Lulu is the Best Bear
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shamanicshayminI barely managed to poke at my Rare Pairs letter, what a pain. It's already overdue too. :( Time to copy-paste more of my live reactions to Yuri Kuma, I guess.
Me: IT’S TIME FOR MORE BEARS
Me: With all the Suspiria imagery, I can’t help but think the entire school is a death trap itself. Any moment now, a girl is going to fall into a room full of razor wire. :p
“Girls who don’t follow the mood of the herd get excluded. That’s how the system works isn’t it?”
Mitsuko: Lulu and Ginko are totally bears and I’m worried about Kureha... whatever sclera-less girl, let’s get dirty in the Suspiria hallway.
Me: “I taste tears, gao.”
Me: GINKO, CHILL
Person: I don't think anyone in that show knows how to chill
Me: I think you’re showering, Lulu. But that’s forgiven because your bath song is adorable.
“Did you know that sad and lonely tears taste like a treat?”
Me: I can hardly take her seriously, Ginko sounds like a goddamn candy serial killer. : p
Me: Okay, now it’s a bath, good job Lulu. XD
Friend: lollll
Friend: oh god
Friend: get ready
Friend: to be mad
Me: Hooooooo boy
Friend: i told you this was my least favourite ep for a reason......
“The taste of your tears... your love is true, gao gao.”
Me: How can you tell that from tears? :p
Kureha: I’M GRIEVING SO STFU
Me: Ginko, now isn’t the time.
Me: SAVED BY THE BELL
Me: lol Lulu just standing there with steam puffing off her
Me: CREEPY PHONE DUDE IS BACK
Me: That towel is miraculously good at staying on Lulu.
Me: PLOT TWIST: KONOMI IS A BEAR
Me: From now on, whenever there is a plot twist, we shout KUMA SHOCK
“Nasty girl!”
Me: I guess she didn’t vote for Hilary Clinton.
Me: CALLED IT. I KNEW YURIZONO WAS SUSPICIOUS
Me: Time for episode 3!
Me: Why do we have a close-up of Kureha’s bum? There’s no purpose to this. Just Male Gaze.
Person Two: because it's Weird and Sexy
Person Two: so yes. It's male gaze... but it's weird male gaze!
“You remind me of your mother.”
Me: I don’t trust anyone with Yuri in their name by default.
Me: Kureha, so far you have been absolutely useless.
Me: SIDE-PONYTAIL. 90’S HAIIIIIIIIR
Person Two: honestly, when you get to episode 4, I have opinions to share.
Me: BLACK LILIES
Me: Mitsuko sure brings all the girls to the yard
Me: “Exclusion Ceremony” sounds cultish.
Person Two: eeeee! :D
Person Two: I'd say more, but spoilers
“Sumika got killed because she was eeeeeevil!”
Me: And right there, we have the Reagan administration’s justification for doing nothing during the AIDS crisis.
Person Two: Yeaaaah, the Invisible Storm are terrifying
Person Two: I'm pretty sure you're figured this out by now, but they're a school-sponsored hate group
Me: Yeeeeeeeah... their dialogue came straight out of school bullies and Autism Speaks. I’m creeped out already. DDD:
Person Two: are you watching the dub or the sub?
Me: Sub.
Person Two: one of my favorite lines is, I believe, in the dub only
Person Two: There's a sub equivalent, but the dub really improved it
Me: What’s the line?
Person Two: at the beginning of the exclusion ceremony, whoever's running it explains in their speech their reasons for "needing" to exclude. And I don't remember the whole speech, but there's a part that's essentially, "The good guys are us. WE are US."
Person Two: And it's such pitchfork and torch mob mentality that it left me SHOOK
Me: Holy shit, Mitsuko is a bitch. I LOVE HER
Person Two: She IS
Person Two: Her voice acting in the dub is SO GOOD too, I adore it
Me: “Only love can change the world.”
Me: THREESOME FANTASY INITIATE
“What is this? Their tongues are rough... but warm and kind!”
Me: You’re a furry, Kureha. A lesbian furry.
Person Two: headcanon accepted
Me: Aww, I’m gonna miss Mitsuko. Just when she was really hitting her stride.
