Welcome to Japari Park!

Kemono Friends (Japanese: けものフレンズ) is a franchise by manga artist Mine Yoshizaki. Originally a smartphone game developed by Nexon between March 2015 and December 2016, as well as a manga serialization in Kadokawa"s Monthly Shōnen Ace between May 2015 and March 2017, the series has been adapted into an anime series as of January 2017.

The series revolves around Japari Park, a large integrated zoo housing many extant, extinct, endangered, cryptid, and threatened species who have all been converted into anthropomorphized girls known as Friends by an unidentified substance known as "Sandstar".

The smartphone game involved finding and befriending different Friends to help you fight Ceruleans, mysterious mostly-amorphous creatures that want to consume everything. The manga adaptation followed the daily life of Nana, the park keeper for Japari Park as she looks after the various Friends, particularly attempting to control Ezo Red Fox. The anime adaptation follows Kaban, a girl with no memory of who she is, where she is, or even WHAT she is, and her adventures with a Serval friend to find out about herself.

The anime is done in a CGI style and definitely isn"t the best executed (in Japan it"s even been described as "making one"s IQ melt" and considered "ugly"), and has a child-aimed goal of teaching about animals through light-hearted entertainment, but it has simplicity and charm that appeals to some but not others. Often recommended to watch the first 2 or 3 episodes.

This group serves primarily as a gathering grounds for fans and people curious about the series, owing to a lack of actual fan groups. Keep it civil and friendly, please. Don"t post anything disturbing or outright NSFW/NSFL in chat or in the comments, nobody wants to deal with that mess and that"s not very Friendly of you.

...and hopefully the group will have a better picture later, that one was thrown together in like 2 minutes.

Watch Kemono Friends on Crunchyroll[www.crunchyroll.com]