Yuzu, La petite vétérinaire T01

Yuzu the Pet Vet #1

by Mingo Ito (Contributor)

La clinique vétérinaire Miawouf a une nouvelle assistante !
Suite à l’hospitalisation de sa mère, la petite Yuzu va devoir vivre un moment avec son oncle qui travaille comme vétérinaire. Seul problème : la jeune fille n’est pas très à l’aise avec les animaux ! Cependant, au fil des rencontres avec ses nouveaux patients, Yuzu va se découvrir un talent pour comprendre le cœur de ces petites bêtes, et apprendre également beaucoup à leur contact...
Poussez la porte de la clinique vétérinaire Miawouf et venez rencontrer ses adorables patients !

Genres: Manga, Graphic Novels, Animals, Middle Grade, Childrens, Juvenile, Young Adult

162 pages, Pocket Book

First published December 6, 2016

Reviews

[Rebecca · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you are the kind of person who needs to check doesthedogdie.com before watching a movie and is still traumatized by your fifth grade reading of Where the Red Fern Grows, you may want to skip this one. I cried through the whole thing.

[Rod Brown · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute little pet stories for kids with some heavy themes like death, dementia, and incurable illnesses. Each chapter is a self-contained story with a tidy little moral.

I didn't find out until the afterword, but this is a tie-in to some 3DS video game. Well done for being of that ilk.

[Helene Black · Rating 3 out of 5]

But why was this so sad 😭

[Jillian -always aspiring- · Rating 2 out of 5]

2020 Read #308

This is a good gateway manga for younger readers, but overall I was just underwhelmed despite the premise and the cute art. Again, though, this manga would be great to be a first manga for a little kid.

[Genres and Journals *Tia* · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ohmygosh I literally just sobbed my entire way through this manga. I feel the tears welling up just thinking about it again. If you’ve ever had a pet pass away, this might be a hard one to get through. But it is a heartwarming, wholesome manga appropriate for all ages.

[Mehsi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Meet Yuzu, a little girl who isn’t that much into animals but who starts working at her uncle’s vet practice after things happen.


I was looking for new German manga to add to my TBR and I came across this superduper cute manga! In this one we meet a little girl named Yuzu who, due to her mom having to go to the hospital for a while, has to go live with her uncle. And she is also helping him out with his vet practice, yes, that is right, uncle is a veterinarian. But there is one catch. Yuzu isn’t doing so happy with animals. She loves looking at them, but going near them? NOPE. Which surprised me. Sorry, she just looked like a girl who would absolutely LOVE LOVE animals and would be ecstatic to work with her uncle. But it does add an extra element to the manga, because will Yuzu get over her fear? Will she become more comfortable with being around animals? I was really rooting for her, and I loved that despite everything she did keep going and did keep trying. It wasn’t always easy for her.

I thought that this would be a mostly light-hearted manga, yes, there was some darker bits with her mom not doing that well and Yuzu feeling lonely, but I thought with the animal practice it would be mostly cute. And yes, sure, it was cute as well, but, I can tell you know, bring tissues. LORD, I cried so many times while reading this. Each chapter is a new case. We get a dog who is pretending to be fine but who isn’t doing fine. We get a celeb dog with something going on. A dog who keeps forgetting things. A girl who lost her cat and now has a new kitten and they aren’t working out (or are they?). I loved seeing all the animals that appeared and I loved seeing Yuzu go fully at it to help both animal and owner. Plus, her uncle is also doing a-plus work and I just loved seeing him, just like Yuzu, try everything he can to help out animals. He is a really good vet. And you know, Yuzu, once she fully gets over her fear, will also have a shining career should she want to!

And as I said, Yuzu’s mom isn’t doing well, and we see how that affects Yuzu. She has already lost her dad years ago when she was small and is worried so much about her mom. In the start Yuzu isn’t sure how to handle things and worries she cannot be honest about her feelings but as things continue we see that she is more open to her mom about things. I loved that. And I am definitely hoping that mom is better soon!

Sometimes this one was a bit dramatic. Like how one moment she had her head not in the right space because of something that happened to her mom and she made a mistake, instead of her uncle trying to comfort her and try to make her feel OK again he dismisses her and tells her that if she cannot concentrate she has no business here. WTF? A bit of sympathy would be nice.

Oh, and I found it a bit rude that Yuzu judged that girl with the kitty. How would you feel if the cat you loved so much died and your parents got you, without saying anything, a replacement? One that is also totally opposite of your old cat? Sorry, but I could definitely understand the girl.

The art was a lot of fun, I just love the style and I love how the animals (and humans) are drawn.

All in all, this involved a few more tears than I had expected, but I really loved this one. Character growth. Animals. Cute art. I want more!

