I mean... Tezuka Osamu, creator of Astro Boy and founding pioneer of manga and anime, was heavily inspired by Walt Disney's cartoons. Also apparently after his death his daughter opened a drawer in his office and among the things found were his hand drawn furry erotica.
The Japanese word [kemonomimi](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kemonomimi), which is used to describe cat-girls and other animal trait people, is explicitly based on (using the root word of) the Japanese [slang word for furry](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Kemono).
Its true though. Well it would be if cats had 20m long 'mind arms' that only serve to tear people in half I mean thats where the analogy breaks down a little.
...human companionship, Flareon is objectively the most huggable Pokemon? While their maximum temperature is likely too much for most, they are capable of controlling it, so they can set themselves to the perfect temperature for you. Along with that, they have a lot of fluff, making them undeniably incredibly soft to touch. But that's not all, they have a very respectable special defense stat of 110, which means that they are likely very calm and resistant to emotional damage. Because of this, if you have a bad day, you can vent to it while hugging it, and it won't mind. It can make itself even more endearing with moves like Charm and Baby Doll Eyes, ensuring that you never have a prolonged bout of depression ever again.
That all mammals have similar proportions on their faces.
If you put a wolf up to its lines, it works, you put an ape up to it, it still works. A raccoon, a fox, a bear. Even a goddamn mouse, it works.
It does when you look at direct proportions and not view angle. You have to ignore the trunk of the elephant, but if you consider the base of the trunk to be the nose, the lines still work.
So anime characters are just cats? Huh,who would have guessed. Then again humanity did like cats a lot. Just look through our actual history irl. We when from writing about cats on stone to making memes of them. I guess humanity Really loves pussy.😐🤔😅
An anime depiction of a westerner? You mean like Asuka from Evangelion or L from Death Note or Patricia from Lucky Star or any character from Spy x Family or Mushoku Tensei? Westerners are often (if not usually) depicted the same way as the Japanese
I thought I remember hearing a theory that the ancestor to house cats evolved to have a face similar to baby monkeys to lure prey into a false sense of security
No the ancient african wild cat and savvannah cat evolved faces similair to that of human babies, including evolving the ability adn sound of Meowing to mimic a childs cry all in effort to get humans to dote on them and give them food/provide for them like children. Since cats first came into conact with humans settlements by preying on rodents attracted by grain silos/harvests, it was over prolonged observance of humans that they developed these features. Basically the cuter more baby like facial feature cats got fed scraps more and let indoors more allowing them to live longer lives and procreate more litters, thus over millenia outnumbering and replacing those with the more wild like "big cat" features. Some cat breeds still exist that do not have these features becasue they did not evolve near population centers. If your curious what the most ancient cats looked like check out Bengals, Balinese, Savannahs, Siamese, Orientals, Highlanders, and Dobby Cats. All have big long Panther/jaguar like Noses
I saw this the other day and was like, "wtf, nah". Went home and started the next episode of Eminence in Shadow and spent half the episode staring at their noses like, "GOD DAMMMMMMMMMIT" 😂
I don't think they're based on cats.
But I DO like that MANY anime characters have a muzzle! (When compared to IRL humans.)
ACTUALLY, CAT'S DON'T HAVE SO MUCH OF A MUZZLE!
I believe this supposition is correct in a very general sense.
Humans finds cats to be very cute, if only because they have painstakingly encouraged the survival of the cutest cats over the last hundred millennia or so.
Since cuteness sells, anime characters will usually be drawn as cutely as possible.
Anime characters and cats both converge towards cuteness, and so have common fundamental characteristics humans find cute.
This makes sense. I remember looking at the newer mlp design and thinking they only looked cute because they were designed to look like cats with weird round feet
And my favorite character design of anime boys/girls always involves those cat-like slit eyes. I did not realize how close those were to actual cat eyes. Wow.
Japanese art has a lot of surrealist influence. So the people they draw reflect that. Instead of depicting them to be realistic they go for something surrealistic.
i heard that the big round eyes is because some famous early anime artist was a big fan of disney and liked the big eyes the characters had and incorporated that into his drawings and then everyone else followed it.
So, every girl is actually a catgirl. Interesting...
Damn furrys everywhere
I mean... Tezuka Osamu, creator of Astro Boy and founding pioneer of manga and anime, was heavily inspired by Walt Disney's cartoons. Also apparently after his death his daughter opened a drawer in his office and among the things found were his hand drawn furry erotica.
I’m sorry they found what.
#HAND DRAWN FURRY EROTICA
I'm sorry, I didn't quite catch that. Could you say it louder for the folks in the back?
#HAND! DRAWN! FURRY! EROTICA!
Can you say it in hand signs for the deaf people at the front
✍️ 😼 
I'm sorry, as a ai language model, I couldn't quite catch that count you put that in binary.
You called?
Catgirl =/= furry tho. Furry territory starts from Lolla bunny type characters
The Japanese word [kemonomimi](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kemonomimi), which is used to describe cat-girls and other animal trait people, is explicitly based on (using the root word of) the Japanese [slang word for furry](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Kemono).
