Taika's Reason

タイカの理性

Taika no Risei

39 chapters

5 volumes

2025 – present

Due to a falling birthrate, pets are being turned into humanoid members of society. But are they really human? Or are humans truly animals? When the misanthropic Ao finds her family’s pit bull, Taika, standing over her father’s mauled corpse, she has to choose between forgiveness and forgetting. Not ready to lose both her beloved father and her devoted pet, Ao goes along with her mother’s decision to have Taika humanized. She embraces the new dogman and even takes him to school with her. There, Taika encounters a German shepherd, an elite police dogman, and starts unlearning canine habits while picking up human customs. Now the two dogmen compete to see who can first locate the source of the mysterious bloodstains in Ao’s locker.