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 […]
Yuri Manga: Yuri Kuma Arashi, Volume 3 (ユリ熊嵐)
Volume 1 and Volume 2 of the Yuri Kuma Arashi manga tell a slightly different story than the anime. The main premise remains the same – human girl Tsubaki Kureha meets and falls in love with bear girl Yurishiro Ginko, who has some connection to her past and her late mother. In the anime the […]
Yuri Manga: Yuri Kuma Arashi, Volume 1 (ユリ熊嵐)
Today I wanted to talk about something that has been much on my mind… Picasso. You know, Pablo Picasso, painter. Mostly famous for his Cubist paintings, but he was a prolific artist and evolved throughout his life, so while his work is undoubtedly his, it changed as time went on, as he changed, aged, evolved. […]
