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Catgirl
Female character with cat-like traits on a human body / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the anime/manga trope. For the film, see Cat Girl. For the character, see Carrie Kelley. For other uses, see Catgirl (disambiguation).
"Catboy" redirects here. For the musician, see Boyd Terry.
A catgirl (猫娘, nekomusume) is a young female kemonomimi character with feline traits, such as cat ears (猫耳, nekomimi), a cat tail, or other feline characteristics on an otherwise human body. They are not individuals who are literal cats but individuals who only look superficially feline.[1] Catgirls are found in various fiction genres, particularly in Japanese anime and manga.[2] Catboy is a term for the male equivalent of said character type.
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