Innocent World my ass, it seems like a place that's has a underbelly that is seedy and vile, you know, kinda like ours but worse.

I can't think of any fictional world with atrocities worse that the ones I've heard people have done in the real world.

Where are people getting the idea that Mel and Master are now fugitives? They're just moving to somewhere else in the country (a 3-day ride on two separate trains followed by a horse-drawn coach to the final destination) that is sparsely populated enough for them to be able to live in relative seclusion, thus minimizing the risk of anyone catching on to the fact that Master has a beastkin in tow and is suspiciously living alone with her with little contact with the outside world (which would likely invite a check-up visit from the nearest government office that handles beastkin affairs).

Oh, and curse you, Itou-sensei, for clearly acknowledging the fact that Master must have an actual name of her own, yet refusing to reveal it to us by having Mel be too embarrassed to say it! Curse you for tantalizing us so cruelly!

Also... Is it just me, or is this volume special supposed to go before the actual chapters in this volume, sans Mist's section?

I can't think of any fictional world with atrocities worse that the ones I've heard people have done in the real world.

Yeah, honestly the whole beastkin situation, as disgusting as it may be, is a state of utopian equality compared to the shit that was going on in our world during the same time period (looks to be early 20th Century, judging by the technology), and pales in comparison to the awful things that continue to this day in some places.

However, there are a few fictional series, such as Saishuu Heiki Kanojo (massive civilian bombing campaigns culminating in literally all life on earth being extinguished) or the Worldbreaker Saga (obscenely cruel slave societies plus multiworld medieval fantasy genocide) where the atrocities committed are indeed worse than what has happened in the real world.

Where are people getting the idea that Mel and Master are now fugitives? They're just moving to somewhere else in the country (a 3-day ride on two separate trains followed by a horse-drawn coach to the final destination) that is sparsely populated enough for them to be able to live in relative seclusion, thus minimizing the risk of anyone catching on to the fact that Master has a beastkin in tow and is suspiciously living alone with her with little contact with the outside world (which would likely invite a check-up visit from the nearest government office that handles beastkin affairs).

Judging by the line here, they're probably going to a foreign country.

it would've been nice if they took collette too...

it would've been nice if they took collette too...

She wants to retire and be with her family rather than move to another country. Perfectly reasonable.

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this extra really made me realize they just yadda yadda the ending

I'll be miss this series, hope there's a sequel someday.

And yeah, I'm sad Collette didn't go with them.

Also... Is it just me, or is this volume special supposed to go before the actual chapters in this volume, sans Mist's section?

Pages in volume are numbered, special was last after the chapter

legit, the only thing i miss about being a girl is having long hair for people to play with XD shit was relaxing as heck!! also, LAST VOLUME??!!?? T^T i cri

Where are people getting the idea that Mel and Master are now fugitives? They're just moving to somewhere else in the country.

It clearly states they are going to another country - where the relationship between beast-girls and humans is 'different' is how it was put - to which I take it to mean a country where they are treated equal and they can freely be together - and not be treated as some kinda servant race that don't have the same rights, like they seem to be in their homeland.

Given how Mel had to be careful to hide her tail and ears, I'm going to guess the beast girls of their country are not aloud to travel abroad - to 'freedom'?

But I agree they wont be fugitives - nobody is looking for them or knows Mel has gone with her master - they will just settle down to a quite life in some other country. But it did seem like if it came to the attention of the authorities and master went back to their country, she would at least be in some trouble with the law.

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"Innocent world"

Okay, keep your secrets

it would've been nice if they took collette too...

She wants to retire and be with her family rather than move to another country. Perfectly reasonable.

Yeah, as far back as chapter 10, it was made clear that Colette had been planning to retire for quite some time. That was the main reason she suggested Master adopt a beastkin in the first place (after Master had said it was impossible for her to make friends or get married). Colette wanted to be sure that Master had one person in her life she could trust so that when she retired Master wouldn't be completely alone.

it would've been nice if they took collette too...

She wants to retire and be with her family rather than move to another country. Perfectly reasonable.

Yeah, as far back as chapter 10, it was made clear that Colette had been planning to retire for quite some time. That was the main reason she suggested Master adopt a beastkin in the first place (after Master had said it was impossible for her to make friends or get married). Colette wanted to be sure that Master had one person in her life she could trust so that when she retired Master wouldn't be completely alone.

I'm telling ya, Collette's been the master planner/power behind the throne all along. lol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granny_Goodness

She did hide her ears and tail, but not with any serious effort. If a hat and long skirt is all it takes to get past any security they have on the matter, it can't be that big of a deal.

