#I'm watching BNA

[lightprkdraws]

Ready to!

#these were inspired by the cover image of ready to #because I'm actually obsessed with BNA's opening #and I haven't even watched BNA #vocaloid #vocaloid fanart #hatsune miku #gumi #kagamine rin #kagamine len

[taraxacum-vulpes]

i wish cyberpunk existed outside of cyberpunk 2077 and hi3 arc city. :/

#i should watch cyberpunk edgerunners #and bna #it is so hard to be a boy that likes high saturation black cyan magenta and also has rlly bad contrast sensitivity #is there another name for this genre that i'm missing #i really like it but it feels like there should be more. it's popular to me. #i think i'm going to have to go back to 90s anime #nooooo my oversaturated colours that'll burn out my retinas

[dentist-brainsurgeon]

Sorry I haven’t read Dungeon Meshi what’s the weird racism plot?

Studio Trigger anime tend to have a weird racism plot in their anime, the biggest example of this plot is what they did with BNA/Brand New Animal; in which the Animal People had to live in their separate city to avoid bigotry and SPOILER ALERT: the Big Bad of the anime was secretly one of the minority group the entire time(he was also blond and blue eyed so uh yikes!)~~~

#I think Kill La Kill had inklings of this and Promare supposedly but I never watch that one #but BNA put that on full display which is a shame bc it was pretty fun anime outside of the Garbo plot #and so with Dungeon Meshi being a preexisting story. I have hope they won't pull any weird plot points like that #I'm not super good at explaining things and I haven't touched Studio Trugger stuff since BNA so I'm quite rusty #but I remember™️just how fuckin weird and dumb that plot was

[wispisstillverybored67]

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Remind me what happens when a godlike being goes berserk?

Octo Expansion, Puyo Puyo Tetris 2, Pokemon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life, and BNA.

#ahh... what a thrill! #wisp rambles #wisp watches bna #bna: brand new animal #bna: brand new animal spoilers #but there's no way they'd do that #I don't know what to say shiro. except I'm sorry

[tempests-bards-and-birds]

*pointing at blorbos* these idiots are so stupid and dumb and have no rational thoughts inside their little heads and i want to gently punch them and then cuddle them into oblivion and squeeze them and-

#tempest's dumb thoughts #i just had a resurgence of BNA Memories and now i'm having another puddle crisis about how blorbo michiru is #everyone should watch bna btw it's great #michiru kagemori #blorbos #blorbo #also adrien and marinette #those two are also little idiots #marinette dupain-cheng #adrien agreste

[zukkaoru]

i can't believe that awful blond man has the same english va as my most beloved megumi

#i do think it's funny that between these two characters the fifteen year old has the deeper voice #anyway on an unrelated note #michiru is LITERALLY in love with nazuna #like if i was doubting it before this episode i'm definitely not doubting it now #grace watches bna

[starrysharks]

could you show a little bit of your art progression over the years? your style is absolutely magnificent btwbtw!!

sure ! i've done a similar post, but that was focused on shape language and didn't go over all of my art progression. i'll link it at the end of this post!

anyway, i started digital art around 7 years ago, but all of the art from that period is essentially lost. at that time, it was just deviantart bases and various furry/warrior cats fanart made in MS paint. while i'm not a fan of vivziepop anymore, she was a big inspiration at that time, as well as a handful of popular animation meme artists at the time. around 2019, i started making art in krita using a mouse. and later that year, i started making art in ibispaint (mostly skullgirls fanart). unfortunately, practically everything from before 2020 is lost because it was on reddit accounts that i had deleted out of cringe. don't delete your old art ever!!! i do have this piece though, made in 2020 on krita with a mouse. my main inspirations were invader zim and other cartoons.

my artstyle took a lot of dips and turns around this time. i got back into anime, and it influenced my style in a way that i think made it really ugly and bad looking. i also refused to ever flip my canvas. i think this era actually held me back. here's an example.

