History Anime / BNABrandNewAnimal

* FantasticRacism: Reactions from humans to beastpeople range from unintentionally insensitive public comments to intentionally insensitive comments made when they think beastpeople aren't in earshot, to ''attempted murder''. Arguable goes both ways, since both the mayor and Shirou advice Michiru not to go around telling others in the city that she used to be human since if word spread that humans can turn into beastmen (or something like them) it'd lead to serious panic.

* FantasticRacism: Reactions from humans to beastpeople range from unintentionally insensitive public comments to intentionally insensitive comments made when they think beastpeople aren't in earshot, to ''attempted murder''.

** In one episode, Michiru quickly changes hats, one of them being the witch hat from Little witch academia as well.

* BerserkButton: Shirou utterly despises any beastman co-operating with humans that have anti-beastman goals, having broken off the antlers of a deer beastman and the horn of a rhino beastman for their "treachery" against their own kind.

* WolfMan: Shirou is one, of the "actual anthropomorphic wolf" variety. Like the other beastpeople, he can shapeshift voluntarily into a human being. On top of his natural beastman strength and less natural immortality, he has a supernatural sense of smell that helps him track criminals.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Beastpeople are capable of shapeshifting themselves into human forms. Michiru takes this a step further by being able to completely alter her limbs, from stretching them out like a RubberMan to changing her legs into those of a cheetah's to run faster. Ironically, even after realizing she can do this she can't use it to go back to her human form [[spoiler:initially, and by the time she can she prefers the convenience her Tanuki form over trying to maintain it full time]].

** From Yoshinari's own ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia'', TheHero Akko can be seen from behind as a beastman, specifically her rabbit form in the ''Fountain Of Polaris'' episode. Her friend Lotte also appears as a beastman in one shot in the first episode. And like how Andrew was a non-magical human in the series, he can also be seen as a human arresting a beastman, although glasses obscure his eyes.

* IAmNotWeasel: Very literally. Mary Itani gets very angry when people call her a weasel; she is a ''mink''.

* {{Kitsune}}: [[spoiler: Nazuna, Michiru's old friend, display shape-shifting powers, with her base beast form being a fox. With her trickery of a wolf god cult for her own gains, this brings to mind the mystic animal's trickery.]]

* Kitsune: [[spoiler: Nazuna, Michiru's old friend, display shape-shifting powers, with her base beast form being a fox. With her trickery of a wolf god cult for her own gains, this brings to mind the mystic animal's trickery.]]

* BaseballEpisode: Much like Anime/{{FLCL}} before it, ''BNA'' features an episode where Michiru gets to show off impressive baseball moves and we get to discover that sports in Animacity are performed less for the thrill of it and more for the sake of gambling and organized crime.

** Literature/TheLittleMermaid: The resident MafiaPrincess, a dolphin beastman is enamored with the human world and collects trinkets that end up ashore of her beach house.

* TheLittleMermaid: The resident MafiaPrincess, a dolphin beastman is enamored with the human world and collects trinkets that end up ashore of her beach house.

* {{Tanuki}}: Well Michiru is a raccoon dog, for sure, and has some unusual shapeshifting abilities for a beastperson, but it's not clear if she's a {{Youkai}} or just some kind of weird beastperson.

* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Beastpeople are capable of shapeshifting themselves into human forms. Michiru takes this a step further by being able to completely alter her limbs, from stretching them out like a RubberMan to changing her legs into those of a cheetah's to run faster. Ironically, she as of yet doesn't have the ability to shapeshift back into her human form.

* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Beastpeople are capable of shapeshifting themselves into human forms. Michiru takes this a step further by being able to completely alter her limbs, from stretching them out like a RubberMan to changing her legs into those of a cheetah to run faster. Ironically, she as of yet doesn't have the ability to shapeshift back into her human form.

* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Beastpeople are capable of shapeshifting themselves into human forms. Michiru takes this a step further by being able to completely alter her limbs, from stretching them out like a RubberPerson to changing her legs into those of a cheetah to run faster. Ironically, she as of yet doesn't have the ability to shapeshift back into her human form.

* WolfMan: Shirou is one, of the "actual anthropomorphic wolf" variety. Like the other beastpeople, he can shapeshift voluntarily into a human being. On top of his natural beastman strength and less natural immortality, he has a supernatural sense of smell that helps him track criminals.

* BlandNameProduct: Human society's Facebook equivalent is called "Facelook".

Netflix has picked up the series for worldwide streaming and released the first six episodes on Netflix Japan in March 2020 ahead of its April TV airing on Fuji TV's +Ultra block. For another grittier take on anthromorphic life that also was picked up by Netflix and aired on +Ultra, compare and contrast Manga/{{Beastars}}.

In her search for the truth, Michiru finds herself tangled up with the denizens of Animacity, the re-appearance of her old friend Nazuna Hiwatashi, and the seemingly immortal Shirou Ogami. Not to mention she's just a little too powerful for a girl who only turned into a tanuki a year ago.