![]() ![]() Catgirls have since been featured in various media worldwide. By the 1990s, catgirls were common in Japanese anime and manga. Ĭatgirls were further made popular in 1978 manga series The Star of Cottonland, by Yumiko Ōshima. In America, the DC Comics character Catwoman first appeared in 1940, and Cheetah first appeared in 1943. ![]() The first anime involving catgirls, titled The King’s Tail ( Ousama no Shippo), was made in 1949 by Mitsuyo Seo. In 1936, the nekomusume experienced a revival in kamishibai. In Kenji Miyazawa's 1924 work, Suisenzuki no Yokka ( 水仙月の四日, literally The 4th of Narcissus Month) is the first modern day example of a beautiful, cat-eared woman. The popularity of the nekomusume continued throughout the Edo and Shōwa periods, with many tales of cat/woman hybrids appearing in works such as the Ehon Sayoshigure ( 絵本小夜時雨) and Ansei zakki ( 安政雑記). Stories of shape-shifting bakeneko prostitutes were popular during the Edo Period. The oldest mention of the term nekomusume comes from an 18th-century misemono in which a cat/woman hybrid was displayed. Catboy is a term for a male equivalent of said character type. Catgirls are found in various fiction genres and in particular Japanese anime and manga. Wikipe-tan, a catgirl personification of WikipediaĪ catgirl ( 猫娘, nekomusume) is a female kemonomimi character with feline traits, such as cat ears ( 猫耳, nekomimi ), a cat tail, or other feline characteristics on an otherwise human body. ![]()
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