:
** Nearly everyone has unusual shades of hair coloring. Himawari and Kaede actually have blue hair.
** Yui's normal black hair gets lampshaded when the rest of the Amusement Club can't think up a fruit-based nickname for her.
** As does Sakurako's hair when discussing {{Sentai}} colors for members of the student council:
--->'''Kyouko:''' Purple, white, blue, light brown.
--->'''Yui:''' Wait. That last one...

* ImprobablyFemaleCast:
** There are no named males in this series, and it avoids using them as background characters as much as possible. Even in Season 1 Episode 7, where a handful of males were shown, though faceless and with the camera panning behind or below the head, until the very end of the episode, which shows one of Akari's younger male relatives from the front.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: The first four chapters were so rough Namori redid them years later. It starts with Kyouko mimicking Akari's first words, only for Akari to get mad and tell her to stop saying such strange things.

* AssociatedComposer: For the Doga Kobo seasons, the director Masahiko Ohta employed his go-to composer Yasuhiro Misawa. Misawa has a very distinct style that relies on sparse, off-beat percussion (typically with lots of hi-hat) and repetitive stop-and-start pizzicato melodies, lending the show a whimsical, exuberant, off-beat feel. When production shifted to [=TYO=] however, they did not retain Misawa's services. As a result, the ''Nachuyachumi!'' [=OVAs=] and season 3 have a completely different score, one more subdued and low-key that doesn't really stand out like Misawa's scores do, and often uses silence or buzzing cicadas in lieu of instrumentation. Although Ohta didn't return for the 10th anniversary special, Misawa ''did'', turning in a score very similar to his work on the Doga Kobo seasons.

* BadLiar: In Season 1 Episode 8, Ayano assumes that Chitose is this when the latter says she's going to tell lies and at the end of the day Ayano can try to figure out which ones were lies. She says things such as a ghost in the bathroom, that she has a twin, and that Kyouko was smelling Ayano's shoes. Ayano then tells her to reveal all her lies, and then Chitose says she [[spoiler:lied when she said she was going to tell lies, so all the things she mentioned were in fact true, much to Ayano's shock]].

* MagicSkirt: Even in the openings, where the main four are always jumping around or standing with the wind blowing, we don't even get one PantyShot from those school uniforms (although there are a few in the manga).

* {{Iyashikei}}: The ''Nachuyachumi'' {{OVA}} is pretty much this, dispensing with much of the manic comedy that characterized the first two TV seasons to focus instead on the girls just enjoying a relaxing summer break together. The atmosphere could be summed up as really ''really'' mellow, and this carries over to the ''Nachuyachumi+'' [=OVAs=] that immediately followed.
** The trend is continued even further in the third season ''San-hai!''. While it's still funny, it's a much more relaxed type of funny compared to the shenanigans present in the first two seasons.

* HostileShowTakeover: Until ''San Hai!'', every "OnTheNext" had the character giving it declare themselves as some form of protagonist, except Akari. In Season 1 Episode 6, Kyouko (in an Akari mask) does the CouchGag in place of Akari.