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 The Seasonal Thread posted:In a world populated by anthropomorphic animals, herbivores and carnivores coexist with each other. For the adolescences of Cherryton Academy, school life is filled with hope, romance, distrust, and uneasiness. The main character is Legoshi the wolf, a member of the drama club. Despite his menacing appearance, he has a very gentle heart. Throughout most of his life, he has always been an object of fear and hatred by other animals, and he's been quite accustomed to that lifestyle. But soon, he finds himself becoming more involved with his fellow classmates who have their own share of insecurities and finds his life in school changing slowly. A manga by Paru Itagaki has now been animated Studio Orange and airs on Fuji TV and Netflix Japan! It's not releasing in any other territory yet so you're gonna have to be a bit resourceful to watch this one. It's currently unknown how many episodes this will run. A lot of people have reservations about it being a CG anime, but Studio Orange has won me over hard with Land of the Lustrous and so far, this show is incredibly charming https://twitter.com/PunkJax/status/...3D21%23lastpost https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgo9dJB_icw  MOD EDIT 1/17/2020: This thread will now serve as a general Beastars manga discussion thread. Consider spoiler tagging discussion of the newest released chapters for a page or so, but otherwise manga spoilers are fair game in this thread. Somebody fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Jan 17, 2020 |
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hunger hurts, but starving works when it costs too much to love
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Oct 20, 2019 17:09
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I think the CG actually works in Beastars favor. It makes them look like animals that are human instead of humans that are animals if that makes sense.
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Oct 20, 2019 17:30
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I was really unsure about the whole "anthropomorphic animals" bit going in, but they are actually using the whole carnivore/herbivore dynamic to good effect as an ever-present, but alien (from audience perspective) aspect of every interpersonal relationship in the setting and it makes Beastars pretty distinct from the usual high school drama (which is absolutely what Beastars seems to be, at least so far). So far, I'm genuinely unsure if Legoshi is innocent and completely unrelated to the whole incident in the first episode, or if he actually did ate the Llama boy while in predatory frenzy and is in deep denial about it. I'm hooked. ( Also it's CG, but it's good and extremely fitting for the setting, what else did you expect, it's studio Orange.)
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Oct 20, 2019 20:16
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I'm kinda pissed off this is stuck in Netflix Jail in the US.
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Oct 20, 2019 20:49
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So is the author! https://twitter.com/itaparu99/status/1182577604877905920
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Oct 20, 2019 21:07
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So far I'm enjoying how they are adapting Beastars. The changes so far seem to be in the interest of making it flow better as an anime. One change I like a lot just because it makes Legosi comes off better is how he hands off Tem's love letter. Here's how he decides to approach Els in the manga   They did cut out some stuff with Jack such as Legosi explaining to him what the play is about and how much he likes bugs. While the stuff where the harlequin rabbit and her friends toss Haru's books and mattress out of her window is new along with Haru's roommate. Also the author describes the series as a human drama, but with animal actors. Which I've always loved even though I'm not fully sure why.
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Oct 21, 2019 02:27
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The thing that's gonna be fun to watch is anime only people who think this is "more edgy zootopia" from the opening slowly realizing that Beastar's metaphors are totally different.
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Oct 21, 2019 02:48
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legosi is a younger, gawkier kazuma kiryu i will not accept debate on this point
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Oct 21, 2019 03:00
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Just so people know, it was revealed recently that Paru is actually the daughter of Keisuke Itagaki, the creator of Baki the Grappler also she wears a chicken head in public photos
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Oct 21, 2019 03:01
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yeah she withheld that information for a while so people wouldn't think there was any nepotism in her success or compare her to her father which is why i didn't want to mention it in the op
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Oct 21, 2019 03:08
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Paru Itagaki rocksFabricated posted:The thing that's gonna be fun to watch is anime only people who think this is "more edgy zootopia" from the opening slowly realizing that Beastar's metaphors are totally different. I feel like Beastars just dives into different issues that the society faces on a way deeper and multi-faceted level than Zootopia does (to be fair it's a long running manga narrative versus a singular movie). What I really love about the story is while, yeah, it's stuff we can connect with on a human level, there's stuff where I'm like, "Yeah, these are definitely animal problems." It's what fascinates me about her worldbuilding and even at some points in the manga it may halt the plot for a little, I'm never bored reading what new aspect that's been made up to build up the world of animals more from how certain species interact, the level of technology that's being used, their various dietary needs, etc.
