sadslime's manga / #animal characteristics(87)

Mayu is a somewhat helpless young man who was rescued himself as an orphaned child, and now he's taken in a child with nowhere to go, a small beastman tiger named Tora, who fell in love with him. This slice of life story shows bits and pieces of Mayu and Tora's lives where Tora takes care of Mayu and tries to win him over. Trigger warning: incest themes (guardian x child).

Ai has a strange condition passed down in his family in which his sadness causes him to turn into a cat and that's made it hard for him to live a normal life and make friends at school. He's determined to change and live a normal high school life as he starts his first year, but he quickly runs into trouble and is saved by his new desk neighbor, Kurokawa. It feels like Kurokawa keeps seeing embarrassing sides of Ai, but Kurokawa is so kind, Ai badly wants to be his friend, and soon, possibly even more. A very cute comedy BL with some slight translation errors that honestly only add to the charm in my opinion. No trigger warnings.

Kokonoe is the last fox in the forest, and one day while patrolling his territory, he happens upon a young bird who fell out of his nest. While Kokonoe initially picks up the bird to eat later as "emergency rations," he eventually can't let go of the child and decides to raise him as his father, giving the child the name Yosuga. But when Yosuga the hawk grows up, he and Kokonoe both start to yearn for a deeper connection between them, despite the barriers of species and gender, and Kokonoe feels he's stealing from Yosuga what it means to be a hawk, so he must let him go. If you're squeamish about incest themes, do not read. Otherwise, I think it's a fairly touching and interesting story with beautiful art. Trigger warning: incest themes (adopted parent x child)

Baldo is a young beastman prince who was raised to be a king, but one day as a child, he saw that his father brought home an albino omega whom he was warned to stay away from. As an adult, he finds the omega in an isolated cabin in the woods and learns his name is Maya, and though he can't say many words, he's very sweet and lively. The two develop a relationship, and after Baldo accidentally rapes Maya due to his heat, he brings Maya to the castle where they then happily continue their relationship, until Baldo is married and Maya starts to struggle with feelings of jealousy. But when Baldo is told that Maya will be sacrificed at the next festival to ensure he has children with his wife, he has to decide what's really important to him. Now includes a second half about Baldo and Maya's life after, but honestly, I liked the ambiguous end better as the later ending feels unrealistic to me. Still cute though. Trigger warnings: slavery, rape, feels like attempted rape, attempted human sacrifice.

Akira Abe and Tamaki Homuraya are both teachers at a school, but one day on his way home, Akira sees Tamaki go with a man into a back ally, then grow a tail and ears. Akira drags Tamaki home and learns that he's a fox spirit who subsists off of semen, and he needs to feed, so Akira offers himself, only to find that when they kiss, Tamaki gains a seal on his tongue and becomes Akira's shikigami due to Akira's unknown onmyoji ancestry, making Tamaki the only man he can feed from. Both men know this relationship can't continue, but they also kinda like it? Trigger warning: noncon(hypnotism).

A short doujinshi with a day in the life of a man who adopted a genetically modified cat human (made for sex) who now wants to go outside, so the man distracts the catboy with sex. Trigger warning: feels like statutory rape, sex slavery.

A man goes to meet up a hookup and finds his partner is a neko in every sense of the word. Not only does he have cat ears and a tail, it turns out he was a cat until his owner died and he mysteriously became human. The man is a total cat lover, so he's into it and enjoys the night, but when he suggests they meet again, his new kitty friend says to come find him. No trigger warnings.

In a world with humans and cat beastmen who use humans as sex tools to get through their "heats," a young black cat boy named Meri lives alone due to the belief that black cats are cursed until he finds a human man named Kai on his doorstep. Kai is an escaped sex slave who starts to take care of Kai to repay him while insisting that his "curse" is nothing to be afraid of. When Kai has his first heat, he realizes the only person he wants to touch him is Kai, and the two admit their love. But what will happen when Kai admits his plan all along has been to run away across the seas in search of a better life? Either unfinished or has a very abrupt ending, but still cute. Trigger warning: feels like statutory rape (Meri's age is not established, and he's treated as sexually mature, but he looks young).

Ch.1-1.5 - Neko no Yomeiri - Sachs is a tigerman living on a mountain who happens across a cat in a trap that looks like a good meal. The cat introduces himself as Wilhelm and begs not to be eaten, as he is a sacrifice for the god living in the castle. Since Sachs has recently taken up living in the abandoned castle, he decides to impersonate the god and says Wilhelm is his sacrifice, intending to fatten him up and eat him. But he almost immediately gets too attached to go through with it. I think they're very cute, especially in their bonus chapter. No sex. Trigger warning: lying/manipulation Ch.2 - Intoxication Honey - Claudio is an introverted cat nobleman who hates dogs until he has a chance meeting with dog beastman Kainz one night on a balcony and gets swept off his feet. But when he meets Kainz again at a tea party the next day, he finds that Kainz is actually just a flirt who acts like this with everyone, so he starts pushing Kainz away. But Kainz won't give up so easily! No trigger warnings. Ch.3 - Repaying the Kindness of a Cat - Dieter is a cat person vagabond who gets mistaken as a thief and ends up crashing at the house of the cobbler Edgar. Although Dieter is easily misunderstood and got into trouble where he lived before, Edgar's encouragement helps him turn over a new leaf. But what will happen when police come looking for Dieter as a jewel thief after Edgar already found a gem in Dieter's things? No trigger warnings.

Haru is a stray cat who got picked up by a pretty lady and imagined a life with her all to himself, so he was disillusioned to find she already had a big fluffy cat named Rui. Haru is testy with Rui, but Rui is very patient and sweet to him and gradually the little kitty realizes he's come to like Rui more than he thought. Cute little manga about anthropomorphized cats. For some reason the chapters are in very short chunks, so that's a little annoying. No trigger warnings.