Wow, so this was something else. A Romeo Juliet type of story, with 100% yuri involved. Really interesting. Something to watch entirely through though, since the way the story goes, you'll essentially be confused until you get to the last episode or so; unfortunate it's shown this way, because it becomes an easy excuse to just toss the anime aside, but I think the way that Yuri Kuma Arashi handled the story is pretty great, especially since it's not really about bears and yuri, well sort of, but not really.
Following Kureka Tsukabi, Lulu Yurigasaki and Ginko Yurishiro, we witness a blossoming love story. The entire plot and how it is shown is quite surreal. A beautiful art style is involved too, which makes it incredibly easy to watch; also helped by the ecchi and yuri scenes of course! =)
The seiyu though, did a fantastic job. All the intricate noises and sounds the girls had to do were fantastic. "Gau gau" and adding cute noises to words and everything else, honestly, I could just listen to them speak with those voices all day, so good.
OP for Yuri Kuma Arashi is the best. I was introduced to the OP before I wanted to watch the show, so I knew about the song beforehand and my goodness, I love it. Bonjour Suzuki, the artist that did the OP is utterly fantastic, I now own her music because of this OP. Speaking of which, the OP works really well with Yuri Kuma Arashi as well, so that's a plus. ED is nice too, but what made the ED amazing was the art that was shown with it and the dancing Kuma. Aside from the OP and ED, I'd say most of the music and sounds that were played were really well done, especially the kuma scenes. Nice orchestral music was played when expected and helped heighten emotions during special scenes.
Overall, I really like Yuri Kuma Arashi, sure there may be a lot of ecchi scenes and yes, it uses bears and yuri to tell it's story, but it's a good one none-the-less. I'd most definitely recommend, but only if you're okay with the ecchi/fan service type of things. It's all very symbolic.
