Familiar Diversions
I'm a librarian who loves anime, manga, and reading a wide variety of genres.
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Reading progress update: I've read 84 out of 229 pages.
The creator of this is also the creator of the pretty, cute, and occasionally dark and unsettling The Girl From the Other Side. This is basically a collection of short manga stories, m/m Hogwarts by way of Zootopia.
I'm not sure how I feel about this yet. On the surface, it's lovely and sweet, and often awkward. If you don't think about it too much, and just take the character as they are. If you actually think about what's going on, though, every single story so far has been problematic and/or unsettling.
So far I've read three stories. In the first story, a hare with a huge crush on his academically superior Siamese cat classmate brews a love potion designed to make the person who drinks it temporarily do whatever the first person they see says. Nagabe kept the tone light and sweet, but it didn't negate the fact that the adorably awkward hare slipped his crush a magical date rape drug. In the second story, we have a wolf, a goat, and an unsettling mixture of human-like unrequited love, animal territoriality, and predator-prey instincts. The third story features a dragon teacher and his much younger orphaned dragon student, both of whom are very fond of each other in a way that could eventually lead to romance.
We'll see how the rest of this goes...
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