Kemono Jihen

Kohachi Inugami is a detective who specializes in the occult. He has been sent to a small village in the countryside of Japan to investigate some mysterious occurrences. People have been finding mutilated and rotting livestock corpses, and nobody knows why.

While he is there, Inugami notices a peculiar young boy working in the fields. The boy is avoided by the other villagers and they call him "Dorotabou" because of his bad smell. When Inugami takes an interest in Dorotabou, the boy is surprised.

Inugami recruits Dorotabou to help him with the investigation, even though the villagers disapprove. What Dorotabou doesn't know is that this investigation will reveal a strange new world to him - one of the beast-like entities known as Kemono that exist alongside humans. It will also give him a new purpose in life.