Kemono Michi

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Sypnosis:
From the same artist as the Konosuba manga series comes an epic comedy that breaks away from the traditional Isekai genre stories!

Kemono michi is a story about a japanese wrestler summoned to defeat the demon king, but there was a plot twist that makes one do a spit take.

It seems this wrestling maniac has a fondness for pets and wanted to create his own petshop but could not do it since he got summoned.

And like most isekai, he drags a harem of companions which are kemonos (beastpeople) humanoids with animal ears and/or tail.

Shigure: The silver wolf girl and personal assistant and co-worker for the protagonist's ... store. The tsundere of the team and the one who actually does the actual work. If it wasn't because of her the store would had already fallen apart.

Hanako: A half dragon girl lolita who joined him after he gave him a lecture about the wonders of pets. She is curious and naive and has a thing for food and biting things.

Camilla: A noble vampire woman who is also Hanako's subordinate. She is obsessed with Hanako to the point of worship. She is also the pain glutton of the group; As she always gets the beat down from the protagonist by her stupidity or the monsters when the group goes out pet taming.

Just by the absurd beginning, I got hooked with this manga. The sheer act of what he did in the prologue was enough to hook me up as it breaks away on what isekai was about.

And the plot twist is that this story is actually a slice of life comedy about an eccentric Japanese man who is into wrestling and manages a "Monster Pet" shop.

Implausibly shallow and disinteresting characters with implausible gimmick-based personalities doing implausible things for implausible reasons with implausibly few consequences and an implausible lack of plot or character development. It'd be an okay absurdist comedy, if only it was funny. But it's not funny—it's just stupid, meandering, incoherent and obnoxious.

I tried skipping ahead to see if it gets any better. It doesn't.

MAL would like a longer review. What is there to even say? Let's autopsy the first few pages.

Princess Lacks-A-Name somehow or other summons a powerful warrior (read: pro wrestler with a furry persona) from Earth to "eliminate evil magical beasts" ... and "defeat the Demon King," whoever that is—it's not like there's any sort of introduction to any of this. Our protagonist, who knows as much as we do, responds by manhandling and subsequently suplexing Her Royal Highness with apparent impunity, resulting in a gratuitous yet unappealing panty shot.

One jarring half-year cut later, and we find our protagonist attempting to lure a cat into his house/pet shop in a creepily suggestive manner. Here we also meet Generic Harem Regulars 1, 2 and 3, none of which are any more likeable than the wrestler who, as it turns out, is a nauseating suck with the judgement and attention span of a potato. MAL, please let me post this now. I don't want to go on.