Kohane Hatoya loves to be able to support and help others. When she is graduating from middle school, she becomes completely fascinated with cheerleading. Now in high school, together with experienced cheerleader Hizume Arima and Kohane’s childhood friend Uki Sawatari, Kohane decides to participate in a cheerleading competition.

Well, yet another anime about cheerleading has come out, but this time, it’s an all girls anime! We have Kohane, our main character who gets into a sport she knows absolutely nothing about so when she goes to join in, she gets put into all of the drama. This works really well for lots of anime like Yama no Susume, Harukana Receive, and Long Riders. Heck, it’s the same formula for Bakuon and K-On (which isn’t sports related but you get the picture), but Anima Yell!! is just not as engaging as we’d like it to be. It’s not as interesting at all, despite playing off the same ideas like trying to get equipment to start the club i.e. pom poms and uniforms. Then it jumps straight into grades in episode 3, which is actually really early on in the season. This shows they don’t have much to talk about. The character, Arima, who is introduced with a bunch of drama from her past really gets back into cheerleading without much hassle. Kohane is also kind of irksome in personality. There’s nothing quite amazing about this anime, and hearing them cheer can be grating on your ears. Still, I can’t forget that in the first cheerleading scene, I was reminded of Lucky Star’s OP and how insync it all was and fun. It also takes me back to the days of high school when I watched the high school colorguard team performing thinking how cool they were (though I had zero interest in participating). Maybe this will get you to be more active, or you’ll enjoy it as a slice of life. For us, we’ll skip Anima Yell!! Also, stop with all of the Cheer-Chair jokes, please. We get it; they sound similar in Japanese if you use the western pronunciation for 'cheer.' Bleh.