User:ZenForce

Just a comic enthusiast that also writes fiction when my brain is not a chaos of ideas, which is really strange that not happen. -- List of Reviews:
 * Antibunny
 * Darwin Carmichael is Going to Hell
 * Syd's World
 * Moonlace (Warning: NSFW)
 * Cigarro & Cerveja
 * Bongo and Luna
 * School Days (Warning: NSFW, or anyone in general)
 * Target Miss (Warning: NSFW, or anyone in general)
 * Boyfriends
 * Parallax
 * My Alien Girlfriend (Doesn't Know I'm an Alien)
 * Afterwar (Warning: NSFW)

Collaborations:
 * Rascals (Images)

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Rating Summary

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Background
This webcomic was presented in the forum by our loved Russian NolanDaneworth, scratching more in the art than story since he didn’t deepened much in it. I was surprised, because my second case of reading the webcomic before hand someone suggested it, being Moonlace the first one. I would have suggested it before, but for me is impossible to remember the name of it. Coming back to the forum, since nobody else was willing to read it, I volunteered to do the review and you have me here... Lets go to the review, then.

Downfall
Past the 8th page, the author started to doing pin-ups in extra pages, from there it get hornier bit by bit.

Story and Plot
We follow the adventures of Ezuuimi Thatcher(aka Ezuu), a blonde female paladin that measures over 1,80 meters; and Huxcyn, a HORNY male bard elf that was tricked by a wizard and ended cursed, not only transforming him into a chimera, but also gender bender him. From here the story goes for a search about a method of reversing this curse.

Basically, this story can be resumed by: An opening with info dumping of 4 pages long; a beast attacks a town and Ezuu finds it about to kill a kid; ; she saves her but is about be killed (or raped?) by the beast, but is saved by a convenient arrow and faints; when she awakes gets admonished by her leader, Azuray and gets in the bar; encounters Huxcyn and tells her about a method of ridding the monster permanently; she has a little doubt about it but finally joins her; a group of Kobolds tries to assault them and fails epically; the two girls arrives to the wizard's house that put the curse in Huxcyn; the wizard tries to kill them and... We get interrupted into a filler Halloween chapter, but somehow is canon because it explain how she gets this gem pedant of her cape; we come back to wizard battle and we see how he fails epically too (don't worry, he is still alive); the wizard gets arrested and gives the macguffing to continue their journey; they return to the attacked town and party hard, until Azuray arrives and basically she fired Ezuu and put a price for both of their heads; we time skip to a side-mission in a church in an island; they encounter a 16 years old Kitsunii cleric girl called Nommiekay that is searching a cure for the father of the church and all their members and joins their party; they come back to the principal mission to search a boat to travel into the Feshion capital in a tavern; they meet a female "Khajiit" goddess-touched bard with a heavy accent called Kapo (though that accent is later forgotten and a male engineer orc called Elliston; the party get informed about a sea beast that destroy boats and nobody wants to sail; conveniently the duo they just meet offer themselves give them a ride, for a price; we get more infodumping; Nommiekay pays the price and start the journey; we have a little more of background for Kapo; the party arrives to the underwater capital and our principal group consumes a "multijuice" potion (I don't think is a good idea to give that thing to a person that already has a transformation); Ezzu and Nommieekay transform into mermaids and Huxcyn transforms into, of course, an octofolk; Huxcyn disappear and we have a cliffhanger foreshadowing; and finally we are interrupted again with another filler chapter that I hope that it don't have more canon information because I will get angry...

Art Review
I believe that you are wondering why a Kemono Café comic got the NSFW tag and not Cheesecake one. No, the comic is not sincere with it nature and show explicit things, is because it show gore scenes. Two scenes, in specific, the first being the battle of the wizard, where Ezzu stabs with a spear from behind; and the start of the side mission, where the duo encounter the father of the church eating the bowels of a victim which is the missing father of this kid. Is curious that the author is braver to show blood than exposed breast, not? But enough talking about BBFC ratings and let's start talk about the art itself.

The art style is basically what I describe as "old manga". With this I mean that most of the characters have the pointy chin that is characteristic in the style, but this is combined with a chibi, rounded style and its look really weird. The side mouths are the menu of every day. Also the perspectives are fucked up, like really fucked up. The chibi style seriously does not help this strange perspectives. Sometimes there are faces that I believe I saw somewhere else, and the author likes a lot doing duckfaces, like a lot. All this is combined with the fact that Jienxxed limits herself in an A4 or A5 size format, the love of close-ups shots, that a good portion of the panels are eaten by very big dialogue bubbles and spacing between lines and the blinding blight palette of colors makes a really crude experience. Some optimization of the placement can help a lot.

