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MY GIRLS MY GIIIIRLS

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Merry Christmas, Grr-grr~

[lazycranberrydoodles]

girls in YOUR area want to eat you!!!

[lacevalentines]

♡ See you next bear! ♡

[shining-seal]

🌸🐻 Yuri Kuma Arashi 🐻🌸

[hakonohanayome]

Yurikuma Arashi - Morishima Akiko

[witchofanguish]

Lulu to Ginko in the manga

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goodnight sketches

[bad-kendi]

Psycho Teddy || Yurikuma Arashi thing?

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I ran out of tags before i could list all the rune factory girls im really sorry ill do better next time...

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years ago when I was scoping out Yurikuma before watching it, I came across an article which claimed that the show uses the word "friends" to refer to Lulu/Ginko/Kureha as a way to nod at homophobia. even though the show is so gay, it still implies that the relationships between the girls are platonic. but when I watched it myself, my impression was quite different.

all Ikuhara works are about friendship (well, Penguindrum is slanted towards family, but the same concepts apply). friendship doesn't exclude the possibility of sexual or romantic attraction, of course, but I would argue it is actually the key theme, even more important than sexuality.

to understand this, it's necessary to think of friendship in existential terms. friendship is not a lesser form of romance, not something to be taken for granted. to quote from The Politics of Experience, "Before we can ask such an optimistic question as 'What is a personal relationship?', we have to ask if a personal relationship is possible, or, are persons possible in our present situation?"

if we cannot count on even the existence of individuated human beings, then friendship becomes a momumental thing, as it is predicated not only on the tenuous proposition of selfhood, but also on the even more remote chance that selves can cross the void of being to touch one another.

Ikuhara believes that friendship exists in the world, that it is possible to achieve. he is truly one of those idealists who thinks that life is not worth living without love and connection. but that doesn't mean he thinks it's easy. friendship is only ever won in his stories at the end, and at great cost. it took 39 episodes for Utena and Anthy to meet, and they lost each other soon after. but had they never met, what would their relationship be worth?

I've long thought about how Ikuhara works employ cliche: for instance, lines like "I believe that I'm never alone" or "we'll be together forever." these sentiments become cliche in the first place because they touch a chord with people, echoing their deepest longings. but Ikuhara makes them work by earning them, portraying the process necessary to reach a place where they apply. friendship is so precious because, once achieved, it is immutable: it transforms the self and renders suffering irrelevant.

Ikuhara has said that he created RGU to give hope to kids struggling with the question of suicide. the show never addresses the topic directly, instead couching it in metaphorical terms: the coffin, the chick, the end of the world. RGU, and all Ikuhara works, serve as a concrete demonstration that it is possible to be a human being, and to create a lasting connection with other human beings. if that's not worth living for, then I don't know what is.

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ok, so let's talk about Yuri Kuma Arashi, the manga version, i watched the first ep of the anime years ago, didn't understand a shit and stopped, i read the manga and i have plans to watch the anime itself... so, the manga broke my heart in a way i could not believe it was possible, wtf is this manga?! like, it have some weird things, but the story is fucking perfect (and tragic). This will have spoilers, big spoilers, if you don't like spoilers and enjoy Yuri, go read the manga, is short, can be read in a day and is perfect.

so, our protagonists, the main couple, Kureha and Ginko, they are the cutest couple ever, born to be a couple, their love is so cute and perfect, i want to huge both, specially Ginko, this girl needs therapy, a lot, she is just a baby bear that needs a hug.

like, Ginko have this whole psicological trauma because she killed someone by accident when she was a kid, and it was the mother of the girl she fucking loved, and the great love of her mother's life.

and the whole bear thing at least in the manga, is not real, it is something that exist only in Ginko and Kale (Ginko's mother) minds, it was something that Kale had, because she felt different from anyone else, she believed when she was a child, after she became 17, she would become a bear, never happened of course, so she started to believe that everyone is a bear, including her, but they are pretending to be human, Ginko being raised by someone like that also got it from her mom, so the whole bear thing? only in the mind (sometimes people will use the bear costumes). The only person Ginko see as a human is the girl she loves, Kureha, it was the same thing for kale, the only person she saw as a human was Kureha's mother, Reia

Like, maybe Kale started all this thing with bears because she was a lesbian and felt different from everyone, or not, it was my theory (that kinda falls apart, but it is something) and after she met Reia, things changed to her, it was the only person Kale acknowledges as a human, it was the love of her fucking life, she wanted to marry with Reia, she would do everything for her... and Reia married a guy that she liked, she didn't love the guy, she met him, had a summer love with him and decided to marry the guy just because. She acknowledge that it was a mistake after the marriage, because she noticed that she was in fact, in love with Kale (it was kinda too late, that single act destroyed Kale's life).

She kinda thought that the girl was straight, but ignored the possibility that Reia could be Bi and did something stupid, because Reia would had accepted the proposal. How Reia died was an accident, kinda. When Ginko and Kureha was children, Kureha got lost in the forest that had a lot of bears, Ginko decided to go help the girl, stole Reia's gun and went to find Kureha, when Reia find boths she makes so much noise that Ginko without knowing shoots and kills Reia, causing a giant trauma on Kureha, on herself, on Kale and on her aunt that was also in love with Reia, so... yeah, this manga talks a lot about trauma, like a lot. (Kale actually started to say that she killed Reia and devoured her like a bear).

This manga talks a lot about grief, the whole Kale's arc is about that, Lulu's arc too (her past made me want to die of sadness, like, wtf?!!), Yurika's arc too, she loved Reia, but after she died she started to fuck her brother's wife (Kale), i mean, both already had something before, but their relationship got a lot messier after. And Lulu? one of my favourite characters, she is in love with Ginko since she was a child, but their relationship started because she could not handle the grief and guilty of her little brothers death, it was an accident, but she felt guilty, because she was the responsible for him, so she kinda made Ginko her world after that. (she misses him so much that she have a teddy bear named after him and she takes care of it like it was him)

Lulu is so precious that i want to protect her from everything. Sumika is another favorite of mine, she does a lot, but as someone that helps Kureha to save Ginko, she helps everyone, all because she loves Kureha, she say to kureha that she loves her, but want to be a friend and... ouch, like, ouch. Just Imagine, you love this person, you love them so much that you would do everything for them to be happy... but this happyness will not be with you, and you know that since the beggining, that's Sumika in the manga, she helps Kureha a lot, part of the motive everything went well was because of her, and in the end she wanted to really have magic powers like people was saying about her, because that way she could make Kureha love her, it was really sad.

And the protagonist, Kureha, did everything she could to not only discover how her mother died, but did everything she could to save the girl she loved (Ginko was so depressed that i started to fear for her life), Kureha is an amazing character too, like, i probably love all the characters from this manga.

well, that's it, talked about everything i wanted about this manga, i reccomend, cannot say the same about the anime, not because the anime is bad, it is because it's 2 different stories, with 2 different objectives, i will watch the anime, maybe tomorrow.

[hakonohanayome]

Yurikuma Arashi - Morishima Akiko

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