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January 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 January 2025 Edition of The Mew:
The Catgirl Critics’ Media Mewsings, nyan!
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Happy Mew Year, nyan! 
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:
 
The Lightning Round Topic: Our Favorite Snakes
TV, DVD & Movie Mewsings:
Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5
Yellowstone season 5
Doctor Who “Joy to the World
Agatha All Along
Nosferatu
Purrinted-Media Mewsings:
Monster Musume Manga Vol.18
Marvel Super Stories Amazing Adventures Book 2
Empowered vol. 12
Official Taylor Swift The Eras Tour Book
We’ll Prescribe You a Cat
The 2025 Oh No, Not Another Cat Calendar 
The Catgirl & Kemonomimi Spotlight
 
The Latest Additions to The Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art:
include cosplay photos of Alexcia Reynolds and Crissy Volpe; plus
Illustrations by Rvkh Brogden, Meesha DJ Walker and 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 Susanowa Beach on the east side  Catgirl Island, 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!
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.
 
Beebee
(the island’s supurrvising Purrk Ranger catgirl and amphibious orienteering coach wearing the Clouded Leopurrd cutout micro bikini): Gday, nyan!
(paw note: “Nyan” is the Japanese word for “meow”, which some but not all catgirls vocalize, purrticularly in the NC OBX Catspeak dialect, nyan!)
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 and twin sister of Nyanko, 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&newlywed,  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!
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!

Meryl
(a.k.a. Sheriff Murry, Catgirl Island’s Police Chief and motorcyclist wearing the w

earing the Bobcat purrint shorts and knotted blouse with her Police hat, radio and badge): ‘Allo ‘allo!

 
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!
Melanakeami
(the blue pupfish – tailed ? tail mermaid who owns the triphibious Lighter Than Air  ship tours business, wearing the Andean Cat purrint triangle top bikini): Shellow!
 
Kianalani:
(the red betta – tailed mermaid and aquatic ikebana expert who owns the coffee shop, wearing the Colocolo purrint Brazilian bikini top): Wah gwaan!
 
Lourdessaluorno:
(Or just Dessy, for short, the Lion Fish- tailed mermaid and Purrramermedic with the pet Meownatee wearing the Bay Cat print bandeau top)Maj Chos!
Daytona
(the Atlantic bottlenose dolphin – tailed mermaid, speed swimming champion and captain of the Surf Purrtrol, wearing the Golden Cat purrint triangular bikini top) Aloha!
 
Ilyana:
(a.k.a Ilyana-sensei, the underwater archaeologist and meowritime historian wearing the Margay purrint twisty bandeau bikini top) Whassup?
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!
So for this month’s Lightning Round we will nominate our favorite fictional snakes, characters who are part snake, or scenes with snakes (real or fictional)! It is a particularly festive year for our lamia & naga friends such as Lina https://catgirlisland.net/art/gallery7/15.html and her family! Jeannie’s gonna start, so are y’all ready to “conduct the lightning”?
The Ladies of The Mew:
HAI! LIGHTNING ROUND GO, NYAN!
Jeannie:
I will nominate Miia and the other lamia, melusine, medusas and Iormu characters of the Monster Musume manga & anime. (Tags Elizabeth with a brush of the tail)
Elizabeth:
The Lamia and Naga characters of Second Life’s Crosswinds, Cassiopeia of League of Legends, Hiromi, Lilith, Lamia Queen and the Lamia Matriarch  of Final Fantasy VI! ( tail-tags Tara-chan to go next)
 
Tara-chan:
I want… I want to nominate Pokemon’s Ekans, Arbok, Dartini, Dradonair, Sunsparse, Zerperior, Zygarde, Silicobra, Seviper, and – and Sandaconda, nyan! (tags Trini-chan)
Trini-chan:
Hammer Films’ The Reptile, The Muppets’ Sammy the Snake, and the Sur Snake of the Star Trek Animated Series epurrsode “The Ambergris Element! (tags
Becca)
 
Becca:
Quetzalcoatl Sassassul (or just Suu-chan, for short) of A Centaur’s Life manga & anime; and that evil giant snake Apep that fought Tari in our friend Sharon Williams’ story Osiris Rising https://catgirlisland.net/art/gallery2/218.html! (tags Meryl)
 
Meryl:
Reptilia of Marvel Comics Salem’s Seven. Brook of the Eerie Cuties webcomic, Geenie of the Addictive Science webcomic, and Yu-Gi-Oh’s Lamia cards! (tags Mielikki)
Mielikki:
The snaky people of manga & anime such as Cyan Sung-Sun of the Bleach, Kinana of the Fairy Tail , and Hua of the 3×3 Eyes.fur shur! (tags Ilyana with a flit of the wing) 
 
Ilyana:
Ayame Soma of the Fruits Basket, Habuko Mongoose of the My Hero Academia.Marigold and Sandersonia of One Piece! (tags Elaenor)
Elaenor:
The Lamia, Medusa, Apophis, Basilisk, Bunyip, Echidna, & Shirogebi in Kenkou Cross’ Monster Girl Encyclopedia! (tags Nyano)
Nyanko:
Beetlejuice, Conan the Bsrbarian’s Thulsa Doom. and Lair of the White Worm’s Lady Arabella March who could  transform into the giant snakes! (tags Nyoka) 
Nyoka:
Bai and Qing of The Legend of the White Snake, Kaa the python in The Jungle Book, and Voldemort’s pet Nagi in the Harry Potter series! (tags Yvonne)
Yvonne:
Sir Pentious of Hazbin Hotel, Karai of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Oliversity of the Green Lantern Corps, nyan! (tags Petra)
 
Petra:
Medusa, who was animated by Ray Harryhausen in Clash of the Titans, the dancing girl who was animated by Ray Harryhausen In The 7th Voyage of Sinbad! (tags Bunny)
 
Bunni:
“Jane Avril” in the snake dress by Henry Toulouse-Lautrec, “Serpent” and.“Chained”  by Frank Frazetta, “Snake Women” by Boris Vallejo, “Seduction “ by Chris Achilleos, Lamia” by Jasmine Becket-Griffith, and the Lamia paintings by John Waterhouse! (tags Mary Nyan)
Mary Nyan:
Album cover snakes such as Yes’ “Relayer” by Roger Dean, High on Fire’s “Snakes For The Divine” by Arik Roper, Whitesnake’s “Love Hunter” by Chris Achilleos, and The Alan Parsons Project’s “Vulture Culture” by Gavin Riley & Derek Hillier!
Melanakeami:
I would like to nominate Taylor Swift’s 63 foot long inflatable cobra Kayryn from her 2018 Reputation Tour! (tags Daytona)
Daytona:
Lani and I would like to mention our favorite Red Sonja comic book covers that depicted her fighting snakes, Marvel Comics’ Red Sonja #8 (1978) by Frank Thorne, Dynamite Comics’ Red Sonja #1A (2005) by Michael Turner, Red Sonja #29C (2006) by Homs…
Kianalani:
…  Savage Tales #5B (2007) by Pablo Marcos; Queen Sonja #28B (2012) by Frank Martin, Red Sonja #8B (2014) by Walter Giovani, Red Sonja #1 (Power Comicon retailer exclusive cover, 2019) by Jose Varese, and Red Sonja #6C by Joseph Michael Linsner! (tags Beebee)
Beebee: caught by the snake on the cover of Fight Comics 
Diana fighting the snakes on the cover of Wonder Woman vol. 1 #123 (1961) by Ross Andru & Mike Esposito; Wonder Woman vol. 2 #5 (1987) by George Perez;  and Storm fighting the snake in the cover of The Uncanny X-Men #223 (1987) by Kerry Gammill & Dan Green, nyan! (tags Dessy)
Lourdessaluorno:
Tiger Girl on the cover of Fight Comics #49 (1947) by Joe Doolin & Iger Sho; and I also want to nominate Toho’s serpentine kaiju Manda, but I was not sure if she is a snake or a dragon! Back to Mike, nyan!
Mike:
Oh, I gotta go with Princess Projectra Wind’zzor of the Legion of Super-Heroes, Aluwyn of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8, and Snavely of Walt Kelly’s Pogo!  By the way, some other friends who will arrive after work for the AfterMew Luau texted their nominations—
Farmers Rico & Nico (catgirls)  nominated Richard Avedon’s 1981 photo of Nastassja Kinski with the Burmese Python, and Anthony Mandlert’s 2003 photo of Devon Aoki with the Burmese Python…
reporters Miho & Kaori (catgirls) nominated Britney Spears with the Albino Python at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards; and Patrick Demarchelier’s 2014 photo of Jennifer Lawrence  Colombian red-tailed Boa  Constrictor…
Librarians Keiko &Yuriko (catgirls) nominated Mrs. Plithive of Kathryn Lasky’s  Legend of the Guardians, and Anthony J. Crowley of Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens…
 
Travel writer Formality (orca girl)  nominated Maria the exotic dancer (portrayed by Norma Marla) with the Boa Constrictor in Hammer Films’ The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960); 
 
Kitrina & Katherine (catgirls)  of the Catgirl Island Purrforming Arts Center nominated the infamous snake of the 1987 movie Hard Ticket to Hawaii; and titular serpents of the 2007 movie Boa vs. Python…
Restauranteurs Na Ling & Ji Yun (Muntjac deer girls)  asked if Boa vs. Python’s Eve (Angel Boris) and Escape from New York’s Snake Plissken (Kurt
Russell) would qualify as honorary ‘Hebimimi” (snake folks) given their distinctive tattoos;
The Kitt Inn’s Nami & Kyra (catgirls) nominated G.I.Joe’s Cobra Commander a.k.a Transformers’ Old Snake; and Game of Thrones’ Sand Snake Sisters of House Martell…
…and detective Dr. Dach Savage (anthropurrmorphic weener dog) nominated Jock Lindsey’s pet Boa Constrictor Reggie and the many Well of Souls snakes of Raiders of the lost Ark!
Well, that was another somewhat expedient little lightning round, given that there are 21 of us here for the holiday show, and since we’ve got a lot on our plate, let’s go ahead and jump into our
 
TV, DVD & Movie Mewsings, with Jeannie’s 
review of Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5!
 
Jeannie:
Arigato. These days are the very fruitful time for on – screen Star Trek, what with  Strange New Worlds, Picard, Discovery, Short Treks, Short Short Treks, Purrodigy,  Lower Decks, the forthcoming Section 31 movie and Starfleet Academy series, plus various fan films and OTOY’s shorts for the Roddenberry Archive.
 
Although it took me a while to warm up Lower Decks, because the humor & pace reminded me too much of Rick & Morty )which I am not wowed by), but eventually I began to love the characters, stories, designs, animation, lore and humor. I appurreciate the wealth of “easter eggs” too.
 
Occurring in the year 2382 (appuroximately 3 years after the event of the movie  Star Trek: Nemesis), the 5th / final season of Lower Decks continues the voyages of the rather non-conventional crew of the United Federation of Planet California-Class Starship U.S.S. Cerritos NCC-75567.
 
The Cerritos might have the most gender, ethnicity, and species – diverse crew of any Trek series thus far with Caitian, Kzinti, Human, Vulcan, Andorian, Orion, Bajoran, Tamarian, Trill, Tellarite, Cetacean, Rigellian, Bolian, Demigod, and Exoxmp officers in purrominant roles.
Humor and heroism-wise, I would say that ship is to Starfleet what the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital was to the United States Army. From October 24th to December 19th of 2024, the 5th season’s 10 epurrsodes included appearances by [versions of} Data, Garak, Bashir, Kim,  Lilly and T’Pol. 
The adventures included counterparts from another mewiverse, an Orion civil war, nannite hunting, revisiting the UFP’s worst starbase, Photonic diplomacy, an undercover mission to a pre-industrial planet, Klingon conspurracies and dimeownsional fissures that threaten the entire meweniverse.
 
