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A [[Wayback Machine]] archive copy from 2013 can be read [https://web.archive.org/web/20130127084732/http://tyrantking.net/yukari-is-free/ here].
'''Season 1'''- The first season began with Yukari Tanizaki suddenly deciding to kill her class, and their attempts to stop her/escape. The story then moved into the afterlife, as one by one the students either fell victim to her or to their own stupidity, and they began trying to find a way to return to Earth before it came time for their souls to be judged and assigned to an eternity in either Heaven or Hell.▼
▲'''Season 1'''
'''Season 2'''- After successfully returning to Earth with no memories of the afterlife, the group faces an evil alternate dimension version of Chiyo-chan followed by a nation-wide zombie apocalypse. Tomo's sister [[Yotsubato|Torako]] joins the cast, Kaorin becomes an antagonist when Sakaki rejects her to be with Kagura, and Torako and Tardboy accidentally become porn stars after a video conference system films them having sex and broadcasts it all over Japan. After a series of close calls, which included the collapse of Japanese society, they are finally able to reach safety and are evacuated to Hawaii.▼
▲'''Season 2'''
'''Season 2.5'''- A [[Breather Episode]], with the cast now living in Hawaii. Torako and Tardboy are trying to get used to being celebrities, and Tomo and Yomi are trying to film a porno of their own to get a piece of the action. Meanwhile a remnant of the evil Chiyo awakens and begins exerting control, Asagi begins trying to force Tomo into being her submissive sex partner like her sister was before her, Kagura becomes a celebrity in her own right, and Nyamo reveals that she is pregnant after drunkenly having sex with Kagura's father in Season 2. The season comes to an abrupt end when Tardboy is kidnapped, and Torako is shot and nearly killed trying to protect him.▼
▲'''Season 2.5'''
'''Season 3'''- The longest yet. Things are kicked off when Kagura is kidnapped by the same group who took Tardboy, leading the group back to Japan to rescue them both. Once there they encounter post-apocalyptic mech gangs, communist terrorist organizations, missing friends and family members, evil robot scientists, and the United States military, not to mention the big bad villain of them all: a nefarious clone-spawning pornography company straight out of Hell. The season finally ends with the cessation of hostilities between the United States and Japan, and much of the cast's evacuation (or return, in some cases) to Hawaii.▼
▲'''Season 3'''
'''Season 3.5'''- Another breather episode, with much of the cast either getting into [[Hilarity Ensues|wacky hijinks]] or just trying to relax after the insanity of the last season.▼
▲'''Season 3.5'''
'''Season 4'''- Just started, and expected to deal with the cast fighting off an [[Alien Invasion]].▼
▲'''Season 4'''
Not to be confused with [[Touhou|Yukari Yakumo]] [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|is free.]]
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* [[And I Must Scream]]: Combined with [[Body Horror]] in the first season when the girls are told that, if sent to Hell, they will be compressed into human bricks and used as building materials, spending the rest of eternity fully conscious and in constant agony.
* [[Appropriated Appellation]]: Torako and Kagura were given their stage names by an evil porn company that had distributed DVDs of them in...compromising situations.
* [[Artistic License: Biology]]: Combined with [[Insane Troll Logic]] when Tomo insists that since she and Torako are twins, that means they're essentially clones, and therefore any sexual contact between them is only masturbation, and not incest. Yeah.
** Also, Gang Member 122 and Miura both seem to think that alligators are lizards.
* [[Artistic License Geography]]: When Sergeant Greene mentions being from [[Down on the Farm|Iowa]], Kyoto mimics a banjo in reference to the [[Deep South]].
* [[Ascended Extra]]: A great many characters originally introduced as background filler, including Gendo Yamane, Tetsuo Matsuoka, Chie Togusa, Ai Tanagawa, Shinji Ryougi, Ran and Rei Kakizaki, and nearly every other gang member to appear after the third season.
* [[Attempted Rape]]: Kyoto's first appearance has him trying to have some fun with Osaka. Because she was injured in the first place anyway he very nearly got away with this...Until Yukari distracted him. With her fist.
* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: According to the Shenanigoats threads, Tardboy and Torako name their daughter ''Chainsaw.''
* [[Ax Crazy]]: Stay away from Yukari. Seriously.
* [[Back for the Dead]]: Haru at the start of Season 3.5, reintroduced for the sole purpose of being vaporized. Her companion Karii apparently [[Put on a Bus to Hell|got it even worse]].
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* [[Break the Cutie]]: Kagura in most of Season 2 and up until her {{spoiler|resurrection}} in Season 3. Many of the gang members could also qualify, given what they'd survived.
** Notable mentions include Ran, Rei, and Kanako..
* [[The Cameo]]: David Bowie makes a brief appearance as a zombie early in the second season...before being run over by Yukari.
* [[Canon Discontinuity]]: Shin-Chiyo's rampage across North America, resulting in widespread destruction across the central United States and the separation of Florida from the rest of the landmass. (At which point it [[Artistic License Geology|drifts off into the ocean]].)
** [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Knuckles and Robotnik]] in Season 2? What are you talking about?
* [[
* [[Catgirl]]: Two of them: the Catgirl News Anchor is just an anchorwoman wearing fake cat ears, while Hula Hoop is a Feline-Human Hybrid created by a [[Mad Scientist]] via splicing the DNA of his daughter and his cat.
* [[The Chew Toy]]: Kagura in Season 2 and up until {{spoiler|her death and resurrection}} in Season 3; Fuuka, Shimauu, and Sergeant Greene played the role for the remainder of the season.
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* [[Flat What]]: Rachel lets out a good one of these when That Kid casually surfaces from and exits a, ahem, ''soiled'' pool... a good ten minutes after everyone else had left.
* [[Foot Popping]]: When Torako finally rescued Tardboy and freed him, the two share this moment. Tardboy was the one lifting his leg.
* [[Former Teen Rebel]]: A major source of the drama between Tsuruko and her daughter Torako is the former's fear that the latter has been following in her footsteps as a juvenile delinquent.
** Sergeant Greene was apparently prone to misbehavior during her younger years as well.
* [[Funetik Aksent]]: Crops up somewhat inconsistently when the Japanese characters speak English, usually to illustrate how bad they are at it. Also played up for maximum absurdity with the Russians' ridiculous accents in Shenanigoats.
{{quote|'''[[Red Scare|Olga]] [[Psycho Lesbian|Dykinsky]]:''' Beesidess, eef you shoot me end mek me repawn een Roossia you are oonly doink what SoDa woonts, becoos he ees ti-ehred off typink out my seelly fake Roossian eccent.}}
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Not that it does them much good.
** Played with when characters know doing something is stupid, explicitly comment on it being stupid, and then do it anyway.
* [[Good People Have Good Sex]]
* [[Grievous Harm with a Body]]: During her introduction in Season 2, Torako ripped off a zombie's arm and used it to beat its master so badly that ''his'' arm fell off
* [[Gundamjack]]: Kagura stole her mech out of the hangar of the Big Bad's walking battleship, and later the heroes take it up a notch by stealing the ship
itself.
* [[The Gunslinger]]: Almost everyone uses a gun at some point, but Ena's proficiency with firearms is disturbing.
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* [[Jerkass]]: Tomo, Ai Tanagawa, and Ren Tsutenpi all qualify.
** Fuuka has been having Jerkass tendencies more and more freqently as the story goes on. Mostly around Kokoro.
** Six seems to place people in two categories: Shimauu, and targets for abuse. And even Shimauu isn't exempt from his jerkass tendencies.
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Tomo and many members of the Yotsuba and Yanda Gangs and RED Team.
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Jerk]]: Again, Ai Tanagawa. She's not a very nice person.
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* [[Kansai Regional Accent]]: Risu and Ayumu Kasuga, Kasumi Chiba, and the Greene sisters.
* [[Kill'Em All]]: Yukari's homicidal rampage at the start of Season 1.
* [[Knife Nut]]: Gang Member 122's Knife is one of his prized possessions, this also counts as a [[Berserk Button]] for him. As Yukari finds out during their third encounter, and second fight.
