what the fug happened I get it, everything is a metaphor for

Don't ask questions, you'll be marked by the Invisible Storm and eaten by bears.

>>147269912
I for one welcome our lesbian space bear overlords

>>147270052
what were the bears

how did they come alive at the end

>>147270172
Bears where bears

Kuma Shock!

>>147270172
It's as deep as you want it to be. If you think they're lesbian bears from space, then they're lesbian bears from space. If you think they're a representation of how LGBT people are stigmatized and ostracized in Japanese culture, then that's what they are.

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>>147269912
It's metaphor for Nip society's treating fags like they're completely foreign entities.
Ikuhara's symbolism is usually pretty unpretentious despite what /a/ sometimes says.

A secondary school for adolescence.
A train ride for fate.
A mob for society.

It's not hard to work out, nor is it meant to be.

>>147271220
But the humans were lesbians too.

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>>147269912

I like the snuggle struggles

>>147269912
it's more about how lesbians in Japanese culture are either demonized as predatory degenerates or fetishized us unrealisticly "pure" with no reflection of reality on either end of that scale and no gray zone permitted. The point was finding a mitigating truth somewhere inbetween the two while battling with the arbitrary system of categorization reinforcing and perpetuating the exclusionary dichotomy between them. The end goal was to establish that a girl can be both an subject and wielder of sexual desire and that neither is inherently corrupting nor exclusionary of the other.

>>147271443
Of a different color. The whole predator prey thing is intentional.

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>>147272344
What I don't get is why the ones fetishizing them are all male. I assume it's because they represent the male audience that fetishizes the lesbians in yuri (the judebears were originally going to have female bodies but deep, male voices).

But isn't that a little far from the truth? Yuri Hime not only has a large female fanbase (70%) but YH Wildrose, a spin-off targeted at males, failed miserably. The highest regarded and most popular yuri works/authors are mostly female. Even several yuri mangaka, such as Tachi and Ritz, love fanservice. It doesn't seem like it's predominately males who fetishize yuri relationships.

>>147272576
Well, female fans and authors are mostly lesbians themselves so it's not exactly fetishizing.