So here’s the thing: while I’m a total sucker for cute, super deformed cats, I’m really not down with cute cat-girls, i.e. neko mimi. I have nothing against neko mimi, per se, but human girls with cat appendages are more sexy than they are cute. I can appreciate the appeal cat-girls have for other anime fans, but I simply don’t consider them one of my fave add-ons in anime.
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?
I vote cats. Sketchbook ~full color’s~ is a great example.
After watching Moyashimon…
Microbes LOL!! *SHOT*
Uhhh, errr, bonta-kun?
Agreed. The Moyashimon ~Tales of Agriculture~ microbes for the win.
I have a soft spot for Ryo-Ohki who is sort of a cross between a cat and a rabbit…and she is commonly called a cabbit. However, depending on which Tenchi Muyo! alternity you choose, she can also be a spaceship, a mecha, or a magical girl’s familiar.
cute and cuddley is all I need, but I also love Excel Saga’s ‘aliens’
I probably would have also said cats, but the entire cast of Hamtaro wins. Kids show, I know, but it’s awesome.
No, wait, I lied. P-chan!!!
@ Crisu, cats always=win!
@ CherylHew and Josh, yark! I’ve never seen Moyashimon, but I did Google the microbes. That’s just wrong. Lil’ chibi rhino viruses? Gah, my tummy hurts just looking at the buggers….
@ M-boy, bonta-kun- is that a guy inside a hamster suit? Is he some kind of paramilitary furry?
@ mochi, Ryo-Ohki is super cute but kinda freaky at the same time.
@ demon_from_paradise, those aliens look like hamsters in diapers! ^^
@ griever, Hamtaro, I can understand. But a piggy? However, it is a cutesy piggy…
People…. cats more than dogs? come on people!
@julieho, Meowhhhhaaaa! cats shall inherit the earth and all shall bow before us!
Sorry, damn cat’s been signing on as me again.
OMG It on my profile on gaiaonline.com HEH lol
the bats are cute – and funny.
@natz, which anime has bats? I love bats! They’re so cute! Lil’ flying kitties….
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I love fox anime!
i think definately the fox……………………………………..and those little pink thingys
Neko girls rulee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!…..& Cabbits!!!!!!!!!!!
hamtaro has got to be the cutest little anime hampster thing in the world!
squirrels are cute, and human-squirrel cute too.
I love pichus, and my liking for them (even anime) was caused by a random dream I had. In the dream I was a wild pichu, I live through a normal day, until a trainer shows up and catches me. (there wasn’t even a battle she just through a pokeball, kinda embarrassing) The strangest thing was how real the dream was, I felt pain whenever i tripped or was hit by another pokemon, I tasted the berries I ate, I had memories of things that happened in my dream that occurred weeks pior to the dream (this was about 5 years of memories).
cute kitty !!! :3 mow
Okojo-san! He’s an ermine. I love any and all weasels. I go a little farther by saying I love mustela. Unfortunately I’ve only seen two weasels in anime.
I want MORE!