The charming, thrilling, fun plots, dialogue, voice acting, sound, music, direction, editing, art & animation continue to be supurrb, with great knowledge and love of Trek, so I will give the final season the high purraise grade of an A, and hope that it will be released on DVD or Blu-ray soon. 
 
I also hope that creator / show runner Mike McMahon will continue to be involved with the Trek, and that this is not the last that we will see canonically ofT’Ana, Mariner, Boimler, Tendi, Rutherford, Freeman, Ransom, Shaxs, T’Ly, Sh’reyan, Billups, Miglemo, Olly  and Cerritoss. Nyow here is Daytona  and Lani to discuss
 
Yellowstone season 5.
Daytona:
Hai! Created by Taylor Sheridan, Yellowstone is probably our favorite TV series of the past six years!  Even though I have the DVDs of it, I cannot resist binge – watching the marathons of it on  the Paramount Network’s holiday marathons! I like the 1883 and 1923 prequel series  too, and I am looking forward to the forthcoming spin-offs!
It has so many wonderful characters! We had to wait a whole year for the final half of season five, and expecting it to be the finale, my eager anticipation was quite high, and  like many other fans I was quite curious how the show would  deal with the lack of its star Kevin Costner, or how it might have differed had he remained until the end.
Kianalani:
Fans and critics have mixed feelings about how the final season played out, but the last time I noticed a lot of controversy over the plot & developments was maybe the reactions to the final season of Game of Thrones. I will not spoil the plot, which continued to give the sumptuous immersion into cowboy culture, but it did seem rushed at times and  I wish there had been a few more episodes
I wish there had been a few more episodes; and I thought the fates of a couple of characters were unnecessary, but in the home stretch a lot of characters’ actions, resolutions and fates seemed perfect, as hoped, foreshadowed, or as expected for a pretty good ending; and we have been enjoying Taylor Sheridan’s new series Landman! We are done and now here is Nya-sensei to review–
Doctor Who “Joy to the World
 
Nyanko:
Arigato! Șo it was about a year ago that the 15th Doctor, portrayed by Ncuti Gatwa, first appeared in the 60th Anniversary special “The Giggle”. which was followed by his first full season as the Doctor.  I liked him from the start, and I think his best epurrsodes were at the end of that (14th) season with “Rogue”, “The Legend of Ruby Rose” and “Empire of Death”.
Last month on Disney +, we were treated to the latest of the Doctor Who Christmas Specials,  which tend to be a lot of fun and quite poignant, and this’ll was no exception! Written by Steven Moffat and directed by Alex Pillaiv, in “Joy to the World”  the Doctor visits The Time Hotel which has doors to the different places in time, space, and mysterious cosmic danger!
Among his companions  are Nicola Coughlan as the titular Joy, and Steph de Whallley as Anita; with, to the lesser extent, Joel Fry as Trev, and Jonathan Aris as Melnak- who is Silurian! There is the cameo by Millie Gibson as his purrior companion Ruby; however, the most emeowtional scene for me involved Fiona Scott as Joy’s mom, but I should not reveal any more!
With the great plot, purrformances,  sets, FX, cinemeowtography, direction, editing, sound, mewsic, “easter eggs & surprises, I think that “Joy to the World” Is another of the 15th Doctor’s best tales thus far, and one of the bestest of the  Christmas Specials, so I will give it the high purraise as I eagerly await the next season! Also on Disney+, we got to see Marvel’s-
Agatha All Along!
 
Nyoka:
Hai! It is hard to believe that we are already about 3/4 of the way into Phase 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s live-action and animated movies and TV series, which began 2 years ago with Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania!
Since then, we have expurrrienced Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Secret Invasion,  Loki Season 2, What If…?, The Marvels,  Echo, Deadpool & Wolverine, and the 9 epurrsodes of Agatha All Along
!In this spinoff of WandaVision, Kathryn Hahn wonderfully returns as the naughty witch Agatha Harkness, who assembles a new coven to traverse the fabled Witches Road in order to regain her meowgickal meowjo. 
 
The coven is compurrised of Jennifer the Brew Witch (portrayed by Sasheer Zamata), Sharon the Green Witch (Debra Jo Rupp), Alice the Warrior Witch (Ali Ann), Lila the Oracle Witch (Patti LuPone) and Billy the Witch Boy (Joe Locke)!
 
During their quest, we learn more about their personalities, motivations, histories and connections to Wanda as they are tested and hunted by dark forces, such as Rio (Aubrey Plaza), Vertigo (Okwui Okpokwasili) and Snake (Marina Mazepa)!
I think that it has excellent purrrformances, cinemeowtography, FX, mewsic, character developments, myth-making, action, humor & drama, so I will give it the A as in Agatha! I am done, and nyow here is Day-sama to discuss
Nosferatu!
 
Mielikki:
So like, I liked Robert Eggers’ prior movies The Witch, The Lighthouse, and The Northman, so I was like totally eager to see his remake of  F. Murnow’s 1922 Nosferatu movie Eggers’ movies have such amazing cinematography, eerie  ambience, captivating plots, and the brilliant performances, fur shur!
That tradition continues superbly in this latest horror movie which he wrote & directed, and it wonderfully stars the dream team of Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Willem Dafoe, Ralph Ineson, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Bill Skarsgard, and Simon McBurney!
So like, the 1922 tale of Niosferatu was an adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, This version is set in Germany and Transylvania, Most of the film’s sets and locations were shot in the Czech Republic, with the totally awesome production design, art direction, costumes, make-up, sound, music, FX & editing!
It is rated R for the nudity, sexuality, violence,.gore, harsh language and scares. I thought there pace seemed rushed, and I wish it lingered more on the scenes, but it is quite the sensual, intense, grueling tale which I will give the grade of A Minus! Now I will turn The Mew over to Myayr, who will start our
purrinted-media mewsings, with her
review of Monster Musume vol. 18!
 
Mary Nyan
Arigato! Written & drawn by Okayado (who is also the author of 12 Beast and Ma Ma Mia) and originally published by Tokuma Shoten in Japan, Monster Musume is a sexy comedic urban fantasy manga of the harem trope with ample fan-service, starring the liminal ladies (monster girls) who are romantic rivals for Kimihito, the human guy in whose house they reside! 
Published here in English by Seven Seas, it is rated  for older teen readers (of ages 16+) due to nudity, skimpy attire, sexual themes, slapstick violence, fan service, lewd and dark humor aplenty.. Purriced $14.99 in the US & $18.99 in Canada,vol. 18  has 156 pages (172 B&W + 5 full color) of manga chapters 74-80, bonus pages, character purrofiles and 2 pages of ads.
 
It was translated by Nan Rymer, lettered by Karis Page, edited by Shanti Whitesides and purroof read by Hayame, with the purroduction design by Brennan Thorne & Christina McKenzie, cover design by Nicky Lim and quality control by Dave Murray. Returning with Kimihito  in this volume are Miia the lamia, Papi the harpy, Centorea the centauress,  Merou the mermaid…
… Suu the slime girl, Rachnera the spider girl, their government case worker Ms. Smith, and the Monster Ops team of Manako the cyclops, Tio the ogre, Doppel the doppleganger and Zombina the zombie. Several new characters of various species are introduced such as Fee, Lutro, Lima, Aide, Kiruraru, Kuuki, Aya, Maika, Shii Mii, Gil, Mimi, Hakuto and and Arbatel.
This volume’s plot is the bit different from mewsual, because much of it occurs in the altered reality in which they are all students at Grimoire Public High School where the wacky romantic comedy antics of the school life mysteriously ensue! As mewsual, it is not for the purrudish folks or the widdle kitties, but it issexy fun with beautiful art! Nyow here is Mike-sensei to discuss
Marvel Super Stories Amazing Adventures Book 2 !
Mielikki:
Hai! So like the old Spidey Super Stories comics of old, this charmingly neat fun anthology series is intended for the readers of all ages, fur shur!  Published by Abrams, and edited by John Jennings, this dust-jacketed 5.75” x 8,25” x .5” hardcover is priced $16.99 US, $21.99 Canada, and £11.99 UK.
 
It includes 15 full color short stories starring many Marvel comics heroes & villains, including Ethan M. Aldridge’s Doctor Strange tale, Ryan Andrews Silver Surfer tale, Chan Chau’s Moon Knight tale, Mike Cavallarto’s Thor tale, Tim Fielder’s Spider-Man 2099  tale, Gabriela Epstein’s Silk tale…
Brian Fies’’ Avengers tale, Dean Haspiels’s Fantastic Four tale, John Jennings’ Black Panther tale, Jarrett J. Krosooczka’s Spider-Man tale, Jamar Nichols’ Hulk tale, Carlisle Robinson/s Hawkeye tale, Kat Leth’s Guardians of the Galaxy tale, Amber  Padilla’s Ant-Man tale, and Judd Winick’s Captain America tale!  
 
Also appearing  are Doc Ock, Mole Man, Gigantic, Kate Bishop, Lucky, Galactus, Konshu. Cassie Lang, MODOK, Bruce Banner, Pluto, Spectro, The Beast, 
The Vision, Wonder Man, Basallo, Shuri, Klaw and (in two widdle panels) Tigra & Reese!
So like, this totally fun book also has  brief profiles of all those author / artists, and the editor’s cordial introduction! I hope that there will be further volumes in this series, as there are other characters who I’d love to see these sort of tales of, fur shur! Now for a graphic novel which is not for widdle kitties,  here is Trini-chan to tell us about
Empowered vol. 12!
 
Trini-chan:
Arigato! Empowered is Adam Warrens sexy & (usually) comedic manga – inspired super-hero tale since 2007, in which the titular character has the awesome powers, many victories and some good friends, but she also has the angsty self –  esteem and family issues. Her powers stem from her skin tight alien hyper-membrane costume, which tends to suffer the damages! 
 
Among the many other recurring characters are her boyfriend Thugboy, her best friends Ninjette and Sistah Spooky, Caged Netherwolf, and other super heroes. We have met Adam Warren a few times at the Heroes Convention on the mainland in Charlotte, and are particularly fond of his Dirty Pair, Bubblegum Crisis, Gen 13, Teen Titans, and Livewires tales too!
 
Originally published in comic book form,  it is currently the web comic at http://empoweredcomic.com, but it is not for the widdle kitties due to the sexuality, nudity, violence & language! Published by Dark Horse, Volume 12 is the 9” x 6.5” x .625” trade paperback with the 216 Black and White pages written & drawn by Adam, plus the cover art colored by Ryan Kinnaird.
This longly-awaited volume is the very bittersweet experience, as it is the final issue in this graphic novel format, although Adam states in the book’s afterward that Empowered will eventually return in another format after an indefinite hiatus. So, on one paw, it is sad to see the saga cease for however long, but on the other paw, Vol. 12 is a sumptuously beautiful thing to behold.
Also  bittersweet is what transpires in the climactic plot. As not to spoil much, all I will say is that much of it involves a never-ending reboot of her universe, with some major character developments along the way. Some of the imagery is rather disturbing, tragic, and gory, but there are moments to cheer for too! That is all that I should say! Now here is Kami-sn to discuss the
 
Official Taylor Swift The Eras Tour Book!
Melanakeami:
Hai! I am one of the Swifts so I was eagerly awaiting this  Target Store exclusive hardcover book which was published by Taylor Swift Publications and written by Taylor herself!  This $39.99, full color 11.125” x 9.5” x .875” 264 page hardcover book Is quite the spectacular with hundreds of photos from her legendary concert tour!
 It includes some backstage  & rehearsal photos, and costume designs too! It has many full page pics, two-page spreads, and a couple of gatefolds! There is not a lot of text, but compared to what you might pay for most thin trade paperback concert program books,
I think this is a great value and a gorgeous memento of the Eras Tour! I will highly recommend it, but I do wish she would release a live album and the Eras concert film DVD! I am done, and now here is Ilyana to review
We’ll Prescribe You a Cat!
 
