Forum - View topicIs Kemonomimi mentioned officially anywhere?
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Dream Focus
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemonomimi is up for deletion. I'm trying to find sources.
Fans seem to call kemonomimi(animal ears), any person with animal ears and sometimes a tail. Are there any published works that use this term? Books, magazine articles, reviews? Anything at all? Or is there an official Japanese term for this sort of thing we should be using instead? I believe catgirls are often called cat ears in Japan. Do they have an official name for other animals eared people? |
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doc-watson42
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The term for cat ears, nekomimi (猫耳), is an entry in The Otaku Encyclopedia: An Insider's Guide to the Subculture of Cool Japan—see page 160. It is also included in WWWJDIC, and Television Tropes & Idioms.
Searches in Google Books: • "kemonomimi" • "nekomimi" I added the link to the Television Tropes & Idioms page to the Wiki article as a reference, as well as performing general clean up. Note, however, that this discussion belongs in the Anime forum. |
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Shiroi Hane
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I first came across kemonomimi on danbooru, before they switched to using English names. There's a list of other common subtypes there:
http://safebooru.donmai.us/wiki/show?title=animal_ears |
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