bookheaven | Kemono Jihen, #2

怪物事変 2 by Sho Aimoto

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Another 'monster of the week' set up but Kabane is different enough and interesting enough to keep me going. He has no idea how to even be human, not because he's that much of a kemono (think faerie or demon realm sort of creature) but because the people who raised him dehumanized him. Of course he isn't human and his type of kemono has impressive regenerative abilities (think Deadpool)

Inugami has taken a shine to Kabane and has made him part of the kemono investigative team. Kabane ends up crossing paths with one of Inugami's frenemies, an Inari spirit and there's the whole vampire thing that Kabane gets swept up in. His two young companions get a little fleshing out, well not so much Shiki (who looks a little like and acts a bit like Bakugo from My Hero Academia) and Akira (at least we learn why he acts and dresses feminine which could be tied in to the type of kemono he is because he definitely doesn't want to be a girl at this point in the series at least) gets a bit more fleshing out.

There aren't any female characters within the agency but we get a few from outside but Kon is not a female character I'd ever want (a hundred percent dependent/in service to the Inari character and seems to have very little independent thought or the ability to think much at all).

I'm finding the plot interesting enough to keep me going but I do rather want more from it.

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