#gosha the komodo dragon

[w2beastars]

Im probably gonna get cancelled for this...

But my complaint about Leano (Legoshi's mom) in the anime is that she is showed her in a way too good light.

Yes, Leano is a victim because nature decided to play a joke on her by first making her an exceptionally beautiful wolf(btw, kudos to the anime for making her a model, that is my HC for her) but she was also a narcissist.

Yes, I'm aware that's not a very nice thing to say about this woman who killed herself, but it is an important character trait.

My guess is that the anime either skipped the parts of her backstory that showed her less nice traits (like spending more time in her room than with her son) either to save time or in fear that the viewers would be furious over the implication that she killed herself because she was ugly.

I'm not saying she is not a victim, I'm just saying she also a narcissist.

[mazojo]

Me when the boyfriend that doesn’t know he is my boyfriend breaks up with me unknowingly so to marry his alleged 6 month pregnant girlfriend instead of becoming Batman and Robin with me holding hands while saving the world to complete my 360 vision or something

[hellagator]

Gosha redraw!

[musenilla]

“Do you even see me, or just the mistakes I made?”

Just an old horse yearning for his komodo dragon partner in crime… how did we get here you all.. 🦎🐴 

More beastars art I managed to do in my free time!! Felt like drawing them because I just realised how much Yahya was tweaked the hell out when Gosha got a ladyyy 😭 him being dramatic was very much valid though damn

[willstoneworks]

Scales like gems

I got so excited to see Beastars S3 come out. Happy with it so far, I knew it wouldn't be brilliant due to time restraints but I think the new team is doing alright.

Enjoy my drawing of Gosha and lil Legoshi while we wait for part 2 of S3.

[casreturns]

saw this old asian man on the plane that looked like if grandpa gosha was real☹️

[beautifulstarsbeastars]

Something that kinda seemed off about Melon's dad to me is just how abnormally calm he acts.

Gosha pounced on him. A large poisonous komodo dragon is restraining him (not attacking but still) and this man did nothing to try and escape. No struggle, no screaming for help when Yahya's less than a meter away, no pleading for his life, barely any change in expression. It doesn't feel like when Haru would accept that it's her faith to be eaten by a carnivore either. It's like Gosha's tackle doesn't affect him in the slightest even tho we are shown that physically he fell over and can't get up until Gosha moves.

What's even more bizarre is that after Yahya and Gosha leave, there's a small panel of Gary sitting up that says he spaced out 🤣🤣

It's so weird to see this old herbivore not really depicted as scared of carnivores due to his instincts like other herbivore characters when those same instincts are the reason he left his leopard gf and hybrid son.

Not to mention how even Yahya another herbivore is put off by him. I think he's on to something. From my memory no character in Beastars ever acts that catatonic especially not Melon, his own son.

So yeah. If Melon's lack of taste isn't a hybrid trait, but genetic, it's probably inherited from his dad alongside a goodie bag of undiagnosed mental illnesses 😘

THIS!! Ok, let me rant here for a second:

If the whole lore and ongoing conflict in Beastars is the fear of herbivores devouring herbivores, then HOW is Melon’s father THAT calm in the face of certain death by Komodo dragon venom?! Like BRUH!!

But seriously:

It’s possible that Gary has a slow reaction to things like that or is just very calm despite terrifying circumstances. I’m not sure if I’d call it mental illness but the way he describes him leaving Melon and his mother reads as very casual and unemotional. Not robotic but similar to how someone might describe going to the market or something like that.

Similarly to that, he didn’t seem to pick up that Gosha lunged at him out of anger or (like you said) what to do after that. I’m not trying to say he’s neurodivergent but I can’t think of any other possible explanation for it.

Please note that if that is the case it wouldn’t excuse his actions nor am I trying to say ‘disability would explain it’. This is just the thought I have based on the few panels we have of Melon’s father.

Also, mental illness and/it disability is not always genetic but that being said, I think we all agree Melon is most certainly not neurotypical (I think most of the fandom has embraced him having Anti Social Personality Disorder or something like that).

