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Yuri Kuma Arashi (TV).

@ChibiKangaroo: You sure? I don't think I'll ever recover from this

The yuri theme is obvious. I hope that the actual story will provide enough substance for this show to be anything better than, let's say, Sakura Kiss. Judging by who made this, you'd expect something deeper than 'roar, bears and humans are now cute yuri girls, recipe for drama and then KISS'! Or spoiler[lick each other's female organs, as that is what this show seems to imply with 'the bears eating Kureha' actually being the bear girls licking the female reproductive part (pistil) of the flower.]

Add spoiler[Ave Maria] and insanity is complete. I wonder if any other weird shows have used that composition. I know Humanity has Declined used it. But that was a zany show in a different way.

Meh kinda felt empty and pointless, weird for the sake of being weird.

I will restate my opinions of the first episode since it seems almost no one seems to be sharing it and instead everyone is saying that it is just random. I think you have that there is a Shaft like separation you have to do to figure out what is happening in this show. You have to separate the visuals that the symbolism is made of, and the story elements we know and what the symbolism may mean.

Firstly the visuals and thus presentation, pretty clearly this is a yuri visual anime, from this we know to expect longing forbidden relationship as we saw the female lead being in love with another girl. Very common aspects are soft colouring and lots of flowers, the lily in particular is where the word "yuri" comes from, it is a symbolism of the purity and crossing that line. Everything is also shown as extra cute.

Next the meat of the story, that is it a man eating monsters anime, where we find they can look like people, we know that there are animals eating people and through segments we get some insight into them. The two that seem to be in a relationship with each other want to eat people more than their own safety (choosing eating over invisibility). Although they look cute, there are key story elements telling us they are dangerous.

What we are seeing is a blend of these two different mediums where we see someone being eaten being played out like a yuri sexual scene with the bears feasting on the flower. And if I had to make a guess of future developments, one of the bears we are seeing that the more loner bear is going to have a forbidden relationship with the main character, both in them being different species and in both being girls. A fight over who is the hunter.

If you ask what the point of this is, well I can't say, could be that they are just trying to see what happens when they mix the two. You are looking at Parasyte if instead their heads turned into flowers or something cute ate another's flower, sounds random but you have to look at it in the proper context. Although I could be wrong if we find that no one is actually in danger, but there did not seem to be a hint of that in the episode.

Oh, it is pretty clearly about Yuri and "forbidden relationship" except those relationship are less and less forbidden by the day in our society and every season there 1-3 Yuri anime, with almost always one that try to push the acceptable with some sex scene. So the symbolism is kinda pointless.