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 serum to dispose 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 finds 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
Michiru is injured by Shirou's bite, but somehow he lets her go as he returns back to his normal form. Seeing Michiru's condition, Shirou instinctively howls in agony. Fortunately Michiru regains back his consciousness and she takes the opportunity to record him. Nazuna and Shirou are relieved to see her doing okay, but the beasts around them force them to focus back. Mayor Rose then calls them from the sky; she is safe with Pinga, and they retreat to City Hall along with Flip.

In the City Hall, Michiru's wound is treated by Mayor Rose as she confirms Shirou's case. She then takes sample of Michiru's blood and experiments with Yaba's blood sample. The result is surprising; Michiru's weird Beast Factor is able to suppress the Nirvasyl Syndrome. With this important finding, they decide to split force; Michiru, Shirou and Mayor Rose heading to Medical Center, Flip going back to help defending 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 heads to find Alan, but Michiru decides to tag along. They find Alan, who is ready to execute the finish button of his master plan. He has numerous drones who can shoot Beast Factor Termination Vaccine ready to go. Shirou and Michiru try to talk to him about the serum, which fall to deaf ear. Shirou decides to destroy the drones but is intercepted by multiple Engel Machines. Michiru also attempts to stop the drones and she succeeds to dispose the first wave. But the second wave is too much for her so she follows the remaining ones with her wings.

Alan is left alone one by one with Shirou. Shirou tries to overpower him but Alan is able to match his power and punches him away. Alan then reveals himself to be a beastman, and more importantly, having a God Wolf form as well. He brings up the fact about undead ritual and Sylvasta's bloodline being the only pure breed, and with one powerful laser attack knocks Shirou's consciousness away.

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 Oogami
 * 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 evidence yet if the anime will get 2nd season.