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Michiru Kagemori

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Voiced by: Sumire Morohoshi (Japanese), Cherami Leigh (English), Monserrat Mendoza (Latin American Spanish), Laura Cherubelli (Italian)

The main protagonist of the series. An Ordinary Highschool Student who transformed into a Tanuki-Beastman under mysterious circumstances. She originally came to Anima City to find a cure for her "disease".

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• Adaptive Ability: Most of Michiru's animal themed powers seem to awaken whenever she or a friend are in mortal peril. In Episode 4, she created her gorilla Power Fist to save Nina from an aquarium tank and in Episode 7 she grew bird wings to save Shirou from falling.
• All-Loving Hero: She may be a bit blunt at times, but she's a genuinely good person who tries to help out wherever she can.
• Ambiguously Gay: Michiru's sexuality is never brought up, but she seems to care deeply for Nazuna. They even have their own song, that song being the ending credit song, Night Runner.
• Audience Surrogate: A newcomer both to the city and to being a Beastman who frequently needs things explained to her. Also appears more human in her beast form to be more relatable.
• Bad Liar: She at first attempts to convince people that she's a raccoon, not a raccoon dog. The lie falls apart almost immediately, as Shirou points out that racoons have stripes on their tails. She doesn't.
• Brutally Honest: Michiru doesn't really mince words. If she thinks someone's shady she'll say it outright, no matter the circumstances.
• Cassandra Truth: Nobody believes her claim that she used to be human until recently. She has to show Shirou her student id, which was taken when she wasn't a beastman for him to finally believe her.
• Can't Stay Normal: Downplayed in that she "unlocks" her human form in episode 4. She still chooses to return to Anima City and remain as a beastman currently after an eventful trip to the mainland, because she feels she needs to learn more about beastmen.
• Cartoony Tail: From episode 1 she's been able to fluff out her tail enough to act as a crash cushion or conceal multiple beastmen.
• Chameleon Camouflage: In episode 9, she can turn part chameleon which allows her to become invisible. Although her clothes remain visible.
• Character Development: At the start of the series, Michiru is only focused on becoming human again and doesn't want to be associated with beastmen. As the episodes progress, Michiru starts to develop respect and appreciation for the beastmen in Anima City and realizes how they're admirable in their own ways. In episode 12, when the Big Bad Alan devises an unethical plan to convert all beastmen into humans, she spits on his ideals and professes that beastmen shouldn't be forced to change who they are.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: She seems compelled to leap to protect those in danger, and many of her powers emerge when trying to save someone. Though as Nazuna points out, she doesn't always think before jumping in.
• Curtains Match the Window: Has blue eyes and hair while in tanuki form.
• Damsel in Distress: Michiru has a bit of a habit of getting herself into perilous situations she can't pull herself out of. In the first episode alone she has to be rescued three separate times.
• Didn't Think This Through: One of Michiru's flaws is that she always jumps into action without thinking of the consequences or if anyone will disagree with her beliefs. This is something that her friend Nazuna claims that Michiru always had when they were human.
• Disney Death: The ending of episode 11 has her being bitten by Shirou during his berserk mode. Thankfully the bite wasn't fatal, and Michiru was only knocked out for a short period.
• "Do It Yourself" Theme Tune: Sings the opening theme, "Ready To".
• Expy:
  • Michiru shares many traits with Akko Kagari, another Yoh Yoshinari heroine. Both are newcomers to a fantastical new culture, are genuinely well-meaning but often hampered by their impulsiveness, specialize in shapeshifting powers, have a diametrically-opposed rival character, and were accidentally victimized by a vital, secretive aspect of the setting's background. Michiru even dons a Luna Nova Academy witch hat at one point.
  • Downplayed example, but Michiru also shares most of the above traits with Ryuko Matoi, the only differences being Ryuko is just far more impulsive but can't shapeshift. Also, just like Ryuko, Michiru is "best of both worlds", being both human and beastman (while Ryuko is both human and fiber).
• Fatal Flaw: Impulsiveness. Michiru rarely thinks before she acts, which gets her into all kinds of trouble quite often. Nazuna even calls her out on it several times:
  • Michiru heads to the medical center once she hears that there's a bomb nearby, and will hear no arguments to the contrary. Once she actually gets there, it's clear that Michiru has no idea what she's doing, and quickly gets cornered.
  • She tears apart medical equipment once it looks like Nazuna has been kidnapped by the Sylvasta Corporation. Not only did Nazuna come of her own free will, but she was just getting an MRI, and she proceeds to verbally tear into Michiru for her Chronic Hero Syndrome. This also puts Michiru face-to-face with Alan Sylvasta, who uses this to his advantage by manipulating Michiru into believing that he's a good guy.
• Freak Lab Accident: Or rather freak "hospital" accident. After the incident when she and Nazuna got hit by a car, the blood transfused into her turned out to be beastman blood accidentally mixed with batches of normal human blood used by the Sylvasta Corporation.
• Friend to All Children: She gets along greatly with the orphaned kids at Rabbit Town and has a sibling like relationship with Jackie.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: The tiny girl to Shirou's huge guy.
• I Am Not Weasel: Inverted. She at first tries to insist that she's not a tanuki, but a raccoon. When Shirou easily sees through her lie, she complains that she doesn't like tanukis.
• I Choose to Stay:
  • As of episode 4 she's able to turn back into her human form, but chooses to stay in Anima City anyway in order to find out more about Beastmen.
  • In episode 12, she decides to stay for good, stating that Nazuna and her are the only people in the city that know how it feels like to be both human and beastman.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Michiru's motivation for the first few episodes is to find a cure for whatever it was that turned her into a Beastman, so she can go back to living a normal life.
