Beastars final season announces split cours with main trailer

Modified Mar 23, 2024 06:20 GMT

Beastars final season announces split cours with teaser visual — Legoshi as seen in Beastars final season teaser visual (Image via Orange)

The official website of Beastars anime announced on Friday, March 22, 2024, that Beastars final season will be split into two cours, both of which will exclusively stream on Netflix. A trailer was also released at the Netflix Stage of Anime Japan 2024 on March 23, 2024.

Beastars, written and illustrated by Paru Itagaki, began serialization in September 2016 in Akita Shoten's Weekly Shōnen Champion magazine and ended in October 2020. With that, the series compiled its chapters into 22 manga volumes. In addition, Orange picked the manga for an anime adaptation licensed by Netflix. The anime has released two seasons, with a third season on the way.

Netflix stage in Anime Japan 2024 reveals Beastars final season part 1 set to premiere in 2024

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The official X (formerly Twitter) account of Beastars anime released a new teaser visual for its final season on Friday, March 22, 2024. With that, Beastars final season announced that it is set to be split into two cours. The first part will be released in 2024; however, the release window for the second part will be revealed later.

Netflix further confirmed the Beastars final season announcements with a new trailer. This was released at the Netflix Stage in Anime Japan 2024 on March 23, 2024. The trailer showed that Part 1 will be "Coming 2024," while Part 2 was shown as "Coming soon." It is likely that the second cour will be announced right after the end of the first.

The anime will again exclusively stream on Netflix.

Haru as seen in the Beastars anime (Image via Orange)

As for the teaser visual, it features the anime's main characters - Legoshi, Haru, and Louis. It revealed their updated character designs. In addition, Beastars final season visual hints at the three characters' futures as they move forward on their new paths.

The anime also confirmed that the main cast for the series will be returning for the the final season.

Louis as seen in the Beastars anime (Image via Orange)

As for the staff members, Shinichi Matsumi and Nanami Higuchi are set to return for the final season. Shinichi Matsumi is the anime's director, while Nanami Higuchi is the scriptwriter for the series. Orange will again be responsible for the animation production of the series.

Lastly, Beastar anime also confirmed that the series would release a new teaser promotional video for Beastars' final season at AnimeJapan 2024. The promotional video will debut at Netflix's live-streamed special stage event on Saturday, March 23, 2024, at 11:20 am JST.

What to expect from Beastars final season?

Beastars final season will be adapting the Interspecies Relations Arc and Revenge of the Love Failure Arc from the Paru Itagaki manga series. This might be why the anime is set to be split into two cours.

Considering that the previous season ended with Legoshi dropping out of Cherryton Academy after the meat consumption incident, the upcoming anime will focus on Legoshi as he explores the outside world. With that, he will come across new characters and incidents.