Our Werebeasts Are Different / Anime & Manga

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• Atsushi Nakajima Bungo Stray Dogs can transform into a white tiger-human hybrid with super strength, speed, agility and a Healing Factor. He can also do partial transformations like manifesting a tail or turning his hands into paws. Originally, he could not control his transformations until the head of the Armed Detective Agency helped stabilize his powers.
• Beast Men from BNA: Brand New Animal are shapeshifters who have human and anthropomorphic animal forms; the latter is inherited from one of their parents. In ancient times, they pretended to be humans' animal-headed gods. Some of them have additional powers inspired by mythology; for example, Michiru the tanuki has Power Copying.
• Cowa! has the main character who is a werekoala and also part vampire.
• Saiyans in Dragon Ball transform into giant rampaging monkeys when they see the light of a full moon. Cutting off their tails prevents this, but until they reach a certain age, it will grow back under said full moon.
• Fruits Basket: Some members of the Sohma family is under a curse that causes Involuntary Shapeshifting into animal form when hugged by members of the opposite sex that are not cursed. While not called werebeasts, each member has a single and unique alternate animal form. The animals are those of the Eastern Zodiac: rat, dog, tiger, rabbit, dragon (he actually turns into a seahorse), ox, snake, sheep, monkey, horse, pig and rooster; plus cat.
• The chimeras in Fullmetal Alchemist are combinations of animals, which can and does sometimes include humans. As the manga progresses, the humanoid chimeras introduce go from being tragic abominations, to quirky mutants, to tough guys that can turn into even tougher beast-men.
• Zoan Fruits in One Piece give the recipient the power to turn fully into a specific animal or a a mix of that and the original form. The hybrid forms of natural humanoids tend to be dangerous masses of muscle even if the template creature was relatively harmless.
• C'tarl C'tarl from Outlaw Star are werecats with several intermediate forms (Fuzzy Space-Elf to Cat Person to Buff Superpowered Cat Person to Giant Tiger) whose access are dependent on the presence and phase of a moon and on their own personal energy reserves.
• Evangelion Unit-02 from Rebuild of Evangelion can "shed its human form" when given the secret password "The Beast". It has three distinct stages — the original humanoid, a vaguely reptilian-like form seen in the second movie, and a saber-toothed cat-like form seen in the third movie.
• Blair from Soul Eater is a cat that frequently takes a Cat Girl form that looks mostly human except for her cat ears and tail.
• The Incarnates from To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts are Super Soldiers who were each given the ability to transform into a specific mythological monster at will. For example, William Bancroft can transform into the dragon Nidhogg, while Theo Sherman can transform into the Minotaur. Many of them have lost the ability to change back since the war ended and are now of questionable sanity, due to both their monstrous instincts and their traumatic wartime experiences.

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