• Innocent Bigot: Despite currently being one, Michiru still shows the occasional prejudice against Beastmen, though it's more ignorance towards their society than genuine malice. One example of this is her referring to her transformation into a Beastman as a "disease" and showing slight disgust at the thought of having to stay a Beastman forever. She actually acknowledges this in episode 9, shamefully admitting that she only ever saw her transformation as a bad thing and at first made no effort to understand beastmen.
• Leeroy Jenkins: She has a very, very strong tendency to charge headlong into every situation, regardless of whether or not she understands what's going on. This generally requires Shiou or someone else to step in to save her since she's not very good in a fight.
• Limited Wardrobe: Having run away from home with only the clothes on her back, Michiru spends the entire series wearing dark blue-and-green track shorts, a white tank top, a black sports bra, and a red sports jacket.
• Little Bit Beastly: She's noticeably more anthropomorphic than other beastmen. While regular beastmen transform fully into animals when shifting to their true form, Michiru only gets ears, paws, small snout and a tail while the rest of her stays pretty much the same save for having a lot more fur.
• The Load: For all her useful shape-shifting abilities, she still has no combat skills to speak of, and is pretty much useless in a fight. She gets better, though; by episode 10, Shirou makes absolutely no objections when she is willing to help him in a fight.
• Lovable Jock: Used to be part of her school's basketball team and still plays when she gets the chance, is pretty good at baseball, and is a pretty nice person. That said, once she sees the other team engaging in some Unsportsmanlike Gloating, she's quick to give it her all and turn their words back on them.
• Male Gaze: Downplayed, but still present. In the earlier parts of the show, whenever attention is drawn to her tail the shot typically has her butt sticking out towards the camera.
• Meaningful Name: Her last name Kagemori (影森) uses two kanji, 影 meaning shape/form and 森 meaning forest. The former references her Voluntary Shapeshifting ability while the latter might relate to evolutionary trees or the tree of life. A nod to how Michiru can obtain the form of any given animal.
• Morality Pet: Eventually becomes one to Shirou, who near the end stops himself from killing Alan after looking at Michiru worried about what he was going to do.
• The Nose Knows: In episode 11, she gives herself a super sniffer that's as powerful as Shirou's.
• Ordinary Highschool Student: Michiru used to be a normal, human schoolgirl before her sudden transformation into a Beastman.
• Partial Transformation: Most of her “forms” only change a couple parts of her body like gorilla arms or cheetah legs. Only her human, bird and chameleon forms are full-body transformations.
• Passionate Sports Girl: Michiru loves sports and exercising. In the past, she dreamed of being a famous basketball star and in the present she is the official pitcher for the Bears baseball team.
• Quantity vs. Quality: Michiru has displayed many more abilities with her shapechanging than Nazuna, while Nazuna has better control over her shapeshifting and displayed fewer but more impressive transformations.
• Power Fist: In episode 4, Michiru is able to make her hands resemble that of a gorilla's which gives her a boost in physical strength.
• Power Gives You Wings: In episode 7, she unlocks the ability to grow wings in a desperate attempt to save Shirou and herself from falling.
• Red Is Heroic: She wears a red sports jacket and is the main heroine of the story.
• Rubber Man: In episode 2, she's able to stretch out her arms to incredible lengths.
• The Runaway: She ran away from home when she learned about Anima City and chooses not make contact with her family and friends.
• Scary Teeth: In Episode 12, Michiru transforms her teeth into fangs out of rage at Alan revealing he was behind the conspiracy all along. Alan mockingly calls her scary and asks if she's going to bite him.
• Shapeshifter Default Form: Unlike other beastmen, while she later on figures out how to transform into her original human form, her default form is her beast one. She comments that taking human form feels like wearing high heels: it's just not comfortable for long.
• Shapeshifter Mode Lock: She's stuck in her tanuki form for months before the series starts because she doesn't know how to transform into a human mode. It's not until after she comes to Anima City that she's able to switch back to being human.
• The Shut-In: After transforming into a tanuki beastman, she spent several months in her room in fear of discrimination.
• Super-Hearing: In episode 3, her ears grow long and rabbitlike while trying to overhear a distant conversation.
• Superpower Lottery: As the series progresses, Michiru gains new animal themed power ups.
• Super-Speed: In episode 5, she unlocks the ability to run incredibly fast by giving herself the legs of a cheetah.
• Tanuki: A Tanuki-Beastman to be exact, with all the shape-shifting powers typically associated with the animal in Japanese folklore. She initially tries to pass herself off as a raccoon instead, but it's quickly pointed out that her tail doesn't have enough rings.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: She's appalled by the beastmen's cavalier attitude towards violence and murder, and tries to promote this belief onto the other beastmen. When she joined the Bears' baseball team, she made it a condition that neither of them could kill, or even harm, their opponents.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: the tomboy to Nazuna’s girly girl.
• Took a Level in Badass: Came to Anima City as an easily fooled Naïve Newcomer, but becomes a powerful shape-shifter by episode 2 and gains almost full control of her powers by episode 5.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: As a tanuki, which are often portrayed as shapeshifters in Japanese folklore, she has the power to change her shape at will. This goes so far as to make her able to fully imitate other animals' traits and abilities, for example cheetah legs for speed, rabbit ears for better hearing, and bird wings to fly.
• The Watson: As the new girl in Anima City, Michiru is often on the receiving end of exposition.
• Was Once a Man: She was once a human being before she suddenly turned into what she is now.
• What the Hell, Hero?:
  • In episode 2 she's furious at Shirou for waiting until the last minute to rescue her and the beastchildren as they were close to being shipped off. She even points out that she knew that he was aware of the situation but didn't even warn them before their lives were endangered.
  • She stops Shirou from breaking the medical equipment administering the beastman-vaccine in episode 10, calling him out on his extreme Black-and-White Morality and for just assuming every Beastman would rather be killed as a beastman than try to live as a human among humans.

