A Beastly Feast

A Beastly Feast is the 11th episode of the BNA: Brand New Animal anime series.

Overview
Nazuna's live concert starts an unwanted tragedy for beastmen, including Shirou.

Summary
While Nazuna and Michiru happily discuss about Nazuna's first live concert, Shirou and Flip along with the help from Marie plan their best course to stop it. With Michiru's understanding and help, their goal to stop Nazuna's confession succeeds. However, Boris' intervention cause Alan's plan to induce Nirvasyl Synrome on most beastmen happen. Witnessing the event before him and is left helpless, Shirou's howl of desperation is the last thing he remembers before his beast instinct takes over.

Plot
Michiru goes to visit Nazuna in the morning. As she walks inside the building, she notices the poster of a wanted criminal, with Shirou's photo on it. She sighes and continues to trot, and when she passes a room she is called by Jackie. Jackie is there with the rest of Bears Basketball Team, enjoying loaves of bread as she claims the "bread crust" is tasty, in which Michiru reacts if she has only ever eaten the crust of a bread instead of whole of it. As usual, Jackie's excitement takes her over as she offers Michiru a bite and Michiru's refusal can't help her to escape. Nazuna happens to pass by and after watching the scene asks Michiru if Jackie is her friend. Michiru approves and apologizes for the fuss, but Nazuna only replies with a flat expression of how Michiru can easily make friend. Noticing Nazuna's presence, Jackie and the Bears Basketball Team members joyfully greet her and thank her for the food. Unaware to all of them, Marie is disguising as an acolyte of the cult and spies on them.

In Nazuna's room, Michiru questions if it's really okay for so many beastmen to gather in the live event. They discuss about the live event for a while and Michiru notices something about Nazuna's planned confession in it. Nazuna says it's Alan's order. All the time they are talking, Marie is keeping eyes and ears on them on air duct.

Somewhere around the wharf, Shirou and Flip plan to execute their move. Marie then appears before them and offers them an important intelligence, demanding a pay in exchange. As Shirou hands her the money, she starts talking and tells them about the live event, including the confession part.

Later that evening, Michiru arrives at the live event with so many beastmen in it. She then notices Shirou in the crowd but he disappears right afterward. His presence apparently makes Michiru forget her main motive to come which is to help Nazuna. She calms herself and focuses herself, eventually able to copy Shirou's keen sense of smell. She tracks him and finds him at the top of the backstage armed with a handgun.

Meanwhile, Shirou is doubting himself of what to do. He then sights Nazuna and before he can do anything, Michiru runs him as the gun flies from his hand. There seems to be a misunderstanding at first, but they resolve the conflict and plan to stop the confession together.

Nazuna is just one step away from the confession when Michiru walks in with the Ginrou's skeletal robot. Attempting to stop her friend, Michiru begs Nazuna to trust her and fortunately Nazuna decides to do so. The confession is stopped but then Boris steps in. He then proceeds to reveal Nazuna's true identity as a human, and slowly, the majority of the beastmen burst out in rage, rampaging and thrashing each other. Engel Machines start to swarm in and pacify the rampaging beastmen, causing an utter chaos inside the city.

Shirou tries his best to stop them, but he alone can do so little. Seeing the scene right before him reminds him with the past, and the desperation inside him grows into a blast of emotion as he also goes rampage. Michiru notices his terrifying howl and decides to jump in and attempt to save him, but she is easily overpowered by him. Her futile struggle ends when she is caught by him and she is defenseless to protect herself from the impending danger. Nazuna watches in horror as her friend is chomped by the beast.

Characters

 * Michiru Kagemori
 * Shirou Oogami
 * Melissa Horner
 * Gem Horner
 * Marie Itami
 * Pinga
 * Barbara Rose
 * Koichi Ishizaki
 * Alan Sylvasta
 * Boris Cliff
 * Nazuna Hiwatashi

Trivia

 * Nazuna sings two different songs in the live concert. The first one is "WISH" and the second one is "Night Running".


 * Shirou appears in different outfit on this episode; a black leather jacket instead of white coat. The color variation ( white and black, as in Yin and Yang ) may refer to which side he is fighting with; white coat, as him previously fighting alongside the good force ( police and Mayor ) whereas black jacket indicates him taking side with mafia. One thing to note that his purpose does not change at all, which is to protect beastmen and Animacity.
 * Michiru is able to copy Shirou's smell-detecting ability, even though there's no evidence if her sense of smell is in the same level as Shirou.
 * This is the only episode where the ending song plays in grayscale.