Once in a while we get to be so fortunate to see the original pilot to a TV show or the original manga that would later become a world-know success. It is fun to see the original pitch, the un-polished work if you will. Like the original idea for My Hero Academia was not supposed to be about Deku getting powers from All Might so he could go to superhero school, it was originally about Deku being a salesman who sells gadgets to heroes since he has asthma and can therefor not become a professional hero. And no one in the original pitch had superpowers, they just lived in a sci-fi society where tech was used to be superheroes.
That is not to say that I don't like Hero Academia, I'm just fascinated by what could have been. And I do like the idea that the hero is not a school student because we have a ton of those mangas.
And I very much like Beastars, but I also like to read what Paru made while she was still in college, to see the raw art style we also saw at the beginning of the Beastars series, to see what she originally intended to do with Legoshi and Haru.
... I should just shut up and get on with the actual blog.
So, we see that Legoshi is still very socially awkward, but in a different way. Instead of being overly cautious about how others feel about his presence, he is instead obvious to it and does something as shameless as ordering chicken curry at a resturant.
And no, it is not REAL chicken. Like in the Beastars series, eating meat is extremely illegal. The food just have chicken flavor... but I do wonder how they would know what chicken taste like... Either way, Legoshi ordering it in public is socially unacceptable, it makes the other customers uncomfortable.
Legoshi in this manga is twenty-three years old and he works as a stylist for a fashion magazine that has a mix of species, both carnivores and herbivores to show strong females of any kind. So pretty similar to what Legoshi does in the manga, working backstage, only in the drama club he works as a stage hand. But still, he is a awkward guy who makes the actual stars shine brighter.
We see a somewhat familiar face, a cheetah named Rika who is rather similar to Shira from Beastars. She is one of the many models for the magazine who teases Legoshi since he is tall, handsome and easily embarrassed. It is nothing meanspirited, it all seems like friendly banter. Bit one-sided though as Legoshi don't do much but awkwardly smile at the models.
Like in beastars, Legoshi shares a room with Jack. Only instead of a room at a school, they share an apartment. And Jack is a scientist, a junior researcher who is developing a new organism that is a mix of carnivore and omnivore.
... Hopefully that won't result in any Melon-like serial-killing.
We are introduced to the concept of the back-alley marked since Jack made them dinner and actually used real meat he got from the BAM.
So it seems like the BAM is very similar to the one from Beastars, both that no one worries where the meat actually comes from but more importantly that the authorities don't shut it down as it seems to work for everyone that carnivores can get their meat fix and herbivores don't have to worry about getting attacked. And that is a very important difference as far as I can tell. Beastars starts with a horrible murder so we can see the tension between meat eaters and vegetarians. But in this world, despite herbivores feeling uncomfortable around carnivores, it seems peaceful enough. Especially since Jack and Legoshi are so casual about going to the BAM to get meat for dinner.
So, we have enough casual world building. But what about Haru? This is a romance manga after all.
Legoshi goes shopping for some shampoo and...
Im Sorry, I know this is nitpicking, but stuff like this always kind of annoy me.
Animal Super? Really?
I have never gone to Human Mart. Or have any of you gone to the Person Store? Went to the Homo Mall?
An darting app in Beastars having the word Zoo in it I can be okay with since it is a reference to the scientific study of animals so the app can imply they find you a match as if by using a scientific method.
BUT THE ANIMAL SUPER? Come on, Paru! I get you were young when making this manga, but COME ON!
... Okay, I'm done.
Since this manga seemingly is not as actioned packed as Beastars, Legoshi meets Haru in a much more casual way... But still somewhat tense.
Our wolf meets the rabbit while shopping, offering her to to lift her up. And then he begins to stress like crazy when he is actually about to do it XD
This actually reminds me of the Haru centered chapter where she is about to get eaten by the lion mob boss, how she felt like she was treated like fragile and weak because she was a dwarf rabbit.
But even though Haru's feelings are extremely valid... you can kind of get why bigger animals would be cautious around her. Legoshi is about to have a meltdown because he thinks of at least three different ways he could accidently hurt or kill her. But he is also stressing out because he doesn't want to make it weird.
The logical thing to do would be to ask if she had a preferred way to be picked up... But I think we all have been in situations where we would rather die than admit we don't know what we are doing XD
The manga ends with Legoshi thinking about the incident at the Animal Super(god DAMN, I hate that I wrote that!) but unlike Beastars where he is traumatized and panicking over having almost devoured her, we instead thinks about holding her, how soft and fluffy she felt.
So, that was the first of nine chapters of the original Beast Complex manga. Bit more casual, Legoshi is not as squeaky clean a main character and the romance between him and Haru seems to be way more sane and more romcom like compared to the chaos they experience in Beastars.
Then again, this was just the first chapter, it might get even more freaky in what is to come.
That's all for now. I'm Wazi2 and thanks for wasting time with me.
So, I just finished writing the latest chapter of my fantasy novel, meaning I can finally get started on writing a blog about the original Beast Complex manga Paru wrote that is basically a prototype for Beastars with a slightly different Haru and Legoshi who are also not school students.
