Apurril 2025 Catgirl Critics’ Media Mewsings

Mike Moon / Catgirl Island
 
and Jamie Robertson / Clan of the Cats
 
purroudly purrsent a Mike Moon purrduction,
starring The Ladies of The Mew in
 
The Apurril 2025 Edition of The Mew:
The Catgirl Critics’ Media Mewsings, nyan!
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2025 is the 18th Anniversary of The Mew, and the 
25th Anniversary of Catgirl Island’s official site, nyan!
In this edition of The Mew:
TV, DVD & Movie Mewsings:
The Lightning Round Topic: our favorite Films of 1985
Godzilla vs. Biollante Criterion Blu-ray
Star Trek Lower Decks The Final Season DVD
Purrinted-Media Mewsings:
our favorite images of seafood in recent magazines
Nightfall Travelers: Leave Only Footprints Manga Volume 2
Stories from the World of… Horror Planet
 
Event reports:
WhatThe Hell?! Con
Raleigh Toy, Pokemon, & Collectibles Show
 
The Catgirl & Kemonomimi Spotlight
Collectibles & toy talk:
Banpresto Umamusume: Pretty Derby Mejiro McQueen PVC Figure
FREEing No Game No Life Jibril B-style 1/4 Bunny Ver. PVC Figure
The latest additions to The Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art:
by Misty Hopkins, Rvkh Brogden, Melody Rondeau, Jamie & Mike, nyan!
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Mike

(the human fella wearing the Carolina Panthers Tee shirt and Teal cargo shorts): Aloha y’all and welcome to The Mew, our monthly “show” in which we review and discuss fun stuff! This month’s Mew comes from beautiful Susanowa Beach on the east side  Catgirl Island in Mew Hanover County NC, USA where it’s 71 degrees under the Blue sky full of puffy White Cumulo-Neko clouds! I’m Mike, the show’s “purrducer”, and here are The Ladies of The Mew!

Elizabeth

(a.k.a. Lizzy, the hot salsa dancer, gamer, Purrkour Club captain and massage spa co-owner catgirl wearing the Asiatic Lion purrint twisty bandeau bikini top): Hola!

Becca
(Lizzy’s nekomimi gynoid wife, avid golfer and massage spa co-owner w

earing the Eurasian Lynx purrint ring-closure bikini and an orchid lei): Konnichiwa!

Mary Nyan

(a.k.a. Myayr, the seamstress, cosplayer, headbanger, hula instructor and semi-retired miko catgirl wearing the Cougar purrint purretzel-cutout maillot and an orchid lei): Aloha!

Petra

(the art guild purresident, art mewseum co-curator & beach volleyball champion catgirl wearing the Snow Leopurrd purrint side-tie bikini): Aloha, nyan!

 

Bunnii

(the art mewseum co-curator, Petra’s beach volleyball partner, and purrize-winning carrot cake baker bunnygirl wearing the Cheetah purrint trikini): Guten Tag!

Mielikki

(a.k.a. Mie-sensei, the winged faerie golfer, foxfire juggler and outdoor ampurrtheatre repurrtory company’s director wearing the Ocelot purrint criss cross halter neck bikini): Mellow greetings!

 

