Kainushi Juujin to Petto Joshikousei - Vol. 3 Ch. 17.6 - Memories

[MacMeaties]

I wonder if they breed humans in this world? Logically they would if they are livestock but conversely they are implied to be uncommon. I find it very difficult to find an appropriate analogy as there isn't really an appropriate fit.

They are uncommon but almost unanimously considered food so keeping them as a pet isn't the norm but raising them to eat is so something like a goose sorta fits. But then when you add in that the beastmen know that they are intelligent enough to at least recognize words and their meaning (including nonverbally aka written) it becomes more like how we'd see dogs, parrots and other hominids which are things we commonly don't regard as livestock unless you're Asian and we all know how well eating weird shit like that goes historically and very currently...

 

[Doomroar]

@remikih yeah i think she gets kidnapped and eaten.

She was such a good human too.

 

[radstylix]

@Ice_Leaf We'll see, since that makes less sense with all the different animals (and their mouths and how they speak) present. I could handwave that to get the story along, similarly with Beastars. We'll also see if the humans in this world are less/not sentient, because whew, it just bothers me a lot that these animals are eating humans if they're even just slightly sentient. And since they're eating people, that means humans are lower in that world compared to cats, dogs, and other pets over here. I'd say humans are considered closer to chickens in the beast world. Oh, we also don't know what meat they eat in that world, though I don't recall seeing herbivore kemonos yet.

Big goddamn dissonances with this being a slice-of-life/romance...

 

[Speak_Evil]

There is the chance that the author used "eaten" to mean simply gone, she might have just returned to her world.

 

[Nep]

@MacMeaties

) it becomes more like how we'd see dogs, parrots and other hominids which are things we commonly don't regard as livestock unless you're Asian

I don't particularly mind the 'slight' but I just want to point out that not all Asians treats dogs like livestock. In fact, there are just as many Asian countries that DON'T eat dogs.

Main Asian "culprits" that actively(?) eat dogs are China, Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia.

Japanese people apparently DON'T eat them because of religion, they have stores selling it to foreigners.

Non-Asian culprits include the Arctic and Antarctic, Ghana.
Native North Americans still do it for ritual purposes


Saying Asians in particular would be a disservice to countries like Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, India.


*Countries that don't have any laws/have partial laws banning consumption of dog meat but at the same time dogs are not actively consumed or dogs are not treated as food but medicine, include places like Egypt, UK, Nigeria, etc.

*Prohibition on slaughtering dogs for consumption in the US is only done recently (2018)


**No comment on the parrot. I have never even heard of that thing being eaten.
***China even breed roaches for consumption. Meanwhile Japan censors even drawings of roaches. Please do not use China as a standard for Asians in regards to food(if you are). Seriously. Please don't. I'll puke.

 

[MacMeaties]

@Nep

Don't worry I wasn't, the "unless you're Asian" bit was facetious as I'm fully aware it's not all Asian countries and that there are numerous example of countries, ethnic groups or cultures in other parts of the world that eat things most others would consider odd, inappropriate or outright illegal; like Chimp meat in certain parts of Africa or how it's technically completely legal to eat human meat in the UK though that's not actually practised... hopefully...

My whole comments was pretty much just a confused attempt at trying to figure out if the author intends for there to be any sort of even superficial analogy to something IRL and if so noting that it's really really far off the mark as generally speaking once we regard an animal as having theory of mind, and therefore being about as intelligent as a preschooler, we think it's a bit of a dick move to eat them. The fact that the beast people in this series seem to be fully aware of how intelligent humans are and still regard them primarily as a delicacy I think suggests there is no attempt at any analogy.

 

[rayce]

I think the main take away here is that the beast men can fall in love with a human. Could allude to how this ends.

 

[llamallamaduck]

Ahhhhhhh
The juxtaposition between the sheer existential terror of living in this world as a human and the general cuteness of this is fucking my mind.

try Doukyonin wa Hiza, Tokidoki, Atama no Ue.
a.k.a.: My Roommate is a cat

I cant speak for the manga, but the anime was great. Each episode we would see the perspective of the human trying to bond with his new cat. And then we would see the same things but from the perspective of the cat where it can "think"

So the cat is just another cat, no special intelligence boost. But when we see their perspective, it's kind of like what a human would interpret the actions of the cat to be - except accurate.

Highly recommend. I feel like it is this concept of this manga but without the existential crisis terror