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“Monoko the raccoon raises a human baby in a brutal animal-only world.”
Animal Land
どうぶつの国
7.81
1,461 rank · 6,706 readers · 123 favorites
Shounen
Action
Adventure
Award Winning
Comedy
Fantasy
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Synopsis
Monoko the raccoon raises a human baby in a brutal animal-only world.
Welcome to the world of Animal Country. In this world, there exists thousands of animals except for 1; man. That is, until a strange baby was found by the young raccoon Monoko. Now, she has made it her duty to be the child's mother in this world where the strong eat and the weak are eaten! Included one-shot: Volume 6: Konjiki no Gash Bell!! Gaiden: Tomo
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 8 sampled reviews
8.5
/10
What 8 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 8.5
mode 7
σ 1.12
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.12 · some divergence
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↑ 0.50
Running avg · Oct 2011 → Oct 2021
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 10 “Mod Note: This review was initially posted for the one-shot, Konjiki no Gash Bell!! Gaiden, and was subsequently merged into Doubutsu no Kuni. Hahaha I may be overrating this gaiden but it truly is...”
- 7 “I really wanted to love this series, but I felt the second half was much weaker than the first half. Animal Land is enjoyable, and there are a lot of elements that can be enjoyed by multiple...”
- 8 “I was indecisive between scoring this a 7 or an 8. But I have decided it must land itself an 8. The art style is definitely not for everyone. This isn't a story about some cute and fuzzy animals....”
Verbosity
Short · 50%
Medium · 38%
Long · 13%
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Explore the Animal Land universe
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A Manga Publication
- Format 56 × 14 ch × vol
- Total read 7h 28m approx
- Published Sep 2009 – Feb 2014
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M10715 catalog