* [[The Ladette]]: Sergeant Greene and Ai Tanagawa.
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: ''Constantly.''
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* [[Made of Explodium]]: Turtles, apparently.
* [[Magical Girl]]: Padudu would easily qualify. Kokoro seems to be this, as much as she [[A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read|doesn't want to]].
* [[
** Saburo Motani, age 32, and his quasi-girlfriend Yoko Tsumura, age 21, also qualify.
** And as a particularly creepy example, Yukari's relationship with Kyoto; she's 29, and he was ''15.''
* [[Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy]]: Tardboy and Torako.
* [[Mega Crossover]]: With ''[[
* [[Men Are the Expendable Gender]]: If only one of a character's parents are revealed to have survived the [[Zombie Apocalypse]], odds are overwhelmingly in favor of it being the mother. With the exception of Ryusuke, fathers seem to survive as a set with their wives or not at all.
* [[The Milky Way Is the Only Way]]: Averted; intergalactic distances seem to pose no problem at all to the most widely-used methods of [[Faster-Than-Light Travel]].
* [[Moe]]: When Asagi loses her contacts, she steals Gang member 122's glasses. They seem to have an ''interesting'' effect on her personality.
** [[Cute Mute]] [[The Woobie|Woobie]] Rei could qualify for this as well, when she isn't being [[Stringy
* [[The Mole]]: Floaty tricks the group into trusting it early in season 3. {{spoiler|She later kidnaps half the cast for testing at the enrichment center}}.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: Yukari is Free is all over the map, constantly switching back and forth from comedy to drama to action to borderline hentai and everything in between, often playing multiple scenes in multiple genres simultaneously.
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* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: Ai only ever seems to refer to Sergeant Greene as "Twinkie."
* [[Near-Death Experience]]: {{spoiler|Torako}} at the end of Season 2.5 when she is shot trying to prevent {{spoiler|Tardboy}}'s abduction, and in Season 3 {{spoiler|Ai}} is shot defending the Dai Kagurren from BLU Team and {{spoiler|Sergeant Greene}} is shot by {{spoiler|Yukari}}. All come very close to dying, and one even winds up in the afterlife for a few minutes.
** Kokoro had one when she was gutpunched by Torako for endangering the entire group's lives. She had a brief out of body experience, and then it [[
* [[NGO Superpower]]: The cast could almost be considered one of these, what with their fleet of [[Humongous Mecha]], [[Airborne Aircraft Carrier]], [[Cool Starship]], and the presence of at least one [[Person of Mass Destruction]] among their ranks.
* [[Nice Guy]]: Member 2, Koiwai, and Ryusuke Kagura fall under this, and Sergeant Greene could be considered a female example.
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* [[No Bisexuals]]: Averted ''hard.'' At one point over half the main female cast was bisexual.
* [[No Fourth Wall]]: Played with in the behind the scenes discussion threads and omake-style "Shenanigoats" threads, in which characters frequently comment on the story or complain about their treatment at the hands of the writers.
* [[Numerical Theme Naming]]: The members of the Yotsuba Gang are numbered in the order that they joined up.
* [[Obligatory War Crime Scene]]: An odd example crops up near the end of Season 3, when Sergeant Greene ''prevents'' one of these from happening by shooting down Ryougi's suggestion that they simply execute the surrendered JSDF soldiers and instead orders them loaded onto the good guys' [[Airborne Aircraft Carrier]] and transported to safety. She is then told upon reuniting with the Army forces that she hadn't been expected to take prisoners, essentially meaning that her superiors ''wanted'' her to risk committing a war crime by leaving surrendered POWs to die from exposure to lethally radioactive fallout.
* [[One Steve Limit]]: Averted. So far there are two Randalls (with a third apparently to be introduced next season), two Samanthas, and two other characters named ''K''asumi and ''H''asumi.
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* [[Sex Slave]]: [[Big Bad|The Boss]] was planning to turn Tardboy and Kagura into these, essentially forcing them to have sex on camera in order to sell more porn DVDs.
