I've heard good things about both the Manga and the Show, but haven't even got around to reading or watching it myself.
If it does the problematic herbivore/carnivore = gender/race shit that Zootopia did then I'll pass. (Do none of these writers understand that omnivores and big aggressive herbivores exist?)
It's not really a straight allegory for real world hierarchies of oppression, but I think gets at something deeper about desire, power, and predation in human societies by considering how a society of intelligent animals would actually work.