But all that aside, there is something very strange about the relationship between Melon’s parents. I would have understood Gary’s reasoning if he really did fear for his life or if Melon’s mother had r-worded him (I mean I wouldn’t put it past her to do that-she already did that to her son) but the way Gary describes her makes me think that wasn’t at all the case.

Really, it sounds like Gary viewed her as a little more than a ‘one night stand’ and Melon as the ‘cruel gift’ that came from it. He’s an interesting character but I just hate him. 😑

Lastly! He is kind of hypocritical for leaving his leopard girlfriend and his son out of fear of being eaten by her but WASN’T scared when Gosha pinned him to the ground!

[my-drama-heart2406]

gosha gives legoshi a lil poison every time he sees him to make sure he stays resistant to it, I believe. it's been a while since I read the manga. but it's one of the cutest little routines :3

No no, Legoshi is already immune.

Being Gosha's genetic grandson he has the komodo dragon eyes(which Yahya recognises) and immunity to the poison. I think it's mentioned that while the poison is deadly for anyone, even other komodo dragons, the ones who are genetically related are immune to the poison.

It's as you said. It's their cute routine. We do have the flashback scene of little Legoshi happily sucking the poison from his granpa's fingers. He says that it tastes like marmalade to him.

[aretheyqueer]

Is he gay?

disclaimer: this is a hc, not speculating on what the writers intentions were.

reason: Obsessed with his childhood best friend and he's so petty about their falling out he almost beat the shit out of him and his GRANDSON 30 years later. Get over it girl. Besides his obvious feeling towards Gosha (who is a Komodo dragon), there's a part of the story where he sleeps with another female horse, she asks why he slept with her and his answer is basically "because heterosexual same species relationships are normal 👍". Like. Ok queen, whatever helps you sleep at night ok. Gay horse.

[deuterosapiens]

More of Beastars: The Final Season- Part One (episodes 3-5).

So the conflict we are setting up is that the Shishi-gumi have new leader, one who is quite simply actually insane (we have yet to see Melon depicted on-screen, but his off-screen presence is enough). They have been involved in an energy drink crisis which increases aggression in carnivores who have consumed meat. Meanwhile, we have finally met the Beastar, a horse named Yahya who is militant about keeping order in the world. Yahya has a history with a komodo dragon named Gosha, who just so happens to be Legoshi's grandfather.

On to the highlights!

Gosha's reunion with Legoshi is so incredibly weird. If this is the man who raised him, you have to respect that Legoshi is as socially adept as he is.

Louis has become so incredibly zoophagophilic (look at me coining a new word for "carnivore fetish") that he is physically incapable of having sex with his future wife. This is pretty damn funny, actually.

More baby Legoshi!

Legoshi comes out to Louis about having an herbivore fetish. Louis informs Legoshi that the only person who did not know was Legoshi himself.

Upon meeting a leopard seal, Legoshi continues his trend of having his entire personal belief system and world view overwritten by a total stranger.

We meet a Civet drug dealer. While there's all sorts of real-world precedence for this scene, it's still weird as hell.

Oh look, Pina! Aaaand he's gone. Well, that's rude.

Legoshi continues to go the extra kilomile by ripping his fangs out for Yahya. This will obviously not come up weirdly later.

Upon finding out that Legoshi has a job, the drama club jokes that they hope it isn't customer service. Legoshi of course has a delivery job. This bit amused me.

So, we are setting some things up that I expect will be interesting later. Unfortunately for me, gotta go to work. Oof.

[w2beastars]

Why didn't I think of that?!

[mazojo]

Oh we are SO back

[mlmvoreconfessionals]

how about gouhin eating gosha? big dude eating another big dude.

Call that a r.arepair

G.osha couldn't believe what he was seeing. His grandson, Legoshi, was walking out of the black market! He’d seen the wolf by chance before while walking and went to catch up to him, but lost sight. He’d just about given up when he finally found Legoshi again and…well, he just can’t believe his eyes!