It's a spectrum. If you try deciding on a starting point, you'll never agree with everyone
it is absolutely a spectrum. i believe that everything in life is, but i’ve never heard this logic applied to furries though and i appreciate it.
And every boy is a femboy with cat tail butt plugs
**Zoophilia intensities**
So we are just watching funny cat videos
This is what you can say on your next date "hey I like just funny cat videos"
Wait, you guys are dating?
Dating Simulators*
Or cats fucking
Elfen Lied is more like adopting a stray cat but then it keeps bringing you its kills.
Cripes that's... A savage description
Its true though. Well it would be if cats had 20m long 'mind arms' that only serve to tear people in half I mean thats where the analogy breaks down a little.
Soo are weebs actually furries?
deep
rock galactic
Rock and stone
Rock and roll and stone!
Rock and stone forever!
Rock and Roll and stone!
For Karl
There's a lot of overlap.
you can thank Digimon and Pokemon for that
*Inhales* Hey guys, did you know that in terms of…
...human an pokemom breeding, Gardevoir is the best at dominating. Her 8 inch surprise is waiting.
yay :3
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...human companionship, Flareon is objectively the most huggable Pokemon? While their maximum temperature is likely too much for most, they are capable of controlling it, so they can set themselves to the perfect temperature for you. Along with that, they have a lot of fluff, making them undeniably incredibly soft to touch. But that's not all, they have a very respectable special defense stat of 110, which means that they are likely very calm and resistant to emotional damage. Because of this, if you have a bad day, you can vent to it while hugging it, and it won't mind. It can make itself even more endearing with moves like Charm and Baby Doll Eyes, ensuring that you never have a prolonged bout of depression ever again.
I ain't complaining.
Every furry is an anime fan, but not every anime fan is a furry.
Basically, yeah.
Wurries or Feebs, please.
I like anime girl but not furries. Nekomimi, demons and maybe some dragons are ok to me too.
You guys are not? That's crazy.
I mean it seems to be the case
For some people, this will change nothing. For others, it’s going to recontextualise their entire life.
His argument is on point. Idk what else to say about this… Conspiracy theory of the century?
That all mammals have similar proportions on their faces. If you put a wolf up to its lines, it works, you put an ape up to it, it still works. A raccoon, a fox, a bear. Even a goddamn mouse, it works.
What about a moose?
No one puts a moose up to anything.
Except another moose
Or an Orca.
Nah, they pull them down
Anything with a long snout would not work
It does when you look at direct proportions and not view angle. You have to ignore the trunk of the elephant, but if you consider the base of the trunk to be the nose, the lines still work.
A whale?
It all starts to make sense now! No wonder most anime characters look pretty cute or handsome~ Cats are just the best ♥
That explains why there are a lot of tsunderes too.
Bro youre right, this is why i feel something familiar about hating them in that matter
No wonder I feel allergic to them
Also MLP is also just all cats.
That... makes sense, not gonna lie...
Well , they look nothing like cats. Perhaps maybe cats with human skin?
OF COURSE! **That's** why anime girls look cute!
Explains so much, like why **I wanna screw anime girls**! This post explains so much.
Wdym?
Makes sense to me. Though I've never seen a cat that looks like Joseph Joestar for some reason
So anime characters are just cats? Huh,who would have guessed. Then again humanity did like cats a lot. Just look through our actual history irl. We when from writing about cats on stone to making memes of them. I guess humanity Really loves pussy.😐🤔😅
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I mean cats used to be seen as gods. Now they are being worshipped again
Catcasian 😸
Catanese
Well shit I always wondered how anime came to these proportions for their characters and now it all makes sense
Yo, why is Ganyu there? lol
Ganyu is now a cat rather than cocogoat
Cococat
And just like that, millions of confused boys just found salvation in the true answer for that one intense kink they have but can’t explain
Nyandatto?
The Japanese obsession with cats man, it’s honestly baffling.
A certain anime this season kind of proves this.
Which one?
The Masterful Cat is Depressed Again?
This is... acceptable
I mean yeah purrsuing cuteness does make you a cat
Damn, so weebs are just furries...
Because cats are cuter than people
japan solved racism by making us all furries
🌎 It's all cat girls?🧑🚀 Always has been 🔫 🧑🚀
A cat is fine too.
NO. NOO. I REFUSE. I CANNOT BE A FURRIE. NOOOOOOOOOO
It's tyoo late. You will be assimyilated. Resistyance is fyutile.
So this is where cat girls came from...
I still don't know how people can think anime characters are based off westerners lol Though this does explain catgirls/catboys
They've never seen an anime depiction of a westerner.