anyway, by 2021, i had gotten into more anime that influenced my style in a different way. i forget the exact ones, but i did watch a lot of stuff from trigger (like BNA and LWA) at the time, and also got into enstars which influenced my compositions a lot. it's also around the time that nova in her current "space astronaut bunny" concept was born. i started experimenting with backgrounds, color palletes, and colored lines, which was crucial. i look back at this era pretty fondly. though i still refused to flip my canvas :D

by 2022, my artstyle looked like this -

(this is actually from dec 2021 but like. it's still what my artstyle looked like)

i had played world's end club and rewatched panty and stocking, and it changed my brain chemistry. i decided that my artstyle would be "60% anime, 40% western cartoon", and despite some shortlived phases where i'd go for a slightly different style, i still kept it up. looking at least year's art summary, though, you can see that i broke away from that style for something more anime. and also, i hardly ever experimented with colors anymore because i was focused on character design. i'm gonna be real i think everything after july looks like absolute bootycheeks. i hate this weird single tiny dot reflection style i had going on it looks like dogwater.

after 2022, my art was in a miserable transitional period where i had zero clue what direction i wanted to go in. but despite all that, this piece in particular is crucial. because i used halftones in the background. it's foreshadowing!!!

i continued like this for a while, until the time where i decided to play around with shapes with those vocaloid big 8 drawings. people really liked the shapes that i used in that one, and i found them fun to draw. so i started exaggerating more, and after i rewatched panty and stocking for the 307492020506th time, as well as invader zim for the 2nd time, my cartoony roots came back.

and then, when my art was already steadily improving, across the spiderverse dropped, and i watched it. funnily enough afterwards i had a big art block because i was just thinking, "you need to draw if you want to work on something as big as that! improve!!!!" which kind of held me back. but after all that, i decided to take a note out of ATSV (and comic books in general)'s book and start using halftones in my work. as well as that, i started focusing on lineart way more, and tried to play around with lineweight. which brings us to present day, where my latest art pieces look like this :

i still think that my artstyle needs a lot of work. even these pieces have issues when it comes to symmetry, values, and the like. but nowadays, though my art takes far longer now (as i've abandoned special pens and just do lineart with the hard dip pen in a kind of tedious way), i'm having more fun with it than i have in years. i think halftones fit my artstyle really well, and they're a unique way to "fill up" areas. now that i pay attention to lineart, i think it makes my art feel 'fuller', at least with more depth. did i mention my inspirations for this current 'phase' of my art? :0 i've been playing a lot of muse dash lately, and my pinterest boards are always full of stuff from TWEWY and megaman. there's far more than that, but in short, i want a sharp and striking style with bright colors. i know that you said a little bit of my progression and i basically dropped a whole essay 😭 ,,, but i really like talking about art in general even if i'm not very good at it. i hope this was interesting at the very least! here's the other post also:

#ask zeno #zeno's art #long post #VERY long post #i reallly wish i had my old art to show you guys but oh well #i think my art is improving maybe

[iobartach]

ROLEPLAY HISTORY post characters you’d like to roleplay as, have roleplayed as, and might bring back.

CURRENT MUSES

Miguel O'Hara. He moved in and now refuses to leave!

Fantomex. For whenever I feel like doing a bit of trolling. 🤣

Occasionally Gabriel O'Hara & Kron Stone, Miguel's half-siblings. Been very hit and miss in terms of writing muse for 'em, though.

WANT TO WRITE

I'm always contemplating new prospects, but a muse would usually need to mentally get me in a vice grip first before I'd give 'em a try! Currently that's been Miguel, but in previous years I've gone through the same with Wolverine (Logan), Thor and John Constantine.

That said though... I've been considering picking up Terry McGinnis 👀 more than likely as a low-activity muse, since I haven't read / watched Batman Beyond in years, but still!

PAST CANON MUSES ( primary )

Ooof. I'll be merciful and give you the abridged version ! 🥴

Goku, Vegeta (Majin), Frieza (DBZ) ; Omega Shenron (DBGT)

Dante (DMC)

Eight Doctor, The Master [Dharwan] (Doctor Who)

Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez, Ulquiorra Cifer, Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck (Bleach)

Cole McGrath (InFamous)

Iron Man ['The Crossing' version] (Marvel)

Starscream (Transformers)

PAST CANON MUSES( secondary / casual )

Zane Flynt (Borderlands 3)

Kakashi Hatake, Itachi Uchiha (Naruto / Shippuden)

Hope Summers (Marvel)

Shirou Ogami (BNA)

WOULD WRITE AGAIN

If anyone's interested, I've got... a handful of OCs that I may or not let surface on Tumblr, someday. To name a few, I have; An Overwatch 'Talon Recruiter'; Bleach shinigami; Original lore 'dragon guardian' / warrior; League of Legends chembaron; Outriders (With some Mass Effect influences) Altered; werewolf; spy. ... soooo ... yeah!

