7.7
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
YuruYuri: Happy Go Lily (2011)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Viewer Rating
Rating: 7.7
Overview
On her first day attending the all-girls Nanamori Middle School in Takaoka, Toyama Akaza Akari oversleeps, to be awakened by her one-year-senior childhood friends: the level-headed Funami Yui and the often self-centered Toshinou Kyouko. Planning on exciting club activities at school, Akari joins the club her older friends have set up. But as it turns out Kyouko and Yui simply took over the former room of the now defunct tea ceremony club for their own Amusement Club. In regard to what the club does, Kyouko explains: "We just hang out and do whatever we want!" This is not exactly what the helpful and energetic Akari had hoped for. Surprisingly a few days later Yoshikawa Chinatsu joins the club even though she mistook it for the former tea ceremony club. And so the four fun-loving girls could enjoy spending their spare time at the club were it not for the student council, in person of vice president Sugiura Ayano, who does her very best to shut down this unauthorized club.
Starring Cast
Bias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
LGBTQ: Positive
Overview
On her first day attending the all-girls Nanamori Middle School in Takaoka, Toyama Akaza Akari oversleeps, to be awakened by her one-year-senior childhood friends: the level-headed Funami Yui and the often self-centered Toshinou Kyouko. Planning on exciting club activities at school, Akari joins the club her older friends have set up. But as it turns out Kyouko and Yui simply took over the former room of the now defunct tea ceremony club for their own Amusement Club. In regard to what the club does, Kyouko explains: "We just hang out and do whatever we want!" This is not exactly what the helpful and energetic Akari had hoped for. Surprisingly a few days later Yoshikawa Chinatsu joins the club even though she mistook it for the former tea ceremony club. And so the four fun-loving girls could enjoy spending their spare time at the club were it not for the student council, in person of vice president Sugiura Ayano, who does her very best to shut down this unauthorized club.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
The film focuses on apolitical themes of friendship, school life, and comedy, consciously avoiding any explicit political messaging or ideological promotion. Its narrative is centered on character interactions and slice-of-life scenarios, making it ideologically neutral.
This movie features an all-Japanese cast, which, while ethnically homogeneous, does not engage in explicit racial or gender recasting of roles. The narrative centers on an all-female cast and same-sex relationships without explicitly critiquing traditional identities or making DEI themes central to its lighthearted plot.
Secondary
YuruYuri: Happy Go Lily centers on the romantic affections and crushes between its main female characters. These relationships are integral to the show's comedic and slice-of-life narrative, consistently portrayed in a lighthearted, non-judgmental, and positive manner. The series normalizes and celebrates same-sex attraction without external prejudice or internal conflict, affirming the worth of these feelings.
YuruYuri: Happy Go Lily is a slice-of-life comedy anime centered on the daily lives of cisgender middle school girls. The series does not include any identifiable transsexual characters or themes, nor does it engage with issues related to transsexual identity. Therefore, there is no portrayal to evaluate.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
YuruYuri is an adaptation of its own manga, featuring original characters. All characters' genders in the anime are consistent with their portrayal in the source material, and no pre-existing characters from other canons or history have had their gender changed.
YuruYuri: Happy Go Lily is an anime adaptation of a Japanese manga. All characters are consistently depicted as Japanese in both the source material and the anime, with no changes to their established racial identities.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.6
7.7
Critic Ratings
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