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Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear
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Rating(4.4 / 5.0, 968 votes)
5 | 72% (698 votes) |
4 | 11% (110 votes) |
3 | 8% (81 votes) |
2 | 4% (42 votes) |
1 | 4% (37 votes) |
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One entry per lineYear
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2014
Status in COO
Status in Country of Origin. One entry per line
797 WN Chapters (Ongoing)
20 LN Volumes (Ongoing)
20 LN Volumes (Ongoing)
Licensed
Yes
Completely Translated
No
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One entry per lineEnglish Publisher
One entry per lineRelease Frequency
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Weekly Rank: #54Monthly Rank: #49
All Time Rank: #42
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On 14421 Reading Lists
Monthly Rank: #63
All Time Rank: #91
Description
Links are NOT allowed. Format your description nicely so people can easily read them. Please use proper spacing and paragraphs.Yuna, a 15 years old girl started playing the world’s first VRMMO. She has earned billions of yen in stocks. She confines herself in her house playing the game without going to school. Today, a huge update has arrived. She obtains a non-transferable rare bear outfit. But the equipment is so embarrassing that she can’t wear it even in the game. Furthermore, when she answers the survey regarding the new update and relaunches the game, she appears in unknown forest in a bear outfit. Where is this? Email from God? Different world? If she wears the bear outfit she’s a cheat, if she takes it off she’s a normal girl. Her adventure starts just like that. Yuna began doing as she liked.
Associated Names
One entry per lineBBBK
Bear Bear Bear Kuma
くま クマ 熊 ベアー
熊熊勇闖異世界
熊熊熊bear
Bear Bear Bear Kuma
くま クマ 熊 ベアー
熊熊勇闖異世界
熊熊熊bear
Related Series
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Demon Noble Girl ~Story of a Careless Demon~ (4)
Recommendation Lists
- Action - Cultivation - Adventure (On going)
- enjoyed my time
- Isekai w slow life no harem tags
- Strong FMC/strong female characters
- Read and chill
Latest Release
Date | Group | Release |
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01/21/22 | Fans Translations | c442 |
01/16/22 | Fans Translations | c441 |
01/15/22 | Fans Translations | c440 |
01/08/22 | Fans Translations | c439 |
01/07/22 | Fans Translations | c438 |
01/01/22 | Fans Translations | c437 |
12/31/21 | Fans Translations | c436 |
12/31/21 | Fans Translations | c435 |
12/31/21 | Fans Translations | c434 |
12/25/21 | Fans Translations | c433 |
12/24/21 | Fans Translations | c432 |
12/24/21 | Fans Translations | c431 |
12/24/21 | Fans Translations | c430 |
12/24/21 | Fans Translations | c429 |
12/24/21 | Fans Translations | c428 |
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- Little to no drama. When you read a slice of life like this, I personally don't like drama. I hate going into a 'chill' story only to find out that they drag out dysfunctional, bad-communication relationships for 30-100 chapters only for a cheesy and typical resolution to happen. Kuma embraces a simple and relaxing story. There are fights and events, but most 'major' fights/ events will be resolved fairly quickly which I personally prefer. I'm not reading this relaxing story only to learn that the evil villains that I don't even care about have an evil background and take forever to get defeated. The characters are very cute and pleasing. The major events are memorable and pleasant.
- Playful story, author, and good TL. The worst thing about finding a decent light novel is MTL halfway through or weird author/ TL scenarios. The story is playful in large part because the author is so upfront and lax. Oftentimes the author will mention that they were going to try and finish an arc or event earlier but didn't end up doing it, etc... This can be cringy or annoying in some circumstances but I personally found the author's notes to correspond perfectly with the chill and relaxing vibe that the LN gives. It sometimes made me laugh a little and other times made me feel that the author is a human trying to put an entertaining story forward. The TL is great - by far one of the best I've seen with good grammar, spelling, and spacing.
- Refreshing and reasonable storytelling. I think this is where other people, including Mavsynchroid, started to fall off. I don't want to put words in anyone's mouths and to be honest, I think this is the main point that either attracts or deters readers from light novels. There were times when Yuna (MC) gains abilities randomly or for no reason. I honestly had no problem with this and even believe that it can be reasoned out to make sense in the world-building side. I personally love the way that Kumanano, the author, tells stories (or at least how it's translated to tell.) This is probably why I can read a few chapters about some random cooking or slice-of-life event and still enjoy it. I personally enjoy the way characters and events are portrayed. I think a big point that others, like Mavsynchroid, reason as the 'downfall' of the LN is also how there's isn't much character building. I actually like the consistency and reliability of the main characters - like Yuna. I'm of the opinion that characters don't NEED to grow a ton in order to make a story enjoyable. In fact, because it is a slice of life story, I prefer that the characters I like don't change too much because I already enjoy them. To me it's the same way that people will watch filler episodes of anime they like because it's not necessarily about the character growing, it's about more 'screentime' watching and enjoying characters the viewer likes.