Vilgax. Either OG or rebooted version... not sure! I've missed the squid faced bastard!

Some sort of Dragon Ball muse? Maybe Frieza again, or a sort of DBGT-based Vegeta. Could be interesting to try!

TAGGED BY: swiped from @therapardalis !

TAGGING: Grab it! Go!

#dash game #i open my coat and muses spill out #whoops #not a complete list ofc but defo (a few) of my faves!

[tulipselfships]

Alan, Shirou, Byakuya, Nagito, Kokichi with Reader that is like Sonic.

-I’m a gaming nerd, I like your blog and have a nice day 💙💙💙

Alan Sylvastia, Shirou Ogami, Byakuya Togami, Nagito Komaeda, Kokichi Ouma X Reader who is like Sonic from Sonic The Hedgehog

CW: Shirou Spoilers??? I dunno man.

(OOC: Thanks for the request! I loved writing for what is basically a Sonic!Reader. I decided to base it on Modern Sonic, if that's fine.)

Requests are open!

Request Rules

Fandom Masterlist

BNA: Brand New Animal Masterlist

Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc Masterlist

Super Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair Masterlist

Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony Masterlist

Alan Sylvastia

Safe to say, he's impressed.

Although he's seen beastmen with similar scale abilities, he sure hasn't seen one as fast as you are.

This causes intrigue within him.

He tries to use your powers for experiments for his company. Nothing unethical, just some measures of your energy.

Of course, he loves you too.

He wants to spend all of the time he can with you.

He still finds a way to be the dominant one in the relationship, despite your personality.

Shirou Ogami

Again, he's seen beastmen with powers on a similar scale to yours.

He's even able to catch up to you, funny enough.

He makes 100% sure you use your powers for good.

Also, he has you run errands for the beastman co-op.

He does take you up on challenges, just because he wants some action in his old man bones dammit.

Your activity has him internally swooning for you.

One of his favorite things to do is to lead you to big romantic date setups at fancy restaurants. It makes him Flustered to see your reactions.

Byakuya Togami

He is attracted to you, but he's full of regret too.

When you're really kicking up a storm, he has to remind you to “stop acting like an informal baboon.”

He still loves you though.

But your cocky personality can get to him.

He wants to prove himself to you. No reason for it, he just feels like he needs to.

He often fails. But you don't shame him for it.

In fact, you love him for his attempts. He tries, and he tries for you.

Above all, he wants you to be happy with him.

Nagito Komaeda

Nagito notices your attitude, but really doesn't care.

He doesn't take challenges seriously. Because he will never beat you.

He thinks that he will never be as talented as you.

Of course, as soon as you catch on, you do everything in your power to make sure he knows that, while he may not be as fast or as powerful as you, he is more than enough.

He loves watching you. It's one of the best things he's ever watched.

You're one of the best things he's looked at.

He says your talents bring hope not only to him, but to others.

Kokichi Ouma

“Wow, you've got some speed! I could use you to take out my enemies.”

Of course, he jokes about using you in his “Supreme leader” job.

You love challenging each other to do things.

You're almost like 2 bros, as opposed to lovers.

But, you're still lovers through and through.

“Ooh, that face, I'm jealous! I just wanna kiss you right now.”

He admires you. And he loves to see you flustered.

He takes every opportunity he can to compliment you, and give you praise.

He means it, though. Despite the fact that his main goal is to Fluster you.

You two are a great match. This is sure to go on for a while

#headcanon requests #x reader headcanons #x reader requests #x reader #bna x y/n #bna x you #bna x reader #alan sylvastia x reader #alan sylvastia #shirou ogami x reader #shirou ogami #danganronpa x y/n #danganronpa x you #danganronpa x reader #byakuya togami x reader #byakuya togami #nagito komaeda x reader #nagito komaeda #kokichi ouma x reader #kokichi ouma #danganronpa goodbye despair #danganronpa trigger happy havoc #danganronpa killing harmony

[fanz-y]

So now that I've actually watched 10 anime I wanted to rank them from best to worst

1. MSG: the Witch from Mercury; I have not seen any other Gundam show but I don't think this one is leaving #1 spot ever, and Bandai were cowards and homophobic for not showing us either a kiss or the wedding even though they got married, also I'm so mad that I episode 11 during the hug they didn't even say "I love you". The robots became the least interesting part of the robot show (8th I watched)

