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Beastars, Volume 11
BEASTARS, Vol. 11 by Paru ItagakiMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
As with its precursors, the eleventh entry of Paru Itagaki’s Beastars manga opens with a synopsis of prior events and dramatis personae, after which it dives into the action with Riz the brown bear cooking tomato and soybean curry for himself and his roommates and looks forward to his New Year’s Eve battle with Legoshi the wolf. The day arrives, with Gohin the giant panda suggesting his lupine apprentice de-bandage himself as to not be disadvantaged in the battle, before which he notices he missed a call from Haru the white dwarf rabbit, who is with her family to ring in the new year.
Before the battle, Riz bares his chest that he insists is bloodstained from one of his alleged latest victims, although Legoshi soon finds the truth of this. In the meantime, Louis the red deer and the Shishi-gumi have their own share of issues, getting into a fight themselves with a rival black-market syndicate controlled by wolves, with the cervine wishing to leave the organization, the lions Ibuki and Free at odds as he does. The battle between Riz and Legoshi transpires, with Louis ultimately entering the scene and wishing that his lupine friend devours the leg on which the number four is tattooed from when he was on sale at the black market when younger.
The outcome of the battle is decided, with the police entering the scene and hospitalization necessary, and is overall satisfactory, with the said confrontation between carnivores well depicted and never seeming to pad out the manga volume, given the influx of philosophical points and the bonds among meat-eaters and vegetarians. As with the previous volumes of the manga, however, Itagaki mostly ignores the gray area known as omnivorism, although the opening with Riz does slightly touch upon this, as brown bears in real life are omnivores. There is more action than in preceding volumes, and naturally, those who enjoyed them will very likely enjoy chapter eleven.
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