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Oct 21, 2019 03:12
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Expect My Mom posted:yeah she withheld that information for a while so people wouldn't think there was any nepotism in her success or compare her to her father which is why i didn't want to mention it in the op She did actually reveal it publicly about a month ago. It is pretty neat that she hid it for so long. https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2019-09-19/weekly-shonen-champion-reveals-baki-beastars-creators-are-father-daughter/.151301 Compendium posted:Paru Itagaki rocks I love how she actually addresses things like carnivores eating meat in a more medical and social manner than a black-and-white moral one. It is why characters like Bill, Yafya and Melon are so interesting. I'm excited because it seems in the manga we might get more context on the war they haven't fully explained yet.
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Oct 21, 2019 03:43
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I kinda wish Morikawa also voices someone here, though, because The Boss' work on the Japanese Dub of Zootopia was pretty stellar in a way that Jason Bateman's just wasn't. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po2yxF__00U
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Oct 21, 2019 03:49
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Compendium posted:Paru Itagaki rocks Without giving away details current Beastars is running an incredibly relatable and nuanced view on what being biracial from two very different cultures is like thats very accurate to lived experiences, while also still being incredibly different because theyre gosh darn animals. Beastars is good.
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Oct 21, 2019 04:04
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i'm very curious if what legosi is grappling with in the beginning of the second ep is just common with bigger predators like wolves or more distinct to him. i'd assume the former but we haven't seen much of other big carnivores also louis is good. the tension and almost intimacy between him and legosi is conveyed very well by the models. i'm glad he's not antagonistic, just intense. the pv's had me feeling like he'd be trying to blame legosi for the murder or something
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Oct 21, 2019 04:22
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Compendium posted:Paru Itagaki rocks Expect My Mom posted:i'm very curious if what legosi is grappling with in the beginning of the second ep is just common with bigger predators like wolves or more distinct to him. i'd assume the former but we haven't seen much of other big carnivores Fabricated fucked around with this message at 04:57 on Oct 21, 2019 |
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Oct 21, 2019 04:51
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I like the animation but after seeing some screencaps of the manga I literally went and ordered what books are out in english right now because I love how loose (and sometimes outright doofy) the art looks, which is obviously gonna be lost in translation with it being a CG series
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Oct 21, 2019 06:12
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Digamma-F-Wau posted:I like the animation but after seeing some screencaps of the manga I literally went and ordered what books are out in english right now because I love how loose (and sometimes outright doofy) the art looks, which is obviously gonna be lost in translation with it being a CG series It's good, you're in for a treat. I don't think this is really spoiling anything, but it is from later chapter, so just in case:  
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Oct 21, 2019 09:27
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I really don't like Haru's facial design most of the time. Something about it just doesn't seem to fit with the other characters and makes her seem out of place. Her comical expressions are great, though. Anyway Beastars rules.
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Oct 21, 2019 10:18
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I binged through the manga recently, and I was shocked that there was no thread for this. While I have some grievances with the later stuff, I think the manga is incredibly compelling. I'll have to check out the anime too, once it's available here.
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Oct 21, 2019 10:43
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Fabricated posted:The thing that's gonna be fun to watch is anime only people who think this is "more edgy zootopia" from the opening slowly realizing that Beastar's metaphors are totally different. Something about it reminds me of a much (much much) softer Oyasumi Pun Pun. Also I binged the entire manga yesterday and I love Louis and Pina. (major recent spoilers) I'LL SHOW YOU THE POWER OF MY STAND 
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Oct 21, 2019 10:46
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I'm so glad this finally has a thread. the manga is incredible and Beastars is going to be the best anime of the season.
