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Muse Asia Simulcasts Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Anime's Advance 1st Episode
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Muse Asia announced on Thursday that it will stream the first episode of the television anime of Kumanano and 029's Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear light novels on Sunday, September 20 at 12:00 a.m. GMT +8 (effectively September 21), and will only be available from 12:00 a.m. to 12:30 a.m. GMT +8. The advance streaming is in line with the early first episode streaming in Japan on September 19 at 11:30 p.m. GMT +9.
Muse Asia clarified that it not necessarily licensed the anime for simulcast streaming, but has a "higher chance of getting approval." It later added that it is working to acquire permissions for the anime, and will possibly make an announcement at a later date.
The anime will premiere in Japan on October 7.
Seven Seas Entertainment is publishing the novels in North America, and it describes the story:
Fifteen-year-old Yuna prefers staying home and obsessively playing her favorite VRMMO game to doing anything else, including going to school. When a strange new update gives her a one-of-a-kind bear outfit that comes with overpowered abilities, Yuna is torn: the outfit is unbearably cute, but too embarrassing to wear in-game. But then she suddenly finds herself transported into the world of the game, facing down monsters and magic for real, and the bear suit becomes the best weapon she has!
Yuu Nobuta (High School Fleet, A Good Librarian Like a Good Shepherd) is directing the anime at EMT Squared. Hisashi Ishii is the series director. Takashi Aoshima (Himouto! Umaruchan, Yuruyuri - Happy Go Lily) is in charge of the series scripts, and Yūki Nakano (A Destructive God Sits Next to Me) is designing the characters.
Azumi Waki is performing the opening theme song "Itsuka no Kioku."
Kumanano began serializing the ongoing story on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō (Let's Become Novelists) website in 2014. Shufu to Seikatsu Sha began publishing the story in print with art by 029 in May 2015, and the company published the 15th volume on May 22.
Sergei launched the manga on Shufu to Seikatsu Sha's Comic PASH! manga website in 2014, and the company published the manga's fourth volume on March 27.
