I've always liked Triggers work, their artstyle and animation is very appealing to me, so I was going into this series expecting to like it, the commodity of having it complete on netflix and dubbed to give my complete attention to the visuals instead of the subs helped too, I was excited for this series but not enough to be unable to wait 'till a few days ago.
Visually the series is great, nothing out of the ordinary for Trigger and their very recognizable style, and thats (sadly) the most outstanding of the aspects of this series.
The characters are really nothing special, pretty one-dimensional if you ask me. The main character grows as a person and beastman but only in the necesary and obvious ways, same goes for Shirou. She's cute though, probably very marketable, hell all the characters look geat, the secodary cast's design feel like they suit their (cough bland cough) personality. I have pretty much nothing but praise for everything visually in general. The characters interact with the protaginist episode by episode, very typical stuff.

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The only interaction I remember really liking is that one time Nazuna was scolding Michiru about how the moments she decides something, she doesn't bother to think about it and just does whatever she thinks is right at the moment, wich can be a very heroic trait a mayority of the time, but it can be a liability when she could easily make less mistakes if she just thought about her desitions more. That type of "Shoot first, ask questions later", immediate hero mentality very rarely gets questions by non-antagonists, and I thought that was nice

The narrative of the story sort of gives this "Don't judge a book by its cover" message.

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and then just stops and confirms the judging by the protagonist was correct, kind of nullifying the message.

It also has the "humans are the real monsters" trope that felt like it was really going somewhere to make a social statement.

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But then the main human antagonist turns out to be a mega-beastmen that matches Shirou and tries to take over the world by making every beastman human, and when all that mess is over, only he and his influence were the only thing threatening the city's progress so I guess the humans weren't bad just easily manipulable?

I see a lot of people interpreting the social problems of this series as commentary on racial issues, personally I don't think it applies at all,

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and seeing how bad the message of the series was delivered, if there's even one appart from "don't be an asshole", I really don't think they'd go that far.

Not every story about an anthro society is Zootopia!

For some reason I was really expecting to see some social commentary, given that the main problems of the series are very social and even political sometimes, but in the end it was just a story about humans, super beastmen, superhero-like mutations and race issues,

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concluding in a pretty anti-climatic way. Nothing really gets resolved appart form a very specific inmediate threat that was building up in a way that seemed like a full on Humans vs Beastmen scenario and just became a JRPG boss. And I guess Michirou and Shirou appreciate the other race more by the end?

I'll give it a 79 just because even if it was really not what I expected, it was a really fun and entertaining series pretty much all the way, and I guess if it weren't for my preconceptions, maybe I would have enjoyed it more, the narrative is very messy though, not getting around that, and the plotwist it's unexpected in a pretty bad way because it doesn't connect with anything else, and even tough it makes sense it still feels like it comes form nowhere.

I liked it but it really could have been a lot better.

The ending is a total banger though.