“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.”
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“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.”
But here’s the thing. We know almost nothing about A. No origin. No family. No real sense of where this ability comes from or what it costs. That lack of grounding made it hard to connect with them. They started to feel detached. Almost arrogant. Like someone who believes they understand everything simply because they’ve seen so many lives.
One of the standouts of this series thankfully remains the art style. Sakurai’s choice to keep the animals soft and rounded is in direct contrast to the more angular feeling of the human characters. This feels deliberate and symbolic. The contrast highlights the purity and vulnerability of the animals against the guarded and often harsher nature of the people in the series. To my surprise, in Volume 2 something shifted.