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Netflix India Releases BNA: Brand New Animal Anime on June 30

Netflix India is listing the BNA: Brand New Animal anime on its streaming service. The anime will stream on the service starting on June 30. 

Netflix India describes the story:

Morphed into a raccoon beastman, Michiro seeks refuge, and answer, with the aid of beastman Shirou inside the special zone of anima city.

The first six episodes of Trigger's original television anime debuted exclusively on Netflix on March 21 in Japan, and episodes 7-12 debuted on Netflix in Japan on May 6. The anime premiered on television in Japan on Fuji TV's "+Ultra" programming block on April 8 at 24:55 (effectively, April 9 at 12:55 a.m.).

In the anime's story, in the 21st century, the existence of beastmen came to light after being hidden in the darkness of history. Michiru lived life as a normal human, until one day she suddenly turns into a tanuki-beastman. She runs away and takes refuge in a special city area called "Anima City" that was set up 10 years ago for beastmen to be able to live as themselves. There Michiru meets Shirou, a wolf-beastman who hates humans. Through Shirou, Michiru starts to learn about the worries, lifestyle, and joys of the beastmen. As Michiru and Shirou try to learn why Michiru suddenly turned into an beastman, they unexpectedly get wrapped up in a large incident.

Yoh Yoshinari (Little Witch Academia) directed the anime at Trigger, and Kazuki Nakashima (Gurren Lagann and Kill la Kill) wrote the scripts.

Genice Chan contributed conceptual art, and Yusuke Yoshigaki (Space Patrol Luluco, Ninja Slayer From Animation) designed the characters. Naoki Takeda served as chief animation director. Masanobu Nomura directed the art, and Yukiko Kakita served as the color key artist. Nozomi Shitara was the compositing director of photography, and Kentarou Tsubone edited the show. The artist mabanua (Kids on the Slope, Megalobox) composed the music. Sumire Morohoshi performed the opening theme song "Ready to" as her character Michiru Kagemori, while electronic musician AAAMYYY performed the ending theme song "Night Running."

Shueisha's Tonari no Young Jump web magazine published a "chapter 0" for a manga adaptation of the anime on May 29.

Source: Netflix India