For me personally, Tala and Massak's relationship kinda makes me think of the relationship between Legosi and Haru from Beastars.
We got the wolf protagonist who has a hard time figuring out what it means to be a real wolf while not really fitting in, preferring to stay in the background. Upon detecting the smell of prey, the wolf gets overcome by instinct and goes straight for the source, meeting the herbivore love interest. Said herbivore love interest has lived up above all alone (school rooftop vs mountaintop) while having a specialized hobby (gardener/florist vs scribe/researcher) and a history of sleeping with multiple partners in the past. Their first official meeting together also has a sexual encounter. There's also bits of discussion about predator-prey dynamics.
Only in this case, the genders are switched and the wolf is the smaller one. Given that there's a female wolf and a male horned herbivore, it might also be a tad bit like Juno and Louis too.
Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but that's just what I'm thinking of right now.
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