English Dub Season Review: Beastars Final Season Part Two

Overview:

Legoshi continues to try to prove that his relationship with Haru can work. Now he has the mixed species, Melon, to deal with. Now, seeing what their union could bring about, it puts things in perspective.

Our Take(Spoilers):

Melon’s mother was a leopard, and his father was a gazelle, and I thought that would be focused on more by Legoshi at the very least. He wants to have a relationship with the rabbit Haru and eventually have children. So, I thought that Melon would be like a messed-up mirror showing Legoshi what a possible future could be. Don’t get me wrong, I would still want them to try and be together because I think Melon is a classic case of nurture vs nature. Who’s to say that a child between Haru and Legoshi wouldn’t be so loved and cared for that they would be nothing like Melon? But for it to never be discussed and not be a plot point at all was a bit disappointing.

I think some of the issues I have with Beastars are issues with how many tv shows, but especially anime has been handled in the last few years. The first season came out in 2019, the second in 2021, the first part of the final season was in 2024, and now it wraps up in 2026. That’s seven years before we got a resolution! You’d think there were seven seasons of the show, but nope, we essentially got four, twelve-episode seasons. Most people lose interest unless they are huge fans, but most people would have probably gone on and read the manga in this timeframe. I feel like if I watched the previous season of a show, I should be able to remember most of it, so I can enjoy the new seasons. I want animators and people who work on television shows to get the R&R they deserve, but there has to be a middle ground somewhere.

Bitching and whining weren’t my intention, but so few anime get a conclusion that when one does, I would like it to be handled well. At least as far as the show goes, I’m glad I watched it, and it had a satisfactory ending… mostly.

What I mean is that it feels like a few things were skipped to make the runtime fit. The conflict with Melon lasts right up until the last six minutes of the last episode or so. This leads to one of my biggest issues with the ending of the series. All of the epilogue stuff is told to us through a few little snippets that we don’t get any more information on. Louis and Juno cut things off, and that’s all we get. A cop yells at Legoshi for holding Haru, but she says it’s all good their together after all! This is all we’re left with, and I had hoped that for a show that is ending, I’d be left not wanting more.

This show was a furries’ dream, but it was so much more than that, too. It had a fun and unique take on the anthropomorphic animal schtick. Shows like Zootopia were similar but skipped over the uncomfortable bits. Carnivores still eat meat, so how do they get past that without harming their neighbors? What if a fox falls in love with a rabbit? Beastars deals with all of these issues head-on. But I don’t feel like they were resolved in a satisfactory way. The fact that we got an ending at all in this age was nice, though.

I’m glad I watched Beastars, but I feel unfulfilled. I had hoped for more, but the fact that we got as much as we did is something to be thankful for. One area where the show never faltered was in the openings and endings. Every single song from this show was a banger. I’m sad that it’s over, but I might be more sad that it ended how it did.