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This is the most 5/10 series you could get. An isekai in name only with some cool spells and rules and boring creatures, characters who appear out of nowhere that are great in concept but get barely used, crucial character traits that are completely forgotten near the end and to top it off the most boring and repetitive character designs wearing decent outfits... I only watched it for the lesbians and even that aspect is mediocre. The core couple gets an imperfect and rushed development at the start, barely speak to each other for half of the series until the last 3 chapters and their ... marriage as queens doesn't happen, which would be literally the only satisfying conclusion to the entire plot. Even then, the secondary characters have it much worse in that regard. The king has a wife appear in the middle of episode 4 so he doesn't look gay, the lesbian vampire suddenly has a playful and comedic conversation with a guy who tried to kill her a few hours ago... It's all a complete mess.

Kinda like Zootopia, this series wants to talk about marginalized groups being represented by humanoid beasts and treat the oppression that comes from being different.

It has the same problems as that movie. After all, the prejudices against every animal are real. They are beasts and they will act like the beast that they are.
How can you talk about prejudices when every character's prejudices are real?

Aside from that, I would say that the final message is even worse than the Zootopia one.

In the last chapters, the hate and fear against human-beasts is completely justified by biology, because in every moment they can become monsters that have ... no control of themselves. It is not related to the stress of being oppressed, like in Promare, their DNA is just like that.

It is not a prejudice that must be changed because its false, in fact it is real and it even has a scientific explanation inside the world of BNA.

When you start watching the first episodes, the message seems to be that human-beasts are just built different than us but their heart is human and they must be treated with equal respect, but at the end, the story justifies the discrimination that human-beasts suffer.

They are monsters and you should feel afraid of them. Credits

As a trans woman myself, I am excited every time I see trans people in media being represented without being misserable creatures that can only suffer, be a joke, or fulfill a sexual fetish.

Until now I have watched dozens of anime, and I only found 2 good trans characters from 2 different shows. Hurou Musuko isn't one of those.

To be fair, trans kids are very rare in media, even more than trans adults. Seeing young people struggling with their identity is pretty common in media, but is very uncommon to see that applied to LGBT kids. I like seeing the same issues I have to ... deal with being portrayed in a show that sees me and my community as normal people that has been built different.

My problem comes when... that's it. That's the whole point of the anime. Watching a trans boy and a trans girl struggling with trans problems. This felt totally alien to me, and I have experienced pretty much the same as the main characters. I felt completely disconnected to them because they aren't complete humans. All the life of each trans character in this anime is dedicated to suffer from being trans or thinking about being trans. They aren't allowed to do anything else.

If they were background characters with 1-2 episodes this wouldn't be a problem, but they are the main protagonists and all they do is experience trauma or fear for their identity in loop the whole series. They need aspirations, hobbys, cheerful moments, problems that have nothing to do with their transness, etc. Instead, all the plot comes from what they are, and not who they are.