Studio Director No. of episodes Premiere Finale Kemono Friends: Youkoso Japari Park e! (けものフレンズ ‐ようこそジャパリパークへ!‐) is a manga illustrated and written by Furai depicting the events at Japari Park prior to the Kemono Friends anime. The manga have been collected in two volumes, released on December 26th 2016 and February 10th 2017 in Japan. Following the story of the new caretaker in training, Nana, we get to meet a lot of first generation Friends in a slice-of-life comedy setting before the second Cerulean threat reached the park.