Michiru Kagemori

Michiru Kagemori is the main protagonist of the 2020 Japanese anime BNA: Brand New Animal. Formerly a human like the others, Michiru suddenly became a beast woman tanuki, people capable of transforming into humanoid animals, forcing her to leave for Anima City where the other beast man live, both to hide from hatred normal people and also to find a way to become human again.
She is voiced by Sumire Morohoshi in Japanese, and by Cherami Leigh in the English dub (who also voices Minako Aino/Sailor Venus in Sailor Moon, Patricia "Patty" Thompson in Soul Eater, Makoto Niijima/Queen in Persona 5, Asuna Yuuki in Sword Art Online, Lucy Heartfilia in Fairy Tail, Sarada Uchiha in Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, Chloe Cerise in Pokémon Journeys, and Shana in Shakugan no Shana).
==Personality==
Michiru is a pretty stoic girl, always trying to keep her feet on the ground in a city where things often turn to savagery. She was able to guess that Marie wanted money in exchange for her help to take her to Anima City. Just knowing how sordid and violent Anima City baseball was made her call it "Insane."
She tends to confuse the tanuki and the raccoon or the weasel with the mink, much to Marie's boredom.
==Powers and Abilities==
Human-Turned Beastmen Physiology: Because she gained her beastmen powers through a botched blood transfusion as with her best friend Nazuna, Michiru displayed greater shapeshifting abilities than regular beastmen in addition of yet to be discovered powers unique to her, all of which that enable her to match the strength of Transcendent Beastmen if properly honed.
*Shapeshifting: As with regular beastmen, Michiru can shapeshift between her human form and base beastmen form (blue tanuki) as well as turning her body parts into that of other animals to suit her needs:
** Bunny Ears: Michiru's ears can elongate resembling rabbit's ears allowing her to hear conversations from far away or listen through walls or doors.
** Bird Beak: Michiru can turn her mouth into a bird's beak allowing her to amplify her voice. She also appears to gain tail feathers as well as a crest on her head similar to a rooster's.
** Gorilla Punch: While preparing to throw an object or throw a punch, Michiru's arms enlarge to a massive size due to an increase in muscle mass, easily allowing her to overpower opponents or create bursts of wind with thrown objects. Her throws at least with a baseball seem to be able to dent and break concrete.
** Cheetah Speed: Michiru's lower half of her body turns into a cheetah's, replacing her legs and tail with the agile predator's, allowing for an incredible burst of speeds. The tail is probably there to act as a real cheetah's tail in the wild would as a way to counteract body torsion while she is turning at high speeds keeping her balanced.
** Wings: Michiru's arms can transform into wings which can grow in size when needed.
** Chameleon Camouflage: Michiru can turn her skin into a chameleon's skin and use it to blend in. Her clothes are unaffected by that ability.
** Wolf's sense of smell: Michiru can shapeshift her head into a wolf's head and gain a sense of smell as keen as Shirou's.
** Hawk Eyes: Michiru's eyes change to help increase her view distance and sharpening her focus by changing her eyes into hawk eyes.
*Special Abilities:
** Long Arms: Michiru can extend and bend her arms to reach faraway objects.
** Expandable Tail: Michiru's tail can expand to an enormous size easily weighing her down or use as a shield by engulfing around herself and others to protect them from harm.
**Pseudo-Photokinesis: Whenever Michiru shapeshifts any of her body parts or shifting between her human form and basic beastmen form, the process often accompanied by flashes of light, particularly while being distressed. When she expanded her tail to stop Shirou and the attacking terrorists to stop fighting, Michiru unknowingly generated a flash of bright light that blinds everyone present.
==History==
When she was still human, Michiru had a bicycle accident with a girl named Nazuna Hiwatashi and the two ended up in the hospital because the accident was so severe that they needed a blood transfusion. There they praised a friendship that ended up making them best friends. Without their knowledge, their blood transfusion contained the blood of a beast.
Michiru loved spending time with Nazuna until the days when Nazuna turned into a beastman and was taken away by a mysterious person. Nazuna's disappearance plunged Michiru into deep depression for a while before she turned into a beast woman Tanuki. Believing that it was an illness, Michiru remained hidden in her home because it was well known that the beast was discriminated against and persecuted by humans.
==Roles==
===Runaway Raccoon===
Believing that she had found a cure for his condition, Michiru set out on a stealth journey to Anima City, avoiding being noticed by humans. After a long ride on the roof of a bus, some beastman hunters spotted her and nearly killed her but before they could do so, Marie and two colaporators arrived and gave the hunters a good beating. Marie then demanded all of Michiru's money for first saving her life and then taking her to Anima City which is on an island.
Moving through the eerily deserted and dark city, Michiru arrives at a suddenly lit large plaza and joined by the townspeople to celebrate the anniversary of the founding of Anima City. Happy to be able to show off in her animal form, Michiru enjoys the festivities until Marie approaches her for not giving her all her money as promised. While the Tanuki refuses to give more, a pickpocket monkey steals her wallet. She continues when suddenly explosions ring out and collapse a giant screen. In an unsuccessful attempt to save an old goatee from being squished, Michiru is rescued non-extremist by a wolf named Shirou Oogami who suspects her before Michiru informs him of a shady coyote technician who was hanging out near the screen.
Trying to find the pickpocket, Michiru witnesses another explosion and goes there. There, she sees Shirou fighting violently against criminals hired by humans to wreak havoc. Once the mercenaries are defeated, Michiru intervenes by unconsciously causing the fur on his tail to enlarge when it becomes obvious that Shirou was going to kill them. She then claimed that the Beastmens must not kill each other in Anima City, only for Shirou to respond that a Beastmen allied to humans is also a human, the archenemy of Anima City. Michiru answers that not all humans are bad because she was also human, leaving Shirou in disbelief.
===Rabbit Town===
===Rhino Melancholy===
===Dolphin Daydream===
===Greedy Bears===
===Fox Waltz===
==Trivia==
* Michiru's shape shifting abilities are inspired by that of tanuki, a creature of Japanese mythology which too, a shapeshifter. Ironically, she insisted that her basic Beastman form being that of raccoon, which admittedly not entirely wrong since her eye marking being similar to that of animal in question most.
* Michiru shares similarities to Kipo Oak from DreamWorks' Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, as both are part-human, part-animal being with shapeshifting-assisted superhuman abilities.
** However, she shares much more in common with Ken Kaneki as both somehow turned into unique variant of a race that had conflict against humanity (Michiru became human-turned Beastman and Kaneki a one-eyed ghoul) following a life-threatening accident and subsequent treatment at the hospital, leading them struggling with their altered physiology along with superhuman abilities that came with it and figuring out the conspiracy that surrounded the predicament that changed them. However, whereas Michiru was able to easily adapted with her new forms and the hospital where she was treated administered Beastman blood into her system by mistake and that the blood in question could be traced to Sylvasta Pharmaceuticals that secretly aimed to destroy Anima City, Kaneki had a hard time to do the same owing to ghoul's diet being limited to human flesh and coffee and his conversion being part of Aogiri Tree and its benefactor Professor Kanou's experiments to create artificial one-eyed ghouls.
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