Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear

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 and forced. 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.

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 parts first. 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

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 it is like watching a toddler friendly version of Konosuba.

The story is uninspired and doesn't really capture my interest. It wasn't "bad" per say, but I never found myself wanting to see what happens next. The story really isn't that huge a point in the slice of life genre, so it doesn't surprise me to find it lacking in that area. It was pretty bland, 5/10. The art is fairly well drawn, by no means was it mine blowing or exceptionally dynamic, but given the genre it was more than acceptable. I enjoyed looking at the show, and was never offended by the animation. Overall I thought that for a slice of life the animation was good. 7/10 The sound is a bit hit or miss. The soundtrack was inoffensive and pleasant, I don't think I'll go out of my way to add it to my collection of anime soundtracks, but it lent itself well to the laid back atmosphere of the show. I watched the dub, and the voice acting was a bit rocky. I didn't find the older girl's and adult voices offensive in any way and thought that they were voiced well. I will say the delivery of some lines were stiff and awkward, but how much of that is the VA's fault I can't be sure. The little kids in this anime are really poorly voiced, I found them really grating and unpleasant. Overall the sound was fine, 6/10 The character's were also kind of bland like the story. None of them were unpleasant, but they didn't really hold my attention. There is a lot of wasted potential in the main characters back story and how it relates to her experiences throughout the events of the show. Overall the characters are just alright. 5/10 I found myself mildly entertained for the first and last few episodes, but the middle ~6 episodes I found myself bored and really wanted to stop watching. It's a super chill show, but to the point that is becomes bland and tedious. I didn't really enjoy it that much. 4/10, but my final score is not really based on this category. Overall it's a 6/10, none of the characters except the main two are interesting in the least, I did find the two main characters a little more interesting, but that was never capitalized on. The story was bland, and the voice acting wasn't always enjoyable. The art was decent though, and the soundtrack was cohesive with the show. Basically the show is fine. There are other anime out there that are better and more deserving of your time. That being said if you want a chill show that you won't get overly attached to, this could be it.

This show is not serious in any sense of the word, it's a very cute and lighthearted romp through a fantasy world. If you like shows like In Another World with My Smartphone or Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody, you'll probably have a good time with this one too. I give this show a 7/10. It doesn't do anything innovative and the story is a little lackluster at times, but it's overall solid and the art style is very nice, and extremely effective for what the show is trying to be. The show gets a lot of points from me for having likeable characters who you can't really help but love.

This is an odd one. This anime is a bit of a rollercoaster. It has an amazing heroine, which is snarky, clever, makes jokes and uses deadpan humor. There are some nice fight scenes too, and great bear jokes, but.... The anime doesn't let the heroine to shine often. Instead it switches to "serious mode" from time to time, tries to push some sort of morality lesson, and all those moments are handled poorly. Then it tries to make the viewer go "aww" by showing supposedly cute thing. That... also doesn't quite work well. So we have a rollercoaster. Nice/cool moments mixed with mediocre and weak content. Overall it is 5/10 Story 5/10 Art 5/10 Sound 6/10 Character 5/10 Enjoyment 5/10 Overall. The reason why it gets six in character is because female lead can be great, and her voice actress is good. The reason why it doesn't get more than six and doesn't get more in other categories because everybody else is very cliched and not well done. Art wise there's low amount of detail on characters and background, and sometimes it reminds me of "Maou Sama Retry" anime, but it is not as terrible as backgrounds in Maou Sama were, so it is passable. Low detail art with attempts at cuteness also sorta works, although it is nothing to write home about. So there you have it. A rollercoaster of good material and poorly done scenes, that eventually averages out somewhere in the middle. It is not great, but if you have time to kill, you could watch it out. First 3 or so episodes are worth seeing. I'm not as certain about the rest of the work, as I put it on the waiting list for several months and only recently managed to finish it.

the manga was far better than the anime. for some reason, the anime was rushed despite the manga and light novels both taking their time and explaining important foreshadowing details as they came. most of which were skipped in the anime. like in the very first episode, in both the manga and the light novel they actually explain what happens when she goes into town and is guided around in the anime it's a montage that gets skipped over and it doesn't even have a reason to be rushed. there was an episode that showed up nowhere in either the manga or the light novels that I can only describe as filler from what I can only assume is them cutting too many details to get to the ending point they wanted to achieve and then they flew over where I thought the story would stop and went to something I wasn't expecting to happen that actually made me hate the animated version because the ending to the first season was absolutely terrible. I just couldn't stand it. it did not have to be there. didn't happen in either the light novel or the manga and I'm honestly disappointed the fight scenes get more attention in the manga and light novels than in the anime where I was genuinely excited to see what they'd do with them before the anime aired. the whole show was just a huge disappointment and I gave it every opportunity to redeem itself.

