Despite the fact that I started watching a lot of different shows this anime season, Mikagura Gakuen Kumikyoku, along with Hibike! Euphonium are the only two shows that I kept watching until the very end, and there’s a good reason behind it.
It is definitely—by far—the show with the highest yuri rating and the greatest yuri character. Now, let’s see how it fared in the other categories as well.
Story: 7/10 and Characters: 7.5/10
Dreaming of an easygoing high school life filled with nothing more than cute girls and fun activities, Ichinomiya Eruna enters Mikagura private high school. Driven by the image of honor student, and girl of her dreams, Mikagura Seisa, Eruna throws herself into her new life as a high school student and soon finds out that it’s very different from what she was initially expecting this new stage of her life to be like.
Despite this being an easy-going and fun show, the most important factor and the most highlighted theme of the whole anime is how life in Mikagura High School works and what differentiates it from other schools. However, the whole story of the school, the student’s abilities, and the background of these powers are all kept on the more easy side. They are either not explained very well or simply not explained at all.
You might say that it’s not a big deal in the case of shows that don’t take themselves very seriously and focus on comedy anyway. Though, if you add in drama, especially the kind of drama they added into this show, then you simply owe the viewers some better explanations or else the drama will feel forced and unbelievable.
Putting aside the fact that I found the drama rather forced, I still enjoyed the way it complicated Eruna finding her way into Seisa’s heart. It kind of reminded me of Citrus a little. Not only does Seisa look a lot like Mei, she also gives off the same atmosphere—the aloof honor student with the broken heart. Eruna on the other hand, reminded me a lot of Yuzu. She’s such a good girl, so loud and straightforward, and she’s simply the most precious thing ever.
The other characters though…. Well, some (if not all of them) felt like a big pain the ass. Most of them were defined by only one specific character trait, and even if they had their own individual backstory, this still didn’t fulfill it’s purpose of “breathing some life into them”. It sometimes even made it harder for me to view them as actual individuals, instead of only walking stereotypes.
Now even if this is true for most of them, there were some exceptions like Otone, and even Shigure. I still can’t believe I actually said that….
Finally, I’d also like to leave some words on the ending of the anime. I don’t know whether they are actually planning to make a second season of this, but the ending felt like so many things were actually missing. Not only did the whole episode feel rather rushed, it was also missing something like a grand finale. Of course Eruna and Seisa’s fight was basically the grand finale, but rather than having Seisa change her attitude within just a few moments, I think this change should have been dragged out longer and had more emphasis placed on it. And of course, the little hug was not enough, they should have kissed, that’s for sure!
All in all, I might have made it sound worse than it actually was. I really liked this anime as a whole, while I was simply not satisfied with many little things. Nevertheless, it was a really fun ride, and since it has Eruna as the main character, I simply had to watch it. She’s surely precious, and the fact that she’s aiming for a yuri harem makes her irresistible even~
Animation: 7/10 and Music: 8/10
I was actually constantly fighting with myself over the question if I actually like or dislike the animation of this show. On one hand, I think most of the characters look really gorgeous, which is very important to me. On the other hand however, I can’t say that the animation in general is really that great. The fighting sometimes looked low-budgety and basically all unimportant characters were presented as colorless, shadeless, and with pieces of nothingness…. Ah well, at least the music was better. Nothing outstanding, but definitely pleasant.
Yuri: 7/10 – Lesbian main character
As mentioned above, Eruna is already one of the most important yuri girls of this whole year. Not only does she aim for a yuri harem, she also has lewd yuri delusions every now and then and basically drools over any cute girl. Though, as creepy as this might sound, she’s really charismatic and simply someone I’d personally like to be friends with.
However, I can’t really say that she’s all that successful in her search for a yuri harem. She certainly has some contenders, but only one of the girls can really be viewed as a fan of hers. In Seisa’s case, I’m still unsure, which is why I demand a second season, so Eruna can deepen her relationship with Seisa and also find more girls for her harem. Great idea, right?
However, if this doesn’t come true, then I at least demand some doujinshi. Though, I feel like this is not the kind of show that will actually receive many of them.
Total Enjoyment: 7.5/10
As much as I disliked some of the characters and as much as I was missing a more consistent plot, I still really enjoyed this show. It made me laugh a lot and simply handed out the yuri that this season was missing a little. So if you’re looking for a fun and easy-going yuri-ish show with a great main character, then definitely try this one!
