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agnese_kogami's review against another edition
Non ricordavo che il mercato nero fosse così creepy, madò.
saramarie08's review against another edition
4.0
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Legoshi and the drama department are invited to join in with creating floats and other designs for the Festival of the Meteor, the day animals commemorate the meteor that brought about the extinction of the dinosaurs. since they have plenty of experience making backdrops for the plays. Legoshi runs into the rabbit, Haru, again, and can't explain the magnetism he has towards her. Is it predatory? does he like her? Later, the students go out into the city below their school, and they inadvertently find themselves at the steps of the Black Market - a place that sells herbivore meat to carnivores in an attempt to help them keep their urges in check. Legoshi is separated from his friends, and he is forced to confront his nature as a carnivore, and really look at the attraction he has to Haru.
There are some serious issues being discussed and dealt with in this series, especially this volume, and the use of animals helps the author really delve into the heart of these issues without calling out any specific group. Legoshi talks about his depression to several friends, and they give him less than stellar advice that he knows is not helpful. Legoshi coming to terms with his nature as a carnivore makes him examine feelings that could very well be racism or toxic masculinity in a world with no animals. I also appreciated seeing the world outside of the school, as to this point, it seemed as though they were attending school in the middle of nothing. I do feel like the murder that starts out the series has been relatively forgotten, perhaps because it happens frequently? Hopefully, we will get to find out which carnivore(s) is eating their classmates.
Sara's Rating: 8/10
Suitability Level: Grades 11-12
Legoshi and the drama department are invited to join in with creating floats and other designs for the Festival of the Meteor, the day animals commemorate the meteor that brought about the extinction of the dinosaurs. since they have plenty of experience making backdrops for the plays. Legoshi runs into the rabbit, Haru, again, and can't explain the magnetism he has towards her. Is it predatory? does he like her? Later, the students go out into the city below their school, and they inadvertently find themselves at the steps of the Black Market - a place that sells herbivore meat to carnivores in an attempt to help them keep their urges in check. Legoshi is separated from his friends, and he is forced to confront his nature as a carnivore, and really look at the attraction he has to Haru.
There are some serious issues being discussed and dealt with in this series, especially this volume, and the use of animals helps the author really delve into the heart of these issues without calling out any specific group. Legoshi talks about his depression to several friends, and they give him less than stellar advice that he knows is not helpful. Legoshi coming to terms with his nature as a carnivore makes him examine feelings that could very well be racism or toxic masculinity in a world with no animals. I also appreciated seeing the world outside of the school, as to this point, it seemed as though they were attending school in the middle of nothing. I do feel like the murder that starts out the series has been relatively forgotten, perhaps because it happens frequently? Hopefully, we will get to find out which carnivore(s) is eating their classmates.
Sara's Rating: 8/10
Suitability Level: Grades 11-12
mdettmann's review against another edition
4.0
I love Legoshi! He’s such a sweet and complex character. I love him and Haru. I want more Haru backstory!
paracosm's review against another edition
4.0
This volume feels like it's only set up for what's to come next, but I still have a lot to say.
The relationship between Haru and Legoshi is so, so awkard and I don't Like that. I know that it gets a little better because I've seen the anime, but still. I'll rather deal with gratuitous violence than second hand shame.
A new character is introduced named Juno and I don't like her because she is annoying. Juno has a crush on Legoshi and everyone is weirdly invested in the two getting together, which I find odd. When I was in highschool I couldn't have given any less f*cks about who was dating who, maybe other people did, I don't know.
The author's self-insert appears as a chicken obsessed with laying good eggs. There's nothing wrong with that but it made me realize something stange about this manga. Because all of the characters are anthropomorphic animals this chicken is like 1.50m tall or something, but the eggs she lays are regular size, about 3 inches. So when the chicks are born they are super tiny compared with the parents. I find that really odd because usually with anthropomorphic birds authors make eggs bigger so when the hatch they are baby-sized.
In this world the animals are divided into herbivores and carnivores, the second group has the incrontrolable urge to kill and eat the first group, so they must control their instincts. If that's the case then those sort of crimes must be very common. But in this volume when a gazelle dies everyone makes such a big deal that they put the herbivores on a curfew, even when the murder didn't even happen in their city. How is that a regular procedure?