Kianalani:
(the red betta – tailed mermaid and aquatic ikebana expert who owns the coffee shop, wearing the Colocolo purrint Brazilian bikini top): Wah gwaan!
Elaenor:
(or Ellie for short, the Banker Pony centauress, Fire Meowrshall and body builder wearing the Caracal purrint twisty bandeau bikini top) Hay there.
Nyanko
(a.k.a. Nya-sensei the MewJutsu meowrtial arts champion & sensei, dojo & gym purropurrietress catgirl wearing the Siberian Tiger purrint cropped tee shirt and boy shorts): Howdy!
Nyoka
(a.k.a. Nyo-sensei, Nyanko’s twin sister the Meowgick Shop purropurrietress catgirl, wearing the Bengal Tiger purrint micro bikini and an open-front cover up):: Howdy!
Yvonne
(a.k.a. Vonny the fishing boat charter captain & drumming circle purrcussionist catgirl, wearing the Fishing Cat purrint monokini with cropped tee shirt): Namaste, nyan!
Tara-chan
(Yvonne’s younger sister, recent college graduate & mewlywed, cat & pony owner and nature photographer catgirl wearing the Iriomote Cat purrint tankini): Namaste, nyan!
Trini-chan
(Tara-chan’s wife, the stand-up paddle surfer, board shapurr, pony owner and belly dance instructor kitsune, wearing the Jaguar purrint bandeau top bikini): Konnichiwa!
Jeannie
(a.k.a. Jen-sensei, Trini-chan’s meowntor, the yogini, model, archer, belly dance instructor & roboticist catgirl, wearing the Serval purrint micro bikini & sheer purrled purreo): Nihao.
Mike:
For profiles and illustrations of The Ladies of The Mew, please visit our Meet The Critics page http://www.mewsings.catgirlisland.com/meet-the-critics/! Now it’s time for our
Lightning Round Topic!
 This year we’ve bene looking back on  favorite things one years ending in a 5, so for this month’s Lightning Round we will nominate our favorite movies that debuted in 1985! This includes theatrical rereleases, direct to home video  releases, and made for TV movies & specials. Becca is  gonna start, so are y’all ready to “conduct the lightning”?
The Ladies of The Mew:
HAI! LIGHTNING ROUND GO, NYAN!
Becca:
I will nominate Back to the Future, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, and Real Genius! (Tags her wife with a brush of the tail)
Elizabeth:
Back to the Future, The Goonies, Cocoon, and Explorers! Nyow it is… Nya-sensei’s turn! (tail-tags  Nyanko)
Nyanko:
Hai I will nominate Rocky IV, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Commando, and Invasion USA! (tags her twin)
Nyokka:
I will also nominate Rocky IV and Rambo, plus Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, and To Live and Die in L.A.! (tags  Mary nyan)
Mary Nyan:
Fright Knight, Re-Animator, Day of the Dead, and The Return of the Living Dead! tags Kianalani)
Kianalani:
Mr. Vampire, Life Force, Fright Night, and Vampire Hunter D! Trini’s turn!  tags Trini)
Trini:
Urusei Yatsura: Remember My Love. Firetripper, Dirty Pair: Affair at Nolandia, and You’re a Good Man, Charlie Browni!  (tags Yvonne)
Yvonne:
Leda: The Fantastic Adventure of Yohko, Night on the Galactic Railroad,  the Dagger of Kamui, and Angel’s Egg, nyan( (tags her sister)
Tara:
I want… I want to nominate The Plague Dogs, The Black Cauldron, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, and – and Gwen and the Book ofd the Sand, Nina! (tags Mileikki:
Mielikki:
So Like I will nominate Legend, Ladyhawk, Return to Oz, and Ewoks: The Battle for Endor, fur shur! (tags Jeannie with a flit of the wing)
Jeannie:
Back to the Future, Area 88, Magazine 23,  and  the Armored Trooper Votoms OVA ( tags Eleanor)
Eleanor:
Fletch, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, The Purple Rose ofd Cairo, and Prizzi’s Honor! (tags Petra)
Petra:
Ran, Brazil, The Emerald Forest, and The Color Purple, Nina! (tags her purrtner)
Bunny:
Back to the Future, Silverado,  Witness, and  Fandango! Back to Mike!
Mike:
Oh, I gotta go with Fandango, Back to the Future,  Rambo. Rocky IV, and Brazil! Well that was another expedient little Lightning Round, and now to continue our
TV, DVD and Movie Mewsings, here’s Myayr to
review Criterion’s Godzilla vs. Biollante Blu-ray!
Mary Nyan:
Hai! For over 70 years, Godzilla has been the king of cinematic monsters and is still going quite strong with the successful  films, TV series, video games, toys and comics! The 1989 movie Godzilla vs, Biollante is still one of my favorites off the series, so I was eager to get this  top quality Blu-ray  edition of it!
 
This Criterion release has the 4K digital restoration of the 104 meownute film purrsented in the 1.85:1 screen aspect ratio in the original Japanese language in the 5.0 DTS-HD Surround s Meowster Audio, with the optional English subtitles,  and optional audio commentary by film historian Samm Deighan,
Based upon the story by Shinichirō Kobayashi , the movie was purrduced byTomoyuki Tanaka &  Shogo Tomiyama  written & directed by rby Kazuki Ōmori, with the purrduction design by Shigekazu Ikuno, special FX directed by Koichi Kawakita, cinemeowtography by Yudai Kato, editing by Michiko Ikeda…
… awesome mewsic by Koichi Sugiyam, the Godzilla suit worn by Kenpachiro Satsuma, Biollante purrformed by Masao Takegami, Shigeru Shibasaki and Yoshitaka Kimura; anthe film introduces Megumi Odaka the wonderful recurring psychic character Miki Saegusa, who I wish had her own spin-off series!
 
