Underplayed Gems

Yurikuma Arashi (2015)

Yurikuma Arashi poster
Original title
ユリ熊嵐
Genre
LGBT-related television series, fantasy anime and manga, Drama, Fantasy, Mahou Shoujo, Psychological
Country
Japan
Length
1 season, 12 episodes
Rated
NR
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 25 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A group of bears can transform into human girls and attend a school with humans. The story follows a human girl and a bear girl as they navigate prejudice and violence while an inquisition hunts bears and a mysterious court judges their love.

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What happens

Yurikuma Arashi (Japanese: ユリ熊嵐; lit. "Lesbian Bear Storm") is a Japanese yuri anime television series produced by Silver Link and directed by Kunihiko Ikuhara. The series was first announced via a website in August 2012, where it was referred to as the "Kunihiko Ikuhara/Penguinbear Project." The series first aired in Japan between January 5, 2015, and March 30, 2015, and is licensed in North America by Funimation. A manga adaptation illustrated by Akiko Morishima was serialized in Gentosha's Comic Birz magazine between February 2014 and April 2016 and has been licensed in English by Tokyopop under the title Yuri Bear Storm. The name appears to be a reference to Akira Yoshimura's novelization of the Sankebetsu brown bear incident, The Bear Storm (羆嵐, Kuma Arashi), though any more concrete link besides the presence of human-attacking bears is only speculated. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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