When thief Karim sneaks into a clandestine auction, he finds Asena, a beautiful young man with animal ears and a tail. On impulse, Karim steals him from the bidder who bought him for a hefty sum and decides to take responsibility, making arrangements to live with him for a month while he waits for the ship to his hometown to arrive.

Asena is high-minded and fiercely proud of his own race, so he treats Karim—a human being—coldly, but one day he suddenly changes like he was a different person and tries to seduce Karim. Asena’s race has the sexual characteristic of going on heat. Aroused by Asena’s irresistible instinct, Karim makes love to him wildly, but…?!

An oriental fantasy love story swaying between instinct and affection!

My ass thought this was a catboy. A trans catboy, on top of that. I thought those were surgery scars.

Nope, wrong on both counts. He’s an intersex (??? male genitalia who can get pregnant, a la omega in the omegaverse, so not REALLY intersex, but I’ll take what I can get) dogboy. What about that says dog?

In any case, woof, heed the CWs I put on this one. You have Asena who has been kidnapped from his home and trafficked to sell as a luxury sex slave. Turns out his whole race was made as a luxury good in the Before Times (?!) before they escaped and now live in the wilds, one with nature. Now he’s hanging with the humans and being ogled, and he runs into a guy who becomes his One True Love.

It’s pretty par for the course for a yaoi. Nothing ground-breaking, but the art is quite nice, and it’s your formulaic romance. Happy ending and all.

Welcome to the Menagerie.

Here is where M logs their media activity. Partly because Goodreads is forgettable and keeping physical logs is harder. Sometimes M writes a lot. Sometimes M doesn’t write enough. It doesn’t matter. This is just a for-fun little blog so that M can remember what they thought about whatever they watched or read or played or. Whatever.


What is M?

I read. Voraciously. I have subscriptions to those book things on digital retailers. I consume books at nearly all hours. The hours I don’t spend reading? I’m writing. I’m drawing. I have a problem. I have a problem in that I love to read things that are in the same vein repeatedly. Book journals don’t work and as much as I text my friends screenshots of book passages, it doesn’t scratch the itch. Now I’m going to be doing… tiny… tiny book reports.


Truck-Kun Kill Count:


Books & Light Novels Read in 2025: 19/100
19%
Comics Read in 2025: 25/100
25%
Physical Owned Books Read: 400/662
60%


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