This Anime (And Us watching) will change the medium

I think personally it’s more about capturing some sort of beastiality fetish from Beastars. But this anime isn’t going to be the next big thing because it suffers too much from both animation and story issues.

animation issues???

At most I've only seen a somewhat noticeable albeit common shortcut in animation used here and there? I haven't seen anything that looks unfinished


Story issues, it'd be nice if you cared to elaborate but I do agree on a few levels (this is like saying "bad writing" with no further elaboration, which doesn't mean anything)

I'll take this opportunity to voice my frustrations against KimiKoe instead of a continuation of my initial reply

I won't comment anything on the actual physiology of the beastfolk (heightened physical attributes, mating season and the like)

But,

I think the fact that human experiments gone awry lead to the existence of the beastfolk AND they decided to lock everyone up behind a walled city is like, even worse than regular segregation? (random thought but I wonder if this loosely references the inhumane experimentations Japan did during ww2, probably just a coincidence) it just baffles me that not only did they create a new... race? species? of beastly humans, but also (in-universe) refused to take responsibility and just locked everyone up, and between then and now, spread the fact that beastfolk are violent to the point that beastfolk have a massive negative connotation.

Also, the teacher answering the clearly prejudiced question in ep 1 with something along the lines "he has been screened and got clearance" could work to point out how humans are very biased against beastfolk (which are again, supposedly man-made) but it does feel like the teacher should've called out that prejudiced question

Another thing, while I admit I haven't read/watched much shoujo/josei, the few I've experienced seemed to include bullying of some form, which I don't know how well it's handled given how fast they started to pick on Tsunagu (but them turning on ochi was probably realistic), and I get that it's out of frustration but that outburst when that girl who liked writing didn't get 1st in the rankings felt very.. unfair I guess

I do enjoy all the romance we get so far, and the fact that it's progressing much faster due to Tsunagu's physiology and both of their cumulative actions (a big advantage compared to most shonen/seinen romance) it's just that how racism is implemented in-universe and it's depictions distracts me a lot from those moments

Sorry this became a bit ranty
But I do like the beastfolk/demi-human X human stuff so far, beastars don't really count as beastiality since all of them are sentient anthropomorphic animals, while beastfolk here are fully sentient and conscious humans with beast-like feature here and there, and the important signifier of beastiality is the fact that animals can't give consent to humans, just like how minors can't give consent to an adult (if for example both people involved are 16 or 17 depending on the country, they can give consent to each other, but not to an adult)

I get what your saying and honestly I didn’t know this show was being promoted this much. I’ve just seen what I’ve seen on MAL and a few other places. You know people praising and hating the show.

I’m happy to hear it’s getting so much attention because I do agree this show deserves it and will hopefully push out more types of shows in this genre.

In fact with other more niche genre’s like GL for example I’ve seen more and more of them getting adapted from the popularity of previous titles.

So I’m happy to hear it’s getting deserved attention and hopefully we’ll get more soon. Off the top of my head the last particularly notable anime I watched in this genre was the sacrificial princess and the king of beasts during its airing period. Which to my knowledge was generally well received. Idk how much promotion it got compared to this but I’m happy such well done titles get love.





Also side note, what’s the name of that Kitsune X human manga you mentioned I kinda wanna read it

@Phantom_373 This is such an awesome reply. To answer your question, it is Komen Fuufu, that is the name of the Kitsune lady x human guy. And it is a josei, so it is also targeted towards the female audience, which is really rad, that is why people are saying they expect that work to get adapted because of this being a successful girl oriented work that has gotten a bit of attention too. Also Komen Fuufu has a really, really, really cute tanuki in it, he is totally my type of dude, make sure to give him a nice pat on the back / buy him a drink when you see him when you read the manga. My husbando...

Anyway! Back on topic from that hahah. I am really thankful for your replies on this series, you are one of the best people I have seen commenting on this show, because you are giving the show the benefit of the doubt and not thinking the lady who wrote With You Our Love had any creepy intentions, like the rude things that other people are saying on here. I wish those comments didn't keep getting sent, especially on the comments section of CR clip uploads (so many comments on the CR official clips) but I am just happy that you and ReXia are here, giving the author the benefit of the doubt. I said the same thing to ReXia, that I wanna say to you: You should write up a MAL review of this show, if you want to. I would gladly read it, and I think you would be able to write an amazing review because the posts I have seen you reply to about this show, are already like a mini-review you have done, they are so well written.

Sacrificial Princess was super good, yesss! Directed by the great Chiaki Kon, director of the currently airing Precure season about idols. She is a great female director.

Honestly I think Beastars has 100% huge connections to b e a s t I a l I t y and z o o p h I l I a simply because in both this anime and Beastars there are anthropomorphic characters and a lot of people out there whether they be furries or not the bottom line is people have been romantically and sexually attracted to these kinds of characters for years now and it’s not going away or gonna stop anytime soon. Big example of this is Kevin Eastman’s and Peter Laird’s comic that grew into the powerhouse fandom and franchise it is today Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Anthropomorphic turtles mostly for the most part half human half mutant turtle and yokai are good examples of this too. Girls mostly and guys too can have crushes on these kinds of characters

how so? plox elaborate coz tl;dr

@SuccumbToAnime you disappoint me. plus you're too old to be thinking like sjw on twitter 💀

Kimi to Koete Koi ni Naru is carrying a message the same way Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou and Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve's La Belle et la Bête -- The Beauty and the Beast, published in 1740 -- did. The whole process is happening through a wider scale of time and its dimension is at a higher scale the anime series cannot grasp. I fail to see the anime series changing the medium, but I see the message being carried from medium to medium, getting moment while spreading through time.



Is the glass half empty of half full?

Read The Uncanny Valley: The Original Essay by Masahiro Mori if you still did not.

We Homo sapiens sapiens are humans.

Beast people are humanoids.

Monster girls are humanoids.

Androids and gynoids are humanoids.

Some extraterrestrial life forms are humanoids.

Some supernatural entities are humanoids.

Based on the fact Fiction prepares for the future, the message being carried to the masses is the time of convivence will come.