Shirou Ogami

Shirou Ogami (大神士郎, Ōgami Shirō) is a main character in the Brand New Animal series by Studio Trigger. He is a Wolf Beastman and works as a social worker. He despises humans and fights for the rights of Beastmen. During the course of the series, he acts as the primary caretaker for Michiru Kagemori.

Appearance
In his human form, his hair is slightly disheveled with bangs covering parts of his forehead and face. His pupils are off-white and his eyes are stern. He wears a tan trench coat with the collar up, a black sweater, black gloves, a pair of slim black chinos, and dark brown loafers. He wears a brown dog collar with a silver buckle around his neck and a matching belt around his waist.

In his wolf form, he has light grey fur, accented by turquoise fur covering his back, top of his head, and forehead. He has small, disheveled mane of fur around his neck that spills out over his clothes. He has white eyes and still wears the same clothes.

Personality
Shirou is very proud of being born as a Beast Men and very passionate towards his brethren, enjoying living alongside them and even moved by the sight of them celebrating 10 year anniversary of Anima city. Conversely, he despises humans and will go out of his way to eliminate or disable any humans that disrupt Anima City daily life. In addition, any Beastman that he discovers to be collaborating with Human associates to damage or impair Anima City society are viewed as equals to Human-Beastmen Discriminates, and a treachery that he then proceeds to remove their bestial pride such as horns or antlers. Shirou's encounter with Michiru, a young girl whom is abruptly turned into tanuki-type Beast Man, slowly alters his perspective of humanity, albeit from a mutual standpoint of an isolated incident in Michiru's case.

Background
Shirou is a social worker for Jem Horner and Melissa Horner of the Animal-human Consumer's Coop by profession. He occasionally works with the Anima city police as a Special Advisor and as a Special Task Agent for Mayor Barbara.

Episode 1
The festival is underway and Shirou cries tears of joy reflecting how he waited a long time for such a joyous celebration to occur for Beastmen. Michiru bumps into him and looks with disgust. Before Michiru notices, he disappears into the crowd of the festival. Shirou appears once more to save Michiru from the falling scaffolding.

Shirou accuses her of knocking the scaffolding over, to which she denies and informs him that she witnessed a wolf sneaking away earlier. Shirou relaxes and smells the air, identifying the path of the fleeing culprit. He follows the trail while Michiru continues to pursue the pickpocket. They are both interrupted by a large explosion in the city. Shirou arrives at the scene of the explosion and confronts the culprit. A lion and a buck beastman carrying guns suddenly explode out the back of a van, raining a sea of bullets on the wolf. The wolf narrowly escapes the enemy's fire and notes that the culprits are professionals. He smells the air once again and discovers the scent of humans on the culprits.

Shirou exclaims the terrorists were hired by humans and the terrorists reply contract work is still contract work. He proceeds to criticize and overpower the terrorists. Backed into a corner, the terrorists use the last of their energy to grow massively in size and strength. Shirou is still able to subdue the two. Right when Michiru appears at the scene, the wolf terrorist from earlier grabs hold of her as hostage. Unfazed, Shirou jumps behind the terrorist and repeatedly beats him down.

Michiru criticizes Shirou for his violence against Beastmen and tells him to stop. He refuses and says that the terrorists ruined the festival and were hired by humans. He kicks the terrorist once more, but Michiru screams to stop and her tail begins to glow and expand. The tail knocks Shirou back. They begin to argue once more; this time Michiru defends the humans and exclaims that she is human too. Unconvinced, Shirou sarcastically remarks her Beastman appearance.

Abilities
Keen Smell: Shirou has a very keen sense of smell to the point that it outclasses the Anima City Police and thus, is brought in as an "Advisor" to provide better insight to tracking crime.

Enhanced Resilience: Shirou has shown to be very resilient to impacts and even survives falling several hundred feet from the top of the Sylvasta Medical Center and impacting twice on the way down, sustaining only minor injuries.

Enhanced Speed: In a head-on battle, Shirou has proven to be able to dodge bullets and counteract physical blows from other Beastmen. He is also able to run at tremendous speed to the point of being able to rescue Michiru from a falling electronic Billboard.

Enhanced Strength: In head-on battle, Shirou has shown to be able to fight on-par or better than other beastmen using his fists and martial-arts style fighting. He has demonstrated the ability to simply break a Rhino's horn and rip off a Deer's antlers with his bare hands.