Ilyana:
Arigato! Written by Syou Ishida and originally published in Japan  as  Neko o Shoho Itashimasu, this 297 page hardcover novel  was translated by  E.Madison Shimoda and published in the USA by Berkley, with cute illustrations by Alissa Levy! 
 
It puritans to the therapeutic kitties Bee (mixed- breed), Margot (tortoiseshell), Koyuki  (small white cat), Tank (American Shorthair), Tangerine (Ragdoll), Mimita (Scottish Fold) who are paired up with patients of various emotional needs by the mysterious Nakagyo Kokoro Clinic for the Soul!
It is quite the bittersweetly charming and sometimes sad tale of the healing power and better living through human / feline cohabitation! Nyow for more talk ofneko ka no publications, here is Tara-chan to tell us about the-
2025 Oh No, Not Another Cat Calendar! 
 
Tara-chan:
Hai hai, since the 1970’s, Jim 

and – and Melody 

 Rondeau have been famous as the authors, artists, writers, agents, editors, humanitarian and – and felinitarians, nyan! They also are known for the fanzines they publish through Buffalo Chip Press, nyan!

 
Furthermore is their purresence at cons, festivals and shows, and the meowrchandise they sell on consignment such as the fanzines, magazines, comics, books, scripts, press kits, movie posters, games, toys and videos through their site Make it Go Awayhttp://crossovers.net/makeitgoaway/home.htm, nyan!
Purrhaps y’all have seen some of Melody’s beautiful art in our mewsum, nyan!? Well, since the 1980’s they have also published their delightful not-for-sale, limited-edition annual wall calendar, nyan! This lovely 8.5×11” calendar opens up to reveal the monthly 17 x 11” spurreads, nyan!
Each has the annotated date grid and lovely B&W illustrations of anthropurrmorphic felines and- and other species such as the cute widdle mice, nyan !including the front and back covers, there are fourteen such pen and ink illustrations, and each year there is a different theme, nyan!
For example, 2023 theme was feline rulers,  the 2024 theme was gambling, and the 2025 theme is science, nyan! The front cover depicts the lab-coated cats and mouse with the flasks, the atom and- and meowgnifying glass nyan!  Each scene is quite whimsical and purretty, nyan!
January’ Astronomer sees the UFO, February’s Microbiologist gets a paramecium massage, March’s Meowthematician eats and – and calculates pi(e), Apurril’s Zoologists play with the critters, May’s meowdical doctors and and nurses cradle-hold the cute widdle newborn kittens…
…,June’s Botanist is grabbed by the amorous plant, July’s Exobiologists are robbed by alien mice, Augusts’ Geologists collect rocks, September’s Chemists experiment with the fluids, October’s Psychiatrist analyzes the Mewsophobic patient, November’s Physicists play with balls of string theory…
… December’s Oceanographers in the submeowrine  observe the delicious, mewtritious sea life, and to top off this beautiful, informative, amewsing calendar is the back cover pic of  Squeeky Rondeau the Tuxedo Cat sprawled atop the stack of books, nyan!  That is all for our reviews, and nyow here are Dessy, Becca and – and Lizzy to purrsent
The Catgirl and – and Kemonomimi Spotlight, nyan!
 
Elizabeth:
Hai! in this monthly portion of The Mew, we commeowmorate famous therianthropes, monster girls, shape-shifters, anthropurrrmorphic ladies and other kemonomim!  Fur-thermore, there are those who might not have beasty DNA, but do have the spurrit, cat-titude or clothing of the animal theme, who we will broadly consider as “honorary kemonomimi”!
Becca:

Hai hai! For example in Empowered Vol. 12,  Empy’s friend Sustah Spooky wears the leopard purrint hat and high heels, se we will consider her the honorary neomimi  for that feline fashion statement!


Lourdessaluorno:
For the third time in this edition of The Mew, we wish to meowntion Taylor Swift, this time for the leopard purring couture of her 2018 Reputation Era, such as the R13 leopard purrint skirt & matching Stella McCartney backpack.the A.L.C. leopard purring coat and the Monique Lhuillier Black velvet Panther purrint dress!
 

Elizabeth:

In the Friends TV series’ November 1st 2001 epurrsode 8.6 “The One With the Halloween Party”, Monica Geller (Courtney Cox) cosplayed as CatWoman!
Becca
Lilly-Rose Depp in the leopard print bikini with Timothee Chalameton the boat n Capri, Italy in 2019!
Lourdessaluorno:
Russian gravure model, actress & cosplayer Marina Dyagileva  a.k.a. 

Octokuro wore the tiger stripe tights and ears to cosplay as marvel Comics Tigra!

 

Elizabeth:

In the TV series Land Man, Angela Norris (Ali  Larter) often has the leopard purrint appurral, such as the blouse, jacket, coat, leggings and the tote bag!
 
Becca:
Mewsician, actress,  broadcaster & purrducer Michelle Visage is a judge for the TV series RuPaul’s Drag Race, and she puts the spots in the TV spots with that leopard purrint

maillot whilst purrched upon the 
Dadonka dunk tank! 
 

Lourdessaluorno:

Snuffy the raccoon girl I with the swishy tail is a VTuber on Youtube, Discord, Twitch, Twitter, Patreon, and TikTok who likes to play games and create fun content!
 
Elizabeth:
Cutie Corinne the kitsune succubus  is a Vtuber 

on Youtube, Instagram,  Kick, TikTok and Twitch who streams 3D full meowtion dancing and plays games!

 
Becca

:
Melounia the neko musume is an ASMR artist on Youtube, Patreon, Twitch, and Twitter who creates the soothing relaxing videos to enhance the catnaps!
 
Lourdessaluorno:
Nyanako the LGBTQ+  “trash-kitty” is a. VTuber on Youtube, Twitch and Twitter who used to create vocalpid / UTAU content loves to write, draw, sing and play games!

Elizabeth:

KitCatSwag the non-binary LGBTQ+ gengineered neko musume is a VTuber on Youtube, Twitch and ko-fi who likes games and the horror genre!
Becca
Shylilly the cheerfully cute German Netherlander orca-cat is a TVuber on Youtube, Twitter, Twitch TikTok, Discord, Instagram, Carrd, and SubReddit!
 
Lourdessaluorno:
Gwen a.k.a SquirrelGirlDGT is a plus-sized VTuber, Kaleidocrafter and former diner owner on Youtube, Twitter, Twitch TikTok, Discord, Instagram, Throne, Carrd, Steam and Bluesky! That is all for this month’s spotlight, so nyow it is time for Petra, Bunny.Vonny, Meryl and Beebs to purrsent
the latest additions to The
Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art!
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!
You have to click on those to see the full images, 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 Two https://catgirlisland.net/art/gallery/guest2.html  we have added —
 
more cosplay photos of Crissy Volpe a.k.a Sunseenli http://www.crimsonskycreations.com/bloodsweatandglitter and Alexcia Reynolds https://linktr.ee/alexciareynoldsillustrations by Rvkh Brogden http://www.rvkhart.com and Meesha DJ Walker a.k.a Xeshema https://xeshema.carrd.co and into Gallery Six https://catgirlisland.net/art/gallery/gallery6.html we have added new illustrations by Mike, nyan!
Yvonne:
Firstly is Rvkh’s latest “Midnight Dance” pic of her original catgirl character Eamane, who resides in a lovely cottage with a coastal garden in the island’s meowritime forest, nyan! This is the third illustration to depict Eamane’s fun hobby of ther sensual late night dance by the bonfire & torches in the forest grove under the full moon, mew la la, nyan!
 
Secondly is Rvkh’s joyfully beautiful image of the “Angel Globe” which has the cute widdle angel inside the serene snow globe for Christmas, nyan! Thirdly of Rvkh’s art is her the logo for the Starry Eyed Artist Collective https://www.facebook.com/Starryeyedartistcollective, nyan! Rvkh used Procreate with the Apple Pencil on the Ipad  Pro for those  beautiful images, nyan!
Nextly we are purroud to purrsent Meesha’s gorgeous illustration of “MerMay 01” which depicts Sema Hex the meowgickal mermaid with the Electric Blue Acara tail, nyan! She is a Turkish-American shell crafter, spell caster, mom & wife who lives with her husband, son and two pet dogfishes in a mid-century meowdern coral house in Mertown near Catgirl island nyan!
Beebee:
After that we are delighted to display Alexcia’s selfie photos of her purretty horse costume nyan! As of December 2024, this equine excellence is the latest of her several lovely fur suits, nyan! Alexcia is a very talented illustrator, author, cosplayer, needleworker and web meowster, nyan!

Perhaps y’all have seen her illustrations, stories, and the photos of her other fur suits, nyan?
Then we are elated to exhibit more photos of Crissy’s cosplays, nyan! We have 2 collages of 3 photos apiece  nyan!

In the 1st collage are Crissy in the costume by Setsuna Kou as Rogue of X-Men Legacy at the New York Comic Con 2024; Crissy in the costume by guotaiminan_362508 as Maki of Love Live! School Idol Festival at Otakon 2024; and Paul Zuckerman’s photo of Crissy as Lois Lane of Superman: The Animated Series at the New York Comic Con 2024, nyan!

In the 2nd collage are Louis’ photo of Crissy as Rosemary of the Metal Gear Solid 2 vido game; Adrian Velez‘s photo of Crissy on Ghostbusters Day 2024;  and Crissy as Sarah of the movie Labyrinth at New York Comic Con 2024 wearing the blouse, vest & pin by Vixen by Michelle Pitta, the bracelet from RoseSenpaiCrafts with store-bought Barrett, loafers & jeans, nyan! The Ghostbuster and Sara pics were photomanipped by Mike in 2024, nyan!
Meryl:
Nyow we will introduce eight new pics by Mike, nyan! Mike’s widdle Christmas 2024 illustrations include his latest pic of Ellie’s niece Charlene the Banker Pony Centauress who likes to LARP on holidays in her Star Trek- The Meowtion Picture: Meowrror Mewniverse Starfleet mewniform with the insignia cutey mark, nyan! Then we have his latest pic of Tara-chan  in the Santa Suit when she and Trini-chan returned from the long honeymoon with the sack full of gifts, nyan!
Telluride Tellarite purrody pic of his Tellarite fan-character Commeownder Hamanda Faye Grayson (or just Hammy Fae to her friends), nyan! She is an officer in the Caitian Impurrial Starfleet, serving under Roar Admeowl Shiboline M’Ress in the Meowrror Mewniverse in the 2270’s, nyan Hammy Faye first appurred in Jim and Melody Rondeau’s 2023 purrinted fanzine Enterprise Forever!, and here she is the Grand Meowrshall of the Impurrial film festival nyan!
Then we have Mike’s latest Christmas fan art of other folks charcters, such as Marvel Comics’ Dr. Hank McCoy a.k.a. The Beast of The X-men and The Avengers; our friend Phillip Evan’s Star Trek: The Next Generation Role-playing Game character Tarzan the Gorn Captain of a Galaxy Class starship; and Matt McAdams’ character Clone 13 who stars in his web comic Modem Problems https://www.fur.com/~jethric/mp/index.html, nyan!
Bunnii:
Those were drawn with Derwent pencils, inked with Sakura Micron pens, colored with Copic markers, and embellished with Photoshop on the Mac with the mouse! Nextly is the 4th in the Rivkah series of Rvkh’s Elder Scrolls Online video game characters  Previously we have seen Rivkahs Storm, Snow and Ash; so now meet Rivkah X the Calico Khajiit catgirl of the Nekromeowncer, class ! This was done with Photoshop and the mouse!
Lastly but not leastly for this month’s additions to the Mewseum is Mike’s illustration for Crissy of the frisky “Four-Play”! After the fun time at the beach, buffet & boutiques of Catgirl Island, the holiday double-date continues with mini-golf team play as Hermione (gender-fluid elf / fae) & Shannon (androgynous hirja nekomimi) vs Crissy (female human) & Purrsis (pansexual catgirl)!
The latter team will win if Crissy sinks this last putt, but 18 is the most challenging hole, with the meowgickal hazards! The crows seem to be enjoying the game! It is a splendid time regardless of who wins, after which the four ladies will be pampered at the spa, dress for the supper & dancing, retreat to the hot spring, and no telling what else,! So, what do y’all think of the art?
 
