Murenase! Seton Gakuen (Seton Academy: Join the Pack!)

Seton Academy is a place attended by a plethora of interesting and diverse animal species. Jin Mazama is one of the few humans there, who also happens to vehemently hate animals from the bottom of his heart! One day, he stumbles upon the rowdy and assertive girl Ranka Ookami, a small "lone wolf" without a pack, who has not a single friend.

The desperate Ranka tries to invite Jin into joining her pack; Jin, who hates animals, naturally refuses. Amid this situation, Jin meets Hitomi Hino, a fellow human, and promptly becomes infatuated with her. After getting to know each other, the two decide to create a cooking club, and after a few bad-blooded misunderstandings, Ranka soon joins the club as well.

Thus begins the howl-some and howl-arious story of two normal humans; an adorable wolf; a cheerful koala; a sluggish, blonde sloth; and a feline with cattitude in their newfound club—in a story that teaches that friendship can be forged by creatures of different kinds.

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Adaptation:	Murenase! Seton Gakuen, Murenase! Seton Gakuen: Animal Academy
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Hino, Hitomi

Main

Miyamoto, Yume
Japanese

Ookami, Ranka

Main

Kino, Hina
Japanese

Mazama, Jin

Main

Ishiya, Haruki
Japanese

Shishio, Miyubi

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Kohara, Konomi
Japanese

Meimei

Supporting

Serizawa, Yuu
Japanese

Nekomai, Kurumi

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Tokui, Sora
Japanese

Komori, Yukari

Supporting

Kuno, Misaki
Japanese

Mashima, Kuroe

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Aoyama, Yoshino
Japanese

Ookami, Ferrill

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Tano, Asami
Japanese

Madaraba, Iena

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Tsuda, Minami
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Ikehata, Hiroshi

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Gou, Fumiyuki

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Takada, Masatoyo

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Makino, Tomoe

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"Gakuen Soukan Zoo (学園壮観Zoo)" by Ryouri-bu

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"Ookami Blues (オオカミブルース)" by Ranka Ookami (Hina Kino)

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Mar 23, 2020

Walpurgies

Recommended

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A T-rex professor, a homo girafe, an exhibitionist mole-rat, a hermaphrodite hyena, an unbreakable badger, a star panda, an ever-dying sloth and a pero-pero obsessed cute loli wolf. That’s just a little part of the mess that you can find in this hilarious and smooth anime.

Murenase! Seton Gakuen or Seton Academy: Join the pack! has finally finished airing and damn, it was a blast all along.

If you think that’s an uninteresting furry anime, you are missing something big time. Throughout my review I hope you will see this anime in a clearer light which is absolutely well-deserved.

First a quick resume: Seton ...

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Mar 23, 2020

Stark700

Not Recommended

Murenase Shiiton Gakuen (Seton Academy) is amazing, amazing in the fact that within a span of 12 episodes, it managed to make me dislike animals.

On the surface, this show doesn’t raise too many red flags. Besides, we’ve had other anime about the animal society in recent years such as Beastars. The problem about Seton Academy lies in its story execution and character cast. People may see this just another genre cliché milked by school academy tropes. When you combine that with an academy of animals, there’s hardly anything original about the storytelling. And you’d be right. When the audience first meets animal hater, Mazama Jin, ... he’s nothing more special than an average teenager with a teenage crush on Hino Hitomi, who happens to also be a human. The story tries to adapt and evolve from its initial premise but never chooses an opportunity for development. That’s because his life is now gotten more chaotic than ever after being involved with an animal pack, led by the overenergetic wolf, Ranka.

I really wish this anime had an auto-mute whenever Ranka opens her mouth. Being a wolf and fiercely protective of her territory, Ranka explifies just about everything I hate about children: loud, annoying, impulsive, and always tries to have her way. Watching her character behavior equates to watching a 5-year old fighting over food with their sibling. Unfortunately for Jin, he has to deal with her behavior on a daily basis. And that doesn’t even count the fact that she is a living object getting in the way of Jin professing his feelings to Hino. Speaking of which, Hino is thrown into the show as a nice type of girl; think of the ‘girl next door type’. It doesn’t take long for Hino to somehow also get entangled into the Ranka’s daily misadventures. To add fuel to the fire, the show somehow manages to throw her into embarrassing situations without batting an eye. The show doesn’t take time to truly develop either character or their relationship. It instead recycles the endless clichés over and over until it milks it dry.

