SHOOOOOOOCK! KUMA SHOCK
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shamanicshayminUgggh, I have so much to catch up on. Unfortunately, this is one of the rare times I'm awake AND not groggy, and it's still not enough time. I hate being tired all the time.
One productive thing I did do was watch Yuri Kuma Arashi. It's a very polarizing (or should I say POLAR BEAR-IZING) show, but a friend whose opinion I trusted liked it in spite of its flaws, and since it's only 12 episodes long and I was feeling super happy after finishing another Ikuhara show ("Sarazanmai"), I decided to bite thelove bullet and see what happens.
Me: ... I’m gonna do it everyone.
Me: I’m gonna watch the first episode of Yuri Kuma Arashi.
Me: I’M SO SCARED EVERYONE
Me: THIS COULD EITHER BE FUN OR ABSOLUTELY PAINFUL
Friend: Lol
Friend: First three episodes are an absolute shit show, fair warning
Kureha: (holds Sumika’s hand)
Show: OMG
Kureha: Don’t worry Sumika! I won’t give up my love!
Sumika: I won’t either!
Show: OMG THIS SUPER FAINT YURI SUBTEXT IS SO STEAMY BRING ON THE SHOUJO BUBBLES
Me: I legit lol’d
Me: That’s a legit bit of satire that actually works. XD
“Everything is going to be daijoubou. Ich will protect you!”
Me: Uh oh. These subs aren’t very good. :p
Me: NOW WHAT DO I DO
Friend: Oh lol yeah
Friend: The subs for yuri kuma aren’t great
Me: That’s what I get for being cheap and watching it on Youtube. :p
“Lesbians came from outer space on an asteroid and scattered all around Earth. We want to be friends! But you assholes built a wall to keep us out. WE’RE LIKE VAMPIRES—AND WE’RE GOING TO EAT YOU AND TURN YOU INTO LESBIAN BEARS TOO”
Me: I like my version better than eating humans = rape and murder. :p
Friend: Eating humans isn’t rape and murder.......
Friend: Not necessarily anyway
Friend: It could be but that’s not what they’re saying explicitly
Me: Missed Opportunity to name the Asteroid “Sappho.” But I guess we needed a bear name, so Kumaria it is.
Me: Lulu is already adorable. ;; “So many cute girls I want to eat!”
Friend: Lulu is my baby and I love herrrrrrr
Friend: Best chara by far
Ginko: Buwahahaha no one knows we’re not straight
Lulu: omg I love you Ginko my darling
Me: Lulu is so cute aaaaaaaa
Friend: she iiiiis
Me: She just wants to do her mission and admire Ginko. ;;
Friend: yep ... baaaaby ❤️”
Me: Dude Ginko, chill. : p
Friend: enjoy the show!!!
Friend: i'm really bad at no spoilers so i'll leave you to it.... always interested in people's reactions tho
Me: OUR FIRST SUSPIRIA REF
Me: I RECOGNIZE THAT HALLWAY
Me: Nothing could possibly go wrong at a Suspiria school. :p
Me: It’s kinda sad really. Sumika and Kureha are so sincere, yet still forced to hold back. So all they can do is share lunches and nap on each other. They don’t know if Big Brother is watching or not. :(
“You’re such an insatiable glutton, Ginko!” Lulu says as she nuzzles her cheek while blushing.
Me: She might as well say, “And that’s what I like about you! ❤️”
Me: Oh my god, Lulu is an adorable flirt.
Me: Snipped lilies? Lost virginities?
Me: Ah ha, so The Invisible Storm is Big Brother.
Me: The music is so tender and adds to the poignancy of the scene. ;;
Yurizono: LILIES ARE GAY SYMBOLS SO WE MUST KILL THEM
Kureha: God dammit, the Invisible Big Brother Storm is why we can’t have nice things.
Me: I DUNNO YURIZONO DOES NOT SEEM TRUSTWORTHY
Me: SHE HAS “YURI” IN HER NAME
Me: ATTACK OF THE CGI BRICK
Me: I might as well make a tally on the number of times I squee from Lulu’s adorableness.
