It wasn't until they started to use the transformation technique to defend their living space through all kinds of failures that I realized that this is an animation with a very serious proposition. Even though their methods have failed, I still appreciate the illusion created for play, and like the sentence: "If you lose your childlike innocence, you won't be a civet cat anymore." Seeing the civet cats who have learned to transform into human society and talk about the stress and fatigue of human life, I feel like a civet cat too.
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