Yuragi-sou no Yuuna-san

Once a hot springs inn, now a boarding house with extraordinarily cheap rent, Yuragi-sou is virtually uninhabited save for a few peculiar residents. As rumor has it, it is haunted by a vile ghost which scares away all potential tenants. Therefore, it is the perfect refuge for Fuyuzora Kogarashi—a broke, homeless psychic seeking an affordable roof to stay under and ghosts to exorcise.

Kogarashi prepares for a face-off against the ghost, only to find out it is not as malicious as the rumors made it out to be. Instead, it is the ghost of a beautiful, silver-haired girl whose only recollection of her life before death is her name: Yuuna. Even more baffling is that the other tenants of Yuragi-sou not only are able to see Yuuna as well, but each has their own supernatural ability.

Amidst the chaos caused by his quirky fellow residents, Kogarashi attempts to uncover the regret that keeps Yuuna anchored to the world of the living, lest she become an evil spirit sentenced to spend her afterlife in hell.

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Yunohana, Yuuna Main

Shimabukuro, Miyuri Japanese

Fuyuzora, Kogarashi Main

Ono, Yuuki Japanese

Miyazaki, Chisaki Supporting

Suzuki, Eri Japanese

Ameno, Sagiri Supporting

Takahashi, Rie Japanese

Fushiguro, Yaya Supporting

Ogura, Yui Japanese

Arahabaki, Nonko Supporting

Kakuma, Ai Japanese

Shintou, Oboro Supporting

Komatsu, Mikako Japanese

Chitose, Nakai Supporting

Harada, Sayaka Japanese

Shigaraki, Koyuzu Supporting

Haruno, Anzu Japanese

Urakata, Urara Supporting

Ichimichi, Mao Japanese

Oowada, Tomoyuki Producer

Nakayama, Nobuhiro Producer

Sanjouba, Kazumasa Assistant Producer

Kurashima, Mayumi Assistant Producer

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Sep 29, 2018

Stark700

Recommended

Every season, every year, there are new shows that you shouldn’t watch with your parents or little siblings around. The ecchi and harem category constitutes for bringing glorious fan service at every way possible. I’m not going to lie, watching Yuragi-sou n Yuuna-san (Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs) felt like diving into a pleasure of ecstasy.

Based on the manga of the same name, it felt inevitable this show would eventually get animated on TV. It was just a matter of not if but when. The time came when the series decided to adapt itself into 12 episodes for a 1-cour season. What does that ... mean? Well, that pretty much says the anime will not cover most of the material from the manga. It’s a disappointment to fans for who wanted to see some of their favorite chapters in anime form. But make no mistake, this show still has what it takes to bring on fan service to a level that is satisfying.

It’s not rocket science to figure out but the show features a harem of girls and a main male protagonist. Fuyuora Kogarashi is the lucky (or perhaps misfortunate depending on how you look at it) guy with an ability to see supernatural entities. After training and learning to fight against spirits, he is now looking for a normal life. This lands him to a boarding house known as the Yuragi Manor where his life really takes a turn. Pretty simple story right? To be honest, this show’s plot is about as simple as it gets. Kogarashi is the standard protagonist who encounters a variety of beautiful girls. The most unusual one though is actually not human but takes the shape of a ghost. Meet Yuuna Yunohana, the female Casper of the inn!

I’ll be straightforward here. You better get used to seeing fan service like ass, boobs, and compromising scenes often in the show. It’s an ecchi that doesn’t try to hide its intentions from day one. The first episode easily positions Kogarashi as an accidental pervert when he gets into some awkward moments with Yuuna. It’s a bit impractical considering Yuuna isn’t human but the show loves to create these moments for the sake of fan service. Despite being a ghost, Yuuna is actually very innocent when it comes to feelings and is very shy about herself. Unfortunately, we don’t truly know more about her past although the show makes it clear that she’s not malicious in any way or form. The character chemistry between her and Kogarashi is very noticeable as the two understands each other more.

