YuruYuri: Happy Go Lily Season 1

Synopsis

After a year in grade school without her childhood friends, first year student Akari Akaza is finally reunited with second years Yui Funami and Kyouko Toshinou at their all-girls' middle school. During the duo's first year, Yui and Kyouko formed the "Amusement Club" which occupies the now nonexistent Tea Club's room. Shortly after Akari joins, one of her fellow classmates, Chinatsu Yoshikawa, pays the trio a visit under the impression that they are the Tea Club; it is only once the three girls explain that the Tea Club has been disbanded that they can convince Chinatsu to join the Amusement Club—a group with no purpose other than to provide entertainment for its members. This is an eccentric comedy about a group of girls who spend their spare time drinking tea and fawning over each other, all while completely failing to even notice the supposed main character Akari amongst them.

Main Cast

Shiori Mikami

Akari Akaza (voice)

Age : 35 | Popularity : 8%

Yuka Otsubo

Kyouko Toshinou (voice)

Age : 30 | Popularity : 3%

Minami Tsuda

Yui Funami (voice)

Age : 34 | Popularity : 7%

Rumi Okubo

Chinatsu Yoshikawa (voice)

Age : 34 | Popularity : 8%

Saki Fujita

Ayano Sugiura (voice)

Age : 39 | Popularity : 12%

Aki Toyosaki

Chitose Ikeda (voice)

Age : 37 | Popularity : 7%

Emiri Kato

Sakurako Oomuro (voice)

Age : 40 | Popularity : 15%

Suzuko Mimori

Himawari Furutani (voice)

Age : 37 | Popularity : 6%

Episodes

Episode 1

05 July 2011 - Middle School Debut!

As Akari Akaza enters middle school, she decides to join the Amusement Club alongside her friends, Kyōko Toshinō and Yui Funami. They are later joined by Akari's classmate, Chinatsu Yoshikawa, who originally intended to join the now-defunct tea ceremony club, but is convinced to join the Amusement Club. Noticing Akari's lack of presence, the girls try and come up with ways of improving her personality.

Episode 2

12 July 2011 - Me and You and the Student Council

The student council president, Ayano Sugiura, shows her annoyance at always placing behind Kyōko in tests, while her assistant Chitose Ikeda fantasizes about the yuri potential between the two. Meanwhile, two classmates, Himawari Furutani and Sakurako Ōmuro, are at war with each other as they are both vying for vice-president position. Ayano later gets a cold so the others pay her a visit.

Episode 3

19 July 2011 - Wanna Come Visit?... Yeah, Let's Go!

With Yui now living alone in her own apartment, she invites the others over for lunch. After Akari and Chitose leaves, Kyōko decides to spend the night only to remember she hasn't finished her homework.

Episode 4

26 July 2011 - Summer's Great Harvest Festival

The girls write Tanabata wishes, with Kyōko becoming annoyed at how Chinatsu's wish is responded to by Yui. Ayano studies fiercely to reach the top of the final exams, only to become disappointed to find Kyōko hadn't studied due to the exams conflicting with a doujin deadline. Later, everyone heads to the beach, where Ayano's attempts to be more friendly with Kyōko prove to be near fatal for Chitose's imagination.

Episode 5

02 August 2011 - When Akari and the Cicadas Cry

Ayano unwittingly gets dragged along by Kyōko, Yui and Chitose to a doujinshi convention in Tokyo to help Kyōko sell her dojin. Himawari and Sakurako work on their summer homework, where Sakurako talks about why she joined the student council. Meanwhile, Akari and Chinatsu have a confusing conversation about the latter's feelings towards Yui, which leads to Chinatsu practicing "kissing" on Akari against Akari's will just as Yui and Kyōko walk in.

Episode 6

09 August 2011 - Art Arter Artist

A visit by a first year student inspires Kyōko to draw a doujin about her and Yui, prompting Chinatsu to respond with her own story, presented in a fearsome art style. They then decide to make some clay art figures. Later, everyone meets Yui's relative's child, Mari, with Chinatsu reluctantly dressing up as her favorite anime character for her.

Episode 7

16 August 2011 - Christmasery

With Christmas coming up, Kyōko holds a lottery to arrange the girls into pretend couples for mock dates. Kyōko and Chinatsu go to the movies and the arcade, Akari and Chitose visit some cafés, Himawari and Sakurako go to a restaurant while Ayano and Yui just sit around talking about their friends. Later, the girl's spend New Year's at home where they check their greetings cards from each other.

Episode 8

23 August 2011 - April Fool's

On April's Fools Day, Chitose decides to play a lying game with Ayano, who later discovers that all of her supposed lies were actually true. Later, Kyōko tries to get the attention of Chitose, only to discover it to be her twin sister, Chizuru, who doesn't particularly take too kindly to Kyōko.

Episode 9

30 August 2011 - I'm Not Scared of This Summer

The girls try to find way to distract themselves from the Summer heat. While visiting the student council room for some cooling comfort, they meet the silent student council president, Rise Matsumoto, who they mistake for a spirit. Meanwhile, the science teacher, Nana Nishigaki, decides to do her experiments in the student council room.

Episode 10

06 September 2011 - What in the World Have We Learned in Our School Trip, I Wonder

Kyoko and Yui, along with Ayano and Chitose, go on a school trip to Kyoto, where they explore the town, have a bath together and engage in a pillow fight.

Episode 11

13 September 2011 - Our Amusement Club

Akari, Kyoko and Yui reminisce their childhood days when they were being bullied by a certain pink-haired girl. Later, a bump on the head causes Kyoko to become uncharacteristically polite. The others soon begin to miss the old Kyoko, especially when Kyoko plans to disband the Amusement Club, so they decide to hit her on the head again to return her to normal.

Episode 12

20 September 2011 - Our Warm and Fuzzy Overnighter

Everyone decides to have a sleepover at the clubroom during the summer. Kyoko arranges a contest between the Amusement Club and the student council. After everyone has some barrel baths, Chitose goes on a kissing rampage as a result of eating chocolate.

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Camera	Director of Photography	Takafumi Kuwano
Art	Background Designer	Hiroshi Ohno
	Art Direction	Shunsuke Suzuki
Visual Effects	Opening/Ending Animation	Ryo-timo
	Color Designer	Genta Makabe
	Character Designer	Chiaki Nakajima
Sound	Sound Director	Yasunori Ebina
	Sound Effects	Naoto Yamatani
	Original Music Composer	Yasuhiro Misawa
Editing	Editor	Emi Onodera
Directing	Assistant Director	Takaharu Ookuma
	Series Director	Masahiko Ohta
Writing	Series Composition	Takashi Aoshima
	Comic Book	Namori
Production	Associate Producer	Hitoshi Kawamura
Department	Role	Name

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