I remember that there were issues with the romanization -- Kumalia/Kumaria for one, and Mirun/Milne for another -- which is not uncommon in simul-subs but which I think hurt the narrative quite a bit for viewers in the West.
I seem to recall that there's some decent Yurikuma meta and discussion floating around, though sadly it's scattered across various message/discussion boards, blog posts, and Tumblr. One of the better aspects that I remember was the discussion of the Court as a fascinating commentary on the patriarchy -- that in a female-dominated series, it's a group of men who are passing judgment on women's decisions to love (and approving whether something is yuri enough for their tastes, which I personally see as a dig against the preponderance of male-gazey yuri tropes). Sha-ba-da-doo. But since the series was shorter, it didn't have the time that Utena and Penguindrum did to really ram home its messages through repetition, so it comes across as a lot more frantic to me.
I don't buy Funimation releases, so Penguindrum and Yurikuma probably won't end up on my shelves. But in Yurikuma's case, I really do wish that Sentai or had gotten their hands on it, because I think they do a lot better with shows that have specific Japanese cultural context.
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Date: 2017-02-23 03:50 pm (UTC)I seem to recall that there's some decent Yurikuma meta and discussion floating around, though sadly it's scattered across various message/discussion boards, blog posts, and Tumblr. One of the better aspects that I remember was the discussion of the Court as a fascinating commentary on the patriarchy -- that in a female-dominated series, it's a group of men who are passing judgment on women's decisions to love (and approving whether something is yuri enough for their tastes, which I personally see as a dig against the preponderance of male-gazey yuri tropes). Sha-ba-da-doo. But since the series was shorter, it didn't have the time that Utena and Penguindrum did to really ram home its messages through repetition, so it comes across as a lot more frantic to me.
I don't buy Funimation releases, so Penguindrum and Yurikuma probably won't end up on my shelves. But in Yurikuma's case, I really do wish that Sentai or had gotten their hands on it, because I think they do a lot better with shows that have specific Japanese cultural context.