He saw his precious grandson talking to some big panda before leaving. G.osha wants to go confront Legoshi about this but…he can’t bear to look at him right now! So he stays out of sight, waiting for the wolf to leave before going into the black market himself to confront the panda instead.

He knocks loudly on the door he’d seen the panda disappear into. Sure enough, the hulking figure answers. G.osha handles things as best as he can. Which is to say, he gets into G.ouhin’s face and starts yelling at him and reprimanding him for corrupting his grandson. He’s not usually so aggressive but he can’t stand to let someone do such horrible things to his grandson!

G.ouhin is understandably completely confused and he has no idea what the Komodo before him is going on about. What he does know is that the lizard is angry and naturally dangerous. So G.ouhin handles him the way he does any other dangerous carnivore. He clamps G.osha’s maw shut, opens his own, and crams the lizard’s head inside.

G.osha’s eyes widen as he finds himself being crammed into the slick, steaming maw of the panda. What...is happening? He’s frozen by the act. Is he really being devoured right now? A Komodo dragon...being eaten? All for trying to protect his grandson? Thick gulps begin to sound out around him, dragging him deeper. His shoulders and chest squeeze into G.ouhin’s maw, pinning his arms down and lifting his feet off the ground. The panda’s heart thuds in his ears as he sinks past G.ouhin’s chest, another gulp slurping in his stomach.

G.ouhin tosses his head back, slurping wetly. G.osha’s long legs and tail go right down the hatch, the panda’s abs bloating out with a slosh as he feels the lizard dive inside. One G.osha’s tail tip disappears between G.ouhin’s lips, he’s gone, reduced to a curled up bulge behind the panda’s stomach. G.ouhin grunts softly and slurps over his lips, shutting the door to his office and wandering back inside.

G.osha is surrounded by slick, tight walls that keep squeezing and churning over him. He’s curled up into a tight ball in a space slightly too small for his frame. He can’t move at all, and even if he could, he’s completely paralyzed by fear. How did this happen to him? He was just...trying to protect Legoshi like a good grandfather. G.osha winces as something splashes down on his head and drips between his eyes. It’s got the smell of alcohol. He really is just food now...

With a swig of whiskey, G.ouhin rubs over his gut. Now that he’s got the weird Komodo sealed away, he’s not so yappy. Whatever was wrong with him, it seems like he’s settled down. But someone like this can’t be left to go around, getting aggressive with people. That’s how ‘accidents’ occur. With a flex of his stomach, G.ouhin feels the lizard fold inside of him with little more than a surprise whine. A thick belch rumbles out of the panda, some green scales flaking from his maw. He grumbles as he picks some from his teeth. Maybe he’ll ask Legoshi about the lizard; he feels like the old man had been saying something about a wolf. Kid probably got into some kinda trouble again...

[tsunflowers]

damn it's too bad that you don't have a bestie to help you out with that, perhaps a komodo dragon named gosha

[leo-the-trashcan]

!Beastars s3 ep 10 spoilers under cut!

Ya'll remember that scene where Leanno asks Gosha to keep her komodo dragon heritage a secret?

This part right here.

Gosha says he's just happy he can share a meal with her without worrying about his venom which probably means Toki got accidentally poisoned by Gosha.

This makes me so sad because imagine accidentally killing your partner with something that you're born with and that's out of your control. Poor Gosha must've been devastated.

[jabberwockprince]

like, they're furries so a bunch of immature ppl already assume they're gonna be weirded out by the manga/anime bc they're stuck in the 2010 mindset of ew furries. then it's the fact that it's presented as "big scary wolf falls in love with soft bunny girl" reminiscent of all these romcoms. so i kinda get it when ppl just take beastars at face value

but beastars as a media about nonconventional ways of living and of being, relationships in general that are just out of the norm and so on? and the struggle of learning what's expected of you vs what you expect of yourself? yeah.

watching that one video on a queer reading of beastars and hoping they bring up how Juno read as extremely comphet, wanting to be in a "typical" straight relationship where she would be the submissive girlfriend, because it's what was expected of her and Legoshi

and then halfway thru meeting Louis she realized she loves pegging and domming skinny short boys