After fanatically playing the VRMMO World Fantasy Online for almost a year, the shut-in yet relatively affluent 15-year-old Yuna receives a bear costume from the game's administrators. The outfit, while somewhat embarrassing to wear, turns out to have overpowered stats and effects that make her character significantly more powerful. After accepting the bear equipment, she finds herself transported to another in-game world that prevents her from returning to reality.
Confused and unable to log out, Yuna sets out to explore this new environment. She rescues a girl named Fina from wild wolves, who then guides her to the city of Crimonia. With her eccentric bear attire, however, Yuna stands out wherever she goes, and alongside her boosted fighting prowess, her reputation quickly rises—to the point that people give her the nickname "Bloody Bear."
Undeterred by this change in her life, Yuna decides to take on the role of an adventurer and fully enjoy herself in her new world.
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Stark700
With the global pandemic going on around the world right now, there’s one form of entertainment that is satisfying for millions and millions of people around the world: video games. Specifically, RPG of the MMORPG genre are real time sinks. We find out the easy way once 15-year old Yuna is introduced to the show. As an adventurer in the online game, World Fantasy Online, she is best described as the typical nerd at home. Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear is exactly what it sounds like. What it advertises is what you get and that is our main character dressed up in a bear outfit. It mayseem like a peculiar trend but with the countless amount of fantasy shows in recent years, nothing surprises me anymore. Coming into this anime gave me the impression of playing a video game as we follow Yuna on her fantasy adventure. And here’s the catcher: Yuna enjoys her life in this new world more so than the real world.
World Fantasy Online is perhaps the most generic sounding game I’ve ever heard of. It’s taking the three most oversaturated words of the isekai genre and put them all in one basket. And as expected, the game itself has a colorful world setting of creatures, NPCs, characters, and of course, Yuma in a bear outfit. Despite the anime seemingly throwing everything to you at once, it’s actually pretty easy to figure out where Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear is headed. The premise follows the plot and doesn’t take deep understanding to figure out the show altogether.
First off, there’s Yuna, the 15-year old poster girl who is carrying this show in her bear outfit. Like most teenagers, gaming is part of her hobby but she takes it to an obsessive level. There’s charm about her character despite this unhealthy hobby because let’s face it, she’s nerdy on the outside but adorably cute on the inside. Watching Yuna solving problems such as dealing with roaming monsters in the wild, discovering treasures, or collecting certain objects reminds me of modern JRPGs. Only here, Yuna doesn’t have a main questline to get through to beat the game. At least from this anime’s plot, she’s free and builds her own life in this virtual world. And because she is so free, Yuna has come to love World Fantasy Online and the gaming culture.
Make no mistake. Yuna’s no pushover when getting work done especially when judging on her combat skills. It’s actually amusing once you witness her feats in the show. Fighting monsters seems more like an annoying chore for her than an actual challenge. The anime built her character to be powerful, and by powerful, she is pretty much unrivaled throughout all her fights. I could go on to list her achievements but you’ll have to see to believe it. The bottom line is, Yuna is more than just unbearably cute. She’s a selfless girl that has the personality of a teen but also with heart of gold. She even forms some important relationships with others such as Fina and Noire. While on her adventure, you can see more of Yuna’s real personality when she interacts with these characters.
With the show’s cour length being just 12 episodes, there’s concern about how the studio would handle the adaptation. Honestly, stuffing over 15+ volumes into a single cour is never a favorable impression when you know the juicy part of the franchise lies in the light novels. That being said, Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear does have a smooth pacing and flows on its own as a story. With every episode, we discover that World Fantasy Online can be a dangerous place to other adventurers. There’s monsters, bandits, and other creatures roaming around that can kill, rob, eat, and commit all sorts of sins you can imagine. Remember, it’s a fantasy story and common logic is often thrown out the window. Yuna herself represents a defiance of common sense. I mean, just asking yourself this question: how can a little girl of her size in a beat outfit be so damn overpowered?
Limiting the anime to 12-episodes did set off red flags but thankfully is tolerable as you can enjoy the show for more than its length. Comedy wise, this show loves its recurring gags specifically with other characters making fun of Yuna’s bear outfit. She herself even realizes how ridiculous it looks despite the overwhelming stat advantages. Studio EMT Squared and the director designed her in such a way to sell the show’s appeal. It creates many moments of charming chemistry between the cast. The world setting itself is designed to reflect fantasy elements with the castles, dangerous creatures, and oversized bears. Even if you’re not a bear fanatic, there’s no doubt the show wanted you to experience its world.