As a show with a harem, expect girls of all type of personalities. Ninja girl Sagiri is serious and overreacts when she is complimented by others. Yaya Fushiguro has a cat-like personality of always being curious with playful energy. Nonko adds more of the adult humor in this series with her carelessness and seemingly never taking anything serious (with exception of manga drawing) Chitose Nakai has a more mature personality and is very helpful towards others. Then, there’s Chisaki, a friendly girl that misunderstands many situations in the show especially regarding men. You get the big picture here? It’s a troupe of female characters that fills almost every category of harem archetypes.

If you don’t fancy harem shows of similar nature (example: To-Love Ru), you’re not going to find much enjoyment here. And unfortunately, don’t expect much character development from them either. It’s a 12 episode show that pretty much dedicates itself like supernatural sit-com of misadventures. Almost every episode consists of story segments to show Kogarashi’s new unusual life. There’s going to be tons of misunderstandings and teasing all around. As it also contains supernatural elements, expect some common logic to be thrown out the doors.

To be honest, I didn’t really care who the studio for this show would be in the end as long as they made the characters look faithful. Thankfully, that is the case even though a studio like Xebec took on the project. Oh who am I kidding? They did work on the To-Love Ru franchise before. Nonetheless, expect fan service to be saturated all over the place. Some of the moments from this series also reminds me of To-Love Ru especially when Kogarashi accidentally gropes a girl’s chest, ass, or some other private body part. The main selling point is the character reactions as some characters tends to overreact more than others (I’m looking at you, Sagiri, Yuuna, and Chisaki) There’s a lot of suggestive camera angles on the female characters so be ready for that too. While the technical quality of the show isn’t anything spectacular, it definitely leaves little to the imagination when it comes to that fan service.

It’s a harem. It has fan service. It’s sexy. There are probably countless other words to describe Yuragi-sou no Yuuna but it’s pretty much you’d expect. There’s nothing really unique about it with its harem cast and daily shenanigans. I can say honestly that fan service can be sold well to an audience when it has a clear mission in mind. For this particular anime, they completed that mission.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Sep 29, 2018

tlato_but

Mixed Feelings

Yuragi-sou no Yuuna-san is your typical ecchi harem romance that airs ocasionally in your typical anime season. Except that fails in the third component of the "ecchi harem romance" and especially in the supernatural segments. Go with caution as there'll be some spoilers.

Story (4/10):
Fuyuzora Kogarashi is a spirit medium that got broke and found a mysterious dorm called the Yuragi-sou (Yuragi Inn) where it says it's haunted by the ghost of a girl named Yuuna Yunohana. There is also a bunch of strange inhabitants like the ninja Sagiri Ameno, innkeeper Chitose Nakai that can manipulate one's fortune, Nonko Aharabaki, an ultra drunk well endowed mangaka, ... and much more.

The plot is to help Ms. Yuuna Yunohara to find her personal lingering regret with the help of our main character Fuyuzora Kogarashi (read with Sagiri Ameno's voice), except that everything happens but the actual finding of Yuuna's lingering regret.

Normally, in an ecchi harem romance anime, I usually expect a bunch of "accidental" boob grabbing, nice panties shots, funny deredere reactions from the girls and the harem male lead, and some intimate moments. In the last part is where Yuragi-sou fails a lot, very few moments of romantic moments, except the punctual situations of the Yuuna-Fuyuzora Kogarashi date in a hot spring and the Sagiri love poisoned segment.

The two "arcs" that have a certain relevance with the supernatural beings are the Black Dragon God arc where Fuyuzora Kogarashi with Sagiri and Koyuzu go on a mission to rescue Yuuna; and the final arc of the season where there is a couple in torment because of an accident of the boyfriend, wihich Fuyuzora Kogarashi and Yuuna help them to leave this world in peace.

The worst part is that we have very few of the "supernatural" parts which I think they could have made wonders for Yuragi-sou no Yuuna-san, rather it's much more focused on the comedy aspect with a blend with slice-of-boob-life moments. I don't expect a High School DxD or a Zero no Tsukaima every season, but if you don't wanna consider the supernatural element of here, please make this anime more slice-of-lifey.

While I suggest you to wait for the uncensored version as you'll enjoy better this ecchi harem romance anime in its full "glory", you should also go here with the mentality to just watch tits and ass and boob grabbings, nothing else.

