Anima City (episode)

Anima-City is the 12th and is currently the last episode of the BNA: Brand New Animal anime series.

Overview
Defeating Alan who apparently is another immortal Wolf God, Anima City retrieves back its peace.

Summary
Shirou gains back his sanity thanks to Michiru's Beast Factor. With this discovery, they head to Medical Center to create a serum to dispose of Nirvasyl Syndrome. But Alan already has another plan, and as Shirou tries to stop him, Alan reveals himself to be another God Wolf who is also immortal. Meanwhile, Michiru and Nazuna find out that Ginrou's howl can control the rampaging beastmen so they plan to broadcast it. Alan intervenes them but Shirou manages to defeat him. As the rampaging beastmen's conflict subside, Anima City slowly regains back its peace. Nazuna becomes an idol for both humans and Beastmen, and Michiru decides to stay at Anima City.

Plot
Nazuna is terrified with the sight of Michiru's being bitten. Somehow, Feral Shirou lets Michiru go from his grasp and Nazuna hurriedly runs to her, but Michiru remains unconscious. Flip and The Family are also witnessing the scene but then they notice that Shirou starts to revert back to his normal form. Gaining back his consciousness, the first thing Shirou sees is wounded Michiru. Seeing Michiru's unwell condition, Shirou instinctively howls in agony. In the process, Michiru somehow regains back his consciousness and as she opens her eyes, she sees Shirou's howling and the view seems to be magnificent to her that she takes the opportunity to record him. Nazuna and Shirou are initially surprised to see her recovered, and her comment about his amazing howl apparently isn't even heard by them as they are too relieved to see her doing okay. Nazuna breaks into tears as she pulls her into a hug but Michiru's painful squeal disallows her to hug her more as she lets go. They momentarily enjoy the moment but the approaching rampaging beastmen bring them back to alert. Shirou braces Michiru and asks for her wounds where Michiru replies that she is okay at the moment but because his bite isn't on his gorilla arm it's dangerous for her. Shirou appreciates her effort with honest gratitude but before she can react they are interrupted by Mayor Rose's call from the sky. She is safe with Pinga and she gestures to City Hall. Flip comes to rescue with his car and they retreat back to City Hall together. Meanwhile, Minister Shiramizu contacts Alan and confirms Anima City lockdown as the way to ensure the safety of all Japanese citizens. Alan assures him to not worry because beastmen will die before long and Japan will be the first who succeeds to deal with their beastmen problem.

In the City Hall, Michiru's wound is treated by Mayor Rose as she confirms Shirou's case, which Michiru approves that Shirou returns back to normal once he bites her. Nazuna still appears to be in terror but Michiru comforts her. She then takes a sample of Michiru's blood and experiments with Yaba's blood sample. The result is surprising; Michiru's special Beast Factor is able to neutralize the Nirvasyl Syndrome by rewriting other Beast Factors. With this important finding, Mayor Rose suggests making the serum but because the Japanese Government won't help them anymore, they'll have to do it by themselves and this is their last chance. They plan to go to Medical Center but Nazuna refuses to go, saying that all this chaos is her responsibility, and if she doesn't do something about it she'll feel incredibly bad. She implies going back to the city and Pinga chooses to tag along and help her. With that decided, they split force; Michiru, Shirou and Mayor Rose heading to Medical Center, Flip going back to help to protect the city, Nazuna and Pinga roaming around the city to save beastmen who don't go rampage.

Arriving at the Medical Center, Mayor Rose extracts Michiru's blood and asks Shirou to give him 8 hours for the serum. Shirou reminds her that if the Beast Factor Termination Vaccine spreads before it, then it's over. Hence, he heads to find and stop Alan, but Michiru decides to tag along. Shirou tells her to stay but Michiru answers that she'll be no use if she waits. This time Shirou does not deny her help and together they move inside the building. At the same time, Nazuna roams above the sky to look for any unaffected beastmen. She finds one, a toddler beastman, and approaches him. Nazuna then asks about his parents and he only shakes her head. She comforts him by saying that the serum is currently under development and his parents will be able to return to normal. She continues to suggest him doing whatever that makes him happy such as listen to music or draw, which the toddler nods in understanding. Pinga then approaches them, already bringing some toddlers with him. He brings the toddler along with him to safety and Nazuna thanks him. As Pinga ascends to the sky, someone calls her alternate name, Deesse Louve, and it's Boris. Boris apologizes because all he does is according to Alan's orders and they cannot simply defy his orders. But now because they're free, Boris attempts to bring her along with him to run away. Nazuna completely rejects the idea and asks him to stop meddling with her life. However, Boris is bold and reminds her that she is his and keeps calling her Deesse Louve as his arms turn into snakes. Nazuna is fed up with that name and tells her strictly that her name is Nazuna. As she does so, she proceeds to transform her arms into gorilla arms just like Michiru and smashes him away while muttering that he is indeed gross. But before she can escape from the place, Boris emerges in his complete beastman form, a snake beastman, and tries to catch her.