Me: I spoiled myself on most of the show, so I already don’t like Ginko’s annoyed expression. D:
Kureha: I mean, the Invisible Storm sounds bad and all... but the bears have got to be my real enemy, right? TIME FOR A DUCK HUNT SPIN-OFF.
“Everybody stay in groups, because alone, we’re defenseless against the bears!”
Me: Oof, doesn’t this feel uncomfortably relevant.
Me: Replace bear with “school shooter” and this shows how absolutely useless society is at catching actual predators.
Me: (Though if we really want to be accurate, the bears are actually video games/rock music/trenchcoats/the latest scapegoat, while the Invisible Storm is the school shooter going scot-free)
Me: (Now I have a mental image of Lulu and Ginko with Marilyn Manson merch and everyone freaking out)
Somebody: Thoughts and prayers for Sumika.
Me: lol yes
“If your love is real, come to the roof. The bears are waiting for you.”
Me: SPOOKIEST PHONE CALL EVER
Me: C’mon Kureha, you’re a trained shooter. You’re supposed to be better at this than Jennifer from Rule of Rose, weird CGI bear paw or not. : p
Me: I RECOGNIZE THOSE STAIRS FROM SARANZANMAI
Friend Two: the stairs appeared in penguindrum first iirc
“But they are bears, they die if they don’t eat.”
Me: TELL THAT TO EVERY MOVIE THAT FORCES PREDATOR ANIMALS TO EAT SUSHI AND BUGS
Me: (Also, this is a plug for “You Are Umasou!” which is an adorable movie about a T-Rex who learns to accept himself, including the fact he eats meat. He can love his plant-eating son and plant-eating family without betraying them or himself)
Me: The defendant is also arguing, “They’re lesbians. It’s literally harmful and unhealthy to deny them their love of women.”
“But if lesbians are allowed to fall in love, more people die!”
“Objection! That’s biased toward the straight side!”
“Straights and gays need to work together.”
“BALANCE IS SEXY”
“Do you want to be gay or closeted?”
“OM NOM NOM”
Me: Annnnnnnnd we got the lily scene! And I’m so confused. XDDD
Me: So do Ginko and Lulu just tell Kureha that they’re gay and in love with her?
Me: Is Ginko’s “I’m going to eat you, Kureha!” her way of saying, “I’ll show you it’s okay to be gay!”
Me: ‘Cause what’s going on seems to be a bizarre fantasy sequence of Kureha’s.
Me: Like, Lulu and Ginko licking a lily off her naked body is the closest depiction we can see of Kureha’s secret sexual fantasies without turning the show NC-17 or R.
Me: Especially since Kureha looks so relaxed rather than violated.
Me: It makes the fanservicy transformation sequences of Lulu and Ginko make MUCH more sense. Because it’s Kureha’s fantasy.
Me: And the more repressed you are, the more sexual and scandalous your fantasies are.
Me: Just ask the Victorians and Puritans. The former has some seriously wild porn.
Kureha: Ooooooh bears are EVIL so why do I like this why is this so fucking hot
Friend: Haha I have a lot of feelings about those transformations sequences... many of them not good rofl . I know what he’s going for but I do think he misses the mark and drifts into voyeurism with that shit....
Me: I’m mostly basing this off authorial intention, haha. I’m sure there will be upcoming gross fan service I’ll find no explanation I’ll like. :p
“But the bears on the roof said they will let Sumika go!”
Me: Ah ha... foreshadowing the bears aren’t the evil monsters the world makes them seem. :o
Me: They had no plans to kill her, just tell her gay people exist and that it’s something she might be. But according to society, “corruption” might as well be worse than death.
Me: So Sumika isn’t actually dead, they just haven’t found a body.
Me: Annnnnnnd as soon as I say that.
Me: MAKE UP YOUR MIND SHOW
Me: ARE THE BEARS GOOD
Me: ARE THEY EVIL
Me: WHO AM I SUPPOSED TO ROOT FOR
Me: YOU’RE SENDING ME MIXED MESSAGES, SHOW
Me: I’m confused all over again.
