Yahya

Yafya (ヤフヤ) is an antagonistic character of Beastars manga. He is the current Beastars.

Appearance
He is a horse with black fur and a darker black crest. His wardrobe varies a lot throughout history. Due to his role as the Beastars, he often disguises himself to deceive criminals.

Personality
When he was young, he enjoyed nothing more than to spend time with his best friend Gosha. Gosha was his police partner and both he and Yasha had a great future ahead as candidates for the future Beastar. However, Gosha fell in love with a grey wolf that he and Yafya saved and ended up abandoning the idea of ​​being a Beastars to start a family. For Yayfa, this was an act of treason, and he decided to continue the path of justice alone to become the next Beastars and change society.

A couple of years later Yayfa discovers the delinquent records of his friend Gosha's grandson, Legosi. Yayfa invites Legosi to his department to know his personality and his vision of the world, which ends with a brief struggle and cemented Yayfa's desire to learn more about Legosi.

Yayfa at first sight seems to be a pretty friendly and reliable animal due to being the Beastars. However, he is also quite manipulative. He has a strong desire to bring about justice and make a change in society and will often manipulate other animals as a means to an end. This has lead him to have many enemies, as shown in the death threats garfittied on the walls surrounding the Black Market.

Yafya is a hypocrite who is a bigoted antihero at best and a cruel villain at worst. He uses the bodies of carnivores to fertilize his carrot farm and because of this, he is hated and known as the the "Black Devil" by residents of the Black Market. He is capable of cruelty to not only carnivores but herbivores as well, as seen in Chapter 138 after threatening the leader of the 500 Cornered Rats during an interrogation.

Trivia

 * Yafya almost constantly wears a blindfold, to suppress his 350-degree vision.
 * He and Gosha used to be police partners and they both shared the dream of becoming beastars as a team.

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