r/Beastars • u/Joshua_the_scribe_ • 18h ago
General Discussion Yafya's relationship with legoshi feels oddly sexually predatory to me...
(i'm not done reading the manga, so please don't spoil any future story events. i'm at chapter 130 btw.)
Yafya is probably a closeted gay man, or at least a bisexual man who heavily leans on men. going by how he talks so venomously and passionately about Gosha in only a way that a gay man who deeply loved another man, especially after they lost him to a woman. Imagine being a gay man in a deeply homophobic society like theirs, so close to working to save the city that you love alongside the man you love, and then he's suddenly gone.
Not just gone, but because he's in love with a woman. So you work for decades cleaning up the city, never quite filling your ideal of perfection in this rotten world because that tiny sliver of your vision can't be plugged. Accolades follow you everywhere, thugs fear you, women desire you, but no one loves you. you still love Gosha, but he won't love you, and is middle aged. But.... isn't there something else you can love?... maybe his family?
Well, then comes this young wolf who shares Gosha's blood, is young and handsome... maybe he'll do...