Anima City (BNA, Brand New Animal)

Shirou Ogami: https://brand-new-animal.fandom.com/wiki/Shirou_Ogami

Shirou Ogami (大神 士郎, Ōgami Shirō) is the deuteragonist of the BNA: Brand New Animal series by Studio Trigger. He is a Wolf Beastman and works as a social worker in addition of being the first and original Ginrou. He despises humans and fights for the rights of Beastmen. During the course of the series, he acts as the primary caretaker for Michiru Kagemori. He also serves as the main protagonist of the prequel light novel BNA - Zero: Beasts That Can't Become Even Better. In his human form, he has the body of a young man around his twenties, he has pale skin, messy and choppy white hair with bangs, and teal/cyan eyes. He wears a beige trench coat with the collar up, a black sweater, black cropped gloves, a pair of slim dark gray chinos, and dark brown chelsea ankle boots. Shirou wears a dark brown dog collar with a silver buckle around his neck and a matching belt around his waist. In "Anima City" he no longer wears his collar, showing the scar on his neck. In his wolf form, he has white fur accented by teal fur covering his back and the top of his head. He has gray fur on the bridge of his black nose, and a white diamond-shaped pattern on his forehead. He has a small, disheveled mane of fur around his neck that spills out all over. His eyes are still ice blue, and he still wears the same clothes. As Ginrou/The Silver Wolf, he appears as a cyan and white giant wolf with sharo wing-like protrusions on the shoulder, constantly in a state of luminescence, emitting a cyan light. Quiet and stoic, Shirou is very proud to have been born as a beastman and passionate about his brethren; he enjoys living with them and is even moved to see them celebrating the tenth anniversary of Anima City. On the contrary, he despises humans and will go to any lengths to eliminate or disable any humans who disrupt the daily life of Anima City. According to him, any beastman who works for humans, betraying their own race, must be treated as a traitor. He demonstrated this when he breaks Yaba's rhino horn during their confrontation, taking away his beastman's pride. His perspective of humanity eventually changed to better after a fateful encounter with Michiru Kagemori, a young human girl who unexpectedly transformed into a powerful tanuki beastman, albeit from a mutual point of view of an isolated incident in Michiru's case. After living for a thousand years helping his brethren thus sparing them from the grisly fate his fellow Nirvasyl citizens suffered in the past, Shirou proclaims himself to be the protector of the beastmen, demonstrating a strong sense of responsibility in carrying such duty. As helping beastmen in need is what truly mattered for him to the end, his selflessness saw him caring little if his altruistic deeds inspired other beastmen to worship him as their protector deity. Shirou does, however, aware with the prospect of someone exploiting the legend and belief he indirectly created for their own gain, as shown when he visibly disturbed by the appearance of Silver Wolf Order, a cult seemingly dedicated for his transcendent alter-ego and even had its guru, Nazuna Hiwatashi/Ginrou II, using her beastmen powers to impersonate him unaware that her predecessor is not only exist all along, but also alive and well. Shirou's greatest fear is being rendered helpless while watching his fellow beastment perished either at the hands of other beings or themselves via. Nirvasyl Syndrome and succumbed to the destructive malady because of it once. He eventually got over it thanks to Michiru's unexpected (or rather unintentional) help where her mutated blood revealed to provide the cure for Nirvasyl Syndrome that plagued every beastmen in millenia. Although he can be fierce and once killed his enemies with vengeance, he has since understood that vengeance only brings him emptiness and will show mercy, only killing when the situation becomes uncontrollable.

Mayor Rose: Barbara Rose (バルバレイ・ロゼ, Barubarei Roze), formerly named Natalia, is a main character in BNA: Brand New Animal. She is the mayor and founder of Anima City and a naked mole-rat Beastman. She also serves as the deuteragonist of the prequel light novel BNA - Zero: Beasts That Can't Become Even Better. In her human form, she has a tan complexion, bald head with forehead wrinkles, red eyes, pointy ears, and a pointy chin. In her beastman form, she has a salmon complexion, wide face, forehead wrinkles, flat ears, and a long neck. She has the same outfit in both forms and wears a dark brown tunic, matching boots, and carries a silver cane with a red end.She is intelligent and has a gentle personality underneath her serious exterior. Knowing that Michiru is a human-turned beastman, she keeps Michiru and Shirou under surveillance and is concerned about them. Background: Barbara has a Ph.D. in Beastman genetics and is a long-time acquaintance of Shirou, who rescued her from a research facility when she was a child. She gave up her life in academia to pursue a career in politics.

Barbara worked closely with Prime Minister Shiramizu to establish the Beastman Special Zone and Anima City. She also has close ties with Sylvasta Pharmaceuticals who was the major sponsor in the development of the city.

