On March 23, the official Beastars anime website updated with a new key visual, as well as the main staffers attached to the title. We break the details down below.

Key Visual

The image features a front-facing shot of Legosi, who is holding Haru protectively.

Beastars Anime Visual

Staff

Shinichi Matsumi will direct the project at Orange, with Nao Ootsu providing character designs. Nanami Higuchi is in charge of series composition for the project.

Other confirmed crew members include:

  • Music: Satoru Kousaki
  • Art Director: Minami Kuribayashi
  • Color Designer: Ken Hashimoto
  • Director of Photography; shiori Furusho
  • Chief CGI Director: Eiji Inomoto
  • Editor: Junichi Uematsu

Beastars will air on Fuji TV’s [+Ultra] block in October. Netflix will be the exclusive streaming distribuor for the s-how.

Beastars Anime Teaser VisualParu Itagaki’s Beastars manga launched in the pages of Akita Shoten’s Weekly Shōnen Champion magazine. Eleven volumes of the title have hit stores to date, with the most recent shipping on November 8.

Viz Media currently holds the rights to the title, which they describe as:

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?

Source: Ota-suke