BEASTARS - Vol. 10 Ch. 85 - Is Our Blood Divided By Sewage?

[Ruruskadoo]

Gaaaaaah now I'm dying to know more about Legosi's parentage and backstory.

 

[Loksel]

Most things in this series don't bother me...but this revelation has me wondering seriously about how reproduction works in this world.

 

[Paladin_T]

HOLY SHIT, KOMODO DRAGON?!? YEAH BOYS! MY FAVORITE REPTILE EVER!!!

 

[phoenixir]

@Loksel probably like Kevin and Kell. His mom was probably a wolf shaped dragon. Which sounds awesome

 

[Loksel]

@phoenixir Kevin and Kell is more like Legosi and Haru's relationship. Legosi's grandparents weren't even in the same taxonomic class. Not that his mother would probably have a neat design - which obviously caused her a lot of trouble in her life - but it's strange to think about a live bearing mammal mating with an egg-laying reptile.

Also, I'd think that Legosi's mom was built mostly like a wolf, but with certain komodo dragon features.

 

[phoenixir]

@Loksel I agree with the comparison. Huh. Weird not having any actual points of contention on the internet.

 

[AkiTooru]

Hm, Legosi's mom looked normal at https://mangadex.org/chapter/170196/1, maybe adopted? Or from another father?

 

[Seregosa]

Would be cooler if he was a half instead of a fourth.

 

[Senshougahara]

Damn he's half komodo?

 

[SCP-049]

so his grandpa was basically a vietnam vet lol

 

[Betony]

Finally someone brings up the police. I know it ain't cool to snitch and all but as someone who considered Tem a friend (if distant), you'd think he'd be more invested in bringing some sense of closure to Tem's family.

 

[RandomDoge]

Such a good chapter!

 

[Silverkip]

how does that even work like whaaaaaaat

 

[Is1026]

How can they still act like friends after trying to kill each other. I am a guy to so I know that fights between guys have mo real impact on friendship unless it's on something really serious, but the bear literally killed Tem and they're lowering their guard around each other to clean up wth????

 

[ceroser]

Let's finally fight, NO
Oh let's clean up, NO
wait let's fight again, NO
oh next time I'll end you, YES

 

[Mangover]

Gouhin calling Legosi stupid is the funniest thing. "Just turn him into the the police idiot har har."

 

[WaspyWasp]

Ok, so my biggest problem with this series might be resolved. It seems hybrids in this world aren't necessarily born with increased chances of deformation and stuff. It also seems the offspring's looks are based pretty much on a single parent, or at least which species is determined.

OK, I can get behind that. No mixed mutant hybrids here. Just a somewhat simple gene based result (similar to eye colour). Got it

Now to hope the author doesn't try to make it complicated and mess it up. Now I can finally accept the wolf/rabbit relationship in peace

 

[SotiCoto]

Wait what? ...

No... he already said that the grandparent wasn't really a blood relation earlier in the manga.
Yet now he is somehow... literally... biologically... a quarter fuckin KOMODO DRAGON?!

Just... what?! HOW?! Nevermind the incompatibility of the gametes, what about the incompatibility of the genitals or the positioning? What about the fact that komodo bites are just all sorts of hella nasty?

Oh my head. What the fuck does "species" even mean when you can produce viable offspring with someone whose last presumed genetic ancestor with you was in the fuckin PALAEOZOIC?! What happens if you get an STD and accidentally have a kid who is half mammal, half BACTERIUM?

 

[alacaelum]

@SotiCoto Friend relax, the author does use real information on animals but she clearly heavily use artistic license. And i think at this point you have already read how and what happened, but seriously stop comparing this too much with real life you will go crazy.

 

[SotiCoto]

@alacaelum : But I refuse.
All fiction, even of the fantastical variety, needs some grounding in reality to remain relatable. It is that juxtaposition of the mundane and the fantastical that makes it work.
But see... the difference between the fantastical and the mundane, at its core, is logical consistency. That which is real necessarily adds up in some manner, whether we see the reasons or not... while that which is fantastical has some necessary logical holes into which pure whimsy can be inserted and a completely different set of rules from those of reality can be built from them.
The trick to making it all work is ensuring that those holes are small enough to not be immediately apparent... to make it so that the fantastical elements seem realistic at first glance. To make it seem that, with just a little nudge, something like this could happen.
If it doesn't have that, then aspects of the story start to break down, as it becomes unpredictable and nonsensical, and no longer functions as a story at all so much as just an avant garde consciousness-stew.


... Of course where one draws the line as regards believability or not often depends on one's personal level of understanding of how things work in reality. What is obvious to one person is not necessarily obvious to another.
And what THIS particular example comes down to is that I tend to notice quite easily if an author is applying too much artistic license to biology, since I received a very biology-heavy education. So where I draw my line for what is or isn't believable from a genetic standpoint is necessarily more strict than it would be for someone educated in an entirely different subject.