Beastars

[MFauli]

episode 10:

Yes/No question for manga-readers: Does the manga do a better job at explaining why Legosi or Pina don't rat out the murderer to authorities? Tell the police, tell the school leadership, someone.

I have big trouble making sense of this. Legosi is putting every herbivore at danger.

[MFauli]

Episode 11:

WTF
So there *is* a police in this world, but Legosi just chose not to tell them?! Wtf. This makes zero sense. He's putting everyone in danger (too much danger, if Pina is truly dead. Not sure about that. On one hand, Riz has no reason not to kill him, on the other hand, and off-screen death is suspicious).

Meh.

The rest of the episode is superb, of course. I love Ibuki's character development, although I have no idea what the shot at the end was supposed to mean. Why can't Louis ask the lions to come help him with a bear? Legosi disguised as a woman and the reaction from both Louis and Ibuki were priceless, haha.

[David75]

Yeah, that Legosi/Ibuki/Louis scene was golden from beginning to end.

The ED's lyrics are about that tunnel scene. Though I do not know who gets alive out of the tunnel.
Free could be the one pulling the triger as instructed by Ibuki, but I see no reason he'd be in the car, would make no sense.

That moth scene was just pure crap. That or moth larvae have hallucinogenic to wolves compounds in their bodies.

[MFauli]

Final episode:

Well, this is over now. Overall, I liked it very much, but the entire nonsensical "I wont tell the police about Riz, because .... BECAUSE!" soured my opinion on this 2nd season.

Lots of fantastic, memorable scene, great characters. But the meat-power up was unfittingly comical in my opinion. Also, it felt like I was watching some sort of gay-cannibal softcore porn there at the end, lol.

Looking forward to what this studio does next, because their work with cg animation is amazing. If I could choose: Let them remake Gantz from beginning all the way to the end of the manga.

[neflight86]

...a swing and a miss...

This finale really didn't work for me... hardly at all. The mystical bug eating séance (how enlightened of insects to grasp the concept of desire, but not actually possess any) and the fight with Riz were both underwhelming. I know this isn't an action show per se, but there was action on display here and the flowery, sentimental writing style did not even try bending to accommodate it. The action felt disjointed, like the entirety of the circumstance surrounding it, in actuality. When the stakes of an interplay are life and death, I need to feel the urgency of the encounter or all of the dramatic tension is lost, even when the outcome is inevitable. Pausing fights to have touchy-feely conversations and understand each other better has its place- before the final confrontation. Here, it was damaging to the pacing.

Lewis' return, and the circumstances for doing to were a bit better, though the scenario was a bit too black and white for me to take seriously. Going to help a friend does not necessarily mean throwing away or forsaking his entire enterprise, as it was interpreted by number 2 lion. I don't get it. Also, deagle lion was more dedicated than I pegged him for to stalk, shoot and release/banish. It served the purpose of keeping Lewis's hands clean... except that he already gave lead poisoning to the old boss in s1.

The biggest disappointment though was the somewhat contrived 'shut up and eat my foot' power up Legosi didn't even use to 'win' his fight. If Lewis thought or surmised that eating meat is what draws out a carnivore's true power, there were other ways to get him the hook up; they were out of Riz's sight after all, and he just came from the black market where cadavers were readily available. I get that the sacrifice had symbolic meaning, but I ain't buying into this bromance nearly enough to brush aside the thoughtlessness of the climax as a whole.

Well, with season 2 over, the mystery set up by the first episode is cleared and we can now move one to the actual meaning and ramifications of the Beastar itself now. I look forward to it, and have re-adjusted my expectations as to how this story is being handled and will try to embrace my inner simp.

[MFauli]

Season 3 is apparently out now, officially on Netflix.

What a dumb decision to release this all at once. Way to ruin any hype :/ Oh well, will start the binging later.

[MFauli]

4 episodes in I gotta say: LOL. So the only animals that are truly fucked are insects. Those are okay to eat, because ... fuck insects! What a weird distinction to make.