been getting into Beastars recently and it's swiftly becoming my Riverdale. every episode presents like twenty ideas, each of which would be wild enough to consume an entire show, and then it forgets literally all of them. the most recent episode involved a plot arc where Legoshi gets tied up, blindfolded, and beaten by another guy, and decides that the only way he can find out who did it is by making out with him and "memorizing the taste of his saliva." i'm obsessed
regardless of whether they hit or not. i think complicated, overeager stories, even when they're failures, are more interesting than streamlined, focused successes
is Beastars a good story? aaaaeeeeuuuhhhh nnnno. is it an INTERESTING one? yeah. fuck yeah. huge '00s furry webcomic energy. plus Itagaki's handle on character chemistry is fantastic and i'm absolutely wild for her loose, expressive art style. i won't pretend it's widely appealing, or that all of its ideas are perfectly thought out, but what's there is EXACTLY my shit
SLIGHT EDIT: DIDN'T REALIZE OP WASN'T TALKING ABOUT THE MANGA. go read the manga. the show is great too but yo, the comic though, it's next level
