My Life as Inukai-san's Dog

is a Japanese web manga series written and illustrated by Itsutsuse. It was serialized in Kodansha's Magazine Pocket website from August 2020 to March 2022; it also started in Shōnen Magazine R in September of the same year. It moved from Magazine Pocket to the Suiyōbi no Sirius and YanMaga Web sites in March 2022. It also moved from Shōnen Magazine R to Monthly Maga Kichi in January 2023. An anime television series adaptation by Quad aired from January to March 2023. Characters A high school boy who suddenly finds himself turned into an Akita Inu puppy. He is taken in by his classmate Karen Inukai, on whom he has a crush, and lives together with her as her pet. Although he wishes to be turned back to human as soon as possible, he could not resist the charm of living his life as Inukai's dog. Later on in the series, he gains the ability to change between being a dog and a human. Pochita's classmate when he was a human. She encounters Pochita on the street and takes him home with her. Even though she is usually cool and expressionless, she is a dog lover and likes to have skinship with Pochita.