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31/ anyone else feeling the same way? am i crazy for thinking it was just so much nonsense?

30/ season 2 could've been the actual ending and i feel plenty of people would've been satisfied with just that. but the more and more i watched both parts it just felt like a soulless cash grab

29/ but instead it felt like they were constantly writing themselves into corners and then trying to get out of it but then creating new issues on top of new issues.

28/ but it still deserved to be more closely adapted. so many of the changes were just outright nonsense, why was it necessary to kill the baby chick? when an anime diverts from the manga it usually wraps around in a way that makes those changes make sense

27/ to be fair the second half of the manga isn’t perfect either, the pacing gets messy and some arcs move too fast, understanding that the final fight scene took soooooo long to finish and release was rough as a fan at the time

26/ instead the anime uses the word mixed, which i feel is a little too on the nose for what they're trying to represent, it lacks that normal animal tinge that most things gravitate towards

25/ even small wording choices show this shift, the manga often uses the word “hybrid” for characters like melon, which could be a mistranslation, but fits overall much better into the theming of the show

24/ when the anime sidelines that dynamic, the ending starts to feel kind of hollow, especially with how they refused to adapt the beast complex chapters showing their marriage and life after the manga ended

23/ legoshi and haru’s relationship is what drives basically everything. the final arc of the manga is literally about their relationship becoming more complicated as they grow individually from each other

22/ focusing on melon ends up taking attention away from what was basically constantly being thrown in our face the whole season, the promise of legoshi and haru's relationship being seen as legitimate

21/ the show spends a lot of time trying to soften melon’s ending and give him a more peaceful resolution, which is just fucking stupid in my book

20/ the biggest issue though is how the anime handles the ending. so there will be spoilers after this

19/ the writing around her isn’t perfect but the idea matters. in the anime she’s basically reduced to a quick marvel slop easter egg that barely affects anything, why even bring it up at all if she's just gonna be on a poster

18/ kyuu basically forces legoshi to confront the fear he still has about his relationship with haru and about himself as a predator. i know the haha funny stand reference thing was dumb but i still felt like it was necessary

17/ another weird change is how kyuu is handled. in the manga she’s introduced kinda poorly and abruptly, but she still plays an important role in legoshi’s development

16/ but even that moment feels incomplete. dom is confirmed to be gay in the manga and it would’ve taken one line or two to acknowledge that in the anime, but again they skipped it

15/ there’s a longer scene where legoshi catches up with dom from the drama club, which i actually liked. a lot of cherryton students disappear in the manga’s second half

14/ to be fair the anime does improve a few small things. some side characters get extra scenes which helps them feel a bit more present. characters like juno and bill basically get no resolutions in the manga

13/ without that context melon feels like a weaker antagonist in the anime. the manga version works because his background ties directly into the identity themes of the story. his monologues about parents fall incredibly flat when we have little to no context on how his parents mistreated him

12/ at the same time they cut important manga material. melon’s backstory is a big example. his relationship with his mother was controversia, but a necessary inclusion that netflix should not have censored

11/ one really strange change is adding a completely new character that doesn’t exist in the manga. i don't want to spoil since it's still new, but they use this character to shift parts of the ending which just makes the story feel more disconnected

10/ because there’s still so much story left, the pacing immediately starts feeling rushed. scenes get shortened, entire parts of arcs disappear, and some changes feel unnecessary

9/ then season 3 part 1 comes out and it’s 12 episodes, which is weird since it’s supposed to be two parts. at that point it’s basically just a whole season anyway. they could’ve just called them season 3 and 4 but whatever

8/ so trying to finish the entire rest of the story in one season was always going to be rough, it made much more sense to make it two seasons

7/ the issue is season 2 ends around chapter 96. after that there are still about 100+ chapters left to adapt. and that’s not even counting earlier material the anime skipped

6/ then about a week after it aired internationally they suddenly announced a third and final season

5/ season 2 also just ends in a way that feels complete. if the anime stopped there it honestly would’ve been a really solid adaptation

4/ when season 2 ended it honestly felt like a natural stopping point. by then the manga was already finished and paru itagaki even said she was satisfied with beastars and hoped people would enjoy her future work, pretty obvious she was done with it by that point

3/ one example, legoshi’s grandfather appears way earlier in the manga, around where season 1 takes place. the anime just skipped that completely. at the time it made it seem like the anime was just skipping over details to make it more self contained

2/ the weird part is that making a third season never really made sense. seasons 1 and 2 already skipped chapters that later become important. it was obvious the anime was trimming material so the story could end earlier