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April 02, 2015

Ducks In Anime: ....Aaaaaand We're Back.

-Yuri Kuma Arashi, Ep02

Awful, awful, so awful. Visually great, a very unique art style, but the show itself can't decide if it wants to pander or be highbrow artsy-fartsy. Or both. I was actually shocked when I discovered that it wasn't a Noitamina show... it's got the same feel as a lot of those.

Please note that I do not consider this a good thing. There have been 50 Noitamina series, and of those, I've only finished two: Library Wars and Ano Hana.

So anyway, yeah, give Lesbian Bear Storm a miss. Nice duck, though.

Posted by: Wonderduck at 12:03 AM | Comments (6) | Add Comment
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1 I looked at the caption and was like, "Why do I remember that name? I never watched it..."

And then I read the last sentence of your post. "OH, THAT." *shudder*

Posted by: GreyDuck at April 02, 2015 08:36 AM (3m7pZ)

2 My record is a bit better: H&C, H&C II, original Nodame, Silver Spoon, Silver Spoon 2, Katanagatari. Of these, Nodame and Katanagatari were masterpieces. I dropped Moyashimon, Princess Jellyfish, Fractale, Shigatsu Uso. Overall it does not seem like a worse result than picking series at random.

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at April 02, 2015 11:12 AM (RqRa5)

3 I dropped Katanagatari after four or five episodes. Again, unique look, but it didn't mesh with me. Nodame didn't click, for reasons that are still undefined. I sprained my eyeball muscles from rolling them so much at Fractale. I never understood the fuss about Moyashimon. *shrug*

Take that for what it's worth.

Posted by: Wonderduck at April 02, 2015 12:18 PM (jGQR+)

4 Yurikuma has a completely different DNA than the Noitamina block - it's Ikuhara being Ikuhara for an audience consisting, these days, almost wholly of Ikuhara. So think Utena and then Penguindrum, but without the usual mask of reality that later fractures.

Honestly, it's just bad. Okay, some stories you need to break the world in interesting ways without describing to the viewers what's going on - but you've still got an obligation to entertain in the meantime, and this show just -doesn't-.

Posted by: Avatar at April 02, 2015 02:08 PM (zJsIy)

5 I'm generally on board for BePapas-descended productions - shows written or created or showrun by people like Enokido and Ikuhara and so forth. But there has to be some sort of emotional reality underlying all the surreal styling, or else it's just masturbation. And I lost patience with Yurikuma Arashi. There isn't any foundation to it, far as I can tell.
It's all paint, no world.

Posted by: Mitch H. at April 03, 2015 07:35 AM (jwKxK)

6 The first 3 episodes of Yuri Kuma have a LOT of repetition, so I think it's better to watch them one episode a week rather than consecutively. I do wonder why Ikuhara didn't condense them and shorten the series by an episode or so, it would have made it more accessible for people... unless he deliberately did it after hearing about the 3 episode rule.

Posted by: Riktol at April 03, 2015 11:41 AM (MQZN9)

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