But when I don't do blogging, I also write original fiction. Actually working on book 3 of a fantasy novel. And I want to save up money to hire a friend to do cover art and maybe even illustrations for the book.
So I will offer writing commissions. And I will offer them cheaply since if any of you guys will hire me then you will be my first customers.
So here is what we will do. You will write to me, asking for a relatively simple writing commission. It could be a Beastars fanfic, it could be another story fanfic, it just can't be several chapters long. You will then tell me what you will pay me for it and I will get started. Once I'm done, you will look it through, tell me if you are satisfied and then you pay me. You will pay me after I'm done since this is the first time I'm doing it and in case I overestimate myself and can't keep a deadline.
As long as you don't ask me to write nazi propaganda or strange stuff with siblings then I'm open for mostly anything.
Any thoughts about the upcoming Beast Complex anime series?
I mean, the trailer looks great. LOVE that it is drawn and not just computer animated like Beastars.
But a 2,5 minute trailer cant really make me have an opinion about the show being good or bad. But I am VERY excited. Just too bad we have to wait till December
Any thoughts about the upcoming Beast Complex anime series?
I mean, the trailer looks great. LOVE that it is drawn and not just computer animated like Beastars.
But a 2,5 minute trailer cant really make me have an opinion about the show being good or bad. But I am VERY excited. Just too bad we have to wait till December
So much new content was added to the story... And it cost us some of the best moments of the manga!
It's not just what is missing, it is also what they changed. And YES I'm still pissed how they handled the baby chick storyline!
But the greatest sin is the treatment of Juno, she feels out of character, less confident. And they not only cut out the last date of Louis and Juno but also made her too nice about it. She left him after sticking his fingers into her mouth, to make sure he would always remember what he missed out on for the simple reason that she is petty like that.
Paru's gave us not just Beastars but other mangas about women not just being less than ideal but stories about women being kind of jerks without them being portrayed as "bitches".
Another thing, something about the tone of this season is too sentimental, not cynical enough.
And having Haru saying that Legoshi is who he is and is a person and not a carnivore is COMPLETELY MISSING THE POINT! Beastars (and Beast Complex)is a story about animals trying to act civilized but can't beat their nature so they instead learn to live with it. Legoshi is very much a wolf. A disciplined wolf, but still a wolf. And Haru is still very much a bunny, living with stress is going to affect the way she lives way more than it would a larger animal.
Love can't beat everything, that's the main point of Beastars. It can be a tool so that you can better face everything.
I can't believe I let my hopes get up for a minute!
@mfbookhead said: "Legosi still struggled a lot over the course of the final season though. Haru's dialogue with legosi at the end of the series feels like its a result of Haru not having much character development since chapter 50. Haru telling legosi at the end of the series that she'll always be afraid of being eaten by him feels like its Paru trying to make the series ending feel "realistic" when it feels like this is the result of the series having their relationship stagnate. The dialogue removed from chapters 195-196 is good because all it does is have Haru tell legosi that she still fears him because she never got a character arc that challenged her, unlike Legosi who got one in the second arc of the series."
I would say that the ending is not so much about Haru being scared of being eaten by Legoshi. In a strange way, she is at peace with the possibility. But what she is not at peace with is the stress of being in a relationship with him. Stress is affecting her is a very different way as she is a small animal. Rabbits can die from being too stressed. I feel like the anime could have included that.
@mfbookhead said: "While Junos ending with louis was a let down, Juno didn't act out of character in this season. She's the greedy Jealous type who never matured out of that."
I would still argue that she seemed to... I don't know, nice? Not sure. But I did like that Pina could play on her ego to make her want to prove how much better an actor she is compared to her.
@mfbookhead said: "Some great moments were lost like Legosi meeting haru's family, and Melons chapter about CSA, but them being cut is fine. Haru's family exists in a vaccum where this chapter could've been in beast complex instead. Paru never gave Haru's family names, never had her father reference anything in the story, and they don't appear again until the very end of the story either. This entire season was changed to actually facilitate the story Paru failed to tell, and make Legosi and Haru's relationship believable compared to the manga where its a miracle that she doesn't break up with him by the end of the interspecies relations arc."
I accept that this final season is more fluid compared to the ending of the manga. Cutting Kyuu almost completely was a smart move. And I agree, the family dinner story works alone and doesn't have an impact on the plot as such. However, the plot about the lion mayor and his scheme? I think I would have wanted it cut out completely and focus more on Melon as an antagonist. I do like that the anime wanted to do more with my favorite villain of Beastars, but I also wanted the story of the corruption of the Black Marked, to show how easily Melon could make most of the carnivores go wild so to say so we could see how fragile this environment is.
The anime showed me why I love the manga version way more and always has been. 🐴🦎🐲
When it comes to Yafya and Gosha, I hecking LOVED the Manga and how their damaged relationship developed overtime and how they found each other again beacuse of Legosi. Gosha still thought dearly of Yahya, but the horse was so blinded by betrayal all he wanted was to make Legosi and therefore Gosha suffer (diner fight scene in manga and anime) but after his manga version mission with Legosi against Melon and him actually needing to fight with Gosha once Legosi "dies" and gets hospitalized beacuse of Melon,
plus the visit to Gosha once he found him again which is how he discovered that Legosi is Gosha's grandson unlike in season 3,which was such a brilliant part in the manga chapter 112.