Me: Like, it’s presented as a good thing that bears want to eat humans. Then it’s presented as monstrous and spooky
Me: I AM SO CONFUSED
Me: Like... this show is not as good and clear with its symbolism as it’s supposed to be.
Me: Why am I supposed to find eating people good? What is that metaphor supposed to mean?
Me: I know it’s the first episode and the first three episodes are supposed to suck, but still.
Me: I’M SO CONFUSED.
Me: I THOUGHT I WAS GETTING THE HANG OF THIS, BUT THEN IT CONTRADICTS ITSELF
Me: WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO TELL ME, YURI KUMA?
Friend Two: puri maybe wait until you finish the series lol
Friend Two: i don't think you're supposed to get it after one episode
Friend: The first half of the show it very much acts like it doesn’t know where it’s going
Friend: Literally the first three episodes are a confusing mess don’t worry about understanding too much because they kind of change direction with it anyway
Friend: And yeah that too lol
Friend: You’ll have a much clearer idea where it’s going by like... ep 7/8
Friend: And it doesn’t really come together till the end
Friend Two: sarazanmai kinda contradicted itself in the beginning too
Friend: Yeah a little... YKA is worse for it tho. Like you really do have to be forgiving and want to see the best to like YKA I think (which I did)
Friend: But one big negative is coherency problems at the start
Friend: And yeah if you go into it thinking the bears are gonna represent one thing and it’s gonna be black and white then you’re gonna be uh... confused is the word
Friend: There’s a lot of mixing of metaphors in YKA
Friend: Anyway I will say no more ^^
Friend Two: "make up your mind show are the bears evil are they good"
i mean. do they have to? lmao maybe that's the point :eyes:
Me: Oh, I’m not saying I dislike the show or anything. The first episode isn’t as bad as I was worried it would be. I’m just confused, haha.
Me: I’m curious what’s gonna happen next actually. :o
Friend Two: ohh i was worried you went into this expecting it to be dogshit
Friend Two: yea, please try to take it in as is for now
Friend Two: it'll make sense in the long run
Me: I kept my expectations low while still being hopeful it could be good, so it could be why I’m noting a lot of the good parts.
Friend: I’m glad you’re appreciating some stuff at least
Me: I expected to be slammed with BOOBS AND BUTT but refreshingly they reigned it in until the lily scene. And that feels mild after Saranzanmai too. XD
Me: Or at least on Saranzanmai levels.
Friend: But yeah first three episodes are the definitive low point so, truly, please don’t judge the show on those three eps :/// especially ep 2 my least favourite ep
Friend Two: yka is not ecchi, as much as people like to talk about it as if it is :pensive:
Me: I guess Saranzanmai prepared me for the more fanservicy scenes, lol. XD
YKA: LILLIES LILLIES EVERYWHERE let’s lick nectar off of it.
Saranzanmai: BUTTSECKS TIME. WE LOOK LIKE A BUTTPLUG GOING UP HIS BUTT FOR THE SHIRIKODAMA. ALSO THE KAPPA ZOMBIE SCREAMS AND MOANS WITH A MIXTURE OF PLEASURE AND EMBARRASSMENT
Me: So thanks Saranzanmai, you may have actually made YKA better and less skeevy. XD
Me: The latter is still debatable, of course. BUT WE SHALL SEE
Me: Seeing the bear court makes me wish there were prominent male bear characters in the cast. ;; Oh well.
Me: I don’t trust Yurizono. I practically know nothing about her (I’m only mainly familiar with the Main Three Girls and Sumika), but I don’t trust her.
Me: I think she’s going to betray Kureha and feed her to the dogs. DDD:
Me: Just the general aura from her screams, “I’m going to pretend to be your only friend so I can stab you in the back later. =) “
Me: Best character by far is definitely Lulu. Kureha and Ginko aren’t developed much yet.
Me: I think I’ll probably see one episode per day, every few days, or week. We shall see.
