くまクマ熊ベアー 7

(3.5 stars)

Probably the best Kuma Bear volume since 4, we're fully done with the Crimonia/Mireera merger and Yuna is free to start another adventure with a clean slate. The first half concerns her fighting particularly troublesome golems in the mithril mines and it's really fun. We have some of the cutest and funniest Fina scenes of the series as well.

The second half though is yet another food adventure and while it is cute and enjoyable this is at least the third time we've had a whole arc of Yuna recreating a traditional food, showing it to her friends, and selling it at the cafe and the process of her going around to every individual friend, getting an opinion, and then teaching someone to make it is getting a bit tedious and repetitive.

Definitely my easiest time reading this series in Japanese so far and had some good mining terms to pick up, though I worry I may find difficulty continuing more from the story if it stays fairly repetitive.