How many episodes are in Beastars?

Beastars has 24 episodes in this listed season.

When does Beastars premiere?

Beastars premieres on 2026-03-07.

Is Beastars a new series?

Beastars is a returning series (Season 3).

Beastars(2019)

Also known as 비스타즈

Archived · Fuji TV

7.61624 eps

S03

DramaMysteryCrimeAnime

ON AIR: MAR 7Season 3Archived listing

What to Expect

PremiereLens read

Beastars is a high school murder mystery that runs on social suspicion as much as crime. When Tem the alpaca is killed and eaten on campus, Cherryton Academy fractures along the carnivore-herbivore divide, and the drama club becomes a pressure cooker of distrust, status, and barely contained instinct. The pacing is deliberate, more interested in psychological accumulation than plot mechanics.

Legoshi's growing attachment to Haru, a dwarf rabbit, is where the show gets genuinely uncomfortable. His feelings are real, but so is the biological fact of what he is relative to what she is, and the series refuses to let either of them forget it. That specific friction, romantic longing knotted up with predatory nature, gives the slow-burn romance a tension that no amount of club drama or crime plotting could manufacture on its own.

Best for

high school mystery, carnivore herbivore divide and Drama

Story lane

Drama and Mystery

Commitment

Season 3 · 24 episodes

Where

Fuji TV

Official Premise

The story takes place in a world of modern, civilized, anthropomorphic animals with a cultural divide between the carnivores and herbivores. The series takes its name from the in-universe rank of Beastar, an individual of great talent, service, and notoriety. Legoshi, a large gray wolf, is a timid and quiet student of Cherryton Academy where he lives in a dorm with several other carnivorous students including his outgoing Labrador friend, Jack. As a member of the school's drama club, Legoshi works as a stagehand and supports the actors of the club headed by the star pupil Louis, a red deer. Out of nowhere, Tem the alpaca is brutally murdered and devoured in the night setting a wave of unease and distrust between the herbivore and carnivore students. At the same time, Legoshi has a fateful encounter with Haru, a small dwarf rabbit, and begins developing complex feelings for her.

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Strongest Match

The Shards keeps the same slow-burn dread as Beastars, where high school life feels polished on the surface but danger creeps in through private secrets. Wealthy teens trade jokes and cliques while a serial killer’s presence tightens every scene, making the tension feel personal and uncomfortable, not explosive.

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Why this pick

School Spirits shares Beastars’ teen-centered mystery, with tension built from social bonds and the fear of what classmates won’t say out loud. The show moves between whodunit urgency and quiet grief in a high-school purgatory, so the danger feels close to home, warmer in tone but still tense.

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Had I Not Seen the Sun matches Beastars’ patient, pressure-cooker pacing, where attraction and unease sit side by side in the same conversations. A documentarian’s interviews and recurring dreamlike moments turn the serial-killer case into something intimate and haunting, darker and stranger than Beastars’ school drama.

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