GunGun, as a national treasure(panda), was stolen by thieves and skinned. Once he woke up, he had a healthy body and lots of bamboo leaves. But monsters with glowing eyes surrounded him, most importantly they were floating, have greenish blue faces, fangs, and have no little legs?!
(⊙o⊙) Oh, the two-legged monster is here again, huh, is this bowl of food for him? These tender leaves are delicious, they should be hidden in the deepest part of the den.
There was an extra panda cub in the Interstellar Admiral’s embrace which he brought everywhere he goes. The place where a gun was once placed turned into a place for holding a basket full of leaves.
One day, GunGun became a beautiful boy.
Pouting face GunGun: Big monster I’m hungry. Huh? Where’s my fur!
The admiral’s face flushed crimson red being overwhelmed by its cuteness: “!!!!!” My darling!
This book just couldn't hold my attention, and I guess I was distracted by other stuff too, but the way this book was written really didn't help. I'm not sure whether it's due to the way the book was written or how the translator interpreted the book BUT the novel and plot were just messy AF. It was confusing, jarring and disappointing. Pandas, being the national treasure of China, are such a meng animal to write about. It should be a foolproof fluffy novel. I was intrigued because this is the first novel to have a panda as MC/ main animal. Throw in interstellar plot to the mix, and it should be pretty interesting.
HOWEVER, the novel also included ghosts and zombies (mentioned in the small theatre synopsis), and it was just plain confusing. From MC's POV everything was monsters unless they were animals. The animals were named, but everyone else's description was just confusing.
I understand that the translator mentioned the author also had quite a way of writing, starting 5 sentences with MC's name, as well as consistently mentioning how MC squinted his eyes in confusion, etc. But there were a few instances where a paragraph/ sentence was chopped halfway... I just couldn't be bothered to find the original and just decided to deduce and infer.
As usual, MC and ML were OP AF, especially MC, finding treasures/ lackeys everywhere and easily. MC was really innocent and kinda naive, and while ML obviously looked at MC with obvious affection, he did not really force himself on MC.
In conclusion, the novel was written quite messily and confusingly, but the saving grace was the panda and affectionate ML.
reading two books i absolutely despised at the same time was a draining and unpleasant experience. tbh i was already sceptical abt this one but a) i've been searching for more mecha books bc mechas are so interesting !!! i want more of that !!! but i either end up with abo or beastmem and like two mentions of the mecha,, so while this one obviously had beastmen b) it had one line in the description that kinda worked for me so i decided to give it a shot and oh boy did i regret. it was just so weird bc mgg was so obviously a panda and he was so naive and didn't understand human staff so it was uncomfortable reading about lxq'a affection towards him, especially when he was in child form??? that was so weird,, the writing was also so unpolished, how many times can i read about mgg's buttocks (is this the author's fetish or) and lxq'a pupils shrinking. idk what i hoped would be different/better about it since the description kinda let on that it would be like this but i guess i just had hope for the mecha but that wasn't explored either :<