Netflix's Beastars Season 3 Announced To Be The Last - MovieWeb

Fans of Beastars have a reason to howl. The official Twitter account for the Netflix anime hit announced that the third and final season is officially in production. The tweet, which can be viewed below, also announced that the new season is set to premiere in 2024!

Based on the hit manga by Paru Itagaki, Beastars takes place in a world of anthropomorphic animals. But this isn’t your cuddly Disney world, Beastars is a world where prey animals are at constant risk of being devoured by their carnivorous peers, causing a deep cultural divide. Our hero is Legoshi, a timid grey wolf who just wants to keep his head down as he lives his life. But when a drama club meeting goes a little too late into the night, he crosses paths with Haru, a dwarf rabbit. The two begin to develop feelings for each other, but when a student is found devoured, tensions rise between the students of their school.

The first season of Beastars was released in March 2020 on Netflix outside of Japan, with season 2 following in July 2021. The show is developed by animation studio Orange, whose earliest projects were outsourced 3D animation for other projects. The studio’s first non-co-production anime was 2017’s Land of the Lustrous, which ran for a single 12-episode season. Beastars would be the studio’s next anime.

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Upon its release, Beastars received critical and audience acclaim. The first season currently holds a 94% critical rating and an audience score of 87% on Rotten Tomatoes, with season 2 holding a 76% audience score. The show also received the award for Best Opening Sequence, as well as eight other nominations, at the 5th Crunchyroll Anime Awards. Season 2 was also nominated for three categories at the 6th Crunchyroll Anime Awards in 2022.

The original Beastars manga premiered in 2017 and wrapped in 2021, totaling at 196 chapters in length. The first twelve-episode season covered the first fifty chapters, with season two (also twelve episodes) covering the next fifty. The announcement of season 3 being the final is leaving fans with concern. With 96 chapters to go, if season three contains only twelve episodes, will that be enough to wrap the story? Or will the final season have a larger episode count than the previous ones? Currently, there are no details as to what the plan is.

In the meantime, Orange is hard at work on their next project, Trigun Stampede. The new show is a CGI reboot of the classic 90’s action anime, Trigun. The first trailer for the series premiered at Anime Expo earlier this year. Orange and TOHO are collaborating on the new series, which will feature a harder lean towards the sci-fi elements of the original story.

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While 2024 may seem like forever, it only means Orange will have plenty of time to give it their best! In the meantime, fans will have plenty of time to refresh with the first two seasons. Beastars is available for streaming on Netflix!