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This is more of a gag anime than a slice of life anime. The scenes where there actually is something going on other than girls discussing a topic in the club room are rare. It's pretty much "girls talking about topics the creator cares about", rather than "girls talking about things girls would be talking about". It is similar to Joshiraku in that vein. Though the number of language-related jokes are thankfully less, so the translations aren't a nightmare.

So, given its genre, obviously there is no story. There is not much character development other than very mild crushes/bonds between character pairs that appear halfway through ... the series. The bases of characters aren't very original either: there is a boke (Sakura), a tsukkomi (Natsuki), a healing/dojikko girl (Karin) and a "rich girl" with little personality (Claire). The only relatively uncategorizable girl is Botan, who is a somewhat stoic (despite playing the fool to get tsukommu'd by Natsuki) girl with super-strength. There is also a talking seal hanging around with the girls; I'm not sure what it is supposed to represent, but it felt pretty unnecessary to me.

Despite their blandness in personalities, the characters are brought to life and actually made interesting by the art directors and voice actresses. Or at least Sakura and Natsuki are. Karin and Claire's voices fit too well with their characters (which are pretty passive), and they don't have many expressions either. Botan's voice and face is also relatively monotone. Natsuki and Sakura on the other hand, are always lively, both in expression and sound.

At any rate, the anime itself is surprisingly immersive and enjoyable. Or was for me, at least. It might have been due to the catchy soundtrack, the amusing backdrop images that depict whatever the girls are talking about, or Sakura and Natsuki's childish voices. The peaks of the anime for me were the two scenes where two of the girls are discussing a game strategy telepathically for about five minutes; and an intense shiritori game with very avid narration that lasts for half an episode.

Occasionally entertaining dialogue between characters is a hallmark of slice of life series. In Yuyushiki's case, the series consists almost entirely of that. Compound it with the fact that characters are constantly either in/near school or in Yui's house, and you get a considerably static anime.

Even in Lucky Star, commonly criticized for having bland dialogue between characters, or in Joshiraku, which pokes fun at itself for being made into an anime although it's a dialogue-heavy series; there are numerous occasions where characters are shown in environments that differ from the usual school/house setting (shops, school trips, camping trips, city trips, other outings, the beach etc.). ... The change of environment both presents new dialogue material to the cast, and gives something to look at to the viewer.

In Yuyushiki's case, changes of environment are rare and the dialogue stems from topics they research on the net, jokes between the characters, or everyday matters that characters happen to talk about. And about eight times out of ten, whatever the dialogue is devolves into Yuzuko flirting with/teasing Yui and Yukari laughing at whatever Yuzuko is saying (And Yui retorting at everything). Unless you like Yuzuko's out of the blue jokes and teasings, the typical Yuyushiki-dialogue can get old pretty fast.

Leaving verbal content aside, the rest of the anime is largely attractive; in that it has smooth animation, simple but cute character design, a lively soundtrack, and great sound acting (especially from Ookubo Rumi; the many random shouts of Yuzuko are very well done).

What is also kind of a negative point in my opinion is that the cast is too limited. There are only 7 girls that get enough screentime, and the main trio takes about 85% of it. Given that they don't have so many character traits, this adds to the show's repetitiveness.

To summarize: you'll probably like Yuyushiki if you don't mind fixed environments, don't easliy tire of the "tease-laugh-tsukkomi" formula, and find absurd high school girl humour entertaining.