Honestly, I’m not particularly sure what type of audience this anime is aimed at. With minimal story direction, you’d think this appeals to slice of life fans looking for an extra dose of popcorn entertainment. But no, that’s not where the appeals lies. The show lacks the realism of a human storyteller. It puts overemphasis on the animal society that there’s no time to find life quality. Watching the series feels like the author wanted us to believe in this animal society, taking place in an academy. The animals takes on human roles such as the students and staff. But in reality, these character roles are deconstructed that results in an insufferable character cast. It challenged me to name one character that truly felt worth investing time into and in the end, I came up none.

Then, there’s the problem with character relationships. Let’s start with the most normal, being the pair of Jin and Hitomi. This is nothing more than a fantasy daydream saturated with character delusions and idiotic fantasies. While many anime of similar genre follows the trend, this show somehow manages to add them without a shred of shame at any chance it gets. The more this show aired, the more these delusions became more like a way of adding extra TV time for each episode. On the animal front, delusions sometimes gets raunchy and suggestive as we have to remember that they behave just like animals. The anime also takes pleasure to show as much as fan service as possible when given the chance, such as with Ranka’s impulsive licking or Miki’s near naked outfits. The character relationship between Jin and Ranka is like compared to a babysitter and a baby. Jin literally has to hold her back sometimes to avoid public problems. Why? That’s because Ranka seems to have the mentality of a kindergartener. Oh and I’m afraid the rest of the cast isn’t any better. For instance, the female koala Shisho has the animal behavior of a sloth and you likely won’t remember a single dialogue in the episodes she’s in. Others such as Komori or Mei Mei fails to capitalize on their own character personalities to be something unique. When I watch either of them interact with others, it reminds me of elementary school, the days where children behave like annoying children. Even some of the more fierce and masculine characters such as the lions aren’t what I pictured them to be. It’s too bad really because this could have been a somewhat entertaining educational exploration of an animal society. But instead, the creators made this look like a horrible meme with unfunny gags and endless amount of idiocy.

Somehow, I made it through this anime without smashing my TV screen. This show looked like one written by a zoo fanatic but completely fails to mesmerize the audience with their ideas. With little to no story direction and an absolutely insufferable character cast, it truly deserves the score it gets. Hopefully after reading this review and if someone recommends you to watch Murenase Shiiton Gakuen, you turn your head away and say “no”.

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Mar 23, 2020

BayraktarTB2

Recommended

It’s an animal trivia-based absurdist comedy. It’s good. If I had to describe it in one word, I’d call it “dumb fun for smart people with refined taste and appreciation for wit.” Here’s what a comedy series should do to be a 10:

- Out of all the animal-factoids-applied-to-a-humanoid-society shows of the last few years this one is easily the most ingenious in the way, well, in the way the animal trivia is applied to the humanoid societal circumstances and situations (taking into account that the end-goal here is making gags).

- The comedy is consistently funny, again, because the gags are artfully built on the trivia ... foundation. I repeat the same thing multiple times because it really deserves to be emphasized: THIS SHOW IS VERY, VERY CLEVER IN TURNING THE NATURE DOCUMENTARY MATERIAL INTO HUMAN SOCIAL INTERACTIONS. On top of that, it does not concern itself in the slightest with the pedantical adhering to reality (have I mentioned the comedy here is “absurdist”? Because the comedy here is absurdist). Instead, it liberally mixes scientific facts and urban legends based on whichever will be funnier in a given moment, and this unfettered approach works wonders. Yet, the show never fails to point out when a piece of trivia it uses is not real, which is also important for keeping it dapper.

- The characters are likeable and their relationships are “investment-worthy” (believable and interesting to follow). Same deal as in the paragraph above, the characters’ personalities are based on either the real or the folklore traits of their corresponding animal base, and the exact degree of their “animalness” changes arbitrarily based on the necessities of a good joke. While the story’s format and the sheer number of the cast members doesn’t exactly allow for the super complex character arcs, everyone has a clearly defined personality, interacts with the other cast members in a logical way based on how their personalities match, and has some goals and aspirations that steadily progress as the plot progresses.

- High-effort anime adaptation. The easy place to point this out is the OP/ED. The OP manages to convey every major character’s role in the story in just a few short seconds, while playing thematically fitting jungle music. The ED is simply a work of art. Things like these are your flags - whether you are familiar with the source material or not, they let you know that the anime adaptation’s creative team have put some actual effort and passion into their work. The source material here isn’t mindlessly copy-pasted or mindlessly abridged - things are reshuffled, rewritten and repurposed in order to work better in a different medium that has different strengths and limitations, while preserving the soul of the work. There is more than one case of an episode being stitched together from the parts of five different non-consecutive manga chapters (and I mean “different story arcs” kind of non-consecutive) and it looks completely seamless to a naked eye.

9.5/10 for a consistently funny, thought-provoking, and high production values comedy series.

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