Graphic Novel Review: Eat by Nagabe

Posted on August 26, 2025 at 6:37 am by Gene Ambaum

Eat by Nagabe. Translation by Adrienne Beck. Seven Seas Entertainment, 2025. 978893732603. 234pp. Publishers’ Rating: Older Teens (15+).

Lufaria is a law professor with a harsh reputation and black fur. His students call him The Killer. His secret: he loves to watch people eat. When a tardy student approaches him after class — the dude is a huge, handsome herbivore who keeps saying he’s hungry — their interaction makes Lufaria realize that what he really longs for is to be eaten. The rest of the book is about this thing between them, a teacher-student relationship (between adults) that must be uncommon even in an anthropomorphic world.

I’ve picked up a few of Nagabe’s other books in English, but somehow I couldn’t really find my way into his style, and hoped a standalone might give me a better way in. I ordered this one from my library without reading a synopsis and was quite surprised. I enjoyed the pacing and art enough that I’m going to give The Girl from the Other Side another try.