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What They Say
Everyone’s on edge with Yuichi having left Morimori after the devastating revelation that he isn’t actually human. Aside from losing one of her best friends (and maybe something more?), Neko is distraught at how the truth about Yuichi affects her own place at this school for animal shape-shifters. But when she herself decides to leave the academy, it’s up to Kotaro to bring her back!
The Review:
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Animal Academy is a series that’s really starting to grow on me. I like pleasant, low-key stories, and Animal Academy is nothing if not pleasant and low-key. The question was whether or not it will be a particularly good pleasant, low-key story. After seeing what it could do with this volume and a little of the last, I think it is. I like it better now than I did when I was reading the first two books. This is not because the series has changed, exactly: it is very much the same warm, comf
What They Say
The fun never stops at Morimori High School! Fune and friends are settling in to their classes and dorm life, but there are plenty of surprises in store as Fune learns more about the strange school rules, as well as some of its more mysterious students. And when it comes time to pick extra-curriculars? What will Fune do?!
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There aren’t as many introductions to be made in this second volume of Animal Academy, but apart from that, this volume is much like the first. It has a story, and the story is going somewhere, but it’s taking its own sweet time about it. This may turn away some readers, but I’m finding the series a refreshing one to turn to. It’s just so…so pleasant.
What They Say
The only thing special about 15-year-old Neko is her peculiar name that means cat. After being rejected from every high school she tried to enroll in due to her bad grades, Neko is finally accepted to a mysterious school called Morimori. Neko immediately senses that something is off about this school…and it turns out that all the other students besides her are magical animals who can transform into human form. Now Neko must pretend to be a magical cat and not allow any of the other students to find out her secret – that she’s a human in a school of animals!