• status: ongoing
• progress: s2 ep 5
• rating: 8/10 , actually kinda fire

Oh. Oh, crazy insane jealous panic. So far, I love beastars. It's so corny but in a way that has you reacting so viscerally to everything and I think that already is an achievement by everyone on the beastars team.

it's very heavy on the "To deny your instincts is to deny yourself" trope, and everybody knows how much i love that trope, because of how much it reminds me of vampirism. Yes, I think that beastars might have been less shamed on if it were a vampire anime instead of an anthropomorphic animal anime. Does that mean I hate the anime? No. Not even close.

It's like... yeah... learn to live around your instincts. It's about learning to live with who you are, your identity, and Legoshi has been running from that so long and the claws of who he is have finally caught up to him and this is him dealing with that.

Idk maybe I'm biased, but I do truly do not care. Stone me. It reminds me of trying to live around my own self, my own identity. Tiptoeing around the topic because i knew that if i went any further, I wouldn't be able to go back.

This is similar to how Legoshi knows once he tastes the flesh, feels the hot nectar of blood rush down his throat, he'll never be able to go back. Even if there's a very small voice in the back of his ribcage that knows. And that is so scary when you, the person, know what's happening to you yet you deny it so much because that little voice is telling you its wrong.

I like beastars. I like beastars, but that isn't me saying it's a good anime. I think the plot is a bit of a mess....??? in a way???? Sometimes it feels like the author is doing things that she shouldn't.

And the characters do feel a bit... blank. Like there's not much else to them. Like, I love Jack. Why? He's cute. He's funny. He's happy. But what else? It's a bit hard for the cast to feel real when some of them are very 2d.

What's interesting to me is the concept, and what the series sets up.