the wize wize beasts of wizarding wizdoms

Huey’s blind optimism and unflappable confidence in himself, despite numerous rejections is a delight. Featuring an arrogant peacock named Huey, who doesn’t seem to have any luck when it comes to finding a girlfriend, and his friend Doug, a crow who is obsessed with him and secretly sabotaging his chances with the ladies. Huey & Doug: Courtship & Friendship, is a standout story for me, as it’s the funniest story in the collection. Every story in this manga is solid, though I, of course, have some favourites. Often with anthology’s, I find there will be some good stories and then a couple of stories that are basically duds, but that’s not really the case here. If you’ve read Nagabe’s other manga series, The Girl From the Other Side, then you have an idea for what to expect here. This world is quite different from the less peaceful animal societies depicted in other manga series, such as Beastars, and all of these different anthropomorphized animal species are beautifully rendered in Nagabe’s lovely art style. For example, there is a story featuring a lizard student who finds it more difficult to move during the cold winter months and requires help from his roommate to get dressed in the morning, much to said roommate’s delight.

Despite taking on some human characteristics, the Demi Humans retain aspects of their animal physiology. There are even some mythical Demi Human tribes, such as unicorns, gryphons and dragons living amongst the normal beast tribes and everyone seems to get along. Amongst the Demi Human tribes, all sorts of animals live together in harmony, thanks to the fact that normal animals still exist and it’s deemed permissible for members of carnivorous tribes to eat them. Humans exist, but live separate from the Demi Humans and the two groups don’t have much contact with each other.

The world of Wizarding Wizdoms is an interesting one. These tribes built a school for studying magic in their creator’s honour, and there the Demi Humans diligently study wizardry… when they aren’t distracted by romance, that is. Long ago, a wonderful wizard named Wizdom saw fit to bestow human intelligence and attributes upon certain beasts, forming tribes of beings known as Demi Humans. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news if your feelings were the opposite.

If you’re feeling hesitant about this manga because you’re worried it will feature a bunch of animal-people getting it on, rest assured that the farthest any of the relationships featured in this book go is kissing. It’s basically Harry Potter Fanfiction: The Manga, only less smutty then that title entails. The Wize Wize Beasts of the Wizarding Wizdoms, by Nagabe, is an anthology of BL stories featuring anthropomorphized animals attending a wizarding school.

The wize wize beasts of wizarding wizdoms