Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear

[Buffalobiian]

https://i.imgur.com/R5IoPUU.jpg

Synonyms: The Bears Bear a Bare Kuma
Japanese: くま クマ 熊 ベアー

Synopsis: Fifteen-year-old Yuna prefers staying home and obsessively playing her favorite VRMMO to doing anything else, including going to school. When a strange new update gives her a one-of-a-kind bear outfit that comes with overpowered abilities, Yuna is torn: the outfit is unbearably cute, but too embarrassing to wear in-game. But then she suddenly finds herself transported into the world of the game, facing down monsters and magic for real, and the bear suit becomes the best weapon she has!

Links: ANN (https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=23127), AniDB (https://anidb.net/anime/15342), MAL (https://myanimelist.net/anime/40974/Kuma_Kuma_Kuma_Bear), Official (https://kumakumakumabear.com/)


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Not really an anime with much discussion to be had. I like it though, unexpectedly. Isekai aside, it's a feel-good anime.

[Munsu]

I watch it as well, don't care much for it. I only like the MC and that's it. Reading comments around, it seems like they also edited a lot of the violence out in favor of making this a more kids friendly show. As I understand it, this was always going to be a laid back series, but seems like the darker moments have been removed entirely.

Also, I don't know what's the obsession with Japanese and food, particularly in an Isekai setting, but I'm just tired of each anime having what is seemingly a whole arc about food, and then having constant scenes about food as well. So much wasted time on that shit. Oh great, now they like pizza and hamburgers... exciting!!!!

[Buffalobiian]

It's for a few reasons I think.

For one, we expect that a person who has no special skill aside from having lived in the modern age to be able to cook to a degree. You'd have to take a Dr Stone protagonist to be able to improve other aspects of people's lives. It's hard to be like "this is manga" or "this is television", but "this is pizza" is relatively believable.

The delight is also something I guess we understand - like seeing other people pet puppies. We can imagine a world without pizza, and that's not as nice as one with etc.

In the end though, I think it's an easy way for a lay modern person to do something nice for a backward society. The satisfying reaction from people eating pizza is also something we can readily appreciate.

[Munsu]

It's for a few reasons I think.

For one, we expect that a person who has no special skill aside from having lived in the modern age to be able to cook to a degree. You'd have to take a Dr Stone protagonist to be able to improve other aspects of people's lives. It's hard to be like "this is manga" or "this is television", but "this is pizza" is relatively believable.

The delight is also something I guess we understand - like seeing other people pet puppies. We can imagine a world without pizza, and that's not as nice as one with etc.

In the end though, I think it's an easy way for a lay modern person to do something nice for a backward society. The satisfying reaction from people eating pizza is also something we can readily appreciate.

Yeah, but we've been like 4 episodes in a row focused on what she's cooking. That's my issue, not that they should neglect integrating the cooking aspect to their new life in a new world, but the obsession and focus it's given... and it occurs in just about every series, particularly isekai ones.

[Munsu]

Well, episode 11... and I think it's been like 3 episodes since you started the thread. And again, all episodes completely centered on food. It's a fetish.

[Buffalobiian]

As an Asian I know that many of us bitch about other cultures' food being bad when we go abroad. Especially food outside of SE China, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia or Thailand.

[shinta|hikari]

I'd get it if you only eat at fast food or tourist trap establishments, but there is great local food everywhere you go, Asian or not.

[Buffalobiian]

I'd get it if you only eat at fast food or tourist trap establishments, but there is great local food everywhere you go, Asian or not.

I think there are tasty food everywhere. Some cultures have more variety of it compared to others, but it's there in general. I think it's mostly that my folks (and a lot of the 50yo+) I know have a very limited and definitive mindset of what they like.

For example, one of my family members only really eats other non-Chinese Asian foods because they're the closest to tasting like Chinese food. I can't fix it, but meh.

[shinta|hikari]

That is true (in reverse) for westerners too, especially Americans. They only like "Asian" food if it's close to American Chinese (General Tso's, Cream Cheese Wontons, Egg Rolls) or American Japanese (California Maki, Tempura rolls, Dynamite Sauce). My white American friends mostly eat those things and can't handle heat, with a few exceptions (people who love food in general).

I totally get your family explanation. I am Chinese by ancestry too, and my mother and aunts all harp about how food sucks just because it isn't dimsum or steamed fish.