A veteran zookeeper from the Dragon Kingdom dies with hatred in his heart, only to open his eyes and find himself reborn as a massive black bear in Hokkaido, Japan! Just as Japan is being ravaged by bear attacks, with sightings across the country surging past ten thousand, Hokkaido has become a hotspot for human-bear conflicts. A poor beech nut harvest sends hungry bears down from the mountains again and again to attack people.
The hatred for his homeland buried deep in his heart from his previous life becomes an iron-blooded vengeance unleashed by his bear claws! Armed with human intelligence and a zookeeper’s expert understanding of bears, he casts off his gentle instincts and transforms into a “god of war among bears,” making “humiliating the Japanese” his life’s mission. With a black bear’s keen sense of smell and razor-sharp claws, he masters the art of leading solitary bears, striking first at isolated hunters, then laying siege to villages and towns, unleashing a wave of counterattacks one step at a time.
Recreating the terrifying shadow of the Sankebetsu brown bear incident, he leads countless bears and uses Hokkaido’s vast forests and rugged terrain as cover, escalating scattered bear attacks into an organized campaign of “devouring.” When humans point their rifles at the bears, he tears apart the veneer of civilization with his claws. When the hunting parties enter the mountains to wipe them out, he has already laid a vast trap.
From Nemuro City to the Sapporo Plain, from hot spring resorts to remote fishing villages, bear roars echo across Hokkaido. In the end, this island, which accounts for 22 percent of Japan’s land area, becomes a forbidden zone where no one lives. Human settlements of the past turn into a natural paradise for bears. This is a revenge that crosses species, a rousing spree of “humiliating the Japanese”: reborn as a bear, all for the sake of devouring Japan!
