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Outside Cherryton
The Hidden Condo
Sebun
- Alone Among the Couples: Due to the hidden condo's walls' low soundproofing, she has to listen to Legoshi professing his love for Haru. Being a single lady, she is annoyed by it.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: She instructs Legoshi in finding a part time job because he was the first carnivore to call her by her name.
- Death Seeker: She attempted to kill herself following losing her chances of her dream position by getting eaten on a hybrid train. However, the person she tries to do this to is Legoshi, who proceeds to push her out of the train, which snaps her out of it.
- Happily Failed Suicide: She feels refreshed after Legoshi stops her from deliberately getting killed.
- Leave the Two Lovebirds Alone: She directs the hidden condo's residents to leave Legoshi and Haru alone.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Her coworkers only call her Lamb-chan, until Legoshi calls them out.
- Passed-Over Promotion: After working hard for 7 years, hoping for a promotion, she gets demoted to a meetings entertainer.
- Quickly-Demoted Woman: She gets demoted, due to being an herbivore, in her debut chapter.
Zaguan
- Fish out of Water: Somewhat literally. Due to having lived in the sea until six months ago, he's still getting used to living on land.
- Hand Signals: He makes a hand gesture to Legoshi while waiting for him to get out of work. Legoshi does not understand and wonders if it means "okay".
- Home Nudist: He strips the moment he's in his home, due to the fact sea animals normally do not wear clothing where he is from, to Legoshi's initial shock.
- I Choose to Stay: At the end of the Revenge of the Love Failure Arc, he plans to return to the sea, having learned what he wanted from the land, but as he is saying goodbye to Legoshi, he decides this is simply too sad and that he wants to stay on land.
- Predation Is Natural: Like all sea creatures, Zaguan accepts the cycle of life and is not bothered by misfortune.
- Translator Buddy: He translates Seaspeak for Legoshi.
- Trust Password: He teaches Legoshi the Seaspeak for "I'm friends with a spotted seal". Spotted seals are highly respected among sea creatures.
- Watch Out for That Tree!: He hits a street pole while commenting on living on the land.
Bogue
- Face of a Thug: He looks like he came straight out of a herbivore's nightmare, being a big, imposing black bear who talks and looks threatening, though that seem to be mostly due to the stress of his deadlines. Once his manuscript is finally over, he appears considerably friendlier.
- Genius Slob: When visited in the middle of his writing process, his work space is a mess of crumpled up papers everywhere and he himself is in his underwear.
- Moustache de Plume: He writes stories popular with young women that primarily focus on herbivore protagonists, and so poses as a female snow rabbit since his stories wouldn't be received as well if they were revealed to be from a male carnivore.
Eugen
- Ambiguously Gay: Eugen spends the majority of Beast Complex chapter 8 gushing on about Gerbera's beauty, and goes as far to buy Gerbera 500 flowers as a gift.
- Taxidermy Is Creepy: Especially since this is a World of Funny Animals, so his taxidermy subjects are basically just all deceased people. A police officer even explains the practice is a bit of a grey area since it's not strictly illegal but also considered by many to be in poor taste.
Mugi
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: Due to the inherent cuteness of his breed, he can pass for a young girl easily even though he's nearing his 40s.
- Fanservice Model: His line of work, posing as a cute girl for calendars.
- Lazy Bum: He works one day a year and spends the rest of it slacking off.
- Only in It for the Money: He finds his line of work embarrassing and demeaning, but he puts up with it for the most part since it apparently pays well enough that he can live off of an average of one day of work per year.
- Rage Breaking Point: The main conflict of his chapter is his growing frustrations with his line of work being pushed to their limit as his manager tries to get him to change his lazy lifestyle as he's getting too old to get away with continuing to look young while living a lazy lifestyle.
Ebisu
An albino crow who trains every day so he can fight off animals who would hunt him down for his rare coloration. Also stars in Beast Complex chapter 10.
- Albinos Are Freaks: Various superstitions surrounding animals with pure white fur exist in society which singles them out as desirable targets for carnivores for various reasons.
- Fantastic Racism: Once lived in a community dedicated to all-white animals known as Brights, but became more frustrated at the superiority complex the community seemed to have until eventually he decided to move out and live in normal society.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: He is rather short, but very muscular.
