Kemono Friends (Japanese: けものフレンズ Hepburn: Kemono Furenzu) is a Japanese media franchise created by manga artist Mine Yoshizaki. The project first produced a mobile game developed by Nexon, which ran between March 2015 and December 2016. A manga by Furai was serialized in Kadokawa's Monthly Shōnen Ace between May 2015 and March 2017, and an anime television series produced by Yaoyorozu aired between January and March 2017. A second game project and a second anime season have been greenlit for production.