Is there any anime, show, series, or any piece of fiction you hate, I don't just mean you dislike it, I mean it makes your stomach turn, it makes you wonder who would come up with this, everytime you see someone watching it and enjoying it you just cannot accept it, it makes you think they must be watching something else or maybe they're watching it with their eyes closed.
This, for me, is Yuuki Yuuna, an anime i watched about a year ago I think, that first episode... Few things had sold me that hard, the dreamy and colorful battlefield where a bunch of magical girls will face otherworldly horrors in the name of heroism and the world? "This is my territory", I thought, "this is my next Demonbane", which at the time and still pretty much is my favorite thing ever (barring Aquarion but they're pretty equal). I looked up the watch order, I downloaded the light novels, I was so excited and I was only, what, 3 episodes in? Little did I know, when something looks too good to be true, it is, and when something seems way too perfectly tailored made for your tastes, then there is a reason for it. Many would call me obsessed, that I'm overthinking it, many would say "but you only watched season 1 though it gets better", as if another season could change my feelings; and those many people are simply wrong, they took this malicious Madoka cashgrab at a surface level and ignored all the details
So, to you, if you're still reading this, let me tell you exactly why Yuuki Yuuna is the singlemost evil anime I have ever watched. And to do so, we must first summarize the anime

The first 5 episodes are, in the worst way possible, a speedrun of the usual Mahou Shoujo story, or at least the most basic component of it. Four girls gain superpowers and fairies to fight the evil aliens, an extra one joins them later, the girls prepare for their final battle, they gain their super form, they defeat the aliens and the world is saved etc etc. You might be fooled into thinking these episodes are fun and cool and that the rest of the series being a victory lap is a great idea, which in paper it is! But in reality YuYuYu is made with hatred for mahou shoujo, YuYuYu is what people think Madoka is, it rushes through all the tropes just to get to the DARK and FUCKED UP twist as fast as possible
So what is this twist? Well, after the battle the girls that gained their super form each lose a different bodily function. Yuuki loses her taste, the wheelchair loses her hearing, Fuu loses vision in one eye, and the other one loses her voice; why is that? The girls ask Taisha (the super temple that hired them), to which they reply "idk". The girls grow doubtful of Taisha now, the girls realize that maybe their super form (mankai) may require a sacrifice (keep that word in mind), Fuu replies "damn fr"; minutes later another girl tells Fuu, to which she replies "damn fr". Some more minutes pass, Fuu listens to a voice mail by the other girl that lost her voice like "hiii i'm not shy anymore thanks to you so i really wanna sing :DDD", Fuu replies with "Damn... HOLY SHIT TAISHA LIED TO US", and sets off to... somewhere, to kill Taisha. This, of course, is a pretty understandable reaction; you lost an eye, your sister can't sing, everyone around you got crippled for life... And then comes Yuuki, someone who is very much aware of this whole "Taisha lied to us" situation, and stops Fuu, Fuu is of course flabbergasted by this, and what is Yuuki's response to Fuu? "No! We can't go against Taisha... because we're heroes!"

But you might think that, maybe. Yuuki is fine with losing body parts in the name of heroism, after all, heroes always sacrifice something! A hero's journey is that of suffering, of martyrdom for other's happiness. Personally I would still not agree but y'know, i can ALMOST see it... That's because I haven't mentioned two thing, two very important things Yuuki pretty much knows about and also is fine with, those being: 1) they met up with a girl with no limbs, lying on a bed, eternally looking at the sunset, she appeared immortal and was made into an idol by Taisha, perhaps due to her courage, or her sacrifice in the name of ~~Japan~~ the world, so perhaps Yuuki's group was not the first and last Hero squadron? 2) The wheelchair girl, who I'll develop a bit on in a note, tried to kill herself 37 times, in 37 different ways, all of which were prevented completely by her fairy; the group thus come to the conclusion that their fairies are anti-suicide prevention tools, so that Taisha may not loose valuable ~~cannon fodder for upholding a fake sense of peace~~ warriors... And yet, Yuuki is fine with all of this

