Cressida's manga / #Animal characteristics(1)

A refreshing and unique concept not destroyed yet utterly soured due to a tasteless age gap. Their dynamic as boss and employee is already inappropriate, but then we find out about their past, and it gets much worse. No concrete numbers are stated (we can all guess why that is), but based on context clues, we can infer that the wolf was around 17 and the goat was 5 to 7 years old at best when they first met. It is unclear when he began feeling romantically or sexually towards this person he met in an almost babysitting situation. We are clear on one thing, though: it is not looking good for him. At one point, the wolf says, "I felt like I might snatch you and run away if I saw you," to a 5-year-old boy. The implications of such continuous interaction in infancy and the reinforced power imbalance in adulthood emphasize grooming. One could argue that the past doesn't matter because they are adults now, except the wolf does not treat the goat as an adult (nor is the goat depicted as such). All of these patterns from the past are reinforced now; the wolf scolds him, tells him what to do, and, from the middle of the story forward, has sex with him. I don't enjoy the "playful smacking" present in this story. I say that between air quotes because I do not believe any smacking should occur between an employer and an employee, playful or not. But then again, that bothers me about 99% of Japanese content. Now for things I liked: I absolutely adore the visuals. Herbivores and carnivores have distinct ears, tails, and fur, even among the same species. It's delightfully creative and well-crafted in terms of visual world-building. As for the rest of the story, it was as light as a story featuring grooming could have been.