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Plot often times doesn't make sense. It is revealed as a central point that Beastmen could easily defeat human armies but somehow: Are (or were?) second class citizens and oppressed by a presumably weak human force. The humans in this version of Japan also give Beastmen a state funded ethnosta-*ahem* autonomous city state that serves to promote friendship between Beastmen and humans. But Anima City often gives me the impression of: "what if Detroit, Israel and an Indian reservation had a threesome with several Japanese deities?"

Details of the world are revealed in a manner that a gap that needs to be filled isn't and the ... gaps that are filled, either didn't need to be filled, or become irrelevant as the story proceeds or contradict the reasoning for some of the character's actions. Why do I need to know about Beastmen crossbreeding if that won't be relevant in any- oh, nevermind apparently this ONLY character has something against people crossbreeding, but earlier it was also revealed that it's irrelevant, because the genes of one of the parents prevail on the offspring- huh what? We have a character wasting resources and getting nearly killed in the realization of those over probably nothing at all. This in the end fucks with my ability to sympathize with the lousy attempt at creating a cosmopolitan and anti-racist subtext, as either hamfisted at best, and emotionally manipulative at worst.

The characters make me laugh, but not in a good way:

Michiru Kagemori: Incredibly naïve ex-human tanuki that seemingly gets way with fucking it up for the politics of the city by being cute (and indeed, some characters mention this!) at the end of the day, the plot armor shines through and she ends up saving the city.

Nazuna Hiwatashi: HOLY FUCK. I wouldn't trust a friend that changed in such a radical manner that betrays what they stood for. I wouldn't forgive a friend, if they see me primarily as a Machiavellian mean to reach their ends... Multiple times... And they tell me that in my face even at times I need them more than anything. There wouldn't be a thing that they could do, that would salvage our relationship. Sure, I help you save the inhabitants of the city, but we aren't friends anymore and I don't care that a cult manipulated you either into doing what plummeted the city into chaos to begin with. But goddammit! Michiru isn't exactly a bright girl.

Shirou Ogami: Mhhh... I wonder what this guy's past could possibly be! Not that Ogami is a misnomer of a word for "deity" in Japanese. If he is a demigod, he's the demigod of being a edgelord. Some army kills thousands people in my Eurasian homeland and I rise from the pool of blood and get immortality. I think I once read about of this OC on DeviantArt many years ago.

Alan Sylvasta: The CEO of a pharmaceutical company and somehow, he did not know that racial impurities cannot exist among Beastmen who crossbreed? This calls for a boardroom meeting.

For its many faults and my somewhat heavy handed review, I would be expected to give a much lower rating. But the anime does manage to be entertaining, regardless of the baggage of nonsense it drops on me. But perhaps, I don't want to be BRUTALLY honest about the quality of the anime. After all, this is my first ever public review of any anime I've written, and I think BNA managed to unblur what I would like to see in an anime and what I wouldn't.