Beastars

This was an interesting mashup of Zootopia and Fruits Basket into a single anime... all of the tension and taboo of interspecies relationships in Zootopia with all the teenage angst and drama in Fruits Basket. If you've seen both shows, you'll be able to guess how this series is going to end.

At times Beastars gets a bit tedious, others times the flow is fast and smooth.. it's easy to binge watch the entire Season 1 since it flows quite naturally. Definitely a refreshing story amid all the cookie cutter anime scripts out there today. I'm actually looking forward to season 2

I don't watch many anime's and I was like okay I'll give this one a shot, even though I thought it was silly and thought it would be too weird. But damn I was surprised by the artwork and a really good story every episode, all of them are interesting because each story introducing a new character arc in that characters POV. I recommend this anime even if you don't watch anime regularly or do but I'll I gotta the only problem is a romance between a slutty rabbit and a socially awkward wolf creating some weird drama. It's great though, weird obviously it's animal romance but it's funny, has really good character arcs/building, and all around a well paced and well told story but you need to watch till the end for the story to finally make sense.

Being an anime that involves exclusively anthropomorphic animal characters, Beastars will push some viewers away for the simple fact that its characters associated with furries. However the actual story of a teenage wolf falling in love with a white rabbit in a society that demonizes predators set against the backdrop of a gruesome murder had me engaged from the first episode.

Beastars aggressive narrative of romance, social divides, high school drama, and crime never once felt boring and smartly focused on its central characters while fleshing out the world they live in.

Legosi was an excellent protagonist through and through. His struggle to deal with his primal instincts and act rather timid despite being a grey wolf was the strongest aspect of the story. The rest of the characters, particularly Haru and Louis, were very well written and always took the more challenging route rather than succumb to narrative cliches.

The only complaint I can narrow down on Beastars, aside from how Netflix is releasing it, is with some inconsistent 3D-animation. It does not happen often, but some shots and whole scenes had a few awkward character movements that were to wooden or robotic to ignore. The rest of the anime animation is excellent, especially facial expressions on the characters.

I cannot recommend Beastars enough to both casual viewers and hardcore fans of anime alike, now we just need season 2 to have an official release date and the first season on US Netflix.

I LOVE IT!! It's a serious somehow relaxing and fun drama to watch, with more views of various species. What I love is how they represent the society so well. Especially in the world of preys and predators.

So I saw that ONE scene from Beastars that everyone probably saw. I honestly thought this is something for furries lol. Than I started to watch it with the thought that this show is gonna be the ultimate cringe for me. And true, some scenes might be weird and uncomfortable to watch, but I really like the concept and binged the first season in one day. Great character development. Intriguing conflicts. Nice 3D animation with a 3D look. So if you're open to anime, but had the same cringe prejudice about this show, give it a chance. It's really worth watching it.