I’m sure everyone can agree that we have way too many fantasy anime every season. Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear may seem like a clone with some added twist but deep down, this is still a charming anime. Without a complex story or characterization, we are presented with a show about a girl in a bear outfit enjoying her fantasy life. Life isn’t easy in the real world but Yuna makes it look like a piece of cake in her own world.
dlxuniuniu
Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear - Bears are cute. What would you do with your life after earning billions of yen in stocks? Our 15 years old girl Yuna confines herself to her house playing the world's first VRMMO. One day, after taking a survey in the game, she receives a bear costume without any clues where, why, what to do as a bear. But she quickly recognizes the power of bears and uses it to help people in need. And so, the story of our heroic kuma begins. Real life sucks. Well…this is a point that we often cannot deny. Our main character Yuna also hasthe same view and thus her journey in the fantasy world begins. She meets friends there that she really likes. Every day she experiences new adventures with them together. The poor in need are helped by her power and the limit of the evil dukes are finally shown.
How does she make all of this possible? The answer is the bear costume. This present item has definitely cheat powers and can literally beat anything and anyone. Shortly after arriving the fantasy world, she saves a young cute girl named Fina from a pack of monsters. You can feel the harmony between the two girls and see that they get along perfectly. Fina guides her through the small down and after discovering the Adventures Guild, Yuna has found her destiny. She will become an adventure and fight against the evil! From an adventure without rank, she climbs them faster than lightning.
Yuna is initially presented as a lazy, carefree and lonely NEET. Real life simply sucks in her opinion. She also doesn't care about the opinions from other people, she is doing the things she loves. Despite her somewhat anti-social demeanour, Yuna is exceptionally kind and has a certain sense of justice. She also shows a soft side towards the people she loves like Fina or Fina's imouto Shuri.
Fina is the person saved by Yuna, not from the monsters only but everything. Meeting Yuna was the best thing could happen to her. With her help, Fina's mother recovered from her illness as well. Despite her young age (10), she already knows how to take care of her family. But not only Fina's world changed because of Yuna, instead also Yuna's view about the people who she really cares got in a positive way.
If you are a fan of the CGDCT genre in general, you will like the style here for sure. All the girls are shown very cute. Yuna's life becomes more colorful through this world, which is also well represented. It is colorful and you can feel her happiness through the bright and beautiful colors. The scenes are also well animated, even those where a little fight takes place.
The OP song “Itsuka no Kioku” is performed by our cute Fina aka Azumi Waki. She is also known as part of the legendary Blend S OP "Bon Appétit ♡ S" where she voices Maika. You can feel how happy Fina is meeting Yuna-oneechan from the music and the lyrics. She is the one who saved not only her but also her whole family and brought them the joy they deserve.
But what really stays in your head is the ED song "Ano ne" sung by Yuna (Maki Kawase). Maybe one or the other will still remember the "anone anone" from the Platelets (Hataraku Saibou – Cells at Work!), which is also just too cute. We saw your stories with happiness, Yuna. With this song she shows that she would do everything to protect this world and her friends. It is a place where she is accepted and feels home.
Although I am a huge CGDCT fan, I was a bit skeptical after the first few episodes. I have to admit that I found the bear costume a bit strange at the beginning. I would love to see Yuna more without it to be honest. I like her casual outfit much more. But gradually I got used to it and it didn’t bother me anymore. What really fascinates me is Yuna's attitude how much she is willing to help the poor and vulnerable people without expecting anything in return. I hope especially for Fina, Schuri and their family they can have a great time now, those two young ladies deserved it.
Relax a little, just lean back and enjoy the adventures with our bears! See how a 15-year-old girl save the world and put smiles on people's faces again.
I hope we will see more adventures with our kuma in the future as well!
jaisan
This show is basically 3 different shows combined into one. not in a good way. It starts off as you expect. video gamer gets isekai'd to fantasy world with OP videogame powers. typical premise. the first few episodes are about her learning the world and her abilities. saving people by beating up monsters for the adventurer's guild. again, expected. The main problem in this part is that Yuna does it all with the soulessness of a puppet. Zero personality. Perhaps she's an autist. After 4 episodes of that it devolves into a 'food tastes good' anime. I don't know how many times people need to be remindedthat food tastes good, but this anime is here for all of it. Look, I get that Japenese people live lives intentionally devoid of most luxury and taste is one of the only things they allow themselves to become indulgent in, but jesus can we stop this trope already? almost the entire rest of the anime is her cooking food and everyone remarking how good it is. maybe they switch it up AND SOMEBODY ELSE COOKS and then everyone remarks how good it is. Occasionally you will get a "You mean if I go beat monster X, I can eat food X!?!?" type of scenario and it still sucks. the fights are completely lame considering she's so OP. literally never faces any real danger herself the entire time. She's also kind of a nitwit and not very efficient with using her powers. The only rule to them is she has to be thinking about bears and she doesn't even remember to do that most of the time.
