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People argue about these terms and their meanings, I thought I should make it clear :3and that's ~Tompsontiger s fursona there as the model <3 purr
and yes I was bored durning the lesson, and I didnt have an ink pen >_>
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Nekomimi, inumimi, etc are not anthro.Β
Anthromorphic creatures are inanimate objects, plants, machines, or animals with human characteristics. Anthro is short for anthromorphic. I do not mean to come off as rude but I have researched this subject to know that a human with animal characteristics is a nekomimi, inumimi, etc.
Creatures like centaurs are not anthro. They are hybrids. Children born from a human and an animal parent. Do not get these two things mixed up with anthros. Though this says 2010 as the year you submitted this. This is highly not true.
Animals can be anthro or furry. Because they can be given human facial expressions, accessories, and extra items.
Furries are anthro but not all anthro is furry. So an anthro with less human traits like a werewolf is not furry. But an animal with human traits such as a feral creature is a furry. But not all furry creatures can be made feral. This sheet is wrong in many levels.
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It actually depends on their origin, anthromorphic means something given human characteristics, and it can go as far as an animal turning so much human that it only has the ears and tail left, therefor anthromorphic. And the word 'furry' doesn't have a scientific definition, so it cannot be argued.
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Part of that is right (I hope you don't mind me saying this I really don't consider this an argument. More like a friendly debate. I find nothing wrong with your view though often I come across an image like this and it's a little weird.)
An anthro is animal given human characteristics. A furry is the same thing. But all furry is anthro but not all anthro is furry. So you are right that an human with tails and ears of an animal can be considered as such. But however, it is more or less not anthro. Even though all furry is anthro not many consider the doubutsomimi an anthro because of it being all human only with few animal characteristics. Which IS only a tail and ears. However, there are the ones much like a human. They walk plantigrade, have our flat human faces. However, they have animal fur all over, and they are much more human than animal in the standing that they can wear clothing, have hair, be expressive with their human hands, etc. So you are right to say an doubutsomimi is anthro. But they are furry. Leaving other parts up for debate truly. And 'furry' does have a definition. It doesn't have scientific one because history doesn't have furry gods. That goes for the egyptian's with their Bird god, Ra. The god that ruled over all other gods. Than you have Anubis. The jackal god of death. Yes they wear clothes but they are not in termed furry. They are in termed anthromorphic. Werewolves came from London believe it or not. Because a pack of wolves came to attack a bunch of city folk. They were deemed creatures of night that fed on the elderly and sick. Often eating small children. But a werewolf is said to stand on two feet often run on all four. Giving anthro to the term of feral creatures being anthro. Since a werewolf was indeed an normal every day feral wolf. But I need to remember that everyone's definition is different. Though often books that you read they each explain the same thing as any other book like them based on the subject. Which is Furries are all anthro but a huge chunk of anthro is still not furry.
Again friendly debate. (Since you haven't cussed me out about this right at the start of blocked me right away. I find that you might think the same? It's fun to learn other's definitions on the matter. lol)
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All I can say is this is a rather pointless debate cause we mostly know the same things. This is a really really really old submission and there's probably some mistakes in it (Im not viewing it as I type and I actually have no memory what is in it) cause I did it a very long long time ago xP
And I have no clue what douboumimi is.
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Human with animal tails and ears. Doubutso is animal in japanese. Like neko is cat.
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Ohkay, still waiting for a proper english term for those xP
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But those are the proper terms for them lol.
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They're weirdy long japanise words tho :'c I can always hope right? I've hoped for all these years baaah. Cat eared things will forever just be catgirls to me bawww
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Actually they do have a english term for it. You have cat people (Nekomimi). Dog people (inumimi). And animal people (doubutsomimi).
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Nobody calls them that tho ;_;
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I do. I don't like typing a word that I can mess up. Like doubutso. I don't think it's spelt right lol.
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i wanna be a number 4 and i want to be an e'pu
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hehe. This list doesn't appeal to e'pus, since they only appear as (luckily) number 4 and number 7 (one can turn into both)
And you can be an e'pu :3 just remember to credit somewhere as I made the species.
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Nice, I like how you laid it out, have you ever done a book?
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nope, I've been planning on making different kind of art books but never got anything started and never had any time
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hmm too bad. after looking at your works and realizing that my favorite pags were the reference pages, i decided to draw a cartoon of me.
thanks for the insperation.
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^_^ I'm glad I got you inspirated :3
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2. kemonomimi. :3~
I like it. Somewhat explanatory. People in this area end up thinking that the style you draw (in my case is kemonomimi and zoomorphic [modern anthro])
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Oh, hey. I'm a human. Always learning something new.
Very informative. *nods* ^^
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OBJECTION
a human with animal trates
is not anthro in any way
that is call zoomorphic
anthropomorphic is giving animals human trates
where giving a human animal trates is zoomophic
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anthromorphic is everything which involves animal and human blending XD
Ive never heard the term zoomorph, but I guess it works the same way as the term anthro.
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no they are completely different
anthro is giving animal human trates
and zoo is giving human animal trates
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well who knows how much animal or human trates you give for one :3
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i would put number two as zoomorphic if it had no fur but skin
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well usually those have fur
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I'll fav this, as I will probably needit to clarify to myself.
Thanks
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:3 no problem and thanks for the fav!
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What about a cat that thinks it's human?
Oh, right... that's my cat. Nevermind.
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x) hehe cats are amazing for they have so colourful personalities that the original stereotype is almost never found along them.
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Like Kintaro Oe would say: This is so Educational! XD
Heh heh. kiitti tΓ€stΓ€. Favehin menee.
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hihii ^.^
eipΓ€ kestΓ€ :3 kiitos favesta.
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Hey hey, technically a talking cat with no other human like traits is still anthropomorphic!
Haha, but as far as lingo being how people use the terms, its spot on!
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it sais that xD
"Animal with human abilities
-anthro
-speaking animal"
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Oh, nono. I meant it in a "Hey! I didn't realize that" exclamation. I hear anthro used so much with furries that I forgot its actual meaning until I saw this. Then I was agreeing with your lingo examples! I see how it could be read wrong when I go back and look at it though. Hehe.
It was worded poorly, I should have used a talking fridge as an example.
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ah :3 nice.
I know alot of people forget the meaning of actual anthro. expecially when "anthro fans" and "furry fans" fight against eachother, even all furry is anhro (but not the other way around) XD
and even most fantasy creatures like egyptian gods or kentaurs are anthro :3
it's funny how people dont want to accept those facts, just because the bad reputations of the words nowdays.
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