Me: I like commenting and figuring out the pieces of this show so far!
P.S. GO WATCH SARAZANMAI I LOVE IT SO MUCH
One productive thing I did do was watch Yuri Kuma Arashi. It's a very polarizing (or should I say POLAR BEAR-IZING) show, but a friend whose opinion I trusted liked it in spite of its flaws, and since it's only 12 episodes long and I was feeling super happy after finishing another Ikuhara show ("Sarazanmai"), I decided to bite the
Me: ... I’m gonna do it everyone.
Me: I’m gonna watch the first episode of Yuri Kuma Arashi.
Me: I’M SO SCARED EVERYONE
Me: THIS COULD EITHER BE FUN OR ABSOLUTELY PAINFUL
Friend: Lol
Friend: First three episodes are an absolute shit show, fair warning
Kureha: (holds Sumika’s hand)
Show: OMG
Kureha: Don’t worry Sumika! I won’t give up my love!
Sumika: I won’t either!
Show: OMG THIS SUPER FAINT YURI SUBTEXT IS SO STEAMY BRING ON THE SHOUJO BUBBLES
Me: I legit lol’d
Me: That’s a legit bit of satire that actually works. XD
“Everything is going to be daijoubou. Ich will protect you!”
Me: Uh oh. These subs aren’t very good. :p
Me: NOW WHAT DO I DO
Friend: Oh lol yeah
Friend: The subs for yuri kuma aren’t great
Me: That’s what I get for being cheap and watching it on Youtube. :p
“Lesbians came from outer space on an asteroid and scattered all around Earth. We want to be friends! But you assholes built a wall to keep us out. WE’RE LIKE VAMPIRES—AND WE’RE GOING TO EAT YOU AND TURN YOU INTO LESBIAN BEARS TOO”
Me: I like my version better than eating humans = rape and murder. :p
Friend: Eating humans isn’t rape and murder.......
Friend: Not necessarily anyway
Friend: It could be but that’s not what they’re saying explicitly
Me: Missed Opportunity to name the Asteroid “Sappho.” But I guess we needed a bear name, so Kumaria it is.
Me: Lulu is already adorable. ;; “So many cute girls I want to eat!”
Friend: Lulu is my baby and I love herrrrrrr
Friend: Best chara by far
Ginko: Buwahahaha no one knows we’re not straight
Lulu: omg I love you Ginko my darling
Me: Lulu is so cute aaaaaaaa
Friend: she iiiiis
Me: She just wants to do her mission and admire Ginko. ;;
Friend: yep ... baaaaby ❤️”
Me: Dude Ginko, chill. : p
Friend: enjoy the show!!!
Friend: i'm really bad at no spoilers so i'll leave you to it.... always interested in people's reactions tho
Me: OUR FIRST SUSPIRIA REF
Me: I RECOGNIZE THAT HALLWAY
Me: Nothing could possibly go wrong at a Suspiria school. :p
Me: It’s kinda sad really. Sumika and Kureha are so sincere, yet still forced to hold back. So all they can do is share lunches and nap on each other. They don’t know if Big Brother is watching or not. :(
“You’re such an insatiable glutton, Ginko!” Lulu says as she nuzzles her cheek while blushing.
Me: She might as well say, “And that’s what I like about you! ❤️”
Me: Oh my god, Lulu is an adorable flirt.
Me: Snipped lilies? Lost virginities?
Me: Ah ha, so The Invisible Storm is Big Brother.
Me: The music is so tender and adds to the poignancy of the scene. ;;
Yurizono: LILIES ARE GAY SYMBOLS SO WE MUST KILL THEM
Kureha: God dammit, the Invisible Big Brother Storm is why we can’t have nice things.
Me: I DUNNO YURIZONO DOES NOT SEEM TRUSTWORTHY
Me: SHE HAS “YURI” IN HER NAME
Me: ATTACK OF THE CGI BRICK
Me: I might as well make a tally on the number of times I squee from Lulu’s adorableness.
