Beastars was a show i fell in love with. I heard the anime was gonna soon and it sounded really good so i decided to read the manga. Here's my review:

Story overall: 5/10
Murder mystery ark: 9/10 in first half 2/10 in other half

shishigumi ark: 9/10:
it manages to not become too much of a shonen + alot of character development. We live in a society.

melon ark: 6/10 honestly quite good in the start but becomes too much shonen. Melon is a great, interesting character.

The story starts of really good. A murder mystery and how the murder affects the carnivores and herbivores at the school and later on the realtionship between Legoshi and Haru. The main problem with the story is how it forgets about the murder mystery and instead starts a new ark. it just jumps to new things without ending the things it has started. When the murder mystery finally continoud it fellt kind of disappointing. it became a seinen/shonenand starts to introduce mild superpowers (this gets even worse in the Melon ark later on). Like many i loved the show because of the characters and their development but its becoming more and more like a shonen.

Then the melon ark comes. Legoshi gains superpowers because of his mixed blood and manages to beat everyone with his words. The latest chapters have honestly been insulting to the whole story in my opinion which is hard to explain why if you havent read it.

Art: 3/10

The art feels very rushed but i honestly dont have too much of a problem with it but i know some people might have. For example my brother didnt wanna read its because of the rushed art style.

Characters: 9/10

Honestly the best part of the show. like many have said the characters feel real and you can easily relate and understand them. not much to say. Great characters but too much focus on legoshi imo.

Overall: Its definentaly worth a read just for the character and the shishigumi + murder mystery was a very good part which i enjoyed alot besides the end. Even though the show goes downhill in later chapters the first 2 arks are really good and worth a read.