2. Bocchi the Rock!; probably what I want most anime to be, can't wait for the movie('s), this, G-Witch and Your Name might as well both be #1, also I want a cute Bocchi plush but I can't find one that's affordable without a high delivery :< (7th I watched)

3. Your Name; A movie that I found on a trans subreddit about a year ago, I didn't think it'd be as good as it was or that it'd affect me as much as it did, but I was left in tears when the credits came on, the story went somewhere completely than I thought it would, 10/10. also tied for first place, it deserves to be watched in a movie theater so much (10th I watched)

4. Cowboy Bebop; twink and his bear friend go on space adventures oh and the twink has his own shadow the hedgehog (6th one I watched)

5. BNA: Brand New Animal; the one of 2 studio Trigger show I've seen but from what I've read and heard they have a pretty mid reputation, I really liked it tho, I watched it around the time I came out and it's a pretty good trans allegory (still feel a tad weird about the ending) (4th one I watched)

6. Neon Genesis Evangelion (and the 1st movie); (don't)Get in the robot Shinji, I had been interested in it a bunch, big robots and all that, but only just got to it. The self perpetuating loop of abuse and trauma that Shinji and everyone gets put through because Genduo can't get over the death of his wife is horrible and I can't think of a more despicable antagonist than him, the movie was so fucked up. I still struggle to get what Seele was supposed to represent. I loved every scene where the Eva's get shown as demons, those looked real cool (9th I watched) (watched it entirely cuz of Signalis)

7. Cyberpunk Edgerunners; watched this before I played the game, the abuse that David went through combined with the end that I miss interpreted put me a bit off and I missed the point, but I got it after a rewatch (3rd one I watched)

8. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure; now that I've grown as a person I can safely say that it deserved to drift from spot 1, part 4 is still my fave. And it's still really really good in spite of how low it is (1st I watched)

9. Guilty Gear Xrd & Strive story mode; I am both counting and lumping them together, I liked the oversized Smurf with a gun, also Elphelt bby girl, still would've preferred an actual game tho(5th one I watched)

100000000000. Future Diary; I've watch this in a trade to get someone else to watch JoJo's, they came out better off with that deal, I am also no longer friends with that person (not because of the show but it's funny to mention) (2nd I watched) I still think it's missing some zeros, just add however many you believe it needs

Honorable mentions:

- Signalis; I know it's not an anime but it's anime adjacent and it's the best story I've ever played through, I don't even like horror games or gore at all that much but I will 100% this game and get all the endings, I wish I could talk about it more but spoiling ANYTHING about it feels wrong and making posts where half the words are censored just so fans get it isn't gonna work

- Pokemon; I loved the XYZ and B&W runs but I haven't watched it all and only remember catching it on TV

-Scott Pilgrim takes off, I watched the first few episodes, I don't particularly care for it, but it looks pretty good

Dishonorable mentions:

- Attack on Titan; I've had a run in with the series back when season 1 came out, back when I thought gore was cool, now I have negative interest in the series, I literally couldn't care less and I'm only putting it here to be fair

Conclusion:

After the Witch from Mercury and Evangelion, I don't care for big robots as much as I used to.

Oh and I'm watching some more soon-ish gimme recommendations

#guilty gear #signalis #neon genesis evangelion #your name #jojos bizarre adventure #the witch from mercury #cyberpunk 2077 #cowboy bebop #bocchi the rock! #bna: brand new animal

[best-underrated-anime]

Best Underrated Anime Group L Round 2: #L1 vs #L2

#L1: Normal Girl™ accidentally joins Kansai’s biggest criminals

#L2: Girl turns into a tanuki and learns about racism

Details and poll under the cut!

#L1: Akudama Drive

Summary:

After the fall-out of a war between the Kanto and Kansai regions of Japan, citizens of Kansai now live in a dystopia. Criminals are bigger and badder than before, resulting in a specialized Execution Division rising to combat these ‘Akudama.’

An ordinary person accidentally wedges herself into the midst of a gang of the worst of the worst, and now she’s on the run with Kansai’s top Akudama to fulfill a cryptic mission. Her goal was to get back to her normal life, but one thing leads to another and she gets trapped, bound by her sense of morals to stick with her terrible team.