Raika
A Stellar's Sea Eagle who lives with Fina, using his flying license to serve as her personal chauffer in exchange for room and board. Also stars in Beast Complex chapter 11.
- Fear of Thunder: Normally refuses to fly in a thunderstorm, but forces himself to try to in a bid to get Fina not to fire him.
- Freudian Excuse: His fear of lightning is initially implied to be the practical fear of getting struck by lightning, but he comes to an epiphany that it's because the lightning bolts remind him of a cracking egg; He's so afraid of change that even when he was born he was scared of the light cracking through the egg and just wanted to remain inside the egg forever.
- Lazy Bum: Is so dedicated to mantaining his freeloading arrangement with Fina he's absolutely terrified by the prospect of her ending their arrangment and him having to find a real job.
- Manchild: He's 21, but he's terrified of leaving the nest.
Fina
A mongolian gerbil businesswoman, who due to the dangers of public transit for small herbivores like her, employs Raika as her personal chauffer. Also stars in Beast Complex chapter 11.
- Foreshadowing: In her Beastars appearance she makes a remark to Raika that she holds the right to kick him out of her apartment if she has a man over. The main motivator for the plot of Beast Complex is her permanently kicking Raika out as she is getting married.
- Ship Sinking: The other condo residents get the impression that she and Raika might be a couple, and even Raika seems to believe it somewhat as when she announces she's getting married, he wonders why he'd choose another man over him and she flatly points out she's never felt any romantic attraction to him.
Legoshi's Family (SPOILERS!)
Gosha
"Pacifism is a fine thing. And it only has meaning when the strong uphold it."
—Gosha to Legoshi
Legoshi's grandfather and sole living relative, whose relationship has been strained since Legoshi's mother died. He is a komodo dragon who entered into an interspecies relationship with a wolf, fathering Legoshi's mother. Because he is a poisonous reptile, he has faced much discrimination throughout his life.
- Absurdly Youthful Father: He had Legoshi's mother when he was a teenager, and is 54 in the current day. This was unintentional, as the odds of conception between interspecies romance were 1 out of 500. He had to abandon his goal of becoming the Sublime Beastar with his friend Yahya to take care of his child, which affected Yahya's views on interspecies romance to this day.
- Ambiguous Situation: The unexplained absence of Leano's mother in her life makes it unclear if Gosha broke up with her, or if he accidentally killed her with his poison, which is a well-known risk for the kind of relationship he had. The ambiguity is later cleared up: Toki kissed him knowing full well that she would die afterwards, so long as she could fully express her love for him in the most known way there was to love.
- Badass Pacifist: Whilst he is a badass, he is also the one who raised Legoshi to be a pacifist. Subverted, as while he is a pacifist, Gosha also believes pacifism only has meaning when the strong uphold it.
- Berserk Button:
- Threaten to hurt Legoshi, or even accidentally put Legoshi in danger? He loses his pacifist exterior.
- Never insult or make light of interracial relationships that reminds him of his own relationship with Toki. Melon's father pressing his button very hard is learning that the hard way.
- Broken Pedestal: What he turned into in Yahya's eyes following his abandonment of their shared goal of becoming Beastars and protecting society together, in order to take responsibility for his new family. Yahya is bitter about this perceived betrayal even 36 years later and it significantly affected his stance on interspecies relationships, and even just long-term relationships in general.
- Character Tics: When he is very happy he excretes a large amount of poison, so much that it overflows from his mouth to form a visible puddle.
- Common Law Marriage: While Gosha's backstory makes it clear he loves Legoshi's grandmother dearly, background information also suggests they never officially tied the knot. Mostly because the ban on interspecies marriages was lifted only over 25 years after they met, but even in the present day, they'd still be forbidden to marry, due to rules that don't allow a poisonous animal to marry a non-poisonous one.
- Cool Old Guy: Now we know where Legoshi got his badassery from. Even in his older age, he can kick the asses of multiple avian thugs. When he was younger, he and his friend Yahya would go out on patrol and prevent crimes from occurring. Both were so good at it that they were both considered for the role of Sublime Beastar.