Also... Is it just me, or is this volume special supposed to go before the actual chapters in this volume, sans Mist's section?

Pages in volume are numbered, special was last after the chapter

There's a 1 year time skip , so the extra happened around that time.

Nooooo Coletteeeee ;_;

She did hide her ears and tail, but not with any serious effort. If a hat and long skirt is all it takes to get past any security they have on the matter, it can't be that big of a deal.

I had just assumed that it was very rare for masters to want to take their beastkin outside of the country, so they didn’t think to check. Now that Master and Mel ran off they might start being more careful though.

I had just assumed that it was very rare for masters to want to take their beastkin outside of the country, so they didn’t think to check. Now that Master and Mel ran off they might start being more careful though.

Also, this isn't exactly a police state. It'd be pretty difficult to enforce any kind of strict restrictions on freedom of movement in a turn of the century setting.

Even though it was short, I really liked it. Endings still make me feel empty inside.
Colette... ;_;

I had just assumed that it was very rare for masters to want to take their beastkin outside of the country, so they didn’t think to check. Now that Master and Mel ran off they might start being more careful though.

Also, this isn't exactly a police state. It'd be pretty difficult to enforce any kind of strict restrictions on freedom of movement in a turn of the century setting.

You'd be surprised. Remarkably harsh travel controls can be implemented already with Medieval technology, as demonstrated by eg. the Tokugawa bakufu and some of the Chinese dynasties (starting with the Qin) - it's just a matter of state organisation and seeing a reason to invest the required effort. And Forsyth's The Day of the Jackal has a pretty impressive study of the kind of dragnet that can be created with basically just telephones and card indexes; the story's set in the Sixties but the tools employed by the authorities date to the "Long Nineteenth Century".

I had just assumed that it was very rare for masters to want to take their beastkin outside of the country, so they didn’t think to check. Now that Master and Mel ran off they might start being more careful though.

Also, this isn't exactly a police state. It'd be pretty difficult to enforce any kind of strict restrictions on freedom of movement in a turn of the century setting.

You'd be surprised. Remarkably harsh travel controls can be implemented already with Medieval technology, as demonstrated by eg. the Tokugawa bakufu and some of the Chinese dynasties (starting with the Qin) - it's just a matter of state organisation and seeing a reason to invest the required effort. And Forsyth's The Day of the Jackal has a pretty impressive study of the kind of dragnet that can be created with basically just telephones and card indexes; the story's set in the Sixties but the tools employed by the authorities date to the "Long Nineteenth Century".

All true, but for all the apparent new "evidence" we've been given about the legal status of beastkin, we still don't know very much about the specific laws and practices of this storyworld and how they do or don't fit together.

• Masters traveling with beastkin within the country is completely normal--we've seen Stella and Master both do it.

• There's some kind of status regarding Mel's collar and an ID number, but few of the other beastkin wear anything resembling Mel's bondage/slave/pet collar, which she wore before being taken in by Master.

• There's an illegal beastkin slave trade, the specific reasons for which (sex? perverse collections? ransom? pelts?) being left to our imaginations, and the authorities in general seem to be on the lookout for the welfare of beastkin.

• Romantic relationships between humans and beastkin are frowned upon, but whether they're actually illegal, and whether the objections are to interspecies miscegenation, to (possibly) unavoidable pedophilia with the never-fully-maturing beastkin, or to inequality of social status, or some combination thereof, is never made clear.

The ending implies that there's some sort of "Transporting Beastkin Across International Borders for Immoral Purposes" issue, but its nature and extent is, once again, left to our imaginations.

Ah, well, like Marie and Collette, I just want the people, etc. I care about to be happy together.

Ya, files under "seeing a reason to invest in the required effort". Apparently the authorities here, well, don't, at least beyond the fairly nominal. (I'm a tad skeptical of the degree to which the authorities actually care about the critters, though, given that the supervision of beastkin-master relations is apparently entirely down to "social controls" and self-reporting - and Mel presumably isn't the only specimen alarmingly fuzzy about the relevant laws to boot.)

Damn that panel of the house in ch13, it looks damn fkin great. It feels so good to see a yuri manga with such a background art like this one.

^Because most of it is doujins or self published - we don't get that many yuri manga paid to be made for a magazine etc, where a really good artist is gonna put in the kind of time and effort needed for great backgrounds.

Also, story wise, the background art is often superfluous - or does not need to be detailed. It just looks a lot better when it is:) Thus it is often skipped or minimized for time/effort reasons.

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