Anime Waifus: Become a Zoophile!
Series in more sentences:
A human boy with a deep hatred for animals attends an animal high school, and finds himself setting up a cooking club with an incompetent wolf girl who dreams of starting a pack with many different species.
But I suggest you not let your kids watch this.
A world where talking, bipedal animals and humans live together is proven to work, Bojack Horseman is one of those shows, but in Seton Academy, things lean slightly more towards Beastars in the sense the species of these animals are an important factor to their behaviour and culture.
..And for some reason a wolf can grow the size of a giraffe and is one of the strongest predators in an environment full of big cats. A wolf does not have a fraction of a chance against a lion on tiger, Japan. What is up with this preferential treatment?
I liked that these character were like animals, but I'm not 100% aboard with the odd gender differences applied. All males looked realistic, while all females were just human beings with maybe a set of ears and a tail. I've seen less than a handful of female characters that looked somewhat clever, but the rest were just normal girls with nothing going on in their design.
The sloth -with the best running gag in the show- was one of the biggest offenders.. She has a bit of moss on her hair. That's it. Incredibly uncreative.
And this matters, because the main character hates animals. To hear him shout or scoff at someone that hardly looks like one feels weird.
"Like I care about an animal's naked body!" he snarls, concerning an "animal" that has the face, skin, and curves of an unsuspicious human girl.
This probably wanted to be a harem show, and for that to work, the girls need to look somewhat desirable. But why? There's really no harem stuff going on. The boy only likes the one other human girl that entered his sad life, and the wolf likes the boy. None of the other girls show romantic interest in him, despite the blush on their face when they first met him.
Maybe another problem is the abundance of characters being introduced. They're fun, but with this many, you can only appoint them the role of sitting in the background. I forgot the cat even existed at one point, and the wolf stopped being interesting to me further in time.
At the end we're introduced to a group of young teenagers from another school that are supposedly extinct animals, but I don't even understand how that's possible. If they're teenagers, that means they have or had parents who produced them not that long ago, but they're talking like their entire species died millions of years ago.
And why are they so dramatic, while a literal T-Rex teacher is walking around on the premise without explanation?
So far my review. Weird logic, unnecessary crotch shots and sex talk, but it kept me hooked. Would watch season 2.
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