- Adding more fuel to the fire, Chapter 192 all but spells out that Gosha may be either a former member, or a founder, of the Dokugumi.
- Extreme Doormat: He fully accepts this fate as someone belonging to a shunned species yet wanting to live in the society, making a fuss when someone tries to break unwritten rules involved (especially staying under the radar and not bothering other species even indirectly). In this case, it's important to remember that living this way is completely his choice that made life for him and young Legoshi easier, and he can stand up to (and wipe the floor with) anyone trying to actively harm or his family.
- Foreshadowing: He specifically notes the immunity to his poison his child and grandchild have inherited from him and even gives Legoshi a taste of his venom as an affectionate gesture. He likely cherishes this interaction because Toki killed herself on his poison, asserting that taking his poison was an act of true love.
- Love at First Sight: The day after he rescued Legoshi's grandmother, they started dating.
- Mysterious Past: While he is shown to be a star police officer and possible candidate for Beastar at the age of 17, his past before that is somewhat nebulous. Legosi wonders if he was some kind of criminal in his youth and Yahya notices Gosha was prone to working very late and wonders to himself if something in his past makes it hard for him to sleep.
- Neat Freak: Obsessively disenfects anything he comes into contact with, even touching a seemingly clean towel he used will lead him to douse your entire body with antiseptic. While people find this behaviour unusual and accuse him of being overly paranoid, it's heavily implied that he really can seriously injure people with trace amounts of venom if he doesn't take such precautions. Indeed, a single kiss on the mouth was enough to kill Toki.
- Outliving One's Offspring: His only child killed herself.
- Poisonous Person: A given since he is a komodo dragon, his poison is lethal to most animals. This has caused him to face much discrimination, being forced to sit at tables furthest away from the entrance at restaurants, to not being legally recognized as Legoshi's grandfather.
- Rescue Romance: He rescued a female grey wolf from a fur poacher, and ended up in a relationship with her and fathering Legoshi's mother.
- Retired Badass: He has major ties with the Dokugumi, as seen in Chapter 192 thanks to use of Secret Handshake.
- Trauma Button: Spousal abuse and racial bigotry send him into Tranquil Fury.
- Trauma Conga Line: Chapters 188 and 189 are not kind to him in any way.
- Walking Spoiler: Absolutely. Saying anything about Gosha other than his name and identity as Legoshi's Grandfather will spoil quite a bit.
Toki
- Anywhere but Their Lips: Despite the love they shared, the most Gosha was ever willing to do was give her a quick peck on the cheek immediately followed by cleaning the kiss with antiseptic, as even a peck on the cheek carried the risk of injuring her with his venom.
- Died on Their Birthday: Her first and last real kiss with Gosha happens on her birthday.
- The Ditz: Well, at least Yahya definitely considered her to be this. Yahya (in his mind) stated that she's slow to take in information.
- Foreshadowing: Well before her fate is even revealed, it is shown that in the present day inter-species couples have been legalized with the exception of venomous and non-venomous pairings due to the many ways one could accidentally kill the other. Ultimately that's exactly what happened to her; she died from Gosha's poison.
- Last Kiss: It's also her first real kiss on the mouth with Gosha. Wanting to kiss him for real at least once in her life, she tricked him into it, knowing full well she'd die as a result.
- Meaningful Name: Her name is derived from "toxin".
- Nice Girl: We didn't get to see much of Toki. But the few times she's shown in flashback sequences, she's sweet and gentle towards everyone around her. She's nice to even the poachers who were... you know, trying to murder her and sell her furs for money.
- Rescue Romance: Fell in love with Gosha after he rescued her from poachers.
Leano
Legoshi's mother, who died when Legoshi was young.
- Beneath the Mask: Throughout her life she played up being a social and lovable canine, but deep down had the disposition of a reserved reptile even before she started to physically show signs of having reptile blood.
- Body Horror: As her komodo dragon heritage took effect, her skin eventually became covered in furs and spotted with patches of scales. One of her eyes became reptilian. It was not a pretty sight.
- Driven to Suicide: She killed herself five years prior to the start of the series when her komodo dragon genes caused her to grow scales all over her body.
