Women have always been compared with cats and foxes for grace and cunning. In visual arts and in cinema, the image of a girl with cat ears and a tail is found. In Japan they are called neko, nekomimi or nekomusume.
Girls with ears, a tail, furry legs, or other features of the feline family are often the heroines of Japanese comics and TV shows. As a rule, chan with ears in the anime and manga act as good-natured, cheerful, a little infantile and naive characters.
In anime
One of the most famous of them is Izuna Hatsuse from the anime “No Game, No Life”. This chan with ears and tail of a fox has a magical ability, rare for representatives of its race in the universe, where the events of the anime “No game, no life” take place. Izuna demonstrates quick learning - she is able to memorize and absorb the necessary information in a short time.
Another popular character with the appearance of animals is Horo from the anime “Spice and Wolf”. Horo is a deity in the form of a she-wolf, able to take the form of a girl. Since ancient times, she helped the inhabitants of the village of Pasro, providing them with a decent harvest. However, over time, people ceased to believe in Horo, and she decided to leave the village and begin to wander.
In manga
"There is only a cat" - a popular manga, the main character of which is chan with ears and a cat's tail. According to the plot, Naneko is obsessed with a certain Kanko spirit, which forces her to avoid others and lead a reclusive lifestyle. Once she receives a letter with a job offer and settles in a clinic specializing in the expulsion of evil spirits.
Sorry Cats is a rather old manga, the first volume of which was published in 1989, but new issues are still being released. It tells about Shiraesi Yaya - a schoolgirl whose life was completely ordinary until one experiment, as a result of which the girl became special - when she is worried and nervous, she appears in front of others in an image.