The cat lady sings…
Elaenor:
Oh gosh that pic of Charlene captures her portraiture and spirit, including  that temporary tattoo ion the Purrscanner buckle on her tummY
Melanakeami:
I can say the same about the pic of Tara-chan  from her huge grin and happy tail to the heft of the loot sack! Whatchoo think, Tara-chan?
Tara-chan:
Waaah! I am not worthy, nyan! Domeow arigato gozaimeows, nyan!
Mike:
Doitashimaste! Am.. just wait’ll y’all see the wedding pic I do of her and Trini-chan!
 
Trini-chan:
(blushing as red as her vulpine ears, and tail) See!
Kianalani:
The Telluride Tellarite pic is a clever gag with the porcine movie purrodies! I see that she has a meat cleaver instead of an imperial  dagger!
 
Lourdessaluorno:
The “moe fang” makes the Beast looks quite cute,  but the purrpetual Gorny smile is hard to read and kinda scary!
 
Jeannie:
Mike could not resist drawing Clone13 in the Trek uniform! I hope that Matt was pleased with it. He draws such sexy characters and mecha.
Meryl:
I cannot wait to find out what Crissy thinks of that latest pic of her, and  I hope that we will see her at next month’s awards ceremony!
Ilyana:
Oh oh, I just noticed that pic’s nod to It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, with the palm trees forming “a big W”!
 
Nyanko:
It is the tough decision but “X” might be my favorite of the Rivkah series, down to the book titles around her!
 
Nyoka:
Rvkh’s logo for the Starry Eyed Artists  Collective has such the meowgnificent meowgickal quality!
Mielikki:
Fur shur, and that Angel is totally adorable as adorable can be!
Elizabeth:
It is amazing to see how Rvkh’s art style & techniques have evolved over the years when you compurr that 3rd Midnight Dance pic to the purrior ones!
 
Becca
Meesha’s pic of Sema has such graceful symmetry,  richly vibrant colors, fabulous details, and the vivacious ambience!
Mary Nyan:
Alexcia’s horse costume is quite supurrb from the eyes, ears and teeth to the mane, tail and the hooves!
Daytona:
Crissy, the costumes, locations, photography, and the sense of story combine for such stunningly stunning  images!
 
Beebee:
Hai hai, those beautiful aspects along with the lovely coiffure, make-up, lighting, and her great enthusiasm are the  winning hand, nyan!
 
Bunni:
It  is almost time for other friends to arrive for the AfterMew Luau, so perhaps  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 we purrticularly 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!
Mike:
We’ll be back next month with our February Mew!, and our annual awards presesentation1  Be there… aloha!
The Ladies of The Mew:
Happy tails to mew, until we eat again! Baibai, nyan!

December 2024 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 December 2024 Edition of The Mew:
The Catgirl Critics’ Media Mewsings, nyan!
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This year is the Year of the Dragon, the 17th Anniversary
of The Mew, the 24th Anniversary of Catgirl Island’s site,
40th anniversary of Rowrbrazzle, and on December 7th, 
Star Trek- The Motion Picture turns 45, nyan!
 
in this edition of The Mew:
 
The Lightning Round Topic: Our Favorite Films of 1934
TV, DVD & Movie Mewsings:
45th Annversary Steelbook edition of Star Trek- The Motion Picture
“765874 Unification”
Wicked: Part I
Moana 2
Purrinted-Media Mewsings:
Rowrbrazzle #163 
Mark Schultz Portfolio: The Complete Drawings
The Celebrity Catgirl & Kemonomimi Spotlight
 
The Latest Additions to The Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art:
“Chibi Gambler: by Misty Hopkins
more cosplay photos of Crissy Volpe by various photographers,
“Gremlins”, “Jenn & Sophie”, “ “Caottonlop” and
“Rowrbrazzle #163 front cove rart ” by 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 downtown Purrbank in Catgirl Island, 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!

Meryl
(a.k.a. Sheriff Murry, Catgirl Island’s Police Chief and motorcyclist wearing the w

earing the Eurasian Lynx purrint ring-closure bikini with her Police hat, radio and badge): ‘Allo ‘allo!

 
Mary Nyan
(a.k.a. Myayr, the seamstress, cosplayer, headbanger, hula instructor and semi-retired miko catgirl wearing the Cougar purrint purretzel – cutout maillot an 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!
(paw note: “Nyan” is the Japanese word for “meow”, which some but not all catgirls vocalize, purrticularly in the NC OBX Catspeak dialect, nyan!)
Ilyana:
(a.k.a Ilyana-sensei, the underwater archaeologist and meowritime historian wearing the Caracal purrint twisty bandeau bikini top) Yassou!
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.
 
Beebe
(the island’s supurrvising Purrk Ranger catgirl and amphibious orienteering coach wearing the  Clouded Leopurrd cutout micro bikini): Gday, nyan!
 
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!
Nyoka
(a.k.a. Nyo-sensei, Meowgick Shop purropurrietress catgirl and twin sister of Nyanko, wearing the Bengal Tiger purrint micro bikini and open-front cover up):: Howdy!
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/! Ah, we’ve got a big group and a lot on our plate, so let’s go ahead a jump right into this month’s-
Lightning Round Topic: our favorite films of ’1934!
Last month we listed out favorite films of 1944, and this month we will list our favorites of 1934!  Myayr is gonna start, so so are y’all ready to “conduct the lightning’?.

 

 
The Ladies of The Mew:
HAI! LIGHTNING ROUND GO, NYAN!
The Lightning Round Topic: Our Favorite Films of 1934
Mary Nyan
It Happened One Night, Death Takes a Holiday, and The Gay Divorcee! ( tahs Nyoka to go next)
 
Nyoka:
Spitfire, Of Human Bondage, and Anne of Green Gables! (tags Ilyana with a brush of the tail)
 
Ilyana:
I will nominate Treasure Island,  Cleopatra, and Tarzan and His Mate! (tail-tags Meryl)
 
Meryl:
The Black Cat, Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back, and The Man Who Knew Too Much! (tags Beebee)
 
Beebee:
Forsaking All Others, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, and Here Comes the Navy, nyan! (tags jeannie)
 
Jeannie:
The short films by Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, Laurel & Hardy. (tags Elizabeth)
 
Elizabeth:
The shorts by Our Gang, The Three Stooges, and Wheeler & Woolsey! (tags Petra)
 
Petra:
The Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Mickey Mouse, and Silly Symphonies shorts, nyan! (tags Yvonne)
 
Yvonne:
The Krazy Kat, Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts, nyan! Back to Mike, nyan!
 
Mike:
Oh I gotta go with It Happened One Night, Tarzan and his Maet, and the Three Stooges! Well, that was another expedient little Lightning Round, and  to continue our movie topics, I’ll start our
TV, DVD & Movie Mewsings, with my review of the
Limited 45th Anniversary Steelbook edition of my
favorite movie, Star Trek – The Motion Picture!
But don’t worry- I promise top be brief this time!  Ah, as some of y’all know, ever since the morning of Friday, December 7th, 1979 when I bought the first ticket for the first screening of Star Trek- The Motion Picture  at the Janus Theater in Greensboro (about  230 miles NW of Catgirl Island), that has been my all time favorite movie, Now, I’ve never said it was a perfect movie. nor have i claimed it is the best movie, but merely that it is my favorite. Since then, I’ve watched the different versions of it many many times. There’s the original theatrical version, the longer 1983 televised version, the 2001 Director’s  Cut, and the 2022 remastered version thereof.
 
This time, I’m just commenting on the new edition, which includes the theatrical vesion and special features on a 4K disk and Blu-ray disk, and the digital code with a lovely booklet in the metal case. As I do not own a 4K UHD player, TV or High Speed HDMI Cat 2 cables, I cant watch the 4K Ultra HD disk nor have an opinion of it. I don’rtuse the  digital code to download or stream movies, so I can’t comment on that either.  The Blu-ray disk includes the movie and the special features which include the Library Computer, several documentary shorts, deleted scenes, storyboards, Trailers & TV spots-  all of which which have been released previously on Blu-ray.
The Blu-Ray’a Dolby audio choices are Enflish 7.1 TruHD, German 2.0. French 2.0. Spanish Mono, Japanese Mono, the isoloated music score, and commentary by Daren Dochterman, Michael & Denise Okuda, Judith & Garfield Reeves- Stevens. The optonal subtitles are English, English SDH, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Danish, Dutch , Finnish and Swedish. The front of the case bears th famous Bob Peak poster art, and the case’s liner is ia large photo of Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Decker ans Ilia (probe) walking iowards V’ger. For me, the real allure is the enclosed 5×6.5” full color 24 page booket which is a replica of a 1979 publicity booklet.
 
The front of the booklet bears Roger Huyssen’s teaser poster art, the back cover has John Berkey’s advance poster art, and inside are storyboards, concept art, production stills, behind the scenes & publicity photos. This booklet is not the same publication as Paramount’s  Star Trek – The Motion Picture Handbook of Production Information, Pressbook, Press kit, or Pocket Books’ Publishing Campaign kit. I read somewhere that a set of photos were supposedly included in the case,, but that seems to be incorrect. So that’s whatcha get! Ah, Now to continue or Trek topics, here’s Jen to discuss a recent short film that moved us all to joyful tears-
“765874 Unification”
 

 

Jeannie:
Hai. The latest of the short videos by Otoy https://home.otoy.com for the Roddenberry Archive https://roddenberry.x.io, 765874 Unification (the digits corresponding to J.M. Colt’s Starfleet seraial number) is the meowgnificently beautifully poignant  short film pertaining to the reunion of  Janes T, Kirk (who passed away on the 1993 movie Star Trek: Generations) and Spock (who passed away in the 2015 movie Star Trek Beyond. This 10.75 minute short was directed & edited by Carlos Gaena, executively purrduced by Rod Roddenberry, William Shatner, Susan Bay Nimoy, and writer Jules Urbach;
 
…with the mewsic by Michael Giacchino, cinematography by Leonidas Jaramillo, purrduction design by DavidBlass, and visual FX supurrvised by Mark Spatnny. The film uses purractical & digital purrosthetics, real sets locations  &digital extentions to commeowmerate the 30th anniversary Star Trek: Generations and stars William Shatner & Sam Witwer as Kirk, Robin Curtis as Saavik, Lawrence Ellek as Spock, Mark Cinnery as Sorak, Gary Lockwood as Gary Mitchell, Gordon Tarpley as Yor, John Daltorio as Crusher, and Mahe Thaissa as Colt, with several “easter eggs” throughout.
 
For all of us here at The Mew, “765874 Unification” serves as a purrofoundly wonderful coda and mea culpa for what we thought were very unsatisfying depurrtures of Kirk and Spock from their mortal existence. I give this and Otoy’s other short Star Trek films (which can be eat https://www.youtube.com/@OTOY) the highest purraise; I will reccmmend it to all fans of those iconic heroes, and I wish to thank the brilliant cast, crew, advisors, and other folks at Otoy and the Roddenberry Archive. I am done, and nyow I will turn The Mew over to Meryi, who will tell us her opinion of
Wicked: Part I.
 