But here is the kicker, at THE LAST HALF OF THE LAST EPISODE(!) it again devolves into a pure yuri anime out of nowhere. It doesn't make any sense. The show itself ends on a confession that really doesn't get resolved. Is the bear girl a lesbian with the other little girl now? I don't know. I don't care. I was honestly wishing they would just go eat some food and talk about how good it tastes again.
I find it rather confounding this thing isn't scoring in the 5 range. It's awful. Are people giving it 10s out of irony? has to be
KANLen09
We had SAO. Then we had Spring 2020's Bofuri, which takes the former's inspiration and gives it a light-hearted, cutesy "moe blob" twist. Now welcome to the next level with the mish-mash of both shows, and you'll get the result (that is) Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear. KUMA??? GAO~~~ The Isekai power-fantasy genre has always been confined in a state of amassed "love-hate" relationships over the years since the introduction of Reki Kawahara's hugely popular LN series (that still to this day gets a bad rap), and many novelists have attempted to compose their own "unique twists" to varying degrees of successes and failures. It's not untilfairly recently that there has been a resurgence with the "moe blob" twist, starting from Bofuri (which has the overly-cliche OP character, but relatable and fun in every way). And you can take everything about that show and apply it here, not forgetting to add the ever-so-popular bear-ish CGDCT genre for an even intriguing adventure of a pure, laid-back relaxation and enjoyment in a traditional VRMMORPG-like environment.
Forget what you remember of the tropes and clichés of similar shows in the past, and come along for this ride that is anything but typical. A stereotypical OP character, stemming from her lazy-bum personality who became a NEET at age 12, and never wanting to go back to the real world? Now that's something you don't hear much, and the atypical 15-year-old Yuna is just that. Being transported into the Isekai world, forced to be clothed in a black-or-white unBEARablely costume suit helming bear-able magic attacks, along with adorable and fluffy summoned beasts (white Kumakyuu and black Kumayuru), this is the adventurous story of Yuna travelling in spades, while giving off entirely different impressions of a "heroic" OP MC character (mostly being embarrassingly noticed because she's a donning a bear onesie), interacting with townspeople and imparting some assets of the real world to surprise them with wonderous mind-boggling awe. Oh, and make the "House of Kuma" and cook up Japanese food, just because she can and has real-world withdrawals of nostalgia to recreate.
The immediate thing about Yuna (as is with Bofuri's Maple) is that more than just being relatable, she's not trying to be over-pretentious about the various situations of encounters in her journey, be it wild monster battles or exacting her sweet, sweet revenge (of Kuma attacks, Jojo style) on greedy and heartless people that take advantage of oppressing common folk in simple one-note circumstances, giving a mix of both light and dark undertones for a competent and balanced story plot structure (unlike Slime Otoko's). That's not to say that she goes through this journey alone, as the growing and budding relationships with other characters (well, mostly "moe blob" lolis) makes for a somewhat conventional journey, even much more enjoyable.
Take for example, Yuna's first friend: 10-year-old loli, Fina. Living together with her younger sister Shuri and their single mother Tiermina, she is the sole breadwinner of the poverty-strickened family, and forced to take care of the family's circumstances, molding her character development of both responsibility and maturity at a young age (which accounts for her abnormal mentality of such a young child). It's not until another the Adventure Guild staff member (Uncle) Gentz does the family's happiness really takes off, and having a stepfather helps in the family's growth as well. Nice one.
Along with the other characters that come in toll as the series progresses (from a single-family and an orphanage to royalty), more than just the "coincidental" blessings in disguise, Yuna learns a lot about the meaning of life, being true-to-honest about her own reflections of her past in the real world and living the best out of the current times. I love stuff like these that just speaks to my heart-strings, and gives me the inspiration and perseverance to keep on living (and so should yours too).
Director Yuu Nobuta helms this anime project over at low-budget studio EMT Squared, and rightaway source readers see this as a "disappointing adaptation", due to the fact that Episode 1 was pre-screened early (started by yours truly), garnering mixed feelings from both source readers and anime-onlys due to the weird choice of pacing and the sub-par animation quality (that spawned spoilers for irrefutable reasons, that you can blame series composer Takashi Aoshima). Despite all the hoopla for a shaky start, Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear slowly but eventually found its footing and from thereon, started the progress of a fast-paced recovery that only got consistently better as time passes. Also, no matter how simplistic the visuals feel with the tag-along low-quality animation that the studio is known for, it never once feels drab and out of place, but instead creates a colourful, vibrant world that matches an imperfect-but-wonderful background setting.
