Machi is a girl who serves as a shrine maiden (miko) at a Shinto shrine enshrining a bear (kuma) in the recesses of a certain mountain in Japan's northern Tohoku region. Machi's guardian is a talking bear named Natsu, and one day Machi tells him that she wants to go to a school in the city. The worrywart Natsu then gives Machi — who is ignorant about the ways of the world — a set of trials that she must pass in order to be able to survive in the city.
from ANN
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Notes

Alternative Names: Kuma Miko, Kumamiko
Author: YOSHIMOTO Masume
Artist: YOSHIMOTO Masume
Genre: Comedy, Slice of Life
Demographic: Seinen
Adapted into the anime, Kumamiko - Girl Meets Bear