Recap / Beast Complex

Recap of Beast Complex

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Volume 1 (2016-2017)

1. The Lion and the Bat:
   • Student Council President lion, Raul, is tasked by his teacher to try to get a fruit bat student, Azumo, back to school after he spent some time isolating himself in his house.
2. The Tiger and the Beaver:
   • 10 year old tiger Gon faces difficulty to maintain his friendship with beaver Mog as social pressure tries to push carnivores and herbivores apart.
3. The Camel and the Wolf:
   • Galom, a camel journalist, decides to quit his job, but on the night he is writing his final article, he meets a mysterious and beautiful white wolf woman named Abby.
4. The Kangaroo and the Black Panther:
   • A nameless kangaroo who owns a hotel in the slums takes as a client a young black panther that is clearly hiding something.
5. The Crocodile and the Gazelle
   • "Happy Happy Cooking", a cooking TV show with dropping rates, tries to shake things up by changing their chef for an outspoken crocodile, to the displeasure of his frightened gazelle assistant.
6. The Fox and the Chameleon
   • A Fox and a Chameleon that stay after class to organize documents bond over their shared struggles in school.

Volume 2 (2019-2021)

1. The Chipmunk and the "Snow Rabbit"
   • Ms. Ji, a new chipmunk hire of an editing team, is tasked with retrieving a manuscript from one of their most popular authors, a Snow Rabbit names "Ms. Fig", who turns out to be a threatening-looking male bear stressed over a deadline.
2. The Pig and the Peacock
   • Eugen, a pig that works in the morally and legally gray business of taxidermy, befriends Gerbera, a police officer peacock newly-assigned to his area, and is enchanted by his beauty.
3. The Shiba Inu and the Shiba Inu
   • Migu, a middle-aged Shiba Inu that works as a gravure model, faces deep disappointment in his life.
4. The Crow and the Kangaroo
   • In a neighborhood exclusive to "bright" animals (animals with perfect white fur), an albino crow falls for a Kangaroo nicknamed "Orion" who has sex with the men in the neighborhood in exchange for being allowed to live there.
5. The Eagle and the Gerbil
   • A free-loading eagle with a fear of lightning tries desperately to convince his gerbil boss not to marry another man so he won't lose his place in her house.
6. The Spotted Deer and the Snow Leopard
   • At the night where spotted deer Rose and snow leopard Luke get academy awards for their acting in the tabboo romance "Dinner", Luke confesses to a crime he committed.

Volume 3 (2021)

1. The Tiger and the Alpaca
   • An overworked tigress, Aisha, goes to a massage parlor to relieve stress after work, being assigned to a dominating and imposing alpaca masseuse, Marilyn.
2. The Wolf and the Rabbit
   • In a follow up to Beastars, Haru asks Legosi to participate with him in a purification ceremony after her coming of age.
3. The Python and the Hyena
   • A shy Python student named Kameji comes to school early to find his bully, the hyena Murou, having hung himself in their classroom.
4. The Spotted Seal and the Wolf
   • Following up on Beastars, Legosi ponders about Zaguan and sea life after they fail to find the lost daughter of an octopus.
5. The Tortoise and the Goat
   • Pushover goat Kiyosumi befriends a turtle classmate, Abu, who has a lot of tattoos.
6. The Lion and the Rabbit
   • Following up on Beastars, a former couple of a lion and a rabbit that had an accident meets again and talks about their failed relationship.
7. The Bovine and the Crocodile
   • Nagumo, a poor crocodile that can't afford meat, only meat soup, is caught by his upper class bovine classmate Heyse drinking his bath water.

Volume 4 (2022-)

1. The Black Panther and the Sea Otter
   • A black panther named Gil that moved from the country-side to the town becomes interested in eating the hand of his coworker, an also recently moved sea otter named Po.
2. The Zebra and the White Tiger
   • A female Zebra, Mika, waits to meet a male zebra she's been chatting up on an online dating app, only to discover that her "zebra" match is in fact a white tiger named Atari.
3. The Snake and the Mouse
   • Nectar, an elderly mouse in hospital care builds an unusual friendship with his nurse, a snake named Sage.
4. The Wolf and the Dog
   • Adamo, a German Shepard who enjoys stalking others, ends up finding more than he bargained for when he starts stalking Fasa, a female wolf.

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