Review first posted at https://twirlingbookprincess.com/

[Zac · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cute manga for kids who love pets of all sorts. It shows the reality of being a vet and the hard decisions that come with it so some children might find it upsetting. Ideal for Years 5-8.

[Sesana]

This book is very not for me. It looks like a cute, sweet, kid-friendly book about pets, and I guess it sort of is. But it's also very heavy. The first chapter is about a young boy trying to cope with the impending death of his senior dog. The second chapter is about an owner coming to terms with her dog's chronic illness. The third chapter is about grief and loving a new pet after the loss of a beloved animal. And the fourth chapter is about a dog with flipping dementia. It is very, very good, and each of these chapters is handled lovingly, but I really super can't with this. Although this looks like a kid's manga, I'd be really cautious about handing it to a sensitive young animal lover. Some kids will be able to handle it just fine, and some will be like me and find this a really rough read.

[D.T. · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is certainly for kiddies, but the emotional moments are good and hold weight for such a light-hearted series. Of course, the animals are cute as can be.

[TheBookishHobbit · Rating 3 out of 5]

This manga reminded me of "Animal Ark" a children's book series I read as a child that also followed a young girl whose parents owned the vet clinic. Although this manga was cute in many ways, I just wasn't getting into it. I'm not even sure why, since I love animal mangas... maybe this was just too young for me personally. I do think children would enjoy this manga and it is wholesome enough for children to read it and their parents not needing to worry about them. Although this manga was fine to read for the first volume, for me personally, I feel like I don't need to continue any further.

[Angela · Rating 4 out of 5]

Absolutely adorable middle-grade manga series about a little girl who is living with her uncle and helping out at his vet clinic. Her love of animals, dealing with bullying, and family issues (mom is sick) are relatable and presented in an easy to connect manner. Great for kids who are interested in manga, but not the intensity of some other YA series.

[Emily · Rating 2 out of 5]

Oh my goodness. I don’t know how such a cute and innocuous cover can contain such a heartbreaking collection of stories about ANIMALS DYING. The art was cute but it wasn’t the light, fluffy, happy read I was going for.

💔😭

[Louise · Rating 3 out of 5]

Manga is not always my thing but overall, I felt like this was really cute - definitely geared towards a younger audience. There are really hard moments for animal lovers here, so be forewarned. One pup dies early on, another suffers from dementia. *sob* Read this with my graphic novel book club for kids at the library.

[Kristen Branch-McGlamery · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is very cute and each chapter is like an episode of an anime! I will warn that despite it being cute and for younger audiences, it may not be an easy read for those who are really emotionally invested in and vulnerable when it comes to content concerning animals. I legit cried every chapter. Reminded me why I stopped wanting to be a vet as a kid.

[Liza · Rating 3 out of 5]

You think it is a cute story about a girl helping animals but it deals with some deep storylines(senior dogs, dementia, ect). I also don't know if I like how the uncle is all, "help me with my job." And pretty much doesn't acknowledge her worries about her sick Mom. Like Yuzu is getting her support from the animals rather than him. And how her emotional reactions(justified because she is a CHILD) is considered wrong despite the fact she worries about her Mom.

[Becky B · Rating 3 out of 5]

Yuzu is staying with her uncle, a vet, while her mom is in the hospital with pneumonia. Yuzu isn't so sure about this. She's kind of afraid of animals and her uncle wants her to help out at the practice. Is this just going to be a disaster?

There are 4 separate adventures in this volume for Yuzu. The stories do a good job of balancing personal issues for Yuzu and vet cases. And the vet cases weren't all average issues, there were some interesting more obscure issues that I found fascinating (the vet parts were handled very realistically). Hand this to animal lovers who want to read some manga.

No content issues.

[Shae · Rating 5 out of 5]

This manga is too pure for words! This story about a young girl facing her fear of animals while working at her uncle's vet clinic made me cry twice! If you are an animal lover at all, you should pick up this series! There is a plot line that does involve a very ill mother, so I want to make sure you are aware that it is present.
The strength Yuzu shows throughout this volume is great! I am so excited to see where this goes!

[Helen · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5, this was so cute and wonderful and I cried a little at some points.

Yuzu’s father died when she was young and her mother had become very sick and needed to be hospitalized so Yuzu is staying with her uncle, the vet. She’s upset to see her mother in the condition she’s in. She’s also frightened of animals and there’s one dog that will bite her. There’s one story with a boy and his dog who he’s had his whole life and helps him with his bullies. One day the dog gets hurt and is taken to Yuzu’s uncles pet hospital where we learn that the dog is very sick. The boy doesn’t want to see the dog and Yuzu brings her to him where the dog helps him one last time before she says goodbye. This story was beautiful.

