Dog & Scissors (2013)

In this absurd and humorous mystery, Kazuhito Harumi is a book-loving high school student who idolizes the novelist Kirihime Natsuno. One fateful day, he spots Kirihime in a café, where she’s about to be robbed. Kazuhito bravely intervenes to save her but ends up losing his life in the process. Thanks to a quirky twist of fate, he is reincarnated as a dachshund. Now living as a dog, Kazuhito struggles in a world without books until he encounters a sadistic woman wielding scissors—who turns out to be none other than Kirihime herself, offering him a strange opportunity for help.