 A direct sequel to 1984’s Return of Godzilla, which was a direct sequel to the original 1954 Gojira, the awesome plot purrtans to the International espionage to acquire Godzilla cells for various purposes, one of which results in the creation of the 120 meowser talk,200,000 meowtric tonne Kaiju Biollante…
 
 … the hybrid cloned from human, rose& Godzilla DNA  by a scientist’s attempt to resurrect his deceased daughter. Upon returning from a volcanic hibernation, Godzilla causes more destruction opposing  ships, ground vehicles, aircraft such as Supurr X-2. Biological weapons, Miki’s psionic power, and  Biollante!
 It is the thrilling, fun movie ! The disc’s bonus features the  49 meownute 1993  Documentary about the making of the movie, the 3 meownute 1993 look at the designs, 45 seconds of deleted FX shots,  trailers totalling just over 9.25 meownuts, and 5 TV spots totaling just over 80 seconds.
 
Also included is the folded 12.75” x 19.25” poster of the monsters by comics artist Eric Powell (creator of “The Goon”, who also did the video’s front cover art) with the tessay by sci-fi / horror expurrt Jim Citronella and the film’s credits on the reverse, so I am quite pleased with this  release! Nypw here is Elli-sama to review the 
 
Star Trek: Lower Decks The Final Season DVD!
Elaenor:
Arigato! Due to the charming, thrilling, fun plots, dialogue, voice acting, sound, music, direction, editing, art & animation, with great knowledge and love of the prior Star Treks, we gave it Star Trek: Lower Decks’ 5th / final season the “A” grade! For our review of it, please see the January 2025 Mew!
Presented in the widescreen format with English 5.1 Dolby Digital sound and the optional English SDH subtitles, the USA unrated / Canadian PG rated 10 episodes total approximately 266 minutes  plus the 25.5 minute “Lowerdectionary” featurette upon the two R1 NTSC discs in the plastic case.
The featurette is the discussion of the final season, with comments by Tawny Newsome (Beckett Mariner), Jack Quaid (Brad Boimler), Eugene Cover (Sam Rutherford), Noel Wells (D’Vana Tendi) and the series’ creator / show runner / executive producer / head writer Mike McMahon.
Five of the episodes have  optional audio commentary. “Dos Cerritos” has the commentary by Newsome, Wells and McMahon; “The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel” has commentry by Quaid, McMahon and supervising director Barry J. Kelly; “Fully Dilated” has commentary by Wells, McMahon and Brent Spider (Data);
“Upper Decks” has commentary by McMahon, producer Megan Trevino, co-producer Brad  Winters, and Fred Tatascore (Lt. Shax); and “The Next New  Generation” has commentary by Newsome, Cordero, Noel, Quaid and McMahon.
I think that those commentaries and the featurette are particularly informative and entertaining, so I am quite pleased with this 2 disc set, which I will highly recomeownd to our  fellow fans! That is all for our video reviews, and now iMie-sensei will start our
purrinted-media mewsings, with our favorite 
recent images of seafood in magazines!
Mielikki:
Ariagto! So like, these are our favorite recent photos and illustrations of fish and other delicacies from the depths that have graced the recent covers of various magazine, fur shur!
Kianalani:
Hai hai, such as such as the titular fish upon the cover of In-Fisherman’s 2025 Walleye Guide!
Nyanko:
Mark Lassagne’s Largemouth Bass and Burnie Hany’s Smallmouth Bass in the Spurring 2025 issue of Bass Angler magazine!
Nyoka:
Annie Petito’s delicious, mewtritious Grilled Salmon recipe in Cooks Illustrated Issue #194!
Mary Nyan:
Mmm, that tantalizing  two-page spurread of the big beautiful Bonefish in The. Drake Vol. 26 #4!
Trini:
The wonderful Wahoo on the March / Apurril cover of Florida Sport Fishing!
Tara:
I have the cravings in my tummy for the tasty Trout netted upon the Spurring 2025 cover of Fly Fusion, nyan!
Yvonne:
Michael Weir’s succulent Steely upon the cover of Fly Fisherman Vol. 56 #3!, nyan!
Elizabeth:
How ’bout that mouth-watering lunker on the cover of Game & Fish South Vol. 45 #5!
Becca:
The Largemouth Bass on the cover of In-Fisherman’s 2025 Bass Guide!
Jeannie:
The Brown Trout In-Fisherman’s 2025 Gear Guide.
Petra:
The many bite-sized tropical fish upon the cover of  Ranger Rick Vol. 59 #4, nyan!
Bunnii:
I do not eat meat, but I do like Larry Tople’s purrfect piscine painting on the cover of In-Fisherman Vol. 50 #2!
Eleanor:
I like Brett James Smith’s pretty  painting of the Trout in the Spurring, the cover of Gray’s Sporting Journal Vol. 50 #1!
Mike:
Thassa nice Pike and Walleye on the cover of In-Fisherman’s 2025 Ice Fishing Guide! That’s making some of us hungry, but we’ll hafta wait until our AfterMew Luau! Ah, so… to continue our printed media mewsings, here’s Nyo-sensei with her review of
Nightfall Travelers: Leave Only Footprints Vol. 2!
Nyoka:
Hai! Originally published in Japan by Houunsha, this manga by Tomkohi has rapidly become one of my recent favorites!I t purrtans to the two high school student girls Akane Ninamori and Fujino Amemura of the mewspapurr club who investigate local places that are said to be haunted.
