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A catgirl is a woman or girl with cat ears and a cat tail, but an otherwise human body; they are found semi-commonly in anime and manga either as a form of cosplay or actual body parts, as well as in a few videogames. Catgirls wishing to look especially cute will wear over-sized mittens and shoes that look like paws. Other woman/animal combinations are sometimes found, like fox girls and (more rarely) dogs. Fans unfamilar with the Japanese obsession with kawaii sometimes point out catgirls act more like kittens than grown cats, who can be aloof and surly.Most catgirls are typically not considered furry because they resemble humans with cat-like embellishments rather than being an anthropomophic cat. This even includes characters Escaflowne's Merle, the Puma Sisters from Dominion Tank Police , or Aisha from Outlaw Star who design suggest a degree of scruffy 'furriness'.
Ordinary humans, such as Hikaru from Magic Knight Rayearth, will sometimes sprout cat ears or a tail in order to illustrate their excitable personalities. This is similar to the phenomenon of becoming chibi and is mostly a stylistic quirk from manga artists. In Japanese, catgirls are usually called nekomimi (猫耳) -- literally, "cat ears". rathr than the literal term Nekomusume (猫娘)
Catgirl has recently become an insult for fangirls who wear cat-like ears when attending anime or gaming conventions. It is also part of the sterotype of the ' yaoi-obsessed anime fangirl' heavily perpetuated by disgusted fanboys.
By comparison, catboys are becoming increasingly more popular around fangirl circles. However, they are rarely seen outside of webcomics, fanart, and playful mangaka splurges. Rebellious boys are more often compared to dogs ( Inuyasha being a popular example) or wolves.
1 List of cat girl characters
- Anya, and Lisa the fox girl, from the web comic Tsunami ChannelTsunami Channel is a manga-style web comic authored by Akira Hasegawa that updates 5 days a week. It launched on June 26, 2001. At the moment, it appears to be on hiatus while Akira Hasegawa works on some projects; if the reader looks at the most recent s
- Aisha Clan-Clan from Outlaw Star
- Felicia from DarkstalkersDarkstalkers ( Japanese: Vampire is a video game series created by Capcom. It is a fighting game where various mythical and fantastic monsters (as well as from horror fiction) fight each other. Development Darkstalkers was the first Capcom fighting game m
- Kizna from Candidate for Goddess
- Maya from Geobreeders (she can look like a cat girl, though she usually chooses not to)
- Merle, Naria and Erya from Vision of Escaflowne
- Momomiya Ichigo from Tokyo Mew MewAnime Tokyo Mew Mew is a shojo (girl-oriented) manga/ anime series, created by illustrator Mia Ikumi and writer Reiko Yoshida. The manga series has been published in the Nakayoshi shojo monthly manga magazine in 2001, and has also been collected in the ta
- The Puma Twins, Anna and Uni, from Dominion Tank Police
- Spike and V-Chan (catboys), and Momi-neko (catgirl), from the web comic Strange Candy .
- Princess Chocola (Dejiko) and Cappiuchino(Puchiko) from Di Gi Charat .
- Koto (Foxgirl) from Yu Yu Hakusho.
- Natsuki from Hyper Police
- Nei and Fal (a.k.a. Rika) from " Phantasy Star II" and " Phantasy Star IV: End of the Milennium " respectively. There is some dispute that the "Nei-type" or "Numan" is not a catgirl because they lack tails.
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Catgirl is also the codename of Kelly Carrie , the sidekick of Bruce Wayne ( Batman) in the DC Comics graphic novel .
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