8.0
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
BEASTARS (2019)
BEASTARS (2019)
Overview
In a world where beasts of all kinds coexist, a gentle wolf awakens to his own predatory urges as his school deals with a murder within its midst.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
NetflixRating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Progressive
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: High
Viewer Rating
8.0
Overview
In a world where beasts of all kinds coexist, a gentle wolf awakens to his own predatory urges as his school deals with a murder within its midst.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
NetflixDetailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Progressive
Primary
BEASTARS explores a society grappling with systemic speciesism, prejudice, and the tension between instinct and societal rules, championing empathy and individual efforts to bridge deep-seated divides. The narrative critiques existing power structures and promotes understanding across marginalized groups, aligning with left-leaning themes.
BEASTARS, an anime featuring anthropomorphic animals, explores complex themes of prejudice, discrimination, and societal power dynamics between different species. While its casting doesn't involve explicit human racial or gender swaps, the narrative itself provides a strong allegorical critique of social inequalities and biases.
Secondary
BEASTARS does not explicitly feature identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative focuses on allegorical explorations of desire, instinct, and societal dynamics through predator-prey relationships and interspecies interactions, without direct engagement with queer identities.
BEASTARS does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes within its narrative. The story primarily explores themes of identity, prejudice, and societal roles through the lens of anthropomorphic animals, focusing on carnivore-herbivore dynamics. Therefore, there are no character arcs or plot points related to transsexual identity to evaluate.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
BEASTARS is an anime adaptation of a manga series. All major characters retain their established genders from the original source material, with no instances of a character canonically established as one gender being portrayed as another.
BEASTARS features anthropomorphic animal characters, not human characters. The concept of human race, and therefore a 'race swap' as defined, does not apply to its cast.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.6
8.4
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