While watching Disk 1 of Yurikuma Arashi, the collaborative effort between Ikuhara Kunihiko and Morishima Akiko, I spent most of the time searching for meaning. While watching Disk 2, I gave up on that and just let the story play out while I stared at it. For once, the confusion wasn’t a surfeit of plot, […]
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Yuri Anime: Yurikuma Arashi The Complete Series, Disk 1 (English)
In early 2015. Yuri fans were treated to a dream collaboration – Morishima Akiko and Kunihiko Ikuhara were working on a blatantly Yuri anime and manga series, Yuri Kuma Arashi. I reviewed the anime in Spring 2015, and the manga (Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3) between 2015-17. As we were watching the anime […]
Yuri Anime: Yurikuma Arashi (English)
The Yurikuma Arashi anime from Funimation is, like so many of Ikuhara Kunihiko’s works, a fairy tale. Like so many of his previous works, in this fairy tale the fairy ex machina is the tale itself. Tsubaki Kureha has met – and forgotten – a childhood friend who is a bear. Ginko has never forgotten her childhood friend […]
Anime Boston 2022 Report
Well…wow. Anime Boston 2022, was my first return to being a Featured Panelist at a convention since 2019 and it was a fantastic experience. First of all, my very sincere thanks to the entire staff of Anime Boston, who really went out of their way to make the event a true “Welcome Home” experience for […]
Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – April 25, 2020
There’s a lot of Yuri news this week, which is good – and amazing, given our present circumstances. Japan is suspending shipping by air to the USA, among other countries, as flights have been stopped. Shipping by sea is still happening, and Amazon JP appears to be, for the moment, still shipping…presumably because they have […]
