Kemonomimi
Kemonomimi (獣耳 animal ears) is an anime and manga terminology that describes humanoid characters that possess animal like features. The characters will be predominately human and any real animal characteristics are minimal, unlike kemono characters who possess a large percentage of animal parts in ratio with their human parts. Generally kemonomimi characters have ears and a tail which is animal like. Often this is just part of their attire and can be removed at will.
The term is used both in Japan and in some western subcultures, the term is used on the TAOchan/idlechan imageboard [1] for example.
List of kemonomimi characters by animal
Cat, typically called catgirls or nekomimi.
- See: Catgirl
Rabbit, typically called bunnygirls.
- Arina Makihara from Waku Waku 7
- Arisu Arisugawa and the other bunnygirls from Kagihime Monogatari Eikyuu Alice Rondo
- Alice from Angelic Layer (robotic doll)
- Berry Shirayuki from Tokyo Mew Mew (also part mountain cat)
- Delmo from Cosplay Complex
- Komugi Nakahara from The SoulTaker and Nurse Witch Komugi
- Meroko from Full Moon O Sagashite
- Mimika and the other bunnygirls from Usagi-chan de Cue
- Mint Blancmanche from Galaxy Angel
- Rami Nana-Hikari from the Keio Flying Squadron series
- Reisen U. Inaba from Imperishable Night
- Tei (Tewi) Inaba from Imperishable Night
- Usada Hikaru from the Di Gi Charat series
- Usahara from Damekko Doubutsu
Dog, sometimes known as inumimi
Fox, sometimes known as kitsunemimi
- Firefox-tan, from the Moezilla group - a personification of Mozilla Firefox.
- Foxxy Love from Drawn Together.
- Lisa from Tsunami Channel
- Meirin and Tamamo-no-Mae from Yami to Boshi to Hon no Tabibito
- Ran Yakumo (kyubi foxgirl) from Perfect Cherry Blossom.
- Sakura (kyubi foxgirl) from Hyper Police
- Shippo from Inuyasha
- Youko from Tactics
- Youko Kurama from YuYu Hakusho
Wolf
- Arf from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
- Liru from Renkin 3-kyū Magical ? Pokān
- Ouka from .hack//Legend of the Twilight
- Uruno from Damekko Doubutsu
- Zafiira from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's (male)
- Zakuro Fujiwara from Tokyo Mew Mew
Other
- Bagi from Bagi, the Monster of Mighty Nature (1984) (half mountain lion, although many debate that Bagi is a Furry instead of a catgirl).
- Chiiko from Damekko Doubutsu (cheetah)
- Grace from El Goonish Shive (shapeshifter with squirrel-girl and cat-girl forms, either with or without body fur; also, several other cast members, both female and male, have appeared in non-canon art as catgirls or bunnygirls, and the character of Ellen uses a catgirl avatar online)
- Kumaneesan from Damekko Doubutsu (bear)
- Lettuce Midorikawa from Tokyo Mew Mew (Finless Porpoise, also turns into a mermaid)
- Mink (red dragon) from Dragon Half
- Mint Aizawa from Tokyo Mew Mew (lorikeet)
- Mystia Lorelei from Imperishable Night (sparrow)
- Nano Nano Pudding from Galaxy Angel II: Zettai Ryouiki no Tobira (appears to be some sort of monkey)
- Peganosuke from Damekko Doubutsu (pegasus)
- Pudding Fong from Tokyo Mew Mew (Golden lion tamarin)
- Ringo Akai from Tokyo Mew Mew (penguin)
- Takaoka from Damekko Doubutsu (eagle)
- Wriggle Nightbug from Imperishable Night (firefly)
- Yunihiko from Damekko Doubutsu (unicorn)
See also
- Utawarerumono, an anime and anime game which most characters are kemonomimi.
- Catgirl (nekomimi)
- Playboy Bunny