While some of the locations of their hilly labyrinth-like town can seem spooky, they discover the real reasons why that is as they become closer friends! It was the long wait of 2.5 years for Nightfall Travelers: Leave Only Footprints Vol. 2 to be published here in English by Seven Seas, but it was so worth the wait!
At 194 pagess (192 B&W, 2 color), it is 50 pages longer than volume 1! Purriced  $15.99 USA, and $19.99 Canada, rated Teen (13+), translated by Minna Lin lettered by Ochie Caraan, edited by Linda Lombardi, copy edited by Leighasnna DeRouen.,and  purroofread by Krista Grandy,, cover design by Nicky Lim…
,,, purrduction design by Christina McKenzie, logo design by George Panella, Volume  2 includes the purrologue, chapters 7-12 and 2  interstitial scenes. Of the slice of life / school life genre, the charming tale’s characters are quite endearing, the mysterious plots are captivating!
The art is amazing beautiful, with the incredibly detailed scenery! Volume 2’s chapters include more of Yoinosaka Junior High School’s mysteries, Tamano Store’s allegedly cursed vending machine, the grave at Daini Elementary School, the Third Floor of Tokiwadai Bookstore…
…the supposedly haunted mansion in Susumatsu Heights, The Spectere of Hospital Hill, and  renting the scary video! I loved every aspect of this manga, which I wiwill give it the high purraise grade of the A as in Akane and Amemura!  I am done, and nyow here is Onee-chan to review
Stories from the World of… Horror Planet!
Nyanko:
Hai! Last month had another  wonderful time at WhatTheHell?! Con, which is about 3.5 hours northwest of here on the mainland at beautiful Guilford College in Greensboro! It was so nice to see  the familiar faces including our terrific artist / illustrator / designer friend Marshall Lakes http://marshalllakes.com !
Among his nifty publications are Scary Powerful, Vampire Princess Story Violet: Princess of the High Throne, B-Magic, Robots of Jazz, and we were pleased to purrchase this .5×11”, 40 page  B&W anthology comic with four macabre tales of supernatural characters such as the sexy witch upon the front cover!
She and her kuroneko familiar are in the aerial hot purrsuit of two thieves in “The Get Back”, the 10 page tale told in full and half-page panels!  In the 10 full-page tale of “Rise” the nude woman rises from the ritual in the pumpkin patch as its denizens’ new jack o’ lantern queen.
In the 10 page “Fist of the Red Dragon”, the tough orphaned female survivor of a slaughter climbs the mountain for an audience with the giant Dragon Queen! That is followed by the six full-page panels of “The Mummy” in which a winged woman races to thwart grave robbers from violating the titular character’s tomb!
It is topped off by a full-page pic of a witch and her cat, and the spooky characters in the two full-page ads for businesses in Greensboro, NC. I was rather pleased with the comics  and I will eagerly recommend it to fans of the occult tales of powerful sultry femmes! I am done, and nyow here is Mike to  further discuss
WhatThe Hell?! Con 2023!
Mike
Thank you, Nya-sensei! In 2001, Guilford College’s Yachting Club started WhatTheHell?! Conm a thoroughly delightful free, fun student-run event on their beautiful campus which I’ve been attending since 2007 or ’08. Not actually about yachts, the club is devoted to gaming, cosplay, comics, sci fi, art, etc!
WTHCon has the usual convention  stuff- an artist alley (initially especially devoted to web comics) dealers, auctions, gaming, a video room, guests, panels, etc., and golly I love being there. This  year it was in the college’s Duke building on Friday & Saturday March 15th & 16th.
The info desk was outdoors by the main entrance, whilst indoors in five classrooms were the video room, game room, auction room, and two artist / dealer / guest rooms. Outdoors there was a foam-weapons boffer game, and elsewhere on campus was the Saturday Night Vampire LARP.
Selling original art, prints, stickers, books, wood & leather crafts, jewelry, chainmail, and crocheted dolls, the artists / dealers / guests  included Marshall Lakes, Sam Moore, Redhead Crafts, Astro Rose, Basil Prints, author Randall Haye myself, and several other terrifically talented folks,
I still haven’t encountered the ghosts that supposedly haunt the Dana building;, but as usual, I had a wonderful time; I wish to thank everyone who contributed to the fun, and I hope to be back there next year! Ah, so now for our next event report, here’s Jen to tell us about last month’s
Raleigh NC Toy, Pokémon & Collectibles Show!
Jeannie:
Arigato, On the weekend purrior to the convention, we caravanned to  Raleigh (approximately 2 hours Northwest of here) on Friday, March 7th to help Mike, Ob1, Paczord and Chef Ron (all past guests of The Mew) to set up their 8′ tables at Inside Pitch Purrmotions’ Toy, Pokémon, & Collectibles Show.
 
