The story started at animal land, place where was never seen a single human. Lonely tanuki named Monoko find a human baby Tarouza, and become his mother. Later Tarouza realize that he can understand other animals cry, so he decided to make world there plant-eating and meat-eating animals can live together.

We can split whole manga in two parts, first then Tarouza is growing and acknowledge all sides of wild world of animal land. And the first problem i have is in how Doubutsu no Kuni looks. Its has it "cute and funny" style to it, and even trying to throw couple of jokes here and there. But on the over hand it always shows the brutal reality of animal world, and Tarouza which is struggling to create its own world where everyone can live together. I don't think that the art style is really fit that story. The design is very good and detailed, also its very unique in its own way, but i might say that it should have more realistic looks to it.

So the second part of manga is then Tarouza already grown up. And this part is just battles, battles, battles, battles and to the end its BATTLES. Good guy beating bad guy over and over.... And it was kinda disappointing to me. The battles is really good, but it's all whats happens in second part. There is a lot back story in second part, but problem is, that it is so generic and just boring.

Overall I think it is a good manga. Personally i want it to be more then just battle manga later on, but thats just my personal preference. I highly recommend this one to read, because its not trying to be genius but still it has its moments.