Now it's understandable given my 5-stars that I would love most things about Kuma, and I do - but there are a few points of consideration for people who value other things in the... more>>If characters are male, it was almost to absolute that they were evil or idiot and they will be punished by the bear no matter how young they are. I still remember she punched a brat with her bear outfit. And if male characters ain't bad, they will likely be a useless characters with no power or unable to work properly. The step father of a kid I totally forgot name, the big guy in a first city that I completely clueless and the King are a good example for the second case. That's is the male characters' fate. For girls, things were much better. If you are young, it is likely 90% that you belongs to the bear (yes, I said 'belong to' not 'belong with'). If you are older, you will be a capable women with power and every beautiful traits that you could only have in a novel. In short there are no characters development in the story. It only reflect how was the author treating different genders in real life. And as the result, an after bad taste is what readers could have. World building
The world setup is poorly. It relies completely on game setting which gives me a feeling of none of these were real. Therefore, I was gradually lost my favor to every single characters in this world. This world's terrain has forest, sea, beach and desert and... that's all. It has countries, villages, cities. Races so far were simply with 4, human, dwarves, elves and monsters which are the rest of creatures will be beaten to death by protagonist. This world has magic but you can hardly find it implementation in the life. It's likely only for adventures to do the killing monster things. In a nutshell, the author has no idea how to connect those element to build a fantasy world. He/she simply thought that if we throw everything to a hot pot we have an America. And that is poor in imagination. Protagonist
Even though we see the whole story from the protagonist point of view, we still couldn't see anything at all. That's right, none is the answer. The main character is so shallow. I couldn't find anything attractive from here. She was describing as a very smart kid. But as the plot grew, I couldn't see what did she done to be called smart. If you are smart and you want to stay low profile, you wouldn't do the abnormal things. The 'smart' in here only means as convenient plot, and that's cheap thing to do. At a certain point, the protagonist is just a background character if the story doesn't describe in the first pov. Too plain and too cheap. Main plot
None, again. Since this is a slice of life, we cannot expect some surprising plot twist. It is not its thing. But one thing cannot be accept under any genres, it is plot convenience. This story is packed by a filthy rich of convenient plot which doesn't make better, sometimes it could even be worse. Like in the arc of a rich noble girl party, the author willingly turn on boy into an evil boss and get his face beaten to half death by the bear who swore will never beat the kid. Just because there wasn't enough villain for the act, the protagonist can be easily changed her heart upside down so easily to fit the plot. What kind of the story is this? Also, everything the bear made must be good to perfect. I kept wondering do those people have sense of tasting? The political plot is also very s*upid. It's s*upid because it was built only for the protagonist to solve it. It doesn't have any meaning in world or characters development. The story plot only a simple pudding, it's sweet but it plain. If you eat about 100 puddings (chapters), you will get fed up. In a nutshell
This story doesn't have anything worth to read. I would recommend you not to waste you time on it. Even if you are looking for fluffy story, there are absolutely better novels, manga out there.
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- some of our world recipes
Battles aren't worth much:-
- With her suit, the MC is mostly invincible, which makes her battles mostly stakeless. The author is not really good at writing battles either which doesn't make them really pleasing to read (besides a few of them).
The world building part is frankly botched.-
- It mostly revolves around food but most problem solved by the MC have no real reason to exist. Examples (minor spoilers) :
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And besides that aspect, the "building" part isn't even detailed much.
The slice of life aspect isn't really though well. This genre can mostly go two ways (or their combination) : sightseeing or daily life at some place. The author attempted both and failed.No one seem to have gotten the idea of raising chicken for their eggs despite a chicken-like animal being easy to capture in the wild, not hard to raise (even children can do it), and eggs being really expensive items. Cheese is deemed worthless for some reason but is still produced. Territory is annexed without any political unrest in the neighboring countries...
a portable house (not a tent, a modernish house with beds, a bath and everything)
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- As for the daily life part, the interactions of other characters with our MC can be cute and funny at times but get really redundant after a while. That's because characters are shallow, being defined by one or two traits each that stay the same during the whole story. Once you have seen what each trait does when confronted with the 4 kinds of power of MC, there is nothing much to see.
So my global feeling about this webnovel can be summed up in one word: lazy. The author is too lazy to:- Each part of the bear suit is described so you can understand how op they are from the start. Unlike other series where the MC will randomly get some power up.
- the MC was rich in japan and all of her money was transferred over so you don't have to deal with the MC constantly comparing isekai currency to yen because money is irrelevant. You can guess what would be considered expensive vs cheap.
- the protagonist was described as someone who basically had to take care of herself so her knowing all sorts of recipes and random food knowledge makes more sense than other isekai where an MC will make mayonnaise because they vaguely remember a commercial they saw while brushing their teeth.
- The MC already had to overcome hardship in her original world as described by her relationship with her parents, school, etc. So there is no need to have trials to develop the mc's character.
- the MC is self sufficient and doesn't really have a need for friends so there is no need to force a party element into the story, unlike other series where the MC will be given a harem despite being op because harem.
- the MC didn't interact with people much but doesn't feel the constantly remind us of her lack of friends or social experience unlike some series where the MC will keep discussing the curves of female characters and talk about how nervous they are to be with a person of the opposite gender.
- so far there is no sign of romance being forced if there are plans of romance.
- the character being op actually makes sense and the MC actually utilizes strategy to fight rather than just relying on her over powered ability
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cons:for example she 100 goblins and instead of blowing up the surrounding area to beat them she launches a fireball into the cave to burn up the oxygen and suffocate them since she sealed the exit
- this series is more on the slice of life side so if you are expecting deep philosophy and themes like in Attack on Titan for example this is not the series for you. This is a series where you can let your brain relax and just enjoy the story without having to think to deeply about anything.
- most of the story is us seeing the world through Yuna's eyes so other characters aren't really discussed in terms of their thoughts. But most of their thoughts are visible in their dialogue and interactions with Yuna.
- there is a lot of food talk in this series not necessarily like in food wars but more like a scene in Naruto where the ninjas go to that barbeque place or to get ramen. Yuna knowing how to make such foods makes sense so it doesn't detract from the story.
- There are a few scenes where yuna builds things so any professional architects might have critiques but not me.
overall I think this is a great series it'll get boring for you if you go into it with the expectation of it being the novel version of one piece rather than a nice slice of life isekai without the generic I'm op but everyone thinks I'm tr*sh plotline.