Doubutsu no Kuni
Animal Land
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Alternative Titles

Synonyms: Animal Country, Animal Kingdom, Konjiki no Gash Bell!! Gaiden
Japanese: どうぶつの国
English: Animal Land
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Type: Manga
Volumes: 14
Chapters: 56
Status: Finished
Published: Sep 9, 2009 to Feb 8, 2014
Genres: Action Action, Adventure Adventure, Award Winning Award Winning, Comedy Comedy, Fantasy Fantasy
Demographic: Shounen Shounen
Serialization: Bessatsu Shounen Magazine
Authors: Raiku, Makoto (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.801 (scored by 23072,307 users)
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Ranked: #13602
2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #3492
Members: 6,423
Favorites: 120

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Synopsis

Welcome to the world of Animal Country. In this world, there exists thousands of animals except for 1; man. That is, until a strange baby was found by the young raccoon Monoko. Now, she has made it her duty to be the child's mother in this world where the strong eat and the weak are eaten!

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Volume 6: Konjiki no Gash Bell!! Gaiden: Tomo

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Doubutsu no Kuni was published in English as Animal Land by Kodansha USA from August 16, 2011 to October 30, 2018.

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Characters

Momonoya, Tarouza
Momonoya, Tarouza
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Monoko
Monoko
Main
Luce, Capri
Luce, Capri
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Kurokagi
Kurokagi
Main
Vivre, Riemu
Vivre, Riemu
Main
Bell, Gash
Bell, Gash
Supporting
Takamine, Kiyomaro
Takamine, Kiyomaro
Supporting
Umagon
Umagon
Supporting
Tio
Tio
Supporting
Arth
Arth
Supporting

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Feb 4, 2021
Protoblues327
Recommended
I really wanted to love this series, but I felt the second half was much weaker than the first half. Animal Land is enjoyable, and there are a lot of elements that can be enjoyed by multiple different audiences, but the second half seemed more rushed and less emotionally involving than before the time skip.

The story is based on a boy who is raised by a tanuki, and he is trying to create a world where all animals can coexist together, but while doing this, the young boy Taroza, must also find a way to restore humanity to the world. The plot is very ...
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Jan 16, 2017
Fancyjasper
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I decided that my first review would be of my number one manga series of all time. I was shocked to see how few people have actually read this series when it's just so great and easily surpasses the more popular long running manga series out there, in just 14 volumes.
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The story for Animal Land is like a Roller coaster ride, in the best possible way. Things keep escalating and the story really evolves (heh) throughout the manga. It doesn't waste anytime doing what it wants to do and had me hooked the whole way through.

The creator has done an amazing job at showing ...
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Jun 5, 2014
zombiexhead
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The story started at animal land, place where was never seen a single human. Lonely tanuki named Monoko find a human baby Tarouza, and become his mother. Later Tarouza realize that he can understand other animals cry, so he decided to make world there plant-eating and meat-eating animals can live together.

We can split whole manga in two parts, first then Tarouza is growing and acknowledge all sides of wild world of animal land. And the first problem i have is in how Doubutsu no Kuni looks. Its has it "cute and funny" style to it, and even trying to throw couple of jokes ...
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