The OST is about as lively as you'd expect of the familiar nature of CGDCT shows, and is more of the same in that regard. Both Azumi Waki's OP and Yuna's VA Maki Kawase's ED may sound quite shallow, but they sound really nice and energetic, which also gives Kuma Bear the sizable competency of a good OP/ED pairing in a season of high-quality ones.
If you've been looking for the seasonal "LN Isekai power fantasy adaptation" cliche that IS worth watching, this is for you. This anime is by no means a masterpiece (nor even a mediocre) work, but getting a mid-range sized character cast with the lore of just enjoying a likeable OP MC rage her black-and-white fists in a world accepting the ways of "Miss Bear", that's saying a lot for a show that I'd recommend for those of you who can just turn off your brains and let loose the unBEARableness.
Underrated show this is not, but it's at least worth a watch. *Nipah-like* KUMA~~~
Silentfan6
Cuuuuute~ Transported into a game: the genre, has just gone nuclear....nuclear cute!! The premise alone makes it a hilarious take and the first few episodes really bring home the embarrassment and cuteness that comes with overpowered bear suits. The creativity to continue the bear theme is certainly impressive and the good-naturedness of the show is welcomely wholesome. Unfortunately, as the show continues it suffers from the wash, rinse, repeat of it all with little to do with character. The show itself is pretty and chose a unique palette for the art to emphasize the cuteness. It's a fun watch nonetheless. There really isn't much substance, and when compared toother shows within this genre it also doesn't stand up to the mediocre ones as it can easily slip the mind and not be too memorable.
It'll be hard for me to recommend this outside of a "good afternoon to recharge yourself."
Tiffanys
Before we get to the review this is very important in my opinion: Start episode 1 at like 20:42 once she's back in the real world. After you finish episode 3 you can go back and watch it. The truth is it makes zero chronological sense where that part is because her VRMMO avatar didn't look like that, so it takes place after she's isekai'd. Just ignore the other scene from 2:18 to 2:30 in episode 1 that briefly cuts back to the real world. Episode 4 picks up directly after the events of episode 1. Whoever set it up to start like that isreally a dummy. It makes absolutely zero sense. So just do yourself a favor and follow my advice on that one, kay?
That being said it's a really wholesome anime. I can't say there's really all that much story, though things definitely do happen and it's definitely a cohesive story rather than episodic. Though it's not epic or anything by any means. It's very bingeable and super adorable.
The bottom line is that there are better adorable animes and better wholesome animes and better animes in general. But if you're looking for that sorta thing and want something to watch then I don't think this one will really let you down. It won't really blow you away or anything, but it'll be a nice little show to watch.
I'll say that the art isn't all that great, a 5/10 at most. Some just isn't very good. There's even a few scenes where it's just a still image with a bunch of talking in the background for like almost a solid minute before going back to stuff being animated. And some of the backgrounds and such look a little shoddy sometimes. Though it's not really distracting and they didn't use CG models. Though that being said the character design is really adorable.
The characters are generally quite likeable. Though it's definitely a really wholesome kinda world that they're in where most people are surprisingly good people, with some token bad guys here and there.
The MC's pretty much a Mary Sue good at everything with a near god mode cheat set of armor (the bear onesie) that gives her more power than you can shake a stick at. Like literally being able to effortlessly defeat over 10,000 monsters on her own in short order just randomly on a whim on her way somewhere.
Salvatierra21
I had my expectations to the ground because I knew that Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear was aimed at an audience of 4 to 13 and I am not surprised that it has a second season because this type of tea is very popular in the Japanese, we know that there are An adult audience that washes and if you see a year that invites you to see this anime even if it is a girl if you do not like it, leave with any excuse because that person is crazy and is selling you stinky skunk smoke because: the story is mediocre, bore 1000% the protagonist does not have any danger as in the game or in real life, all the characters are not interesting like the world the only thing that could give him a point that pains me a lot is for the animation that is well cared for so much wasted talent and If anyone likes this type of story, what I can recommend is the anime Itai no wa Iya nano by Bougyoryoku and Kyokufuri Shitai to Omoimasu.
Marinate1016
Kuma Kuma bear was one of the wholesome surprises of the year. Cute, cozy and a badass female MC, Kuma Kuma bear provided us with 12 weeks of quality anime. It managed to take a lot of traditional isekai tropes and throw them out the window. If you’ve ever strayed away from isekai because of generic OP MC’s, horrible plot logic or writing, harems, fan-service, etc., you will find something refreshing in Kuma Kuma bear. What I really loved the most about this show is how it focused on the real implications of being transported to another world. Yuna has to provide for herself andends up becoming an entrepreneur of sorts. A lot of isekai tend to skip over these details in favour of showing cool fights or introducing girls into the harem, which I also like, but it’s nice to have a change of pace and focus on things that “matter”.
