Beastars

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Des alternatives: Japanese: BEASTARS
Auteur: Itagaki, Paru
Taper: Manga
Volumes: 22
Chapitres: 196
Statut: Finished
Publier: 2016-09-08 to 2020-10-08
Sérialisation: Shounen Champion

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Des alternatives: Japanese: BEASTARS
Auteur: Itagaki, Paru
Taper: Manga
Volumes: 22
Chapitres: 196
Statut: Finished
Publier: 2016-09-08 to 2020-10-08
Sérialisation: Shounen Champion
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4.0
52 Votes
42.31%
34.62%
9.62%
11.54%
1.92%
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In a world populated by anthropomorphic animals, there exists a bias: carnivores are just mindless predators in the eyes of many herbivores. However, when an alpaca named Tem is murdered within the walls of Cherryton High School, the fear toward carnivores skyrockets to an all-time high.

Legoshi, a student at this school, is a gray wolf who is quite awkward despite his fearsome appearance. When turmoil affects his school life, he is forced to confront the divide between herbivores and carnivores, as well as his own place in this society. This is further complicated by his supposedly romantic feelings toward a herbivore, which might not be what they seem.

Beastars details Legoshi's struggles against his inner demons while living in a society that is unforgiving toward his kind.

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lrdalucard5
Mar 31, 2021
I actually really like this manga. It brings me no enjoyment to give it this low of a score. There are panels that look great, characters that I love, and a world with a lot of potential. Unfortunately around chapter 100-150, the quality of this manga's writing has nose dived to an absolutely abysmal degree. After reading the latest chapters I will never read this again and it kinda sucks because there was a time that I was really invested in this story, but I just can't be after this last arch. When characters are committing suicide just because they love someone so much and not for any actual reason, your story is out of touch and illogical. So many plot lines just lead to absolutely nothing, so many confrontations aren't actually important. Nothing seems to have any weight or result in any consequences. The story never really did have any big consequences, but it felt like the protagonist was constantly developing and growing enough to keep you engaged. Now it feels like nothing is really happening. Like events can't really have any consequences as if they did the author might not be able to pump out another hundred chapters. Beastars was a story with a very strong foundation and clear development for its characters, but I don't think it ever had a planned ending and its suffering for it now. This is no longer a good story with compelling characters. This is a trash story with a handful of good characters and I'm sad about it. Read the first hundred or so chapters and then accept that nothing ever resolves and stop reading.
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DenkiDestroy99X9
Mar 31, 2021
beastars i feel had such great potential, but is spoiled by the lackluster ending.

spoilers from this point forward. skip to summary

i started reading this after watching season 1 of the anime, because i could not wait for more of this world.

-characters

beastars has strong compelling characters that i want to see more of.
louis has one of the most interesting backstories and motivations in this manga by far. he reminds me of jean from aot, asshole-to-team-player arc, that was incredibly well done. you really notice when he starts to care for legoshi haru and juno, and the father figures of his life. why would he end up with the other deer? that does not make any sense to his character, he is literally helping his best friend end tension between herbivores and carnivores, and goes all this way to help save haru back at the beginning but then does not end up with juno?

-world building

the concept of a beastar, and the introduction of yahya (yafya?) was well done. connecting him to legoshi and his family was great, and i loved the trauma and issues that the mixed children go through. it was raw, realistic, and i felt sadness for his mother and grandmother and their struggles.

but all this fighting and bloodshed and loss for LEGOSHI AND LOUIS TO NOT END UP AS BEASTARS TOGETHER? WHEN WE HAVE GOSHA AND YAFYA AS PARALELLS? stupid.

-summary

beastars was a great experience with highly compelling characters and setting, yet is ruined by a rushed ending that tries too hard to be shounen when it's clearly not. read beastars for complex characters and relationships, not for fight scenes. damn shame it ends this way, but enjoyable ride nonetheless. just imagine the ending arc as non-canon i think it's better this way.
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blazebolt77
Mar 31, 2021
To sum up the review of Beastars: Beastars is a very enjoyable, mature version of Zootopia that has a teenage high schooler wolf as the main character, instead of an adult police officer rabbit. 4/5: very enjoyable, but not without some faults, especially in the story.

Knowing Beastars is a more mature Zootopia was all I knew going into this series, and I think it is all you really need to know to enjoy the series.



But to dive a little deeper, I think there is a lot more in this series that makes it stand out on its own. The first is the world of Beastars. Animals are divided into carnivores and herbivores (there are also sea creatures, but those don't show up that often), and this relationship is very complex, which is a theme that is thoroughly explored throughout the manga. There really isn't a concrete good or evil in this world, and everyone has a little bit of both in them, which I like.

Unlike Zootopia, which is a thinly veiled metaphor for racism, I don't think Beastars has any ambitious social commentary, and overanalyzing it can be futile. Instead, the series takes you into this world and gets you to experience the lives and conflicts of the animals inside it. In Beastars, the conflicts between herbivores and carnivores are much more complicated that in Zootopia. Carnivores are inherently much, much stronger than herbivores, and it is very easy for carnivores to accidentally maim herbivores. It's pretty dark, and the series isn't afraid to show you surprisingly graphic images. But this all adds onto what I think is the strongest part of Beastars, which is the worldbuilding.

