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BNA (Brand New Animal):
Casually Summarized By
SimoTheFinlandized
- Written In 2022 CE
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BNA (Brand New Animal) is set in
a world where humans co-exist
with a branch of humanity called
Beastmen, who often face
persecution due to their ability to
turn into humanoid animals through
a mutagenic trait in their DNA called
"Beast Factor". The series centers on
Michiru Kagemori, a young teenage
girl who suddenly turned into a tanuki
beastman after her best friend
Nazuna Hiwatashi was abducted
following a blood transfusion. Michiru
ran away to seek refuge in Anima
City, a haven made for the Beastmen,
and meets the mysterious wolf
beastman Shirou Ogami who works
for the city's mayor Barballet Rosé.
The two work to investigate the
circumstances of Michiru's
transformation while keeping the
peace in Anima City, only to stumble
into a conspiracy involving Sylvasta
Pharmaceutics - a prestige medical
research center in Anima City -
whose unsavory employees were
responsible for accidentally providing
the blood used in Michiru’s
transformation along with Nazuna’s,
who the company placed in a cult to
claim herself as the Beastmens’
guardian deity known as the Silver
Wolf. But Michiru learns the real
Silver Wolf is Shirou, who is forced to
reveal his true power when dealing
with the Sylvasta researcher Yata,
who mutated into a berserk monster
following his arrest.
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Michiru learns Shirou is actually an
immortal who gained his powers as
sole survivor of Nirvasyl, a city of
Beastmen that was destroyed a
millennia ago by humans, and
dedicated himself to protecting his
kind. Alan Sylvasta, the owner of
Sylvasta Pharmaceutics, reveals the
Beastmen of Nirvasyl were actually
victims of a stress-induced
phenomenon called Nirvasyl
Syndrome that caused them to kill
each other before being finished off
by the humans. Alan also explains
that he is resolving the issue with
Nazuna pretending to be the Silver
Wolf to reduce stress while he
developed a drug to render Beastmen
human should they go berserk. But
Alan’s actual plan is induce Nirvasyl
Syndrome, having Nazuna exposed
on stage while revealing himself to be
a Beastman from a pure bloodline.
The pair also learn that the cure to
Nirvasyl Syndrome is Michiru and
Nazuna’s blood, averting the crisis
with Michiru accepting her condition
while remaining in Anima City to help
Shirou protect it.
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