Person Two: Don't worry, the show isn't done yet~
Person Two: speaking of which, how are you enjoying it thus far?
Me: It’s getting much better now! I’m gonna watch one more episode for the night!
Person Two: do it!
Person Two: Episode 4 is where the series hits its stride
Person Two: tbh, episode 4 does a better job of establishing why we should care about Lulu in 20 minutes than episodes 1-3 do showing why we should care about Kureha in an hour
Me: lol
Friend: This tea smash
Friend: episode 4 is a very good ep
Me: lol bear fanservice, complete with Bear!Keppi butt.
Me: Teeny Lulu: (waggles paws) Desire!
Me: SARANZANMAI FORESHADOWING
Me: MOOD
Me: Now I know Murin is supposed to be Milne.
Me: A REFERENCE TO A.A. MILNE, AUTHOR OF WINNIE THE POOH
Me: “DE-SIRRRRE”
Me: Milne is so pure.
Me: He’s not old enough to know what incest is yet. He just knows he loves his sister very very much. ;;
Me: Yeah, this... this is legitimately a good episode.
Me: Lulu... ;;
Me: I stan Lulu forever and ever and ever. ;;
Me: This is the kind of heartwarming and poignancy I love and want from Ikuhara. ;;
Me: So the lesson is: sit through the first episodes for Mitsuko. You’ll be rewarded with Episode 4.
Friend: Lulu's baby brother is precious and deserves the whole ass world and so does lulu ;__;
Me: Imagine being a bear and being allergic to bee stings. DDD:
Me: So far, I still prefer Kureha/Sumika over Kureha/Ginko. The show is giving us flashbacks about why Sumika matters so much to Kureha, while Ginko is being way too pushy and lacks empathy regarding her grief.
Friend: idk if this is a spoiler but ? Ginko is my least favourite major character :shrug:
Me: I’m sure we’ll learn Ginko’s reasons soon, but blegh.
Me: I wonder if it’s Blue and Orange Morality with the bears too. Like why they don’t react much to Kureha’s grieving.
Me: “Why are you crying over us eating a piece of broccoli?”
Friend: ginko ... hm . is all i'm gonna say. there are motivations, but im not sure they necessarily treat it all appropriately, all things considered. but AAANYWAY that's an after completing show discussion
Me: But yeah. Iffy on Ginko, but I stan Lulu forever. ;;
Person Two: lulu is best girl
Friend: yupppp
Me: Kureha is way too passive for someone who is supposed to be an Action Girl. D:
Me: I’ll excuse her knocking over Lulu’s cooking as a typical symptom of grief.
Person Two: I have so many thoughts on the first 3 episodes of YKA but I'm kind of at a loss on how to improve them and keep the later episodes similar enough
Person Two: Each episode is just jam-packed with content
Me: I wonder if I ought to put star stickers on my own glasses. Sumika’s glasses rock.
Person Two: also, I prefer Kureha/Lulu to literally all the other pairings
Me: I want an OT3, but I have a bad feeling I am not going to like Ginko. DDD:
Person Two: Ginko is...... eeeeehhhh?
Person Two: She gets better, but not good, imo
Person Two: Kureha can do better
Person Two: I think that's one of Yuri Kuma's biggest failings, imo. It's a love story, but it has so much trouble getting so many people to route for the canon pair
Friend: ^^^^^^
Friend: And that’s , tbh, because of the stupid ass beginning
Person Two: in part! There are things Ginko does later on, and is revealed to have done later on, that make me think she needs some time alone
Person Two: anyway, we should probably stop spoiling things for Puri
Me: Gao gao
Person Two: tfw you not sure if you wanna eat ur crush or eat ur crush
Me: I feel like a way to improve the earlier episodes would be if Kureha was less of a pushover and made her boundaries more clear.
Me: Like she could have shoved Ginko away and called her out, and Ginko would’ve been confused.
Me: Rather than just have Lulu and Ginko walk all over her and live in her house without her permission, they could’ve struck a deal.
Friend: The it’s kinda hard to say what would make those episodes better without seeing the whole show.
Friend: Maybe we should wait until you’re nearing the end to talk theorizing/ameliorations?
