Drama Club (Arc)

ARC undefined Drama Club (演劇部) is the first story arc of the Beastars manga.

Description
In a world where carnivores and herbivores live side by side, while eating meat is a serious crime, at the prestigious Cherryton Academy, a Drama club student is murdered and eaten, the culprit was not found, and the students tremble with anxiety. Meanwhile, the Drama Club has a dispute over the replacement of his deceased student. On the other hand the charismatic member of the theater club, Louis the red deer, candidate for the next "Beastar", after being protected by Legoshi, a second year student of the lighting team, of being attacked by a carnivorous member of the drama club, who had a great resentment. Contrary to his strong appearance with "great body" and "sharp claws", he is a male gray wolf, shy and awkward. However, Rouis said he was hypocritical and unwilling, and forced him to watch the night practice. That night in the backyard, Haru, a white dwarf rabbit, appeared in front of Legoshi, who was watching alone. The moment she smells his scent, Legoshi's instincts run through her body and he attacked her, However, this encounter with Hal and his instincts will greatly change the life of Legoshi, who was calm and calm Is this feeling for her is it love or appetite? Males and females, carnivores and herbivores. Legoshi's youth suffers as he faces the pain, strengths and weaknesses just beginning.

The case of Predation: The death of Tem
One night, at the prestigious Cherryton Academy, the student Tem the alpaca, finds himself wounded and fleeing from an unknown carnivore who goes after him, Tem takes refuge in a reading room where, in his laments, he asks his attacker if he really is he tries to eat one of his classmates, the attacker fiercely knocks on the door to open it, Tem firmly declares that his attacker belongs to an inferior species and are nothing more than monsters, before being devoured to death.

The next day, a group of students witness the formation of the crime scene and are informed by other students of Tem's murder after they are commissioned to deliver a manual for a gray wolf named Legoshi, who watches the scene from afar. In the Drama club, the members are gathered and divided, the herbivores accuse the carnivores of being suspected for the death of Tem, forming a great tension between carnivores and herbivores, which begin to argue until they are interrupted by a blackout caused by Legoshi. who turns the lights back on seconds later and talks about Tem's possible regrets until he asks Els directly if he feels sad about Tem's death. Later, in the women's locker room, Els questions Legoshi's intentions with other club members and suspects that he may be his target.At the same time in the men's locker room, Legoshi is checking Tem's locker who is discovered by other members of the club, as Legoshi leaves the room, in the hall Legoshi observes the full moon and prepares to eliminate the leases from Tem. In the schoolyard, Els is accompanied by a classmate who comforts her and they separate, on the way to her room Els finds out that she forgot her wristwatch in the theater club and goes to look for it, in the club, Els searches her watch until it is illuminated by a spotlight by Legoshi who was waiting for her, The scared takes a scissors from her bag in an attempt to defend Legoshi who only approaches and removes the scissors with easy addition and takes her arms, a letter of love that belonged to Tem falls from Legoshi's pocket which Els discovers, shortly after, Legoshi gives him the letter and tells about the feelings of Tem that is directed towards her, shortly after Els thanks him and apologizes for the things that He said of him and promises him that he retracts with the other girls of the club, to which Legoshi refuses as he will keep their meeting as a secret and leaves.

The next day, in front of the classroom where Tem was assassinated, Mark, an acquaintance of Tem finds himself reflecting while giving his condolences until he is found by Jack, both talking until they reach the herbivorous dormitories where Jack is not very well received, when Mark opens his locker, both discover a large number of letters that were sent by relatives, Mark tells him that it is something that most herbivores are living at school due to the recent murder, before Jack left, Mark tells him to Jack who is not sure that he shares a room with a hyena and a wolf, warning him to choose his friends wisely. Later, Jack talks to Legoshi in his bedroom about the drama club play soon to be released and Legoshi explains the plot of it until they are interrupted by Miguno, another roommate. Later in the drama club, a member of the acting team, Kai, is reading the script of the play, because due to Tem's death, he assured that he would have his role in the play, when he got to the locker room, Kai is discovered that he will not have the expected role and confused asks for an explanation to Louis, leader of the team of actors of the club, who was with Legoshi, Kai abruptly asks for an explanation of why he was not given the role belonged to Tem, Legoshi tries leave, but Louis stops him and tells Kai that due to his poor performance as an actor he was removed from the group of actors and from that moment he was part of the stage crew along with Legoshi, this infuriates Kai who tries to hit him but is arrested by Legoshi who tells him that the safety of the main actor is paramount and tries to dissuade Kai by telling him that the stagehands are important too, Kai is intimidated by Legoshi and leaves angry, Rouis surprised expresses no interest in Legoshi because this achievement intimidates Kai and asks him for help with something.

Important Events

 * At Cherryton Academy, Tem is murdered and devoured by a carnivore, setting a wave of unease and distrust between the herbivore and carnivore students.

Trivia
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 * The play that this arc revolves around seems to be a (very) lose adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Diskworld novel, "Mort", in which the apprentice of the Grim Reaper falls in love with a girl he's supposed to carry to the afterlife, and spares her instead. In response, all of reality tries to completely purge her from the timeline.
 * The events of this arc run from mid to late May.
 * It is the shortest arc of the entire manga, with only 17 chapters.