BNA - Zero: Beasts That Can't Become Even Better Before the establishment of Anima City, Barbara and Shirou used to travel around the globe to help the beastmen in need. Barbara and Shirou together stop terrorist acts throughout Anima City. She is aware of the true identity of Michiru and pledges to help find a cure for Michiru. Barbara was a child when Shirou rescued her from a research facility. She then became his student in helping and protecting other Beastmen. She is normally on good terms with him.

Michiru Kagemori: Michiru Kagemori (影森みちる, Kagemori Michiru) is the main protagonist of the BNA: Brand New Animal series by Studio Trigger. She was a 17 year old[2][3] (18 as of Episode 4) high school student prior to her mutation into a human-turned Beastman. Alongside Nazuna, she is the first known human-turned Beastman. Michiru is basically a tanuki Beastman, though she bore handful traits of blue jay (possibly judging from the color scheme of her hair and tail) and raccoon (marking around the eyes). Her chin-length bob-cut hair and tail are blue in color with black ends. She also has teal eyes, and black pointy cat-like ears on the top of her head. Her hand-paws, feet-paws, and a patch on her face are dark brown while the rest of her fur is light brown much like a real tanuki. She wears a loose gray tank-top, a black undershirt underneath, navy dolphin shorts with light green trim, a red sports jacket with white trim and a unfolded collar, and white sneakers with red soles. Her tail sticks out from her shorts. Before she enters Anima City, Michiru dons a red hooded cloak over her normal outfit. During athletic practice and physical activity, she usually takes off her jacket. She also owns a beige, cross-hatched patterned wallet.

In her human form, she has a pale complexion, black hair and eyebrows, and brown eyes. She has an asymmetric bob haircut with a tuft of hair sticking out on her left side. As with other students in her high school, Michiru's standard high school uniform consists of a white short-sleeved collared shirt, a baby blue bow tie, a high-waisted teal short skirt, light gray knee-length socks, and black loafers. Her high school basketball uniform consists of a white jersey with orange accents and Reiwa in black and the number 8 printed on the front and back. She carries a light corduroy canvas backpack and her basketball in a yellow carrying bag to school every day. During her time in hiding, she wore an oversized gray hoodie and sweatpants.

In her youth, she had the same complexion, similar haircut with bangs in the center and right side of her face, and large amber eyes. In her mom's picture, she wore a yellow t-shirt, pale blue overalls with a front pocket, a pink bow, and animal ears on top of her head.

When she plays baseball on the Bears Baseball Team, she wears their white and yellow baseball jersey unbuttoned, a yellow baseball cap with bear ears, a black undershirt, and black athletic shoes.

Michiru is compassionate, brave, and energetic. She cares for both beastmen and humans and won't condone violence against anyone, even against terrorists and those with malicious intent. She goes to great lengths to protect her peers even at her own expense.

Michiru's strong-will also carries through her actions. She is stubborn and not easily swayed by peer pressure. Once she has a set goal in mind, she is determined to achieve it. When Michiru loses her wallet, despite all her peers telling her the chances of recovery are slim to none, she continued to search for leads. But sometimes her strong-will can be a flaw which is recklessness, ignoring her own safety as a result. This trait of hers sometimes leads to her placing her own opinions over others without understanding their perspectives first.

At first, she despised her beastman form, but after living in Anima City and learning more about the beastman themselves, she decided to stay this way for a while. "The Mole Rat Speaks" indicated her initial opinion about it attributed to how little she knew about beastmen in general or what it feels like living as one.

Background Michiru grew up in a rural town and had a normal upbringing with a supportive and caring mother. She attended Reiwa High School with Nazuna Hiwatashi. She enjoys playing basketball and was number 8 on her high school's basketball team.[1]

When she wasn't shooting hoops, she was hanging out with her best friend Nazuna, sometimes sitting on the park bench and sharing Bluetooth earbuds to listen to music together. One of their favorite tunes was Night Running.[5]

Around a year before the events of the series, Michiru and Nazuna were injured in a car accident. They were operated on in the same hospital and made a full recovery from a little blood transfusion. However, one day at school, as Michiru was congratulating Nazuna for getting an audition, Nazuna transformed into a beastman. She was taken into a black van by men in suits and never seen again.

Soon after, Michiru turned into a tanuki beastman during basketball practice.[3] She was unable to transform back into her human form and resorted to hiding at home for the remainder of the year. Eventually, she found the Anima City website, and she began to plan her escape. She wrote a letter to her parents letting them know she planned to live in Anima City and left her home under a red cloak.

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