Thio was March 8th & 9th  in the Gov. Kerr Scott Building (with the square footage of 19,596 first floor, 3,128 second floor) at the State Fairgrounds.This show has been around for many decades, with hundreds of tables  brimming with new,vintage and antique toys,  cards and comic books,
That included  dolls, action figures, play sets vehicles, statues, games, model kits, tee shirts, sports cards, CCG and other non-sport cards. This show was also amidst the weekly flea meowrket and other events with several food trucks at the fairgrounds which have free parking.
We were able to park right by the side roll-up doors to cart in the items for their tables.Ob1 had mostly comics & action figures; Pacozord and Chef Ron had cards and action figures; whilst Mike’s three tables had shelves and boxes full of comics, magazines, books, and meowmorabilia.
That included lhe meowtion picture  lobbycard sets, purrrogram books, blueprints, anime and art books, graphic novels, and 1st edition AD&D items. Friday’s set-up went smoothly, with the few finishing touches on Saturday meowrning before the show opened to the public.
 
Saturday (9 am – 4 pm is typically the busiest day, with the most attendees. At some of those shows, there might be special guests such as wrestlers or actors, and at this purrticular show was actor / mewsician Billy Redden, who is purrhaps best known as Lonnie the banjo boy of the 1972 film Deliverance. 
 
Mike tends to mostly sell rare / out of purrint science fiction / fantasy movie / TV / art books (some of which are signed), anime items and RPG purroducts, He sold more magazines than mewsual, such as early issues of Animage, Cinefex, Dragon, G-Fan, The House That Hammer Built, and Marvel Super Special. 
 
