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Spoilers for Tev below

Ikuhara anime are heavily metaphorical. The Invisible Storm represents exclusion. Excluding others for being different. In the case of Sumika she was targeted by the invisible storm because of her love for Kureha. It was other students cutting the flowers in the lily garden.

The Wall of Seperation between bears and humans I'm not super clear on, nor am I super clear on what the bears represent, except that the characters who are bears are the ones who are sexual. Ikuhara said in an interview because he wanted sex and death to be connected in his story, which is an idea that I think shows up in psychology as well?

The yuri trials are a test of love. Kureha THOUGHT it was a test of her love for Sumika, but Kureha isn't the one on trial. Rather it seems a test of if her love and the love of Ginko and Lulu, in the abstract, is love or simply sexual avarice or simply friendship? This is speculation on my part tho. As the show goes on, we'll get more info and it'll be easier to tell what the metaphors mean.

It's also worth noting that after Sumika disappeared, Kureha's aim was always off. there are a few ways of interpreting this. That Kureha can't really take fire for revenge, or that the loss of Sumika, and someone to give her love by extension, left her directionlessness or without purpose? We assumed at first that Ginko and Lulu wanted to just consume Kureha, but they seem interested in her beyond the way they consume other students, and that I'm not sure it was Ginko and Lulu that attack her in the first ep.

BUT when Kureha is in danger, the yuri trial happens. Ginko and Lulu drink her nectar, which I assumed was just a metaphor for cunnilingus but might actually represent them being someone for Kureha to give her love to. They don't finish the first two times, but they do the third time, giving Kureha the aim she needs to protect herself.

So yeah, a lot of it's unclear and there's a lot of guessing and speculation, but that's a lot of the fun of Ikuhara shows.