Yurikuma Arashi Episodes 1-3: Eat-or-Fuck Kingdom
Love Bullet Yurikuma Arashi (literally “Girls-lovebear Storm”) is perhaps the ultimate Kunihiko Ikuhara experience. Everything he has made in the last 20 years has been building up to this. Sailor Moon’s monster-of-the-week format; Utena’s abstract art and delicate cathedral like aesthetics (complete with spiral staircases); Penguindrum’s pursuit of survival against the threat of utter annihilation; it’s all here, and in ridiculously OTT quantities. Because of this, its almost a borderline self-parody of Ikuni works since we’ve come to expect all…