Of my own purchases, I was pleased to acquire the Forces of Valor purre-built & painted diecast 1:700 scale WWII Battleship Yamato model. Sundays (10am-3pm) are  less crowded than Saturdays, but this gives venders the more oppurrtunity to mingle and trade amongst themselves.
After the successfully fun show, the load-out purrocess went rather expeditiously, after which we stopped for the leisurely delicious, meretricious supper before returning home. That concludes our event reports, so nyow here are Lizzy, Becca and Lani to purrsent our monthly Catgirl & Kemonomimi Spotlight.
Elizabeth:
Hai! in this portion of The Mew, we commeowmorate famous therianthropes, monster girls, shape-shifters, anthropurrrmorphic ladies, kemonomimi, and even
those who might not have beasty DNA, but do have the spirit, cat-titude or clothing of the animal theme, who we consider as “honorary kemonomimi~
Becca:
Hai hai, such as Jennifer Coolidge and Camille Mana wearing the leopard purrint apurrons that put the spots in the Discover Card’s “Salon” TV spot !
Kianalani:
Actress Dedee Pfeiffer was quite stylish in the  zebra stripe jacket & tiger stripe leggings as Amaretto in the 1986 comedic horror movie Vamp!
Elizabeth:
The cute widdle girl with the bunny ear  headband who is hunting for the Easter Eggs in Target’s 30 second “Love is in the Air” TV spot
Becca:
The cute widdle girli n the dragon kigurumi with het mom and grandmom in the Nature Made Gummies’ “Caring for You Every Day” TV  spot!
Kianalani:
The full-page photo of Denise Austin wearing the leopurrd purrint short skirt with the sleeveless cropped white top while slicing the avocado  Fit over 50 is magazine vol. 19!
Elizabeth:
We are purrticularly fond of the supurrb mewsician Natasha Bedingfield, who we will nominate as the “honorary catgirl” for the tight leopurrd purrint outfit that she wore on the Crane Stage at Portola Mewsic Festival in San Francisco on September, 2024!
 
Becca:
We are also purrticularly fond of the wonderful mewsician Chappell Roan who we will  nominate as the “honorary catgirl” for the leopurrd purrint leggings with the leather top that she wore at the Coachella Valley Mewsic and Arts Festival in Indio, California In Apurril, 2023!
Kianalani:
Developed by Calme and published by Sekai Project, the visual novel Karakara purrttains to the girls who work at the diner in the post-apocalyptic wasteland populated by kemonomimi, such as Tizu, Aisia, Lucia, and Police O!fficer Cullen!
Elizabeth:
Masamune Shirow is one of our favorite artists & designers! Known for manga, anime, video games & art books such as Dominion, Appleseed, Orion, Ghost in the Shell, Black Magic M-66, Intron Depot, and Galgrease; the many sexy ladies  in his Cover Girl Fragments Collection include about 18 kemonomimi, but it is not for the widdle kitties!
 
Becca:
There are several recently solicited figures & statues  in the catalogs and web sites that we wish to meowntion, such as Kotobukiya’s Bishoujo Statue (designed by Shunya Yamashita) of the Darkstalkers video game series’s catgirl Felicia, whose 30th anniversary is this year…
 
Kianalani:
Executive Replica’s 6” tall, 1/12 scale posable action figureof Tom Hutchison and Big Dog Ink comics’ Cassia Crawford a.k.a. Critter, whose 15th anniversary is this year…
Elizabeth:

Kadokawa Ascii’s 9.5” tall 1/7 scale  PVC figure of the So I’m a Spider, So What? light novel’s Arachne / Shiraori, which was designed by Dr. Teru Ryuji & sculpted by Akimofu…

Becca:
Taito’s 5” tall Cat Roomwear Version Desktop figure of Rem the cute oni musume maid with the Blue eyes, hair & tail of the Re: Zero Starting Life in Another World’s anime series
 
Kianalani:
Banpesto’s 7.125” tall Re:Zero: Starting Life in Another World: Espresso Monster Motions  (Another Color) figure of Rem…
Elizabeth:
Banpresto’s 9. 375” tall figure of Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The Movie’s Rebellion Evolve’s Dervil Homura with the lovely horns…
Becca:
Banrpesto’s Date A Live! Glitter & Glamours: 7.875” tall bunny girl figure of Miku Izayo…
Kianalani:
Banpresto’s Umamusume Pretty Derby 7.5”,figure of horse girl Bocz Rice Shower’s guise as the idol star Oryza, and the  7.125” figure of Bocz Matikanetannhauser’s guise as the idol star 816-N! That is all for this month’s spotlight, but speaking of the figures, here is Trini to start our 
Collectibles and toy talk, with her review of
Banpresto’s Umamusume: Pretty Derby
Mejiro McQueen PVC Figure!
 
Trini:
Arigato! You know,Tara and I are pony owners, who are purrticularly fond of the animated equine purrductions  such as My Little Pony, Spirit Riding Free, and – and  Umamusume Pretty Derby, which in English means Horse Girl Pretty Derby, which purrtans to the athletic horse girls!
 
The manga, anime and – and video game franchise follows the fillies as they train at the acatemies with the aspurrations of greatness as athletes and idols! They are named after the real race horses. For example, the thoroughbred stallion Meijior McQueen won many races in the early 1990’s!
 