This anime is pretty good. It's the typical bright, fun, and happy anime. It's been a good anime to watch in my leisure time. The story is okay. I didn't expect much from the story, so far it's just a daily life of a girl who got stuck in another world with the secret of the world that is yet to be revealed. The conflict that occur is not that deep because so far the main character able to solve everything with ease. The art portray a light and heartwarming atmosphere combine with decent animation which suit very well with the anime where the main character wish to create an environment where she can have the enjoyment of life that she's been longing. Sound effect is pretty decent, personally I don't have any issue with it. When comes to the character development, well, there isn't much. It's development solely focus on the main character. When comes to this type of story, I really don't expect a lot of character development because it's purpose is just for watcher to have fun. Overall, even though it's story isn't the best, there are a lot of enjoyment that I can get from this anime. Therefore I rated it 7/10

Some animes are just so perfectly for you that you have no choice but to give it a 10. Subjectivity aside, this anime is so self-aware and unapologetic in what it is that it chooses to focus on the entertaining stuff rather than bog you down with exposition and awkward dialogue to get isekai hero from point a to b. To try and fool you that the hero is overcoming difficulties so you can insert your self in their shoes. While there's nothing wrong with power fantasies themselves, it just happens that most isekai power fantasies are poorly executed. With authors that are trying so hard to make the MC look cool or something, it's a waste and it's generic. But this one doesn't have that, it knows what it is and excels in telling this specific story in this specific atmosphere. It's an enjoyable experience and as far as isekai goes, it really is a 10. Overall though, I'd say it's a 7 (5 for me is barely NOT mediocre so 7s tend to be enjoyable)

This show is mainly an Isekai but with a 15 year old girl. It's characteristically different from normal ones, it's a lot cuter and feels more down to earth. The main character, Yuna, still has monsterous powers that surpass even the best adventurers of this world, but she's surprisingly satisfied with just living a normal life. It focuses on more human aspects, finding something to do with her time to explore and play around, finding food she likes back from her own world, playing big sister and connecting with her new little sister, and taking care of children. This down to earth approach is different from other Isekai's where they're on a mission to save or conquer the world. Yuna still does big things like destroy powerful monsters and save villages, but she does it for very simple reasons like helping a friend or securing a supply of good food. It's very humbling and feels authentic of a show. It genuinely feels like she's just trying to live a good and happy life and isn't concerned with boosting her ego or securing power. In fact, despite doing big things, she adamantly pushes responsibility and the rewards onto ministers. That said, this show is very black and white. It can get childish as there seems to be no gray areas and everything is simple. You know exactly who the good and bad guys are. The only pursues everyone has in this world are simple and everyone is nice. In fact, everyone just gets along with each other and everyone is overly generous, although that can be understandable given that the main character improves their lives effortlessly and almost instantly after meeting them for no cost or strings attached. There isn't any behind the scenes plotting or any malicious intentions, except simple ones from people who are caught almost immediately after being introduced. It is the bubble of childhood, where everything is protected and everything gets filtered to be acceptable. That said, it was still fun to watch and reminded me of simpler times, minus all the bad stuff.

This is just a meh cute girls isekai, and even then, it doesn't really have a lot of impact. Of course, I am one of the people who has read the LN for the series, and confirmed there is a significant decrease in quality in the adaptation. Lots of interesting bits left out, including the world building. That being said, I think enough people have expressed this sentiment already. Solely regarding what is in the anime, it is just OP loli teen in bear suit, who is a loli magnet, on top of being overpowered. The details of her abilities are just skimmed over, and are convenient devices to make her even more OP. Spoilers ahead, but this doesn't really have much of a story anyways, so you don't lose much She knows how to cook food(read sweets) from another world, do she opens a restaurant and forces a woman to run it, and uses child labour for harvesting ingredients, cooking, and waiting tables. Ah, yes. Did I mention she only did this so she could eat food whenever she wants? She already had a ridiculous amount of money. The characters around her are all pretty simple. Young girls who like sweets and cute things(read bears). It tries to force some character development/drama in the last episode, but it doesn't come off well. As I've already said, just watch for the cute lolis. The art and voice acting are good enough, I didn't have any issues with them compared to others. Anyways, while it was a passable anime, I highly suggest anyone who finds themselves interested in watching this, or who enjoyed watching this and are waiting for the sequel, to read the LN.

I love the simple, clean & moe art. The uncomplicated story which focused on relationship is just the cup of tea I need after a long day from work. Just to empty my mind and chill out watching this 'slice of life' anime. My review is bias because I love slice of life anime. I never know how much I like bears until I watched this anime. I could never look at bear the same anymore. There are some yuri vibes going but nothing intrusive. If you like ARIA The Animation or generally a light hearted slice of life anime, don't exclude this from your watch list. Just don't think too much of the story, there is none.

