Beastars Final Season Part 2

While I didn't disliked the manga's original ending, I felt they had a chance to fix it (since most of the problems with the original manga's ending were results of Paru being rushed to end the manga) and specially with some changes I saw in the first half of the Final Season, I was really hopeful, and... I was sorely disappointed; While the first episodes of this half were pretty strong, the moment I saw I was on episode 8 (or 20 of this Final Season as a whole) and we weren't even touching in some of the bits of the manga, I feared they wouldrush through it, and I was right in a sense. Not only they removed a whole arc of the final stretch of the manga, a lot of plot points seemed to come out of nowhere, and were solved uncerimoniously either by convenience, or by straight-up explanation dump; The whole bit at the end of the final episode of many plot points being tied up in a narration during the credits also didn't sat well with me. As I said, I liked some changes in the first half, but in this one those were either underutilized, same for some changes added in this half, or came out of nowhere and were solved as blunt and anticlimatic as they were introduced; I felt a lot of plot points that were anime-only also were left unresolved, like they were there just for "flavor" but weren't actually developed well enough. So yeah a bit of a letdown, specially for a series who had such strong previous seasons, and a somewhat strong start on this final season's second half start. 4.5/10

I've been a fan of the series ever since I started watching it on October 2019, it's really sad to see it end 6 and a half years later. Even though the 1st season was the best in terms of pacing and storytelling, all of them were good and entertaining, I did preferred the changes made to the storyline and ending for this season compared to the manga version which had some poor questionable ideas in my opinion. Still, It's sad to see that there's no other show or movie like it with such an unique concept (yeah I know there's stuff like Zootopia, but it'slacking the dark/mature storytelling of Beastars and its unique Japanese flavour). As a fan I feel empty inside after having watched it end after so long, at least I'm happy to see it was successful enough for Netflix to commission Orange to fully adapt the manga into 4 full seasons (it's called Final Season for marketing purposes, but we know it's technically 4 seasons). I mean, there are thousands of animes being released every year which barely get 1 or 2 seasons at most, at least Beastars managed to be fully adapted which was helped by the fact that it had Disney-like talking anthropomorphic animals as protagonists which is something that it's popular in the West, otherwise if it had your typical generic human anime protagonists it would've flopped for sure. Here's hoping the show continues to have at least decent streaming numbers for years to come, and we eventually get some sort of sequel or OVAs for it.

So incredibly pointless, this doesnt add anything of value over ending it before this in any fight against melon, the show also stops having any message at all, this season becomes characters appearing out of thin air and really stupid situations just to have a certain scripted event that makes no sense at all, someone being guilty or innocent is purely done by vibes and there are elaborate side plots that mean absolutely nothing. I mean why do you worry about a way to subdue mixed species when you already had the chance to subdue or kill him multiple other times, why introduce multiple scientists thatadd nothing to this, why have this goofy standoff on the black market. They really have lost about all messaging, season 1 was a mixed of multiple things, power dynamics created by two different type of races while that same dynamic is misconstrued and taken advantage one side using power and the other morality. Pair this with instict i.e. legoshi having the instict to hunt and haru having the instict to fuck, it was really entertaining honestly. There just wasnt any reason for season 2 and beyond, much less this season. They set up a mystery murder which is ruined by the existance of a giant snake that doesnt ever appear again, yeah lets not have a fight against him and rizz cause that would give sense to the character. Idk I just found everything so pointless, legoshi letting go off his instics soly to then rely of them to defeat rizz. Legoshi being part lizard out of nowhere, starting to introduce a bunch of mixxed people, having the deer get in and out of the lions constantly when him leaving in the car was perfect. It is just so messy for no reason whatsoever. This anime is called beastars, it was supposed to be about the elite of the series and cover big scale stuff, instead we got trash after more trash.

I waited two years for the second part of the final season to be released, and all I saw was a derailed passenger train What happened? Someone clearly didn’t tighten the bolts on the tracks. The train driver flew out the window, the Netflix CEO must have been a little too inspired by the second season of The Promised Neverland, and the main characters ended up on the wrong train—some didn’t even make it in time. Was the visuals nice? Yes. Was the main story okay? Yes and no. It was lacking in many ways. Does the adaptation make up for the two-year hiatus? Absolutely not.