- Half-Breed Angst: She was a mix between a Komodo Dragon and a Grey Wolf, and while she looked predominantly like a wolf, she began to grow scales, show more reptilian features, and acquire her father's natural poison. She was so afraid of the future of her children that she deliberately sought out another wolf so her kid wouldn't have to suffer as she did, and later killed herself.
- The Hermit: Became this as her komodo dragon genes caused her appearance to...deteriorate.
- Hide Your Otherness: She spent her life hiding her komodo dragon heritage and passing for a full grey wolf in order to escape the stigma of being a hybrid. However, this only led her into a situation where she could not handle being unable to keep these appearances. Legoshi notes that she was always someone abnormally fixated on appearances, likely as a consequence of this.
- I Just Want to Be Beautiful: Legosi explicitly noted that his mother has an obsession with keeping herself beautiful. This seems in part due to the doctors and nurses, who constantly praised her for looking like a beautiful pure-blood grey wolf and stating that she'd have an easy life because of this. A shame it didn't last. Legosi also noted that when Leano was alive (but transforming), she frequently checked on Legosi's appearance - likely worrying that he would grow scales like she did.
- Missing Mom: She committed suicide when her son was a kid, leaving him an orphan.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: She was a grey wolf-komodo dragon hybrid. In her case, she looked a pure grey wolf when she was younger, save for her immunity to her father's poison and only started to grow scales when she turned 19. By the time she killed herself, a good majority of her body was covered in scales and one eye had become reptilian.
- Oh, Crap!: When she discovered she's starting to grow scales at age 19.
- Parental Neglect: She spent a good chunk of Legoshi's elementary school life before her suicide locked up in her room once her body become covered in scales. She apologizes to Legoshi for not paying more attention to him, admitting her apology is empty being dead.
- Posthumous Character: She's been dead for several years by the time the series begins.
- Slow Transformation: Despite looking like a grey wolf for most of her childhood and youth, her komodo dragon heritage started slowly but surely manifesting in her early adulthood, with her body getting increasingly covered in scales and even one of her eyes eventually turning reptilian.
- Spirit Advisor: She appears to Legoshi, when he's on the boundary of life and death following his first encounter with Melon.
- Stepford Smiler: She's actually of quiet and reserved disposition. But in order to pretend to be a full-blood grey wolf, she forced herself to be more outgoing, to better fit society's idea of what a pure canine should be like.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Looks very much like her mother and looks like Legoshi as well.
- Teen Pregnancy: She had Legoshi at 19 with an amateur actor following her beginning to grow scales and thus be unable to fully pass as a pure grey wolf.
- Tempting Fate: Committed suicide when Legoshi turned 12, after assuring herself that Legoshi wasn't growing any komodo dragon features, which seems like an overly optimistic conclusion to draw considering she didn't start growing her komodo dragon features until she was 19.
- Too Desperate to Be Picky: When she started growing scales, she knew she would soon become (in society's eyes) monstrous and completely undesirable. Then she semi-randomly picked a decent-looking male grey wolf (Miyagi) to mate with, hoping to have a near-pure grey wolf child in time. She didn't even remember Miyagi's name.
Miyagi
Legoshi's father, an amateur actor.
- Disappeared Dad: A completely justified example. Leano only had a one-night stand with him in order to become pregnant. Afterward, the two of them never saw each other again (with Leano even forgetting his name), meaning it's likely that Miyagi doesn't know of Legoshi's existence.
- Like Father, Unlike Son: Although we never knew much of Legoshi's father, it's quite clear that he and his son doesn't share much in common.
- It's ultimately zigzagged. Miyagi seems to have a strong interest in acting and performing. He in fact ended up becoming a modestly successful actor. So he might be why his son has an interest in stage art.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Implied. As he very likely never knew his son's existence.
- Really Gets Around: Legoshi's friends remarked on how actors like him sleep around.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: He only appears in one chapter, and all it's known about him is that he's an amateur actor who had a one-night stand with Leano. In the volume 15 omake, it's shown that he manages to make it to the big leagues.
