by Moyamu Fujino, 179 pages Fune is inexplicably rejected by every high school she applies to...and is mysteriously accepted to one she doesn't. When she arrives on the well-hidden campus, she quickly realizes it is not an ordinary school and her classmates are not ordinary students. Everyone at the school, teachers and students alike, is really an animal, and the curriculum is focused on how to successfully integrate into human culture and society as a shape-shifter. It's all very strange and exciting, but Fune is confused as to why she's there, as she really is a human. Her advisor instructs her to keep this fact to herself and just go with the flow, but lying to her new friends while trying to understand the new world around her proves difficult for sweet, naive Fune.
In this final volume in the series, Fune finally understands her presence at the academy and learns that friendship and affection really do make the world go round. The story is, for the most part, cute and fluffy, if a little awkward and hard to navigate at times (there's a prominent set of sneaky, secret-keeping twins who are easily identified by the characters yet nearly indistinguishable to the reader, making for some speed bumps in the road to clarity). Just enough darkness swirls around on the edges to make you worry for a while, but ultimately all is well. While the characters look and act more like elementary rather than high school students, that's not especially relevant to the basic heart of the story.
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