But again, this can STILL be salvagea- Oh wait you mean to tell me there weren't 12 vectors but actually like a trillion... and they have already devoured all of the world except one small Japanese town which was selected by God... Oh and also the wheelchair girl went completely insane and broke the barrier protecting the small town from the trillions of Vectors out there so yea the world is ending i guess. AIGHT BUT THIS IS STILL SALVAGEABLE, how? By proving Yuuki Yuuna wrong! It's her fault that she didn't rise up against Taisha, that she decided to trust them, if the world ends then she'll realize that you probably shouldn't trust the mega temple that didn't tell you about the miserable state of the world and the price ofgraaaaaahhh there's no point keeping the act OF COURSE SHE WINS

Not only does she win, but every body part they sacrificed? They get it back, Taisha then releases a twitter apology (not even a twitlonger jesus christ) like "we're sorry for everything, here have everything back, your job is over, we have made a severe and continuous lapse in our judgement and we don't expect to be forgiven", even the limbless one gets everything back! Ah but Yuuki Yuuna is now in a near vegetative state, completely unresponsive, maybe THIS SHOW ABOUT SACRIFICE WILL ACTUALLY STAY LOYAL TO THE WHOLE THEME OF SACRIFInevermind she's back to normal after the wheelchair girl cries. the end

Now, I would like to ask you, what is the main theme of Yuuki Yuuna? Or the main message? "Eternal slavery to uphold an artificial peace if preferable to death"? or maybe "If you trust super governments no matter how much they abuse you everything will pay off in the end"? Because that's exactly what I got out of the show, this is why I called it malicious, because the only way I can see this show making any sort of sense is if its entire message and morale are rotten to the core OR if it's a (drum roll)... deconstruction! Think about it: Rushing the through the tropes at the beginning, the whole idea that "heroism means sacrifice", the eternal struggle to maintain peace; it definitely feels like YuYuYu is trying to explore the idea of what it means to be a Hero, or what Mahou Shoujo is all about, but instead of doing something interesting with it it just lays the tropes on the table, points at them, and then when Takahiro "I think we should revive emperor Showa" Majikoi writes himself into a whole he picks everything up and goes "btw everyone lived happily anyways I gotta write the sequel now because I WILL make this into a profitable franchise". It's like Madoka written by someone who thinks they know what Madoka is about from reading the wiki and thinking "Urobuchi made this much money?! I maybe have to intervene...", it's the equivalent of all those companies back in the 90s making their own Sonic the Hedgehog just to compete, and lo and behold somehow the most corporate and soulless one won.
Speaking about deconstruction and shit, I will NEVER forget that one comment under a youtube video that went "YuYuYu has respectful disabled representation", something that just reinforces my idea that YuYuYu fans are blind, deaf, and quite possibly, masters at self-lying, because in case you forgot the wheelchair girl 1) is sexualized to hell and back for no reason, which just comes off as weird because no one else in the cast is(she also has guns so maybe it's just a meaningless reference to Symphogear??) 2) TRIED TO KILL HERSELF 37 TIMES 3) is responsible for nearly destroying the remains of the world in season 1 and 4) in season 2 she sacrifices herself to God or smth?? idk i read the wiki after season 1, not watching that shit

So, there's YuYuYu, whether it's the anime with the singlemost most contradictory and rotten message, deconstruction of a genre the author doesn't care about and doesn't have anything interesting to say, or just a quick cashgrab to build a franchise and make millions off light novel sales, it does not change the fact that i despise this anime from the bottom of my heart, it gave me hope it would be something amazing in the first few eps and just turned everything to dust in the latter half. If you watched it and enjoyed it, then I gotta congratulate you on your otherwordly ability to look aside when evil is in front of you and/or your incredible ability to lie to yourself

I only watched season 1 and that was enough for me, it never gets better and that's a lie people tell you so you end up liking a series out of pure stockholm syndrome and sunk cost fallacy.
I did not and WILL not proofread any of this.
Peace