The team in question consists of a Brawler with a need to find the toughest opponent to fight, a Doctor who toys with lives, a Hacker who has run out of games to play, a Courier who always gets the job done, a Cutthroat with a kill count of 999 bodies, and a Hoodlum who was set for a prison sentence of 5 years. Joining them is the Black Cat, their mysterious recruiter, who promises great wealth to the Akudama.

Propaganda:

Akudama Drive is an anime produced by a video game company, and it’s amazingly a single standalone piece, unlike their other projects. The three people who lead the creation of the Danganronpa series (character designer, story writer, and music composer) came together and produced something so different from their usual pattern and it pays off.

The character designs are so fun, the music vibes hard, and the story is better than anything seen in DR before since (no offense meant) the cast all get fleshed out as individuals beyond a single trope. Everyone is depicted as morally grey, and it’s such a fun experience to watch the madness break out and root for the bad guys or the bad guys.

Every scene is so pretty, and you can see the color theory SLAPPING THE SCREEN, it’s so pleasing to look at. The voice acting is also top tier! The character evolution can literally be heard in the voices 🛐 The anime is a fun show with cool stunts and epic battles, but it’s still got some interesting social commentary if you’re the type that loves dissecting that madness. There’s a little something for everyone!

Trigger Warnings: Child Abuse, Emotional Abuse, Graphic Depictions of Cruelty/Violence/Gore, Rape/Non-Con, Self-Harm, Constant Flashing Lights and Screaming

#L2: BNA: Brand New Animal

Summary:

Throughout history, humans have been at odds with Beastmen—a species capable of changing shape due to their genetic "Beast Factor." Because of this conflict, Beastmen have been forced into hiding. Anima City serves as a safe haven for these oppressed individuals to live free from human interference.

During a festival celebrating the town's 10th anniversary, Michiru Kagemori, a human who suddenly turned into a tanuki, finds that Anima City is a far cry from paradise. After witnessing an explosion in the square, she is confronted by Shirou Ogami, a seemingly indestructible wolf and sworn protector of all Beastmen. As they pursue the criminals behind the bombing, the two discover that Michiru is anything but an ordinary Beastman, and look to investigate her mysterious past and uncanny abilities. Could she turn out to be the missing link between Humans and Beastmen?

Propaganda:

This is one of the first few anime I watched when I was getting into it, so I'm rather fond of it. Though the show is only one season, overall it's pretty solid and ties everything together at the end. I also really like how they utilize color in the animation (it especially makes fight scenes more interesting to watch). The worldbuilding they have with the beastmen is pretty neat as well. This anime is good if you're looking for something quick to watch.

Trigger Warnings: There is some violence, and since the characters are animals, that may fall under animal cruelty. There are a few parts in the show where the colors get pretty intense, so that could be considered flashing lights. There is racism, as the beastmen are discriminated against by humans.

When reblogging and adding your own propaganda, please tag me @best-underrated-anime so that I’ll be sure to see it.

If you want to criticize one of the shows above to give the one you’re rooting for an advantage, then do so constructively. I do not tolerate groundless hate or slander on this blog. If I catch you doing such a thing in the notes, be it in the tags or reblogs, I will block you.

Know one of the shows above and not satisfied with how it’s presented in this tournament? Just fill up this form, where you can submit revisions for taglines, propaganda, trigger warnings, and/or video.

#anime #best underrated anime #polls #poll tournament #tournament #anime tournament #animation #group stage #group stage round 2 #tournament polls #group l #akudama drive #bna: brand new animal #bna

[the-ravenclaw-werewolf]

If you were not able to choose the 40 anime/Manga you picked out for your fanfic, which other ones would you have picked out instead?

Naruto

Bleach

One Piece

Nanbaka

Classroom of the Elite

The Great Pretender

BNA: Brand New Animal

Stars Align

Your Lie in April

Clannad

Hikaru no Go

The Vampire Dies in No Time

Angel Beats

Chainsaw Man

Jojo Bizarre Adventures

Space Dandy

Trigun

Samurai Champloo

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Tokyo Ghoul

Love After World Domination

Code Geass

Psycho-Pass (Once I watch it)

