Blondina is living a real-life Cinderella story. After growing up poor and enduring a difficult childhood, she discovers that she is a princess of the Ates empire. However, her estranged father and half-siblings give her the cold shoulder when she moves into the palace, and Blondina must keep a low profile. That all changes when she befriends Amon, a cat-like creature with mysterious intentions. For years, creatures like Amon and humans have struggled to live in harmony. Can Blondina and Amon’s friendship bring peace, or will it deepen the rift between their people?
The series ran from 2020 to 2022, for a total of 106 chapters. A complete English translation of the series is available to read on WebToon.
A physical release by Yen Press is currently ongoing.
My Gently Raised Beast contains examples of:
- Aerith and Bob: Some characters have mundane names like Lucy and Joseph, others have more exotic names like Adellai and Amon, and then there's ‘’Blondina.’’
- Affectionate Nickname:
- People close to Blondina refer to her as Briddy.
- Blondina often calls Amon her “kitty.”
- Alliterative Name: Amon's full name is Amon Akin.
- Altar Diplomacy: Once the Emperor realizes that the new leader of the divine beasts is interested in his daughter, he's keen to have the two of them wed, in order to form an alliance that will secure peace between their species.
- Beta Couple: Prince Lart develops a crush on Blondina’s lady-in-waiting Lucy Herive.
- Character Development: Lart starts off as haughty and arrogant like Adellai but shapes up after falling in love with Lucy.
- Composite Character: In the webnovel, Phillip doesn’t appear after the hunting competition, in the manhwa he takes the place of Adellai’s chief accomplice from Count Ottoman, a cousin of the empress.
- Coordinated Clothes: In Episode 93, Blondina and Amon wear matching pale blue outfits for their wedding ceremony.
- Familial Body Snatcher: Barahan is able to possess the body of his descendant, Joseph.
- Half-Identical Twins: Lart and Adellai look identical, despite being different genders.
- Heir Club for Men: Zig-zagged. Lart is first in line to inherit the throne, despite being younger than Blondina and the same age as his twin sister Adellai. However, the Emperor does tell Adellai he's willing to make her his successor instead if she can prove herself. If he was being sincere or merely trying to manipulate her is left unclear.
- Noble Tongue: The children of nobility in the Ates Empire learn to speak Old Atesian as a second language.
- Orphan's Plot Trinket: Blondina’s mother left her a ring that once belonged to her father. She tries to pawn it to buy food in Episode 1, but the shop owner notices the ring bears the royal crest and reports her to the authorities, leading to the discovery that Blondina is the Emperor's long lost child.
- Our Werebeasts Are Different: Divine beasts are intelligent talking animals that can transform into humans. They're recognizable by the gemstone on their forehead.
- Overnight Age-Up: A divine beast’s human form ages normally, but their animal form remains a juvenile until they come of age at around eighteen years old and experience a sudden growth spurt.
- Mating Season Mayhem: Amon becomes moody, possessive, and extremely affectionate with Blondina when he goes into heat.
- Patchwork Kids: Each of Blondina and Amon's twins inherit one’s skin tone and hair and the other's eye color.
- Rags to Royalty: After it's discovered she's the Emperor's daughter, Blondina goes from being a poor orphan who's abused by her guardians to a princess living in luxury.
- Reincarnation Romance: Blondina and Amon are the reincarnations of the goddess Rafiyan and her lover, the Divine Black Leopard.
- Royal Bastard: Blondina is the illegitimate daughter of Emperor Trije Ryun Haverty Ates.
- Royal Brat: Princess Adellai. She's haughty, arrogant, and views commoners as her inferiors—including her own sister.
- Shapeshifting: Divine beasts can transform into humans.
- Supernatural Gold Eyes: Descendants of the god Barahan are recognizable by their golden hair and eyes. Such as Joseph.
- Technically Naked Shapeshifter: Amon’s clothes disappear and reappear whenever he changes in and out of his human form.