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It's nice to see Shigure finally getting some love from people. 🙂
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Story: 7/10???
Animation: 7/10???
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The ending felt weird. there were flashing strobe lights and then explosions and then fighting and then flashbacks with ancestor and then one second shigure opening and then reconciliations and then 5 min ending song and then mikagura k-on ending o-o
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ah right there were this certain post that sums up the last episode pretty much.
But all in all, I love how Eruna is depicted in the whole series.
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=͟͟͞͞( ∩ ‘ヮ’=͟͟͞͞) ੭ु⁾⁾ I just love Yuri anime protagonists. They're the best ^^ we need more
⊂(‘ω’⊂ )))Σ≡=─༄༅༄༅༄༅༄༅༄༅
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Definitely gonna watch this. Even though I'm not really a fan of harem, as long as it's there only as a thought I'm fine with it.
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Thanks to you I found this anime, I really liked. Is dificult to find some yuri anime without boring history 😀
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story i mean XD, im not american
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I really liked mikagura gakuen from the first episode on. i mean with a main character like eruna how can you not like it? i also like how you can enjoy watching the anime and it has some cheering attitude too. what was also a + for me thats not the typical only girls school setting. sad for me was that when the anime came to the end the yurilev drop like to zero. also disappointing is that there was no single kiss in the end -.-. i wonder if they are planning to make a S2
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I only mentioned him once 😛
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Yeah, what about it? 😛
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Yeah well, I can't argue with that, the last episode felt really weird 😛
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B-but… yuri harem! That's so different from usual harems! 😛
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Haha, I'm glad to hear that 😉
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It din't drop to zero, they at least hugged and we can suspect that Seisa is finally trusting Eruna, which is a least a nice start 😉
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how iz bein american related? O_O' that is a good thing now apparently
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2015/06/26/where-gay-marriage-stands-in-the-states-that-didnt-have-it/
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I think anon was just talking about not having perfect English skills.
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i mean sure there was this moment otone was hugging eruna because she was so affraid of losing her and yeah when eruna hugged seisa i was really thankfull for these moments. but still dissapointed because of no kiss at all
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Well, that is true, I feel the same way.
At least in shows with such obvious lesbian content they could actually implement something to please the viewers who actually love the genre, but oh well….
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i enjoyed this a lot, eruna was hilarious with all of her yuri delusions and such
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Now I wonder why Eruna didn't make it any further in the tournament. Such a waste!
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I think Yuzu is more mature lol. Like even though I know Eruna is probably lesbian, I can't really see her and another girl in a stable relationship (maybe I'm just thinking too much). By the way, who do you ship Eruna more with? Seisa or Otone?
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Exactly! She's way too much into… well, any other cute girl to actually be able to love only one person with all of her heart.
But well, if I had to choose, I'd definitely go with Seisa x Eruna~
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“The other characters though…. Well, some (if not all of them) felt like a big pain the ass. Most of them were defined by only one specific character trait, and even if they had their own individual backstory, this still didn't fulfill it's purpose of “breathing some life into them”. It sometimes even made it harder for me to view them as actual individuals, instead of only walking stereotypes.”
If you're someone who has ever given a female character who's very one dimensionally a free pass from being a pain in the ass, then these guys should be worthy of the same.
And you can't believe you said that about Shigure? Do you not allow yourself to praise male characters?
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I believe that I actually give a lot of characters a free pass, even if they are one dimensional, but in this case, it's almost the whole cast, so it simply needed to be mentioned.
Also, I'm a yuri fan, not a man hater. Shigure was and still is a threat to Eruna x Seisa, so liking him actually feels a bit weird to me.
I sure hope I didn't come off as someone who hates on male characters, because that's just absurd.
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Murakami Kaiser (aka Kaisertrigger) is a yuri hater and a hideous troll. Just want to let you know.
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citrus is a piece of shit anime that only faggots like , and the characters in Mikagura THANKFULLY ARE NOT LIKE THE GARBAGE OF citrus , yuri 7/10? LOL , lesbian main character? LOL , she is clearly bisexual unless you are a retard , and the yuri is non existant she gets turned down by EVERYONE , the story is an unexplained garbage
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