Audience reviews
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AnimeGirlGusher
This anime was good in the first four episodes, then it stagnates and loses everything it had going for it.
The main character is essentially a cuck who chases a slutty rabbit who's only character trait is having slept and still sleeping with hundreds of men. I was hoping something would change but throughout the 12 episodes nothing changed, Legoshi remains a normal student with a thing for cuckhold and the rabbit remains a very unlikable character.
The setting for the show was already questionable, with high speed metro lines and cars but no self defence tools, but the later episodes completely broke it when they showed that firearms and crossbows exist in that world. The whole premise of the show gone, herbivores have no reason to fear carnivores and guns existing is common knowledge.…
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This show... Was overrated. I don't know who exactly is driving the bandwagon out for this anime, possibly furries? lol, but I was disappointed as all heck when it never delivered. Honestly I'm more than disappointed that this show is already getting a second season when great anime out there that Beastars can't even compete with get passed over. We all know I'm right. I think that most people like this show because of the hype and wagon mentality more than anything. I am an easy person to please, I love anime and literally have watched hundreds. Out of all of them there are not many that I find dreadful. This show was dreadful.
The story was boring. The first minutes going in, I thought it may be intriguing, but that was it. The rest is just a long dragged out boring cliche love story w…
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“I’m beginning to understand it now, the reason I was born a wolf.” – Legoshi
At its core this anime is relatively simple; however, the way in which the show presents this world of anthropomorphic animals sets up a number of thematic elements that can be interpreted in many different ways, and I think that's the key to good storytelling. Beastars creates a societal structure that's somewhat similar to our own society yet also fundamentally different. As a recently graduated Political Science & Geography student, my interpretation of Beastars and its ties to our own world is as follows:
In our society, biological determinism has deeply negative connotations. The belief that human behavior is directly controlled by an individual's genes, or some component of their physiology, has been used…
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Preface
The lights in the theater breathe back to life and the mobs of slobbering children begin to surge out of their seats, spilling into the exit lanes with reckless abandon. Still sitting betwixt the undulating streams of moviegoers, you stare vacantly at Zootopia's credits as they crawl up the screen, paralyzed in a state of sheer misery. With Kesha's abominable music roaring through the now-empty theater, you slump down into your seat, crushed under the weight of your own dejection. Alone amid the maelstrom of scattered popcorn and nondescript viscera, you wonder if you should just end it all right here and now. In truth, the only thing keeping you going is the confidence that you'll never have to experience a dog-shit 'animal society' story like this ever again.
Or so you thought.…
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Where to start...This anime is...Shitty to say the least. I, as a furry, hated it. I was hoping I'd like it and I was excited to watch it so I could cosplay it but, I was severely disappointed. The story and plot had nothing going for it and it's all very predictable. The art style was trying to be 3D and 2D at the same time and trust me, it wasn't anywhere near good. I didn't feel attachment to any of the main characters (Honestly my girlfriend and I were hoping for Juno to eat Haru). The only good part of it was the beautiful intro. The sweet jazzy music and the wonderful Claymation! It was the ONLY good part of it.
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It's furry fanservice, the romance is cancer, they're the most toxic kind of relationship I've ever seen, one is a carnivorous wolf that has the instinct to eat meat, and the female rabbit is a whore who in the last episodes, she lets herself to be eating... because apparently, that's her instinct. The anime gives you a lot of reasons why this relationship is garbage, and the anime is constantly trying so desperately to make it work, and even worse, it's trying so hard to make you believe this is okay.
The world-building is lazy, the police forces, or any kind of government power, hardly has any presence on the show, despite that the social issues that are portrayed (the murder of a herbivorous and the black market) have a lot of weight on the series.
The discrimination subject is incons…
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Bias disclosure: I found this show exceedingly cynical, and it was presented to me as a "furry" story. My review follows.
Story -
Three questions:
Why is there carnivore/herbivore conflict on the news, but not in the present setting?
How do carnivore-carnivore, herbivore-herbivore, and carnivore-herbivore interactions play out?
Does watching the main characters explain this premise sufficiently?
The answers are; I don't know, I don't know, and no. The story takes you through the plot in a reasonable way. It's well paced, and the end of one episode takes you to the next. The world is minimally built out enough to understand the context of how the characters live.
I think this was executed well enough.