Meryl
Hai! Since 1910 there have been many literary, stage & cinematic adaptions of Frank L, Baun’s 1900 tale The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and of course the most famous one is the 1939 movie that starred Judy Garland. Of the live-action & animated movie & TV remakes & sequels that I have seen, such as Journey Back to Oz (1972), The Wiz (1978), Return to Oz (1985), The Muppets’ Wizard of Oz (2005), Tin Man (2007), Oz the Great and Powerful (2013), and The Wiz Live! (2015), I think that Wicked: Part 1 is my easiily favoritest !By the way I must admit that I have not (yet) read Gregory Maguire’s 1995 Wicked novel no have I seen the 2003 Broadway version.
i am purrticularly fond of Eric Shanower’s five “Adventures in Oz” graphic novels that were published from 1986 to 1992, but I have stray-catted from this topic! I was very impressed by the captivatingly beautiful purreview trailers, so Wicked is one of this years movies that I have quite eagerly awaited! Firected by Jhn M. Cgu whose movie Crazy Rich Asians U titally loved, Wicked: Part i’s wonderful cast includes Cynthia Erivo as Elphabam, Ariana Grande as Galinda, Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero , Michelle Yeoh as Madame Morrible, Jeff Goldblum as The Wizaed, Ethan Slater as Boq, Marissa Bode as Nessarose, and Peter Dinklage as the voice of Dr. Dillamond!
There are surpurrise appurrances & easter eggs too! I wish it was not quite as rushed, and I wish some characters were more deveoped, but is the excellent tale of the witch’s origin as the smart, sympathetic character who struggles with biogtry, fear, misunderstandings, manipulations, school life, peer purressure, her uncontrolled power, and the relationship with her frenemy Galinda.  I think it has the great story, directing, purrformances, sets, locations, art direction, visual FX, choreography, mewsic, sound, costumes, hair & make-up! I love the songs, i purrchased the CD, and I give the movie the grade of an A Minus! I am done, and nyow here is Ilyana to review
Moana 2!
 
Ilyana
Arigato! We loved Disney’s 2016 animated Moana movie and its soundtack CD, so I was eager to see what its delightful characters are up to this sequel, in which Moana and a crew search for a legendary island, but they will need Maui’s help against the supurrnatural threats.The first good mews is that the returning voice cast includes Auliʻi Cravalho as Moana, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as the demigod Maui. Alan Tudyk as Heihei the rooster, Temuera Morrison as Moana’s chief Tui, Nicole Scherzinger as Moana’s mom Sina, and Rachel House as Moana’s grandmother Tala!
 
Pua the pig is back too! The 2nd good mews is they are joined by Hualalai Chung as Moni thestrong  fan-artist, Rose Matafeo as Loto the genius builder, David Fane as Kele the grouchy farmer, Gerald Ramsey as Tautai the ancestral spirit, Tofiga Fepulea’i as the evil stormy god Nalo, Awhimai Fraser as Nalo’s batty goddess servant Matangi, and Khaleesi Lambert who just about steals the show as Moana’s adorably cute widdle sister Simea! The other good mews is that the movie’s character & creature designs, scenic art, visual & sound FX and animation are quite supurrb!
There are many fun and lovely moments, but sequel’s plot and songs did not wow me as much as its purredecessor; there are characters that I wish were more develped such as the villains and Moana’s fan-girlfriends;  plus the pace seemed too rushed, and the movie seems too short and purrdictable, so I will give Moana 2 the average  grade of a C. It’s not bad, but it’s not great. That is all for our movie mewsings, and nyow here is Nyoka to start our
Purrinted-Media Mewsings, with
her review of Rowrbrazzle #163.
 
Nyoka:
Hai! Since 1984, Rowrbrazzle has been the wonderful quarterly APA (amateur press association) anthology magazine purrtaining to furry fandom, funny animal and anthropurrmorphic history, events, art, and tales! Expurrtly edited by Edd Vick (who also contributed 26 other pages), it is compurrised of comics, purrose, essays, articles, discussions, editorials, comics, illustrations, photos, convention reports,  correspondances, remeowmberances, and the current meowmbership roster and rules. Issue #163’s theme is “Furries in History” and consists of three 8.5×11” stapled sections totaling 280 pages, 45 of which are in full color!
 

The front cover art is by Mike (who also contributed 12 other pages), the 2nd section’s front cover is by Danny Ferbert (who also contributed 5 other pages), the 3rd sections’s front cover is by Tim Fay, and the back cover is by Mary Bellamy (who also contributed 5 other pages).

Sammiched betwixt those covers are the contributions by many other awesome artists, authors, editors and journalists such as—

Charles Brubaker (who also included a bonus zine pamphlet), Robert Alley, Mike Glyer, Simon Barber, Matt McAndrews, Kjartan Arnorsson, Charles Garofalo, Niall Shapiro, J.W. Kennedy, Michael Pena, Chris Yost…

… Marino Yunig,

John Bandow, David Fruner, Kurt Wilcken, Walt Wenz, William Earl Haskell, Ed Pegg, Jr, Thomas Milliorn, Ken Marcinkevicius,, Mark Ashworth, Emeowrgency Officer Steven F. Scharff, Jim & Melody Rondeau, and

a posthumous article by the late 11 time Hugo nominee Taral Wayne. As mewsual, It is the very entertaining, informative, diverse and beautiful issue,

and for more information about Rowrbrazzle, I will recommend i

 

the article at Wikifur https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Rowrbrazzle!  Nyow here is Myayr to tell us about the 
Mark Schultz Portfolio: The Complete Drawings!
 
Mary Nyan:
Arigaro! Mark Schultz is
ne of the nicest andf most brilliant artists
 who is purrhaps most famous for his Xenozoic Tales / Cadillacs & Dinosaur series and his astounding illustrations of peoplw, landscapes, and creatures, purrticulatly the purrehistotic type!  We have enjoyed his supurrb books such as Storms at Sea, Sub Human, Carbon, and his five Various Drawings books, so I was quite eager to get this meowgnificent book which was publushed last mmonth by Flesk, which is known for beautiful art books!
Although smaller in height and width than the Various Drawings book, Portffolio is much thicker at 10x 7.5 x 1.26”, and this $49.95 trade papurrback book has 431 pages that are brimming with about 450 sumpyuous illustrations, which include all of the pics form the five Various Drawings books, plus 160 images that have not been collected purreviously, plus it has the introduction and annotations by Schultz! The book is also available in the hardcover edition and the limited deluxe signed hardcover ediion.
On the front cover is his sexy scrappy postapocalyptic heroine Hannah Dundee with the spear,  knife, surf bord and the stringer full of yummy fish! I should warn y’all that amongst the many creatures depicted in the book, there are marine life and lizards aplenty, which might cause cravings for the seafood and reptile meat in addition to the fine art, so I will give the book the high purraise grade of the “A” as in Allosaurus! That is all for our purrinted-media mewsings, and nyow here is Lizzy to purrsent
The Celebrity Catgirl & Kemonomimi Spotlight!
 
Elizabeth:
Hai! in this portion of The Mew, we commeowmorate famous therianthropes, monster girls, shape-shifters, anthropurrrmorphic ladies and other kemonomim!  Fur-thermore, there are those who might not have beasty DNA, but do have the spurrit, cat-titude or clothing of the animal theme, who we will broadly consider as “honorary kemonomimi”!
Firstly we wish to shine the spotlight upon the adorably cute widdle kittengirl Maya who is a character in the Summer of Mara video game developed by Chibig in which the players have the fun adventures , purroffessions and cultivvations  in the lovely archipelago, in which she works at the restaurant but would rather be the pirate!!
Seondly we wish to meontion adventurous bunny girl Eve Callusleader of the My Unique Skill Makes Me OP Level manga & anime series of the isekei genre! Voiced in the original japanese series by Mariko Kouno and by Trisha Mllon in theEnglish dubbed version,  Eve has the carrot addiction and supurr meorwrtial arts purrowess!
Thirdly we will spotlight the valiant catgirl Nina Heah of author Necoco’s thrilling, amewsing, Reincarnated as a Dragon’s Egg manga and light novel seriesog the slice-of-life isekei fantasy genre! Nina was the poor slave until she was freed and became the waitress!
Fourthly we wish to meowntion Italian ecchi / pin-up  artist Filippo Curzi (a.k.a. Yum!)’s  illustration of the naked blonde catgirl who is purrched purrone upon a tree branch to grace variant cover C of Penthouse Comics #5  (October / November 2024  issue)!
Nextly I would like to purraise Hallmark for their peppy mewsical birthday card with the catgirl quartet (Tiger Stripe, White, Beige & Dark Brown) on the front that sings a happy birthday song! The message inside the card is “Hope your birthday is just a little wild. Jam on.”!
Lastly but not leastly, we wish to purraise actress Lauren Howard Hayes who purrtrays the gorgeous. jokey, meowgickal, dappled white scentauress in Native Whole Body Deodorant ’s TV commeowrcials! That is all for the spotlight, and nyow her are Petra, Vonny and Beebs to purrsent
 
The Latest Additions to The Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art!

 

 

 

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, and you have to click on those to see the full images, nyan!
 

Some of the images are sexy and might depict 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 Six https://catgirlisland.net/art/gallery/guest6.html we have added a new pic by Misty Hopkins 

more photos of Crissy Volpe a.k.a Sunseenli http://www.crimsonskycreations.com/bloodsweatandglitter by various photographers, and to Gallery Six https://catgirlisland.net/art/gallery/gallery6.html we have added 4 illustrations by Mike, nyan!

 
Misty is an awesome illustrator, cosplayer, seamstress, gamer, blogger, Battle Agel Alita fan, doll maker & collector, nyan! She excels at the traditional and digital art tools, and her videos are quite fun, informative and captivating, from the unboxings and fandom discussions to the art purrocesses, nyan! Misty used the Krita software for “Chibli Gambler”, which is her lovely fan art of Saotome Mary from the “Kakegurui” series, which purrtains to the students at the elite purrivate school where gambling is the way of life, nyan!
Yvonne:
Nextly we are delighted to display more photos of Crissy

to c

ommeowmerate her 25 years of cosplay! She is quite famous as a  Sailor Mars fan and cosplayer, nyan! Her site includes photos, notes & fan art of over 135 costumes, plus kimonos and other outfits that she has worn to conventions, festivals, parties, and photo shoots, nyan! Her convention, festival, and photoshoot reports  are quite thorough, captivating and entertaining, nyan!

This month’s batch of  photos by variious photographers are purresented in three collages of 3-4 pics apiece, nyan!

 
The 1st collage has three of Terry Chu’s Halloween 2017 photos (with 2024 photomanips by Mike) of Crissy wearing the licensed costume by Underwraps as Jessica Rabbit from the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit. nyan! The 2nd collage is compurrised of Night Life Cosplay / Photography’s photos of Crissy in the white shirt outfit (from the 4th Sailor Moon art book) as Hino Rei at Anime Weekend Atlanta 2012,  and Terry Chu’s 2017 hotos of Crissy wearing the wig and store-bought attire as Marvel’s Natasha Romanoff a.k.a.  he Black Widow; with 2024 photomanips by Mike, nyan!
The 3rd collage is compurrise the of Lady Terentias photo of herself as Rapunzel with Crissy wearing the wig, binder and licensed costume as Eugene / Flynn Ryder of the movie Tangled at the 2024 Pennsylvania Renaissance Faires Heroes & Villains Weekend; Lady Terentias photo of  wearing the Irish dress made by Reminisce at the Sparta Ren Faire 2024; and to top it off, Crissy was one of 11 meowembers of the Senshi in the City groups Dungeons & Dragons Senshi cosplay photographed by Allison the Photgographer, Joe of Sero.Yonon.Shots, and and June at Senshicon 2023, nyan!
Beebee:
Mike used Photoshop an the mouse for his illustration of the Egyptian catgirl goddesses Tefnnut and Sekhmet, which appurred upon the front cover of the Rowrbrazzle A.P.A.’s zine #163; he used the Derwent pencils for the sketch of of our mewlywed friends Jenn and  Sophie; Derwnt pencils, Copic meowrkers, Faber-Castell colored pencils and Sakura Micron pens for the pic of Jenn & Sophie as Gremlins fom the Buggs Bunny cartoon “Falling Hare”; and he used Photoshop and the mouse for the fan art of our friend BondoFox’s bunnygirl friend Cottonlop purracrticing her rope knot, nyan.

