Yuyuyu

This entire series was an allegory for overcoming hopelessness and anhedonia

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I only watched the first season. I really don't know what's the point of another.

I don't agree with this, it's about the important of protecting your everyday life. It's a fundamentally positive theme, the days you spend with your friends are super valuable so do everything you can to protect them.

This series was an allegory for dykes eroding the moral integrity of the world.

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I hope the science baby technology is efficient in Shikoku. They're going to have a hard time repopulating with so many of the kids being raging lesbos.

A lot of things still remained unanswered after S1 and humanity was still fucked. While NoWaYu and Sonoko's afterstory cleared some things up they also set up for a sequel. The 2nd season an KuMeYu wrapped most things up.

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>heavenly gods and vertexes still around at the end of the first season
>having a sequel is pointless

Go away, Gin.

Does she have no other purpose than to be the counselor, cheerleader and asspull person of the series? Despite being the titular character Yuuna seems to have less personality than every other character in the series.

>Yuuna seems to have less personality than every other character in the series
That's happen really often with anime protagonists.

Honestly, the fact that all she had going for her was her positiveness and that she wanted to be a hero made all her suffering in S2 very painful to watch.

That's what happened when she spent half of her screentime pretending to be retarded. I suspect we'd get to see more of her selfish side in VN3 or maybe S3 now that Tougou and everyone else have given her the ok to stop acting.

Yuuna was fine in Yuusha no Shou. The problem was how bland she was in first season.

>allegory
Probably not, but whatever.
>for overcoming hopelessness
Sure, but this is also just a part of the overall theme of "heroism."
>and anhedonia
No one on the cast exhibited signs of that. Tougou was prone to depression and paranoid thoughts, but that's different from anhedonia.

Look, I don't think this show is a subtle or deep allegory for anything. The theme of the show is just "what it means to be a hero," in the same vein as something like Fate/stay night or Index. I think it develops that theme in a more mature way than those two series, but that's also a function of the target audience being older. However, it doesn't need to be deep to be a good story. This series altogether has probably made me cry more than any other series in any medium. It has a simple message and delivers it in a simple way but that also gives it focus and impact on the viewer. It's already a good story. It doesn't need to be complicated.

>no one exhibited signs of that

That's not what he meant

I want to see Yuuna actively acting jealous of Sonoko. No more of that passive aggressive attitude. Tougou is too dense for that.

Obviously I don't agree entirely with what you said, but I'll admit that I've shed many tears watching yuyuyu.

Wasuyu in particular gets me every time I rewatch it

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Yea, but dealing with an obscure topic like anhedonia through allegory without anyone on the cast actually experiencing it in some way totally divorces the story from the allegory. Consider something like Wixoss, in which the card game can be seen as an allegory for drug abuse. The topic is dealt with through allegory but the characters still exhibit signs and symptoms of drug abuse: they meet in back alleyways and abandoned buildings, they change in behavior and demeanor after a while, they go missing, etc.

No one in Yuyuyu experiences anhedonia either directly or through proxy. The basics of the plot can support this allegory interpretation (isolated nation defeats foreign invaders but in the process accepts that it must deal with the outside world) but it's not something that you really feel in watching the show. The nation or Shinju are diffuse entities that don't really have personal, human qualities. Yea, you can see it as an allegory if you want, but it's a surface level interpretation that is functionally equivalent to a multitude of other frivolous interpretations like "Yuyuyu is an allegory for breaking an introvert out of his shell," or "Yuyuyu is an allegory for a chick hatching out of its egg," etc. It's not a very necessary interpretation, it doesn't take much evidence to prove, and it doesn't explain much about the story either.

Note that I'm not trying to shit on your enjoyment of the show. I just think that it isn't that complicated and doesn't need to be.

Keep in mind they were confronted with the question of ending the world rather than suffering

Or, similarly, they also had to decide to make personal sacrifices because it was their duty to do so

Good don't watch S2. It's shit.

I feel that one day Sonoko is going to get Yuuna to ask what a menage a trois is while Tougou is in earshot and end up knuckle deep in both their twats.

Kishi will be a guest in the radio show episode in two weeks. I suppose we'll get a lot of info regarding the ending of the anime and the direction the franchise will take from here then.
The new G's with Takahiro's interview will be released around that time, too.
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This is cool, is this the first time we've heard Kishi talk about YuYuYu? Would be even better if we could get Takahiro but I suppose that's too much to ask for.

It wasn't shit, it was just a wasted oppertunity.

The prequel padded out the backstory a bit and explained a few questions I had from S1,' but the only part which carried any kind of significance for me was Gin's sacrifice and the aftermath, particularly the stranglehold the Taisha have on society.

S2 had endless potential but didn't hit any of the points I really want to see addressed. S2 ended up being largely unmemorable and a squandered oppertunity to tell an interesting story.

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