There are a substantial amount of chapters that are written just to explain what the life of a specific species is like (the one with the Legom hen is a favorite of mine), and those are some of the most enjoyable chapters of the entire manga. They really add to the world, and you see how each animal uses their own characteristics to help the overall society. Chickens sell eggs to the food market, canines sell their fur during shedding season, and some impoverished animals sell their body as food, just to name a few examples.

However, like most series that I rate a 4/5 (or a 9/10 on MAL), this series is great but not completely perfect. My biggest criticism for this series is in the story, which unfortunately isn't the best. It bites off more substantially more than it can chew, and there are numerous examples of when the author tries out an idea only to drop it a few chapters later (JoJo stands basically appear towards the end of the series for no reason, Legosi randomly undergoes Shounen training arcs, and the author also tries to set up some dumb love triangles that are quickly dropped, thank God). There are also many potential plot points that just aren't resolved, like who will be the next Beastar, or what is the Beastar exactly. The story also mentions a brief history of the world including a long World War, which was very interesting but also only mentioned twice.

But, in my eyes, this isn't too big of a deal, because the narrative is much more character driven than event driven. There honestly aren't really any characters that I dislike in any way (except maybe the final villain character Melon), but there are a ton I love. Some standouts include Legosi, Haru, Louis, Gohin, Gosha (Legosi's grandfather), and Jack, who are all great. It's very interesting to observe how all the different creatures of the world live their lives, and the relationships between animals because of their species.

Something else that I haven't seen the other people mention very much is the humor of the series. The manga is actually surprisingly very funny, the Paru Itagaki does a great job of drawing those anime reaction faces (especially on Haru).

Story: 7

Reasons stated in the main review above. It can get a bit messy sometimes, and many concepts are introduced but never explored.

Art: 9

Pretty good art. It definitely looks and feels unique, and although it can feel a bit rough sometimes, overall I think the art is very well done.

Character: 10

The main driving force behind the series. The characters and their relationships are why you should read this.

Enjoyment: 9

Really, really enjoyable.

Overall: 9 (4/5)
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lunahoney10
Mar 31, 2021
I overall would recommend Beastars. The characters are really cool and enjoyable. Despite some flaws, I found the world-building pretty fleshed out and interesting. As for bad things: the ending is kind of unsatisfying, and some things are introduced but later never brought up again.

There are two "parts" to the manga: first, a lighter section taking place largely in the school; then, Legosi saves the city. Despite the huge shift in the gravity of the situation, Legosi is still the same character: he's shy and weird (think: white knight), which doesn't change even as he becomes (mentally and physically) stronger (well, maybe a little, but it's reasonable). The same goes for other characters, such as Louis (he's sort of arrogant at first, but then becomes more humble); every character becomes "better", but they are still very much the same character. The way the characters grow feels very natural and very satisfying: the whole time I was cheering on Legosi (and his friends).

The many different species and in particular the carnivore/herbivore divide really aid in the character development. Legosi's "thing" is that he is a large carnivorous wolf but is very much a pacifist and feels very guilty when he feels his carnivorous/feral instincts bubbling up. There also a lot of small details about the species that make each character unique, although they often feel like a "deus ex machina" to advance the plot in a certain way; there will be a sudden plot twist, and it'll be post-hoc explained through a flashback/world-building sequence.

That is basically my main dislike. It applies not only to the characters but to the world-building in general. For example: Legosi and his friend Jack are talking about history, and Jack brings up that the "carni-herbi war" was just ended by a big whale; and then it cuts to the Beastar talking to a whale. Nowhere are we hinted before that there would be a whale, or that it would have so much significance to the plot (well, it still didn't have that much significance, but it was very significant to the world-building; its inclusion made the world feel less believable and consistent).

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In each of these examples, the flashback goes to a time-frame that is within the plot, so it feels very unjustified; that scene could've simply been added earlier, which would've also been nice foreshadowing. Sometimes it flashbacks to a scene only a few chapters prior. It very much feels like they are "telling" instead of "showing". It's pretty annoying, since for the most part the world-building is very nice, with how the society functions with all the different sizes of animals and of course the carnivore/herbivore tension.

If I had to summarize very concisely what the main appeal was to me, I'd say: taboo love and self-destructive violence/self-hatred. The entire plot is motivated by Legosi's (a big carnivore wolf) attraction to Haru (a small herbivore rabbit). In their society, interspecies love is taboo, especially carnivore/herbivore relationships. (It's the same reason why incest porn is so popular.) For the second: Legosi hates himself for being a big wolf and having these carnivorous desires, and in his big fights he's gets pummeled a lot; he always wins by some slim margin, but not through any spectacular gimmick but rather just like his own willpower and principles. I don't know if the following is really relatable (I have seen one Instagram post (of a Tumblr post) that suggests it is), but: as a child I would have make up a lot of really tragic romantic fantasies where the protagonist would constantly suffer for his love. I mean that was also the reason that I watched Sword Art Online (Kirito and Asuna's relationship), even though in retrospect and as-I-was-watching-it-spect it was pretty cringy.

I guess I should mention the art. I don't really focus on the art as much as I should've; especially since I binge-read it over the span of 8 hours, I sort of passively absorbed the art as I was reading the text. But I guess the art is pretty nice. It is sort of "haphazard" in the first view volumes, but it quickly improves. I guess I like the furries; I like the character designs. Maybe I'm just socially inept, but sometimes I have trouble differentiating the characters in manga with regular people and have to just rely on the hair, so having literally different species helps. Although, it's sometimes hard to tell which gender a character is because they're all animals.
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