So, what do y’all think of the art, nyan?

The cat lady sings…
Mary Nyan:
Crissy, the costumes, locations, photography, and the sense of storycombine for such stunningly beautiful images!
 
Nyoka:
Hai hai, that and the coiffure, make-up, lighting, and the enthusiasm of the purrticipants are quite sppendiferous too,!
 
Ilyana:
I love the pose, expurrresions, lines, colors, shading and details of the Saotome Mary pic which wonderfully capture her likeness and spirit!
Meryl
I love Cottonlop’s long supple ears, her distinctive spots, her purretty budoir, and her intricate ropes!
 
Jeannie:
We are glad that Jenn & Sophie had the joyful wedding, and that their Gremlin purrsonas are vexing the aggressive enemy planes insteead of ours.
 
Beebee:
Mike has defintely spurruced up that pic of Sekhmet & Tefnut since I last saw it, and I hope that the other Rowerrazzle meowmbers lik it too!
 
Elizabeth:
It  is almost time for our AfterMew Luau, at which we will welcome back Tara & Trini from their honeymoon, so so 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 we purrticularly 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!
 
Mike:
We’ll be back next month with our December Mew! Be there… aloha!
 
The Ladies of The Mew:
Happy tails to mew, until we eat again! Baibai, nyan!

October 2024 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 October 2024 Edition of The Mew:
The Catgirl Critics’ Media Mewsings, nyan!
________________________________________________
 
It is the Year of the Dragon, the 17th Anniversary of The Mew,
and the 24th Anniversary of Catgirl Island’s web site, nyan!
 
in this edition of The Mew:
 
The Lightning Round Topic: More Favorite Fun Stuff of 1954
TV & Movie Mewsings:
Batman: Caped Crusader
Beeltlejuice Beetlejuice
Purrinted-Media Mewsings:
Monster Musume vol. 17
Shantae Swimsuit Special
Our Favorite Recent Photos & illustrations of Fish & Other Seafood 
The Celebrity Catgirl & Kemonomimi Spotlight
The Latest Additions to The Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art:
more photos of Crissy Volpe by various photographers
” Final Fantasy XIII Avatars”, “Sir Pentius & Emily” by Misty Hopkins
“Winging It” & “Sisters” by Melody Rondeau
“Rainbow Bridge by Alexcia Reynolds & Mike
“Dead Parrot”, “Bastet” & “Rivka Ash” by Mike
 
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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 downtown Purrbank in Catgirl Island, Mew hanover County NC, USA where it’s 74 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 an 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): 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!
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!
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!
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.
 
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!
(paw note: 

“Nyan” is the Japanese word for “meow”, which some but not all catgirls vocalize, purrticularly in the NC OBX Catspeak dialect, whereas Mielikki retains the Val Speak dialect from her younger years in California, fur shur, nyan!)

 
Mike:
Good luck! So, what have y’all been up to since the last time we all convened?
 
Bunnii:
Petra and I have been coaching the Fall beach volleyball camp, when I have not been busily baking the carrot cakes, gardening, and curating the art mewseum!
 
Petra:
Hai hai, we are excited about our annual macabre art exhibit, and we greatly appurreciate the wonderful artists, volunteers, visitors, and the athletes nya!
 
Yvonne:
My drumming circle has purrcussed at the fall festivals; and my charters have reeled in the delicious, mewtritious Snappurrs, Groupurrs, Croakers, Cobias and Wahoos, nyan!
paw note: Yvonne’s purrfurred taiko drum is the Shime Daiko, nyan. Her fishing boat TsuriNekoMimi is a 1985 Hatteras 60 Convertible motor yacht, nyan.
 
Jeannie:
How are Tara-chan & Trini-chan enjoying the rest of their long honeymoon and horseback riding adventure in Meowntana?
paw note:
Yvonne’s younger sister, Tara-chan the nature photographer & recent mewniversity gradute catgirl; and her mewlywed wife Trini-chan the surfer, board and belly dance instructor kitsune, are currently away riding their banker ponies Wild Star Blaze and Jimbo in Glacier Purrk, nyan.
Yvonne:
They are having th supurr  fun, adventureous and romeowntic time on the Agpurr, Lake MeowcDonald and Meowny Glacier trails, nyan! So how arethings withyou of late. nyan?
Jeannie:
 As mewsual, my itinerary is compurrised of the yoga, kyudo, teaching belly dance, modeling swimwear, and purrsiding over CIRC, which has spooky animeowtronic decorations planned for Halloween.
paw note:
CIRC is the Catgirl Island Robotics Club which Jeannie co-founded, nyan.
 
Elaenor:
I look forward to seeing those mechs when my department does the pre-Halloween  inspections on all the lanterns, mecha and fireworks! Aside from that there have bene no emergenccies lately so we are just training and going to  Nya-sensei’s gym!  By thr way, congratulations on your dojos big win at the regionals!
 
The Ladies of the Mew:
BANZAO BANZAI BANZAI NYAN!
 
Nyanko
Arigao! I am so purroud of them but  we’re gonna need a bigger trophy case! Aside from that I have been helpimg my sister  and her cats puurpare for her store’s annual Samhain Sympurrsium.  Howboutchoo, Becca?
paw note:
Nyanko’s twin sister Nyoka, a.k.a Nyo-sensei is th purropurrietress of thw island’s Meowgick Shop, located near the farmeow’s Meowkitt on the eastern side of the island, nyan.
Bcca:
As mewsual I have been golfing, gardening and grooming my cats when Lizzy I have not been busy at our spa, binge watching the videos, or at the late night hot salsa dance!
 
Elizabeth:
While she playing or instructing at the golf course, I am either with my Purrkour Club, working out at Nyanko’s gym, or assisting the appurrentice miko at the shrine’s matsuris!
paw note:
Purrkour is a feline style of free running and spurringing. Nyanko and her sister Nyoka are purresently busy elsewhere , but hope to arrive later for the AfterMew luau, nyan.
 
Mary Nyan:
Aside from teaching the hula, I have been extra busy sewing the costumes for the mikos, dsancers and cosplayers cosplayers!  By the way,At tonight’s Aftermew, Luau, we will vote on our cosplay group theme for the Trick ’R Eat & Cosplay Purrowl! The nominees are characters from the anime TV series such as Senran Kagura, Immoral Guild, Konosuba, and Gal Gun! Howboutchoo, Mie-sensei?
paw note:
The annual Trick ’R Eat & Cosplay Purrowl is a Mew Hanover county-wide Halloween celebration that spans several days. at which every year the Ladies of The Mew choose a theme for their group cosplay, nyan.
 
Mielikki:
So like, when I have not been at the golf club, the LPGA tour or the local sporting events and Halloween festivities, I have been foxfire juggling and technical directing our totally awesome repurrtory company’s production of Into the Woods, mentoring our kids’ production of  One Cube or Two> and plans for our Winter production of Stars Sstruck, fur shur! Back to Mike!
paw note:
Although Mielikki has been a resident of Catgirl Island in Mew Hanover County, NC for over 100 years, she still retains the “Val-Speak” dialect from her younger years in San Fernando, CA, fur shur, nyan!
 
paw note:
One Cube or Two? was a 1973  Stare Trek fan play; Star Struck was a 1980 off-broadway sci-fi play, with a 1982 comic book adaptation, and Into the woods was a major Tony-winning  Broadway play with a 2014 film adaptation, nyan!
 
Mike:
Oh, aside from the toy show, and another 10K race,  it’s been the usual art, writing, reading, decorating, and watching stuff! Ah, we’ve got a lot on our plate, so let’s go ahead and jump right into this month’s 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/! Ah, we’ve got a big group and a lot on our plate, so let’s go ahead a jump right into this month’s-
Lightning Round Topic: more favorite fun stuff of 1954! 
This year we’ve been looking back at our favorite things from years ending with a 4! Last month was our favorite films of ’54, and this momth we will list other stuff of that vintage. This can include TV series that were currently broadcast in 1954, whether they premiered that year or earlier. Nya-sense’s  gonna start, so so are y’all ready to “conduct the lightning’?.
 
The Ladies of The Mew:
HAI! LIGHTNING ROUND GO, NYAN!
Nyanko:
I will nominate the TV series Adventures of Superman, Dragnet, and the rsdio drama Gunsmoke, which became a TV series the following year! (tags Jeannie)
Jeannie:
The Avro Canada CF-100, Boeing 367-80, Fairey FD.2, McDonnell F-101A, Lockheed XF-104, and YC-130  (tags Elizabeth with a brush of the tail)
Elizabeth:
The novels such as Poul Anderson’s The Broken Sword,  J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers! (tail-tags her wife to go next)
Becca:
The novels such as Isaac Asimov’s The Caves of Steel,  Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend, and Ian Fleming’s Live and Let Die
(tags

Yvonne)

Yvonne:
That year’s Bugs Bunny, Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies, and Tom and Jerry  animated short films, nyan! Nyow it is… Ellie’s turn, nyan! (tags Elaenor)
Elaenor:
The songs “Mr. Sandman” by The Chordettes, “Make Love to Me” by Jo Stafford, “In the Chapel in the Moonlight” by Kitty Kallen, and “Earth Angel” by The Penguins!  (tags Mary Nyan) 
Mary Nyan:
 “Someone to Watch Over Me” by Frank Sinatra, “I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man” by Muddy Waters, “Shake Rattle And Roll” by Big Joe Turner and the Godzilla film score by Akira Ifukube! (tags Mielikki)
Mielikki:
I Love Lucy, Your Show of Shows, The Ed Sullivan Show, American Bandstand, and The Guidling Light, fur shur! (tags Petra with a flit of the wing)
Petra:
Hergé’s Tintin: Explorers on the Moon,  Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who, Carl Barks’ Uncle Scrooge: The Secret of Atlantis, and Osanu Tezuka’s Princess Knight. nyan! (tags Bunnii)
 
Bunnii:
I will nominate Salvadore Dali’s paintings of The Colossus of Rhodes,  Crucifixion, and The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory! Back to Mike!
Mike:
Oh, I just gotta go with that year’s Peanuts strips, and uh, the comic books that were published by National / DC,  Atlas / Marvel, Archie, and EC Comics! Well, ah, that was another expedient little Lightning Round, and now Mie-sensei is gonna continue our-
TV and movie mewsings, with her
review of Beeltlejuice Beetlejuice!
Mielikki:
Hai! So like, Tim Burton is one of my favorite directors and I loved his 1988 movie Beetlejuice, so I was eager to see this sequel! Written by Miles Millar & Alfred Gough with mewsc  by Danny Elfman. it stars Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara, Jenna Ortega, Willem Dafoe, Monica Bellucci, Justin Theroux, and it was like totally awesome! So like, Geena Davis, Alec Baldwin, and Jeffrey Jones did not return, but the fate of their characters is addressed…
… but the events of the 1989 Beetlejuice animated TV series. are not mentioned. I was so pleased with everything about it, from the story, dialogue, costumes, make-up, art direction and purrformances, to the FX  editing, sound, mewsic and cinemeowtogtaphy, sets, with the good mythology, character developments, balance of humor, drama, action and fright! I will give it the high praise as one of my favorite movies of this year, fur shur! Nyow he e is Mike to discuss
Batman: Caped Crusader!
 
