is a Japanese

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series written by Kumanano and illustrated by 029. It began serialization online in 2014 on the user-generated novel publishing website

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. It was later acquired by Shufu to Seikatsu Sha, who have published nineteen volumes since May 2015 under their PASH! Books imprint. A

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adaptation with art by Sergei has been serialized online via Shufu to Seikatsu Sha's Comic PASH! website since 2018 and has been collected in eight ''

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'' volumes. Both the light novel and manga are licensed in North America by

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. An

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television series adaptation by

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aired from October to December 2020. A second season is set to premiere in April 2023.

Premise

Yuna is a bored teenage girl who spends her time as a

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and living off money she makes in the

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, being mooched off by her parents. While playing her favorite FPV online game ''World Fantasy Online'', Yuna receives an embarrassing bear suit as a gift for playing so long. The administrator of the game turns out to be a God, who based the game on her world. She then transports Yuna into said world without a real warning with the bear suit, which she is powerless without. Despite her initial anger at being teleported without consent, Yuna quickly adapts and finds her new life more fulfilling than the empty one back on Earth.

Characters

; : :Yuna is a 15-year-old girl who lives by herself. Given her finances, she chose to become socially withdrawn at age twelve to play ''World Fantasy Online'' as much as possible. She decides to enjoy her new life in another world since she did not have any reason to go back to her original world, though she loathes the fact God made all her powers be linked to an embarrassing bear suit. She has to use bear imagery with her magic to make it strong. To her frustrated resignation, Yuna finds everyone uses the motif of her suit for things associated with Yuna. ; : :Fina is a 10-year-old girl and a resident of the town of Crimonia. Having been forced to care for the family at a very young age, she is very responsible and mature. As noted by her mother and Yuna, Fina has an unusual mentality for a 10-year-old. She met Yuna after she rescued her from wolves and later became her work partner. Thanks to Yuna have a ridiculously large amount of monsters for her to harvest, courtesy of her item bag, Fina is no longer hurting for money. As such, Fina gets 50% of all sales for the harvested items. Her closeness to Yuna shows Fina thinks of her as family. ; : :Noire is a 10-year-old girl and noble who resides in the town of Crimonia; she met Yuna after hearing reports of her from the adventurers guild. She has an older sister named Shia Foschurose. She loves Yuna's bears more than anything; having founded the Miss Bear Fan Club in appreciation. Her nickname is "Noa". ; : :Shuri is Fina's younger sister and daughter of Telmina. Shuri is often makes silly assumptions. ; : :Misana is Gran Farrengram's granddaughter. Her nickname is "Misa". ; : :Shia is a 15-year-old girl who is Noire's elder sister and the daughter of Cliff and Eleanora Foschurose. She currently lives together with her mother in the Royal Capital and attends the Royal Academy, while her sister and father live together in Crimonia. Shia takes after her father most; being able to mask her emotions. ; : :Cliff is the feudal lord of Crimonia. He is, according to Yuna, a lord who takes good care of everyone in his domain, including the orphanage. In fact, he is swift with cutting the corruption out of his territory; having been angered at the news a subordinate

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funds, and quickly tried to make ammends to the victims. ; : :Gentz is a Guild staff member and a resident of Crimonia. He later becomes Fina and Shuri's stepfather. In his adventuring days, he belonged to Telmina and Roy's party. ; : :Yuna's summoned Beast along with Kumayuru. It is the white one out of the two bears she summons. The name means "Hugging Bear". ; : :Yuna's summoned Beast along with Kumakyū. It is the black one out of the two bears she summons. The name means "Spinning Bear". ; : :Telmina is the mother of Fina and Shuri and a resident of Crimonia. She is a former adventurer, but wasn't allowed to resume her old job by her daughters. She is a caring and motherly figure and has lived in poverty for many years. She holds a great love for her family and her benefactor Yuna and feels forever grateful towards her. She later becomes the orphanage's business representative. ; : :Lala is a maid at the Foschurose residence. ; : :Eleanora Foschurose is a 33-year-old noble residing in the Royal Capital, and the mother of Noire and Shia and the wife of Cliff Foschurose. She currently lives together in the Royal Capital with Shia, working as the King's adviser; while Noire and Cliff live together in Crimonia. Yuna notes Eleanora basically runs the kingdom, as the king relies on her so much. Even though she is in her early thirties, Yuna describes her as someone who only looks like she is in her twenties. Aside from that, Eleanora is famous for her beauty. ; :Roy is Telmina's deceased husband. Gentz, Telmina and him were in the same adventurer party before he and Telmina got married. ; : :Sanya is the guildmaster of adventurer's guild residing in the royal capital. She is an elf and has a little sister named Ruimin and a little brother named Luca. ; :Gran is the grandfather of Misana Farrengram. He is the feudal lord of the eastern part of the town of Sheelin. Later, he governs all of Sheelin after the Salbert family, who formerly governed the western part of Sheelin, were stripped of their noble status after becoming involved in a kidnapping incident among other crimes. ; : :Atla is the guildmaster of the adventurer's guild in Millela. Because Atla dresses in a short skirt and top that exposes her garments underneath, Yuna mistook her for an

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and the Guild for an adult business. ; : :Flora is the princess of the kingdom. She is very fond of Yuna, whom created a storybook for Flora that actually was age appropriate. ; :Bō is the headmistress for the orphanage in Crimonia. ; : :Liz is the staff and instructor for the children at the orphanage in Crimonia. ; : :Rondo is the butler at the Foschurose residence.

Media

Light novels

The series was first published online on the

website in October 2014 by Kumanano. It was later acquired by Shufu to Seikatsu Sha, who published the first volume as a

under their PASH! Books imprint in May 2015. The series is licensed in North America by

Manga

adaptation with art by Sergei began serialization online via Shufu to Seikatsu Sha's Comic PASH! website on March 28, 2018. It has been collected in seven ''

'' volumes as of November 2021. The manga is also licensed in North America by Seven Seas Entertainment. A spinoff manga series by Yukinori Satō, titled , began serialization online via Shufu to Seikatsu Sha's PASH UP! website on September 16, 2020.

Volume list

=''Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear''

=''Kuma Kuma Kuma Beā 〜 Kyō mo Kuma Kuma Biyori 〜''

Anime

In January 2020, an

television series adaptation was announced in the fourteenth volume of the light novel. The series was animated by

and directed by Yuu Nobuta, with Takashi Aoshima handling series composition, Yuki Nakano designing the characters, and Shigeo Komori composing the music. Hisashii Ishii served as series director. The series ran for 12 episodes from October 7 to December 23, 2020 on AT-X and other networks.

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performed the opening theme .

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performed the first ending theme from Episodes 2–11, while Kawase and Waki also performed the second ending theme for Episode 12.

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acquired the series and streamed it on its website in North America and the British Isles. On January 19, 2021, Funimation announced the series would receive an English dub, which premiered the following day. Following

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's acquisition of

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, the series was moved to Crunchyroll. On December 23, 2020, when the first season's finale aired, the production of a second season was announced. The main cast and staff are returning from the first season. Titled ''Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear Punch!'', the season is set to premiere in April 2023.

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