Ever since the beginning of the animation, it has been noticed that viewers have been much drawn towards anthropomorphic animals. There have been many animated films and television series based on talking animals. What can be a big example other than The Jungle Book? It is hard to forget those characters including Bagheera (the black panther), Kaa (the python snake), Baloo (the bear), King Louie (the orangutan monkey), Akela (the wolf), and the Mowgli’s main villain Sher Khan (the tiger).
There are other top examples of anthropomorphic animals including Zootopia, KungFu Panda, Ice Age, Dumbo, and The Lion King. Most of these films are made mainly for the younger audience. Hence, if your kid loves watching such animated series, then he will surely like watching BNA on Netflix.
With time, we all can witness the change in the trend of animation that now experiments with adult content with anthropomorphic animals. BNA is one such example. It stands for Brand New Animal. Well, nowadays, all the animated series are not truly made for child viewing as they contain some mature content.
Throughout the running of this animated series, you won’t feel bored or dozing off. Now that season 1 of BNA has ended, it is obvious that viewers are expecting season 2 soon. So to find out when is the second installment of BNA release, stay abreast with the article till the end.
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Show Details
| TV Series: | BNA: Brand New Animal |
| Genre: | Action, comedy, & science fiction |
| Created by: | Laurie McCarthy & Stephanie SenGupta |
| Directed by: | Yoh Yoshinari |
| Place Of Origin: | Japan |
| Streaming network: | Netflix |
| Original language: | Japanese |
| Number of seasons: | 1 |
| Number of episodes: | 12 |
Story plot
The story of BNA: Brand New Animal revolves around an imaginary world, where the human race resides with Beastmen, and faces oppression because of their capability in the formation of humanoid animals with the help of ‘Beast Factor’ their unique DNA. The story revolves around a young teenage girl named Michiru Kagemori. Due to a sudden twist, she becomes a Japanese raccoon dog after the abduction of Nazuna Hiwatashi, her close friend after being injected with a blood transfusion.
Then to take refuge, Michiro rushes towards Beastmen’s haven, called Anima City. There she meets Shirou Ogami, a wolf beastman working under Barballet Rose, the mayor of Anima City. Both of them get into the investigation for the conditions that led to the transformation of Michiro into a raccoon dog while maintaining peace in the city.
And it is all done to trip over into a scheme involving a pharma medical research center in Anima City. The disgusting workers are responsible for unintentionally offering the blood that was used in the transformation of Michiru with Nazuna, her best friend. It was placed by the company claiming to be the guardian deity of beastmen, called Silver Wolf.
However, later on, Michiru comes to know that Shirou is the Silver Wolf. He forced him to disclose his actual power at the time when he had a face-off with Yata, a Sylvasta researcher, who got changed into a fearless monster, causing his arrest. Michiru comes to know another fact about Shirou, which is about his immortality who acquired his powers in being the lone survivor of Beastmen city Nirvasyl that got devastated by humans thousand years ago. Hence, he put himself on the service for protection.
Revelation by Sylvasta Pharmaceutics owner
After the disclosure of Shirou’s secret, comes another revelation by the owner of Sylvasta Pharmaceutics, Alan Sylvester. According to him, Nirvasyl beastmen had fallen prey to Nirvasyl Syndrome, which was a stress impelling element that caused them to execute each other before getting annihilated by humans.
Alan gives the further explanation that he wants to put an end to the issue by portraying himself as Silver Wolf to bring down the stress with Nazuna by the development of a drug to provide the beastmen to let them go raving. However, the real strategy meted out by Alan is to incite Nirvasyl Syndrome, putting Nazuna on stage, while he exposes himself to be a Beastman of a real bloodline.
It also comes out that the blood of Michiru and Nazuna is the healing solution to Nirvasyl Syndrome. It will help in preventing the calamity with Michiru giving consent to her state, and leaving Anima City under the protective shield of Shirou.
Briefing the main characters of BNA
Michiru Kagemori
Michiru Kagemori is a young teenage girl whose life changes after she transforms into a raccoon dog. To bring herself back to normal human form, she enters Anima City. Initially, she had this notion that she might have developed a disease until she found out the truth that it all happened when she got infused with the blood of a beastman at a hospital. After transformation, Michiru now can change the shapes of other animals, and can even expand her form to a bigger length.
Shirou Ogami
Shirou Ogami is another pivotal character in the BNA series. He is a wolf beastman who is gifted with smelling sense and is focused as a guardian to Anima City. Shirou has excess power, the capability of regeneration, and immortality. The wolf beastman can even enhance himself in becoming a giant wolf.
Thousand years ago, he had been a normal beastman in Nirvasyl city and was executed by Raymond Sylvasta with other residents of Nirvasyl, after getting insane. But Shirou once again acquired powers after consuming the blood of corpses of beastmen of the latter city. And this generated the myth of the Silver Wolf. Shirou becomes dedicated to becoming a guardian of beastmen from the torture of the human race.
When to expect the second season of BNA?
The premiere of BNA’s first season came last year on 9th April in Japan on Netflix. It ended with twelve episodes in the same year on 6th May. Viewers who have watched Beastars are comparing it with BNA: Brand New Animal. And it is all because of the similarity of the portrayal of anthropomorphic animals.
Witnessing the popularity of BNA from the first season, Studio Trigger will certainly be working on its upcoming seasons’ release. As of now, viewers are expecting the second season of BNA, but no official confirmation has been made yet. If not in 2021, then it may be released by mid-2022 or maybe the next following year 2023.