Mike:
Thanks Myayr! Since the 1960’s, I’ve enjoyed many an animated movie or TV series based on DC Comics’ charcaters such as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Teen Titans, Justice League, Young Juystice, and so forth.Recently in our September Mew, we reviwed Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three! Of all those animated movies & TV series, my favorites have been the DCAU tales that Bruce Timm was associated with, such as Batman: The Animated  Series,, Batman Beyond,  Static Shock, Superman: The Animated Series, and most of all, Justice League Unlimited,
I tend to prefer that era of animated DC more than stuff of the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, The “New 52” era or the current “Tomorroverse” era… although I really liked a lot of those, especially Teen Titans Go, Legion of Super-Heroes, The Brave and the Bold, Justice League Action, Young Justice, Batman Ninja and  the current Harley Quinn series. I say all of that just to let y’all know where I’m coming from as a longtime  fan. When I first saw the preview trailer for Batman: Caped Crusader, the 10 episode series developed by Bruce Timm that premiered on Amazon Prime in August, oh man, was I stoked!
 
Seeming to be set in a maybe 1950’s-ish Gotham City with an “Atompunk”  aesthetic, it is the early days of Bruce Wayne’s adventures as Batman (voiced by Hamish Linklater), the vigilante – who many of he cops, crooks and citizens caught in between – are not yet sure whose side he’s on. Fortunately. we the audience knows,a s does his butler Alfred (voiced by Jason Watkins), Police Commissioner Gordon (voiced by Eric Morgan Stuart), and his daughter Barbara (Krtystal Joy Brown)! The rest of the great cast includes John DiMaggio as Harvey Bullock, Michelle  Bonilla as Renee Montoya…
… Christina Ricci as Catwoman, Minnie Driver as Penguin, Bumper Robinson as Lucius Fox  and Dan Donohue as Clayface. There ar  many others who I’d rather not mention. as not to spoil some wonderful surprisses. I love everything about this series, from the story, mood, scenic design, direction, character design & development, world-building & myth-making, to the animation, voices, sound & music, with a grea balance of drama, humor, action & mystery. I give it a solid “A” as in my great aniticpation for it’s 2nd season! That’s all for our TV & movie reviews. and now here’s Myayr to start our-
purrinted-media mewsings, with her 
review of Monster Musume vol. 17!
 
Mary Nyan
Arigato! Written & drawn by Okayado (who is also the author of 12 Beast and Ma Ma Mia) and originally published by Tokuma Shoten in Japan, Monster Musume is a sexy comedic urban fantasy manga of the harem trope & ample fan service, starring the liminal ladies (monster girls) who are romantic rivals for Kimihito, the human guy in whose often renovated house they reside!
 
They are Centorea the centauress, Miia the lamia, Papi the harpy, Suu the slime girl, Merou the mermaid, Rachnera the spider girl and Lala the Dullahan. Also recurring are their government case worker Ms. Smith and the Monster Ops team of Manako the cyclops, Tio the ogre, Doppel the doppleganger and Zombina the zombie amongst the many other recurring characters!
 
There are more tales of them in the companion four volume anthology series of Monster Musume: I Heart Monster Girls! Published here in English by Seven Seas, Monster Musume is great fun, but it is rated for older teen readers of ages 16+, purrhaps especially due to the nudity, skimpy attire, sexual themes, slapstick violence, fan service, lewd and dark humor aplenty.
 
It was translated by Andrew Cunningham, lettered by Karis Page, edited by Shanti Whitesides and purroof read by Hayame, with the purroduction design by Brennan Thorne, cover design by Nicky Lim and quality control by Dave Murray. Purriced $14.99 in the US & $18.99 in Canada, it has 156 pages (152 B&W, 4 full color) of manga chapters 68-73, bonus pages, character purrofiles  and 6 pages of ads.
This volume is purrtiuclarly taur-iffic as it focuses on Centorea and other equine types such as Nico (unicorn), Pegassnia (pegasus), Nighdrem (Nitghtmare), Meamil (dairy breed centaur), Cheron (heavyweight centaur) & Alusia (lightweight centaur) Also appurring are Kimihito, Papi, Rachnera, Smith, the satyrs minotaurs; it introduces Bacqueline the Baku andhas the return of the liminal idol group ANM48!
The ample fan-service includes much naughty attention on the boobies, but there also are tamer comedic scenes of farming, dining, shopping, track & field training. It is not fo the purrudish folks or the widdle kitties, but I found this volume to be very entertaining and sexy, with the beautifully drawn characters  and and amewsing FX are amidst the intricate scenery! I am done, and nyow here is Jennyjen to discuss the
2024 Shantae Swimsuit Special!
 
Jeannie:
Hai. Created in 2002 by Erin & Matt Bzon, Shantae is the delightfful half-geniie who stars in her video game series created by Matt Bozon and developed by WayForward Games. Purriced $4.99 in the USA, this full color 34 page comic book was published by Udon Entertainment  which publishes beautiful licensed comics, manga, art books and meowrchands based on many video games and anime including Streetfighter, Darkstalkers, Mega Man and so forth.
 
When Shantae is not defending her town or searching for treasure, she is able to enjoy fun with her friends and her enemy pirates at the beach, as evidenced by this swimsuit specials 15 full-page pin-ups, the two-page center spurread, the 8 page story, 3 page game art gallery, The pin-ups are by Nami Sakurajyousui, Bacun, Chaesu, Ikki, Kentoo, Nego, Kou, Raf, Brin; whilst the centerspurread is by Nami.There is additional art by Chris Engle, Kou, Comeo & Matt.
The “Hot Water Heroes” tale of meowgickal hot tub building awry was purrduced by Erin, written & roughed by Matt, assistantly storyboarded by Nikoneda, illustrated & lettered by Raf. Covers A, B & the con exclusive cover are by Nami; cover C is the blank sketch cover; cover D is by Magodesu, the 3 Udon Store Exclusive covers are by Aki Li, Mikan & Keenbiscuit. I highly reccommend this issue to fans of Shantae, sexy bikini imagery, and cutely playful scenes of anime-style seaside antics. Nextly, we wish to nominate
our favorite recent illustrations &
photos of fish & other seafoods.
Yvonne:
Catgirl Island, MerTown and the surrounding waters of Mew Hanover County are abundant with declicious, mewtritious locally-caught and farmed fresh, organic fresh & saltwater seafood, nyan! From appurrtizing aquatic plants and purrotists to yummy fish and shellfish, there is cuisine aplenty for all of the diets, nyan! Although we have not come accoss any images of the former types of seafoods upon recent magazine covers, we have found a plethora of piscine pics to cause the cravings, such as the tasty Trout photographed by Arian Stevens on the cover of Fly Fusion vol.21 #4, nyan!
Petra:
The tantalizing Trout to tempt my tummy photographed by Brian O’Keefe for th cover of of Fly Fisherman vol.56 #1, nyan!
Becca:
The righteous Rainbow Trout caught by Amy Trina on the cover of Fly Fisherman’s 2024 Gear Guide!
Elizabeth:
The beauriful Brown Trout caught by Ron Purnell on the cover of Fly Fisherman Destinations!
Nyanko:
The two Gators caiught by Captains, Matt, Jake & Noah Rogers on the cover of Florida Sport Fishing vol.23 #5!
Mary Nyan:
The lovely  Largemouth Bass caught by Fred Roumbanis on the cover of BASS Magazine vol.32 #4!
Bunnii:
Ryan Kirby’s pretty painting of the lunker taking the bait on the cover of Field & Stream vol. 129 #4!
Mielikki:
Larry Tople’s painting of the Muskee on the cover of In-Fisherman vol. 29 #6, fur shur!
Jeannie:
The Pike on the cover of In-Fisherman’s Ice Fishing 2025 Guide.
Elaenor:
That nice Permit netted on the cover of Anglers Journal Vol. IX!
Mike:
The Great White on the cover the Shark Week’s Shark! Magazine! Ah, that’ll do it for our reviews, and now it’s time for Lizzy, Becca and Ellie to present this month’s
Celebrity Catgirl & Kemonomimi Spotlight
 
Elizabeth:

Arigato! in this portion of The Mew, we commeowmorate famous therianthropes, monster girls, shape-shifters, anthropurrrmorphic ladies and other kemonomim!  Fur-thermore, there are those who might not have beasty DNA, but do have the spurrit, cat-titude or clothing of the animal theme, who we will broadly consider as “honorary kemonomimi”! You know, this year is the 100th anniversary of Kenji Miyazawa’s 1924 book Suisenzuki no Yokka (The 4th of Narcissus Month) which was a pioneering  nekomimi tale!

 
Becca:
Hai hai!  For this month’s spotlight we are shining it on anthropurrmorphic & kemonmimi characters  from across the  decades, starting with puppeteer/ ventriolquist Shari Lewis’s sassy bovid friend Lambchop who first appurred on TV in 1956! Lambchop  was purformed by Shari until she passed away 1998, when her daughter Mallory succeeded her! By the way, did yo=u know thqat Shari wrote the 1969 Star Trek eppurrsode The Lights of Zetar?

