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When it comes to making anime that is overflowing with metaphors and symbolism, Ikuhara is your guy. I remember hearing about the project and was excited for a yuri anime to be directed by Ikuhara, since he's always included it in his past work. I came with the expectation that this show was going to be revolutionary like Utena (pun not intended) and Penguindrum. Yuri Kuma fulfilled it to an extent. The first couple of episodes of the anime don't give it any justice since the fan service is everywhere, but the show does get better. The show encompasses the ... brave Kureha Tsubaki, and her determination on never giving up on love. The show demonstrates the treatment of lesbians in society to the idea of selfish love all in the span of 12 episodes. The art was nice, and it was enjoyable seeing Morishima Akiko's work in an anime, and the opening and ending songs were really nice. I thoroughly enjoyed the anime and it's one of the few yuri ones that I actually like.

The show is supposed to be an adaptation of the popular online game and the show is presented through Fubuki, a pretty normal destroyer. You then meet all the other girls ( they are all great but its hard to keep track of all their names). The show is really cute and falls under the genre "cute girls doing cute things". There is a lot of yuri subtext ( I was surprised, though its not unusual since all the characters are girls besides the admiral). The show is pretty enjoyable.

I had high expectations for the anime when I watched the preview for it. I expected it to be at least around 24 or 25 episodes, but then they announced it was only 12. The anime is adapted from the manga (which is still not done running). The anime was good, it was fascinating seeing the characters animated and voiced. The art style was nice as well and the animation itself wasn't half bad. One thing that bothered me was that the anime was listed as "yuri", but the entire show barely had any yuri in it. The show was very enjoyable, but it seemed ... very rushed. One thing that I loved about the anime was the soundtrack for each of the characters, those were really nice.

I was very hesitant in starting this anime for some reason, but now that I've finished it I regret not starting it any sooner. This has become one of my favorite anime's because it is so awfully cute and the characters really get to you. The plot isn't a complicated one, and the characters themselves are what bring the most out of the anime. We have an airhead, a shy girl, a somewhat tomboy, a rich character who doesn't know a lot of commoner things, a little sister with a sister complex, and a younger club member who kinda looks like a cat. The ... way the show is carried out and the interactions between the characters is one of the best things about the show. The music the characters sing is cute and fluffy and most of the ending songs are actually really nice. Overall, I highly recommend this anime, it's so cute and you grow attached to the characters, and their music