This anime is ok. It is not bad or particularly good. It is kind of a wholesome anime where the main character is very overpowered and can do anything, which she uses to help others. It has not much depth or story. characters are very shallow and one dimensional. everything revolves around her bear powers. which kind of is annoying at times. especially the bears. i mean wtf are the voices of them? they are like pokemon and not actual bears. i can recommend it if you want to just watch it if you feel bored. if you expect any depth or story you can pass this. its not a loss.

tl;dr great voice acting and lovable characters, yet lacking in plot and pacing. Since the isekai genre has grown so populated, most must differentiate itself in some way to warrant a favourable review. For Kuma Kuma, it's the uniqueness of the MC, or specifically her equipment. This serves fairly well at first, but indeed without variation becomes as monotonous as other similar isekais with as overpowered MC's. I rarely take note of voice acting, but this show really stood out in the variation and quality of the voices, which made it far more entertaining than it otherwise would have been. Unfortunately, other critical parts such as the story or even animation, especially during action sequences, can only be considered subpar. I haven't read the LN, so as only a viewer, it felt that after the first few episodes the pacing really went wild. The first 5 episodes lacked the worldbuilding they deserved, and their content certainly could have filled 12 episodes.7 & 9, then 10 & 11 could have filled 6 episodes each, and 6 and 12 felt more like OVA's than main episodes. Lastly, the overpowered MC trope is difficult to pull off successfully without boring the viewer. Kuma Kuma initially succeeds, but after a certain point too many abilities and interactions are introduced without adequate explanation, and it becomes a sort of deus ex machina à la "8th Son", "Misfit of Demon King Academy." Just like another anime this season, "Kami-tachi ni Hirowareta," the substitution of challenges or genuine antagonists with shallow MacGuffins really detracts from continued enjoyment.

Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear (2020) Well, it is amazing how one episode could ruin a show. Episode 12 for me the whole jealously and Yandere of Fina emerging has ruined the entire flow of the show and made it go so far off track that it has ruined for me what was an otherwise pleasant show that was very well done. The story follows the odd thing that many shows go with of a child (Yuna is 15) who somehow trades and lives alone and makes a pretty high wage in a market that adults can only trade in but regardless ends up in a VRMMO but cannot escape because perhaps it wasn't really a game. Now that whole game premise isn't bad at all. The art style is very cotton candy is the best way to describe it in that it is like a colourful bedtime story look. This is nice because it is somewhat unique, to be honest. The soundtrack is nicely done, the sound of combat could have much more depth, something that seems to lack from many shows. Characters are all not bad, Yuna is great in how she grows up with her personality but then everyone she meets is either weak or so nice. As said Fina is a Yandere in the making and that development was not needed since it made the final episode not really stick. In terms of enjoying the show, for the most part, is fun and cute. You have odd situations like working hob cookers that no one questions or wants. You also get very cute things like bear slippers which were adorable. The show, in the end, is a 7/10 since it is good but tarnished. For everything, it does well it took a bad turn.