Shirou Ogami

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Voiced by: Yoshimasa Hosoya (Japanese), Ben Diskin (English), Pablo Mejía (Latin American Spanish), Mattia Bressan (Italian)

The deuteragonist of the series. A wolf-beastman who works as a social worker and occasionally as a Special Task Agent for Anima City's mayor.

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• Badass Longcoat: Part of his signature outfit.
• Bait-and-Switch: When Michiru first runs into him, we get the impression that he's fully The Stoic and a serious guy, only for him to immediately shed Manly Tears and act as quite the Manchild. From then on, a good number of his appearances have him pretty deadpan and edgy, only to be a source of humor due to both being The Comically Serious and rather quirky.
• Berserk Button:
  • Beastmen who sell themselves out to humans, due to humanity's Fantastic Racism towards Beastmen.
  • Alan Sylvasta and Sylvasta Pharmaceuticals in general tend to get him riled up, because of their shady experiments on beastmen and their foggy motives. It's slight foreshadowing of Alan's identity as the descendant of the general who killed Shirou one thousand years ago.
• Big Brother Instinct: Develops this towards Michiru over the course of the series. He tries to keep her out of trouble as best as he can and often takes care of the messy stuff behind the scenes of her usual wacky adventures so she won't get in serious trouble.
• Black-and-White Insanity: At the start of the series, he was uncompromising in his belief that Humans and Beastmen working with humans are bad without exception, though he grows out of it through getting to know Michiru.
• But Not Too Foreign: Despite his Japanese name, his origins were in an Eastern European city that was destroyed by the Byzantines.
• Came Back Strong: Not only did he survive having his head cut off, but he's absorbed the blood of two thousand other beastmen, which made him into the immortal Silver Wolf.
• Collared by Fashion: He wears a black dog collar around his neck. It covers up the scar that he got from being beheaded and resurrected.
• Cool and Unusual Punishment: The punishments he inflicts onto beastmen who have betrayed their kind involve breaking the appendages of a criminal's beast form. (Ex. In Episode 1, he broke the antlers of a deer beastman with his own two hands).
• Dark and Troubled Past: An army of humans slaughtered him and the entire city of Nirvasil one thousand years ago. After being thrown into the same pit as 2,000 other dead beastmen, he was resurrected as Silver Wolf and went on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge trying to find the general who lead the attack, killing dozens of humans in the process. After he couldn't find the general, he realized Vengeance Feels Empty and dedicated his life to protecting beastmen instead.
• Despair Event Horizon: Seeing all the beastmen around him first succumb to Nirvasil Syndrome and then getting shot down by anti-beastmen-drones finally causes him to snap. His despair of not being able to save them triggers the Nirvasil Syndrome in him and not even Michiru is able to snap him out of it.
• Deuteragonist: Though Michiru's personal story is the main focus, Shirou's backstory and powers are almost as integral to the plot. Were it not for him, Michiru would not have been able to succeed.
• Doomed Hometown: Nirvasil, a city of beastmen in Eastern Europe, that was destroyed by the Byzantines in the 10th century.
• Exhausted Eyebags: He has these under his eyes.
• Fantastic Racism: He was one of the Beastmen who retreated to a settlement because of his distaste for humans. When the city's populace died and he was changed into Silver Wolf, he blamed humanity and spent years killing them before becoming a shadowy figure of legend. In the modern day, he makes no bones about his beliefs in the inherent brutality of humans. It takes the entire series working with Michiru to allow him to accept the idea of humans living in Anima City.
• Good Old Fisticuffs: His primary method of fighting, particularly on beastmen working with humans (not worth his claws).
• Healing Factor: Due to being a Physical God, he can recover from pretty much any injury.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: He ends up becoming a wanted criminal by the law after he destroys the Medical Center equipment and tries to attack Alan Sylvasta.
• Heroic Spirit: An interesting example occurs in episode 12. It's thanks to the 2,000 beastmen souls residing in Shirou who motivate the wolfman to continue fighting for the sake of beatmankind.
• Howl of Sorrow: He gives one when he thinks he killed Michiru. It actually becomes a source of hope as the heroes' broadcast his howls to calm the rioting beastmen.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: The huge guy to to Michiru's tiny girl.
• Hybrid Power: Almost all Beastmen are hybrids, born from crosses of different species with one species Beast Factor being dominant and choosing what kind of Beastman their child will be. After dying, Shirou absorbed the blood of at least a thousand other Beastmen, transforming him into Silver Wolf. He's immortal and monstrously strong. He's also able to overpower the supposedly superior pure breed Wolf Beastman Alan. It's also probably the reason why his howls in particular force other species that shouldn't howl naturally to do so alongside him.
• If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: He very nearly kills Alan, but he holds back after seeing Michiru staring at him from the side, so he chooses to let Alan bite his arm harshly just to cure his then-Nirvasil Syndrome using his blood, which had been mixed with Michiru's blood to produce antibodies against the syndrome.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He can be rude, insensitive and quick to judge someone, but he's at heart a kind man who wants to see his people prosper.
• Light Is Good: He has white hair, dresses in a very light brown coat and strives to protect all beastmen. Plays this even more straight when he turns into Silver Wolf, as his entire body is engulfed in light in that form.
• Lightning Bruiser: He's strong enough to take on beastmen twice his size, fast enough to dodge bullets, and tough enough that falling from a skyscraper, his body smashing into several things along the way before finally stopping, causes some bleeding but no serious injuries. He's even more overpowered as Silver Wolf. It takes him only two attacks to kill a mutated Yaba, who had previously wiped the floor with him when he was in his regular wolf form.
• Made of Iron: He can fall from a skyscraper, barely get hurt, and walk it off with a grunt afterwards. This is because becoming the Silver Wolf gave him an “immortal body” — not only does he not age, but he heals rapidly from any harm he takes, no matter how fatal.
• Manchild: His comically cool persona does a good job of hiding it, but he's pretty childish when it comes to some things. He has a rather black and white view of what and who is good or bad and his desire to protect all beastmen often makes his viewpoints extremely biased and his actions short-sighted. The first thing he did after finding out Michiru was telling the truth about having been a human once, was to lock her into a closet against her will and refuse to let her out, so Anima City and the beastmen living in it won't be targeted by humans who are afraid of catching the same "disease" as Michiru. Then again, seeing as Alan Sylvasta shows a suspicious amount of interest in Michiru's powers, he was probably being Properly Paranoid to want to keep it secret.
• Manly Tears: His first scene shows him stoically shedding Tears of Joy as he watches the Anima City festival along with all the beastmen being in absolute harmony.
• Meaningful Name: Shirou (士郎) is a masculine name and sounds like the word for white (白, shiro). It's also a homophone to 白狼 (shirou, white wolf). Ogami (大神) means god or deity which hints at his real identity, the Wolf God Silver Wolf.
• My God, What Have I Done?: In episode 12, he snaps out of his berserk mode and realizes that Michiru is "dead" because of him. This causes him to howl in despair.
• Mystical White Hair: His fur and human hair are white and episode 8 reveals that he's the actual Silver Wolf Silver Wolf.
• Noble Wolf: A humanoid wolf who wants to protect his people more than anything. Dialed up to eleven when its revealed he's Silver Wolf, an immortal demigod.
• No-Sell: Low level mooks don't stand a chance against him.
• The Nose Knows: Shirou is gifted with an incredible sniffer that allows him to detect the presence, and past activity, of any beastman that he's after. Within Anima City, his sense of smell is counted as evidence in criminal investigations.
• Perpetual Frowner: Very, very, very rarely smiles, to the point he comes across as a jerkass any time Michiru is being nice to him.
• Really 700 Years Old: He was killed and resurrected as Silver Wolf one thousand years ago and hasn't aged a day since then.
• Scars Are Forever: His neck has been scarred for a thousand years.
• Super-Strength: Not many really bat an eye at how strong this wolfman is.
• Vengeance Feels Empty: Came to this conclusion after killing an entire army of humans, but failing to find their general who was his actual target.
• Weak, but Skilled:
  • There are beastmen whose beast forms are a lot physically stronger than his, but he still manages to wipe the floor with them because he's just that skilled in close combat.
  • His Silver Wolf form isn't as strong as Alan's pure-bred Cerberus form, but as Shirou himself puts it, he hasn't survived that long by relying on raw power alone. In the end it's his experience in combat that allows him to overpower and defeat Alan.
• When He Smiles: When he's genuinely smiling, he doesn't look half as scary.
• With Friends Like These...: Even with his Big Brother Instinct, he keeps leaving Michiru in situations where she could get killed or otherwise harmed. She calls him out on his last-minute saves after having nearly been sold off to slavery by Gram Grandma and choked to death by her bodyguard.
• Wolf Man: He is a beastman whose true form is a wolf. And who can transform into an actual wolf when he becomes Silver Wolf.
• Wolverine Claws: His claws are retractable and he often bares them during combat.
• Would Hit a Girl: Shirou has no qualms about hitting beastwomen if they are criminals who have harmed their own race.

Silver Wolf Order

The Silver Wolf

Known as Ginrou (銀狼) in the Japanese version. The Silver Wolf is an ancient being that is revered by all beastmen as their God. The Silver Wolf is said to be a merciful deity who comes to beastmen during times of crisis.

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• A Dog Named "Dog": His Japanese name, Ginrou, means silver wolf. The Netflix dub outright changes his name to the Silver Wolf.
• Dub Name Change: His name was changed from Ginrou to a literal translation of his name in the Netflix dub.
• God Is Good: The Silver Wolf has a strong reputation as a benevolent being who helps any troubled beastman.
• Kill All Humans: After his genesis, the Silver Wolf went on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge killing any humans who got in his way or have hurt his beastman brethren. He only decided to stop killing them when he realized how their bloodshed felt hollow.
• Light Is Good: The Silver Wolf's coat is silver-white and is a good-natured God.
• Merger of Souls: Born when Shirou and over 2,000 other beastmen were killed by human invaders and their spirits flowed into Shirou's body.
• Physical God: He's physical enough that the first reference to him was Michiru catching sight of him watching over the festival during her arrival at Anima City, long before she heard of him. Made a tad more complicated by Nazuna posing as them to take advantage of his believers while he apparently does nothing. This is because he prefers to live among the beastmen he protects as Shirou, who wasn't always a "god".
• Really 700 Years Old: The legend of the Silver Wolf has been around for more than a thousand years.
• Soul-Powered Engine: The Silver Wolf was born when Shirou's soul combined with the 2,000+ beastmen souls that were killed by the human invaders.

Déesse Louve

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^{Click here to see her in her fox form}

Voiced by: Maria Naganawa (Japanese), Xanthe Huynh (English), Alicia Vélez (Latin American Spanish)

The mystical guru of the Silver Wolf Order, claiming to be the Silver Wolf itself. Her human identity is Nazuna Hiwatashi, Michiru's friend who was abducted after her beastman transformation. Though she pretends to be a wolf beastman, she’s actually a shapeshifting fox.

