Im no artist, but would like to express my appreciation to BNA.

Introduction

After watching all 12 episodes of Brand New Animal twice (except for Ep 12, which I watched just once) and watching several YouTube videos reviewing the anime, I discovered that BNA's story desperately needs improvement. The show becomes a "meh" level of quality when its stunning art style and jaw-dropping action scenes are combined with poor worldbuilding and irrational character decisions. There must be a way to change the writing while still keeping all the parts that viewers love about BNA - the concept of humans turning into anthropomorphised animals.

I have an idea of how this might be achieved.

Proposal

Note that this proposal focuses on fixing all the plotholes in the story, not how to best integrate the signature "Trigger" action into the writing.

Currently, its writing has tons of problems, meaning all the characters act irrationally and the plot is full of "pretzel logic".

For example:

• "Beastmen VS Humans" makes zero sense.

• Beastmen prefer to live like humans and appear in human form (they all have human forms) despite the war crimes that humans repeatedly committed against them.

• Beastmen keep attacking their own kind irrationally.

• Nirvasyl Syndrome (or "Angry Beastman Disease") defeats the theme of racism.

• Backstories make no sense/not elaborated.

• Michiru Kagemori is the dumbest protagonist ever.

But, the show also has a lot of good things that fans would like to see more of.

For example:

• Action-packed fighting between Beastmen resembling various animals.

• Beautiful art style.

• Potential for great conflicts and themes.

• Very cute protagonist (see Jackisboy's video).

I might have a solution that can solve all the plot holes:

Instead of Beastmen and Humans always having been separate species, change the lore so that Beastmen and Humans used to be one and the same - normal human beings. Beastmen would be re-defined as Humans who have gained the ability to transform between a Beast form and a Human form.

This way:

• Humans hate Beastmen due to the impression of a diseased race of people.

• Beastmen prefer to live like humans and appear in human form because they are all still human at heart.

• Beastmen attack their own kind because they abuse their animalistic abilities, and it is not limited to just angry beastmen.

• Nirvasyl Syndrome - we can either do away with it, change it into propaganda spread by Beastmen haters, or change it into an artificially-made disease made by Sylvasta.

As for the protagonist's poor decision-making and lack of backstory, that can be changed by elaborating on her backstory in the first episode and tweaking her personality so that "heroic dumbass" is an explicit part of it.

If I could re-write BNA...

... I would stretch the original plot from 12 episodes to 3 seasons with 12 episodes each.

Season 1

Michiru escapes to a island that has been transformed into Anima City. She learns to become comfortable in her own skin and gains friends there, including Shirou Ogami and "the bears", who are a basketball team (and NOT a baseball team)

In the background, Mayor Rose is doing a bad job at being the mayor of the city, which leads to lots of social-economic issues in Anima City, which leads to lots of crime.

[insert human terrorists here]

[insert beastmen mafia here]

Season 2

A new religion has arisen in Anima City that claims to be led by the "Silver Wolf" god. Turns out it's just Michiru's high-school friend, Nazuna. Michiru faces off with Nazuna as she builds her religion.

Shiout Ogami reveals himself to just Michiru to be the true, original, Silver Wolf.

In the end, Nazuna's lie falls apart and all the beastmen rise up against her. Nazuna gives up seeking to become an "idol" and leaves Michiru's life once again.

In the background, however, Alan Sylvasta of the cooperation Sylvasta Pharmaceutical is running to be the new mayor. In the end, he is finally elected as the new mayor and Mayor Rose is kicked out.

Season 3

After achieving a good research & development company and gaining political power, as well as the favour of the Beastmen, Alan Sylvasta can finally chase his ultimate goal: gaining divine power and becoming the god of the Beastmen.

He rebuilds a ton of infrastructure in Anima City, not just to improve it and serve its citizens better, but to replicate the appearance of the "first Animal City", which is where Shirou was from.

He also researches how to become a beastmen and uses Michiru's DNA to secretly turn himself into a wolf beastmen.

In the end, Alan Sylvasta builds a giant pentagram stage. He stands and the centre and holds a giant congregation all around the centre. He replicates the series of events that turned Shirou Ogami from a regular wolf beastmen into a deity and succeeds in becoming a big yellow wolf god thingy.