Cute, OP, Simple, Friends, Good Cliche. A one liner that could describe the show. Actually, there's more and I will covers the show with relatable perspective that this show seems to offer, an OP Isekai. Seeing so many Isekai's Anime in this current year, lowers expectation of people. I assure you, this one is a perfect show to fill your boring life while Pandemic. Sure, MC was OP, nothing can beat them, eh? In fact, there is, the shows convey 'feeling' as part of Weaknesses of OP Character. The friends bounding, develop into more eager feeling towards each other. Seeing them worried for one another, is cute. [ Graphics ] A subtle complement to 'cute' is the simple coloring. Each character, the environment, the nature was drawn beautiful and cutely. The subtle saturation and a supposedly color-like pastels? Really stands-out the Fantasy, really showing that this Anime is infact 'Fun'. Seeing them is kind of refreshing instead of boring life. This comes down in a cost, that this shows might not really offers you a detailed graphics, it's overlapped by it's simplicity. For example, you can't see a subtle dust in it's environment, the bruises is like a melted chocolate mess, the blur is not helping either. But I like it for it's simplicity, I don't mind it either. Cute and Simple. [ Story ] I always mention: 'boring life', what's the intention? Yuna as the MC, has subtle repetitivenes and to alter the 'boringness' is by playing the game. I guess, you could see where the story is heading. Nope, I don't want to spoil but as you might predicted, it's correct, generic Isekai Anime. Also the reason I mention it's simplicity is because you can't really expect an heavy lifting in the story. It's balanced fun. This might not suitable for some people, but I'm not bringing my personal like or not genre. It is what it is. The balanced part: While it is fun, it's also convoluted with some political issue, human behaviour, more bigger quest means more bigger challange it's required. The generic part comes when all of the shows spices are only happen to either the MC or it's close people. NPC are conveyed as 'Easy to beat' and 'Cliche Personality'. Nothing else, really. It's giving me cringe, especially when it involve MC inner circle, the parents. The cringe is so huge at that one scene that I just wish to die, atleast the trade off is by continue watching all of the episode episode as it goes back to normal. All is good. In paragraph 2, I will dive more into the story as we enough talk about the generic part, generic is generic. Yuna develop more bonding from literally the second episode till end towards her new girl friend. The bonding is so strong that the chain that resembles Yuri becomes clear at the end episode, It's not kind of that but it's definitely that. I can't say it's cute but other than that, it is cute. Kinda shocks me at the end realizing that. Well the bonding given at the story may good at best as it's only 12 episode and it's definitely short to resembles some Yuri bonding. Another spices of the story, the politics, it's really common problem that many Isekai genre gave to it's watchers, but the inheritance of being a simple story, destroying all the 'solution phase' of the spices. The politics being simply resolved by the villain getting arrested, even tho there's emotional emotion that got me in the middle (the starving part) the resolution makes me forget my emotion. It's like a holy water that exorcist all previous good emotion. [ Sounds ] The sounds aspect is okay at best, as there's inconsistencies that existed. The Yuna 'inside voice' is always crisp to hear, is it because of Yuna raucous voice? At some scene, that's not her 'inside voice' is talking, you can literally imagine Yuna being in a room, talking to a mic. The incosistencies are rather not noticable as it's only rare but for example: The Kai voice is unmatched after the town's party. So it's still resemble a 6-7 for the sound aspect. Gonna give a 10 to Yuna 'Inside Voice'. [ Conclusion ] Ranging in 6-9, reserved at 8 for overall rating. That's it.

This is adorable and incredibly wholesome. It's just a feel-good kind of show overall. It's easy to digest and a fantastical parts of it are to be expected and are actually well done. They're unique. It fits fantastically into any young persons type of show while being comforting to the older people that enjoy light and friendly and feel good things. You're intended to be happy and they give you every opportunity to be. The visuals are fantastic to go along with what needs to be accomplished. Things are soft and bright. There's no overwhelming darkness in any way, not even most of the monsters damage anything around them visually. They may be dark, but the whole scene still remains visually positive. I do wish that there had been a little more interaction with other adventurers and see how and what they did. There was a lack of confrontation come there just wasn't much left out there and I think it would have benefited the show to do that, but I'm not going to complain. This was a nice binge. It only required just a very little buy-in to get you engaged and to me, that counts for a lot. It just happened to be the right show that I needed at the right time.

less of an adventure or comedy and more of a cute fantasy slice of life isekai, but as a slice of life isekai it does an amazing job. its cute, interesting and most importantly, delicious. the story is basically a hikikkomory loner called yuna who is also rich from stock market or smthng and kinda doesnt like her irl life gets sucked into the world of her vrmmorpg in a new character with a weird bear costume, but the bear set is broken so shes hella stronk. she has magic, summon pets and physical strength and resistance. so what does she do? chill adventures while befriending cute little kids(mostly girls) :3 and eating delicious food. yuna has a very chill and humble personality and mostly wants to be left alone to sleep, eat and hang out with her underaged friends and honestly same except the last thing 9/10 score, 10/10 bears

I wanted to find something more relaxing for time being and this anime filled that space perfectly. Anime doesn't have any complex story behind it and mostly it's about being with friends and building a communities where everybody can help each other. Yuna which is main protagonist looks ridiculous and many people underestimate her but she knows how to surprise. Characters aren't shallow nor too deep so for now it is what it is it's mostly fine. Sound and Art are beautifully done and there is only very small amount of 3d noticeable if any. Enjoyment and fun in this anime are really on high levels and if you want anime where you just can chill and not care about deeply political stuff or some more complex environment you will find yourself enjoying it too. Overall i had to give it a solid 9 and i get what i was trying to find.

I loved this! I wasn't really expecting to like this as much as I did but boi was I wrong. I finished it pretty quickly too. The characters are so adorable & have actual stories. Even tho this is a gaming anime, it's not smashed directly in your face 24/7 (even when Yuna uses her powers) it's really the 1st episode we get the most gaming shoved into our face. I highly recommend it, there's literally something here for everyone & a nice anime if you're wanting to try a gaming anime without it overpowering you. The only thing I wished we did get more of (so maybe we'll see more of it in the 2nd season) was real life. They address her issues with her family for like 10 mins then nothing else. So hopefully we see more next season.