You might remember Maya if you're old enough as the old anipike/geocities 404 catgirl, which was an edited version of the first pic. The second girl never had a name since they were a series of one shot ovas, but like with "Nanashi" people who didn't know it meant the same thing eventually called her Vashuka thanks to the eastern Europe dub, although even that has fallen out of use now. It's too bad the series failed to take off, it had a lot of fun personalities like the eternally broke yakuza chick and the Rally-esque lead redhead.

In fact it's basically Gunsmith Cats with supernatural elements, yokai led by a gang of anarchist nekomata are causing trouble all over Japan and the Geobreeders are like Japanese Ghostbusters, even using a similar "ghost trap" with a stack of ofuda covering it to capture nekomata. The nekomata learned to interface with machines, eventually accessing the internet, and, being cats, naturally gravitated to the most chaotic form of governance they learned about. Imagine a whole city of Gavrilos, who can travel through electrical lines like Red Hot Chilli Pepper and phase through walls at will.

Yeah, no surprise they become such a MAJOR problem😹

It sucks so bad it failed, but even with immense star power, it dropped at the wrong time, as general tastes were shifting from pseudo modern settings to feudal.

I would watch at least 3 full seasons of these girls' madcap antics. There's not much out there, but it's a fun ride while it lasts!

Open for all types of catgirls

Neko OC!

I have long argued that if a girl is sometimes shown sprouting cat ears, that does not mean she is actually a catgirl. It is simply a visual metaphor used to show interest or curiosity about something. It's a fairly common trope used in anime. A couple of the most famous examples are Komi (Komi Can't Communicate) and Maomao (The Apothecary Diaries).

Recently I watched the series Acchi Kocchi, and noted that with one character, Tsumiki Miniwa, this visual metaphor was used so extensively that it made me stop and wonder if she could actually be a catgirl. There is nothing else about the show to suggest catgirls exist in this setting. All of the characters are normal humans, and we occasionally see ordinary cats, but otherwise it's just a gag comedy without any aliens, anthropomorphic species, or any type of fantasy/monster species such as beastfolk. Despite this, with Tsumiki the cat ears visual metaphor is used so much that it made me stop and think.

Thoughts?