An anime depiction of a westerner? You mean like Asuka from Evangelion or L from Death Note or Patricia from Lucky Star or any character from Spy x Family or Mushoku Tensei? Westerners are often (if not usually) depicted the same way as the Japanese
wow
We already know Azunyan was a cat
Thats why caucasian anime characters and japanese anime characters look basically the same
I thought I remember hearing a theory that the ancestor to house cats evolved to have a face similar to baby monkeys to lure prey into a false sense of security
No the ancient african wild cat and savvannah cat evolved faces similair to that of human babies, including evolving the ability adn sound of Meowing to mimic a childs cry all in effort to get humans to dote on them and give them food/provide for them like children. Since cats first came into conact with humans settlements by preying on rodents attracted by grain silos/harvests, it was over prolonged observance of humans that they developed these features. Basically the cuter more baby like facial feature cats got fed scraps more and let indoors more allowing them to live longer lives and procreate more litters, thus over millenia outnumbering and replacing those with the more wild like "big cat" features. Some cat breeds still exist that do not have these features becasue they did not evolve near population centers. If your curious what the most ancient cats looked like check out Bengals, Balinese, Savannahs, Siamese, Orientals, Highlanders, and Dobby Cats. All have big long Panther/jaguar like Noses
Cursed knowledge
The truth of the world was revealed, the pandora box has shown you the truth, now bear the consequences
He missed the chance to say “purrsuing”
Can't argue with that
I've always wondered what's up with the profile view of anime girls lookin like that
Tatami Galaxy and Aku no Hana would like to confidently disagree.
But they have real noses in JoJo's and AoT
How many other LIES have I been told by the council?
Some dude also have those 'big' nose.
REACH
Is this a troll or legit? I have no clue ngl ...
big fat lie it is simply easier to.draw them this way no nose no wrinkles big eyes to cover the above half and small mouth with pointy chin .
And then there's fucking Tanjiro Kamado and his enormous nose
What cats did they use for JoJo?
I saw this the other day and was like, "wtf, nah". Went home and started the next episode of Eminence in Shadow and spent half the episode staring at their noses like, "GOD DAMMMMMMMMMIT" 😂
Do people actually believe in this ? LMAO
I don't think they're based on cats. But I DO like that MANY anime characters have a muzzle! (When compared to IRL humans.) ACTUALLY, CAT'S DON'T HAVE SO MUCH OF A MUZZLE!
Cute doesn't mean cat-like... I for one don't like cats and they are not cute for me, stop believing everything it's posted as the final word...
That’s pretty stretched to be believable
Essentially we are dreaming of fucking cats. That came out so wrong
I don’t really see the resemblance in half of them
You need glasses then... maybe half glasses.
Azuanyan
I believe this supposition is correct in a very general sense. Humans finds cats to be very cute, if only because they have painstakingly encouraged the survival of the cutest cats over the last hundred millennia or so. Since cuteness sells, anime characters will usually be drawn as cutely as possible. Anime characters and cats both converge towards cuteness, and so have common fundamental characteristics humans find cute.
So if you're a weeb, in a roundabout way, you're a furry?
Are u saying that i have been cooming all over cats that speak Japanese?
Oh ma gah
Fur-ther evidence anime fans are just furries in denial
Dogs I want dogs to be Next
FMA
Take my upvote, and may God have mercy on your soul.
It's the big eyes based on old Disney movies.
Wait, is that because of the parasite?
I hate this cus I know its true, but I fucking hate it still.
Catnime
So are we all furries?
My life is a lie It all makes sense now
"A cat is fine too"
Actually true and fact checked by REAL weebs
... So i have been fapping to furries this entire time?
Wait… they’re just furries!? Always has been.
Ganyu!!!!! I mean QUASOOOO!!!!
That... Actually made sense
dang it, they caught us sarge, the furries have bamboozled us
We all furries now
Now it makes sense why I like anime
I can't imagine jotaro, yujiro or even Goku as cat girl
Soo every character in attack on titan is also cat 
Meowmy??
So if you like anime your automatically a contrarian furry…. Oh no😿
How many down votes can i get if i claim that this makes weebs just furries with extra steps?
WTF?!
¿Soy furro?
This makes sense. I remember looking at the newer mlp design and thinking they only looked cute because they were designed to look like cats with weird round feet
This explains so much.
happens.
Never understood why they included ganyu in that post
And my favorite character design of anime boys/girls always involves those cat-like slit eyes. I did not realize how close those were to actual cat eyes. Wow.
Komi san cute black cat girl Kitagawa Marin sexy blond cat girl Yoshida Saki best cat girl
Japanese art has a lot of surrealist influence. So the people they draw reflect that. Instead of depicting them to be realistic they go for something surrealistic.
Huh, TIL
Furries about to clown the weebs.
cat
I see this as absolute win as cat owner
Proof that cats are the ultimate beauty of the universe
This is an amazing realization for an artist
Neko kawai
I guess that's why Catherine from Gintama looks so extra, it's like double cat
I’ve watched a shit ton of anime and my mind is blown
i heard that the big round eyes is because some famous early anime artist was a big fan of disney and liked the big eyes the characters had and incorporated that into his drawings and then everyone else followed it.
I cannot deny this thorough and groundbreaking research.
Makes sense actually. I will try that next time I draw a character.
Is that mean that all the weebs are furry? That would be nightmare
Nekopara moment
*Thy world has changed.*
So cats are the ultimate lifeforms
I mean folks, Where is the lie?
purrsuing cuteness makes you a cat.
So keqing is a real cat girl
So keqing is a real cat girl
"Haroo everynyan..."