Back in the Medical Center, Shirou and Michiru reaches the center of Medical Center and is perplexed with the view; there are countless drones in their undeployed position, like a beehive. Alan, who is currently residing on the top of the tower peering at them from the computer control, volunteers to explain that they are drones equipped with Beast Factor Termination Vaccine. He plans to use them on all rampaging beastmen in Anima City. Shirou deflects the argument by accusing him who causes them to go rampage in the first place and pushes on his objective. Alan merely explains that everything is a part of the process. He plans to first let the world know about the Nirvasyl Syndrome and how dreadful it is, then legitimizes the usage of the Beast Factor Termination Vaccine. In other words, what he does to Anima City is only a demonstration. Knowing that he throws Anima City into a crisis for that reason, Shirou is pissed and exclaims that it's an unforgivable sin. Alan calms him down, reminding him of the Beast Factor Termination Vaccine that becomes the solution to their crisis. Michiru interrupts him by telling him that he doesn't need to remove the Beast Factor when a serum is more than enough. She further explains that her and Nazuna's blood who consists of a unique Beast Factor can be used as a cure for the Nirvasyl Syndrome. Shirou adds her argument with his testimony that he returns to normal with the said cure. Alan only says that it's out of his prediction and ask them to leave the rest to him. Apparently, Alan doesn't even pay their explanation any attention as he continues the execution of the Beast Factor Termination Vaccine's drones. Realizing that words won't be enough to stop Alan, Shirou decides to transform into Ginrou and destroy the drones but he is quickly intercepted by multiple Engel Machines. Michiru also makes her move, trying to destroy the computer control but she is simply knocked away by Alan. He then provokes her with how his plan goes smoothly and how beastmen will forcibly turn into humans against their will. Her display of aggressiveness also isn't missed by Alan's provocation as he proceeds to commence the launch of the drones. Michiru swiftly reacts by destroying them one by one before they can roam in the city. Although she succeeds to dispose the first wave, Alan smugly gestures her for the second wave of drones. Michiru curses and flies toward the drones to stop them.

As Alan watches Michiru leaves, Shirou goes right on him and warns him that he won't allow a filthy human like him to destroy beastmen. However, Alan simply counters with his own warning to get Shirou's paws off of him. Much to Shirou's surprise, Alan is able to match his strength and lift his paws off from him. Alan then reveals his true self as a beastman and demonstrates his raw power by punching Shirou's away, leaving a crater on the building Shirou lands onto. Shirou is completely taken aback by the fact that Alan is a beastman; all the time, his scent is a perfect human scent. Alan answers that masking their scent as human scent is a piece of cake for Sylvasta Family, who has been living among humans and controlling them for generations. He proceeds to boast his bloodline as purebreds, unlike other beastmen including Shirou who are hybrid. Alan apparently doesn't give Shirou enough space to process the whole thing as he also reveals his Wolf God form, just like Shirou's Ginrou form. Glowing in gold light, Alan elaborates more about his purebred bloodline pridefully; by refusing to mix with beasts of another nature, one species or bloodline can keep their bloodline as purebred.

The whole talks about purebred and Alan's calling him as hybrid pisses Shirou off as he also transforms into his Ginrou form and fights him back. With one swift move, Shirou's claws pierce through Alan's necks, decapitates him but Alan doesn't sweat to recover from the attack, revealing his immortality, once again, just like Shirou. Alan claims that immortality is actually Sylvasta's exclusive right. This immortality can only be achieved by the chosen ones who perform the undead ritual with a thousand wolf beastmen's blood as an offering, according to Alan. Furthermore, Alan states that Shirou's power is originated from the same source, but it's just a coincidental that Shirou meets the same fate. Alan also mocks Shirou at him being a hybrid is just a sham, and Nirvasyl Syndrome only happens on hybrid beastmen because of mixed Beast Factor. He implies that purebred will keep ruling the world by controlling humans from the shadows just like what he does to Anima City, which he mentions as "the truth about the world". The three-headed Wolf God then summons powerful energies from each head and bursts Shirou with the beam, knocking him unconscious as the beam hit straight through his torso and destroys the building behind him.