The last thing I want to mention is that Gohim is introduced and he's my second favorite character. He's a panda that works as a psychologist for carnivores that have killed others. I don't think he has a medical licence but I love him anyway.
The relationship between Haru and Legoshi is so, so awkard and I don't Like that. I know that it gets a little better because I've seen the anime, but still. I'll rather deal with gratuitous violence than second hand shame.
A new character is introduced named Juno and I don't like her because she is annoying. Juno has a crush on Legoshi and everyone is weirdly invested in the two getting together, which I find odd. When I was in highschool I couldn't have given any less f*cks about who was dating who, maybe other people did, I don't know.
The author's self-insert appears as a chicken obsessed with laying good eggs. There's nothing wrong with that but it made me realize something stange about this manga. Because all of the characters are anthropomorphic animals this chicken is like 1.50m tall or something, but the eggs she lays are regular size, about 3 inches. So when the chicks are born they are super tiny compared with the parents. I find that really odd because usually with anthropomorphic birds authors make eggs bigger so when the hatch they are baby-sized.
In this world the animals are divided into herbivores and carnivores, the second group has the incrontrolable urge to kill and eat the first group, so they must control their instincts. If that's the case then those sort of crimes must be very common. But in this volume when a gazelle dies everyone makes such a big deal that they put the herbivores on a curfew, even when the murder didn't even happen in their city. How is that a regular procedure?
The last thing I want to mention is that Gohim is introduced and he's my second favorite character. He's a panda that works as a psychologist for carnivores that have killed others. I don't think he has a medical licence but I love him anyway.
nanaaax3's review against another edition
dark
funny
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
5.0
fanciful_reader's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
rorycb's review against another edition
5.0
The best volume in the series so far.
Legoshi's conflict between his instinctive impulses and the rational suppression of those impulses is quite brilliantly portrayed.
The creativity is high from author Paru Itagaki. Addding to the drama, some great new characters such as the young grey wolf Juno, Aoba the bald eagle, and the brilliant tangential chapter about Legom the chicken who takes great pride in the eggs she lays that are eaten unwittingly by her carnivorous classmates. The wider world is enriched by the introduction of the Festival of the Meteor, and the Black Market for meat in the local town, adding fascinating dilemmas for our lead. Then in the last part of the book, there's the surprise introduction of the giant panda guardian of the Black Market and what he now brings to the narrative. To be fair I thought this character was sometimes over the top, but Itagaki draws him magnificently.
Just the other day, there was group of teenage girls in my bookstore, arguing about the occurrence of sex in Beastars (two of them ganging up against the one who was defending it), that they reckoned it was basically beastiality, and that it cancelled the worth of the series (paraphrasing, if course). I thought it was very funny how squeamish and prudish the two were. Maybe they were referencing the anime because I don't think it's overt here, although physical attraction between the characters is definitely part of this story If anything, it's the depictions of "carnivorism" that I find more disturbing.
This is not a manga for younger readers, but it is certainly a great allegory for the teenage experience.
Legoshi's conflict between his instinctive impulses and the rational suppression of those impulses is quite brilliantly portrayed.
The creativity is high from author Paru Itagaki. Addding to the drama, some great new characters such as the young grey wolf Juno, Aoba the bald eagle, and the brilliant tangential chapter about Legom the chicken who takes great pride in the eggs she lays that are eaten unwittingly by her carnivorous classmates. The wider world is enriched by the introduction of the Festival of the Meteor, and the Black Market for meat in the local town, adding fascinating dilemmas for our lead. Then in the last part of the book, there's the surprise introduction of the giant panda guardian of the Black Market and what he now brings to the narrative. To be fair I thought this character was sometimes over the top, but Itagaki draws him magnificently.
Just the other day, there was group of teenage girls in my bookstore, arguing about the occurrence of sex in Beastars (two of them ganging up against the one who was defending it), that they reckoned it was basically beastiality, and that it cancelled the worth of the series (paraphrasing, if course). I thought it was very funny how squeamish and prudish the two were. Maybe they were referencing the anime because I don't think it's overt here, although physical attraction between the characters is definitely part of this story If anything, it's the depictions of "carnivorism" that I find more disturbing.
This is not a manga for younger readers, but it is certainly a great allegory for the teenage experience.