I can’t say much about the character design, not in a good way. To make it short, the humans are meh. The orcs? They are humans with a green skin and big fangs. The demons? Humans with a pink skin, horns, tails and pointy ears. The "Khajiits"? Humans with other coloe of skin, long ears and tails. The Kitsunii? Well, Nommiekay is a human with another color of skin, ears and tail that can change forms, one these forms is a quota human. Not only it looks like the author has a cookie molder to create her bestiary, but also she is the type of furry artist that draws the fur like skin. Literally the only design I like is Huxcyn, and don’t know why. Maybe I like chimeras? But having into account the background and the personality of him... Puaj, next point!

Finally we have to talk about the fanservice, we have less to talk than I expected... I mean we not have lots of topless woman and implied sex like in Las Lindas, but I can’t say that sexuality is absent either. The first examples of this are the pin-ups between chapters, that goes more and more explicit the years pass. I will deepen about the fanservice in the writing section, because is really tied to it.

Writing Review
The thing what stands out the most is that the author in not a native English speaker. You will encounter lots of spelling errors, so many which look like potholes interrupting the ride. I'm not sure if too much work doing it, but typing the text into a spell-checker before inking is ask too much? Even some of the titles of the pages has spelling errors, have a look to the archive. Though I’m not position of complain much, since I'm also not a native English speaker... Update: According to this comment in this page, she actually uses a spell checker, but truly it doesn’t denote in later pages.

In case of the story itself, it's interesting enough to keep your attention. Some people may find the pacing a little too slow, but the content compensates it. But sometimes there are some events that are not explained and/or some people are a little confused with the plot and express it in the comments, and the author respond them. Some examples are these fluorescent tubes; the ASC (Aggression Suppression Chip) chips; the why the mechanic eye of Tiny is working again (I will explain this in the next point); the what is this new wolf-girl; etc. In the case that the author is kind enough to guide the lost people, I will not complain, but about the parts about the things that comes out of nowhere I say: if you are aware that you've made a mistake while doing the plot, then why you publish the page without correcting it? Again, I'm not sure if too much work for do that. Also is worth to mention that the transition of Tiavo from a hardcore, abusive lizard warrior to a vulnerable, weepy, insecure lizard wimp is too abrupt, but since recovers nicely within a few pages, it's not a big deal. I guess that the transition can be explained a little more, like being illustrated somewhere earlier in the story before the chip insertion happened.

Talking about the story, there are other types of pothole distractions besides the grammar: the NSFW. In lots of points there is nudity and/or explicit sex that it goes out of the story's tune, some more than others. Look, compared with the spelling errors, these are just distracting add-ins, but they still pretty distracting though. Some of the most distracting ones are: The before mentioned shower scene, where Tiavo gets raped graphically by one of her crewmates, as fucked up as it sounds; all the scenes where we see Alexandra fucking, because is hard to take seriously a villain when we see her cuddling with her sex slaves and wearing kitty panties plus her tits bounces like we are in a hentai; this couple fucking in the communal room, since we have to keep in mind that this scene happens inside of the futuristic mega-gulag, and I believe that fucking is the last thing I will thinking to do in a place like that; this bonus page, since we have take into account that before this her brain was literally fried by a technology deactivator and ended up with the mentality of a child... Yeah, kinda fuck up; the mercenary commander of the right because… just look at her; all the scenes with this Nezumi pimp, obviously; this boob hug, because it was necessary; the scene where the jail companion of Pharia meets with his jail contact, because we know how it ends. Although if you are willing to read this, this potholes are really bearable. Besides all that there is some "..." moments like this meme introduced in middle of a serious conversation, but nothing else to talk.



Author Biography
Striga (TrueGhul) is a trans Polish artist, according to her Twitter. She has a Patreon, where besides the entire patreon exclusive content, it offers a pin-up monthly Calendar and a vote about in what location will be located the next spin-off comic. There not much else about her. Oh, before I forgot, this webcomic is one of the few survivors from the imploding black hole of SmackJeeves according to this comment and the name of this page, so hooray for her.

Conclusion
Although all the negatives, this webcomic is not so bad. If you don’t find it too heavy to read, I recommend it. It's a really enjoyable reading. Regarding to the implementation of the porn in the comic... Well, sincerely, I saw much worse cases in similar genre webcomics, believe my word.

Links

 * The Thewebcomiclist's site
 * The author’s Comicfury profile
 * Striga's Furaffinity account
 * Striga's Deviantart account
 * Striga’s Twitter account
 * Striga's Reddit User, (apparently she likes the youtuber The Click).
 * Striga’s Tumblr account, abandoned since 2018.