If your favourite mangaka was officially releasing original doujin in English, what would you prefer buying:
Digital or Physical copies?
(Any reason explaining this preference?)

I hope this starts escalating. If they haven't destabilised at least one country by the end of this, I'll be disappointed.

I think the Universe will face destruction when they will get busy in bed.

^
Same here,
Kuzushiro knows exactly how to please me.

It would be so funny if Aoi ended up with the shorty x)

Yeah, it would be for the best maybe.
Both Chihiro and Nao seem to be playing the game of "Who is the best, who gonna win, who gonna get laid first?" For the moment, Aoi is just objectified by both of them.

i don't understand why her kissing aoi all the time like this when aoi shows no signs of disliking it, is such a bad thing. ffs lol.

So far, Nao forcefully kissed Aoi each time she was emotionally vulnerable, and when she wasn't she made her back off.

oh jeez lol, what does anyone do when they find someone they like who is single but doesn't automatically return the feelings? they try to get the person to like them!

Without sexually harassing them.

On this page http://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/chouchou_nannan_ch05#11 I noticed on the right side of it some text, which translates to: "A False Trap ----- 'Give me everything more than you've given to your boyfriend.' A girl NTRing another a girl. This is a tale of love." Potential NTR, looking forward to it!

Sorry to disappoint, but that's just an ad for another manga running in Yuri-Hime. (It's there because I'm lazy/our raw source is Yuri-Hime and not a tank).

Fuck! And here I was, thinking there'd be some nice NTR... in that case, do you have any other information on that other manga?

It's a new series by Kodama Naoko that started in January's issue. I don't know any more about it, sorry.

This one I think : https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=117183
http://bato.to/comic/_/comics/netsuzou-trap-r14313

its days like this that make me happy im fluent in spanish.

It's days like these that make me happy I can read Spanish at a third grade level

Wow, super good!

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm here to read about bears, and this "yuri" stuff just doesn't sit right with me.

seeing such claims on dynasty is a kuma-shock!
but i guess your avatar justifies your words.

now a few words to Sisya:

I saw this scene as an example of what they mean when they say that they do what they want, humans have rules but it's none of their business.

i actually see this in a freudian light: the bears are ID, the humans are EGO, and let`s say the wall humans are building between themselves and bears is SUPER-EGO.

bears: do what they want, because symbolize our subconscious that acts in coherence with our real desires and fears. stems from the animal-wild nature of humans

humans: think they do everything consciously and every their action is dictated by common sence. want to divide themselves from wild nature, make believe they`re different from animals.

wall: confines conscious humans from subconscious bears, not letting ego act as it wants, limiting the freedom of id, dividing the two spheres of the psyche. BUT: it still builds itself, changes and restructures, we can even hear the mechanic sounds, it`s not a perfect shield from wild natural forces

as a result of the super-ego wall's imperfections, the bears still can sneak through it into the world of humans and "eat" them, i.e. dictate the consciousness how to act and think, take over the ego, because "the humans' rules" - read: the wall's confines - don't just work for id bears.

Very interesting point of view.
The way you explain it definitely makes sense to me.
It would actually echo back to this idea of "sin" the bears talk about when apparently eating somebody at the end, and the fact that the judges/lawyers trio is located in the wall; trying to contain the ID from reaching the EGO.

Thanks for that, I'll keep this in mind during the next episodes to see how this idea evolves.

See you in 2017 for next chapter ?

Loved it to the core.

@onxpanda: that's great to hear! A small world, ain't it? I guess I've just been accustomed to the climate after spending quite some time here. And thanks, me too. :)

@Yuri is the best: I'm gonna be visiting France for the first time during summer for a couple of weeks. I can't wait!

If you have some extra time, Bordeaux and Montpellier are two beautiful cities to visit ;)

Originally from an island.
Still on an island, but a bigger one.
England, midlands.

Haven't watched yet but the one question that truly matter to me is as follow : is this going to be yuri as expected or the fears coming true and it's going to be het ? :/

Yuri fest, yuri MAX, yuri yuri yuri yuri yuri....

^ you say it gives us our hero.............not really, we don't really know anything about our main character at all, even the manga did a better job with that, everyone just feels so 2d our heroine got the worst part because sumika stole her manga personality so now we have a 1d hero, some 2d bears and a school that is so SHAFT im surprised the school itself isn't head tilting.

Plus the opening seems to imply the girl will have glorious OT3 with the bears.........no just no.
why? THEY ATE HER FUCKING GIRLFRIEND

I don't know why, but I think the lady Kaichou is a psycho, so maybe we should wait before saying the bears killed that gf. Surely it will turn out to be a simple misunderstanding like they were eating that girl's bento..and not her flesh, lol

I agree, I've a hunch that Yurizono (the kaichou) is the real culprit - she interferes too much to be natural, and so might be harbouring certain Intentions towards Kureha. If she did, it would make complete sense for her to get rid of the girlfriend - and remember she was the one who called her out there in the first place. That makes her a highly likely suspect in my book.

the girlfriend literally just seems to be her manga personality so...........yeah.