Art (6/10):
Nothing too much impressive for a low budget ecchi harem romance anime, all girls check my expectations for a ecchi harem romance series with all the physical attractiveness possible forms, from the very well endowed Nonko to the lolis Koyuzu and Chitose, not forgetting the middle of the roads Sagiri, Yuuna and Chisaki.

Animation looks quite acceptable and the backgrounds are relatively decent to not put you off in any moment.

Sound (5/10):
The soundtrack is nothing otherworldly, but nothing disappointing, it compliments the relative mediocrity of Yuragi-sou. The OP and ED are quite unremarkable and never entertaining to the point to not google it to hear the full version, which I generally do with at least one of the themes.

Characters (7/10):
Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs has a very amicable and nice cast that surprised me why the rest of the series doesn't give more supernatural feelings, considering the nature of a 70% of the characters featured here:

Our main character Fuyuzora Kogarashi is a very strong medium that has helped several ghost in pain to ascend to Heaven. Now wanting to enjoy a normal life, changes school struck with Yuuna, he plateaus quite a lot and starts to enjoy the life in the Yuragi Inn, which is quite understandable with the all hot bishis there.

Yuuna Yunohara is the ghost of a bound girl who was found dead in the Yuragi-sou, her poltergeist talent is quite strongs that activaces mainly because Fuyuzora Kogarashi keeps touching her unconsciously and then she throws her to the water. Yuuna never knows what happened before her dead and has amnesia.

Sagiri Ameno is a cold blooded ninja that trains consistently and in typical tsundere fashion, she occults all her feelings to Fuyuzora Kogarashi, even when love-poisoned, she manages to keep some of her cool aura around her.

Chisaki Miyazawa is classical hottest girl in high school that doesn't believe in spiritual things, but by encountering Fuyuzora Kogarashi, she starts to feel something for him and gets to know better the rest of the girls of the Yuragi-sou, even the unseen Yuuna.

Of the rest of the cast, the most importants are the well endowed drunkie Nonko Aharabaki, the feline Yaya Fugishiro, the lolis Chitose Nakai and Koyuzu Shigaraki, and the ex servant of the Black Dragon Lord Oboro Shintou, who in classical Xenovia fashion, she wants the genes of Fuyozora Kogarashi.

Enjoyment (5/10):
Of course as a man of culture who appreciates their ecchi harem romance anime will sure enjoy quite a lot of the series as they tick all the necessary ingredients to enjoy this kind of series. However, don't expect much more in here, as the supernatural part here is quite mediocre and the romance is reduced to minimal situations.

As a final comment, I'll be surely waiting the uncensored version to have better pleasant visuals of the hot bishis of here, and a possible new season, hoping that in there we can have much more supernatural elements to enhace this cute ecchi harem romance anime.

Final Score: 5/10. It's very improvable show, but was quite bad executed.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Sep 29, 2018

PyraXadon

Not Recommended

Dear god I would have so much money if I had a quarter for every time this series did the lucky pervert trope.  We would literally be down half a show in that case.

Story:

Yuragi no Yuuna focuses on the story of Fuyuzora Kogarashi, an exorcist whose preferred (and only) method of cleansing evil spirits is through the use of his fists.  Now moved to a new town with the prospect of getting through his high school life normally, he finds himself living in the Yuragi inn, a bathhouse turned boarding house filled with supernatural women, of various kinds, tropes, and (as apparent with this show's ... content), chest sizes.

As your run of the mill ecchi harem supernatural story (this is a surprisingly common genre despite the number of adjectives), Yuragi no Yuuna is a series without any shame when it comes to flaunting its wide assortment of supernatural women, doing the classic lucky pervert trope at any instance it can while systematically having our main protagonist conquer almost every existing female in the show one at a time through happenstance, or by virtue of him always being there to act as the hero and saving the featured girl of the episode/showing them his good side.

And that's about it.  Being so focused on fanservice, hardly any other aspects of the series have any notable presence, and we're unfortunately left with a show that can only stand because of that feature.  It gets to the point that the punchline for any given episode IS the fact that Kogarashi either accidentally sees/fondles/looks away from the naked body of the show's female characters, and the A or B plot of the show is devoted to that final moment.  The series is so baseless and devoid of plot the further you get that unless you're really needing a fix on ecchi, there's no reason for you to watch this.  There are a few major arcs that do happen in the middle of it, but even then the punchline is still something sexual or related to something perverted.

