

She suddenly woke up one day in Japari Park not knowing where she or who she was, and set off on an adventure through the park to learn what kind of Friend she was. It also helps that they are essentially human for the most part and can now eat a wider variety of food such as curry. This allows carnivores and omnivores to be friends with herbivores without all that awkward killing and eating that would hurt friendships. Vegetarian Carnivore: All the Friends eat Japari buns, which are found everywhere.Beasts seem to have this form by default, making them more dangerous.All of the Friends excluding Kaban exhibit this in Episode 12. Apparently, every Friend has access to a wild side, which makes them stronger in some way.Some rules apply to subspecies or color variants. Single Specimen Species: Only one of each species of Friends appear in the anime, with the exception of Serval with Kaban and Serval with Mirai.This could explain why some of the Friends are extinct animals. Our Zombies Are Different: The Sandstar can apparently turn the remains of animal into Friends.This is one of the features that makes Kaban stand out. Never Learned to Read: Friends are incapable of reading.In a bit of Played for Drama, some Friends end up more animal than human, becoming Beasts instead. Little Bit Beastly: Friends are essentially human with some features of whatever animal they were previously.Improbably Female Cast: All the known characters besides Kyururu are female or non-organic.However, the Beast (Amur Tiger) is said to have only 1/10 of the other Friends’ lifespans despite having lived for what is apparently 2,000 years.As long as they are not killed or absorbed by Celliens, they can essentially live forever. Episode 1 of season 2 fully confirms that Friends are biologically immortal. Immortality: Although supplemental material had suggested it for years.Furry Reminder: Even in their new form, Friends still exhibit behaviors of their original species.Fur Is Clothing: Played With all Friends fall into Little Bit Beastly territory and wear human clothes, but they refer to their clothing as "fur" and are unaware that they can take it off until Kaban points it out to them.Fossil Revival: The Sandstar can create Friends from animal remains, effectively becoming this.The PPP, who are Legacy Characters using stage names, and Kaban, who's named after her bag, are the sole exceptions. A Dog Named "Dog": All of the Friends are named for the species of animal they are.This causes this trope to happen to them. The Berserker: Some animals end up having an adverse effect to Sandstar, becoming Beasts instead of Friends.Thus, everyone from a solitary hunter to a mild-mannered tea shop owner to an idol unit can and will beat up monsters on the regular. Badass Adorable: They may be cute girls, but they're also wild animals, and while they don't hunt each other anymore, they still need to fight for their lives against Celliens.It happens again in Episode 11 of Season 2, when Kaban drives almost all of the friends that Kyururu and company met to the undersea hotel that they were currently at.Most of the plot-important Friends make a return in episode 12 of Season 1.Animal Gender-Bender: Animals turned into Friends by Sandstar are female regardless of the original sex, which leads to some of them exhibiting male characteristics (manes, horns/antlers, etc.).Animal Eyes: Some of the Friends have pupils shaped like those of their original species (i.e.Tropes for the characters of Kemono Friends.