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Oct 21, 2019 12:50
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I would like to have this be a manga thread sometime after the anime ends cause I def see myself switching over at some point
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Oct 21, 2019 22:18
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Expect My Mom posted:I would like to have this be a manga thread sometime after the anime ends cause I def see myself switching over at some point 
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Oct 21, 2019 22:37
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been reading the manga; I think I got to the point where the anime will probably end (if it happens to be a single cour that is) with the end of the Meteor Festival arc
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Oct 22, 2019 02:19
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Just finished episode 2. That is not where I expected this to go. Who's the predator now? 
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Oct 22, 2019 05:06
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Digamma-F-Wau posted:been reading the manga; I think I got to the point where the anime will probably end (if it happens to be a single cour that is) with the end of the Meteor Festival arc actually scratch that, I wouldn't be surprised if the series was 2 cour, given how where I am right now (chapters in the 90s, roughly where a 2 cour series would end with with at the chapter rate it's going) seems to be a pretty good stopping point
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Oct 22, 2019 06:06
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Ranzear posted:Just finished episode 2. I like how confused Legosi is about all this. Hm? Hm? ...Hm?
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Oct 22, 2019 06:14
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That is one hell of a place to leave an episode lol. So far I’m more than confident that this adaptation is in the right hands, a couple of shots from the first episode were really great, like Tem in darkness going to inverted colours and the silhouetted shot of Legosi at sunset. I am a little bummed that some of the earlier pages seem to have been cut because Jack’s first introduction is way earlier in the manga, and I think it’s useful to show the friendships Legosi has. Right now he’s coming off as more of a loner than he really is. There’s a few other things this show is treating a little differently but it’d be a bit too spoilerly to talk about.
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Oct 22, 2019 12:22
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https://twitter.com/beanytuesday/status/1174732331149664262
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Oct 23, 2019 12:37
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Didn't Itadadki also thought up a series about a make-up artist being hella committed to his craft?
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Oct 23, 2019 17:04
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PringleCreamEgg posted:I really don't like Haru's facial design most of the time. Something about it just doesn't seem to fit with the other characters and makes her seem out of place. Her comical expressions are great, though. honestly i think this is kind of the point since (not really sure if i should be tagging this, it's a thing from pretty early on, but doing it just to be safe) like 95% of the sexual content in the series involves Haru in some way and I have a weird feeling Itagaki kinda doesn't want you reading that with one hand like, Haru comes off as a deliberately out of place and uncanny-valley character design, not an accidental fuckup, and it's pretty blatant to me why that happened tbh
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Oct 23, 2019 20:20
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Haru's thing is that being an albino dwarf rabbit pretty much makes her look like she needs protected or like a pure sex object by everyone she meets. She isn't taken seriously by males and females see her as unfair competition.
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Oct 23, 2019 20:25
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Fansubs for Episode 3 are out! Go watch it's incredibly good! The use of mirrors and split screens in this show are so interesting, to the point where it kind of freaks me out. I love the one at the end of episode 2 where Haru's side cuts between actions and Legoshi's is just a close up of his face, it doesn't make logical sense but it all comes together. GOOD SHOW
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Oct 27, 2019 05:32
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"Unlike you, my body's not built for fighting" says man who grows knives out of his head. (More generally, they seem to be doing the whole Zootopia thing, where they conflate how dangerous an animal is with its diet)
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Oct 27, 2019 10:53
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beastars has somewhat fanciful ideas about the animal kingdom in general, and I don’t mean the walking and talking bits
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Oct 27, 2019 12:51
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The opening scene is way better than I had expected.   I never noticed Legosi closing the door on his tail in manga.
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Oct 27, 2019 15:19
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even discounting the bunny situation, the animation makes it clear that he’s hideously uncomfortable in this tiny space just an awkward lurching Frankenstein of a boy
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Oct 27, 2019 16:02
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