Louis' Social Circle
Oguma
- Abusive Parents: Not intentionally so, but his sternness, emotional distance, and seeming disinterest in Louis's personal life did a lot to fuel his son's inferiority complex.
- Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: As much as he has a hard time communicating, he does love Louis as a son. Some inner narration shows he immediately regrets describing Louis as "not his real son". He only manages to fully expose his feelings on his deathbed, where he admits to thinking of Louis as a beloved son, and hugging him as he dies.
- Dark Secret: The fact that he's secretly infertile is this, leading him to adopt Louis from the Black Market Alley and falsifying the latter's personal records.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: His and Louis' poor communication comes to a head when he has a very hard time trying to explain his feelings to his son. Louis just settles for hugging him in their last moments together.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: He dies pretty suddenly, and with little to no foreshadowing, in chapter 165, having been in a car accident and having just enough time to say his goodbyes to Louis before passing away.
- Nerves of Steel: He hardly ever flinches or changes expression, independent of the situation. When Louis wants to quit Cherryton to lead the Shishigumi, Oguma is pretty indifferent, if a little pissed about it, and hardly even flinches when Louis threatens him with a gun over it, likely knowing that he wouldn't have the gall to pull the trigger.
- Not Afraid to Die: In his own words, he wouldn't mind letting Louis shoot him if he refuses to sign his expulsion papers. Whether or not he believes that Louis wouldn't have the gall to kill him doesn't deter this moment.
- Parental Neglect: While Oguma never seems to have any negative feelings towards Louis, he had him intending for an heir first and a son second. This combined with Oguma being bad at communicating with his son, constantly busy and quite stoic, made their relationship much more frigid than what it should be or could be. Insights on the characters' minds show that for all of their incapacity to properly communicate their feelings to one another, he and Louis do love each other, even if Oguma was never quite capable of showing that to him the way a father should.
- Satellite Character: He's only really seen in his interactions with Louis, and how their emotionally distant relationship affects the latter.
- The Stoic: Pathologically so - he's more or less unable to show emotion in public.
- Straw Vulcan: Played with. He's an incredibly logical person who focuses on the values of his relationships with others on how they could financially benefit him and the Horns Conglomerate and calculates it into numbers as any businessman would when dealing with finances. The only "error" he gets is of his relationship with Louis, as he could never really get the value of affection.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Despite the fact that he and Louis aren't blood-related, Paru's illustration of a teenage Oguma shows him to be very similar to Louis, with the only exception being his glasses, darker fur color, and Tsurime Eyes. In fact, this makes their public face as father-and-son all the more convincing.
- Tsurime Eyes: His eyes are very squinty, showing his serious and emotionally distant behavior. It's revealed in an omake that his permanent cold stare makes his professional life difficult, to the point where Louis's wide eyes were a factor in Oguma choosing Louis as his heir.
- The Unsmile: All photographs of him have the exact same toothy grin, which is more unnerving than charming. Louis speculates that it's more reflexive than anything.
Azuki
- Arranged Marriage: To Louis, as per agreement between their fathers for political purposes.
- Chekhov's Gunman: She was mentioned by Louis as his promised fiance in his Arranged Marriage in chapter 26, but it's only 110 chapters later is where she makes her first official debut. Justified as the last time they have seen each other was 6-12 months In-Universe.
- Fantastic Racism: It's implied she is a bit speciest against carnivores. When she spends a night with Louis, the TV in her bedroom is set on a channel where herbivore supremacists fear-monger about carnivores that makes Louis quite uncomfortable.
- First Girl Wins: Played with. Louis decides to end up with her, and she was the first girl Louis was involved with since they were promised to each other very young and before Haru was in the mix, however, he isn't in love with her, and actually would rather be with Juno, he simply decides that she is the option he needs to take for the sake of Horns Conglomerate and his plans for the future, so he turns Juno down for her.
- Incompatible Orientation: Played with, since it's not her gender, but her species that bother Louis. By the time that they try to make their relationship work, Louis has realized he's attracted to carnivores, not herbivores. In the end, he still decides to stay with her for the sake of the Horns Conglomerate.
Government Officials
The Mayor
The mayor of the town the manga takes place in. A lion that went through multiple cosmetic surgeries to do away with his carnivorous traits and endear himself to the herbivore voting crowd.
