Place your vote, then tell us what you’re most excited about…and what you’re most afraid will happen once it leaps to live action. If yours isn’t on the list, write it in the comments!

Mitsuya Cider and Peach Candy

Do you have a favorite snack that you love to have next to you when watching anime or reading manga?

Add your favorite ‘write in’ snack in the comments!

Adorable kitties aren’t the only critters in anime that I’m a sucker for; other furry, fuzzy, cuddly creatures also up the kawaii factor for me and elicit many drawn out “Awwwwww! Isn’t it a cuddly wuddly, what-ever-the-hell-it-is?” I have no idea why I get absolutely stupid when I see cute animals (cute human children don’t register on the Kawaii-O-Meter™) but if an anime or manga has a cutesy, well-designed animal character, it gets extra points from me.

Cool creature designs are always a plus in anime, and the diverse nature of the medium always promises that fantastical creatures of inhuman origin will be a matter of course in certain genres rather than the exception. Aside from the cutesy pet-characters, there are characters who are part critter/ part human, all critter, and all human/ all critter at different times (human during the day, critter by night).

My fave anime animals are cats, followed by anything small, fuzzy and cute. Is there a certain type of critter that makes you temporarily lose brain function? Which anime creatures make you sigh in admiration (one way or another)? What’s your fave critter in anime?