History Anime / BNABrandNewAnimal

* BaitAndSwitch: In the first episode, as soon as Michiru enters Anima City, it seems completely empty, and after a while she gets surrounded by menacing silhouettes with shining eyes. It appears she's going to get attacked, but it was actually the population of the city gathering in the plaza to celebrate the festival and have fun.

* CorporateConspiracy: Alan Sylvasta, the CEO of Sylvasta Pharmaceuticals, is actually a [[spoiler:pure-bred beastman who [[FantasticRacism despises the beastman "hybrids"]] who allow their DNA to become mixed, and plans to administer a vaccine that will turn all of the hybrids into humans without their consent]].

* AnimalsLackAttributes: Beastmen in beast form have their “bits” covered by fur or feathers. Seen with the short skirt-wearing flamingoes (though one whose feathers Michiru blows off is careful to cover herself, an subversion, as all birds have ''internal'' genitalia).

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: A rhino beastman has his horn broken off in a fight with Shirou, revealing a bone core. Rhino horns are made up of highly compressed hair and have no bone cores, unlike the horns of bovines, sheep, or antelopes.

* ProductionForeshadowing: The series features several shoutouts to Yoshinari's previous directoral work, ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia'' (such as a Luna Nova hat appearing at one point in episode 4 and an Akko nendoroid appearing on a desk at one point) and several of its characters make cameos in a few episodes, most notably in episode 9, which has Akko, Lotte and Sucy appear as Beastmen in a crowd shot at one point.

* ProductionForeshadowing: The series features several shoutouts to Yoshinari's previous directoral work, ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia'' (such as a Luna Nova hat appearing at one point in episode 4 and an Akko nendoroid appearing on a desk at one point) and several of it's characters make cameos in a few episodes, most notably in episode 9, which has Akko, Lotte and Sucy appear as Beastmen in a crowd shot at one point.

The series is distributed by Creator/{{Netflix}}, with Netflix Japan releasing the [[TwelveEpisodeAnime first and second halves]] of the show on March 21, 2020 and May 6, respectively; the series was released internationally on June 30. It also aired on Japanese television via Fuji TV's +Ultra block from April 8 to June 24. A light novel prequel, ''BNA Zero: The Animals That Can't be Brand New'', was released April 23, while a manga adaptation set between [[{{Interquel}} episodes 3 and 4]] began serialization in July.

** Dante's [[DarkAndTroubledPast backstory]] features him as [[spoiler: the first beastman to participate in a major league baseball team but faced never-ending discrimination, hatred and humiliation from both the fans and his own teammates. It's all too similar to how the first African American athletes, or athletes of color, were mistreated when they tried out for major sports teams]].

* CluelessAesop: One trope commonly found in antiracist stories involving FantasticRacism (e.g. ''Franchise/XMen'') rears its ugly head here. [[spoiler: By making Nirvasil Syndrome a real, naturally occurring phenomenon in Beastmen, it gives humans a ''much'' more valid reason to fear them than, say, a darker skinned human, undermining the idea of racism being irrational]].

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Beastmen have human forms, so it is therefore custom and practical for Anima City residents to spend most of their time in human form rather than have the city cater to every differing animal need. Given that multiple animals are obviously not bound for an equal playing field like uniform humans, assuming the Beastman form outside of certain circumstances is thus seen as aggressive or trying to gain an advantage in the city.
** When Nina gets trapped in the fish tank by her friend Lisa under the belief that a marine Beastman would need water to breathe, she starts to suffocate. Nina is a 'dolphin' Beastman and breathes air like any other mammal.
** [[spoiler: When Nazuna's true identity as a former human is revealed at her concert, the attending beastmen are appalled. No matter how well-intentioned you might have been, people are going to react badly if you appropriate an important figure in their religion, just so you can push your message.]]
** [[spoiler: Alan might be a far more powerful form of Beastman than Shirou and just as immortal, but Shirou has a thousand years more combat experience than he does. Once he runs out of ways to surprise Shirou the silver immortal is easily able to take him on through skill.]]
** [[spoiler:Alan, prejudiced against lesser races, believes that the special qualities of his beast form are for those who go through the same ritual Shirou (inadvertently) did with pure blood instead of mixed. Shirou demonstrates that even a "mongrel" like himself can learn how to use them just as well once introduced to the concept]].

* RealityEnsues:

* 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.

* BeastMan: The beastmen are treated as their own separate species, have animal-based powers, and can shapeshift into a human. Less commonly expected, most of them (except for Michiru) default to their human form.

* CluelessAesop: One trope commonly found in antiracist stories involving FantasticRacism (e.g. ComicBook/XMen) rears its ugly head here. [[spoiler: By making Nirvasil Syndrome a real, naturally occurring phenomenon in Beastmen, it gives humans a ''much'' more valid reason to fear them than, say, a darker skinned human, undermining the idea of racism being irrational]].

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* LostInTranslation: Nazuna's name is a palindrome, and this hints to her duplicitous nature. However, it only works that way in Japanese since it is a language made of syllables (Na-Zu-Na). In other languages, when she says she's "Anuzan" it comes off as a non-sequitur and she being quirky for the sake of it.

** Human society's Facebook equivalent is called "Facelook". Though its interface is almost a carbon copy of Instagram, and having stars instead of hearts for "likes" reminds of early Twitter, before it replaced stars with hearts too.

** Budweiser Beer has been replaced by "Bad Walrus Beer".

* AnimalsLackAttributes: Beastmen in beast form have their “bits” covered by fur or feathers. Seen with the short skirt-wearing flamingoes (though one whose feathers Michiru blows off is careful to cover herself, an subversion, as all birds have ''internal'' genitalia)

* PowerCopying: Michiru uses her PartialShapeshifting this way, mimicking traits of other beastmen she's encountered to borrow their abilities. There are strong hints that it's something of an AdaptiveAbility that works best [[CentipedesDilemma when she's not thinking about what she's doing]] the first time she tries a particular transformation, with it being much easier to figure out [[HowDoIShotWeb how to do that on purpose]] afterward.

* TanukiKitsuneContrast: Tomboyish Michiru became a raccoon dog while [[spoiler: her [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl girlier]] friend Nazuna ]] turned into a fox. Their approaches to mastering their transformation abilities have also reflected [[TechnicianVersusPerformer the typical styles of their mythical counterparts]]. The former has struggled with conscious control while intuitively inventing partial transformations as needed, while the latter seems to find sculpting total transformations easier, but lacks Michiru's versatility and inventiveness.

** Word-for-word. Mary Itani gets very angry when people call her a weasel; she is a ''mink''. It gets to the point where she'll angrily correct Michiru before she even has the chance to greet her.

* InnocentBigot: Michiru constantly refers to her becoming a beastman as a "disease" that needs to be cured in front of several beastmen and -women, and doesn't ''once'' stop to think about how that [[FantasticRacism might come across]] to people who were born as such. Even [[spoiler:Nazuna]] is confused by her referring to the situation as this.

** [[spoiler: When Nazuna's true identity as a former human is revealed at her concert, the attending beastmen are appalled. No matter how well well-intentioned you might have been, people are going to react badly if you appropriate an important figure in their religion, just so you can push your message.]]