- Black Bead Eyes: His eyes are simple black dots. It's shown that this is not how he naturally looks and he has gone through cosmetic surgery to get rid of his normal eyes that could scare away herbivores.
- Blackmail: He showed Louis a record of his past from the Black Market Alley still existing and that he'll smother it entirely if the meteor festival goes without a hitch.
- Corrupt Politician: He's the mayor of the town and spouts about cooperation and friendship between species, but behind the scenes, he's in bed with the Shishigumi and gives them free rein to kidnap Haru and other herbivores for their boss to eat.
- The Extremist Was Right: Corrupted as he may be, and extreme by covering up Haru's kidnapping to prevent the public from ever finding out about the Shishigumi (a Yakuza group made of lions), he's not wrong by telling Louis that the (already) delicate peace between carnivore and herbivore will further polarize if the image of "lions having a good heart" were broken.
- No Name Given: His real name is never revealed.
Yahya
A horse who is the Sublime Beastar. He has the role of monitoring criminal activity and authorizing media reporting of criminal activity. He was also best friends with Legoshi's grandfather Gosha many years ago, with the dream of both of them becoming the Sublime Beastar, though he soon grew resentful when his friend left him and their dreams to raise a family. He enters the story right after Legoshi gets convicted, as he gets curious as to why the young wolf seemed familiar to him, causing him to once more enter into Gosha's life.
- Asskicking Leads to Leadership: How he got the position of Sublime Beastar. He and Gosha would go out as teenagers and hunt down criminals, both of them were so effective that they were both in the running for Sublime Beastar. He still goes out to deal with criminals and prevent the abuse of herbivores by carnivores.
- Bash Brothers: In his younger years, he was this with Gosha, fighting crime and having each other's backs to the point where they promised to become Beastars together. This ended up being Played for Drama when Gosha stopped fighting to look after his family, making Yahya feel both incomplete and rage towards Gosha to this day.
- Benevolent Boss: Comes with the territory of being the Sublime Beastar, especially to the 500 mice who serve him.
- Berserk Button: When he meets up with Gosha for the first time in 36 years, he flies into a rage when Gosha calls him the Beastar, attacking him and trashing his house for abandoning him all those years ago. He immediately apologizes after that.
- Blindfolded Vision: He wears a blindfold most of the time because of his wide range of vision. He doesn't want to see the worried looks of herbivores and saves taking off his blindfold for when he needs to go into action. In spite of wearing a blindfold, he can still read documents.
- Broken Pedestal: Due to his perceived abandonment by Legoshi's grandfather, Gosha, Yahya has vented all of his frustrations and resentments he has towards Gosha onto criminals, especially carnivores. When he invites Legoshi over for dinner, he tells Legoshi that the carrots he fed him where made with the corpses of the Blood Bone drug dealers as fertilizer. Horrifying Legoshi as he realizes what the graffiti messages meant.
- Rebuilt Pedestal: Has been building up ever since he reconciled with Gosha, but towards the end of the Burning of the Black Market Alley, he repositions himself as a worthy Sublime Beastar along with Gosha who fully trusts him, and calls all animals to put their faith with each other. He retires afterwards.
- Busman's Holiday: Ultimately retires from his position as Sublime Beastar, and yet spends his retirement as a vigilante, essentially continuing to do what he was already doing.
- Dented Iron: He can kick hard enough to shatter concrete walls and destroy metal tankers. However, his age is starting to catch up to him. In one chapter, he gets frustrated and kicks a concrete wall hard enough to break it. He then needs to call his doctors to come and check out his leg. They warn him that due to his age, his body can't take the stress and strain he puts on it and that he should seriously consider handing his duties down to a successor.
- Establishing Character Moment: He stops exploitative carnivores from overworking their herbivore workers by first tricking them to be an unassuming zebra, quickly tripping out the carnivores, kicking the equipment while making a statement, and then handing out cash to pay for the damage and ensure better treatment for the workers.