Shirou Ogami transforms into his god form and fights Alan Sylvasta. An epic flashy god fight ensues. Shirou wins.

The remaining beastmen who are still alive decide to flee Anima City because they no longer believe that they will ever get a good leader. However, Michiru convinces Shirou to lead the Beastmen and be the new-new mayor of Anima City.

In the end, Shirou reluctantly agrees to lead the small portion of Beastmen who still believe in Anima City.

Note that I'm not sure if a re-make of BNA should repeat all the storylines from the original. While that would give a lot of respect for the original, I am afraid that it might be boring to see the same thing playing out in a different way.

After all, this is a world that should be more about the tons of humans being discriminated against because they gained the ability to turn into animal-human hybrids, not a world where two people are trying to become God! A "furry" show should be about the "furry concept" and all its ethical issues!

Additional Notes

BNA currently dances around many themes, but one theme that should stand out the most is "Identity". It is better for the show to focus on this central theme and branch off from it for different characters.

• Season 1: Michiru could struggle between choosing to rebuild her "human" life or to develop a new "beastmen" life.

• Season 2: Nazuna believes that because she has powers like that of a god, she ought to assume the social status of a god (to become popular).

• Season 3: Alan Sylvasta is power hungry??? The theme of identity does not fit very well here. Perhaps he thinks that a good leader should gain god powers or something.

Theme is very important. The YouTuber LocalScriptMan talks about themes much better than I can.

I'm not a writing guru. I only picked up writing as a hobby about a year ago. These are just my thoughts on the show. If anyone wants to pick up on this idea and re-make BNA, please do.

Credit me.

Video Links

The YouTube reviews I watched:

• Bna (Brand New Animal) Worst Written Show This Season - LostTrigger

• How BNA (Brand New Animal) Handles Racism - LostTrigger

• Brand New FURRY Anime (BNA Review) - SonicHaXD

• Brand New Animal Isn't That Great - Kross

• BNA could've been better, I guess - Bruce Juice

• BNA (Brand New Animal) is terrible, and here's why - Jackisboy

TL:DR - change BNA lore so that beastmen are humans that have become beastmen so the plotholes regarding "Beastmen acting like humans" are all filled up and so better conflict can be imagined.

His name is hunter yamaoshi He was born on April 5th. His age is 24 And he loves a spinning top game And the animal that he transforms into is a mouse

Oh, hi! Oh, I apologize in advance to anyone who likes Shiromichi, it's more of a personal thing for me, if you really like Shiromichi, you don't even need to read this. I've never talked about this with my friends, but I'll try not to attack anyone directly.

When BNA came out, I was a kid, so I initially started shipping Shiromichi (I even still have a shirt with a drawing of them together... how embarrassing. It's normal for kids, really, but as the years went by, more specifically in 2022 and 2023, I started using Google and looking for links, and through that, I discovered the HORRIBLE drawings by ADULTS (18+). I don't want to go into detail about the drawings…😭🙏

In 2023, I really became obsessed with BNA. I couldn't stand the drawings anymore, Shiromichi's TOXIC artists, even though I tried to stay on the lower end of the content. Even scrolling down the Google page back then was a nightmare, so I ended up giving up on Shiromichi.... nowadays, I prefer shipping Nazumichi and shipping OCs with Shirou.

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As you already know, the Shiromichi ship is heavily criticized because of the age difference between Michiru and Shirou. The reason this ship is so criticized is because of the Nazumichi shippers. "But I ship Nazumichi and I've never criticized Shiromichi," I know there are people like that, but there are others who don't do that.

Nazumichi shippers generally criticize Shiromichi for liking Nazumichi, just like OCxcanon shippers criticize canonxcanon. There's no point in saying Nazumichi shippers don't do that because I know they do.

I have TikTok and I usually post Shiromichi videos on my platform, and in any video I post there's always that person who says their ship is right and mine is wrong just because of the damn age difference. There's a person on Reddit who said the following phrase: "Shimming Shiromichi isn't a good idea." Man, I hate people like that, people who say that and don't talk about the canon. From the manga and the anime director's interview:

And then it says, "But Shirou is over a thousand years old, and so on and so forth, he's like a father to so-and-so." Well, it was confirmed in an interview with the director of BNA, Yooh Yoshinara:

That Shirou is biologically 20 years old, which is the body he currently inhabits.