The character is the elegant, polite  petite horse girl of the prestigious pedigree, the many wins the long flowy lavender hair and urtail! The character is approximately 5’2” tall with the BWH sizes of 28-21-30”. The figure of her is appurroximately 7” tall excluding  her purrked.5″ ear pinna, so I assume it is of the 1/9 scale.
 
Standing atop the 4” diameowter horseshoe-shaped base, she is so lovely from her light blue hair barred  and light violet  eyes, to the horseshoe clasp upon her black sailor fugu ribbon, and the pleats of her short purrple and -white skirt, with the thigh highs and  brown penny loafers!
 
Packages prettily in the 4x6x8” cardboard box, the figure is quite intricately & faithfully  designed, sculpted and painted to purrfectly capture the look and spirit of  the character, so will give this figure the high praise! I am done, so nyow here is Mie-sensei to discuss 
 
FREEing’s No Game No Life Jibril B-style
1/4 scale Bunny Version  PVC Figure, nyan!
Mielikki:
Arigato!  Created by artist / author You Kamiya, No Game No Life is the light novel, manga & anime series of the isekai fantasy genre that pertans to gamers who are spirited away to the gamer gods’planet Disboard, which is populated by the various species such as the angelic Flugel, of whom Jibril is the youngest but most powerfu, fur shur!
Voiced in the anime by Yukari Tamura (original Japanese and Amelia Fischer (English Dub), she is the helpful, remorseful, ruthless, inquisitive bookworm with the pale tan skin, long pink to light green ombre hair, white wings on her hips, golden eyes with cross-like pupils, lovely long ear pinna, the MBTI of ENTP, the  inny belly button and BWH sizes of 34-22-34”!
While not as big as an American Girl doll of 1/3 scale, a 1/4 scale figure is pretty big, compared to the 1/6 Barbie, 1/12 Marvel Legends, 1/18 Vintage Star Wars. and 1/64 Dungeons & Dragons miniatures. Excluding the .5” heels & 3.25” bunny ear headband, the figure would be 16” if standing flat-footed with the 15” wingspan,
So like, at 1/4” scale, the character would be about 5’6” tall with the 5’ wingspan! Meticulously sculpted by Rei Azusa with the precisely smooth paint, Jibril appearis to be in the late teens but is actually almost 6,500 years old!. She has pleasantly contemplative expression, and is in the “dog” pose on her knees and elbows with her butt raised highly!
She is the totally alluring sight from the floppy bunny ears, fluffy bunny tail, and majestic feathery wings, to her Pink skin-tight bunny outfit’s real fabric fishnet hose! There is also a bare-legged variant figure without the hose. IThat is all for our toy talk, so now here are Petra, Bunny, Vonny & Tara to present 
 
the latest additions to The Catgirl

Island Mewseum of Art, fur shur!

 