Me: I spoiled myself on most of the show, so I already don’t like Ginko’s annoyed expression. D:
Kureha: I mean, the Invisible Storm sounds bad and all... but the bears have got to be my real enemy, right? TIME FOR A DUCK HUNT SPIN-OFF.
“Everybody stay in groups, because alone, we’re defenseless against the bears!”
Me: Oof, doesn’t this feel uncomfortably relevant.
Me: Replace bear with “school shooter” and this shows how absolutely useless society is at catching actual predators.
Me: (Though if we really want to be accurate, the bears are actually video games/rock music/trenchcoats/the latest scapegoat, while the Invisible Storm is the school shooter going scot-free)
Me: (Now I have a mental image of Lulu and Ginko with Marilyn Manson merch and everyone freaking out)
Somebody: Thoughts and prayers for Sumika.
Me: lol yes
“If your love is real, come to the roof. The bears are waiting for you.”
Me: SPOOKIEST PHONE CALL EVER
Me: C’mon Kureha, you’re a trained shooter. You’re supposed to be better at this than Jennifer from Rule of Rose, weird CGI bear paw or not. : p
Me: I RECOGNIZE THOSE STAIRS FROM SARANZANMAI
Friend Two: the stairs appeared in penguindrum first iirc
“But they are bears, they die if they don’t eat.”
Me: TELL THAT TO EVERY MOVIE THAT FORCES PREDATOR ANIMALS TO EAT SUSHI AND BUGS
Me: (Also, this is a plug for “You Are Umasou!” which is an adorable movie about a T-Rex who learns to accept himself, including the fact he eats meat. He can love his plant-eating son and plant-eating family without betraying them or himself)
Me: The defendant is also arguing, “They’re lesbians. It’s literally harmful and unhealthy to deny them their love of women.”
“But if lesbians are allowed to fall in love, more people die!”
“Objection! That’s biased toward the straight side!”
“Straights and gays need to work together.”
“BALANCE IS SEXY”
“Do you want to be gay or closeted?”
“OM NOM NOM”
Me: Annnnnnnnd we got the lily scene! And I’m so confused. XDDD
Me: So do Ginko and Lulu just tell Kureha that they’re gay and in love with her?
Me: Is Ginko’s “I’m going to eat you, Kureha!” her way of saying, “I’ll show you it’s okay to be gay!”
Me: ‘Cause what’s going on seems to be a bizarre fantasy sequence of Kureha’s.
Me: Like, Lulu and Ginko licking a lily off her naked body is the closest depiction we can see of Kureha’s secret sexual fantasies without turning the show NC-17 or R.
Me: Especially since Kureha looks so relaxed rather than violated.
Me: It makes the fanservicy transformation sequences of Lulu and Ginko make MUCH more sense. Because it’s Kureha’s fantasy.
Me: And the more repressed you are, the more sexual and scandalous your fantasies are.
Me: Just ask the Victorians and Puritans. The former has some seriously wild porn.
Kureha: Ooooooh bears are EVIL so why do I like this why is this so fucking hot
Friend: Haha I have a lot of feelings about those transformations sequences... many of them not good rofl . I know what he’s going for but I do think he misses the mark and drifts into voyeurism with that shit....
Me: I’m mostly basing this off authorial intention, haha. I’m sure there will be upcoming gross fan service I’ll find no explanation I’ll like. :p
“But the bears on the roof said they will let Sumika go!”
Me: Ah ha... foreshadowing the bears aren’t the evil monsters the world makes them seem. :o
Me: They had no plans to kill her, just tell her gay people exist and that it’s something she might be. But according to society, “corruption” might as well be worse than death.
Me: So Sumika isn’t actually dead, they just haven’t found a body.
Me: Annnnnnnd as soon as I say that.
Me: MAKE UP YOUR MIND SHOW
Me: ARE THE BEARS GOOD
Me: ARE THEY EVIL
Me: WHO AM I SUPPOSED TO ROOT FOR
Me: YOU’RE SENDING ME MIXED MESSAGES, SHOW
Me: I’m confused all over again.