I can agree that Beastars was an ATTEMPT at social commentary. But such stories are su…
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How if a lot of animals gathered somewhere ? Here we go Beastar, a unique anime which similiar representation zootopia show with anime style. theme built based dorm school like bully on world build set with priority on psychological & drama genre
when u watched early few episodes, im pretty sure u'll assume dat dis greath show, i cant deny it but u'll figure out dat wont so long. ur expectation about logic accomplishment be ruin instantly. the main chara at last episodes broke it all with deus ex machina accomplishment. wht the hell could it be 2 people can ruin a pack yakuza lions when legoshi enough hard when fought with his friend a tiger at drama stage, not to mention semi bestial scene showed deer n rabbit really horrible show can disturb ur mindset immediately
Art is good, not best…
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The dark horse enters the scarlet stage, illuminated by the crimson moon. With mask in hand, he embraces the carmine spotlight. Tied down to two stigmas, he was limited in his audience, but his performance made him shine like few others. The drama, the passion, the presentation, all marvelously shown as he proudly rose beyond almost everything else this year.
This struggle and scenario somewhat mirrors that of Louis, one of Beastars’ greatest characters. He’s a prideful, somewhat prejudicial deer who has put the world on his back. He refuses to be seen as weaker than carnivores simply because he’s a herbivore, so he fights back against that stereotype with all his might and pride. The show explores the many layers behind all of this through the backdrops of performances, love triangles, a…
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Beastars wasn't my very favorite anime of 2019, but it was certainly one of the most memorable. It's the kind of show one would imagine would be divisive but...not really it turns out. Beastars is near universally beloved here on MAL, so I feel like I'm being a complete edgelord by only giving it a 6. This wasn't my intent though! I actually love a lot of things this show did. However, I ended up with mixed feelings overall.
Beastars is adapted from an ongoing manga by Paru Itagaki. She's the daughter of famous mangaka Keisuke Itagaki and started publishing the manga when she was only 22 years old! Since she grew up surrounded by manga, she did what all kids do and rebelled a bit. Rather than obsess over manga and anime, Paru is a rabid fan of Disney movies and American cartoons. Beastars…
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I hate this anime. It was doing so good, and then in the final few episodes it just got so stupid and illogical. I do not know why such a logically broken anime has such a high score. Is it because of cute animals? I don't know, but the ending was just frickin' dumb.
WARNING: MAJOR STORY SPOILERS AHEAD.
The anime started off well and was a bit surprising. I went into this thinking it was a comedy, but it's a drama. There's a little humor, but mostly it's a serious anime that imagines what the relationship between carnivores and herbivores would be if they had a human society. In the midst of this, the likable MC, Legoshi, falls for a rabbit, Haru, basically because she talked to him once in a greenhouse. Even though he tried to eat her the first time they met. This is the first logic bre…
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Duo to everyone hyping this anime I decided to check it out. And, oh boy was it bad.
Story:
Basicaly revolves around the relationships between carnivores and herbivores, their desires, instincts..etc. It's a nice premise with nice worldbulding but it lacks one major thing. Decent/likeable characters.
Art
It's just atrocious. There is literally nothing more to say. Even tho it was better than average CGI used in anime, it's still bad. Very bad. Character:
Now, like I said before, there is no likeable characters. We have Legoshi, aka soy boy wolf who's more than annoying with all the overthinking he does. Definiton of soy boy. Weak. Afraid of anything. Can't even speak to females. Overthinks everything. Doubt's himself and his actions. But I guess, that's popular and reletable now seein…
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Spoiler warning: I will speak on certain spoilers about the story, so therefore I would recommend you to watch the show before you read this review. I also would like to encourage the reader to not blindly follow my or anyone else their opinions. I believe that my opinion is neither correct nor incorrect. I apologise in advance for any grammar or vocabulary mistakes as English is not my native language.
After reading some other reviews on MAL, the overall conclusion seems to be that Beastars is one of the best anime’s this season has offered. I dare to disagree with this as Beastars turned out to be a show with a lot of potential that got wasted on a very cliché story. My biggest critique with this show is that it tries way too much in a series that only has 12 episodes, therefore a lot o…
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Beastars setting is that of a world in which anthropomorphic animals, both carnivore and herbivore, live amongst each other in a society closely resembling our own. In that sense, it has essentially the same premise as Disney's Zootopia.