* [[Ship Tease]]
* [[Shout-Out]]: To ''[[Achewood]], [[Battlestar Galactica
* [[Sibling Seniority Squabble]]: A bit of a one-sided example with Tomo and Torako. Tomo is constantly reminding everyone that she is a full ''four minutes'' older than Torako, to compensate for the fact that her sister is otherwise taller, more mature, arguably smarter, and can easily trounce her in a fight. Torako just goes along with it, since she doesn't like being at the top of the totem pole anyway.
* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: Again, Tomo and Torako Takino.
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** The ''uncensored'' bit deemed safe enough for human consumption is half a sentence that still contains the words "goddamn" and "fuck."
* [[Staying Alive]]: Barring zombiefication, Yukari has died about 4 times.
** Osaka {{spoiler|has died about twice so far. She was able to return after promising to save Chiyo-chan from her evil counterpart.}}
** [[Portal (series)|GLaDOS]] has been killed on-screen at least twice, but she claims to have been killed far more times than that.
** Chiyo is now a member of this club, {{spoiler|because her soul WAS housed inside a doll while her body was still possessed by The Profound Darkness/Shin Chiyo. She's better now}}.
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* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]: "THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU, BITCH!"
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Most of the cast fall into this trope at some point or another. Surpisingly, most of them haven't kicked the can yet.
** Shimauu is a prime example, running away from the safety of a military base to wander aimlessly through a ruined city populated mainly by gangsters, thieves, murderers, and rapists. Alone. In the middle of the night. To find someone who, for all she knew, would just tell her to get lost. Great thinking kid, that couldn't ''possibly'' go wrong!
** Yui Morishita is apparently a very literal example, as she seems to just flat-out ''forget to eat'' for days at a time.
** Jumbo. Oh god, Jumbo. It's hard to decide what's stupider, handing an enemy your loaded gun or informing a [[Person of Mass Destruction]] that his girlfriend is a "lesbian whore."
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Don't eat anything Rachel makes, unless you ''really'' like mustard.
* [[Trauma-Induced Amnesia]]: Rei Kakizaki suffers from this to a degree, in that she has suppressed many of her memories of the zombie apocalypse and can become extremely unpredictable and violent if something happens to make her remember.
** It has also been suggested in the discussion threads that Shimauu may be repressing memories of that period as well.
* [[True Companions]]: Nearly everyone on the good guys' side is just one big family. A big, perverted, destructive, badass family that can barely go five minutes without fighting amongst themselves.
* [[Twin Threesome Fantasy]]: It's not just a fantasy for Yomi.
** {{spoiler|Nor for Tardboy, though he's not likely to get another chance at it.}}
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* [[Weirdness Magnet]]: Lampshaded by Chihiro and Shimauu.
* [[What Does She See in Him?]]: Virtually every relationship in Yukari is Free falls under this, possibly the only exception being Sakaki and Kagura's. Ena doesn't see what Fuuka sees in Mark, Miura initially protests Chihiro being with Sakakuro, Jumbo and Koiwai don't understand Yanda's desire for Asagi, Kagura wondered once why Chiyosuke would want Osaka, and some of the Yotsuba Gang Members wondered why Ryougi/Gang Member 122 had crushes on the strange, reclusive Ran (Gang Member 114), and the vulgar, abrasive Ai (Gang Member 37), just to name a few.
* [[What Happened to Mommy?]]: At the start of the [[Zombie Apocalypse]] Ran and Rei Kakizaki's mother became infected with the zombie virus, killed and partially devoured their father, and then attacked Ran, forcing Rei to [[Shoot the Dog|beat her brains in with a baseball bat to save her sister.]]
* [[The Woobie]]: Kagura and Sakaki have both spent their share of time in the Woobie seat.
** Rei is currently occupying it as well.
* [[Wrench Wench]]: Yumi and Haru.
* [[Yandere]]: Chihiro, after hooking up with Sakakuro, before Season 3.5.
** Kaorin, and her trying to kill Kagura for "stealing Sakaki" from her. Enough said.
* [[Zombie Apocalypse]]: Most of Season 2.
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