Beastars Characters

A seventeen-year-old grey wolf in his second year at Cherryton, where he works on the drama club's stage crew. He is tall and alarming to look at, and quiet, awkward and gentle in practice; much of the story is him trying to work out whether what he feels for the rabbit Haru is love or appetite. He takes it on himself to find out who killed his clubmate Tem. His mother was half Komodo dragon, which gave him his grandfather's narrow-pupilled eyes and an immunity to Komodo venom.

A white dwarf rabbit in her third year and the only member of Cherryton's gardening club. Classmates shun her over rumours about her private life, and she resents being treated as fragile simply because she is small. She is blunt, brave and unwilling to pretend, which is what draws both Legoshi and Louis to her. She is kidnapped by the Shishigumi in Season 1, graduates before the final season, and goes on to university, where Melon gets close to her by posing as a professor.

A red deer, the drama club's leading actor and Cherryton's candidate to become Beastar. He is proud, controlling and determined never to look weak. As a small child he was kept as livestock to be sold to carnivores, until the head of the Horns Conglomerate adopted him as his heir; a number 4 on the sole of his foot is what remains of that time. In Season 2 he leaves school to lead the Shishigumi, and he later gives Legoshi his own leg to win the fight with Riz.

A grey wolf in her first year who joins the drama club's acting team. Legoshi steps in when she is being bullied, and she falls for him on the spot. Unlike Legoshi, she is entirely at ease with being a carnivore, and she wants to become Beastar so that carnivores are admired for their strength rather than feared, which sets her up as Louis's rival. At the Meteor Festival she praises Legoshi in front of the crowd for saving Haru. Later she decides she is not suited to the title.

A giant panda doctor who runs a clinic in the Black Market for carnivores whose predatory instincts have taken over. He finds Legoshi collapsed in a back alley, at first takes him for a dangerous case, and ends up as his friend and mentor. In Season 2 Legoshi becomes his pupil, learning to master his hunger and to catch carnivores who have lost control without biting them. Gohin is strict and plain-spoken with him, but fair, and in the final season he fits Legoshi with false fangs.

A Labrador Retriever and Legoshi's oldest friend. They met as small children, when Legoshi was the only one at the playground willing to play with him. He is cheerful and hard-working, the top student in his year, and constantly worried about how other people see Legoshi. He is one of the few who knows about Legoshi's Komodo dragon ancestry, which the school does not. He shares dormitory room 701 with Legoshi and the other canines until Legoshi leaves.

A Bengal tiger and one of the drama club's actors, proud of being a carnivore and keen for carnivores to be admired as much as herbivores. When Louis is injured, Bill takes over the lead role, and his secret use of rabbit's blood before the performance leads Legoshi to fight him on stage. The two argue often, with Bill usually starting it, and he tells Legoshi to accept what he is. They end up friends, and in the manga Louis names Bill the club's next head.

A brown bear over two metres tall and a well-liked member of the drama club. The law requires bears of his size to take medication that limits their strength; its side effects include headaches and bouts of aggression, and in one such episode he killed his friend Tem. He has since convinced himself that Tem was willing. Legoshi works out the truth, and the two fight on New Year's Eve. Riz gives himself up afterwards and goes to juvenile prison, where Pina visits him.

The villain of the final season: a 24-year-old whose mother was a leopard and whose father was a gazelle. He looks mostly like a gazelle but has a leopard's jaws, claws and eyes, and hides his spots under tattoos and his fangs behind a mask. Cruel and manipulative, he takes over the Shishigumi after Louis leaves, profits from the herbivore-derived drink Kines, and poses as a professor at Haru's college. He shoots Legoshi and later throws him into the sea.

A horse in his fifties who holds the Beastar title and works as a vigilante with contacts in the police. As teenagers he and Gosha fought crime together and meant to become Beastars as a pair; when Gosha gave that up to raise a family, Yahya never forgave him, and he turns the grudge on Legoshi. He investigates the drink Kines with help from the 500 Cornered Rats, and in the end asks Legoshi to help him bring Melon down.

Legoshi's maternal grandfather, a 54-year-old Komodo dragon and his only living relative. As a young man he was Yahya's partner in fighting crime and a candidate for Beastar, but he gave up that future when he fell for a grey wolf, Toki, and they had a hybrid daughter, Leano — Legoshi's mother. He is calm and avoids trouble unless his family is threatened. He paid Legoshi's school fees and tracks him down after he drops out.

A lion in the Shishigumi, calmer and cleverer than most of the gang. Sold as a twelve-year-old to be made into drugs, he ran away, lived alone in the Black Market and joined the Shishigumi at eighteen. It was Ibuki who made Louis the gang's new boss, and he looked after the young deer almost like a son, buying him salads when he could not eat meat. When Louis tries to leave the gang, Ibuki confronts him and is killed by Free.