Where Zootopia used its setting as a direct allegory for real-world race relations, however, that metaphor starts to fall apart if you take a moment to consider the implications of it. As such, Zootopia is a movie that uses its premise only for surface-level allegory and aesthetics - it's not something that wants you to think too hard about any of the fucked-up implications of its setting.
I mention this because Beastars is the exact opposite - anything unsettling, dark, uncomfortable, or just plain weird about its premise, it dives headfirst into and ma…
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Note: English is not my native language, I apologize for possible mistakes.
At first I didn't expect much from this series, personally I had not heard about this manga before and firstly, unlike most, what caught my attention was that it would be done at CGI for nothing less than the Orange studio in charge to do Houseki no Kuni in 2017, so I expected something really good in this point and I am not disappointed.
The story takes place in a world dominated by anthropomorphic animals, both carnivorous, as herbivores, aquatic, terrestrial creatures and all the problems that this implies, with a main question What do they eat? What do carnivores eat in this world?
The world of Beastars is very interesting, it reminds us a lot of the movie Zootopia, but darker and without fear of playing sca…
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First things first - Beastars isn't a furry anime. Beastars is a modern fable. Even if you hate furries, you might still perfectly well enjoy this series. Source: me, someone who doesn't like the furry culture at all.
Short version in case you don't want to read the whole review: imagine zootopia, but with with complex characters and plot meant for adult audience.
The longer version:
Beastars is a character-driven drama. And boy are the characters great. Their thoughts, their actions, their interatcions with the world and other characters and the diverse cast of characters with various personalities all together make amazingly believable world. As ironic as it might sound, Beastars has one of the most human-like characters. At the very least among shounen anime.
The bittersweet drama is…
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This show is so fucking good. The characters are great and the story is oddly dark.
There are many anime with animal characters like Aggretsuko. But none of those anime inspect the food portion of the world. What do they eat? In this universe Carnivores and Herbivores live in peace. Only problem is that carnivores crave meat but they need to eat the same food as herbivores. Sometimes their carnivore instincts take over and they eat a herbivore. They also have somewhat of a clever solution for this problem and it is THE BLACK MARKET. There you can buy meat. But it will have side effects.
There are few important characters: Legosi is the main character whose life we follow. Legosi is this awkward wolf who has troubles keeping his instincts inside him. Then we have Louis. Louis is this deer…
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Beastars is an anime about prejudices, self-discovery and life under idealistic totalitarian rule where carnivores and herbivores supposedly dwell in harmony, and all of this takes place in a certain school's drama club. Everyone is already acting and then they try and act some more.
**Before we continue, in case you lean to the right side and consider yourself red-pilled, you most likely are at least on some level avoiding this anime like plague. I had my fair share of skepticism before going in, but I conclude this series is not driven by any pre-set political agenda. Social commentary exists, you can take it as political satire, call its world building neo nazi enigma, see the similarities to Stalin styled communism, laugh at how it practically labels food chain fascist, acknowledge t…
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“Ewww….this animation is gross.” — a naive Krunchyman
Coming into Beastars, I was a bit skeptical. That’s because I saw the 3D animation and immediately thought of Berserk 2016. Granted, the previews for Beastars were enough to convince me otherwise, but I was still leery. It’s not say that 3D aesthetics are terrible in general, but an artistic essence, if you will, seems noticeably absent — as compared to 2D aesthetics — making the 3D visuals seem a bit lifeless. Also, Japanese artists (unlike Western artists), draw 2D characters, which makes the conversion process to 3D look unnatural and wonky. Furthermore, the multitude of anime with horrendous 3D animation has soured expectations in the anime community, making a preponderance of fans jaded to the very notion.
Taking that all into co…
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Beastars, a show that transcends the logic of nature in the animal kingdom. From a world where social anxiety is the common norm and characters are portrayed as non-humans, we have ourselves a show that is about more than just animals. Living in this time era and adapting like survival of the fittest, Beastars embodies a story of a beast who strives to be who he is but faces against his personal demons in an imperfect world.
Paru Itagaki’s manga identifies itself as a drama and sell it in a complex labyrinth of feelings. Someone such as Legosi adapts a reflective personality, where he spends his time examining himself more than others. It’s a question we the viewers should ask ourselves: can carnivores co-exist in a society with herbivores? The law of nature says otherwise as herbivores a…
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