Beastars

Netflix | Release Date: March 13, 2020

8.5	USER SCORE Universal acclaim based on 36 Ratings

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DPtdrysteMar 18, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I liked the show better when the violence and sexiness was more subtle.

A school-play ended up enthralling me more than a big Boss-Fight, and watching Juno try for love ended up turning me on more than all the over-explaining and "showcasing" of Haru as a redemptive, if not overly-fan-service-heavy, character.

You'll see what I mean.

Beastars, all in one 12-episode season, introduces us to what makes it unique and astounding... just to squander it by biting off way more than it's willing to sell us it can logically chew..

I saw a high-schooler take down the mafia and wondered why the show deviated so far from the grounded critique of an interesting society that was hooking me.

The show lays on the "impossible but meant to be" romance so thick by the end of it you just wish the two were already a couple so we could skip pass the honeymoon-phase and get to the part where they're talking to each other like normal people do.

(All foreplay and no release btw! Hey, YOU'RE the one that decided to read a spoiler-heavy review, hope you've earned it!)

This show isn't really a 6. It's a 10 with a badly-fractured ankle.

I'm hoping after a year or so of much-needed introspective rehabilitation this show can go back to what made it stand out so much: a societal critique, instead of just another waste-bin teenage-romance coming-of-age story with a clumsy-dash of "HERO, to the rescue!" added on the side to play it safe with the virgins of anime tropes.

P.S. Without Haru showing up near the end, this season is a 4. Get your **** together, Beastars!… Expand

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