Another story discusses a girl who goes to Yuzu’s new school who is in an idol duo group with her dog. She doesn’t go to school very often because of her group and one day her and her manager come into the pet hospital because her dog is losing hair and stomach is swollen. The dog turns out to be sick and will need to be put in medication. The two of them are upset at this news and the storm off, Yuzu thinks that they both care more about whether or not the dog can still be an idol and do the dances than about the dogs health. She also noticed how the dog treated Lilly, the other half of the duo and how he treated her. While the dog loves people she loves Lilly the most and won’t lick anyone other than her. With this in mind, they go on tv and Yuzu sees how the dog treats the announcer on tv the same way she treated Lilly and thought that something had to be wrong and that wasn’t the real popo. Yuzu confronts her about it and we see how that was a decision she felt she needed to make for her career since she was in another group and was also put in the back where she couldn’t be seen and now she’s so well known and this was something her manager told her to do. Lilly soon decided to bring popo back and makes an apology about how the popo they saw on tv the other day was a different dog and popo has been sick and she was given a lot of support. This story was also beautiful and I haven’t comes across a story like this before.

The next story has to do with a girl and her cat. The pet hospital had a check up day where people would of course bring their pets in for a check up and there’s a girls who goes to Yuzu’s school there and Yuzu and some other girls admire her cat to which the girl gets upset and is mean to the cat and leaves without getting the check up. Her mom comes in the next day for it and tells them how they had another cat that the girl got along so well with, the cat was quieter than their new one and when the cat passed she was so upset and she didn’t like the new cat. Later on, the girl and her cat are outside and the cat strained her foot and the girl tells Yuzu and her uncle about her other cat and how much she cared for her and how she became sick and she went to go to an overnight school trip when the cat passed and was all alone. She was so sad and guilty that happened and didn’t think she could move on and love a different cat after what happened. She was confronted that it was okay. The girl had also been crying while this was all being discussed and the cat, Chibi, went to confront her which Yuzu commented on. Yuzu also missed her friend from her other school and she wrote her a letter but there hadn’t been a response from her friend yet when at the end we see that she came to visit!

The last story discusses a dog Yuzu’s uncle finds and brought to the hospital. They tried finding the dogs owner and Yuzu even took him for a walk despite being scared and noticed that he was acting strangely. She brought this up to her uncle and said he thinks the dog has dementia. Someone comes in saying the dog is hers but the dog doesn’t recognize her. She’s told about his dementia and she says that she was getting a little upset with him because he was acting differently and she didn’t understand it and then one day ran away during his walk. When she first came in she shows them a picture of her and the dog when she was young and they have the idea to have her hair in a pony tail like in the picture to see if the dog would recognize her like that since the dog was also playing with Yuzu’s ponytail. They also went to a ginkgo tree since that’s where the dog would wait for her to come home after school when she eventually got busy and had things to do after school and would come home late. She would keep telling him that and it seemed like he forgot. This works, the dog recognizes her!

I think it was during the last story where Yuzu visits her mom in the hospital and she tells her how their old apartment is getting taken down and if she’d like to visit it before that happens. They make plans but her mother can’t end up going since she’s not feeling well. Yuzu really wanted to go since she and her dad made a time capsule and put it there wanted to go see it and gets upset when she can’t. She goes with her uncle and gets the time capsule and gives the letters to her mom when she visits her at the hospital the next time.

This was an incredibly cute volume and I checked out the next four volumes from my library because I’m so in love with the series already. Sometimes I like finding a manga or graphic novel series I’ve never heard of before and seeing if I like it and this was wonderful.

[Melainebooks · Rating 5 out of 5]

Très bon début de série où Yuzu doit habiter temporairement chez son oncle vétérinaire mais cette dernière n’est pas très à l’aise avec les animaux. Pas très à l’aise, vraiment ? À vous de le découvrir.

[Scout Steinmiller · Rating 5 out of 5]

<3

[Heather · Rating 1 out of 5]

I haven't actually read this manga. It's all about pets dying and my wife is sitting beside me sobbing and I really can't take it anymore.

[J.D. Holman · Rating 1 out of 5]

Could not finish the first story. The dog dies!

[Skjam! · Rating 3 out of 5]

Yuzu Morino’s mother is very sick and will have to spend a lot of time in the hospital. Since her father passed away some years ago, her maternal uncle Akihito has agreed to take her into his home. Yuzu knew that he was a veterinarian, but didn’t realize that his practice, Blue Sky City Bow Meow Animal Hospital, is also where he lives. Nor was it mentioned that he expects her to help out around the place! Quite a fix for an eleven year old who’s afraid of animals.

It’s a difficult adjustment, especially as the animals at the clinic pick up Yuzu’s fear and act nervous around her in ways that amplify that fear. But soon Yuzu happens to witness a little boy whose large dog protects him from bullies. Which is cool. Until Yuzu learns that the now elderly dog is in fact on her last legs. Can she help the boy come to terms with his beloved pet’s impending death?