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• Acquired Situational Narcissism: it's implied that quite a bit of her less noble behavior is the result of finding herself living out her dream of being a beloved Idol Singer immediately after becoming a social outcast, and rationalizing away anything that threatens that situation.
• Ambiguous Situation: In episode 12, someone took a picture of her helping a lost beastchild during the Nyrvasil Syndrome outbreak which resulted in Nazuna becoming a spokesperson/idol for Anima City afterwards. No one knew who took the video but Michiru believes that Nazuna may have done it intentionally.
• Anti-Villain: As scary and intimidating as she can be, Nazuna genuinely wants to help the citizens of Anima City by pretending to be the Silver Wolf. Too bad for her that it blows up in her face once Nazuna lets her ego get the best of her.
• Asian Fox Spirit: Her true beastman form is of a fox. It's quite appropriate since Nazuna's powers are based on illusions and shapeshifting, which allude to the fox spirits of Japanese folklore.
• Bilingual Bonus: French-speaking viewers might notice that Nazuna's alias, Déesse Louve, is not technically a name, but the feminine French words for 'god' and 'wolf', literally translating to 'wolf goddess'. Rather fitting for her divine savior persona as the false Silver Wolf.
• Character Catchphrase: "Be the best beastman you can be." Doubles as an in-universe Forced Meme.
• "Do It Yourself" Theme Tune: She's shown singing the closing theme, "Night Running".
• Fatal Flaw: Pride. At some point, choosing to be the Silver Wolf was more about her own ego and need for attention than it was about giving hope to the suffering residents of Anima City. However, she does eventually snap out of it once she realizes that she's at least partly responsible for helping spread Nyrvasil Syndrome.
• Freak Lab Accident: The same case as with Michiru.
• Foxy Vixen: Downplayed, even though she is very pretty in her fox beastwomen form.
• Going Commando: When she first arrives in Anima City, she's wearing nothing but a cloak to facilitate a quick transformation into her wolf-god form.
• I Just Want to Be Special: When she was just a human, Nazuna dreamed of being a popular idol. But now she's willing to go along with being the guru of the Silver Wolf Order if it means that she'll be praised and worshiped by everyone.
• I Owe You My Life: She feels indebted to Boris Cliff, because he was the one who helped her with managing her powers after being abducted and provided her the opportunity of being adored and worshiped as the Silver Wolf Maiden.
• Idol Singer: She gets to live out her idol dream by performing on stage for Anima City.
• In the Hood: Her main uniform has one.
• Insistent Terminology:
  • After their confrontation at the end of episode 6, she demands Michiru call her Déesse Louve from now on and gets very irritated whenever Michiru instead refers to her as Nazuna.
  • Inverted in the show's finale. After she meets Boris again during the riot and he calls her Déesse Louve, she angrily corrects him, saying her name isn't Déesse Louve but Nazuna.
• It's All About Me:
  • While she makes a strong point to Mayor Rose about how the Silver Wolf Society acts as a Hope Bringer to Beast-Men and that since the Silver Wolf probably doesn't even exist she's the next best thing, she basically admits to Michiru that she's mainly leading them since she sees it as the next best thing to being an idol, which is what she wanted to be before she turned into a Beast-Man.
  • There's also her cooperation with Medi-Cal to turn her back into a human. The whole time she and Sylvesta explain why she was taking part in their research, she goes about how they can turn her back into a human instead of her and Michiru and she never even told Michiru after learning she was in the same boat, implying that she was prioritizing herself over her friend. Michiru actually picks up on this and calls her out on it, with Nazuna's only defense being that it was top secret despite Sylvesta fully acknowledging that Michiru had every right to know.
• Jerkass Has a Point:
  • She rightfully points out to Mayor Rose that even though she may not be the real Silver Wolf, the possibility of a real Silver Wolf existing is minimal at best. And while the role she plays may be fake, the hope instilled in the hearts of the Beastmen who look up to her isn't and Anima City is desperately in need of some hope.
  • Condescension and shady behavior aside, she's technically right when she says she never asked Michiru to help her or introduce her to the Mayor. With the ever-rising popularity of the Silver Wolf Order, the mayor would have had to see her eventually, making Michiru's intervention slightly more convenient at best. She also never told Michiru she would quit her Silver Wolf-role as soon as the mayor heard her out or that Boris was overworking her, so Michiru shouldn't have assumed as much in the first place.
• Master of Illusion: Fittingly for a kitsune, her powers revolve around Glamour and more fine control over her shapeshifting, allowing her to pretend to be a wolf beastman with the capacity to assume full animal form.
• Meaningful Name: The characters for "Nazuna" (なずな) are a palindrome in Japanese, ie, they read the same backwards as forwards. It's an appropriate name for a duplicitous fox who hides behind multiple identities and cons.
  • Her alias, Déesse Louve, translates to 'wolf goddess' in French, which fits her divine savior persona as the faux Silver Wolf.
• Must Make Amends: After realizing how her lie resulted in the Nyrvasil Syndrome breakout, Nazuna offers her help to the heroes however she can to save the beastmen population from being killed.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Has this reaction when she realizes her lie about being Silver Wolf contributed to the Nirvasil-Syndrome-breakout.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: She genuinely thinks that pretending to be Silver Wolf will provide hope to Anima City and help it out of its rut, but at some point it became more about her own ego and need for attention. Downplayed in that she still cares about the Order, though. She snaps out of it when she realizes how much she's put them in danger.
• Power Fist: She grows a fist similar to Michiru's Gorilla Fist to keep Boris away from her.
• Power Gives You Wings: Her shapeshifting allows her to create heavenly wings when she transforms into the Silver Wolf. Mayor Rose deduces that she added them to "Silver Wolf's" image in order to make herself look more dazzling to the public.
• Quantity vs. Quality: Nazuna has displayed fewer transformations than Michiru, but the forms she takes are more visually dazzling than her tanuki friend's.
• Recurring Element: Her Déesse Louve attire contains the same star symbol used in many Studio TRIGGER productions.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech:
  • Gives a downplayed one to Mayor Rose, calling her out for her hypocrisy in culminating a legend to keep the Beastmen under control, but balking up when someone else uses that very same legend to give the citizens of Anima City hope.
  • Michiru gets a pretty harsh one from her a few moments later. Nazuna calls her out on having made premature assumptions about her and the Silver Wolf Order and then being disappointed when it turns out none of them were correct, such as jumping to the conclusion that Nazuna was overworking herself and being forced into the guru-role by Boris when that couldn't be further from the truth.
• Tanuki/Kitsune Contrast: Nazuna and Michiru play this straight with their dynamic, the former being the prideful, longer-haired, and more aloof Girly Girl to Michiru's Tomboy. In addition, Nazuna is initially set up as The Rival to Michiru after her episode debut, in line with the portrayal of kitsune and tanuki in Japanese folklore as fated rivals. This aspect of the trope is ultimately subverted; as the two spend more time with each other, they rekindle their friendship and trust for each other like before.
• That Man Is Dead: She tells Michiru that she's no longer Nazuna but the Silver Wolf Maiden Déesse Louve. Gets a Meaningful Echo later when she makes it clear to Boris that her name is Nazuna, not Déesse Louve.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: the girly girl to Michiru's tomboy.
• Ungrateful Bitch: While she's not exactly wrong, the fact that she never even thanks Michiru for setting up a meeting between her and Mayor Rose and calls her out for looking out for her, which she interprets as Michiru looking down on her and forcing her views on her, is still needlessly cruel and is a sign that she's letting the power go to her head.
• Unwitting Pawn: To Alan Sylvasta. He used her and the Silver Wolf Order to gain power in Anima City and rev up the emotions of the beastmen living within it to trigger the Nirvasil Syndrome at her concert.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: As part of her guru shtick, Nazuna can transform into a giant white wolf in order to fool the public into believing that she is the reincarnation of Silver Wolf. She also has a white wolf beastman form in addition to her "natural" pink fox form and an angelic Winged Humanoid form.
• Walking Spoiler: Much about her isn't known until halfway through the series.
• We Used to Be Friends: Subverted. It initially seems Nazuna has been corrupted by power and become an egomaniacal cult leader who looks down on Michiru, but as it turns out she hasn't completely abandoned her morality and wants to be friends with Michiru again.