Overview:
+/- Ecchi (for you ecchi fans)
-  Not much else

Characters:

Fuyuzora Kogarashi is our resident male harem protagonist this time around, boasting an upbeat attitude for a (hopefully) successful highschool life after surviving years of being possessed by various spirits and finally learning how to kick their ass so they don't bother him anymore.  His trait of chivalry and protecting girls is what nets him the ladies, and the two common things you'll see him do is either: give an ass-beating to whoever is threatening him or his friends at the time using a convenient skill he picked up from one of the ghosts that were haunting him, or beat an ass cause he's ended up in a situation where he is either accidentally touching or tasting the privates of one of the girl's resident female characters.  Though more to him than most harem protags, there's not much else to explain.

The rest of the cast for the most part falls into the same spectrum of being a member of Kogarashi's harem.

Yuuna, being the series's titular character/main girl is a ghost bound to Kogarashi's room, and proceeds to make his life a living hell by freaking out and tossing him out the window any time he accidentally touches where he's not supposed to even though it's clearly her fault that she ended up in that situation in the first place.  The point of the series is to try and help her pass on to heaven, but since this show hardly focuses on actual plot, it's nothing more than a backdrop that gets forgotten 2 episodes into the series.

Other girls involve Sagiri, the series's token tsundere threatened by her lack of feminine qualities and Chisaki, the only normal girl in the entire series who gets swept up in all of this and I guess is sort of the 'perfect waifu' trope.  Or something like that.  (There're a few others, but I'd argue these are the main ones.)  These girls are mostly there to act as the bait for ecchi fans, and are usually the ones subjected to the treatment as a result.  Most other characters are simply there to act out their predestined tropes, and being honest, have few other reason to be a part of this series otherwise.

Overview:
+/- Pretty much your standard harem cast

Art:

Produced by Xebec, the company responsible for To Love Ru and Keijo, it...honestly makes sense for them to be responsible for this series.  With bright colors with an almost glossy look to it, Yuragi no Yunna is a visually 'cute' and 'moe' series given common features such as round eyes and shapely bodies on its primarily female cast.

But that's the boring stuff.  For ecchi, the series really tests the limit of what is allowed on television, using massive beams of light to cover up what's only allowed on the blu-ray, going so far as to devote entire scenes to accidental skinship and the comedic turmoil that comes with trying to get out of it.  Expect this often because it's nigh inescapable given how this show has nothing else otherwise to entertain its audience.

Overview:
+ Bright, colorful art
+/- A...lot of fanservice.  A lot.  Excessive really.

Sound:

Luna Haruna's "Momoiro Typhoon" is an upbeat song meant to sound cute in order to exemplify the typically upbeat and comedic atmosphere the show exhibits.  Personally I think it's alright.  Nothing too memorable about it aside from the hot spring sounds that're sprinkled throughout the song to remind you that the show is set in a bathhouse.  Similarly, the show's ED "Happen", sung by the seiyuus of the Yuuna, Sagiri, and Chisaki (basically the entire harem) is a seiyuu song meant to have less energy compared to its OP sister.  I find it pretty unmemorable too, so there's not really much else to say.

Personal Enjoyment:

Having heard of Yuragi no Yuuna prior to the anime's release, I was rather unsure what I was going to find myself in, given how it was a series that was apparently pretty popular yet I had never really heard of it being talked about.  Having watched the show...now I know why the series is popular to begin with.

I'll be honest, this was a pretty bland watch.  The show is so devoid of any kind of actual content due to the fact that more than half of the available runtime is used for gag chapters and/or lucky pervert situations that run for WAY too long that after the halfway part, I really stopped caring about what was going on.  Constantly shouting "It's not his fault!" at every accusation towards Kogarashi was just wasting my breath, and choosing to pander to the lowest common denominator really didn't do it any favors.

Honestly, I would just say skip this.  If the show spent any amount of considerable time of making the plot of helping Yunna get to heaven a reasonable part of the series, then I would at least give it that for intrigue reasons, but since it doesn't and instead chooses to show us her tits for the fifth time in the same episode, this one is worth a pass.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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