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Beastars Final Season Anime Reveals 7 More Cast, Opening/Ending Sequences
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TOHO animation began streaming the creditless opening and ending credit sequences on Thursday for the final anime season adapting Paru Itagaki's BEASTARS manga. The staff also revealed more cast members for the series on Thursday.
The new cast includes:
- Houko Kuwashima as Leano
- Yūko Minaguchi as Toki
- Tomokazu Seki as Deshico
- Ryūsei Nakao as Cornu
- Genki Muro as Sunaga
- Ruriko Aoki as Azuki
- Tomokazu Sugita as Holger
Other new cast members joining for this season include:
- Shinichirō Miki as Yahya
- Shigeru Chiba as Gosha
- Kōji Okino as Melon
- Tesshō Genda as Sagwan
- Fumiko Orikasa as Seven
Shinichi Matsumi and Nanami Higuchi both return from the first two seasons as director and scriptwriter, and Orange returns for animation production. Satoru Kōsaki and issei perform the opening theme song "Into the World" and YU-KA performs the ending theme song "Feel Like This" for the show's first part.
The first television anime debuted on Netflix in Japan and on Fuji TV's [+Ultra] programming block and on TV Nishinippon in October 2019. The season debuted on Netflix outside of Japan in March 2020. The anime's second season premiered in January 2021 and again aired in Japan on Fuji TV's [+Ultra] programming block. Netflix debuted the second season outside Japan in July 2021.
Viz Media released the manga in English, and it describes the story:
At a high school where the students are literally divided into predators and prey, it's personal relationships that maintain the fragile peace. Who among them is a Beastar—an academic and social role model destined to become a leader in a society naturally rife with mistrust?Last night at Cherryton Academy, an herbivore student was killed and eaten. Among the members of the drama club, the herbivores' suspicions naturally turn to their carnivore classmates… The prime suspect? Legoshi, a large wolf. But he wouldn't hurt a fly—or would he? And will dwarf rabbit Haru bring out the beast in him? Or are his feelings for her…something else?
Itagaki launched her BEASTARS manga in Akita Shoten's Weekly Shōnen Champion magazine in September 2016. The manga ended in October 2020. Akita Shoten published the manga's 22nd and final compiled book volume on January 2021.
Sources: TOHO animation's YouTube channel, BEASTARS anime's X/Twitter account, Comic Natalie
