Yuri Bear Storm

Have you ever watched an Ikuahra original? Because as a general rule, they only get weirder and heavier on the symbolism the further you get in.

There were bears. There was yuri. There were lesbian bears. Lesbian bears that eat people and apparently caused the apocalypse. So the title seems to be accurate at least. Didn't actually understand anything, but I can probably enjoy the sheer insanity if nothing else.

Nope. So it should interesting I guess.

I admit, I was expecting yuri and bears but not actual yuri bears .

Yuri! Bears! Yuri Bears!

Why do bears need a penal system?

So SHAFTy. Reminds me of another Silver Link anime adaptation.^note Cube x Cursed x Curious

First time seeing something by Ikuhara. So I'll just take what you're all saying and embrace the zaniness.

*crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch*

edited 6th Jan '15 12:17:29 AM by Diamite

We'll be getting more context, at least

Excuse me, I've just watched the first episode and I need to get this off my chest.

<Shakes fist at the heavens and takes a deep breath>

IKUHARAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

That being done, did anyone else who's seen Utena sudddenly get "Absolute Destiny Apocalypse" playing in their heads during the shots on the staircase.

Also, I'm a little scared. That hit the densely symbolic, mind-screwy part fast, even by Ikuhara's standards. Is this only one cour? That's the most likely explanation I can think of.

12 episodes

Only 12 episodes ? Damn.

At least, the pilote has Ikuhara's touch.

But seriously, I haven't really tought He'll really use Yuri-bear. This man is a genius.

Yeah, but it's all yuri symbolism and yuri not-symbolism so it's not hard to understand. "Oh, so they're lesbians." Not very deep. Yet.

@the other knight: I found Utena and Penguindrum easier to understand, but that is probably because I marathon those series. Hence "it will be easier to understand with more episodes". Hopefully.

So any guesses on what happens to Sumika, because she's only briefly in the OP and not in the ED, but Kureha is in an OT3 with the bears so I'm assuming they didn't murder her(?), but she just fades out of importance after all that lovey-dovey talk?

I don't trust that opening one bit. Not yet.

I hope Sumika ends up having a lot more importance than it looks like. Maybe she manages to come back and save Kureha from seduction by bear? This early on its hard to guess much of anything.

Sumika is the one with the glasses, right ? Am I the only one who think she look terrible ?

But I also think we'll see her again, her disappearance is one of the thing that started the story.

Was that not her being eaten at the end?

It's hard to tell. Oh well, I'm sure it's not that important.

KUMA SHOCK!

Damn, I really can't turn my brain off from nagging and bothering in many series but with this, like Penguindrum, I am able to make exception.

The ridiculous, the over the top, the fabulous, let it all wash over me in a storm of color.

Then again, even as you keep your brain from complaining, with Ikuhara you need to keep it awake to try and get what the hell is going on and what it represents.

Not first you have to figure out if it actually represents something and isn't just one of Ikuhara's red herrings thrown in to mess with you. Or if it's supposed to be dismissed as a random, red herring moment but in fact is deeply symbolic and important.

I still haven't forgiven him for that double bluff about Yuri in Penguindrum.

re Sumika: I'm pretty sure she's the one that got eaten in the end, as that's the place she promised to wait for Kureha at, right?

I am an Ikuhara virgin so the only thing I can say about this is WTF. Is it safe to expect more WT Fs from this?

I am enjoying the yuri though

So "I throw a bunch of symbolism together and then hope the inkblot effect makes people think it's deep" is an actual Japanese directing school isn't it?

If you want WTF you're watching the right anime.

That said, the first episode was actually rather straightforward! Until the Judgemens popped up to judge the bears. Oh, those bears. The bears were downright adorable.

X3 My general experience with Ikuhara is a period of reasonably sane stuff with moments of wtf to set a "normal". And then it all goes to shit and there's confusion, understanding, and tears. This show's so short it went straight to "what the hell was that?!" without setting a normal, so it's probably going to be all WTF from here. Then understanding. Then tears.

edited 7th Jan '15 7:06:44 AM by Bur

@Kiuk: Actual Japanese directing school? Forget that, you just described surrealism. It says a lot that the advice in my English Literature textbook boiled down to 'don't look for any central theme or message in this, because there isn't one'.

x4

Funny you should mention Anno. Apparently he and Ikuhara are friends (according to Ikuhara he served as partial inspiration for Kaoru). But Ikuhara does seem to be more of "throw a heap of random crap on top of the actual symbolism for the hell of it" school.

Though it's odd because from what I understand Utena didn't start that way. A lot of it started as cost cutting measures and Ikuhara just expanded on the ideas to a)extend the budget and b)get more narrative bang for his buck. It's his later work such as the Utena move and Penguindrum where he started doing deliberately.

x5 From someone who's seen Utena and Penguindrum, ... the WT Fs have only just begun!.

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edited 7th Jan '15 3:18:27 PM by KnightofLsama