No one cares, you’re just a different breed of furfag.

The only sane part is the fact that you still want to fuck something that still resembles a person. That’s being liberal about it too.

anyway, what I was trying to say…

the ‘ten percent rule’ (e.g. if it’s only 10% animal it’s A-OK and anything a little more, is TEH FURRY and therefor must be bashed, because it is nothing but a fetish of people who rape dogs etc etc), to me is total bullshit.

“Ah, cat ears and a tail on humans, cool, I can fap to that. But oh noes, if it’s got whiskers and even a hint of a muzzle, ZOMG yiff in hell.”

What-the-fuck?

That, is just stupid.

I dont have anything against people with any kind of fetish, if it gets you off and aint hurting anyone, hey, go for it. I dont have any illusions that I have the right to decide on what someone else should or should not do with their life.

I hate hypocrits, tho.

Mooty was right about the trolling, that’s indeed what the “you might as well be running around in a fursuit raping the neighbour’s dog” line in my post was. Not even bashing, just making a comparison.

If you fap to something that is not entirely human and not entirely animal but somewhere in between, have the balls to admit it, and certainly dont diss others when they do the same.

Apples and apples.

Neko’s, catpeople, furries, whatever you want to call them, all the same ballgame.

All that aside, it sounds like I owe you a point of clarification:

If I’d intended to write the history of “Cat People,” you’re right, I’d have gone much further back in time, ranging from the (very furry) Artemis-Alpeia from the Appleseed manga, the android felines Anna and Uni Puma, and the furry human super(cat)heroes Thundercats (incidentally my post did give a nod to Catwoman of Batman fame, given that she is essentially a human wearing cat parts, rather than a furry human), to the ancient Egyptian goddesses and their worshipers.

However my focus was more narrow: “Nekos” is a Japanese term. The history of Nekos is a far more specific and recent evolution, directly related to the whole kawaii / Japanese schoolgirl thing that happens on the streets of Tokyo — all of which is rooted in the Japanese love of cosplay.

In fact my original draft of this post had an initial section dedicated to cosplay, in order to introduce the concept of Japanese girls dressing up in their favorite manga and anime characters. But I was pretty sure that amount of information was going to be too much for the majority of my readers to wade through (though I’ve saved it for a future post on cosplay).

If I were to go outside of the Neko-specific focus, it would indeed be fair to acknowledge these other examples you mention, which (at least to me) reinforces the many ways that humans have identified with cats throughout the centuries. Japanese-rooted “Nekos” are simply one of the more recent examples.

All this aside, please keep those cards and letters coming, cuz I love nothing more than to learn, and it’s way more fun when we can figure it out together. ^_^

Artemis-Alpeia
http://www.catgirlsparadise.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1464

Anna and Uni Puma
http://www.absoluteanime.com/tank_police/sisters.htm

Thundercats
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-sOaUAgbB4

Cat Worship in Ancient Egypt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cats_in_ancient_Egypt

Kudos for screwing up so royally however BJ.

Can you honestly look my avatar in the face Reality and say you haven’t been to the virtual dog rape sim? No, I bet not. It certainly is pretty interesting all these Neko bashing coming from you Reality considering how many Neko kittens just happened to look like your avatar.

Sounds like someone has been playing in the catbox.

2 pints of petrol and light a match………….

Probably why no one asked you, since that statement makes about as much as sense as saying that if you’re even vaguely a member of /b/ you might as well be in Pakistan with a bomb strapped to your chest running into a crowded school.

Though I agree with the first part, there wasn’t a lot of research done here was there? An anime from the mid 90s? Hell, if you’re going to consider that, you may want to look at Thundercats, the western kids show from 1985-1987 which notably, the animation for which was done by a studio called Topcraft in Japan, which later went to form Studio Ghibli, who did the Cat Returns movie you were talking about. The Appleseed manga had a catgirl character named Artemis-Alpeia, and that ran from 1985-1989, the Dominion Tank police (same author/artist as Appleseed) also featured two catgirls, Anna and Uni Puma, which was published in 1985. Depending on your definition, you could go even farther back to the movie Cat People in 1942, or Catwoman from the Batman series in her first appearance in 1940. Or yeah you could go even farther back and look at Egyptian and Japanese mythology which involved cat people like the goddess Bast and the mythological creatures Bakeneko.

And that was with only a little bit of research.