#and the protag doesnt even try to maybe pursue that direction despite being a fairly good fit
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thinking about beast/ars and how much it disappointed me.
#it was very much a run of the mill action shounen#which is ironic considering there werent even all that many fights in it#but it's really hard to properly classify as one genre or the other because it wants to be SO MANY THINGS at once#we started with what seemed like a promise for competitive high school career with the concept of beastars#plus a healthy dash of murder mystery. it was pretty good. it was solid#but then the protag didnt even try to outwit the murderer. it ended up being an all out brawl#so it kinda failed to deliver to conclude the murder mystery element in what would be considered conventional for the genre#soon after the competitive high school aspect was dropped‚ too when the prospective beastar dropped out#and the protag doesnt even try to maybe pursue that direction despite being a fairly good fit#(i.e. the author could have taken that route as a storyline with little adjustments made)#by the end of the first arc two of the promised storyline literally advertised by its synopsis and first chapter is dropped#(arguably the murder mystery one was solved. but see above for my dissatisfaction with its conclusion)#and then after that it was ... what? slice of life? romance drama?#the prospective couple barely had any chemistry but most shounen authors suck ass with romance so fine. i'll let that slide.#on par with the course etc etc#for quite a while the story meandered. it was a crime drama. then a half-assed coming of age. then it was a mystery again#but despite having gone the detective mystery route on the first arc the second time around it sucked even more#which was. amazing to say the least#yet much like the first time it ended in an all out brawl again. disappointing.#it tried to touch on some sociopolitical aspects with the prejudice and herbivore/carnivore tension#but the prejudice is consistently shown to be deserved; what with the carnivores harassing herbivores when theyre not outright eating them#and the tension was concluded with simply ''oh my god you guys the carnivores are actually okay 🥺 they care about us 🥺🥺''#in the most infantilising tone possible. blergh. yuck.#and in the end the status quo didnt change. literally all that changed was the back alley market being destroyed#yet what little impact it had was quickly squashed with the narrative itself saying ''yea there'll just be another one popping up lol''#beastar was a disappointment because it not only didnt deliver on what it initially advertised#(i.e. the concept of a beastar as sort of the bridge and peacemaker between herbivores and carnivores)#it also just fall short even as a mediocre shounen with its inability to decide what it wanted to be#a smart and calculating mystery? an action-packed battle manga? a drama? who knows!!#it changes depending on what the author feels like writing this week!!
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