- Evil Counterpart: To Louis. Both are famed, beloved, intelligent, handsome herbivore animals who many think would make great Beastars (Yahya already is one while Louis is only highly thought of to be the next). Both also have a certain disdain for carnivores and often do morally ambiguous things to make themselves feared by said carnivores. However, even before his own growth, Louis didn't do anything unfair to his fellow carnivore students and gradually came to let go of most of his biases while Yahya embraces his hatred to a horrific level out of losing his trusted friend.
- Fantastic Racism: Expect to be bullied, insulted, or otherwise rejected by Yahya if you're a carnivore, mostly as him venting his frustrations on Gosha leaving him.
- Freudian Excuse: A lot of his resentment for carnivores and inter-species relationships seems to stem from feeling abandoned by Gosha and the bitterness that ensued as a result of Gosha's inter-species relationship.
- Heteronormative Crusader: Before a mission, right after sleeping with a female horse, Yahya describes such a relationship as the standard norm. When he leaves, he thinks on the issue and states that a normal, heterosexual relationship should be a symbol of peace. Of course, judging what happens next, this can be seen more as a mask for his true feelings.
- He Who Fights Monsters: As several tropes about him pointed out already, it's hard not to see that he has a lot in common with predators who feed on herbivores.
- Heel–Face Turn: While he isn't truly evil, he had a rather negative reputation to the citizens of the Black Market Alley and to Legoshi. However, after his encounter with Gosha and how Legoshi almost died thanks to a botched mission, he soon realized what he was lacking compared to his former friend. He eventually opens up to Gosha again, and soon gained fondness to his grandson. In the climax of the manga, he sides with Gosha again, thanking him for opening his eyes. Upon retiring, it stated that Gosha continues to visit him.
- Homoerotic Subtext: One can read that he sounds like a spurned ex-boyfriend who was left behind and thus brings his anger to things that remind him of his former friend. And then there's the fact that he kept Legoshi's teeth close to him for no reason. And once he has gotten over his hatred for Gosha, they go out to eat, which in the manga is no more different as to how characters are shown to be dating. Even at the climax, he is seen attached with Gosha, held hands tightly, and after the fight they continued seeing each other.
- In the final chapter cover, we see Yahya's arms around Gosha's shoulder
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- In the final chapter cover, we see Yahya's arms around Gosha's shoulder
- Inferiority Superiority Complex: There is the hint that his abandonment issues might be something more than what the reader is led to believe. When Yahya beat down Legoshi and demanded he apologize for being a carnivore, he was ecstatic when Legoshi "apologized" and saw it as a win against Gosha. Suggesting that he feels like Gosha is the better person of the two of them, possibly due to Gosha finding more to life than just the title of Beastar.
- He basically spells this out in chapter 176, in which he believes that maybe by helping Legoshi in a time of need, he can show off Gosha. Unfortunately for him, Gosha overhears everything and has no idea what he's talking about. Part of it seems to be the jealousy of how strong Gosha has gotten thanks to having a family he cares for, while Yahya has had no one ever since Gosha left him.
Yahya: "I may have been losing for a while now, but now I'm finally winning" ... just like that.Gosha: Why would you say you lost to me? You are the perfect man. I just chose to be with my family. - The Leader: He is this for all of society. He keeps the police in check by being the one who decides what predation crimes can be reported to the public. This is how he stumbles across Legoshi's case, recognizes that he is related to Gosha, and decides to monitor him in the future.
- Master of Disguise: He poses as zebra inspector to a milk production factory. His mannerisms and posture are convincing enough that none of the carnivores are aware that it is him.
- Not So Stoic: His inner monologue shows that he feels the burden of protecting the city for 36 years by himself, but he really loses it when he meets Gosha again, attacking him in his house in revenge for abandoning him for a female wolf.
- Older Than They Look: Yahya looks like he's in his twenties. He's actually in his early fifties.
- One Degree of Separation: The current Sublime Beastar was best friends with Legoshi's grandfather Gosha, and is now aware of Legoshi's predation record.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: He despises any carnivore or hybrid he comes across, with the most basic reason being that they were born that way (and thinks that alone deserves an apology), stemming from Gosha abandoning him in favor of raising a family.
