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  • Adorkable:
    • Neptune's Gentle Giant personality combined with his highly emotional nature and love of adorable animals has garnered this reaction. Episode 5's segment about sea otters only doubles this reaction, as he squees for most of the segment about how cute and precocious the sea otter is.
    • Yokota, despite his appearance, is an overall very nice person who only thinks of the best for the designers and their designs. When he makes his request for a three-headed creature, he's adorably bashful about it, which only amps the trope even more.
  • Awesome Music: The anime OP theme, "Give It Up?" has a very upbeat and catchy tune, sung beautifully by 96Neko. Many viewers have commented on how much they enjoy the song, some even citing it is one of the best anime OPs in the Winter 2021 season, if not ever. Comments gushing about the awesomeness of the OP can be found in almost every single episode.
  • LGBT Fanbase:
    • There's a small but budding number of people in the LGBT community that have come to enjoy the series, mainly because of the presence of Venus, who is heavily implied through both looks and voice to be a non-operative trans woman, and one that the story fully treats as a woman regardless, never making any sorts of jokes or negative references about her implied sex-at-birth.
    • Neptune a.k.a Unabara provides good material for Bara enthusiasts, as some episodes take the chance to show off his huge and muscular stature for blatant fanservice.
  • Obscure Popularity: The manga was popular enough and made enough money to receive an anime adaptation, but its social media presence isn't too widespread, so not many outside the fandom are really hearing much about it beyond the occasional Crunchyroll clips.
  • Spiritual Adaptation: The premise essentially makes it an anime version of the "God Creates Things" meme.
  • Viewer Gender Confusion: A lot of viewers often get confused about whether Kanamori/Venus is a masculine woman or an effeminate man. She's supposed to be a woman (the Hot Springs Episode shows her bathing in the female bathroom alongside Mars and Pluto), but Muse Asia's English subtitles use male pronouns to refer to her. In the original Japanese, the other characters do not use gendered language when referring to her. The fact she's strongly coded as a trans woman without the story ever actually saying anything about it furthers the confusion, as it results in an Ambiguous Gender Identity where she can be viewed as either actually trans, a massive case of Bifauxnen, or an okama (Japanese Drag Queen). Ambiguating the situation further, the digital version of the official manga translation gives Venus "they/them" pronouns, while the print version uses "she/her".
  • What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: It's an Edutainment series about animals and how they function, but the manga still runs in a seinen magazine. While most of its content isn't that inappropriate for younger audiences, it still doesn't shy away from weirder or more disgusting animal facts, including jokes about reproductive organs.

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