#yuri kuma arashi

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Yurikuma Arashi (2015)

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ikuhara references in g-witch's second ending

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

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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!

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Merry Christmas, Grr-grr~

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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

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♡ See you next bear! ♡

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Been a hot minute since I posted a sketchbook spread.

The Wanderer sketch in particular is actually based on this sketch, because it goes so fucking hard I wanted to draw it.

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Nozoeli x Yurikuma

Just thought, what if Lovelive mix with Yurikuma Arashi (*^o^*)

Nozomi will definitely be a Yurikuma, right? Cause in surface meaning Yurikuma represent Lesbian. No one objected Nozomi not in to girl's I think. Plus Yurikuma are cute, with Nozomi as Yurikuma more cute, gao gao(≧∇≦)

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Suspiria (1977)

Adolescence of Utena (1999)

Yuri Kuma Arashi (2015)

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２０１５年４月７日

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Anime lesbians that not enough people are talking about

Suruga Kanbaru (Monogatari Series)

The entire Monogatari series is quite problematic and very hard to get into, which is why not enough people talk about Kanbaru. But to my experience, at least, she's one of the more accurately written lesbian characters I've seen. She's someone who's felt isolation because of her sexuality, and who's felt that heartbreak of falling in love with a close friend. She has a discomfort with her sexuality (which I found more clear in the novels), but once she opens up to someone about it, she really talks about it. Her sexuality also isn't rigid, and she explores new avenues of it. To me, she just felt like a very real older teen girl trying to figure out herself.

Momoko Sudo (O Maidens in your Savage Season)

I feel as O Maidens as a whole isn't talked about as much as it should be, and Momoko is talked about even less. Momoko's character really captures the experience of having these feelings that don't match what you're being told is normal or what you see around you. And because of this, she can't put words to it. She's part of a literature club and reads a lot of romance, but she's never represented in any of it. I love Momoko because she feels like a real young teen girl trying to put words to all of these feelings she's having.

Kureha Tsubaki (Yurikuma Arashi)

Yurikuma Arashi is often overlooked due to its presentation (which actually ties into the commentary it's giving), and is the least appreciated of Ikuhara's works. But despite the show being quite messy, I can't help but love Kureha. The show as a whole represents how lesbian women are viewed and portrayed in Japanese society and media, and Kureha's character represents internalized homophobia, and the fear of being "openly gay". The whole series is fantastical in nature, but Kureha's feelings and story remain very true to many people's experiences, including my own.

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I just wanted to share a few characters I connected with and I don't see being talked about enough. I wholeheartedly recommend checking out Yurikuma Arashi and O Maidens in your Savage Season, as they're excellent shows. As for Monogatari... I'd tread lightly and look at the content warnings! But it's still a great series.

General note: Yes, Monogatari is a horribly problematic series. It has a lot that I seriously do not like, but if you're able to get through the bad there's a whole lot of good, such as Kanbaru. So warning!

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🌸🐻 Yuri Kuma Arashi 🐻🌸