BEAST COMPLEX - Ch. 29 - The Goat and the Lion

[MangaDex]

 

[Seether00]

Damn.

 

[Labucay_san]

I really love how Paru's marriage has make her grow and you can see that in her art.

 

[YyAoMmIi]

I wanted to make a meme comparing legoshi and haru
or old legoshi and haru looking alike but i didn't have good skills for that.

 

[ryuumajin]

It's so sad, it's foolish, yet it's adorable and also silly.
Consuming fake meat that energized him too much that made him have a heart attack.
Wait, did she say "It doesn't even taste not like REAL MEAT!!"?

 

[solchimes]

Dang.

 

[Minkulus]

:')

 

[ayatome]

...I'm gonna need a kind soul to explain this one to me.

 

[FuransuKopi]

i dont really get it, is the 'not real meat' is actually really meat after all? does the wife actually wanted to be eaten and got jealous over the 'fake meat'???

 

[Zombiepaste]

Author's barely disguised vore fetish

 

[KingRagnarok]

... I don't get it-

 

[Blazer168]

So the wife wanted to be eaten?

 

[Fauntleroy]

... I don't get it-

Yeah this is the first time I didn't understand one of her chapters...

 

[Monochrome696]

...I'm gonna need a kind soul to explain this one to me.

Yeah this is the first time I didn't understand one of her chapters...

I think this one more than any of them highlights the implicit (But still obviously worth while) tragedy of love between a carnivore and a herbivore.

He implicitly desires meat, but indulging in that will ultimately damage the purity of their relationship. She cares for him the best she can manage, but it doesn't bring him the true freedom and fulfilment he'd have if he indulged, and instead simply increases their time together. This isn't a bad thing, nor is it portrayed as one. Both sides want to make the other happy after all. But in indulging in synthetic meat and immediately perking up, it creates a rift in their bond. His life was extended by her care, but it wasn't fulfilled by it. She would have gladly fed him herself, but it would ruin their peace to do so. Neither of them really talked about it because obviously nobody wants to hurt the one they love, but it still caused that rift. If they had discussed it earlier, they would've been happier. But they were still happy together regardless, and that's all that really matters.

This could probably be about a lot of things, like hospice care or the simple indulgence in a vice/hobby that shortens one's lifespan but still provides fulfilment. But at its core it's about the things people do to keep love alive. It's not sunshine and rainbows all the time after all, and there are many things that are hard about it. But it's often worth the effort.

 

[ryuumajin]

So the wife wanted to be eaten?

Either that so her beloved can live healthily or he shouldn't have been hesitated to eat meat, even fake meat, in front of her.
If she's upset just because he ate even fake meat, they won't be married for this long.

 

[ryuumajin]

i dont really get it, is the 'not real meat' is actually really meat after all? does the wife actually wanted to be eaten and got jealous over the 'fake meat'???

It's a fake meat, but the sensation of eating it might upset her (for being untactful or insensitive), and he doesn't want his wife to feel that. The wife actually doesn't mind that, as long as his husband is living healthily.

 

[ryuumajin]

...I'm gonna need a kind soul to explain this one to me.

Her Lion husband had actually been craving meat, even fake ones, but couldn't eat it because he was afraid it would upset his goat wife. He eventually gave in one day and had fake meat in secret and it actually energized him.

Much to his surprise, the goat wife didn't actually care, even surprisingly knows how real meat tastes like. She's upset that even a fake meat was good for him, but his awareness for her feeling was too much. She's just disappointed at her husband that he underestimated her love for him just because of he felt hesitant to eat meat in front of her all this time.

And the irony went on as he'd been stacking fake meats, and sudden meat intake spiked so suddenly (after meatless meall for what, 20++ years) and it made him have heart attack. Now all those fake meats he hoarded are just a waste.

 

[vernes]

I love a good tearjerker Q_Q

 

[Zobralolz]

I kinda see this as a metaphor for taking care of someone in hospice after they’ve grown old. They loved eachother and had their whole life together, and yet never truly indulged themselves in their marriage for that first and final high one gets after loving someone so intensely. Instead they let it simmer, and it came back up now as he was slowly dying and he tried to reach for that unfulfilled tension from their married life though it could never be as satisfying.