Petra:
Arigato, nyan! For those who are new to here, Galleries 1-8 display the images by our purrducer Mike, whilst Guest Art Galleries 1-6 display images by other folks with their purrmissions; and Mike’s collaborations with other artists are throughout the mewseum, nyan!
There is no overall chronological order from gallery to gallery, so you will find older and newer pics in each gallery, nyan! However, on Catgirl Island’s Official Web Site, the most recent pics are on the lowermost row of the cropped widdle “thumbnail” portions of the pics in a gallery, nyan!
Some of the images are sexy and might tastefully depict the  artistic nudity, but none are hentai or porn, nyan! Furthermore, none of the content at Catgirl Island is purrmitted for A.I. purrposes, nyan! This month, into Guest Gallery Three https://catgirlisland.net/art/gallery/guest3.html we have added art by –
Tara:
Rvkh Brogden http://www.rvkhart.com, Misty Hopkins https://kranberrijam.blogspot.com, Melody Rondeau http://crossovers.net/makeitgoaway/home.htm, and – and our webmeowster Jamie https://www.facebook.com/jamie4art; whilst into Gallery Six https://catgirlisland.net/art/gallery/gallery6.html we have added new art by Mike, nyan!
Firstly, we are purroud to purrsent Misty’s pen & ink & colored pencil illustration Ellie’s niece Charlene, nyan! Born here on Apurril 24th, 2001 (Taurus Snake) Charlene is a 26 year old Banker Pony Centaur who graduated with the astronomy degree from Mew Hanover Commeownity College in May, 2023 and – and she will soon attain her purrivate jet pilot license, nyan!
She might have gotten it sooner, but devoted ample time to her hobbies such as video games, LARPs, cosplay, fan art, fan fics, ultra marathons and – and track sports, nyan! Here we see her running 35 MPH in a race, nyan!  Her favorite foods are peach Ice cream crepes, granola oatmeal with diced apples, pineapple cream carrot cake, and – and chocolate peanut butter pie, nyan! 
Yvonne:
Then are delighted to display more of Melody’s beautiful Doctor Who fan art, nyan! In “New Pet”, the 4th Doctor’s companion Lela introduces him and K9 to her new Meowgantereonine friend, who seems to crave more iron in its diet, given the way it is looking at K9, nyan! Then in “K9 & Son” we wonder if the dogfood ispurrhaps Cybermat or Polyphase Avatron flavored, nyan!
Then we are elated to exhibit Rvkh’s “Springtime” which depicts the lovely angel who enjoys gardening, walking across meadows on warm days and befriending woodland critters, nyan! Rvkh used Procreate with the Apple Pencil on the Ipad  Pro for pic, of which there is the art purrocess video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–z7t7Wz4_w, nyan!
“Springtime” is also the title of Jamie’s latest illustration which we are honored to unveil,  nyan! He used Clip Studio Paint & Rebelle 7. for this divine lllustration Chelsea Urania Kate Chattan, who is the heroic witchy coastal Carolina human were-pantheress and purrotagonist of Jamie’s urban fantasy webcomic Clan of the Cats  http://clanofthecats.com, nyan!
Bunnii:
Chelsea is meowgickally seeding the snow for the pagan holiday of Ostera which commeowmerates the Vernal Equinox,! After that we are pleased to purremier Mike’s Photoshop & mouse  “Vernal Inverness” which depicts Sam the mermaid and her water peny friend amidst the blowming aquatic plants, corals & chidarians of Loch Ness!
This is a digital variant off the pencil, pen & colored pencil pic that Mike did for Sam the supurrb con chairperson of wound WhatTheHellCon 2025,! These Springtimemages by Mike, Jamie & Rvkh were submitted for the Apurril 2025 prompt for the Starry Eyed Artists Collective https://www.facebook.com/Starryeyedartistcollective/!
Lastly but not beastly for this month is “Loppy Easter” which is Mike’s latest fan art of Bondofox’s usagimimi character Cottonlop! This  beautiful bunny girl in her mid 20’s was born in Kentucky and lives in Albuquerque, where she is a senior accounting manager, who loves country & western mewsic,!  So, what do y’all think of the latest addition?
The cat lady sings…
Eleanor:
Oh my stars… that image of Charlene is so perfect in the likeness, spirit and story!
Mary Nyan:
Misty’s colored  pencil art is so vibrant and smooth that it almost looks airbrushed!
Kianalani:
 I especially like the delightful poses, expressions  and details of the New Pet pic!
Jeannie:
K9 & Son is the most adorable pic I have ever seen of my favorite Doctorr Who companion.
Nyanko:
The angel is so beautiful from the top of lush hair to the tips of her supple wings
Nyoka:
That pic of Chelsea is as gorgeous as gorgeous can be! I hope that she will visit us again soon!
Elizabeth:
Lop has such the purey Sultry dispurrsition, and I wonder what she will do with that rope!
Becca:
I love the underwater scenic detail and the lighting effects of the mer pic!
Mielikki:
Fur Shur! Hmm,  I hear someone’s tummy rumbling!
Tara:
Hai, I still have the cravings from all those fish pics, nyan!
Trini:
Well, it is almost time for other friends to arrive for the AfterMew Luau, so purrhaps that will do it for this edition of The Mew!
 
Petra:
We wish to thank all of the amazingly talented people whose works we have discussed, and wepurrticularly thank our wonderful webmeowster Jamie, nyan!

 

Yvonne:
Hai hai, and we also thank our other friends, families, acquaintances and our audience whom we greatly appurreciate, nyan!
 
Bunnii:
We will be back next month with the May edition of The Mew!
Mike:
Be there… aloha!

The Ladies of The Mew:

HAPPY TAILS TO MEW, UNTIL WE EAT AGAIN! BAIBAI, NYAN!