I have a question that has been bugging me. A pointless question to be honest. Do catgirls have four ears or two ears? I'm talking about actual catgirls, not a character wearing cat ears. I mean the girls that have functioning cat ears.
Catgirls appear to be fully human except for their ears and tails, so I think that they have two cat ears and no human ears and the coccyx is the base of the cat tail.
Also, I understand that there are wolfgirls, foxgirls, etc, but I'm assuming that whatever information Sup Forums can provide applies to every creature that has a human body and animal ears and an animal tail.
Ian Wright
>Do catgirls have four ears or two ears? Yes
Lucas Wood
There aren't simply catgirls and human girls, OP. It's a continuum.
Lucas Gutierrez
I don't see that many catgirls with four ears, though it does happen, I guess on those cases the artists just don't really think about it from an anatomical point of view, they just draw a pair of animal ears on the head and call it a day.
Hunter Myers
Both kinds exist.
Tyler Russell
one set of two ears
if they have two sets of two ears I immediately write the anime off as absurd and aesthetically displeasing
i did this for strike witches and magipoka
Cameron Rogers
They're better with two pairs of ears.
There's a reason why they always have the hair covering the sides of the head if they don't have ears there. It's unsettling to see a human head missing features such as ears.
Julian Nelson
Now I really want to see a bald catboy bouncer in some anime.
Nathaniel Murphy
Two sets of ears. The top ones have additional functionality, other than hearing.
Joseph King
After reading what said about it being displeasing and seeing this picture, I can conclude that catgirls have human ears and cat ears, however, the cat ears must be either not able to hear (so their growths) or they have poor hearing capability because having four-way hearing would be nightmarish especially for headphones unless the catgirls have special plugs for their sensitive ears. But very good points that change my way of thinking about them.
Brody Richardson
The cat ears don't hear. They pick up magnetic fields and radio signals.
Easton Roberts
Animal ears (and tails) exist to display the kemonomimi's current state of emotion.
Lucas Sanders
Cute
Charles Scott
That's what they always are. Superadorably cute.
Michael Long
Four ears is retarded from the evolutionary point of view. No mammal has four ears. How the fuck did catgirls evolve then?
William Gonzalez
nekomimi=4 ears because the 'cat ears' are fake
kemonomimi=2 ears because real
Daniel Carter
Two sets of ears just looks off, though to be honest ears like these make more sense in a way. It's either animal ears on the top or animal ears on the side. Having human ears is dumb as fuck on them.
Austin Gutierrez
I wish more anime would follow what Dog Days or Utawarerumono did.
With Dog Days, they just completely lack human ears, as in the reference image. The creator even enforced the rule of no human ears.
And Utawarerumono just has them in place of the human ears, which is also good.
This too.
Brayden Walker
>Do catgirls have four ears or two ears? Depends on the person who writes the manga/LN
Ian King
There's fans of both kinds of ear-sets. It's like futas. There's futas without balls, and there's futas with balls.
Henry Garcia
the original kemonomimi characters always had long hair that would hide apparent human ears
most of the time it is implied that the technique is used to make the character less jarring in appeareance as it is human nature to see the lack of human ears a glaring flaw in evolution and as such they would deem the character not cute if they saw them without.
as a general rule of thumb Moe archetypes just have animal ears as accessories meanwhile serious characters have them as actual functional ears and DO NOT have anything else under the hair that is however hidden to avoid potential visual displeasure
Jace Ward
Cyan and her show are trash
Christian Adams
Not true for the first season. Second season, I do have to unfortunately agree with you.
Connor Jenkins
When the cat ears are on top of the head you can either see the human ears or their hair covers where they would be.
They have to do this because it would just look plain wrong if you could see where their human ears should be and they were missing.
Kayden Sullivan
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Owen Hill
2 ears is cuter since you get little things like this
Jayden Sanchez
I'm in the two ears camp. I don't see why catgirls and catgirls (male) would have a redundant pair of ears.
Jeremiah Robinson
Two animal ears is all that's necessary. Keep the human ears and they might as well be cosplaying. It's one of the reasons I couldn't really enjoy Kemono Friends despite almost directly pandering to me.
