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“Protagonist wakes up transformed into Pochita, the pet dog of his beautiful classmate Karen Inukai.”
My Life as Inukai-san's Dog.
犬になったら好きな人に拾われた。
5.76
22,030 rank · 12,521 readers · 91 favorites
Comedy
Ecchi
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Synopsis
Protagonist wakes up transformed into Pochita, the pet dog of his beautiful classmate Karen Inukai.
The story follows the protagonist who wakes up one day transformed as Pochita, a pet dog of his cool and beautiful classmate Karen Inukai. (Source: MAL News)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 8 sampled reviews
6.4
/10
What 8 readers settled on.
80%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7.5
mode 8
σ 3.04
Agreement
Polarized
σ 3.04 · split reception
The polarity gap
6.5 pts
Recommenders 8.5 · others 2.0
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Score over time
↓ 0.63
Running avg · Jun 2022 → Nov 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “Welcome to the ultimate dog man manga! Featuring our senpai, doggy transformed Highschool boy and his high school female crush that only likes dogs!! If you wish to keep reading after that then...”
- 8 “It's a pretty special manga, not to say extremely rare. It borders on H on several occasions and made me rethink what I was reading several times. There were panels in the manga that made me look...”
- 8 “When a high school boy wakes up, he finds his world view has shifted to a floor view and soon discovers that he has become someone pet. Then he relies two things, one, that she is his crush...”
Verbosity
Short · 50%
Medium · 50%
Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 65 × 9 ch × vol
- Total read 8h 40m approx
- Published Aug 2020 – Jul 2023
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M54434 catalog