Me: Like, it’s presented as a good thing that bears want to eat humans. Then it’s presented as monstrous and spooky
Me: I AM SO CONFUSED
Me: Like... this show is not as good and clear with its symbolism as it’s supposed to be.
Me: Why am I supposed to find eating people good? What is that metaphor supposed to mean?
Me: I know it’s the first episode and the first three episodes are supposed to suck, but still.
Me: I’M SO CONFUSED.
Me: I THOUGHT I WAS GETTING THE HANG OF THIS, BUT THEN IT CONTRADICTS ITSELF
Me: WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO TELL ME, YURI KUMA?
Friend Two: puri maybe wait until you finish the series lol
Friend Two: i don't think you're supposed to get it after one episode
Friend: The first half of the show it very much acts like it doesn’t know where it’s going
Friend: Literally the first three episodes are a confusing mess don’t worry about understanding too much because they kind of change direction with it anyway
Friend: And yeah that too lol
Friend: You’ll have a much clearer idea where it’s going by like... ep 7/8
Friend: And it doesn’t really come together till the end
Friend Two: sarazanmai kinda contradicted itself in the beginning too
Friend: Yeah a little... YKA is worse for it tho. Like you really do have to be forgiving and want to see the best to like YKA I think (which I did)
Friend: But one big negative is coherency problems at the start
Friend: And yeah if you go into it thinking the bears are gonna represent one thing and it’s gonna be black and white then you’re gonna be uh... confused is the word
Friend: There’s a lot of mixing of metaphors in YKA
Friend: Anyway I will say no more ^^
Friend Two: "make up your mind show are the bears evil are they good"
i mean. do they have to? lmao maybe that's the point :eyes:
Me: Oh, I’m not saying I dislike the show or anything. The first episode isn’t as bad as I was worried it would be. I’m just confused, haha.
Me: I’m curious what’s gonna happen next actually. :o
Friend Two: ohh i was worried you went into this expecting it to be dogshit
Friend Two: yea, please try to take it in as is for now
Friend Two: it'll make sense in the long run
Me: I kept my expectations low while still being hopeful it could be good, so it could be why I’m noting a lot of the good parts.
Friend: I’m glad you’re appreciating some stuff at least
Me: I expected to be slammed with BOOBS AND BUTT but refreshingly they reigned it in until the lily scene. And that feels mild after Saranzanmai too. XD
Me: Or at least on Saranzanmai levels.
Friend: But yeah first three episodes are the definitive low point so, truly, please don’t judge the show on those three eps :/// especially ep 2 my least favourite ep
Friend Two: yka is not ecchi, as much as people like to talk about it as if it is :pensive:
Me: I guess Saranzanmai prepared me for the more fanservicy scenes, lol. XD
YKA: LILLIES LILLIES EVERYWHERE let’s lick nectar off of it.
Saranzanmai: BUTTSECKS TIME. WE LOOK LIKE A BUTTPLUG GOING UP HIS BUTT FOR THE SHIRIKODAMA. ALSO THE KAPPA ZOMBIE SCREAMS AND MOANS WITH A MIXTURE OF PLEASURE AND EMBARRASSMENT
Me: So thanks Saranzanmai, you may have actually made YKA better and less skeevy. XD
Me: The latter is still debatable, of course. BUT WE SHALL SEE
Me: Seeing the bear court makes me wish there were prominent male bear characters in the cast. ;; Oh well.
Me: I don’t trust Yurizono. I practically know nothing about her (I’m only mainly familiar with the Main Three Girls and Sumika), but I don’t trust her.
Me: I think she’s going to betray Kureha and feed her to the dogs. DDD:
Me: Just the general aura from her screams, “I’m going to pretend to be your only friend so I can stab you in the back later. =) “
Me: Best character by far is definitely Lulu. Kureha and Ginko aren’t developed much yet.
Me: I think I’ll probably see one episode per day, every few days, or week. We shall see.
Me: I like commenting and figuring out the pieces of this show so far!
P.S. GO WATCH SARAZANMAI I LOVE IT SO MUCH