Boris Cliff

Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu (Japanese), Griffin Puatu (English), Ricardo Tejedo (Latin American Spanish)

The leader of the Silver Wolf Order and Déesse Louve's trainer. He dreams of bringing in as many beastmen as possible into his cult.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: Michiru frequently warns Nazuna about how creepy he is for his constant devotion to the latter. In episode 12, this comes full force he openly confesses his twisted love towards Nazuna and chases after her, much to her disgust. Even worse when his Beastman form is revealed.
• Animal Eyes: A moment of foreshadowing as to his true nature occurs in Episode 6, where a close-up of his right eye shows he has vertically-slitted pupils, a nictitating membrane, and scale-like patterns around his eye.
• Bad Samaritan: He and his armada first appeared in the Slums of Anima City and offered to provide help for those who are willing to convert. For beastmen living in impoverished conditions and having to deal with gangsters and hooligans, joining a cult would be a huge improvement for their livelihoods. It turns out he was just playing the part of the devoted Silver Wolf-follower, as he's actually one of Alan Sylvasta's lackeys and betrays Nazuna in episode 11 by outing her as a human when she herself refuses to do it.
• Cool Mask: He wears a wolf mask that covers the top of his face.
• Foreshadowing: When he meets with Yaba, the musical score changes to sound like a snake's hissing.
• No Sense of Personal Space: He has a gross habit of getting extra close to Nazuna while touching her hair and face. She even calls him out on this in episode 9.
• Orochi: Episode 12 shows him to be a big multi-headed snake monster, with an... unhealthy obsession with one young lady.
• Reptiles Are Abhorrent: Heavily implied. There's a brief scene that shows his eyes have slitted pupils and blink the same way a snake would. Later on confirmed in episode 12, in which it's revealed he's a horrible snake-like monster.
• Sinister Minister: He has a reverend-type personality and is running a suspicious cult. He's also secretly on Sylvasta Pharmaceutical's payroll.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: His last scene features him howling alongside the beastmen in the streets but there's no mention of what becomes of him aftewards.

Anima City

Barbara Rose

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Voiced by: Gara Takashima (Japanese), Cindy Robinson (English), Gabriela Guzmán (Latin American Spanish)

The mayor and founder of Anima City. She's Shriou's employer and is one of the few people who know about Michiru's 'disease'.

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• Bald of Authority: She is the wise and intelligent mayor of Anima City. She appears as a bald woman most of the time because she's really a naked mole-rat, a completely hairless type of animal.
• Classy Cane: Is always seen with a silver cane. Episode 11 shows that she doesn't really need it.
• Dark and Troubled Past: She was thrown into a concentration camp during World War II, where she would have been experimented on by the human scientists, had Shirou not come to her rescue as Silver Wolf.
• I Gave My Word: Despite how suspicious and potentially dangerous the Silver Wolf Order is, Barbara allows them to stay as denying them would go against Anima City's promise of being a welcome haven for all beastmen.
• Long-Lived: As a naked mole rat beastman, she is implied to be very long-lived. She was born before World War II, and in episode 12 she and Shiro (who is immortal) comment that they still have much time to fix Anima City.
• Ms. Exposition: She informs Michiru, and the audience, about the genetic history of the Beastmen and informs Shirou about new cases every episode.
• The Needs of the Many: She somberly agrees to dismantle Anima City after looking through Alan's theory about the Nirvasil Syndrome and how it will endanger the beastman popululation. That doesn't mean she likes having to go through with it.
• Punny Name: "Bara" means "rose" in Japanese.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: She's the highest power in Anima City and does her best to make living for the beastmen in it as safe and pleasant as possible.
• Science Hero: She's very educated regarding Beastman genetics and Beastman culture and is firmly on the heroes' side. She’s the first beastman to ever earn a doctorate.
• Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: Averted. Barbara's name and voice are the only characteristics that indicate that she's a beastwoman.
• Weird Science: She has a PhD in Beastman genetics.

Koichi Ishizaki

Voiced by: Kenji Nomura (Japanese), Tom Bromhead (English), Esteban Desco (Latin American Spanish)

The secretary of Mayor Rose.

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• Big Damn Heroes: He comes just in time to aid Mayor Rose's escape from the Prime Minister's house in episode 11.
• Number Two: To Mayor Rose.
• Out of Focus: Has the least amount of screentime as of yet.

Melissa and Gem Horner

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Melissa voiced by: Kimiko Saito (Japanese), Laura Post (English), Rommy Mendoza (Latin American Spanish)

Gem voiced by: Hiroshi Yanaka (Japanese), Keith Silverstein (English), René García (Latin American Spanish)

A social worker couple that run the Beastman Co-Op. They are also the pseudo-landlords of Michiru and Shirou, who reside in their building.

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• Chubby Mama, Skinny Papa: Melissa is the chubby to Gem's skinny and they both take on a parental role to Michiru.
• Cock-a-Doodle Dawn: Gem enjoys crowing when the sun rises.
• Happily Married: They bicker every now and then, but they're a happily married and healthy couple.
• Hidden Depths: Melissa and Gem are firm believers in the Silver Wolf. Melissa hand-makes safety charms in his honor and Gem created his own picture book dedicated to the deity's legend.
• Idiot Hair: They each have their own ahoges.
• Interspecies Romance: Downplayed. They're both beastmen but Melissa is of wombat origin while Gem is of rooster origin.
• Shout-Out: There's a certain irony that a chicken-man looks a lot like the founder/mascot of KFC.

Kuro

Shirou's pet bird and partner. He's a regular bird, not a Beastman bird.

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• Action Pet: With an owner like that it's really no surprise. Kuro isn't exactly the strongest or the biggest, but he's still ready to throw down whenever Shirou demands it.
• Free-Range Pets: Kuro isn't restrained in any manner. Shirou just lets him come and go as he pleases.
• Loyal Animal Companion: Wherever Shirou goes, Kuro goes.
• Meaningful Name: "Kuro" means black and he is a black bird. It also sounds a lot like the Japanese pronunciation of "crow".
• Non-Human Sidekick: To Shirou.
• Older Than They Look: He was in the same concentration camp as Mayor Rose was in when she was still a child and he doesn't seem to have aged much since. Mayor Rose attributes it to genetic tampering.
• Parrot Pet Position: You can usually find him on Shirou's shoulder.

Yuji Tachiki

Voiced by: Hiroshi Naka (Japanese), Jake Green (English), Raúl Solo (Latin American Spanish)

The chief police inspector of the Anima City Police Department.

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• By-the-Book Cop: He's a rational man who would prefer things to go as orderly as possible.
• Enemy Mine: In the Final Battle, he begrudgingly teams up with Guiliano Flip in order to fend off Alan's mechanical monstrosities.
• Heroic Dog: He's a Great Dane beastman and is an ally of justice.
• Meaningful Name: Tachiki (立木) means standing tree in Japanese. It is likely a reference to Yuji's firm beliefs on justice and his desire to seek the truth.
• Police Are Useless: He and his squad are always late to the action and are mainly there to clean up the mess. Yuji even laments how Shirou is always a step ahead of them.

Nina Flip

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Voiced by: Ami Maeshima (Japanese), Erika Harlacher (English), Erika Langarica (Latin American Spanish)

The daughter of the crime lord Guiliano Flip. She's a bubbly media influencer who dreams of being part of the human world.