- The Poorly Chosen One: Some of the higher members of society view Yahya as an unsuitable Beastar and with regards to the many other tropes listed, it's not hard to imagine why. Yahya himself is even aware of this, which is probably the reason why he offered Gosha to work with him.
- Red Baron:
- To the general public, he's called the "Sublime Beastar", as he's seen by most herbivores as their savior
- To the people in The Back Alley Market, he's called the "Black Devil", as to carnivores he's seen as the devil, and with justifiable reason.
- The Resenter: It is clear as day that Yahya resents Gosha for leaving him for a female wolf, which extends towards Gosha's grandson, Legoshi.
- Shrouded in Myth: Unlike previous Beastars, Yahya does not make public appearances or engage publicly in politics. This has led most of society to consider him an urban myth made by the police to scare criminals. Even after retiring he still continues being a vigilante.
- Super-Strength: He is strong enough to destroy a large iron tank with a single kick.
- We Can Rule Together: When he was a teenager, he had this goal with Legoshi's grandfather Gosha, as opposed to one of them being selected over the other. This didn't stick once Gosha quit to take care of his child with Legoshi's grandmother. This has had such an impact on Yahya that he now firmly believes that interspecies relationships lead to disaster many years Gosha left him. He makes this offer again when he meets Gosha after 36 years.
The Whale
- Greater-Scope Paragon: The Whale was the one to end the war 100 years in the past, and intends to help again once the time comes. That said, they have very little to do with the ongoing plot, not even being aware of the existence of most central characters outside of Yahya and maybe Melon. Once the Black Market is destroyed, they finally step in again, and intends to supply the land with fish protein.
- Hero of Another Story: The whale is over 400 years old, and has plenty of adventures that help shape the current society.
- Really 700 Years Old: They're far older than any of the named characters, appearing to end the great war between herbivore and carnivore 100 years ago, and is currently over 400.
Other Characters
Melon's Mother
Melon’s mother. A leopard who raised Melon on her own after the "disappearance" of her gazelle partner.
- Abusive Parents: Of the sexual abuse variety. She made overt sexual advances towards Melon when he was younger, like suggestively stroking his horn while she's in nothing but her undergarments, asking him to unhook her bra and orgasmically shuddering when he does so.
- Ambiguous Situation: Both her husband and her son acted on mere paranoia that she intended to eat them someday, but we never see her make any overt threats to that effect.
- Unnamed Parent: Her real name was never revealed.
Spoiler Parental Figure (HUGE SPOILERS)
Melon’s father. A gazelle who abandoned his baby son Melon and his leopard partner due to fear of commitment to a carnivore-herbivore relationship and the social disapproval that comes along with it.
- Disappeared Dad: One of the most despicable examples, even at its most understandable: fear of being eaten by his partner, the judgmental looks they got in public, and a fear of commitment drove him to leave. He’s rather nonchalant about it.
- Dirty Coward: He abandoned his son and wife because he was afraid they would eat him and doesn’t regret his selfish actions. His submissive behavior and tendency to pause several times before speaking prove this.
- Dissonant Serenity: The nonchalant attitude he displays about the abandonment of his family is rather disturbing, to where even Yahya finds it appalling.
- Hate Sink: Writing about him without expressing contempt for his actions is difficult for most readers.
- I Did What I Had to Do: He tries to justify his actions with this trope. Even Yahya is disgusted.“Any guy would have done the same, right?”
- Jerkass: The first thing he says when an enthused Gosha asks him about what he plans to say to Melon is... that he has absolutely nothing to say to him.
- Like Father, Like Son: Both he and Melon became paranoid that the woman they cared for secretly harbored a desire to consume them. While he opted to run away, Melon decided to kill her.
- Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: While in reality he simply ran away, his disappearance was so sudden that it became a commonly believed rumor that he was eaten by his partner.
- Shrinking Violet: He has a rather shy and submissive demeanor, and tends to pause several times before speaking. That being said, it doesn't excuse his actions.
- Unnamed Parent: His actual name is never revealed.
- Walking Spoiler: There's hardly anything about his actions or his role in the story that isn't a spoiler.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: He shows up, gives his backstory and then very promptly disappears. He's not seen in the denouement, nor does anyone opt to let Melon know the truth that his father is alive.
