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What is Kemono Friends? Kemono Friends, also known as KemoFure, is a Japanese multimedia franchise created by Mine Yoshizaki, that focuses on the adventures of anthropomorphized animal girls known simply as Friends. It began as a 2015 mobile game but has expanded into a manga, stage play and wildly successful 2017 anime with multiple new projects planned for the future. While it is a relatively new IP, the franchise has succeeded in making a name for itself on its path to becoming a "series that will last 100 years". The universe of Kemono Friends, contrary to its innocent appearance, is expansive and complex. It boasts a cast of over 400 characters as well as an intricate and puzzling backstory. What's more, much of the series's media has never seen an official release outside of its native Japan. Our wiki, Japari Library, exists as a resource for the series's English-speaking fanbase. It features translations, detailed analyses of the franchise's lore, and information on Friends and the real creatures from which they came. Friend of the Week Hi-no-Tori (literally "bird of fire", and usually rendered in English as "Phoenix") is the name of an unfinished manga series by Osamu Tezuka, consisting of 12 chapters published in between 1967 and 1988 (with Tezuka passing away in 1989), as well as a slew of adaptations to anime, film and live-action media. The manga functions like an anthology, with each chapter being a self-contained story with different characters and plots, as well as being set in different time periods. The series' overall premise concerns the overarching themes of reincarnation and searching for immortality; all of the chapters center around the blood of the eponymous Phoenix, which is said to grant eternal life and is sought after by one or more characters in each of the stories. The stories also share the common revelation of immortality being either unobtainable or a terrible curse, with the series presenting natural life and death ('the cycle of life') as the proper order of things. The Hi-no-Tori character received a Kemono Friends-style design for an art exhibition honoring Tezuka's work at the Hankyu Umeda department store in April 2017; however, it did not feature in any franchise media of any kind, and was thus technically an unofficial friend until almost four years later, when she featured in Kemono Friends 3.

Projects Kemono Friends (2015 Mobile Game) Translation Progress 60% completed (estimate)     Kemono Friends News Franchise News 6/20/2024 A brand new Friend, Iberian Lynx, was revealed in Kemono Friends 3. 5/23/2024 A brand new Friend, West Indian Manatee, was revealed in Kemono Friends 3. 5/7/2024 As gratitude for the fundraising effort, A brand new Friend, Pacific White-Sided Dolphin has been revealed. 5/7/2024 Kemono Friends 3 has raised 3,173,450 yen via in-game photo sale for Notojima Aquarium that was affected by 2024 Noto earthquake. Game News 7/1/2024 (Kemono Friends Festival) Goodroid announces end of service for Kemono Friends Festival on 10/31/2024. 5/23/2024 (Kemono Friends 3) West Indian Manatee debuts. 5/16/2024 (Kemono Friends 3) Black-Backed Jackal debuts. KemoV News 6/23/2024 KemoV member Coyote participated in Tetsumatsuri, a 5v5 Tekken 8 tournament competing with and against professional players. Wiki News 5/25/2024 Japari Library has been upgraded to MediaWiki version 1.39.7 and transferred to a new host. 5/3/2024 A new List of Non-Friend Characters page has been created. The List of albums page has been revised to be easier to navigate, alongside improvements to album pages. 4/26/2024 Updates to infoboxes released. Update the news here. Did You Know? While the Generation ? Northern White-Faced Owl is called Professor Konoha, her Generation 2 counterpart was called Professor Konoha-chan. Most known types of Cellien are based on real-world algae, both in design and name. The first season of the Kemono Friends anime only features a single island of Japari Park, known as the Kyōshū Region. Kemonoplasm enables Friends' tails to "clip through" their clothing. Kako and Nana are cousins. Dall Sheep is the only Friend whose design appeared for the first time ever in Kemono Friends Pavilion. (Scarlet Macaw's design appeared on merchandise before debuting 'officially' in Pavilion.) Serval's EX design, despite being first introduced in Guidebook 3, was not officially specified as an EX design until 2019 at Kemono Friends World. Slow Loris is the only Friend who has neither a design nor an official debut: she exists as a mention in Brown Greater Galago's Nexon dialogue. Community Poll <polldaddy pollid="10113827"/>