Michiru travels around the city following the drones. One of them head to two beastmen who are fighting each other, and Michiru quickly blocks its vaccine attacks and destroy the drone. Satisfied with her effort, she temporarily forgets that she is between two rampaging beastmen. As she tries to cover herself, her phone drops and it plays Shirou's howl. The two rampaging beastmen stop fighting and follow the howl. With this discovery, Michiru goes aloft again and searches for the remaining drones. Another one flies off and head to where Nazuna, Marie and Jackie are surrounded with rampaging beastmen. She swiftly throws her phone with Shirou's howl recording and proceed to also defend them from the vaccine attack. With Nazuna's help, they destroy the drone. Afterward, she relays the intel to Nazuna and they come up with a plan to broadcast the howl.

Marie, Nazuna, Michiru and Jackie huddle together and make a group plan; Jackie and his team is tasked to switch on all television and maximize the volume while the rest of them head to the broadcast system. The plan goes smoothly until Alan steps in. Michiru tries to fight him but she can't match his power. Shirou comes to save her just in time and the two God Wolf proceed to brawl. Ultimately, Shirou is able to overpower Alan which causes Alan to experience incredible fears, thus inducing the Nirvasyl Syndrome. At first, Shirou just wants to end Alan there but noticing Michiru's look at him, he decides to take a pacifist path by purposely letting Alan gnaw his arm and bath him with his blood. This results with Alan returning back to his beastman form.

Nazuna then calls her and tells her the broadcast system is ready, but unfortunately her phone battery runs out. She asks Shirou to howl again in his Ginrou form, which the latter finds it confusing but he does it anyway. The howl is broadcasted all over the city and all of the rampaging beastmen stop trashing around and follow the howl.

Aftermath of the chaos, the remaining rampaging beastmen is treated with constant Ginrou's howl from earphone before they are given the serum. Nazuna unintentionally becomes Anima City's icon who is popular among both human and beastmen after she saves the kid during the chaos and is recorded by camera. Mayor Rose decides to invite humans into Anima City so that beastmen will learn about humans, and vice versa. Michiru chooses to stay in Anima City because she believes she can do something for the city.

Characters

 * Michiru Kagemori
 * Shirou Ogami
 * Marie Itami
 * Jackie
 * Pinga
 * Barbara Rose
 * Alan Sylvasta
 * Boris Cliff
 * Nazuna Hiwatashi
 * Nina Flip (cameo)

Trivia

 * It's bewildering to see Michiru survives from Shirou's attack and only suffers minor injury from it. The only logical explanation is that as soon as Shirou's fangs grazes Michiru's blood, the "Beast Factor" in her blood quickly reacts thus stopping him from gnawing further.
 * Michiru and Nazuna are the only ones who remain unaffected by Ginrou's howl. This may be because they are by nature not a beastman, but rather, humans who are transformed into beastmen.
 * During this episode, Shirou appears to lose his collar and is never seen using it again for the rest of the story. On the previous episodes, Shirou needs to undone his collar to be able to transform into Ginrou form, thus making the collar some sort of charm that holds back his power ( physically speaking, the collar will "hold" his body size so he won't be able to transform ). However, during Episode 11 he is forcefully transformed into rampaging beastman so the collar itself is likely to snap and break.
 * Alan is able to mask his beastman smell as human smell. How he is able to do so remains unknown.
 * Shirou becoming a Ginrou seems to be a "side-effect" of Alan's ancestor holding the undead ritual to achieve immortality. How is this possible to occur also remains unknown. Furthermore, it's never mentioned if Raymond Sylvasta is priorly a human and becomes beastman after the ritual or Sylvasta's bloodline is beastman to begin with.
 * Alan's ancestor holding the undead ritual means that most of Alan's bloodline starting from Raymond Sylvasta will likely be a beastman who can mask their smell as human, are immortal, and able to transform into Wolf God form. In short, Alan is not the only one who can match Shirou in his Wolf God form.
 * The number of people who knows Shirou is a Ginrou may start growing; Nazuna is one of few who witnesses the true Ginrou. Additionally,atn the end ofthe episode Michiru tells him that he's free to be who he is, perhaps referring that he does not need to hide his true self as a Ginrou anymore.
 * This episode marks the first time Shirou calls Michiru by name and Shirou expresses a gratitude (as in clearly saying thank you). Shirou also seems to be happier after the conflict is done; it's possible that he no longer regards Michiru only as an acquaintance, but a friend who has saved his life once and whom he can trust.
 * There is no evidence if the Silver Wolf Order still continues to exist, since Boris's fate remains unknown and Nazuna appears to have quitted the organization.
 * When Michiru tells Shirou that she saw Ginrou during the festival back then and speculated it was him feeling happy for the beastmen, Shirou appears to be confused. He doesn't confirm nor deny, so there is a possibility that the Ginrou in Episode 1 is not him.
 * There's no news yet if the anime will get 2nd season.