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• Ambiguously Brown: She has a fairly tan skin tone.
• Back for the Finale: She makes cameo appearances in the last two episodes. The first is in a crowd shot where she watches Nazuna's performance and the second is her howling alongside her father in the finale.
• Curtains Match the Window: Her eyes and hair are the same color.
• Daddy's Girl: Subverted. She doesn't like her father very much because of his controlling attitude and his exaggerated hatred towards humanity.
• Damsel in Distress: In the climax of her episode debut, the hostess of the human party placed her in an aquarium thinking that she needed water. But since Nina is a dolphin beastgirl, she was close to drowning.
• Either/Or Offspring: Nina is a dolphin beastgirl while her father is a beluga beastman, her mother's never seen but a portrait of her grandfather shows him to have been a dolphin beastman.
• Expy: An aquatic themed girl who has a powerful Fantasy-Forbidding Father but is fascinated by human culture, collects mundane trinkets and longs to be part of their world? Nina is pretty much Ariel with a dolphin twist.
• Friendly, Playful Dolphin: She's a fun-loving dolphin beastgirl who quickly befriends Michiru, though her daddy's security makes it hard for people to get close to her.
• Genki Girl: She's energetic and full of cheer. She also goes over the top when she finds out that Michiru is human.
• Mafia Princess: She's the daughter of one of Anima City's most influential mob bosses and he's more than happy to give her whatever she wants (as long as it doesn't involve humans).
• Our Mermaids Are Different: She's a dolphin beastgirl but her appearance, along with her situation, makes her akin to a mermaid.
• Spoiled Sweet: She comes from a rich and powerful family but is a kind-hearted girl who wears her heart on her sleeve.
• The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter: It's anyone's guess as to how Guiliano ended up with a daughter like her.

Jackie

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Voiced by: Megumi Han (Japanese), Erika Harlacher (English), Jessica Ángeles (Latin American Spanish)

A dense but cheerful beastchild who serves as a batter for the Bears baseball team.

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• Because You Were Nice to Me: She helps Nazuna get away from Boris in episode 12 despite her lying about being Silver Wolf, stating that anyone who gives away free food is a god in her and the Bears' eyes.
• Cheerful Child: A tiny bear child who radiates optimism and sunshine.
• A Child Shall Lead Them: Second only to Dante, Jackie is the unofficial leader of the Bears team.
• Children Are Innocent: Jackie doesn't put a lot of thought into her actions when it comes to fraternizing with criminals. In episode 6, she bought Marie's cheap water filter after agreeing to a lifetime payment plan.
• Damsel in Distress: Her second appearance has Jackie being nearly burned at the stake by a couple of slum gangsters.
• Expy: Like Mako Mankanshoku, she resides in the slums and, while not as completely optimistic, tries to make the best of it.
• Inelegant Blubbering: As Michiru scolds Jackie and her teammates for losing the big game on purpose, Jackie breaks down in tears claiming that she didn't want to be poor anymore and was hoping that the bribe money could help them out even for a little.
• Non-Standard Character Design: Her human design looks more simplistic and cartoonish compared to the other characters. This was most likely done to highlight her childish nature.
• Re Used Character Design: Jackie's oval-shaped head and hair somewhat resemble Mako Mankanshokus.
• Shout-Out: Jackie seems to be based off of Vinni Pukh, the Russian equivalent of Winnie The Pooh.
• Youthful Freckles: She has these on her face to show how young she is.

Dante

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Voiced by: Nobuo Tobita (Japanese), Joe Ochman (credited as Joseph Whimms) (English), Raymundo Armijo (Latin American Spanish)

The coach of Anima City's resident underdog-baseball team the Bears.

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• The Alcoholic: Is always shown guzzling down cans of beer.
• Back for the Finale: He makes a cameo in the final episode where he watches the news report in a public bar.
• Dirty Business: He rigs the Bears' games to earn money because he believes it's the only way a beastman in the baseball business can earn a living.
• Distinguishing Mark: In both forms, Dante has a black circle covering his left eye. A flashback in his childhood shows that he's always had this.
• Expy: His features and his backstory of being a former sportsman turned coach are clearly based on Danpei Tange from Tomorrow's Joe. Even the name is similar.
• Fat Bastard: He's noticeably chubby and intentionally gives his team bad advice to make them lose. Subverted as he re-gains his love of baseball at the end of the episode and starts coaching them properly after that.
• Informed Species: He's supposed to be an Aye-aye (a type of lemur), but his beastman form looks nothing like one, save for his long middle fingers. You'd be forgiven for thinking he was supposed to be a donkey.
• I Was Quite the Looker: Before his fall from grace, Dante is shown to be quite attractive in his younger years.
• Jackie Robinson Story: Subverted hard. He was the first beastman baseball player to be allowed into a human major league team, but was faced with relentless discrimination and bullying from both the fans and his own teammates. Eventually he couldn't take the abuse anymore and in a fit of rage attacked the other players in the middle of a game, ending his career in the process.
• Stealth Expert: One of his special skills is stealth which he uses to break into the mafia's office to steal their money.
• Throwing the Fight: He's been leading the Bears team to fail on purpose so that he can receive payment from the gang members running the baseball gambling circuit.

Criminals

Guiliano Flip

Voiced by: Yohei Tadano (Japanese), Jamieson Price (credited as Taylor Henry) (English), Mauricio Pérez (Latin American Spanish)

The boss of 'The Family' which stands as one of the strongest gangs of Anima City. He's a fearsome gang leader with a grudge against humans.

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• Bad Boss: Is more than willing to brutalize or even kill his underlings for failing him.
• Bald of Evil: He's bald and is a ruthless crime lord.
• Black Eyes of Evil: In both forms, his scleras are black while his pupils are white.
• The Don: The current leader of 'The Family', Anima-City's resident crime syndicate.
• Enemy Mine: He teams up with Shirou from episode 10 on to save Anima City. He would later fight alongside Inspector Yuji as they take on Alan's mechanical monstrosities.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: As Episode 4 can attest to, he's not above excessively doting on his daughter. There's also his father, who's the foundation for his Kill All Humans mentality.
• Expy: As a hulking, No-Nonsense Nemesis crime lord in a black suit and distinctively bald, one can't help but see Flip as The Kingpin in beluga form. Or even better, as his DC counterpart Tobias Whale.
• Fangs Are Evil: He's a hulking mob boss who's sexist towards women (while ironically doting on his daughter), murders his underlings if they fail him, and fittingly has sharp teeth in both his human and beastman forms.
• Fantasy-Forbidding Father: He forbids his daughter from associating with anything related to the human world.
• Hypocrite: He sneers to Gran Grandma that all women are good for is having children... while slavishly doting on and being violently protective of his beloved daughter Nina.
• Kill All Humans: Guiliano holds a strong grudge against humans for killing his father and serving him for dinner. He was even close to waging war against them when he found out that Nina went to a human party behind his back.
• Large and in Charge: A whale who runs a criminal gang. Enough said.
• Papa Wolf: He was ready to go to war with humanity the second he noticed Nina was missing. Though given his Kill All Humans-mindset, it's likely he partially saw her disappearance as a welcome excuse to get revenge.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Says that Grand Grandma and her subordinates are bad at crime and business because they're women, and sneers that all women are good for is having children.
• Would Hurt a Child: One of his business practices involves trafficking innocent beastchildren.

Marie Itami

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Voiced by: Michiyo Murase (Japanese), Reba Buhr (English), Jocelyn Robles (Latin American Spanish)

A shady hustler of the criminal circuit. She pops up every now and then to help Michiru but her services aren't free.