I think fans of Bofuri will recognise a lot of similarities between the two series, both in terms of the MC being a young cute girl and the worlds, character interactions, comedy, etc. Bofuri ended up becoming a lot more popular, probably due to it being Silver Link, while Kuma Kuma ended up under the radar. If you liked Bofuri, you will probably enjoy this too.
Kuma Kuma bear was a sleeper hit of the season and I honestly can’t find anything that I didn’t like or would change about the show, other than it only being 12 episodes. Kuma Kuma bear gets 10 bear suits out of 10.
B-O-D
To me it's your typical slice of life, trying to be an isekai by the writers. I would put it as designed for pre-teen and tween girls and maybe the odd furry. The story is a simple one, the girl does not do much but plays the game, shut in the house, works from home, goes to sleep one night, doesn't wake up, but instead is in the VR world. A consistently overused idea. Aiming it more at girls also cuts its audience for me, i am not saying a boy can't enjoy it, but would be looking for more ISekai generally andless Slice of Life. The simple fact is the girl is transferred all her account money from the real world to her new account, by a user labeled GOD as if she died.
As she goes to the new world she has a personality transplant from being a shut-in, doing what she has to, and then not mixing with anyone. Suddenly, somehow between her overpowered character building up resources and her notoriety growing out of fear and jealousy, she seems to have to fix everything as she goes along. Orphanage broke, have to help, people out of business, have to help, a boy with a village under threat, has to help.
It just feels unnatural that someone would do all this when they have never cared really for people before even family. It's a lovely story, a lovely idea, but it just feels too sickly sweet for me. Is great for those who love the feel-good idea, but for me, between her empire-building business-wise, her op skills, and not using them hunt anything but low-level monsters most of the time as she buts in on higher-level quests to take them, more than appearing at the guilds, as nothing high level in her town.
The thing it did get right is how strained ties become especially when your used to have someone to yourself, and suddenly she has so many eggs in a basket, that is pulled from one end of the region to the other. Is a time filler anime, but if your looking for a real isekai, I feel this is not it, the fightings short, limited and is no real direction where this wants to go, despite her saying she wants to adventure
Anon028
I have never seen a show pull a 180 so fast and so effectively, I've to talk about it. Honestly this show the previous 11 weeks used to be mindless fun, something to relax every wednesday morning, a charming protagonist helping people and learning how to interact with people, that was her only hurdle most of the season because in terms of power she started so strong in the alternate world that she didn't face anything on her level until her very last battle. But that wasn't episode 12, episode 12 was completely different but also used the same elements it established since the first episode todeliver something beautiful.
Let me explain.
Yuna started as a loner that enjoyed being alone since episode 1, that was fine but it never looked like the show was gonna do anything with it, and I was okay with that, a chill show in which you just enjoy the slice of life with the occasional battles that never even have any sakuga because why would they? They aren't the focus, it was a simple show free of any serious issues, everything the protagonist faced wasn't taken seriously.
So I couldn't see what the show was building up since the start.
I noticed in one of the latest episodes our protagonist Yuna realized in a scene how nice it is to get along with people, it didn't last long but I thought that was a nice reminder of how much she has changed from what she used to be. It would end like that and move onto the next arc.
Oh how wrong I was.
Enter Fina, the first meeting she had with Yuna was considerably different to the meetings Yuna has with the rest of girls in the show, a bit hard to notice because Fina was before everyone else but now looking back in retrospective, it was kinda obvious they were setting up something back then.
But that's the thing, in retrospective.
The show did a perfect job to mask what it was setting up for 11 episodes, using adventures and battles and silly slice of life interactions with snarky remarks and good timed comedy. But everything was building up in the background.
Fina's feelings were building up.
Fina got a whole nice segment around the middle of the show about her and Yuna going out together the 2 of them and no one else. When the episode 12 preview showed its title I thought the last episode would be a repeat of that but on a much larger scale because it's the finale.
Oh, how wrong I was.
Turns out everything Yuna did until this point had consequences, namely neglecting Fina because she had to take care of all the people she knew. This wouldn't work if the whole show didn't play out as it did, we see Yuna do the things she usually does every week but this time from Fina's perspective, we see what she feels and what she thinks and at this point she had enough, she decides to distance herself so she can be as worthy of her presence to Yuna as all the other "useful" citizens are to the bear.
But that's not what she wanted, that's not what Yuna wanted either.
Enter Noa, all the previous bonds Yuna made through the show will always be important even if they aren't as important as Fina's, and now that the 2 main girls are distancing themselves those bonds have to help our protagonists. Noa is a delight of a character and she shines the most here, as much as she loves the bear she has to help these 2 useless lovebirds to realize what they are doing wrong.
