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Beastars Anime Gets New Key Visual, Main Staffers

Written By Samantha Ferreira

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.

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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 Shลnen 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, itโ€™s personal relationships that maintain the fragile peace. Who among them is a Beastarโ€”an academic and social role model destined to become a leader in a society naturally rife with mistrust?

Source: Ota-suke

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Samantha Ferreira

Samantha Ferreira is Anime Heraldโ€™s founder and editor-in-chief. A Rhode Island native, Samantha has been an anime fan since 1992, and an active member of the anime press since 2002, when she began working as a reviewer for Anime Dream. She launched Anime Herald in 2010, and continues to oversee its operations to this day. Outside of journalism, Samantha actively studies the history of the North American anime fandom and industry, with a particular focus on the 2000s anime boom and bust. Sheโ€™s a huge fan of all things Sakura Wars, and maintains series fansite Combat Revue Review when she has free time available. When not in the Anime Herald Discord, Samantha can typically be found on Bluesky.

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