| I have noticed in many anime (and manga) that kuma (bears) are feared very much Any reason for this? I mean other ferocious animals barely (no pun intended) get the same treatment... |
| "All truth is meaningless. In the end, 'meaning' comes from the mind of each individual human. Even when there is a single truth, it can mean different things to different individuals. The truth has no meaning in itself!" - Erika Furudo |
| well. They are the largest land mammals in Japan. I guess that's probably the reason why they are represented as "a frightening beast not to be messed with!" |
"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." |
Because people look like this when they see them.  |
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| There probably isn't anything more dangerous than them in japan. These things are huge and strong. Scary. |
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ISKKILL said: Firearms are very restricted in Japan I'm pretty sure it's the case in almost the entire world. |
| I mean, bears are scary. Who isn't scared of bears? |
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Hrybami said: ISKKILL said: Firearms are very restricted in Japan I'm pretty sure it's the case in almost the entire world. Except in good ol´america,where people are allowed to casually own guns. |
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| Are they seriously portrayed as scary? What I’m envisioning is cute teddy bear Rilakkuma,who would never harm a fly.  |
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| I mean, if this cgi monstrosity come up to you, you’d be pretty scared. |
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| you know there'll be that one anime... |
| Realistically speaking, bears are only cute when they're behind some bars or inside a monitor. |
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| dude, bears are OP my friend's family was attacked one night by a ferocious bear, they were in a tent, somehow they ran away when they heard his moans to the car, but the bear attacked the car (it was a poor dacia) till it got bent. Bears are nasty creatures |
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| Ever seen a hairless bear? That's reason enough to fear them imo |
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ysphyr said: Bears are super cute! I love how their butt gets all jiggly when they run. Wish I could hold a bear and hug it and kiss it's nose, but I don't want to be eaten alive. I think bears are portayed as cute in anime more often. But I'm not sure, I have no statistics on that. Isn't it the norm for Russians to love bears though? You need to fuck off with that LOL. It looks like a Bat with 4 legs. |
Laplace_kun said: I have noticed in many anime (and manga) that kuma (bears) are feared very much Any reason for this? I mean other ferocious animals barely (no pun intended) get the same treatment... Because any normal person would... |
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| Bear is the only 'opponent' that managed to make a permanent scar on Takamura-san. That's why they are so scary. |
ysphyr said: Brown bear is our national animal but bears are still criminally underrated here. No one wants to send them love and kisses... Maybe you could hug a baby bear? I mean MMA fighter Khabib was able to wrestle a bear as a kid and I imagine that's more dangerous than hugging a bear lol |
| Adding "and then a bear showed up" to nearly any situation is guaranteed to make that situation worse. I was out hiking and had just sprained my ankle, and my phone was getting no reception. And then a bear showed up. I was behind enemy lines, my squad mate was injured, I was just barely dragging him to safety. And then a bear showed up. I had just won the lottery, had quit my shitty dead end job, and was taking a trip on my new private jet. And then a bear showed up. Bears are bad news. |
| Shoot first, think never. |
Looks like a human weirdly enough.I´m pretty sure the resemblance would be uncanny if they stood on two legs. |
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| This thread compels me to point out that one episode of Z/X Code Reunion where there's a scene involving a character running away from a bear, which is accompanied by a notice saying that in real life it's a bad idea to run from a bear. |
| Avatar character is Gabriel from Gabriel DropOut. |
| Not all that surprising, considering that bears are one of mankind's primal fears and one of the few creatures (along with sharks, big cats, wolves, alligators/crocodiles, and some snakes, among others) that threaten our status as apex predators. As they say about bears, (with questionable accuracy on the first two counts), "If it's brown, lie down, if it's black, fight back, if it's white, say goodnight." Even the word "bear" reflects these fears: A great example of [taboo deformation] is the word “bear,” in English. “Bear” is not the true name of the bear. That name, which I am free to use because the only bear near where I live is the decidedly unthreatening American black bear, is hβΕΜ₯tαΈ±os. Or at least it was in Proto-Indo-European, the hypothesized base language for languages including English, French, Hindi, and Russian. The bear, along with the wolf, was the scariest and most dangerous animal in the northern areas where Proto-Indo-European was spoken. “Because bears were so bad, you didn’t want to talk about them directly, so you referred to them in an oblique way,” says Byrd. HβΕΜ₯tαΈ±os, which is pronounced with a lot of guttural noises, became the basis for a bunch of other words. “Arctic,” for example, which probably means something like “land of the bear.” Same with Arthur, a name probably constructed to snag some of the bear’s power. But in Germanic languages, the bear is called…bear. Or something similar. (In German, it’s Bär.) The predominant theory is that this name came from a simple description, meaning “the brown one.” In Slavic languages, the descriptions got even better: the Russian word for bear is medved, which means “honey eater.” These names weren’t done to be cute; they were created out of fear. It’s worth noting that not everyone was that scared of bears. Some languages allowed the true name of the bear to evolve in a normal fashion with minor changes; the Greek name was arktos, the Latin ursos. Still the true name. Today in French, it’s ours, and in Spanish it’s oso. The bear simply wasn’t that big of a threat in the warmer climes of Romance language speakers, so they didn’t bother being scared of its true name. |
ZalisMay 1, 2022 10:25 PM
| pretty random necro but anyway, bears are not too uncommon in japan, there are some places where you have to be legitimately wary of them obviously the apex predator in your backyard is usually going to be more frightening than the one separated by a couple oceans |
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| Ginga Nagareboshi Gin was the scariest thing ever when I was a kid. |
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| The Natives of Japan in the North worshipped Bears. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_worship#Ainu_bear_worship The Yamato (Japanese Invaders) are still afraid of the Natives' Gods. |
| Die like you did by the lake on Naboo. |
Wait is it like the anime version of We Bear Bears? |
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Am I dumb enough to not thinking that's a human cosplaying strange-looking bear or that's really a bear? |
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