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• Ambiguously Brown: Her dark skin and dreadlock hairstyle suggest that she's black-coded.
• Bad Samaritan: After rescuing Michiru from beastman hunters, she constantly hounds the girl into paying her back with all the money she has on her. Later on, she would provide useful commodities for Michiru but expects to be paid either in cash or in manual services.
• Berserk Button: She's a mink. Don't call her anything else, especially not a weasel. It's more of an annoyance button, but she tends to snap while frequently correcting people like Michiru that she is, in fact, a mink.
• Big Damn Heroes:
  • Her first scene features her and her gang rescuing Michiru from a band of sadistic beastman hunters.
  • In episode 12 she saves Nazuna from Boris and hacks a tv-truck to allow Michiru to broadcast Shirou's howl and calm the rioting beastmen.
• Coat Full of Contraband: Her light grey hooded coat has pockets on the inside for hiding her products.
• Color-Coded Eyes: She has emerald green eyes. This relates to how money driven she is.
• Cool Shades: She always carries a pair of green visor sunglasses.
• Demon Head: Michiru always calls her a weasel instead of a mink, so when she meets her at a baseball stadium and wants to greet her, she transforms into an unusually fearsome and savage beastman form and angrily reminds her that she is NOT a weasel, but a mink.
• Expy: Of Sucy Manbavaran. She's a sketchy, nasal-sounding "friend" to the main protagonist who often uses the girl for her own shady agendas. Or just messing with her for funsies. Bonus points in that they share the same voice actress.
• Friend in the Black Market: The term "friend" is loose here, but Marie provides Michiru with commodities that are harder to get from local convenience stores.
• Greed: Marie's goal in life is to obtain as much money as she can and will go as far as to exploit any unlucky saps for all they have.
• I Am Not Weasel: Her beastman form is a mink but she hates being called a weasel, which Michiru does often enough. While Nazuna mistakes her for a mongoose after kicking a snake monster’s ass, granted.
• The Infiltration: In episode 11, she infiltrates the SWO building and learns about Nazuna's plan to confess her human identity to the public. She then transfers this information to Shirou and Flip.
• Never My Fault: Even when her clients complain to her about ripping them off, Marie will spin it in a way to make it so that they only have themselves to blame for buying the products of their own free will.
• Venturous Smuggler: When she's not ripping off people with her products, Marie will work as a beastman smuggler and will transport any beastman, as well as human-made products, to and from Anima City.
• Wicked Weasel: She's a lying, self-serving con artist and thief. Pretty much what you'd expect from someone who turns into a weasel, or, as she never grows tired of reminding everyone, a mink.

Gram Grandma

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Voiced by: Miyuki Ichijou (Japanese), Anne Yatco (English), Gaby Cárdenas (Latin American Spanish)

The crime boss of Rabbit Town who's connected to 'The Family'.

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• Amazon Brigade: Her entourage is made only of beastwomen.
• Fat Bitch: She's heavyset and is a hardened crime lord.
• Graceful Loser: Despite Michiru foiling her trafficking scheme followed by Shirou arresting her, she keeps her promise to the tanuki beastgirl by returning her wallet.
• Ice Queen: A cold and unrelenting beastwoman who is primarily interested in managing her criminal affairs.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: She takes in beastchildren that were orphaned or have lost their parents only to sell them to ruthless gang leaders like Flip. She once hired Michiru to educate said children to read and write as it would make them more valuable, only to then turn around and sell her along with the beastchildren.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: She immediately surrenders after Shirou makes short work of her Amazon Brigade.
• Purple Is Powerful: Gram wears an elegant purple dress (along with having purple eyeshadow) which signifies her status as the boss of Rabbit Town.
• The Queenpin: The matriarch of the Rabbit Town crime ring.
• Would Hurt a Child: She's willing to practice beastchild trafficking if it means staying in Flip's good graces.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: After hiring Michiru to teach the beastchildren under her care to read and write, she decides to sell off the tanuki with them.

Masaru Kusakabe

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Voiced by: Daisuke Motohashi (Japanese), Kyle McCarley (English), José Ángel Torres (Latin American Spanish)

A low level gangster who works under Guiliano Flip. He has an arrogant attitude and openly boasts his superiority over others.

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• Arch-Enemy: To Elsa, Gram Grandma's Number Two, which also counts as Animal Jingoism, since he's a hyena and she's a lioness.
• Gory Discretion Shot: Guiliano tosses the end of the rope he's tied up with into the rotor of a passing boat. The audience, luckily, just sees water covering the screen... that then turns red before cutting back to an onlooking Shiro.
• Heinous Hyena: He's a hyena beastman who torments others through his gangster career.
• Ironic Name: His first name 勝 (masaru) means to win or be superior to in kanji. Him being caught in the bombing incident by Michiru and Shirou results in Masaru losing his right to live by his superior Flip.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: He's a criminal thug who enjoys making sexist remarks towards the beastwomen at Rabbit Town.
• Small Role, Big Impact: We don't see much of him before he dies, only to find out in episode 9 that He was the one who put the beast re-agent mixed up with human blood packs thinking they'd just fallen out by accident, resulting in Machiru and Nazuna being turned into Beastmen.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: He's given a one way trip into a boat's rotor in Episode 4 and we don't know anything about him apart from being a cocky jerk.
• You Have Failed Me: In Episode 4, Flip decides that Masaru has worn out his welcome and has the hyena bound in ropes and thrown into the sea to die.

Elsa

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Voiced by: Yuka Komatsu (Japanese), Xanthe Huynh (English), Carla Castañeda (Latin American Spanish)

An ill-tempered lioness beastwoman who serves as Gram Grandma's second in command.

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• Arch-Enemy: To Masaru, an underling of Guiliano Flip.
• Cats Are Mean: Elsa is a tough criminal of lioness variety.
• Curtains Match the Window: He golden yellow eyes match her hair color.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: She has a very short temper and will bare her teeth at anyone who gets on her bad side.
• Number Two: To Gram Grandma.
• Shout-Out: To Elsa the lioness
• Would Hurt a Child: She partakes in beastchildren-trafficking and almost choked Michiru to death before Shirou interfered.

Pinga

Voiced by: Daisuke Namikawa (Japanese), Tony Azzolino (English), Alan Bravo (Latin American Spanish)

A charming albatross beastman who enjoys the skies but has a sinister agenda.

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• Big Damn Heroes: He shows up last minute to help stop The Meteor from killing Alan Sylvesta, kicking him to the ground so Shirou can catch and restrain him.
• Feathered Fiend: He's an albatross beastman and he arrived to the city with the intention of threatening the mayor.
• Freudian Excuse: He's a terrorist against Beast-Man rights, but it's hard to blame him seeing as Beast-Men being affected by Human laws restricts his freedom to fly and he witnessed some of his friends get gunned down for not complying with those laws.
• Heel–Face Turn: From episode 11 onwards, he aligns himself with the heroes by helping Mayor Rose return to Anima City and later by saving beastchildren from the ongoing rampage.
• Last Request: Before leaving Anima City, he gives Michiru the dog tags of his fallen comrades and asks that she and Mayor Rose create a tomb to give them a proper burial.
• Punch-Clock Villain: He came to Anima-City to attack Mayor Rose, but he's really a Nice Guy with understandable reasons for his being against Beast-Man rights.
• Walking the Earth: Or flying the earth, in his case. It's what wandering albatrosses do.
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?: His problems stem from the fact that while he considers himself a migratory bird that should be able to fly just as his ancestors did, humanity considers him human enough to have to abide by human travel laws, so he can't just fly wherever he pleases.
• Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: It's anyone's guess as to whether Pinga is his real name or just a nickname.