Komi Can't Communicate

Tokyo Revengers

Bungo Stray Dogs

Yona of The Dawn

Blue Lock

Black Clover

Devilman Crybaby

Made in Abyss

Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto

Fairytail

Death Parade

Steins Gate

Parasyte

Kotaro Lives Alone

Ranking of Kings

Spy x Family

Mashle: Magic and Muscles

#main character syndrome (with exceptions) #the 40 #the_ravenclaw_werewolf #archive of our own #multifandom fanfiction #ask & answer #hulkchloron99 #alternate 40

[doorbloggr]

BNA and the Cure vs Treatment Allegory

Media Recommendation #38

Recently I watched a Netflix Anime series called Brand New Animal, better known as BNA. It is a series by Studio Trigger, creators of some of my favourite over the top action series and masters of worldbuilding. And thought I went in with the preconception that BNA was furbait or perhaps a commentary on xenophobia, I found a more intimate, and unique message.

For this reccomendation/review, I wanna do something different and discuss how I read the media and the implications I can take from its message.

Spoilers for BNA Ahead!

Brand New Animal / BNA

Studio Trigger

Brand New Animal is set in alternate timeline to ours, where most historic events happened the same on the same planet, but there was a second race of sentient humanoids. What are referred to as Beastmen, are lineages of people who have animal traits to their mannerisms and behaviours, and can also take on an anthropomorphic animal form to maximise expression of these traits.

Humans and Beastmen have coexisted for centuries, beastmen often in the shadows of humans, but current fear of the different have outcast beastmen. They are scorned and publicly harassed, to the point of violence, and thus, the Beastmen have established (or been herded into, depending on interpretation), an asylum city called Anima, where Beastmen can be themselves without fear of judgement or danger.

While initially, I saw this as an allegory for race hatred and xenophobia, throughout the series, there seems to be a more nuanced moral thread being spun.

You see, Beastmen are not just different on the outside, they are very different on the inside. But the allegory is not a black and white "all humans are like this, and all beastmen are like that". Beastmen act different depending on their beast.

Fierce beasts like lions and bulls have no filter on aggression, they will lash out with little reason. Sly beasts like weasels and monkeys have little concept of manners, steal things, and refuse to own up to their mistakes. Free spirited animals like albatross and dolphins have little social awareness, and will do what they want, regardless of rules or consequence.

The main character of the series, Michiru, was born a human, but through an accident, became a beastman recently, and the traits of her beast, a tanooki, start to shine through her persona without her realising. She becomes more curious, assertive, puts herself out there even to her own detriment.

Now the thing about beastmen, as I've hinted at above, is that, they do not always have to take their animal form. In fact, even within Anima City, most beastmen will take on a human form publicly, and perhaps only show their beast side when their emotions get the better of them.

What am I on about?

If it wasn't obvious what the connection I'm trying to make is, I think BNA is exploring the experience of a neurodivergent through the Beastmen. Now I am not diagnosed with any form of mental disorder, so I could be completely talking out of my ass, but hear me out.

Since Beastmen can take on the appearance of a regular human, the extent of their condition can go unnoticed, or seem invisible to the observer. Until they lose their cool, and display their true colours. Then they are branded as freaks, and removed from the same rights and opportunities as neurotypicals, here represented by the "humans".

Now, Beastmen do not fit into one neat box of "not human". Beastmen, (and the neurodivergent) come with a range of quirks, depending on their specific circumstances, and their bestial treats are unique to them. Many mental disorders are on a spectrum, and some may have a lot of difficulty functioning in regular society, while others appear neurotypical to the untrained eye.

My allegory may seem weak on these arguments alone, but the metaphor best comes together with the ending; how humans ultimately choose to approach the problem.

How to "deal with" the Beastmen

In the final arc of the series, a series of fantastical outbursts happen in some individuals, causing them to physically swell and become monstrous, unstoppable. It is referred to as Nirvasyl Syndrome, named after an ancient city where similar mass outbreaks caused mass histeria and loss of life. At first, it seems like the evil scientist human organisation are causing this problem, but it is revealed this is a result of too many beastmen being pressed into one space. The stress overcomes them and they spiral into a state beyond help.

The human scientists offer a solution, a syrum that would remove the "Beast Factor", the part of their DNA that makes them Beastmen. If they weren't Beastmen anymore, they would lack the part of themselves that lose control. But... they would also lose what makes them unique. Michiru is initially on board with this plan, since they used to be classified as just human, but Shirou, a very proud Wolf Beastman, thinks this "solution" is erasure. It is saying that Beastmen would be better of dead than be Beastmen.

