Yuki Yuna is a Hero (2014)

Original title

結城友奈は勇者である

Genre

magical girl, fantasy anime and manga

Country

Japan

Length

3 seasons, 36 episodes

Rated

TV-14

Rating

7.9 of 10 from 24 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Middle school girls are chosen to become magical heroes and must fight mysterious creatures called Vertex to protect the world. They balance their school lives with the heavy costs of their powers.

hopefulbittersweetemotionalaction-packedthought-provokingvisually strikingdramaticcharacter-driven

What happens

Yuki Yuna Is a Hero (結城友奈は勇者である, Yūki Yūna wa Yūsha de Aru) is a Japanese magical girl anime television series created by Takahiro, produced by Studio Gokumi and directed by Seiji Kishi as part of a media project called Takahiro IV Project. The series aired in Japan between October 17 and December 26, 2014, on MBS. The anime has been licensed by Pony Canyon's North American label Ponycan USA. Multiple light novel and manga series have been published by ASCII Media Works. A PlayStation Vita video game was released in Japan in February 2015. A visual novel for Windows was released in December 2014 with the first DVD and Blu-ray Disc volume for the anime, with a second released with the sixth volume in May 2015. A second anime season project, consisting of an adaptation of a prequel light novel and a sequel series, ran between March 2017 and January 2018. A smartphone game launched in 2017 and received a short anime series titled Yuki Yuna Is a Hero: Churutto!, which aired between April and June 2021. A third anime season aired between October and December 2021. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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