BEASTARS

Drama / Mystery / RomanceTV12 EP/10 Oct 2019

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Synopsis

Deep in the blackness of night, a wolf picks up a rabbit's scent, and every instinct in his body fires at once: hunger, attraction, confusion. He can't tell which one it is. That's the central tension of Beastars, and it never lets go. At Cherryton Academy, carnivores and herbivores coexist in a society that pretends everything is fine. Then an alpaca named Tem gets killed, a predation incident, and suddenly nobody's pretending anymore. Legoshi, a tall grey wolf who works stage crew for the drama club, has spent his whole life making himself small and unthreatening. But after a chance encounter with Haru, a dwarf rabbit with her own complicated reputation, something shifts in him. He's forced to confront what he actually wants, what he actually is, and whether those things are the same. This is a 12-episode TV series animated by Studio Orange in CGI that actually works, expressive, fluid, and genuinely beautiful in a way that suits the material. The jazz-heavy soundtrack sets a moody, noir-ish atmosphere that fits the psychological weight of the story. It deals with identity, prejudice, desire, and self-control, and it handles all of it with real nuance. If you liked the world-building of Zootopia but wanted something with teeth, this is it. Fans of Aggretsuko's anthropomorphic social commentary will find a darker, more emotionally layered cousin here. Based on the manga, aimed at shounen readers, but the themes hit way broader than that.

Episode Guide

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Characters

Legoshi

Legoshi, a shy wolf, struggles with his predatory nature and develops complicated feelings for a rabbit.

Scott Jonah

Louis

Egotistical deer drama star Louis manipulates others, driven by ambition to become Beastar.

Puatu Griffin

Haru

A small, sexually active rabbit, Haru seeks validation despite social shunning.

Miller Lara Jill

MANGA BRIDGE

This season covers Chapters 1-47 of the manga. Continue reading from Chapter 48.

Manga cover

Community Feed

Someone and 6 others rated 8.9
EP 1
jschaer24★★★★★VerifiedEP 1

Killer introduction to an amazing story. This episode does an amazing job at establishing the themes of discrimination, prejudice, and social dynamics. While they may parallel real life scenarios, the author, Itagaki Paru, did not intend to mimic real life, but rather explore the possibilities of this unique setting. The elephant in the room, besides being the first furry anime to break into mainstream of course, is the choice of a 3D adaptation over a 2D one. While it does have a lot of charm and allows for more realistic character acting, which is something Itagaki herself has mentioned caring about conveying in the 3rd major arc of the manga, this art direction misses out in bringing her amazing art style into motion. This becomes especially apparent when comparing it to Saru Science's adaptation of Sanda, which is much more faithful to the source material and executes it in a beautiful fashion. Nevertheless, 3D animation still gets the job done, because the story is strong and gripping.

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chasing_rabbit★★★★★VerifiedEP 11

Jack, siempre un perro fiel. Me gusta la forma en que los personajes van cerrando capítulos en sus vidas mientras son sinceros con ellos mismos. Legoshi ha tenia unas 24 horas de una catarsis tras otra, ya extrañaba el Legoshi inseguro y nervioso que se va a pantalla azul por todo. Haru, por otro lado, creo que está lejísimos de cerrar aunque sea un camino de su vida, toda la crisis existencial que Legoshi vivió en los últimos 11 capítulos, Haru apenas lo está sintiendo con ganas.

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chasing_rabbit★★★★★VerifiedEP 8

No sé si será una opinión impopular, pero no me gusta el ship de Legoshi y Haru, me gusta su relación como mecanismo de trama para ver ambos lados del problema y los conflictos que causa buscar un punto medio, pero si fuera una amistad también serviría de alguna manera. Ojalá que no queden juntos. Por otro lado, la declaración de guerra entre Louis y Juno ufff... increíble, 10/10, ya hacia falta que alguien le bajará los humos y que se los bajen mutuamente fue la mejor parte.

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marisandini★★★★☆VerifiedEP 9

So many things happening, making this a densely packed episode. We have Louis with his dark backstory that the theme carried over to this arc's main conflict. However, the appearance of a newly named faction was a bit abrupt and the execution rushed. Tem's murder was reference but the story has so far been focused on teenage drama and instead of the mystery that makes it a poor narrative decision to introduce predator-prey conflict when Tem has never haunted the narrative outside the first episode.

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