My personal reading of this plot point is that of the "Cure to Autism" fallacy. Autism is the cause of a lot of stress in parents and others who think that Autism and other mental disorders can and should be "cured". But the truth of the matter is, these mental disorders are as much a part of these people's psyche as their parent's DNA, and removing the whole syndrome would be erasing the person. If that were even possible to do.

The ultimate ending to Brand New Animal is that within Michiru's DNA, they find a syrum that offers another path. It is a drug that when administered to Beastmen, causes a suppression of the effects of Nirvasyl Syndrome, and the Beastmen still get to be beastmen.

The current focus of many mental illnesses such as Autism has not been on a cure, but on treatment. Instead of completely erasing what makes us unique, we can suppress the worst parts of our conditions so we can function in society as humans. Or as Beastmen.

Thanks for Reading

This one got really long, so thanks for looking through the whole thing if you did. If readers interpret any part of my explanation as offensive, I wholly apologise. Please let me know what I've said wrong and I will try to clarify in follow up posts.

If you haven't watched Brand New Animal, I wholly reccomend it. The animation style is fun, the characters are interesting, and as I've explained in this article, there is more to its message than meets the eye.

#blog #blogpost #media recommendations #anime recommendations #brand new animal #bna #neurodivergent #autism

[saturnniidae]

Introduction!

Basic info:

☆ Hi, I'm Moth (or Saturnniidae, or Deya!) I really like cartoons, fantasy, horror, and Ash Ketchum. They/them, Liberian-American & aroace lesbian. Sometimes I post art and maybe write. I'm audhd and in highschool (get me out of here)

☆ I'm multifandom, and my interests tend to change every few months due to hyperfixations, but my main ones are: Pokéani (specifically gens 4 & 7), Tales of Arcadia, Minecraft and How to Train Your Dragon. (These are special interests, and I've been obsessed with them for most of my life.)

Can't believe I have to say this but if you ship adults x children, incest or humans x animals (pikashipping & toothcup, 'proshippers' or whatever you call yourselves) you're not welcome here

Additional info

☆ I've been told I can come off as abrasive sometimes; I promise I don't bite, I'm just autistic 🦈🦈

☆ I enjoy talking to people, but also have really bad social anxiety and stare at notifications like a deer in headlights because I'm not sure how to respond. (Better at talking in tags/comments than dms tbh)

☆ I swear, a lot (just thought I'd say bc ik some people don't like that 😭) and also make/reblog a lot of suggestive jokes.

☆ I try to use tone tags if somethings unclear but often forget to

☆ if you're an adult and want to be mutuals or follow me that's fine, just keep in mind i am not

☆ I lovee worldbuilding, and overthinking implications and what-ifs when it comes to my favorite media's!!

☆ I enjoy talking in tags wayy too much

☆ feel free to send me an ask abt any of my fandoms I'll love u forever

☆ My other interests: Wakfu, nitw, mcsm, toh, lwa, BNA, ROTBTD, genloss, tales of arcadia, atla/tlok, kipo & the age of wonderbeasts, infinity train, nge, ianowt, bee & puppycat, vld, little nightmares, tdp, miraculous ladybug, gravity falls, hilda, the xmen movies (I rarely watch yt or twitch but do sometimes watch Ranboo and Aimsey and a few others but haven't in a while tho I might rb stuff occasionally 👍)

Characters who I love dearly (they give me so much brainrot)

Ash ketchum, Gary Oak, Hiccup Haddock, Champion Iris, Goh, Jim Lake Jr, Claire Nuñez, Nomura, Azula, Mae Borowski, Astrid Hofferson (probably more im forgetting bc my memory's not that great)

dividers

#intro post #my tags for navigation: #moth.txt #moth.jpg #moth.au #moth.fic #moth.mp4 #ty if u actually went thru the effort to resd this gold star on ur forehead fr

[wispisstillverybored67]

Oh Nazuna, dear Nazuna...

#I'm not gonna lie. It hit close #wisp rambles #:p #wisp watches bna #bna: brand new animal #nazuna hiwatashi

[zukkaoru]

ogami 🤝 gojo

white hair, intense need to save everyone by themselves, probably misread as having a god complex but in reality they just know how powerful they are, definitely has some sort of tragic backstory they don't like to talk about,,,

#i'm connecting the dots #grace watches bna #hello grace here #also they're definitely both aspec