It’s my first post & I’m already over a week behind with these season previews. Certainly bodes well for the future of this site. Anyway, brief impressions on the first batch of shows airing [...]
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Categories: Anime, Yuri Kuma ArashiTags: IKUHARAAAAAAAAAAAA, Kunihiko Ikuhara, Yuri, Yuri Kuma ArashiSoon…the Invisible Storm will come. But fresh interpretations and critiques always taste the best! [...]
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I ship it.Anyone who knows my anime and manga tastes well knows that I adore Utena and Morishima Akiko, so no surprise that I've been extremely excited about a show with Morishima and Utena's creator [...]
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Yuri Kuma Arashi, as otaku have come to discover, contains a high quantity of pinkish and greenish complementary contrasting triangular shaped design elements - an extra layer of Silver Link [...]
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Gif taken from this tumblr Ikuhara Kunihiko does not direct anime often, but when he does they almost inevitably end up being very abstract, theatrical, and full of hidden and disguised themes. Best [...]
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Caught in an invisible storm. – Apparently, Sumika is now dead. But is she dead dead or anime dead? – Buncha birds all over the place. The birds are coming from the flowers. I’m thinking doves since [...]
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Did you know that “yuri” means lily? Did you also know that “yuri” is used on Japan to denote a girls-love story? You did? Good. Shall we continue? The first episode of Yuri Kuma Arashi introduced us [...]
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This anime is DEEP guys. SYMBOLISM. I’m going to share some of my thoughts on the symbolism. We’re only in episode two so this is all just preliminary guesses, obviously. The Invisible and Those Who [...]
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Lesbearian Storm continues its march towards pure crazy with two giggle inducing bear-reveals, another I-can’t-even-describe-it court session, and a double homicide for its second outing. It’s packed [...]
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「このみが尽きても許さない」 (Kono Mi ga Tsukitemo Yurusanai) "I Will Never Forgive You" This was like watching the first episode all over again, except much less shocking this time around. The post [...]
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So last week’s episode was a gloriously weird start to my AOTS (for now). How much weirder could it get this week? Yeah I don’t think anyone believes Sumika’s been mauled and if she were it is [...]
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Oh damn, I got the hour wrong. I thought this was going to be airing in 45 minutes, rather than 75 minutes ago. Well, time to get started. Last episode was very Ikuhara. I think the main theme, and [...]
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Hey guys. I don’t know if I’ll be keeping this up, but I really can’t resist doing a writeup or two for a new Ikuhara show. Almost nothing else in anime lends itself to close reading as consistently [...]
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Ikuhara Kunihiko’s new show Yuri Kuma Arashi premiered this week, confounding viewers with its strangeness. Ikuhara is well known for layering in hidden meanings into his work using confusing [...]
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Something suspicious has been discovered in the first episode of girly fanfare anime, Yuri Kuma Arashi - during one scene where a girl is on a bed, there's a real photo on the wall of a giant dead [...]
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  Time for a new anime season and the first series […]
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Hey guys! So, this isn’t exactly a classic time stamp writeup, but I took a whole damn lot of pictures during the first episode of Bear Storm, and plenty of notes besides, and so I figured I might as [...]
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After taking a break during last season, it’s time to resume the weekly overview. I usually post these on Wednesdays. Sadly for this season, very few shows have had their premiers in the “anime week” [...]
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  If you have seen any of Kunihiko Ikuhara’s past works, especially Mawaru Penguindrum and liked it, then Yuri Kuma Arashi will be right up your alley (unless you steer clear of yuri/girl love). I [...]
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The idea of “control” is a funny thing – we strive for it, we arrange our lives to own it, but when we feel we have it, that’s often when it falls out of our grasp.  In episode one of Yuri Kuma [...]
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