And help she does.
Yuna doesn't understand it but she knows Fina is the only one that fills the emptiness in her heart, meanwhile Fina always knew but because she lacked courage she couldn't say it. When it finally happens and both let everything out and tell each other how much they want to be together, it's the most cathartic moment ever not only because of how the episode built up to it but also because everything that was presented since the very beginning. This wouldn't work if we hadn't seen a lonely Yuna in the first episode and how their meeting played out in 2, things that were seemingly meaningless had the strongest meanings all along.
And that's beautiful.
10/10, this show should be a guide to everyone about how to write a proper romance.
CoronaBorealis
I found this anime a few months ago while looking at upcoming anime and saw this as a cute isekai that I would probably enjoy and not think too much about, but this was better than that. At first glance, it's your standard fantasy isekai that doesn't stand out much from the others, but if you give this anime a chance, you will find it is really wholesome. Every episode left me with a smile as I watched these characters develop and the main character help more and more people. 10 out of 10 would recommend. I can't wait for season 2, and will probablystart reading the light novel this show was based on until then.
happiestbee
An absolute masterpiece of outstanding animation, sound, and character design. Truly one of the only shows on this platform that deserve a score of "masterpiece". Many people go into this show expecting some sort of deep character development and inner revelation, but that is clearly not what this show is for. If you are looking for some excessive character development, go watch something like re-zero. This show is a wholesome, lovable series about a shy girl in a bear costume that gradually opens up to the people around her. The story is exactly what it needs to be. Nothing more and nothing less. Although manypeople complain about the simplicity of the plot, I believe that the simple plot is what makes this show so amazing. It's less about bracing yourself for unexpected plot twists and feeling your pounding heart as something goes horribly wrong, and instead feels like a peaceful cruise through the happiest place in existence. Watching these characters walk through their simple conflicts and resolutions is a hidden joy that can only be found in a select few anime. This show is undoubtedly the happiest I've ever been watching an isekai anime, and maybe even any anime ever. Many shows that have a complex story tend to leave either leave behind their theme, or tunnel vision onto the theme. Kuma kuma kuma bear's theme is so naturally incorporated into the show that you don't even realize how soothing it is until you really think about it later on.
The opening and ending as well as the soundtrack within also perfectly resonate with the mood and story of this show. Once again, I know I am beginning to sound repetitive, but I cannot stress enough how fantastic of a job the producers did of this show. The soft art style also majorly contributes to this theme that the show does an immaculate job at the building. Animation and art are just so well done in this show that I can't even begin to write down how I feel about them. The style and sound combine together to create the most surreal experience. The experience of watching this show is like a large, fluffy bear giving your heart a hug and just warming you up from the inside. Nothing is better than thoroughly enjoying a show you are watching, and that goes double for this.
After reading the manga, I could hardly contain my excitement when I saw the anime adaptation was already airing. Once the all the episodes were out, I immediately and swiftly binged the entire show in a day, and if you couldn't tell from this review, it did not disappoint. This adaptation is undoubtedly the definitive best I have ever seen, and it goes far beyond the original source. Is this show perfect? Obviously, no. all shows will have their flaws here and there, but this show is about as close to perfect as I will ever be willing to admit. While most shows imperfections tend to stand out and nag at the mind, in kuma kuma kuma bear, the flaws just seem irrelevant and pointless to point out because of how much happiness and just pure awe the show gives me. The few minor things this show does just don't seem to even enter my mind while watching, and are so minuscule that it wouldn't be a stretch to call this show perfect. To sum up this lengthy review: Do I recommend this show? As long as you're not looking for something this show can obviously not provide, a hundred times YES.
sakafana
English: Every season, there are anime with all girls like this anime, but it's all girls and anime reminds me of an anime like this, Bofuri, the anime is almost the same as the fantasy world where there are overpowered girls. This anime is good enough for you to fill in the time and also this anime is also good for family watching or you to watch with small children, because anime is family-friendly and doesn't have much action either, in my opinion, this anime is almost all about food. Visuals and anime graphics are really good, I like the art and I really like the colorfulones, how about it, the sound is normal and for the characters, I think everything is almost the same like they all like bears and I really enjoy anime.
I still hope there will be more action and adventure. I don't know you guys. But I really like the ending with "Will Kuma-san eat me?" and please, isekai lovers, watch this anime.
