Friends of the Beast
The anime aired in the winter of 2017 and featured animals anthropomorphized into beautiful girls.
It is a media-mix content, but the game was finished before the anime aired.
It is pretty much an animal anime, with eye-catching animal experts providing commentary on the animals that appeared in the work.
It’s likely that the film was a huge hit and that a significant number of chemonauts were turned on to animal animation.
In many ways, it is an anime that has had a great influence on people’s later lives.
Mofumofu-Degree：★☆★☆
Hokkori-Degree：★☆★☆★
Nyanko Days
A comedy based on the manga that aired in the winter of 2017.
It’s an anime in which cats are personified as young girls, and it’s about a munchkin named “Ma”, a Singapura named “Roo”, and a Russian blue named “Shhh” who sometimes fight and sometimes frolic with the girls who own them.
It is a short anime of 3 minutes, and since it is the minimum time for a TV anime, an episode goes by in a flash, but even so, the biggest attraction is the cute characters that are soothing enough to be healed.
Mofumofu-Degree：★
Hokkori-Degree：★☆★☆
Etotama
This original anime aired in the spring of 2015.
It is a comedy piece about the god’s messengers “and girls” who play and fight with each animal of the twelve signs of the zodiac in an anthropomorphic form.
Akio Watanabe from the story series and QP:flapper from Girlfriends (temporary) are responsible for the character design.
It is along the lines of a moe character, but the characteristics of the animals are reflected in the relationships and personalities of the characters, and it also has an animal anime feel to it.
It seems that a new series is currently being produced.
Mofumofu-Degree：★☆
Hokkori-Degree：★☆★☆
SHOW BY ROCK!!
It is based on a character project by Sanrio.
The first season will air in the spring of 2015, followed by a second season the following year and a new series, “SHOW BY ROCK! Mashumaireeshu! has also been announced.
The world of the smart phone music game “SHOW BY ROCK! in which a girl is dragged into the world of the smartphone music game “SHOW BY ROCK!
Not only girls but also handsome characters appear in the story, and they seem to be very popular.
Mofumofu-Degree：★☆
Hokkori-Degree：★☆★
Gugure! Kokkuri-san
This is an everyday comedy based on a manga that aired in the fall of 2014.
Several animal-derived characters appear in the series, such as Cockry-san, a fox creature, Inugami, a dog creature, and Shigaraki, a haunted raccoon.
The main character, Kohina Ichimatsu, has a normal personality but her true nature is just an ordinary girl, but she can be designed to look like a mascot.
On the other hand, the monsters are handsome and the humans look more like healing characters, making it a pretty rare animal anime in a way.
Mofumofu-Degree：★
Hokkori-Degree：★☆★☆
Shirokuma Cafe
It is a comedy anime based on a manga that was broadcasted on TV Tokyo from 2012 to 2013.
It is a heartwarming work about a polar bear who runs the “Shirokuma Cafe” and the animals and people who frequent the cafe.
It is a type of work in which the animals speak human language while their appearance is the same as the animals themselves.
This type of anime used to be common in the past, but in the 2010s, it is one of the rare genuine animal animations on TV.
Mofumofu-Degree：★☆★☆★
Hokkori-Degree：★☆★☆
Nyankoi!
A romantic comedy based on a manga that was aired in the fall of 2009.
The story is about a high school student who is allergic to cats, who tears the neck off of Cat Jizo and falls under the curse that if he doesn’t do good deeds to 100 cats, he will be turned into a cat.
Although the main characters are not of animal origin, there are many cats in the story, and they are the theme of the work, so this is a fine animal anime.
By the way, the original work was stopped in the middle of the story and has been treated as a hiatus for many years, unfinished.
Mofumofu-Degree：★
Hokkori-Degree：★☆★
Tokyo Miu Miu
A bishojo sentai (pretty girl squadron) story based on a manga that was broadcast on TV Tokyo from 2002 to 2003.
Based on the original manga and based on the idea of “K-On! It is written by anime screenwriter Reiko Yoshida, who has worked on countless hits such as “Girls & Panzer” and “Violet Evergarden”.
This is Yoshida-san’s only original work for the manga and she did not work on the anime script.
The story is about the main character Ichigo Momomiya (Momomiya Ichigo), who transforms into a form with cat ears and a tail and fights his enemies.
Before anthropomorphism became popular, this kind of setting was common.
Mofumofu-Degree：★☆
Hokkori-Degree：★☆
Fruit Basket
It is based on a hit shoujo manga with a total of 30 million copies published.
The first anime adaptation was in 2001, with a re-animation taking place in 2019.
It is a human drama about the unfortunate but positive girl, Honda Toru, and the members of the twelve signs of the zodiac who are possessed by monsters from birth.
When the twelve signs of the zodiac are embraced or weakened by the opposite sex, they are transformed into animal forms.
There are not many scenes in which the characters are transformed into animals, so it is not clear if it can be classified as an animal anime, but it is a masterpiece of a work.
Mofumofu-Degree：★☆★
Hokkori-Degree：★☆★☆
BNA
It is an original anime scheduled to be broadcast in April 2020 on Fuji TV’s “+Ultra” slot.
It will be directed by Yo Yoshinari, director of “Little Witch Academia” and Kazuki Nakajima of “Promea”, with TRIGGER producing the anime.
Set in the 21st century, the anime will depict the beastmen who have been hiding in the darkness of history and their interaction with humans.
Mofumofu-Degree：？
Hokkori-Degree：？
Summary
Most animal anime is healing and heartwarming, but some of them are also social and black humor, which is a profound genre.
If you do the same story with human characters, it will be completely different, and because it’s an animal, there’s definitely a way to show, feel and be attractive.
I’d love to see more and more works like that!
