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Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu is an autobiographical manga that draws on manga artist Junji Ito's personal experience with cats. [1] It features various anecdotes about living with cats, which center on J-kun, a horror manga artist (Ito's stand-in); his fiancée, A-ko (his wife Ayako Ishiguro's stand-in); her family cat, Yon ("Four"); and a Norwegian Forest cat, Mu ("Six").
The chibi art style is part of the Japanese kawaii culture, [9] [10] [11] and is seen everywhere from advertising and subway signs to anime and manga. The style was popularized by franchises like Dragon Ball and SD Gundam in the 1980s. It is used as comic relief in anime and manga, giving additional emphasis to a character's emotional reaction.
The villain in Kenji Miyazawa's 1924 work The 4th of Narcissus Month is an early example of a beautiful cat-eared woman. [3] In 1936, the nekomusume experienced a revival in kamishibai. [1] Anime and manga began to reimagine catgirls as cute and approachable characters rather than dangerous monsters.
Japanese manga has developed a visual language or iconography for expressing emotion and other internal character states. This drawing style has also migrated into anime, as many manga are adapted into television shows and films and some of the well-known animation studios are founded by manga artists.
This is a list of catgirls and catboys — characters with cat traits, such as cat ears, a cat tail, or other feline characteristics on an otherwise human body. The list excludes anthropomorphic cats (e.g. Hello Kitty , Top Cat , The Cat in the Hat ), humans dressed in cat costumes , and characters that fully transform between cat and human and ...
Magical Meow Meow Taruto (魔法少女猫たると, Mahō Shōjo Neko Taruto) is a Japanese manga series created by Kaishaku.The series centers on the exploits of a race of pet cats, drawn as catgirls and the occasional catboy.
All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku (Japanese: 万能文化猫娘, Hepburn: Bannō Bunka Nekomusume) is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Yuzo Takada. It was serialized in Weekly Manga Action for only three issues in 1991, with the three published stories later compiled in a single volume collection in December 1997.
Cat Planet Cuties [1] (あそびにいくヨ!, Asobi ni Iku Yo!, lit. "Let's Go Play!") is a Japanese light novel series by Okina Kamino with illustrations by Eizo Hoden and Nishieda. The series, which consists of 20 volumes, was published by Media Factory under their MF Bunko J label from October 25, 2003, to February 25, 2015.