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Beastars Final Season Anime's 2nd Part Premieres in 2026

posted on by Alex Mateo
Final season's 1st part debuted last December

Netflix announced during its panel at Anime Expo on Saturday that the second part for the final anime season adapting Paru Itagaki's BEASTARS manga will premiere in 2026. The company shared a visual:

Beastars Final Season Part 2
Image courtesy of Netflix

The new cast members for the second part includes:

Other new cast members joining for this season include:

beastars-final-season
Image via Netflix anime's X/Twitter account
The anime's first part debuted on Netflix last December 5. The anime will be split across two cours (quarters of years).

Shinichi Matsumi and Nanami Higuchi both return from the first two seasons as director and scriptwriter, and Orange returns for animation production. Satoru Kōsaki and issei perform the opening theme song "Into the World" and YU-KA performs the ending theme song "Feel Like This" for the show's first part.

The first television anime debuted on Netflix in Japan and on Fuji TV's [+Ultra] programming block and on TV Nishinippon in October 2019. The season debuted on Netflix outside of Japan in March 2020. The anime's second season premiered in January 2021 and again aired in Japan on Fuji TV's [+Ultra] programming block. Netflix debuted the second season outside Japan in July 2021.

Viz Media released the manga in English, and it describes the story:

At a high school where the students are literally divided into predators and prey, it's personal relationships that maintain the fragile peace. Who among them is a Beastar—an academic and social role model destined to become a leader in a society naturally rife with mistrust?

Last night at Cherryton Academy, an herbivore student was killed and eaten. Among the members of the drama club, the herbivores' suspicions naturally turn to their carnivore classmates… The prime suspect? Legoshi, a large wolf. But he wouldn't hurt a fly—or would he? And will dwarf rabbit Haru bring out the beast in him? Or are his feelings for her…something else?

Itagaki launched her BEASTARS manga in Akita Shoten's Weekly Shōnen Champion magazine in September 2016. The manga ended in October 2020. Akita Shoten published the manga's 22nd and final compiled book volume on January 2021.

Sources: Netflix's panel at Anime Expo (George Yang), email correspondence


ANN's coverage of Anime Expo 2025 is sponsored by Yen Press and Ize Press!


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