No idea what is meant by this, IMO they are very different - in the manga Kureha is timid and very shy, careful to stay unnoticed, while the girlfriend, though also seemingly shy, is quite forward with her feelings to the point of being overbearing.

Definitely in the camp that is liking what I see so far. It's very different from the manga, but I never expected otherwise, and unlike Rosenakahara do not think that the symbolism is empty fanservice. The idea of "eating", for example, intrigues me - yes, it probably is a metaphor for sex, at least in Kureha's case, but as sisya pointed out, there really does seem to be a literal devouring of a human at the end of the episode. The fact that they talking about eating as bears gives it a certain weight and associations with death and violence which mere titillation should not have. Anyway, I'm sure a more coherent story will eventually unfold, the reason why we're this confused now is probably because Ikuhara doesn't have time to mess around since it's only a one-cour series.

^Happy to find somebody having a similar point of view. I feel suddenly less... insane {oh! God X} especially as far as the Kaichou is concerned. I think she cut the flowers to have a reason to approach the pair, and as the OP shows it, she as an accomplice who maybe threw the brick. Based on her uniform in the OP,I would say psycho number 2 will become Hakonaka Yurika Yuri.
It actually make sense that the gf disappears, even in the OP she is almost inexistent.

The fact that they talking about eating as bears gives it a certain weight and associations with death and violence..
Agree!

About manga vs anime.
Why looking for connections and their constraints? What I find fabulous with anime and manga is the possibility to make characters exist in multiple parallel universes at the same time; with official plot and variations of stand alone doujins, for example. We simply have to pick the one that suits us the best.
Morishima sensei is the character designer in this anime, if I am right. Then she will easily feed us with canon doujin, letting us see her own interpretation of those girls' story.
Or, we can choose to see the anime as the doujin, and consider that the manga is the original story.
So much freedom to enjoy!

^ you say it gives us our hero.............not really, we don't really know anything about our main character at all, even the manga did a better job with that, everyone just feels so 2d our heroine got the worst part because sumika stole her manga personality so now we have a 1d hero, some 2d bears and a school that is so SHAFT im surprised the school itself isn't head tilting.

Plus the opening seems to imply the girl will have glorious OT3 with the bears.........no just no.
why? THEY ATE HER FUCKING GIRLFRIEND

I don't know why, but I think the lady Kaichou is a psycho, so maybe we should wait before saying the bears killed that gf. Surely it will turn out to be a simple misunderstanding like they were eating that girl's bento..and not her flesh, lol

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Very interesting to contrast the reactions here with other boards. You guys are discussing the value of the plot and the direction, other places can't get over the fact they're seeing "underaged lesbians"

God, I hate the internet sometimes.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm here to read about bears, and this "yuri" stuff just doesn't sit right with me.

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/grizzly-bear/
This is probably more of what you want then. ʕ^ㅅ^ʔ

Loool, your sense of humour is neat!

I would like to point out i had an evangelion avatar for the longest time before posting this since liking evangelion to a lot of people means you like pretentious crap:

There are 4 main types of symbolism i tend to see in anime, obvious symbolism that is figured out easily, 2deep4ulol symbolism which is my thing because it requires a lot of re-watches and thinking carefully to get the general idea however the plot is still coherent and the characters are still in place so it doesn't come off as random, pretentious as all fuck symbolism which is TRYING to say something and that message can eventually be figured out but its so loud and annoying in its execution or just completely overshadows the plot that it takes away from the experience and finally Fanservice symbolism, in which it has a message and all but it is honestly just an excuse to titilate the viewers and trick them into thinking they are deep.

The monogatari series is something i despise because it is type 4
This turned me off so much because it is a combination of type 3 and type 4, with sprinkles of type 1 in there and that doesn't lend itself to a well put together episode, the first episode is meant to GRAB you, meant to put pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that is the story in front of you and allow you to figure it all out as the plot progresses only to find you are missing a ton of pieces because its only episode 1 so you want more.

this is like they gave you a jigsaw piece sure..........but just the one and the rest are a random assortment of shapes while it leaves you to figure out what those shapes are and how they fit into the jigsaw.

my point is YOU DON'T THROW THE EOE SHIT AT THE START, save it until the viewer has context and has observed the world and the characters or you get confused and angry people like me.

I agree with you as far as the monogatari series are concerned.
For the reasons explained in previous comment, I continue thinking yuri kuma is not of this type.

If the common rules we know about stories are: a hero or main character, some context, a special event, a problem, a quest...
The first episode gives us all of that. It looks like a mess because there is no apparent effort made to convey it in a structured way. And this is definitely what they wanted to achieve. It's like reading some theatre of the absurd; the mess is part of the fun.

