Comments on: Happy Birthday Virtual Neko Blog! (plus handy Neko FAQs)

By: The History of Neko « Virtual Neko in Second Life

The History of Neko « Virtual Neko in Second Life — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:44:04 +0000

[...] an evolution of ancient folklore stories about Bakeneko. (A far more in-depth history can be found on this page of my [...]

By: Pussycat Catnap

Pussycat Catnap — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:00:18 +0000

I want to thank you for this blog. When I started in SL and those kitty ears ended up on me, I had to figure out what to do about them… Like you, search for me turned all kinds of weird poseball craziness. I think Neko just means ‘all’ to the SL search engine. Then I found your blog, and managed to get everything sorted out.

I was particularly pleased that you presented clothing and styles you had tried that were -not- grunge. I’m not a grunge neko, and I felt kind of out of place among the others I would see in all my pink and glam or costume mania.

Your blog page often remain open as a tab in my browser, a handy ‘reference’ anytime I want to go look down a new alley. Great resource, thank you so much for making it.

By: Beulah

Beulah — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:02:21 +0000

I LOVE your blog and this post had to be one of the best
congrat, happy birthday and keep up the brilliant job you do here
Too many who do this think they are ‘professional’ bloggers and lose the fun of the writing (which means we lose the fun of reading) – so glad you haven’t fallen into that trap.
I look forward to reading more and more and I really hope you hit some main feeds – its about time

hugs

By: N°6

N°6 — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:42:06 +0000

Longue vie à ton blog.

By: Virtual Neko

Virtual Neko — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:55:44 +0000

I swear Kyllie, you are a natural born researcher… many many thanks!!! I have added Osamu Tezuka’s manga reference into my story.

In the youtube, his character transforms *entirely* into a cat, but hey, she started as a human, and I’m guessing some of his manga characters may have retained that “semi-human, semi-cat” shape that we’ve come to know as Neko, since that tvtropes web page cites him as our dad… he he

Anyway, here is a list of all his “more notable” manga:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Osamu_Tezuka_manga
(Assuming the catgirl one should be in here somewhere, since it was made into a cartoon…)

I wonder if there’s any way we can find out which of these mangas showed catgirls… There are tons of “read manga online” websites (onemanga.com, mangafox.com, mangavolume.com) and while I don’t know if any of them would have something that old, it would be awesome if we could find it for everyone!!

By: Kyllie wylie

Kyllie wylie — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:44:22 +0000

Good english reference can be found here:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CatGirl

This is a early work by Osamu Tezuka, who also created Astro Boy and is considered one of the pioneers of Japanese Manga and Anime. The original manga was from 1954:

That is Heckett out of Princess Knight, the cartoon version was 1968. Devil’s daughter or something but she’s secretly one of the good guys. This is a dub into Arabic or something but it’ll do. You can see her intro here at about 3:45:

This also kind of fits with Japanese lore that she would be the daughter of the devil Heckate as the Bake-Neko that cat girls concept come from in Japan were often considered cats possesed by evil spirits.. and would often have to power to change into human girls. Some more info on the Bakeneko:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakeneko

By: Faerie

Faerie — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:16:08 +0000

Happy Birthday sweetie

By: melmeleatrice

melmeleatrice — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:08:58 +0000

Happy B-day Virtual Neko Blog! Thanks for all the awesome posts and beautiful work.

<3 Ellie Celt

By: paypabak writer

paypabak writer — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:09:33 +0000

Happy Anniversary! What wonderful timing as I have a blog coming up on Tuesday about Virtual Neko in slFix! I’ll be pointing to this great celebratory article!

By: spyvspyaeon

spyvspyaeon — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:04:21 +0000

wooow that is quite impressive. Congrats!

By: Lourdes Denimore

Lourdes Denimore — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:59:10 +0000

Happy Anniversary… looking forward to another year of neko goodness.

By: Virtual Neko

Virtual Neko — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:13:54 +0000

Kyllie thanks for sharing! If you can, I’d be grateful if you could post some links to these older sources, because even though I’ve heard this was the case, so far I have been unable to track down any references to catgirl anime and manga from that era. May just be my language deficit though.

For those of you interested in reading more about cat girls, simply do a google for catgirls.

Anyway, it would be very cool to finally collect (and write!) a full history of this in one place! (uh oh, does that constitute a list?) he he…

And THANK YOU EVERYONE for these warm wishes, they mean a lot!!!