There's definitely growing compassion inside the old horse for his ex bestie which I love to see. In chapter 164,
when they go out for dinner right before Legosi calls Yahya about the duel with Melon (which was an adorable scene as we got to see how much Yahya grew to like Legosi trough out their adventures of investigations) the horse wants to spare Gosha from worrying too much about Legosi because he CARES. And that's hecking wholesome and all hail to MANGA Yahya and Gosha!!!
Plus obviously one of my all time FAV manga scenes is this duo in the final fight, trying their best to find Legosi in the chaos that is the railed up Black Ally Market, when Yahya trusts Gosha to protect him in the black out, when he wake punches him so they aren't too suspicious for the actual fighting animals, when he tries to calm Gosha down when his venom is too strong and destroys the bridge but Yahya helps him out!!!
Of course let's also remember chapter 188 in which Yahya calms Gosha down so he doesn't actually hurt Melon's "dear" dead beat dad.
I agree completely. A lot of the Gosha and Yahya content we lost is just criminal.
I think one of the most important moments is the hospital fight, Gosha showing his rage for once and Yahya realizing that no matter what he thinks of him, the last think the big lizard can be categorized as is "soft" or "weak". That he is still very fearsome, it makes him respect him again.
I would have made a complaint blog about the lacking Gosha and Yahya content in the anime and why those manga moments are great. But you have done it before me.
...
You have just made a very powerful enemy!
(joking, obviously. I'm not very powerful, so you should be fine.)
One thing I also want to add is that I have no idea why Yahya didn't use his connections to help Legoshi when he became a wanted fugitive. And also, even if we are to say that there was a reason or that it was impossible for him to do anything for Legoshi(I call horseshit on that as he is the Sublime Beastar) then why would the anime include that scene and NOT make Gosha kick his ass to get a scene similar to the manga moment where Gosha shows Yahya that his old friend is still a force to be feared?
Some more Beastars. I may have just read hole manga in like a week. There is a lot of scenes I want to draw fan art for and the chapter of the boys with this chick was adorable!
Forget what I said about this being the best season.
They did the Three Men and a Baby story dirty.
It's not that the chick dying is wrong, though that also seems like missing the point.
The pacing is off, not including Aoba is strange and it suffers from a feeling of trying to be too serious that the anime has a problem with in general.
And Bill saying goodbye to the baby chick is bittersweet as he did save it with the help of his friends but also a but sad as he will never see the little guy again.
And it just seems like they did it to make the story more edgy.
But seriously, not including Aoba in this part is strange, they are dealing with a bird! They would want another bird to actively help them, not just Pina asking Aoba without telling him what he needs the info for.
@myriamsaviniart said: #They killed the baby?!?!?! Are they insane?!?"
You tell me!!!
"Look at me, I'm writer for the Beastars anime! I'm gonna piss off the whole fandom so that I can feel like I'm smart and stuff! Because there is no such thing as too much edgy, duuuh!"
So much new content was added to the story... And it cost us some of the best moments of the manga!
It's not just what is missing, it is also what they changed. And YES I'm still pissed how they handled the baby chick storyline!
But the greatest sin is the treatment of Juno, she feels out of character, less confident. And they not only cut out the last date of Louis and Juno but also made her too nice about it. She left him after sticking his fingers into her mouth, to make sure he would always remember what he missed out on for the simple reason that she is petty like that.
Paru's gave us not just Beastars but other mangas about women not just being less than ideal but stories about women being kind of jerks without them being portrayed as "bitches".
Another thing, something about the tone of this season is too sentimental, not cynical enough.
And having Haru saying that Legoshi is who he is and is a person and not a carnivore is COMPLETELY MISSING THE POINT! Beastars (and Beast Complex)is a story about animals trying to act civilized but can't beat their nature so they instead learn to live with it. Legoshi is very much a wolf. A disciplined wolf, but still a wolf. And Haru is still very much a bunny, living with stress is going to affect the way she lives way more than it would a larger animal.
Love can't beat everything, that's the main point of Beastars. It can be a tool so that you can better face everything.
I can't believe I let my hopes get up for a minute!
Forget what I said about this being the best season.
They did the Three Men and a Baby story dirty.
It's not that the chick dying is wrong, though that also seems like missing the point.
The pacing is off, not including Aoba is strange and it suffers from a feeling of trying to be too serious that the anime has a problem with in general.
And Bill saying goodbye to the baby chick is bittersweet as he did save it with the help of his friends but also a but sad as he will never see the little guy again.
And it just seems like they did it to make the story more edgy.
But seriously, not including Aoba in this part is strange, they are dealing with a bird! They would want another bird to actively help them, not just Pina asking Aoba without telling him what he needs the info for.
@myriamsaviniart said: #They killed the baby?!?!?! Are they insane?!?"
You tell me!!!
"Look at me, I'm writer for the Beastars anime! I'm gonna piss off the whole fandom so that I can feel like I'm smart and stuff! Because there is no such thing as too much edgy, duuuh!"
