S-Rank Monster no "Behemoth" dakedo, Neko to Machigawarete Elf Musume no Pet toshite Kurashitemasu

Nobody asked to be a cat!

After dying in a fight against the forces of evil, a knight is shocked to discover that instead of being reborn as a hero of humanity, he starts his new life as a behemoth-one of the most powerful monsters in the world! The only problem is that a baby behemoth looks an awful lot like...an adorable house cat?! Things grow even more confusing when a beautiful elf adventurer rescues him from the brink of death rather than finishing him off. This house-cat-slash-knight's baffling journey is just getting started...

(Source: Yen Press)

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S-Rank Monster no "Behemoth" dakedo, Neko to Machigawarete Elf Musume no Pet toshite Kurashitemasu began as a web novel on Shousetsuka ni Narou on August 19, 2017. Micro Magazine-sha has released a revised and illustrated version of the series since March 30, 2018 under its GC Novels label.

The series has been published in English as I'm a Behemoth, an S-Ranked Monster, but Mistaken for a Cat, I Live as an Elf Girl's Pet by Yen Press under the Yen On imprint since July 21, 2020.

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Jun 24, 2022

Virazek

Not Recommended

Preliminary (4/? eps)

(Note: I only read the first volume)

You know that joke about male authors writing about women and how they always write stuff like "She breasted boobily down the stairs..."? Did you think that was an over exaggeration and that no one would actually write like that? Well, do I have bad news for you...

==========THIS REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SOME MINOR SPOILERS==========

This is a reincarnation story about a previously super strong knight guy getting reincarnated into a behemoth, but since he's just a cub he resembles a cat.
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Naturally, he has to have a cheat skill, being that his main skill is that he steals skills from monsters he defeats and eats a part of. Pretty normal OP stuff. I have to hand it to the author, his basic combat skill (being able to outpredict opponents, spacing and positioning, etc.) still being pretty good as a cat because he was a knight in his previous life is actually fairly reasonable compared to everything else in the novel, which was refreshing.
(I'm not sure if this was a translation error (I could've opened up the novel in Japanese to check but I didn't want to subject myself to anymore of this) but it flat-out states that he had no skills upon being reborn? Which is incorrect.)

Upon getting completely owned by dungeon monsters because he's just a cat, he is rescued by the large-breasted (they absolutely make sure you know this at all times) elf girl and becomes her pet.

Speaking of boobs, there's a lot of them. A whole lot. The author can't go two sentences without mentioning how someone's boobs are bouncing, or how soft they are (naturally, the elf girl's normal place to carry her cat are between her breasts; I guess that's why that's the cover because it sure gets mentioned a lot), or how someone's sideboob is showing, or how the protagonist is just thinking about boobs naturally all the time. Don't worry panty lovers, they make sure to put an upskirt scene in there too.

They really go all-out with the fun cast of characters here: big-boobed elf girl adventurer (she's at least somewhat capable, even if protagonist cat has to help her all the time), big-boobed (they make sure you know that they're smaller than the elf's) tiger girl adventurer/shop owner, adventurer guild receptionist who's entire character trait is that they wear ridiculous bondage gear and have an unknown gender (wow, real funny), asshole adventurer guy, and some generic knights at the end of volume 1.

Most of the plot is monster-of-the-week style stuff, but the overarching reason why the characters are even together is that elf girl is insanely horny for the cat. Frankly, I think the author was too. Elf girl flat-out says out loud in the middle of a adventurer bar how much she wants to 'meow-meow' with him (tiger girl does too but only in her head). Protagonist cat frequently talks about his own erection. There's literally a scene in the side stories at the end of volume 1 where the author takes about a page or two to describe a woman being raped by a giant cat and how elf girl was turned on by it. They make sure to note how every monster elf girl comes across wants to do the same.

I think apart from the awful writing (I know for a fact that this isn't a translation thing), terrible characters, pages upon pages of nothing but boobs, non-existent plot, and insane obsession about cat penis, there's a lot of missed potential. Why bother having the tagline of the cool behemoth monster protagonist if you're going to just dash all the reader's hopes on the first page? If he was an actual legit terrifying-but-can-also-be-cute behemoth, that might've even bumped my rating up to a 2!

All in all, all reading this novel made me want to do was take a nice long shower and forget it existed.

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Dec 15, 2020

SpearShake

Not Recommended

Preliminary (5/? eps)

The protagonist here is a Feline Monster [Cat]. And yet, the female characters wants to mate with him. How is this even being legally translated and sold?

Story: Not an isekai. Let's start with that. This is about a knight that is re-incarnated into a cat in his own world. Early on, this story feels a lot like "So I'm A Spider", but in 100x fast forward.... A newborn monster need to survive in a labyrinth, only to get ridiculously strong. And that's fine. But, I checked several times and this Cat did NOT have any skills when born. And then in it's first fight ... it did have skills after all... The books have these HUGE "skill-list" sections. It was empty!!! And the cat still had the most overpowered skills ever. Now, it might've been a translation error or something, I guess. But then before the first volume is over, this Cat has become an unstoppable force of nature. All for the sake of Harem-building.

The cat finds a big-boobed elf and decides to become her guardian. And then even more beautiful women pops up. Plenty of these women wants to mate with the cat. Which makes this book illegal literature in my country, soooo. THE END.

Characters: I liked the Cat protagonist at first. But it's so confusing to understand his choices. He pretends to be a Cat and becomes a pet. So, why even bother making a monster story when he's gonna live with people in a town? And it all happens so easily that it's not even interesting to read about. "Oh, a cute cat! Let's adopt it." Done. That's it. Seriously, why even make the protagonist a "Monster"??? I truly want to know.

Elf Girl, big boobs, and needs constant protection because she's weak. Why does elves have huge boobs all the time? And then we have plenty more sexy females, but ironically enough, there's a lack of Human girls. This author tried sooo hard to make things exotic and different, he forget the most standard race of all... But the problem here is that the protagonist is a Cat (Feline Monster). So why make beautiful women when there's absolutely no chance of anything happening??? GAAAAH!!!! My head hurts.

Overall. There's is no reason to read this story. You want a monster protagonist living in a dungeon? So I'm A Spider. <--- Perfection.
If you want adventurers, go read any isekai story ever. Elf girls? Whatever you like in a light novel, this story doesn't make it good enough to satisfy that need. The one thing this story has that you won't find anywhere else is... The fact that a Cat is constantly being targeted by horny women that wants to mate... The only reason I rated it as highly as I did is because of the sexy ladies. (LOL)

Read it, don't read it. I honestly don't care. I didn't even want to write this review. I simply did it because no one else had.

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S-Rank Monster no "Behemoth" dakedo, Neko to Machigawarete Elf Musume no Pet toshite Kurashitemasu
I'm a Behemoth, an S-Ranked Monster, but Mistaken for a Cat, I Live as an Elf Girl's Pet
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