Kemono Friends

Kemono Friends
Anime season 1 key visual
けものフレンズ
(Kemono Furenzu)
GenreAdventure[1]
Video game
DeveloperNexon
PublisherNexon
Designed byMine Yoshizaki
GenreRPG
PlatformAndroid, iOS
ReleasedAndroid
March 16, 2015
iOS
March 19, 2015
Manga
Kemono Friends: Welcome to Japari Park!
Written byFurai
Published byKadokawa Shoten
English publisher
MagazineMonthly Shōnen Ace
DemographicShōnen
Original runJuly 2015March 2017
Volumes2
Anime television series
Directed byTatsuki
Produced byKōji Akio
Jun Fukuda
Nobuyuki Hosoya
Yūichi Izumi
Daijō Kudō
Mika Shimizu
Tomo Shioda
Yasuyuki Okamoto
Yoshihiko Ishigaki
Satoshi Fukuda
Written byTatsuki
Music byAkiyuki Tateyama
StudioYaoyorozu
Licensed byCrunchyroll
Original networkTV Tokyo, TV Osaka, TV Aichi, AT-X
Original run January 10, 2017 March 28, 2017
Episodes12 (List of episodes)
Video game
Kemono Friends Pavilion
DeveloperUniqueWave
PublisherBushiroad
Designed byMine Yoshizaki
GenreIncremental
PlatformAndroid, iOS
ReleasedJanuary 26, 2018
Original net animation
Welcome to the Japari Park
Licensed byCrunchyroll
Released August 10, 2018 – present
Video game
Kemono Friends Picross
DeveloperJupiter
PublisherKadokawa Games
GenrePuzzle game
PlatformNintendo Switch
ReleasedOctober 4, 2018
Anime television series
Kemono Friends 2
Directed byRyuichi Kimura
Produced byNobuyuki Hosoya
Miho Ichii
Yūichi Izumi
Kōji Akio
Daijō Kudō
Yasuyuki Okamoto
Yoshihiko Ishigaki
Satoshi Fukuda
Aya Iizuka
Toshio Iizuka
Toshihiro Nagoshi
Hidehisa Nagasawa
Nobuo Kameyama
Written byTakuya Masumoto
Music byAkiyuki Tateyama
StudioTomason
Licensed byCrunchyroll
Original networkTV Tokyo, TV Osaka, TV Aichi, AT-X
Original run January 7, 2019 April 1, 2019
Episodes12 (List of episodes)
Manga
Kemono Friends 2
Written byRyū Naitō
Published byKadokawa Shoten
MagazineMonthly Shōnen Ace
DemographicShōnen
Original runJanuary 26, 2019 – present
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Kemono Friends (Japanese: けものフレンズ, Hepburn: Kemono Furenzu, "Beast Friends") is a Japanese video game series and media franchise created by manga artist Mine Yoshizaki. The first project was a mobile game developed by Nexon, which ran from March 2015 to December 2016. A manga by Furai was serialized in Kadokawa's Monthly Shōnen Ace from May 2015 to March 2017. A second game of the series was released by Bushiroad in January 2018. An anime television series produced by Yaoyorozu aired from January to March 2017; the anime was co-financed and licensed by Crunchyroll.[2] A second season by Tomason aired from January to April 2019.

  1. ^ Michel, Patrick ST (January 27, 2018). "FamilyMart's Japari Man: Kemono Friends' colorful adventure in taste". The Japan Times Online. ISSN 0447-5763. Retrieved April 2, 2019.
  2. ^ "Crunchyroll – Crunchyroll co-production". Crunchyroll. Retrieved November 10, 2018.