What is BEASTARS about?
In a world where beasts of all kinds coexist, a gentle wolf awakens to his own predatory urges as his school deals with a murder within its midst.
A gentle wolf grapples with primal urges while a darkly-comic murder mystery unfolds in a beast-filled world.
Suspenseful and intimate. A full-attention watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
Streaming on Netflix.
BEASTARS parents guide
It stays inside its TV-MA, with moderate sex and nudity, and strong violence.
- Scare
- Mildly scary
- A few tense or eerie moments.
- Jump scares
- A couple
- One or two sudden jolts.
- Gore
- Light gore
- Some blood or injury, briefly.
- Violence
- Strong violence
- Violence is frequent or intense.
- Sex and nudity
- Moderate
- Moderate means a sex scene or nudity on screen, even brief, or sexual violence that is described or implied but never shown.
- Language
- Moderate
- Some strong profanity, a few f-words.
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Three questions
- Is BEASTARS scary?
- Only a little. BEASTARS has a few tense moments, nothing that follows you to bed.
- How gory is BEASTARS?
- Light gore and strong violence.
- What is BEASTARS rated, and is it OK for kids?
- It is a TV-MA, with moderate sex and nudity, strong violence, and some strong language. Keep it for adults.
Cast and crew
StarringChikahiro Kobayashi, Sayaka Senbongi, Yuki Ono
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