Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear

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Synonyms: The Bears Bear a Bare Kuma

Japanese: くまクマ熊ベアー

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Oct 7, 2020 to Dec 23, 2020

Premiered: Fall 2020

Broadcast: Wednesdays at 21:00 (JST)

Producers: Nippon Columbia

Licensors: Funimation

Studios: EMT Squared

Source: Light novel

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Statistics

Score: 7.15¹ (scored by 34,675 users)

¹ indicates a weighted score.

Ranked: #3042²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #1738

Members: 80,679

Favorites: 544

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Synopsis

After fanatically playing the VRMMO World Fantasy Online for almost a year, the shut-in yet relatively affluent fifteen-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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Adaptation:	Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear
Other:	Bear Bear Bear Kuma!
Sequel:	Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear 2nd Season

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Characters & Voice Actors

Yuna

Main

Kawase, Maki
Japanese

Fina

Main

Waki, Azumi
Japanese

Foschurose, Noire

Supporting

Hidaka, Rina
Japanese

Shuri

Supporting

Tomita, Miyu
Japanese

Kumayuru

Supporting

Miyajima, Emi
Japanese

Foschurose, Shea

Supporting

Minase, Inori
Japanese

Kumakyuu

Supporting

Kurose, Yuuko
Japanese

Farrengram, Misaana

Supporting

Amano, Satomi
Japanese

Sanya

Supporting

Lynn
Japanese

Foschurose, Cliff

Supporting

Yusa, Kouji
Japanese

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Staff

Nobuta, Yuu

Director

Ishii, Hisashi

Director

Morishita, Hiroto

Sound Director

Waki, Azumi

Theme Song Performance

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Opening Theme

"Itsuka no Kioku (イツカノキオク)" by Azumi Waki

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Ending Theme

#1: "Ano ne. (あのね。)" by Yuna (Maki Kawase)
#2: "Ano ne. -loved ones ver.- (あのね。-loved ones ver.-)" by Yuna (Maki Kawase) & Fina (Azumi Waki) (ep 12)

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Reviews

Mar 7, 2021

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 3

Elias21 (All reviews)

468 people found this review helpful

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 read more

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Dec 23, 2020

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 4

Silentfan6 (All reviews)

485 people found this review helpful

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 to read more

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Dec 28, 2020

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 4

jaisan (All reviews)

477 people found this review helpful

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 reminded read more

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Dec 23, 2020

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 4

SanaeK10 (All reviews)

108 people found this review helpful

Sunk cost fallacy is a peculiar thing. When presented with a show I know wasn't going to get better, somehow some psychological effects in my brain kept telling me to soldier on and to see it to the end of this frankly mediocre as hell show. And by the tail end of it I was exhausted by it all and I'm here right now to tell you why you shouldn't be like me and waste your time on this. After reviewing so many shows for close to a decade, I've found it most difficult to articulate why a show is boring or mediocre as opposed to being plain bad. And that's the thing, on the surface Kumax3 Bear is reasonably competent. The artstyle is fine, the girls are cute, nothing is particularly wrong about any aspect of it, and I'm the person who's willing to find some value in even the most broken of shows. Kumax3 Bear doesn't give me any material to work with at all.

Kumax3 Bear is an isekai, but one more focused on SoL than adventure or existential dread. I do enjoy slow paced SoL shows, but even if we do focus on that one aspect of Kumax4, it's still unable to deliver since the show does go out of its way to intersperse poorly written and very tonally contradicting drama into its show. It really reminds me of last year's Average Abilities Show (which by the way was below average) where the show wants you to care about its characters and world, but no one is particularly likable in the slightest when all of the show's conflicts can be solved easily with Yuna's bear powers (which the show also never shuts up about even after the nth time it's established). This is not to say drama or conflict has no place in an SoL, but it's just handled so poorly here. In order to have good drama and conflict, the viewer has to bond with at least someone from the main cast in order to empathize with the cast's plight, otherwise everyone comes off as some whiney jackass who needlessly antagonizes our main character for no good reason.

There's no real reason to be particularly connected with the main character or anyone else for that matter in the show. Yuna is your typical trapped in isekai protagonist with OP powers (just bear themed this time) and no real gimmick beyond the bear theme. She's bland as bland can be, bringing in her modern world knowledge and OP bear powers to solve whatever problems she meets or is tasked with. Alongside her is Fina, her companion of sorts who occasionally follows her to bear witness to her impressive feats and do very little otherwise. Apart from that out of nowhere and definitely unearned yuri confession at the very end of the series, I see no reason why Fina would suddenly be so infatuated with her. The character interactions, or lack of thereof, is really poor in comparison with other similar Girl meets Girl show, and that scene right there at the end just shocked me for how sudden it was. There is no buildup, no development, no growth in characterization for these two.

To paraphrase internet superstar Rich Evans, I will use the following quote to describe the comedy in this series.
"There are jokes that make you laugh, okay? And then there are jokes that you have no reaction to. But every now and then there's a joke so bad, it makes you less laugh. Like, you'll just be sitting there normal, and then the joke will happen, and then you'll slightly less smile, even though you weren't smiling. And that is called Non-medy."
But really the attempts at humour are abysmal. The "Oh look is that a bear?!" joke was never funny the first time and it sure isn't funny the 100th time. As is the required by law "Isekai Culture Shock" gags and the "Soy sauce? Miso? GOHAN?" food observations that really make you wanna pause the show and ponder what went wrong with your life choices to be watching a show this mediocre 10+ episodes in just to bear witness to that observation.

Kumax4 isn't the worst thing I've watched this season (that dishonour goes to Maesetsu, a show so boring I actually had to physically stop myself from watching it), but given I had to sit through its mediocrity for about 5 of my Earth hours, I leave with this warning to not touch the show in any capacity unless you have a penchant for boring shows or if you need some sleeping aid.

4/10 (How the hell is this getting a second season)

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