I binge read Beastars and somehow I'm disappointed even though it was more or less what I expected. It's definitely very unique and there's a lot of good parts to it, but I feel that it fails in many key areas, couldn't make good use of what it had going early on and lost track somewhere along the way, and had a very unsatisfying ending with way too many unanswered questions that feels like the author was completely tired of the story and just wanted to wash their hands off it.
There were a lot of moments that seemed nonsensical and irrecoverable, and was then handled with some kind of ridiculous asspull. It's one thing for characters to act irrationally, but there were some moments that just seemed like complete nonsense, and moments that seemed to lead to something but then literally nothing happened. I didn't particularly like any of the characters, I could see the potential but usually that potential wasn't brought up and things just felt flaccid.
It's the kind of story that seems like a masterpiece because it's surrounded by trope infested trash, but if you judge it by it's own merits then it just kinda leaves me feeling disappointed.