Now, as far as the yuri sexy part is concerned, yes it is fan service. But not totally useless.
I saw this scene as an example of what they mean when they say that they do what they want, humans have rules but it's none of their business.
In few seconds, with few words, this scene let you see how selfish they apparently are
But are they really this way? What does the dark hair bear means when she says that she refuses to give up on what she loves, while apparently eating the corpse of a human. That she doesn't want to stop killing? I think it's not that straightforward.. WELL I HOPE SO! {lol}

Cheers!

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Already knew this was gonna happen but... Was gonna give it a shot but all that bear-suit-magical-girl bullshit always repulses me making me cringe in pain.

flips out of all the things THAT was your main problem? so much was wrong with this first episode i dont even know where to start.

I only saw the OP...
xD

ugh Ikuhara why.
I think i realized why i hated this so much........besides the total randomness and lack of a coherent plot or established characters.

its because its fucking monogatari.
no really, the fanservice passed off as symbolism, the impossible geometry, and i SWEAR there was a head tilt in there somewhere.
this is a fucking monogatari spinoff!

(i know it isn't but that's what it feels like)

I wouldn't say like monogatari, really.
Monogatari are harder than this to get in.
I personally find them too fast and too intense, no time to think, no time to even read by the way.

The time line in the first episode of Yuri Kuma is hard to get. After watching it twice it became clearer for me.
Each pair of characters seems to have a specific tableau and theme. They are like pieces put together randomly on the time line before narrowing down at some point, and merging when they finally interact. The sole good point with it, is that same words/expressions/phrases/comments are repeated several times, so contrary to monogatari you have a chance to catch what's going on.

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Already knew this was gonna happen but... Was gonna give it a shot but all that bear-suit-magical-girl bullshit always repulses me making me cringe in pain.

flips out of all the things THAT was your main problem? so much was wrong with this first episode i dont even know where to start.

It's just the first episode, so I might be seriously wrong.
Nevertheless, I think they are trying to play with the
Love vs Hate theme, (like the eating vs eating up): Sweet and harsh. The fact that love can fulfil but also destroy; it can be about giving, but also about being utterly selfish.

I love it so far. Those bears are cute and horrendously terrifying at the same time.
It actually looks like an anime for which we'll have to deal with load of symbols if we want to understand the plot.
I'm in. Cannot wait for the next part.

what the actual fuck was that, this manga was weird but coherent what the hell was that anime?

Comedy, sci-fi, and slice of life apparently.

Here is the link for you, English speakers:
http://www.anime4fun.com/yuri-kuma-arashi-episode-1

A little warning on these subs. They're translations of the CR translations, so watch at your own risk. I haven't seen it yet, so I can't put out any judgement.

I was about to write a warning too.
I've just checked it, and wow... it's really limit...not acceptable.
Especially at the beginning.
Hmmm, but understandable at least. I was expecting better from anime4fun tho.

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Wow you're great at french japanese version, even knowing there was french in it I didn't catch it x)

Still I'm disappointed, this anime had great promise, hope the continuation will be better.
I'm saying that now but at the end of the anime I'm sure I will say it's great

I must admit, I'm cheating...
I caught it because French is one of my mother tongues and I'm a little high with it right now, lol
I wasn't expecting anything special with this anime, so I'll just follow the flow and see what happens ;)

Here is the link for you, English speakers:
http://www.anime4fun.com/yuri-kuma-arashi-episode-1

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I'm sure each anime deserves to exist by itself, without remaining in the shadow of others produced by the same team.

By the way, the first words of the OP are: "Viens avec moi". (I think that's what she tries to say..)
Sorry, I think I broke the repeat button.

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Lesbears OP (watch it while it lasts!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64AbgBKTUGQ

What the hell did I just watch?

Also reports says that around the 17 minute mark, the show becomes a MASSIVE acid trip.

Why am I crying? Why is this so cute...aaaahh

"J'ai besoin de toi" at the end, do you hear it too?

Died from overload cuteness already

I didn't heard that, I wouldn't have noticed by myself but it's clearly what she says. It may be the first french line that doesn't feel weird in an anime/opening x)

I wouldn't mind having the french link x)

French Link:
http://hdstreamangas.com/yuri-kuma-arashi-01-vostfr-streaming.html

For whoever watched it, here is a question:
When they say they eat girls, shall we understand it as a metaphor of...having sex with them?

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Don't know for English sub yet, but French sub available.
Link wanted?

Lesbears OP (watch it while it lasts!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64AbgBKTUGQ

What the hell did I just watch?

Also reports says that around the 17 minute mark, the show becomes a MASSIVE acid trip.

Why am I crying? Why is this so cute...aaaahh

"J'ai besoin de toi" at the end, do you hear it too?

Died from overload cuteness already

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