![]() Carnival Phantasm: Taiga, who regularly has a tiger Animal Motif, shows up as an actual tiger girl in the opening credits and a short scene in Episode 5.In episode 55, Sakura is sucked inside a copy of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Eriol appears as a Catboy version of the Cheshire Cat.This became one of her most popular outfits (not least because the outfit is just adorable). To be more specific, a cat girl Meido costume made of rubber, since she was fighting The Thunder at the time. Among the many outfits Tomoyo makes Sakura wear when capturing the Clow Cards, one is a cat girl costume.Aside from her tail she looks otherwise human. Momose from Bloody Cross is a cat demon.Her physical stats skyrocket, but her mind also reverts to a feral cat that cannot talk or understand speech, and she can be distracted by catnip. Her clothes disappear, she grows a black tail, and she gains cat ears and cat paws on her hands and feet, made of electricity. In the "Thousand Year Blood War" arc, Yoruichi reveals that in addition to turning into a regular cat, she can turn into a catgirl.Flirtatious, mischievous and a bit pervy, Haineko is basically a hornier Rangiku, and is often portrayed more in the light of a teenager even though she looks in between 21-28. ![]() ![]() ![]() Haineko, the manifested spirit form of Rangiku Matsumoto's zanpakuto.which she proceeds use to knock out three different characters at once. While cat ears have yet to manifest, Battle Angel Alita's titular character's new Imaginos 2.0 body (and accompanying outfit) comes with a cat tail.Lushe from Bastard!! (1988) is often depicted with cat ears.All-Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku plays with this despite the title, Nuku Nuku doesn't have the typical cat ears or tail, instead being a cyborg with a cat's brain that makes her act very catlike.As part of Tama's introduction to the harem in Chapter 142, everyone else (including Rentarou) wears cat ears and tails in an attempt to understand her feelings.Art-wise, she looks indistinguishable from an actual cat girl, with her ears and tail responding like they would if they were real. An invoked example appears in Chapter 141 with Tama Nekonari, the 25th girlfriend, who always wears cat ears, a cat tail, and a sweater with cat paws on the sleeves, as she believes life as a cat is better than being a human.In the splash page for Chapter 76, both Kusuri and Yaku dress as cat girls.The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You:.Being (an extremely mild) Yaoi Genre story, the catperson who gets the most screentime is a Troubled, but Cute catboy. The OEL Manga The 9 Lives features a race of Cat Folk who end up being enslaved by humans for unstated but probably questionable purposes.This item available in the TropeCo catalog. Female Feline, Male Mutt is one reason why this trope is almost Always Female. For when a character sprouts cat ears and/or tail out of thin air, see Sprouting Ears. See also Beast Man, for an individual (fully) anthropomorphic cat person and Cat Folk, for an anthropomorphic cat species. Subtrope of Little Bit Beastly and Unusual Ears. If a catgirl is particularly Moe or is otherwise The Cutie, expect a lot of overlap with Cute Kitten. Most catgirls have biological cat features, but characters who don't can use a cat-eared hairband, a fake cat tail, Cute Little Fangs, fake cat paws, long, claw-like nails etc., or any combination of these traits and a few cat-like mannerisms (like Playful Cat Smile and Faux Paw) to count as an invoked form of this trope. The entire concept is Older Than They Think, with the first recorded mention of a modern catgirl in Japan (as opposed to the monsterlike Bakeneko and Nekomata) dating to a sideshow-like fair where there was a catgirl as one of the crew note which was almost certainly someone wearing a costume in 1769! In fact, visualization of anthropomorphic cats as mostly-human women is a trope that dates all the way back to Egyptian Mythology (most famously Bast), making this trope Older Than Dirt. Catgirls often tend to be sexualized and/or have added Moe traits to better appeal to the audience. (These are usually found in Yaoi, and as a general rule tend to be Uke archetypes.) Catgirls oftentimes follow feline Animal Stereotypes associated with cats, specifically female ones. The catgirl is stereotypically female, though catboys do exist. What makes a catgirl different from an anthropomorphic catwoman or a Funny Animal cat is that she only looks superficially feline. A catgirl is a Little Bit Beastly character that has mostly human traits (hair, skin and body type) but she has some physical features like a cat, usually the ears, tail, eyes, and sometimes claws or even a natural Fur Bikini.
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