#yurikuma

[meltylcnd-nightmare]

Kit is very fun to play dress-up with lol 😔

[zefirkayoshi]

Yurikuma things

[puddicure]

every time people get into a conversation online about “okay but does this count as REAL yuri” i once again have to hand it to Ikuhara and the Yurikuma Arashi team for part of the show Literally Being About Anime Girls Being Told to “Prove” How Gay They Are

[yuribuny]

finally got around to finishing yurikuma

[cihuiwugao]

[lacevalentines]

♡ See you next bear! ♡

[mmmmalo]

Alternia has its thing where it's extremely gay but has dissonant homophobic and transphobic flavoring by dint of being rhetorically situated in a socially conservative vision of apocalypse. I think this sort of ironic appropriation of reactionary thought is also one of the forces behind Ikuhara's Lesbian Bear Storm, where yuri is simultaneously universal and forbidden -- at least along the axis of acting upon those feelings, as symbolized by bear attacks. Both stories ultimately trend towards gestures of understanding (and even identification) with the seemingly hostile Other... so I guess I'm a little curious about Ikuhara's rhetorical context. Are there Japan-specific lesbophobic narratives I should be aware of...? The only one I know is the infantilization of lesbian relationships, the trope of gay love being a sort of glitch of adolescence, something girls always grow out of. I suppose I can see traces of that attitude in the characterization of the bears as despoilers of innocence... and the bear thing in general translates well into the English term of Predatory Lesbian, which you can see floating in the culture through stuff like Bleach's Chizuru or Komi-San's Ren Yamai... anyway, something to look into

[squipedmew]

through all my years of absolutely adoring Yuri Kuma Arashi, I have never drawn fanart of it, which is just baffling to me. YKA was such a formative piece of media for me in middle school, and has shaped my aesthetic sensibilities as an artist, and as I’ve been rewatching it recently, I decided now would probably be a good time to try and do the show justice with my art. Go watch Yuri Kuma Arashi guys, it’s awesome.