Episode 20

Laughing at the Shadows We Cast (光を浴びたらシルエットの違いを笑おう) is the twentieth episode of the Beastars anime and the eighth episode of Season 2.

Synopsis
Sheila doesn't want to only be used in Peach's photos just for "likes", so she invites her to a day of shopping. Legoshi learns about the strength of his limbs by stopping a ferocious meat addict as part of Gohin's training. Juno is offered the main role in the school play, but after spending some time with Haru in the gardening club, she considers herself unfit to be a candidate for the Beastar title. After a visit to a hyperdrugs store, Ibuki reveals to Louis that their childhoods aren't so different.

Plot
Sheila finds her relationship with herbivores complicated because her partner Peach asks her to take a picture together, but Sheila finds it difficult to approach her partner due to the differences in species, that is why she shows her complaints towards Juno which he envies for managing to get along relatively well with herbivores, although Juno lets him know that he only gets along with a single herbivore and shows him the photographs she has with that friendship. Juno makes the mention that they are very aware of those around them, calling it a defense instinct and that is why they are difficult to understand. Later Sheila, gathers her courage and asks Peach to go out together to the mall, she accepts and they decide to go shortly after the classes are over, in the mall they visit several stores, both girls begin to stalk themselves, knocking down any prejudice and fear that they had towards their differences between species, at the end of the day they take a photograph that consolidates their friendship.

At dusk in The Black Market, Legoshi is next to Gohin observing the carnivores that are out of control, they notice the presence of a Striped Hyena, which they must take to retraining in Gohin's Clinic. Legoshi, is sent to stop the hyena, so they start a fight in which the hyena manages to have an advantage over Legoshi, but he gathers his energies to counter him and defeat him by hitting him against a wall.

The next day, Juno is summoned by the administrator of the Drama club, which offers her the role of Adler, she in principle does not disagree with taking the role, but being a woman does not feel that it is correct, but that is which mentions that Sanu, wants her to take the role, to vindicate Adler and show a new air within the club in the face of the other clubs in the academy that compete with each other, for having the attention of the students. When leaving the Juno club, she runs into Haru, who is the only herbivore who dislikes him, despite having certain prejudices with wanting to establish a division between carnivores and herbivores, so he ends up chasing Haru, until he meets him. Gardening club, being in front of the door Haru, opens it thinking it was Legoshi, anyway invites her to come in and ask for a favor to help him with certain plants that needed a fertilizer, while helping her he finds the reason why Legoshi ended up falling in love with that white rabbit, he also notes that his vision regarding carnivores and herbivores is wrong, therefore he is not suitable to be a candidate for Beastar, because he does not meet the standards that Louis had, when he was the main candidate.

Louis, is awakened by Ibuki, who lets him know that they have arrived at the business called Phantom Drug, where he witnesses how an alligator decides to sell parts of his body in order to get some money, the client on this occasion decides to take his member male, to which the caiman is scared, Ibuki, decides to cover Louis's eyes, so that he does not see such a grotesque scene, but Louis, makes him lower his arm and decides to observe the scene until the end. Finished his work as an observer in the Phantom Drug, Rouis, is on the roof of a building observing the Black Market Ibuki, he asks him to please not think about committing suicide after seeing such a scene a while ago, but Louis, tells him no he thinks about doing it, at that moment he receives a call when he notices who it was, throws his cell phone into the void and decides to go drink alcohol with Ibuki, shortly after it is shown that the call was from Haru

Anime/Manga Differences

 * In the anime, Sheila and Peach take a selfie in a coffee shop, while in the manga they take the selfie on the seat of a tree, which can be seen near the coffee shop.
 * In the anime, Legoshi and Gohin's conversation at the Black Market bar where they track down the striped hyena does not occur. The conversation takes place partially on the roof from which Gohin and Legoshi observe the striped hyena.
 * In the manga, the striped hyena is a meat addict who spent his time nibbling on the bone of an herbivore he killed and ignored the meat served at the bar, since it could no longer satisfy him. In the anime, he is a meat junkie rummaging through junk for bones and scraps of meat.
 * In the anime, the striped hyena is shirtless, while in the manga, he is not.
 * In the manga, Juno sees Haru walking together with Legoshi in the school just before they part, while in the anime, she sees her walking alone outside.
 * In the anime, Haru is in her school uniform when she greets Juno, and later when they both do some gardening, only Haru is wearing a work outfit. In the manga, Haru was already in her work outfit when she greets Juno, and when they do some gardening, both of them are wearing a work outfit.
 * In the manga, Haru tries to reach for the toolbox inside the clubroom, while in the anime, this happens on the outside of the clubroom.
 * In the manga, when Louis visits the hyperdrugs store, he is accompanied by Ibuki, Free and Dolph. In the anime, Dolph is replaced by Agata.
 * In the anime, Louis removes Ibuki's hand to see the emasculation of the caiman. In the manga, this does not happen.
 * In the anime, the scene is cut where Ibuki is scolded by the two other lions for covering Louis's eyes, who later scolds them by claiming that Louis is only 18.

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