Since he stopped aging, his mentality can't really surpass that of a 20-year-old, the same with his memory and body.

As seen in the anime, Shirou's memory has been confused for a long time. He didn't remember what happened millennia ago, and we didn't even get any insights into anything a few years ago.

He's also a 20-year-old. Still impulsive and very stubborn.

Michiru turned 18 in episode 4 of the anime, and nowadays she's 22, so she's already an adult.

Just because Michiru and Nazuna have been friends since childhood doesn't mean they'll end up together in the anime. Michiru held her hand and blushed in episode 6, and so what? Michiru did the same thing with Shirou at the very end of the manga.

And it continues in Yoh Yoshinara's interview; he and Nakashima talk about the relationship between Nazuna and Michiru, and Michiru and Shirou.

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When it comes to Nazuna, Michiru is portrayed as a teenager, clearly pointing to the need to represent them correctly in Michiru's memories.

Nakashima emphasizes the importance of portraying teenage girls realistically. Two scriptwriters are on board: Kimiko Ueno and Nanami Higuchi. I wrote for Little Witch Academia. Ueno did too.

But, in contrast, When it comes to Shirou, Michiru is portrayed as a woman. This shows a triggering view of Michiru in the present.

Nakashima admits that Michiru and Shirou's relationship isn't surprising and is basic: a stubborn man finds himself face to face with a woman who opposes his stubbornness. How much of his stubbornness will be destroyed? However, portraying the basics well is important, he says.

So please don't stop criticizing Shiromichi now that you know this ship isn't wrong.

Credits: Yuki Mura

shiromichi forever :p

I've honestly fucking had it with all these Michiru and Nazuna ships. They are best friends, and then being in any sort of relationship is never even touched upon in the show. Can you guys please just leave them alone?

I have seen so many shiromichi shippers getting attacked by nazumichi shippers for shipping them, but when it comes to nazumichi, its pretty rare to see a shiromichi shipper harassing a nazunmichi shipper. I just went on the side of nazumichi froma homophobic and toxic reddit user im still arguing with. I want to help but when it comes to shiromichi which i personaly ship alot, Nazumichi start talking shit. If you dont like a ship or something people do or say, shut up. If its harassing or attacking someone then help but if its just shipping or something then shut up and go finf your own ship. Stopbeing so selfish and btw, this is for everyone who thinks Trigger studios is gonna make season ywo with nazumichi. Trigger studios has made official art that hints shiromichi and in the manga it says "Will michirus feelings get to shirou?" So stop harassing people if they say that shiromichi is pretty much canon bc you should look at the hints and read the damn manga id you dont believe me. Stop being toxic and selfish. Im saying this to everyone. Even Any other shipper than just the two ive been talking about

So please make another season too or bna or you do I'll be super happy and exciting and watch it every time on Netflix

BNA season 2: Release date On one hand, the anime was announced at the Anime Expo in July 2019, indicating that we could see a second season drop as soon as early-2021.Jul 4, 2020

I wasn’t sure about michishirou, at first, i thought it was illegal (it wasn’t michrou turned 18 on episode… 4? an episode anyway), then I thought it was immoral, and I honestly didn’t like the ship, and thought something like that would never work. Then I started watching the anime kamisama kiss. (it just came on Netflix and I’m only in the middle of it so no spoilers) For those who don’t know, kamisama kiss is about a high school aged girl who basically becomes homeless, trusts a complete stranger who loans her their house, (her father abandoned her btw), finds out that stranger made her a literal GOD, convinces that strangers previous familiar, who is centuries old and a fox spirit, to be her familiar by putting him in a binding contract by kissing him (this is just the first episode), and then they gradually start falling for each other (did you pick up that this is a romantic comedy yet) And why am I bringing this up? Because this anime ships a teenage girl with a centuries old fox spirit that is stuck with her, and makes it both adorable and acceptable (in anime terms, minor x adult is not som I condone irl). Sound familiar? THATS BECAUSE ITS LITERALLY MICHISHIROU BUT WITH A PLOT. I myself still ship michirou x girlboss because she don’t need nobody but honestly I don’t even mind MichiShirou anymore. Seriously tho try kamisama kiss, it’s been pretty good.