Doubutsu Ningen

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Are we the predators, or the prey? When an unsuspecting father and daughter stumble upon a strange gathering of humanoid animals with a taste for fine cuisine, their worst nightmare is about to begin. Here, creatures who are not quite human—and not quite animal at that—raise humans as livestock and slaughter them to put meat on the table. Through this bizarre and horrific tale, society’s morals are put to the ultimate test: What does it truly mean to consume another living being?

Source: Yen Press, Vol. 1

Type

Manga

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Associated Names

Animal Human

Animan

Die Gesellschaft der Tiere (German)

Dōbutsu Ningen

Zwierzoludzie (Polish)

动物人间

動物人間

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Latest Release(s)

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Status in Country of Origin

3 Volumes (Ongoing)

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Average: 5.7 / 10.0 (9 votes)

Bayesian Average: 6.11 / 10.0

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Last Updated

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Genre

Drama Horror Mature Mystery Psychological Seinen
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Category Recommendations

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Choujin Taikei

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Author(s)

OKADA Takuya

Artist(s)

OKADA Takuya

Year

2023

Original Publisher

Hakusensha

Serialized In (magazine)

Young Animal (Hakusensha)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Yen Press (1 Volume; Ongoing)

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3 Month Pos #1294

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6 Month Pos #1091

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Year Pos #669

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Summary of the world setting pretty much

by Ixcez
3 months ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

This is a bit of a weird one I guess. Spoilers for the first few chapters. Basically the setting of the story is that sometime long ago humans tried to save a species of goats but because there was only a single female goat left they genespliced her to give birth on her own. But because of the immense amount of energy needed to give birth she started to crave meat and ate the kids she gave birth to. Eventually she also attacked and ate the human in charge of taking care of her.

After eating the human she gave birth to an anthropomorph and from there anthropomorphs for some reason started to infiltrate humanity. However, anthropomorph had to eat humans to stay alive at the same time anthropomorphs themselves had the biggest taste of all and because of this somehow a cabal with a mix of humans and anthropomorphs seemingly started farms around the world to raise both humans and anthropomorphs as cattle.

The story then starts with a father and daughter driving close by one of those farms before being kidnapped by the anthropomorphs in charge of the farm. The story then goes on to introduce the hidden parts about the world and how everyone is part of the dinner plate.

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So light and yet so heavyhanded

by LordRakdos
1 year ago

Rating: 4.0 / 10.0

I have no clue how this was recommended to me by the internet as the hot new horror manga around. It is both too light on the subject matter, no suspense, a tiny bit of mystery, and flat characters (the two protagonists are just "father" and "daughter" respectively) - also while going in way too heavy with the allegories and metaphors.

"Humans eat animals, so what if uh animals eat the humans???? And keep them like animals, whohohoho, never seen that before, what a commentary on consumption of meat and humane species-appropriate animal husbandry!"

Except it isn't. It struggles between shock value and obvious metaphor, and the little bit of mystery that is introduced is not properly, nor satisfying solved. The final chapter really drives home an eye-rolling message that has "oh so smart" written all over it. Honestly, if this was to be the message, I feel like a murder mystery in a city, or another type of story would have been a much better fit.

On a side note, as it is a popular trope often analysed and dissected: Raising humans for meat is absolutely ineffective. Humans need 18 years to be fully grown, a cow 1 year, a rabbit about 1 year, a pig 6 months, a chicken 12-24 WEEKS. The investment to turnout ratio is atrocious. The amount of water, food, shelter and time you would need to invest into one "human meat unit" does not pay off in the slightest. I would have liked for the story to comment on this, or explain how to solve this conundrum, but it doesn't. Huge missed opportunity to bring a fresh approach to an old idea.

If we want to talk about human and animal rights, about food and cannibalism - but now with intruiging animal characters, a great plot, fantastic worldbuilding and more complex themes - then look no further than Beastars.

I can recommend this only to someone new to the horror genre, the art is fine and serviceable, but otherwise, this was a total flop to me. Not enough content for this amount of wanna-be graphic shlock.

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