BEASTARS - Vol. 20 Ch. 178 - Remote Battle

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Ugh... legoshi surviving multiple point blank explosions? my suspension of belief is totally destroyed. this sucks!
 
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@DrPounder Its not just the past few chapter tbh. Its been falling for a while. The series seemed to go in a completely different direction causjng many people to compare this to Baki(created by Paru's dad).

I don't know whats going on and its even made more confusing by Paru saying a while back that the series won't being going on for much longer which from the pacing doesn't seem like thats the case anymore.
 
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As I've been saying, everything since Melon escaped Legosi while Yafya did fuck-all has been a shitshow whenever Melon was involved. The character is a blight on the manga, he never should've escaped "villain for a volume" status.
 
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This series is getting more absurd, is she trying to get to Baki levels of absurd?
 
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This chapter sort of gave me mixed feelings.

On one hand, Legosi is getting the loving daylights kicked out of him. I don’t mind that he’s losing but it’s that he really isn’t putting up much resistance. He trained with the panda and the bunny(I forgot their names) and took on a bear. Also, he got exploded, crushed, and then another several explosions went off yet he appeared relatively unharmed minus the ear. I might have suspended my belief for the first explosion and getting crushed but I couldn’t for the second round of explosions. Not to mention that a gunshot put him in a coma(which seems to be realistic), so what are the rules in terms of injuries?

On the other hand, Legosi isn’t a fighter in terms of personality or as experienced as his opponent so it would make since for him to solve it through a peaceful resolution of some sort and also be losing the fight. Plus, Beastars is not really heavy on the violence in the first place and focuses on the story and world building, which is what drew me to it. It would make since for the fight to have been a duel of fists and words.

In summary, it had a good idea around it but was poorly executed. They could have made a verbal agreement during the fight and it could have been backed by a newfound respect as fighters if Legosi had been able to at least keep from dying during the fight or something of the like. The whole thing about him saving the tails to earn their respect seemed odd to me since they basically let him off the hook, which is my main problem with this chapter including the explosions with minimal injuries.

Also, the tail bomb thing might have made sense if it was a secret weapon that was used as a last resort or to trick an opponent but for them all to do it seemed odd. It takes time to regrow their tails so it would make more sense for them to use a grenade or something.

And one final thing, I don’t think Legosi could survive another fetish. His herbivore fetish is what turned him into an ex-convict, got him shot and exploded.
 
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I think this would've gone better if Melon was used purely to push him to come to terms with his mixed (and cursed) heritage and promptly scooted back to Legosi and Haru (or Legosi and the seal, because a wolf-komodo-seal hybrid, why not?) instead of making it a social revolution thing. Jack can deal with that later on.
 
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I get why the first guy attached a bomb to his tail. It was a distraction tactic. Why did the underlings need to do it though? Couldn't they just carry grenades like normal?
 

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