The end has come and it’s time to put on a show!
What They Say:
The Student Council and Amusement Club Presents: Snow White.
The Review:
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
With the final episode of the season, Yuru Yuri does a lot of what it does best in bringing us back to those four core characters. When the first season kicked off, it gave us Akari trying to make friends and finding out about this strange little group that spent its time doing pretty much nothing. And in such a great place since it was now a disused tea ceremony room. Seeing the friendships evolve over time and seeing elements in this season with them split since a couple of them are older and have end of school activities to deal with, we got some good bits involving those four as they pined for their friends but also expanded their own group of friends.
With it being the finale, it hits a few different areas, from the girls just playing with things after Akari gets freaked out by a stuff snake to seeing the school play wherein Kyoko is just over the top with how she interacts with everyone. Others get in on the fun with this as well as they do the whole Snow White angle with lots of the girls playing the elves that get some hilarious names. The play takes up a good chunk of the episode, which is a little hit or miss at times, but it has a number of good laughs based on the characters and their quirks. With it going on as much as it does while bringing everyone together, it works effectively enough but there are moments in it where you do just think, enough is enough. Move on to the next thing. That’s been one of the strong points of the series in that it doesn’t just sit on a gag and run it into the ground. But it ends up doing that here just a bit too much.
In Summary:
While I had really enjoyed the first season, I did find that my overall enjoyment of this season was diminished a bit. A lot of that I think is because they kept expanding the cast bit by bit and it just got to be too much with all the girls. Bringing in older and younger sisters to the core group of eight characters, similar looking characters at that, just made it problematic at times in keeping track of it all. That doesn’t mean it wasn’t a fun season as it definitely had its moments and this episode closes it out much as it handled many things. Between the mild yuri moments that are done for comedy and the more general slice of life bits, there’s a lot to like with the main cast of characters and how they interact, which is the main draw. Splitting them up a bit more became a big part of the season and some handled it better than others, but they are who they are in the end and that brought laughs.
Grade: B-
Streamed By: Crunchyroll
Review Equipment:
Sony KDS-R70XBR2 70″ LCoS 1080P HDTV, Dell 10.1 Netbook via HDMI set to 1080p, Onkyo TX-SR605 Receiver and Panasonic SB-TP20S Multi-Channel Speaker System With 100-Watt Subwoofer.
