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Muse Asia to Stream 1st Episode of Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Anime on September 20

Muse Asia announced on its Facebook page on Thursday that it will be streaming the first episode of the television anime of Kumanano and 029's Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear light novels on September 20 ahead of its Japanese premiere. The company will stream the episode on YouTube from 5:30 p.m. IST to 6:00 p.m. IST. The advance streaming is in line with the early first episode streaming in Japan.

Muse Asia has not yet announced the regions in which the anime will stream, but stated it will stream on "all" of Muse Asia's YouTube channels.

The series will premiere in Japan on October 7 at 9:00 p.m. on the AT-X channel, and it will also run on Tokyo MX, BS11, Sun TV, and KBS Kyoto.

Seven Seas Entertainment is publishing the novels in English, 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. 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.

Other staff members include:

• Series Director: Hisashi Ishii
• Art Directors: Hiroki Matsumoto, Izumi Hoki, Hiroshi Katō
• Color Key Artist: Mika Iwami
• Prop Design: Tomomi Sugiyama
• Compositing Director of Photography: Tsubasa Yokoyama
• Editing: Motoki Niimi
• Sound Director: Hiroto Morishita
• Music: Shigeo Komori
• Music Production: Nippon Columbia

Azumi Waki is performing the opening theme song "Itsuka no Kioku." Maki Kawase sings the ending theme song "ano ne." as her character Yuna, and the song's CD will go on sale on October 21.

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. The 16th volume will ship on September 25.

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. The fifth volume will ship on September 25.

Source: Muse Asia's Facebook page