In a world populated by anthropomorphic animals, herbivores and carnivores coexist with each other. For the adolescents of Cherryton Academy, school life is filled with hope, romance, distrust, and uneasiness.
The main character is Legoshi the Gray 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.
Netflix has it licensed, but hasn't started airing it yet for some reason, despite it being a few episodes in in Japan.
Who the hell even does stop motion outside of Ardman anymore? And in an anime of all places????
I'll give this a shot. Character designs are choice. Premise seems to hew pretty close to Zootopia except as a school drama rather than a crime drama, which is okay. I liked Zootopia well enough. It being an anime rather than a Disney film means it'll probably get a lot more grim, though, which can be a mixed bag, but we'll see how that goes.
Who the hell even does stop motion outside of Ardman anymore? And in an anime of all places????
I'll give this a shot. Character designs are choice. Premise seems to hew pretty close to Zootopia except as a school drama rather than a crime drama, which is okay. I liked Zootopia well enough. It being an anime rather than a Disney film means it'll probably get a lot more grim, though, which can be a mixed bag, but we'll see how that goes.
I think it's both. The trailer I posted makes it look like someone gets murdered.
I'm not opposed to grimness and violence. It just needs to not wallow in it. And I think setting it in a high school with minimal secret magical bullshit happening could be a good buffer against that kind of stuff. But again, time will tell.
I said this before, but it can't be overstated just how very LITTLE anime where the main characters are anthro animals. Maybe a few with them as sidekicks, but the entire main cast being talking animals is super rare. If there is one, they tend to be pre-school stuff.
From what I know of "Beastars", though, it is definitely an adult anime
Beastars seems a bit too violent/grim for my own tastes, but we're getting another furry anime next year from the Little Witch Academia director and it's probably gonna slap
Netflix has it licensed, but hasn't started airing it yet for some reason, despite it being a few episodes in in Japan.
I thought Netflix didn't do the simulcast thing to begin with; last couple of times I was interested in an anime that Netflix ended up getting the license for, they waited until the shows finished their runs in Japan before streaming the localized versions.
Beastars seems a bit too violent/grim for my own tastes, but we're getting another furry anime next year from the Little Witch Academia director and it's probably gonna slap
Trailer out.
Unfortunately, it's going to netflix, which means it won't be simulcast.
I made it a point to avoid discussing that within my own comic. The few times I did, I just used made-up fantasy animals as the source of meat, like unicorns.
Bestars isn't what I expected. Trailer plays up the murder mystery, but 5 episodes in, and the murder really isn't part of the narrative, other than occasionally bringing up the name of the person who was killed.
It's mostly just high school drama with some really depressed animal people. There's also a theater club.
I also like how there's more than just mammals. It's mostly mammals, but I've spotted a lizard, and there are a few birds.
I made it a point to avoid discussing that within my own comic. The few times I did, I just used made-up fantasy animals as the source of meat, like unicorns.
zootopia doesn't really concern itself much with the eating part of the predator/prey divide and the fact that the outsiders are "predators" has a lot more to do with trying to answer racist propaganda that depicted black and brown people with animalistic and predatory instincts than any actual morality about eating meat. zootopia was not perfect at this, it had a very neoliberal 'just try to counteract racism, don't think too much about how it started or why its here' final message.
beastars if i'm reading the first season right is very much reading sexual needs into the predator and prey relationship, and in particular is concerned about the sex industry w/r/t prey, and how it literally consumes people.
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I don't think Netflix is OK...