Me: Okay!
Friend: Just cuz you’re tempting me too much LMAO
Me: lol
Me: IT’S TIME FOR MORE BEARS
Me: With all the Suspiria imagery, I can’t help but think the entire school is a death trap itself. Any moment now, a girl is going to fall into a room full of razor wire. :p
“Girls who don’t follow the mood of the herd get excluded. That’s how the system works isn’t it?”
Mitsuko: Lulu and Ginko are totally bears and I’m worried about Kureha... whatever sclera-less girl, let’s get dirty in the Suspiria hallway.
Me: “I taste tears, gao.”
Me: GINKO, CHILL
Person: I don't think anyone in that show knows how to chill
Me: I think you’re showering, Lulu. But that’s forgiven because your bath song is adorable.
“Did you know that sad and lonely tears taste like a treat?”
Me: I can hardly take her seriously, Ginko sounds like a goddamn candy serial killer. : p
Me: Okay, now it’s a bath, good job Lulu. XD
Friend: lollll
Friend: oh god
Friend: get ready
Friend: to be mad
Me: Hooooooo boy
Friend: i told you this was my least favourite ep for a reason......
“The taste of your tears... your love is true, gao gao.”
Me: How can you tell that from tears? :p
Kureha: I’M GRIEVING SO STFU
Me: Ginko, now isn’t the time.
Me: SAVED BY THE BELL
Me: lol Lulu just standing there with steam puffing off her
Me: CREEPY PHONE DUDE IS BACK
Me: That towel is miraculously good at staying on Lulu.
Me: PLOT TWIST: KONOMI IS A BEAR
Me: From now on, whenever there is a plot twist, we shout KUMA SHOCK
“Nasty girl!”
Me: I guess she didn’t vote for Hilary Clinton.
Me: CALLED IT. I KNEW YURIZONO WAS SUSPICIOUS
Me: Time for episode 3!
Me: Why do we have a close-up of Kureha’s bum? There’s no purpose to this. Just Male Gaze.
Person Two: because it's Weird and Sexy
Person Two: so yes. It's male gaze... but it's weird male gaze!
“You remind me of your mother.”
Me: I don’t trust anyone with Yuri in their name by default.
Me: Kureha, so far you have been absolutely useless.
Me: SIDE-PONYTAIL. 90’S HAIIIIIIIIR
Person Two: honestly, when you get to episode 4, I have opinions to share.
Me: BLACK LILIES
Me: Mitsuko sure brings all the girls to the yard
Me: “Exclusion Ceremony” sounds cultish.
Person Two: eeeee! :D
Person Two: I'd say more, but spoilers
“Sumika got killed because she was eeeeeevil!”
Me: And right there, we have the Reagan administration’s justification for doing nothing during the AIDS crisis.
Person Two: Yeaaaah, the Invisible Storm are terrifying
Person Two: I'm pretty sure you're figured this out by now, but they're a school-sponsored hate group
Me: Yeeeeeeeah... their dialogue came straight out of school bullies and Autism Speaks. I’m creeped out already. DDD:
Person Two: are you watching the dub or the sub?
Me: Sub.
Person Two: one of my favorite lines is, I believe, in the dub only
Person Two: There's a sub equivalent, but the dub really improved it
Me: What’s the line?
Person Two: at the beginning of the exclusion ceremony, whoever's running it explains in their speech their reasons for "needing" to exclude. And I don't remember the whole speech, but there's a part that's essentially, "The good guys are us. WE are US."
Person Two: And it's such pitchfork and torch mob mentality that it left me SHOOK
Me: Holy shit, Mitsuko is a bitch. I LOVE HER
Person Two: She IS
Person Two: Her voice acting in the dub is SO GOOD too, I adore it
Me: “Only love can change the world.”
Me: THREESOME FANTASY INITIATE
“What is this? Their tongues are rough... but warm and kind!”
Me: You’re a furry, Kureha. A lesbian furry.
Person Two: headcanon accepted
Me: Aww, I’m gonna miss Mitsuko. Just when she was really hitting her stride.
Person Two: Don't worry, the show isn't done yet~
Person Two: speaking of which, how are you enjoying it thus far?