The title is misleading, as Yuzu does not in fact perform veterinary services, just age-appropriate chores related to her uncle’s practice. This series first appeared in the shoujo (girl’s) manga anthology Nakayoshi and is a loose tie-in to a video game about helping out in a veterinarian’s office. Yuzu proves to have a good instinct for when something’s wrong with an animal, and learns valuable lessons about life.

An aspiring pop star’s dancing dog teaches Yuzu that even when someone doesn’t look presentable, that doesn’t mean you can’t be proud of them. A girl struggling with her feelings towards a new cat after the old one died is about making new friends, and a dog with dementia is about learning to treasure memories.

This is very much a children’s series and should be suitable for second-grade readers on up, though the youngest will need some help with some of the end notes. The art is cute, with lots of sparkles, and the primary audience is meant to be girls.

Recommended for your kid who likes stories about animals.

[Rebo · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a cute manga aimed at younger readers, initially a tie in to a “cooking mama”-style video game series in Japan where you work in a vet clinic taking care of various animals by doing mini games.

Each chapter is more or less a self-contained story in which the main character, Yusu, learns a lesson via the pet that applies to her every day life. It’s cute, without much substance, but it’s aimed at kids probably 8-12, so it’s to be expected, I guess.

However, as someone else mentioned, despite the young demographic, the topics can be kinda heavy. I’m super sensitive to animals (especially dogs) being injured or killed in fiction, and I cried through most of the volume. I was especially surprised how serious the very first chapter was...

But because of the positive spin and all, it didn’t affect me as badly as some other mangas I’ve read (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, anyone?). I’m not sure if I’ll keep reading or not... though I do have a soft spot for chihuahuas since I have 4, and Sora is both adorable and pretty on-par for the breed...

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was the first Manga, back-to-front novel I've read. I got the hang of that, but still found some parts confusing. Some of that was cultural (not knowing exactly what an idol is, for example) and parts had to do with the way it was written and drawn, with several characters looking quite similar. I did actually learn a few things, about dogs with dementia, for example, and I found some of the ways that Yuzu applied what she learned at the animal hospital to other parts of her life quite nice. Yuzu's fear of animals never seemed real to me, and in general the characters did not seem very deep or well rounded, but I think some kids might enjoy the book, especially if they have a strong interest in animals.

[EyrisReadsTheWorld · Rating 4 out of 5]

Un premier tome super touchant

Mots clés : manga, jeunesse, animaux, fiction contemporaine

Franchement, je ne m’attendais pas à autant accrocher à ce manga. Je pensais que l’histoire allait être un peu trop enfantine pour moi dû au fait que la personnage principale a 11ans. Eh ben, j’avais tort. J’ai adoré.

Ce manga est composé de plusieurs chapitres, chacun sur l’histoire d’un animal et de son.sa maitre.sse. Ces petites histoires sont super touchantes. J’ai particulièrement aimé le premier chapitre qui montre l’amour d’un chien pour son maitre. J’ai beaucoup pleuré du coup. En tout cas, je vais continuer, c’est sûr.

Je recommande ce manga à toute personne aimant les animaux.

4/5

[Danielle Booey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Super cute manga about a girl who goes to stay with her uncle when her mom gets sick. Yuzu’s uncle is a vet and since she is staying with him she starts helping out at the clinic. There is just one problem, however, Yusuf is terrified of animals!

Luckily with a little help from her uncle, a very particular chihuahua named Sora, and the other animals that come through the clinic, Yuzu starts to find some courage and discover more about herself.

This first volume contains four stories that are pretty much self contained about Yuzu and different pets.

Cutesy art and a focus on animals make this a good recommendation for fans of Chi’s Sweet Home, Warriors, the Critter Club, etc.

[Amber Greer · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was really cute. I read it for the first time and enjoyed it.

Love the notes that the author mentions on different pages. It was nice that she wrote how Yuzu the Pet Vet is her first deput manga and the amount of work she put into it to make it entertaining.

It was a good funny manga. If you like funny mangas, then you might like Cat + Gamer, Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear, and Spy x Family.

Definitely planning to read Yuzu The Pet Vet vol 2, along with the other volumes.

[Alicia · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's like Doc McStuffins with actual animals at a vet clinic. Yuzu's uncle is the veterinarian and she is helping out while her mother is getting treatment for a cancer (and her dad already died when she was younger).

Each chapter introduces an issue with an animal now that Yuzu is helping out so it not only talks about the care and healing of animals, it's also about her learning to help and understanding the humans as much as the pets.

It's a sweet story featuring animals.

[Bee (BacchusVines) · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was really cute. Oh man, I love seeing a kid slowly get use to animals and how hard each episode is.

Fair warning, there's a lot of trigger warnings with animals, like death, illness, cancer, lost pet, and some abusing behaviors. And plenty of very sad scenes. But I do love what this book is promoting, which is strong relationships with our pets.