#yuri kuma

[moddieeee]

Magical Girls Pink 'n' Blue

[ushiromiya]

♡ See you next bear! ♡

[squipedmew]

through all my years of absolutely adoring Yuri Kuma Arashi, I have never drawn fanart of it, which is just baffling to me. YKA was such a formative piece of media for me in middle school, and has shaped my aesthetic sensibilities as an artist, and as I’ve been rewatching it recently, I decided now would probably be a good time to try and do the show justice with my art. Go watch Yuri Kuma Arashi guys, it’s awesome. 

[durmamos]

Yurikuma Arashi (2015)

[5-pp-man]

[clam-fest]

Congrats team bear... for the opportunity to draw this

[iiileaves]

ikuhara references in g-witch's second ending

[paradiseyuri]

✿.｡.:* ♀ *.:｡✿｡:.* ♀ *.｡.✿ Created By:||☆Kuma☆ respective credits to the creator ✿.｡.:* ♀ *.:｡✿｡:.* ♀ *.｡.✿ ⓟⒶⓇⒶⒹⒾⓈⒺ♡ⓎⓊⓇⒾ

[ikuhara]

Here's all the Ikuni series characters (and the man himself) sorted by their astrological sign in case you were curious.

[hoshitsukai]

[animefeminist]

Becoming Monstrous: Yurikuma Arashi and transmisogyny in the school system

Content Warning: Discussion of queer/transphobia (including slurs), online and workplace harassment, grooming, systemic violence

Spoilers for Yurikuma Arashi, referenced spoilers for Puella Magi Madoka Magica

“This is the nature of systems: the moment you reject them, you are forced to realize that they’re the very ground you’re standing on.” -Ikuhara Kunihiko

Two bears are presented with a choice: will you be invisible, or will you eat humans? They look like teddy bears, and they are on trial. wo girl bears–two lesbian girls–Ginko and Lily, standing before three male judges deciding whether or not they should have the right to exist. In order to have their love approved, they declare: they will eat humans. They transform, taking on human form as they don hypersexualized bear girl outfits, and they enter the world of the school.

Yurikuma Arashi places this strange set-piece towards the middle of its first three episodes. It exemplifies the show’s style, told as it is in enigmatic parables. Ostensibly, Yurikuma is about a human girl named Kureha seeking answers about the deaths of her mother and girlfriend while getting into a love triangle involving the two bears who have infiltrated her school disguised as humans.

However, everything in Yurikuma Arashi is more symbol than literal representation, and I have often mulled over its meaning as I’ve navigated entering the teaching profession as a nonbinary Chinese person. Like the bears, I’ve often asked myself: what do I sacrifice to be allowed to exist within the school?

Read it at Anime Feminist!

[moddieeee]

Magical Girls green 'n' yellow

[ushiromiya]

♡ See you next bear! ♡

[keterok]

Merry Christmas, Grr-grr~

[manekinekocake]

[utopianparadoxist]

Yuri Kuma was so ahead of the game in 2015 making the human girls cops and fascists and straightforwardly declaring it is actually not bad but based and divine of bears to kill them in the name of resistance and survival, only for half the people who watch it to stop on the braindead "the bears are out lesbians" trope take and get mad about Ginko's "wrongs" being "justified by the narrative"

I'm sorry ginko you truly are the lone wolfsbane. You're my perfect narrative princess who did no wrong and deserve your promise kiss that you earned with discourse and drama, just like Canonical Hero of Homestuck Dirk Strider