Me: It’s getting much better now! I’m gonna watch one more episode for the night!
Person Two: do it!
Person Two: Episode 4 is where the series hits its stride
Person Two: tbh, episode 4 does a better job of establishing why we should care about Lulu in 20 minutes than episodes 1-3 do showing why we should care about Kureha in an hour
Me: lol
Friend: This tea smash
Friend: episode 4 is a very good ep
Me: lol bear fanservice, complete with Bear!Keppi butt.
Me: Teeny Lulu: (waggles paws) Desire!
Me: SARANZANMAI FORESHADOWING
Me: MOOD
Me: Now I know Murin is supposed to be Milne.
Me: A REFERENCE TO A.A. MILNE, AUTHOR OF WINNIE THE POOH
Me: “DE-SIRRRRE”
Me: Milne is so pure.
Me: He’s not old enough to know what incest is yet. He just knows he loves his sister very very much. ;;
Me: Yeah, this... this is legitimately a good episode.
Me: Lulu... ;;
Me: I stan Lulu forever and ever and ever. ;;
Me: This is the kind of heartwarming and poignancy I love and want from Ikuhara. ;;
Me: So the lesson is: sit through the first episodes for Mitsuko. You’ll be rewarded with Episode 4.
Friend: Lulu's baby brother is precious and deserves the whole ass world and so does lulu ;__;
Me: Imagine being a bear and being allergic to bee stings. DDD:
Me: So far, I still prefer Kureha/Sumika over Kureha/Ginko. The show is giving us flashbacks about why Sumika matters so much to Kureha, while Ginko is being way too pushy and lacks empathy regarding her grief.
Friend: idk if this is a spoiler but ? Ginko is my least favourite major character :shrug:
Me: I’m sure we’ll learn Ginko’s reasons soon, but blegh.
Me: I wonder if it’s Blue and Orange Morality with the bears too. Like why they don’t react much to Kureha’s grieving.
Me: “Why are you crying over us eating a piece of broccoli?”
Friend: ginko ... hm . is all i'm gonna say. there are motivations, but im not sure they necessarily treat it all appropriately, all things considered. but AAANYWAY that's an after completing show discussion
Me: But yeah. Iffy on Ginko, but I stan Lulu forever. ;;
Person Two: lulu is best girl
Friend: yupppp
Me: Kureha is way too passive for someone who is supposed to be an Action Girl. D:
Me: I’ll excuse her knocking over Lulu’s cooking as a typical symptom of grief.
Person Two: I have so many thoughts on the first 3 episodes of YKA but I'm kind of at a loss on how to improve them and keep the later episodes similar enough
Person Two: Each episode is just jam-packed with content
Me: I wonder if I ought to put star stickers on my own glasses. Sumika’s glasses rock.
Person Two: also, I prefer Kureha/Lulu to literally all the other pairings
Me: I want an OT3, but I have a bad feeling I am not going to like Ginko. DDD:
Person Two: Ginko is...... eeeeehhhh?
Person Two: She gets better, but not good, imo
Person Two: Kureha can do better
Person Two: I think that's one of Yuri Kuma's biggest failings, imo. It's a love story, but it has so much trouble getting so many people to route for the canon pair
Friend: ^^^^^^
Friend: And that’s , tbh, because of the stupid ass beginning
Person Two: in part! There are things Ginko does later on, and is revealed to have done later on, that make me think she needs some time alone
Person Two: anyway, we should probably stop spoiling things for Puri
Me: Gao gao
Person Two: tfw you not sure if you wanna eat ur crush or eat ur crush
Me: I feel like a way to improve the earlier episodes would be if Kureha was less of a pushover and made her boundaries more clear.
Me: Like she could have shoved Ginko away and called her out, and Ginko would’ve been confused.
Me: Rather than just have Lulu and Ginko walk all over her and live in her house without her permission, they could’ve struck a deal.
Friend: The it’s kinda hard to say what would make those episodes better without seeing the whole show.
Friend: Maybe we should wait until you’re nearing the end to talk theorizing/ameliorations?
Me: Okay!
Friend: Just cuz you’re tempting me too much LMAO
Me: lol