Indonesia:
Setiap musim pasti ada aja anime yang isinya cewek semua kayak anime ini nih isekai sih tapi isinya cewek semua dan anime ngingetin gua sama anime yang kayak gini yaitu Bofuri, anime nya hampir sama kayak gini dunia fantasi yang ada cewek overpower. Anime ini sih lumayan buat kalian ngisi waktu dan juga anime ini juga bagus buat ditonton keluarga atau kalian nonton ama anak kecil, karena ini anime family friendly dan gak banyak action juga sih malahan menurut gua anime ini tuh hampir isinya tentang makanan.
Visual dan grafis anime bagus banget gua suka sama artnya juga gua suka banget yang gini colorfull gimana gitu, buat soundnya tuh biasa aja dan untuk karakternya menurut gua semuanya hampir sama gitu kayak mereka semua suka beruangnya dan gua sih lumayan nikmatin nih anime sih.
Gua sih berharap yang lebih ada action dan adventure nya gitu. Gua gak tau kalo kalian. Tapi gua suka banget endingnya yang adengan "Apa Kuma-san akan memakanku?" dan silakan para pecinta isekai tonton anime ini.
Peximan
Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear is a weird blend of Isekai and Iyashikei genres. The main protagonist, Yuna, is transported to another game-like world, where she is given an overpowered bear suit, which basically makes her a god of that new world. Due to this overpowerednes, parts that follow the Isekai route are a bit boring, although still quite enjoyable. There is some plot, and world-building but nothing out of the ordinary. Yuna's bear suit and her lovely "pets" are a magnet for little kids who absolutely adore her, and she loves them even more. This part that follows their everyday peaceful life is pure enjoyment. Yuna's interactionswith her army of cute friends are a joy to watch. The kids are all super nice and cute. Watching them having fun and eating many delicious dishes, really does have a healing factor.
Yuna as a character is really relatable. She is not a fan of society and dislikes people in general, one exception being little kids, as they are still pure and uncorrupted. Thanks to her relationship with them, she finds out that fortunately for her, there are some decent grown-ups in the world.
A score of 8 is maybe a bit harsh, as I am sure that I'd enjoy it more if I watched this after it aired and not week by week.
Two similar anime come to mind: Amaama to Inazuma(Sweetness & Lightning), and If It's for My Daughter, I'd Even Defeat a Demon Lord.
Naoe-Riki
It pains me to write a review of Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear amd say it is a 6/10. Let me be clear here, if you are an anime-only viewer, and looking it purely from the anime's perspective, this anime deserves a 7 or 8/10. But this is coming from someone who read the Light Novel and Manga first. I was a fan of Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear, and I was so excited to see an adaption. I didn't shut up about it for weeks when it got announced, and now that I've finished seeing it, I have mixed feelings. Let's go with the good partsfirst.
The animation was good. It had this colourful, candy-like theme. It supports the story's theme of being fluffy and cute, and it made watching the anime very enticing to watch
The sounds were good. The voice actors were top-notch. Yuna's Voice Actor started off okay, and gradually got used to her role, and became even better, as the series progressed. You can clearly see the difference when comparing early episodes to the last 2 episodes
Let me be clear, Kuma kuma kuma Bear isn't simply a generic Isekai with an OP protagonist. It's not supposed to be a Yuri focused story. The anime shifted its tone to this. From the impressions I got from the LN and manga, Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear is supposed to be a fluffy comedy, that focuses on adventure, with some dark undertone, such as past trauma, some drama, and a bit of cold, and merciless statements from Yuna herself. She's supposed to be so much more than what the anime represented her to be. The anime clearly wanted to be more fluffy, and yuri, over the unique balance that the original plot had.
The anime had cut out important details and plotpoints, just to lessen ghe dark undertones, and to add more Yuri, and Shoujo-Ai drama. Not saying the Original Kuma Kuma Kuma bear didnt have these, but the anime took these Yuri footnotes, and turned them into dragged on, episode long plots
Case in point, Episode 7, and the Finale. These episodes had very dragged on drama. I don't remember the manga ever dragging these points out, and the LN didn't make so much special attention to these, that it warranted being a central plotpoint. And this is why, i have to give Kuma kuma kuma bear anime, a 6/10. It's an okay adaption, but for me, it was not a very faithful adaption, with its massive tone shift, and deliberate cutting of important and interesting plotpoints. So much so, some people are now even talking about Kuma kuma Kuma bear as this season's moeblob Yuri anime. Again. This wasn't supposed tol be a Yuri-friendship focus. This was an honest Isekai comedy fluff with dark undertones to balance things out.
