There's a new manga out called Beastars that handles the whole carnivore/herbivore animal world thing rather well, mostly by making it about personal drama rather than a metaphor for racism.Making ACTUALLY DANGEROUS PREDATORS your metaphor for racially profiled minority groups really doesn't play well after a bit.
It's pretty good, I recommend it. Great artstyle, too.
Huh, didn't know the anime had non-Japanese people working on it.So as it turns out Richard Epcar also did writing and directing on the new Lupin series.
...then again, didn't it air in Italy before it did in Japan, like an Italian Space Dandy?