He's becoming self aware, we have to take him out!

It's that late point of a dream where you start to get self conscious. This comic is a great representation of a dream.

Oh you mean like pulling out your own teeth? Yeah that’d be crazy and totally out of nowhere. If a mangaka did that I’d almost be convinced she was just torturing said character to get a rise out of us.

deya said:
Oh you mean like pulling out your own teeth? Yeah that’d be crazy and totally out of nowhere. If a mangaka did that I’d almost be convinced she was just torturing said character to get a rise out of us.

Or making the deer guy do the most interesting thing he'd ever done (Join the lion mafia as its boss) just to immediately give up and go back to school as if nothing happened even though he was doing a lot of good as the Shishigumi's head, killing off a lion or two to provide the illusion of story twists only for all that Riz stuff to end up feeling like a parody of a shonen battle manga.

Legosi trains by starving himself and growing weaker in the mouth, then goes from planning his fights with adult junkies in the black market to throwing himself at a fight with a teenaged bear he has no plan to defeat. He put up a good fight against adult lion career criminals who outnumber him but couldn't take Riz. If he and the asshole sheep die there, Riz goes free. Gouhin even tells him to stop with the weights, as it won't make him any stronger, like a middle finger for all those battle manga where training gives you superpowers. And then after all Legosi's training, he's only able to win by eating the leg of Louis, who gets a prosthetic as if nothing happened after this arc ends with Legosi getting screwed over for trying to help anyone in this way. Except he doesn't even win, it's "The power of friendship" that makes Riz give up. And what did any of that stuff with eating the Moth amount to in the actual fight? Meanwhile Louis, who was having an actual interesting character arc going on, ends up abandoning everything so he can be Legosi's cheerleader and get his leg eaten. "I feel your strength inside me", huh? What did it amount to?

Why does this author do this? Why introduce magic only for it to not matter in the fight? If this is SUPPOSED to be written this way, if I'm SUPPOSED to feel cucked out of a fun big dumb fight where the hero saves the day by punching hard enough, it's genius. It's absolute fucking genius.

I can't decide how I feel about this underwhelming and immensely unsatisfying nonsense arc full of magic and characters acting unusually out of character because I can't tell if I'm supposed to hate it or not.

Nothing in life makes sense legoshi.

Just live and be happy you're alive to experience the tomfuckery that is existence.

Oh shit, it got so fucked that I forgot I was on a porn site until I saw someone's avatar, wtf did I read!? AND HOW HAS IT BEEN SO LONG!?!?

phoenixrisesinbed69 said:

"Beastars is a wild(side)ly confusing comic when you start asking why are they doing this rather than what it will accomplish if they succeed."

Why does this author do this? Why introduce magic only for it to not matter in the fight? If this is SUPPOSED to be written this way, if I'm SUPPOSED to feel cucked out of a fun big dumb fight where the hero saves the day by punching hard enough, it's genius. It's absolute fucking genius.

I can't decide how I feel about this underwhelming and immensely unsatisfying nonsense arc full of magic and characters acting unusually out of character because I can't tell if I'm supposed to hate it or not.

Before anything else, there is no magic: This is the equivalent of the sheer level of change people can go through when they finally find inner peace and purpose in their life, knowing what they will do and finally let go of things that hold them back personally.

Life is literally like this for many people: You could have been someone on the same street where the twin towers collapsed, seeing the debris literally make the glass door and windows outside of the shop you were in become pitch black... But life goes on. As real as it is, life can be surreal beyond comprehension, but that will never make it any less true.

Louis destroys a mafia group as a symbol of his powerful yet ironic hatred for predators as he loves Legoshi and Juno as the powerful creatures they are, so much so that he literally vomits at the thought of sex with one of his own kind like it was the same as having sex in a dumpster with spoiled milk and rotting food with a corpse. Or something else just as horrifyingly putrid.

Riz existing is just an excuse to have Legoshi accept his shortcomings while also accepting his strengths as a wolf. A carnivore. A meat eater whose natural instinct is to eat prey. Legoshi eating Louis' leg also is a form of acceptance of Louis being a prey animal as well. Instead of denying their natures, they lean into them and appreciate their strengths and weaknesses to become better as people and improve how they can by accepting themselves as they were born.

They find strength in their natures, and solace in their weakness by adapting properly to it. Legoshi is not a prey animal that should be afraid of strength. Louis is not a predator that should be ashamed of his weakness. This is the entire reason why Melon comes in not long after, as a representation of what happens when you can't accept what you are and let everyone and everything else decide who you are.

After all is said and done, the answer is not trying to force both to become actually equal in every way, but to realize that the truth was to be yourself and accept that so you don't find yourself struggling to be something you are not, but also not give up just because of that reality either.