Conclusion, as an adaption, Its okay, but it leaves much to be desired. As an anime, it did an okay job. It was fairly entertaining, and I think its something that the manga and LN readers can find as an interesting, new take on story, and anime only viewers can appreciate it more since it is, in the end, still a cute moeblob with a fluffy theme
NFL1945
Anone, anone, chotto kiite~ First, I underestimated this anime, and now I found this anime is enjoyable. From the title there's no gimmick in there, I mean Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear? What kind of weird title it is. But damn, I become attached to it. The reason is.. maybe at some point I can relate to this anime. Like how the MC just want to do whatever she like. Now days our action will be judge like by "everyone" and we try hard to keep up with everyone expectation. But saw Yuna do whatever she want and be happy, damn, maybe that's how you enjoy ur life.She build a place where she can be what she want to be. And at that moment she realised how important that place, and want to protect it. Ed song is just hit that spot, especially the last episode ed!
Now how about the other aspect? Well let's see:
Story: 7/10
The story is not something new and remarkable one I think. It has decent chara development, it has decent setting and many more decent thing. The reason why is good maybe because sometime it add some "moral" story or something like "chicken soup" thing to it. But still.. it not as good comparable to story focusing that aspect.
Art: 9/10
Well.. It's so cuute~ yeah I know that typically not good for review. But it has a cute character design (Kuma!) and fill with cute other characters and with cute design of back ground. So it;s just cute.
Sound: 9/10
I really enjoy how cute the seiyuu is. First I a little bit sceptic about Yuna voice (in my imagination) cuz I dunno the seiyuu at all. But Yuna have a good voice tbh, not being to 'childish' but still hit the spot. And other chara is payed out by famous seiyuu from your typical "kawaii anime character". OP/ED is sung by the caracter it self. And yes I love it.
Character: 8/10
Characters is lovely but some times it lack of development. Some character just past by and some character is.. well unpredictable I guess? Dunno why the character thing/act like that for some reason. A little bit disappointment for slice of life anime. And yes.. it almost all of it is girl. So.. iif u didn't like stuff full of girl, just don't watch it. And MC is girl too so..
Enjoyment: 10/10
As I said before, at some point I REALLY enjoy this anime. Maybe because I didn't expect to high for this anime(?) who knows. But I enjoy so much how MC doing cute stuff around. And yes how I can relate to this anime.
Overall: 9/10
I will recommend this anime to he/she who enjoy watching cute anime style. And maybe someone who love watch slice of life anime. This anime has some moral point some time and good for killing time without so much thinking.
VertSang1
So, first let's talk about the obvious: -it's a show mostly for young girls -it's an isekai without originality -it's only 12 episodes It explain why the first and last episodes are shaped that way. It doesn't explain why the studio managed to make a bad adaptation to something they could not screw up. The first episode will completely confuse you about timelines and if that's an isekai or a story about a game. It's really really not well made at all. The last one is...well, something not in the novel they are adapting from (according to what others told me). Which explain well why it felt badly written andforced.
Anyway, if you manage to get past the first episode, the second one do a good job at starting the story and it's easy to follow after that.
Now, nearly all characters are very bland and the bad guys are comically obvious to guess but there is plenty of fluff for those it interest.
The whole reason i watched until the end is Yuna, our girl protagonist and the only character fleshed out of the whole show.
She is relatable and feel like she really is 15. She is Fun.
Her personality, chara-design and general demeanor are the highlight of the show.
The voice acting is really good too.
If you want a show to relax while you do something else, it's the one.
Hellschwarz
Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear is not a great story. But it doesn't try to be one. It somehow starts to bait you into thinking that it might be a little dark, and maybe the Light Novels are darker - but the anime is not. While it baits you into thinking something sinister might happen multiple times, usually you can spot the evil guys right away. The twist here is: Yuna, the protagonist can't - because she's biased. Yuna lived a very boring life before getting isekaid. She was living alone and somehow earned money so she could send her parents on vacation so they wouldn't bother her. Maybeshe was a child prodigy, whatever - it doesn't really matter: She was a nerd playing Videogames all day long.
And one day she gets isekaid into one of those games. And because it's an isekai she gets an op power, this time in form of a very silly looking Bear-Suit and some over the top bear powers.
While the story stil is about some basic adventuring, the main plot is just her befriending multiple children and making their lives better.
So yeah, if you want slice of life Fantasy isekai, this is a light hearted show for you.
If you expected some action... it's not.
For me it's a 6/10 - a second season is anounced so I guess I'll watch that when it's out.
Tinysrightarm
The story is very much your typical Isekai story: Main character gets transferred to a new world, is given special powers, and live their lives as adventurers. Why I enjoyed it: It's a SoL in an isekai, similar to that of Konosuba with the difference of having an overpowered and emotionally mature protagonist. The premise is refreshing for the Isekai genre, something that is much needed after years of SAO's plot being reused over and over again. Why I disliked it: It's the same boring story embellished with more focus on the SoL elements. The characters are bland with very little personality and watching itis like watching a toddler friendly version of Konosuba.
