Catgirl
A catgirl is a fictional stock character popularized from Japanese entertainment in manga and anime, usually female with feline traits and characteristics, such as cat ears and a tail, or sometimes others (i.e., claws, etc.) on an otherwise human body derived from another folkloric creature known as the werecat.
Catgirls are female kemonomimi that are not individuals who are literal cats, but those who only look superficially feline via ailuranthropy and are found in various genres of fiction outside the Japanese entertainment industry.
The oldest mention of catgirls, otherwise known in Japan as nekomusume comes from an 18th Century mise...read more