Humans

Alan Sylvasta

Voiced by: Kaito Ishikawa (Japanese) Robbie Daymond (English), Javier Olguín (Latin American Spanish)

The CEO of Sylvasta Pharmaceuticals. He seems to have taken an interest in Michiru and has sinister plans for Anima City.

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• Big Bad: He's the main antagonist of the series.
• Breath Weapon: It's revealed that he can fire beams of golden energy from his mouths by howling in his beast form.
• The Chessmaster:
  • He was fully aware Meteor was trying to assassinate him and staged the incident just right for Nazuna to have her Big Damn Heroes-moment, gaining the Silver Wolf Cult even more popularity and power.
  • He took advantage of the beastmen's known tendency for using violence against each other to solve problems to convince Mayor Rose of his theory about the Nirvasil Syndrome and get her to dismantle Anima City.
• Connected All Along: His ancestor was the pure-bred general who manipulated the human army into killing all the beastmen in Nirvasil and whom Shirou/Silver Wolf has been hunting down for centuries.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: It's heavily implied that he has something sinister planned with Anima City and that he and his company might be responsible for humans like Michiru and Nazuna suddenly turning into beastmen. He's also shown to have an interest in Michiru, having her file in Sylvasta's database and watching her baseball game. Episode 9 reveals that his company was responsible, but he claims it was an accident and that he's working on a cure. However, there's still his incredibly unethical plan to use a vaccine to turn all the beastmen in Anima City into humans without their consent. He also keeps telling half-thruths to get Michiru on his side and make Shirou look like a hardened anti-human extremist. Episode 11 reveals that he wants to purposely trigger the Nirvasil Syndrome and the last scene has him watching the ensuing chaos all over Anima City and smiling while remarking that everything is going according to plan.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: He's completely baffled when Shirou saves him from succumbing to the Nirvasil Syndrome, asking why he did it.
• Fantastic Racism: Extremely, but not in the way you might think. As a so-called pure-bred beastman, he utterly despises the beastman "hybrids" who allowed their DNA to become mixed and seeks to wipe them out entirely, either by killing them or by turning them into humans.
• The Gadfly: He has a free-spirited nature which he uses to mess with the beastmen citizens.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: He's so confident that the Nirvasil Sydrome won't affect him due to being pure-bred that he lets his emotions run rampant in his fight with Shirou. Cue him getting infected when he has a panic attack after Shirou defeats him. Luckily for him, Shirou cures him before it gets too bad.
• Hypocrite: He himself is a beastman, though he considers his family a pure-bred of beastmen due to never mixing with other races but still is perfectly willing in making everyone but him become human because, in his head, beastmen afflicted with Nirvasil Syndrome are beneath him. Later on, during his final fight with Shirou, he is overpowered and becomes afflicted with Nirvasil Syndrome himself, meaning the genetic disease knows no bounds no matter the blood.
• Immortality Immorality: Infused with the blood of a thousand beastmen, just like Shirou, except intentionally.
• Jerkass Has a Point: As extreme and unethical as Alan's plan of turning beastmen into humans is, his argument that beastmen always resort to violence and harming one another to assert their dominance isn't completely unfounded. A lot of Beastmen in Anima City really are that violent and prone to emotional outbursts and having them continue this Social Darwinist norm can only create potential disaster for everyone.
• Light Is Not Good: He has blond hair, light skin and dresses primarily in lighter colors. He's also an antagonistic pure-bred beastman who is incredibly racist towards "hybrids" and whose machinations almost led to Anima City's destrcution.
• Multiple Head Case: His beast form is a giant Cerberus.
• Mysterious Watcher: He observes Michiru's baseball game in episode 5 and is visibly impressed by her shape-shifting powers.
• Mysterious Backer: Anima City runs mostly on his company's funding but it's pretty clear he's following his own agenda by supporting them.
• A Nazi by Any Other Name: Gee, what imagery could the blue-eyed, blonde guy boasting about being part of a "pure" master race that deserves to rule the world and exterminate its lessers be evoking?
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: His grand plan is to administer a vaccine to all beastmen in Anima City that will turn them human. He believes that doing so will protect the beastmen population from killing each other through Nirvasil Syndrome. Or so he says. Episode 11 has him triggering it on purpose and dispatching dozens of anti-beastmen-weapons into a crowded stadium and into the city after doing so. Episode 12 reveals that he's actually a beastman himself, but a pure-bred one and that he actually hates "hybrids" so much he plans to commit a full-on genocide on them, so his kind can keep manipulating the humans from the shadows.
• Pretty Boy: Alan's tall physique, clean face and charming smile make him pretty easy on the eyes.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: He is the CEO of Sylvasta Industries.
• Royalty Superpower: He claims that only a 'pureblood' Beatman like himself can use the 'Roar Of The Gods'. He's infuriated to find out thats not the case when Shirou fires one right back.
• Rubber Man: In the final episode, he elongates all three of his necks and coils them together like snakes before rapidly unwinding them while firing his Breath Weapon.
• Savage Wolf: A direct reflection of Shirou. A purebred wolf Beastman who absorbed the blood of a thousand of his own kind to become a physical god, with a deep hatred of anything that's not as he would see it a true Beastman.
• Silver Tongue: Alan knows just what to say to make everything he does seem like the reasonable thing to do and make everyone who opposes him look stubborn and foolish.
• Smug Snake: He just oozes over-confidence in every appearance. It reaches its height when he reveals himself as a pure-bred beastman.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: He is a very relaxed and composed man who speaks in a very smooth tone every time no matter the situation and never raises his voice.
• Unskilled, but Strong: As a pure-bred beastman he's got Shirou beat in terms of raw power, but since he's very inexperienced in combat and often lets his arrogance get the best of him, Shirou quickly gains the upper hand in their fight, after getting over his initial shock about Alan revealing that he's a beastman.
• Walking Spoiler: It's difficult to talk about him without revealing that he's actually the Big Bad, or that he's actually a purebred, immortal beastman.
• Whatever Happened to the Mouse?: After the Nirvasil Syndrome riot is resolved, he resigns from his post as president and disappears. The viewer doesn't get any more information than that.
• Would Hit a Girl: Episode 12 shows that he's more than willing to kill Michiru in order to further his goals by aiming his weapons their way and using her as a Human Shield. He would have made good on his threat had Shirou not intervined at the very last second.

Prime Minister Shiramizu

Voiced by: Hōchū Ōtsuka (Japanese), Joe Ochman (credited as Joseph Whimms) (English), Jorge Badillo (Latin American Spanish)

The current leader of the Japanese government.

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• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He acts all affable and polite whenever he and Mayor Rose interact, but in actuality he's just as prejuidiced against beastmen as the majority of Japan and was in on Sylvasta's consiparcy to turn them human from the beginning.
• Evil All Along: In Episode 10, he's revealed to be in cahoots with Alan by having armed forces arrest Barbara Rose. After she came asking for his help no less.
• Karma Houdini: He knowingly assisted in Alan's plan to turn every beastman in Anima City human without their consent and held its mayor hostage when she came to him for help. Yet at the end of the anime he essentially gets away scot-free. Noone ever learns of his involvement, it's unlikely that anyone will believe Mayor Rose since she is a beastwoman and he can keep pretending to be a benevolent bestman-supporter.
• Mysterious Backer: Mayor Rose puts it best: It's not clear if he's celebrating the Beastmen or threatening them. On one hand he's shown to be supportive of Anima City, if only to get on good terms with the mayor. On the other hand he makes thinly veiled threats towards the mayor.
• Shame If Something Happened: He calls Mayor Rose on Anima City's tenth anniversary to congratulate her - then adds that the Beastman Special Zone isn't impenetrable and that things could go south very quickly should the Beastmen cause problems.

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