Obligatory Cute Anime Animal

created by Tilyrna

(idea) by Tilyrna (7.8 y) (print) ? 1 C! I like it! Sun Jun 18 2000 at 4:03:54

It seems like every anime has one (well, its much more common in comedy and shoujo anime). Sometimes they exist only to pop up on screen ever third episode. A small, painfully adorable creature, the obligatory cute anime animal is usually some sort of mythical creature, so it can be even more kawaii than any actually existing animal. Failing that, it's often a cat.

Examples;
Kero-chan (Card Captor Sakura)
Jiji (Kiki's Delivery Service)
Chuchu (Shoujo Kakumei Utena)
Mokona (Magic Knights Rayearth)
Tama (Fushigi Yuugi)
That little black cat (Trigun)
Ryo-Ohki (Tenchi Muyo)
Pen-Pen (Evangelion)
The welsh corgi (Cowboy Bebop)
All those cats (Sailor Moon)
do I even need to mention Pokemon?

And that's just off the top of my head...

(idea) by Starrynight (3.2 mon) (print) ? 1 C! I like it! Sun Jun 18 2000 at 5:41:26

The propensity of anime include cute mascots is mocked (along with just about every other anime stereotype) in Otaku no Video, with the presence of Posi-king and Nega-king, two mascots based of King, the lion cub in Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, another Gainax opus.

Hell, even Neon Genesis Evangelion had a cute mascot: Penpen.

printable version
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Otaku No Video	Cute fuzzy widdle aminals	Cowboy Bebop	Kiki's Delivery Service
Pen-Pen	kawaii	Neon Genesis Evangelion	CardCaptor Sakura
neko	Post-Apocalyptic Megatokyo	shoujo	Three Puerto Rican girls walked by like accordion music under the trees, looking like they'd accept nothing less than perfection.
P-Chan	Trigun	Tenchi Muyo!	Ranma 1/2
otaku	drunken master	Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht	Saint Tail
meep	Video Girl Ai	Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water	Fushigi Yuugi

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