Elaenor:
I do now! You know, not only did Star Trek purremiered on TV in 1966 but so did Princess Projectra in DC’s Adventure Comics #346! Created by artist Curt Swan and author Jim Shooter, she was a royal illusionist and member of the Legion of Supurr-Heroes from the magickal planet Orando! She appurred to be the human, until the series was rebooted  in the 1994 Zero Hour tale, in which she changed her name to Sensor, and her true form was revealed to be the the big female snake with mechanical arms!
Elizabeth:
Speaking ot the reptilians, in 1975, the final epurrsode of the Kolchak TVseries, an anthropurrmorphic dino gator sentry purrotected its eggs from the human excavation, kinda like the Hort did in Star Trek! Although the creature was purrtrayed by Craig R. Baxley, I wondered if it was a mamma dino croc, but we never found out the gender!
Becca:
Staying with the 70’s, Yumiko Oshima’s manga Wata no Kunihoshi (Cotton’ Country) prurremeiered in 1978 and introduced us to Chibi-Neko the poor abandoned cute widle kitten who is adopted by the male high school student Tokio. She loved him and  hoped that she would  become the human girl! The anime movie version purremiered in 1984, in which she was voiced by Miina Tominga!
Elaenor:
Four years later in the 1988 movie Willow,  Patricia Hayes portrayed the sorceress  Fin Raziel who had been transformed iby the evil queen Bavmorda into the talking possum! The titular character Willow  tried to restored her human form, but during that process she morphed into the raven, goat, ostrich, turtle, tiger, and  for about one second she was the tiger girl until she was fully restored to the human form!
Elizabeth:
Published in 1992 by Innovation Comics, Annual #1 of the Lost in Space comic book (continuation of the 1960’s TV series) depicted the Robinson Family’s encounter with a slave trader / trafficker whose space ship’s cargo hold was full of the tragic anthropurrmorphic and kemonomimim women of varioius alien species. When he saw Judy and Penny swimming in a lagoon, he tried to lure them into captivity too! They were freed from the dungeon, but alas we do not know what became of the other women. but we hope they escaped!
Becca:
20 years ago in 2004, Atsushi Ohkubo’s manga Soul Eater manga purremiered, purrtaining to the teams onthe quest to collect souls to build the supourr weapon, and one of the characters is the purrple-haired, golden-eyed, fair-skinned monster catgirl Blair who wears the witchy attire and can transform into teh full cat! She is the friendly, playful seductive, magickally supurr-powered neko musume! In the 2008 anime TV vertsion whe was voiced by Emiri Kato in the original japanese version and by Leah Clark in th English dub!
Elaenor:
10 years ago in 2014, Rui Takato’s Booty Royal manga premiered, pertaining to the aspiring girls of the gravure modeling agency who are promised idol careers but ar tricked into competing in the dangerous martial arts tournament! The main character is Misora Haebaru ithe 18-year-old karate karate champion, with her friends Hara the college student / love interest, and Beruko the lolita & competitive eater. Quite often those and many other ladies wear the very skimpy leopurrd prrnt attire, catgirl and bunny girl cotumes!
Elizabeth:
That will bring us up to the 2020’s sightings! Earlier this year we saw the purreview trailer for Raoh Koster & Playable Worlds forthcoming Stars Reach MMORPG which  looks so purretty and fun! This sandboxy space opurr game purromises many exotic intergalactic worlds to be explored by the players who can  be of the various species such as the Terran Humans, Ape-like Swatchihi,  Demon-like Gertains, and the Eloni feline folk! We can’t wait to try out this game!
Becca:
In August, Papercut published the 2024 edition of te Ultimate Photoshop Manuel. Purriced $24.99 US, $29.99 Canada, $27.99 Australia, and £12.99 UK, this full color magazine has 160 full colorpages brimming with guides, tutorials and tips! The front cover is also graced by the alluring image of the close-up purrtrait of the half-transfomed Ailuranthrope girl!
Elaenor:
Lastly but not leastly, in the aforemeowntioned movie Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, a playfully cute catgirl is briefly seen during one of the early Afterlife Office scenes, but if you blink you might miss her, and we do not yet know if that character has a name, nor do we know who portrayed her. That is all for this month’s spotlight, but there will be more next month, and now here are Petra, Bunnii, Vonny & Nya-sensei to present the latest additions to-
The Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art!
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, and you have to click on those to see the full images, nyan! Some of the images are sexy and might depict 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 One http://catgirlisland.net/art/gallery/guest1.html we have added more photos of Crissy Volpe http://www.crimsonskycreations.com/bloodsweatandglitter by various photographers, illustrations by Misty Hopkins https://kranberrijam.blogspot.comMelody Rondeau https://fanlore.org/wiki/Melody_RondeauAlexcia Reynolds https://linktr.ee/alexciareynolds, and to Gallery Six http://catgirlisland.net/art/gallerygallery6.html we have added more of Mike’s art, nyan!
Yvonne:
Firstly we are purroud to purrsent Misty’s’ fan art  of the angelic ex-demon “Sir Pentius” and “Emily” the seraphim angel who are characters in the Hazbin Hotel animated TV series, and then we have Misty’s impeccable pic of “Final Fantasy XIII Avatars”, nyan!
Nextly we are delighted to display Melody’s wonderful ”Winging It” comic strip was done in 1983 for her friend Clare Bell’s semi-purrofessional fantasy zine Fire Lizards, nyan! Appurring in this strip are Amy Fakowitz with her cat Kitina and dragon Morgoth, Sally Jen  Snyder with her dragon Gellart, and Melody as Fiona with her dragon Fiona, nyan!
After that is Melody’s supurrb “Sisters” which depicts her fursona Sister Rat’s Star Trek cosplay, nyan! On the left she is in the Original Series Meowrror Mewniverse Starfleet mewniform, and on the right she is in the Star Trek – The Meowtion Picture: Meowrror Mewniverse mewniform, nyan! You know, Melody and her husband Jim  are artists, authors, editors and publishers who also sell purreviously-owned neat stuff such as books, magazines, fanzines, comics, videos, toys, games and meowmorabilia through their web site Make it Go Away at http://crossovers.net/makeitgoaway/home.htm, nyan!
Nyanko:
We are purrticularly purroud to purrsent the poignant Pokemon ”Rainbow Bridge” comics page which is fan art in tribute to actress Rachael Lillis (July 8th, 1969 – August 10th, 2024) who voiced the characters Jessie (who Meowth nicknamed Twerpette),  Misty, and Jigglypuff in the English dubbed version of Pokemon, This collaboration was written, drawn & colored by Alexcia; lettered & graphically edited by Mike. To see more of Alexcia’s Pokemom fan art, fics and other funs tuff, please visit her site Pokemon Amber http://pkmn.is-great.org!
“Happiness is a Dead Parrot” is the 5th of Mike’s “K-Nuts” fan art starring Doctor Who’s K-9 larping as Peanuts’ Snoopy, and co-starring Polyphase Avatron, tthe bad ol’ parrot bot who fought K-9 in the Doctor Who episode “Pirate Planet! It is also the purrrody of Charles M. Schulz’s “Happiness” memes & Monty Python’s “Dead Parrot“ comedy sketch! “Bastet” is Mike’s varient of his older illustration of that Egyptian catgirl goddess! This version has the slightly different coiffure and pelage color! We have a temple of Bastet on our island, you know! Mike’s illustrations were  done with Photoshop CC on the mac with the mouse!
 
“Rivkah Ash” is Mike’s 3rd pic in the series of our friend Rvkha Brogden’s Elder Scrolls Online characters, all of whom are named Rivkah! Rivkah Ash is Khajiit catgirl of the Archanist class with the Tuxedo Cat meowrkings!

Nextly we are ecstatic to exhibit more photos of Crissy

to commeowmerate her 25 years of cosplay!

Bunni:
Hai These photos by variious photographers are presented in three collages of four pics apiece! The 1st collage consists of Terry Chu’s Summer 2024 photo of Crissy as Snow White at the beach; Terry Chu’s October 2019 photo of Crissy eating sushi, Terry Chu’s 2024 photo of Crissy with Phobos & Deimos; and Eurobeat King’s photo of Crissy as Silver Millennium Purrincess Mars at Nan Desu Con 2020, in the costume made by Setsuna Kou!
 
The 2nd collage consists of Crissy in her limited edition Sailor Moon kimono at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden’s 2024 Sakura Matsuri; Terry Chu’s photo of Crissy in the costume by Arlette and wig by Ardra as Drachea Rannak’s concept of Sailor Mulan at Otakon 2017; Allison the Photographer’s photo of Crissy wearing the the dress by Custom Costume Store, wig by DokiDoki Cosplay and Tiara by Mazhurnaja as Chibi Usa the Small Lady Senshicon 2023; and Skye’s photo (with the bit of Photoshopping by Mike Moon) of Crissy in the wig and Macy’s pajamas as the Revolutionary Girl Utena!
 
The 3rd collage consists of David Ng’s 2012 photo of Crissy in the store-bought  costume as Tomb Raider’s Lara Croft; David Ng’s 2014 photo of Crissy with her 1980’s My Little Pony toys; Terry Chu’s 2017 photo of Crissy wearing the wig and VKS (Virgin Killer Sweater) as Marvel’s Natasha Romanoff; and Avin’s photo of Crissy as Branded Ann at the New York Renaissance Faire’s Pirate’s Weekend 2019! So, what do y’all think of the art?
The cat lady sings…
Jeannie:
Melody is a supurrb  storyteller whose characters have excellent poses, expurressions, purroportions, and diaolgue.
Elizabeth:
Misty is has great purrowess with the digital and traditional media,but I think her colored pencil art is the most brilliant!
 
Becca:
I think that Alexcia’s sequential ert tale is quite bittersweetly poignant with the tspemdid graphic narrative  technique!
Mary Nyan:
Crissy, the costumes, locations, lighting, photography and sense of story combine for the stunningly beautiful images!
Nyanko:
Oh, I think that Mike’s K-9 pic is cleverly amewsing, and the pics of Bastet and Rivkah are so gorgeously rendered!
Mielikki:
Fur shur!
Elaenor:
Well, it is almost time for our AfterMew Luau, so likem that will do it for this edition of The Mew,!
Bunnii:
We wish to thank all of the amazingly talented people whose works we have discussed!
Yvonne:
We purrticularly thank our wonderful wonderful webmeowster Jamie, nyan!
 
Petra:
Hai hai, and we also thank our other friends, families, acquaintances and our audience whom we greatly appurreciate, nyan!
Mike:
 We’ll be back next month with our Novermber Mew.! Be there… aloha!
 
The Ladies of The Mew:
Happy tails to mew, until we eat again! Baibai, nyan!

September 2024 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 September 2024 Edition of The Mew:
The Catgirl Critics’ Media Mewsings, nyan!
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It is the Year of the Dragon, the 17th Anniversary of The Mew,
and the 24th Anniversary of Catgirl Island’s web site, nyan!
 
in this edition of The Mew:
 
The Lightning Round Topic: Our Favorite Films of ‘54
TV, DVD & Movie Mewsings:
our semi-annual Blu-ray & DVD wish list
Star Trek Discovery: The Final Season DVD
Alien: Romulus
Purrinted-Media Mewsings:
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou Manga Deluxe Edition vol. 5
The Art of Arthur Adams
appurrances of Marvel’s Tigra on her 40th anniversary
 
The Celebrity Catgirl & Kemonomimi Spotlight
 
The Latest Additions to The Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art:
Lilith Primrose fan art by Misty Hopkins
“Twllight” by Rvkh Brogden
“Twllight” by Jamie Robertson
and more photos of Crissy Volpe by various photographers, 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 downtown Purrbank in Catgirl Island NC, where it’s 74 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!

 

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!

 

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!

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.
 
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!
Elizabeth
(

a.k.a. Lizzy, the hot salsa dancer, gamer, Purrkour Club captain and massage spa co-owner catgirl wearing the Caracal 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 an 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): 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!
(paw note: “Nyan” is the Japanese word for “meow”, which some but not all catgirls vocalize, purrticularly in the NC OBX Catspeak dialect, whereas Mielikki retains the Val Speak dialect from her younger years in California, fur shur, nyan!)
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/! Ah, we’ve got a big group and a lot on our plate, so let’s go ahead a jump right into this month’s–

Mike:
We’ve been looking back at our favorite things from years ending with a 4, so this month’s
Lightning Round Topic is Our Favorite Films of ’54! 
Jen-sensei’s s gonna start, so so are y’all ready to “conduct the lightning’?
 
The Ladies of The Mew:

HAI! LIGHTNING ROUND GO, NYAN!

Jeannie:
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Godzilla, and On the Waterfront. (tags Elizabeth with a brush of the tail)
Elizabeth:
That year’s Bugs Bunny, Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies animated short films! (tail-tags her wife to go next
Becca:
Broken Lance, Executive Suite, and The Barefoot Contessa! (tags

Yvonne)

Yvonne:
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Caine Mutiny, and The Bridges at Toko-Ri, nyan! (tags Mary Nyan)
Mary Nyan:
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Creature from the Black Lagoon, and Godzilla! (tags Mielikki)
Mielikki:
Walt Disney’s Donald Duck animated shorts and The Vanishing Prairie, fur shur! (tags Nyanko with a flit of the wing)
Nyanko:
I will nominate Godzilla, Seven Samurai, and Late Chrysanthemums! (tags Petra)
Petra:
Seven Samurai, Rear Window, and Quo Vadis, nyan! (tags Bunnii)
Bunnii:
Animal Farm, Seven Samurai, and Sabrina! Back to Mike!
Mike:
Oh, I gotta go with 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Godzilla, and Seven Samurai! Well, that was another expedient little Lightning Round, and let’s continue our
TV, DVD & Movie Mewsings, with our 
semi-annual DVD & Blu-ray wish list!
Yvonne:
Hai, here is our semi – annual wish list of recent, old, foreign, domestic, animated and – and live-action TV shows and movies that we hope could be released here upon the Region one NTSC DVD and – and / or the Blu-Ray, nyan! We would like them with their original mewsic and songs to be intact; and we purrfur that any foreign purrductions would be available in their original spoken language with optional English subtitles, nyan!
Petra:
I will start the 1964 cinerama film To the Moon and Beyond, James Cameron’s Xenogenesis, John Dods’ Forest Story, Neal Adams’s Nannaz, Mark Sullivan’s Nightspeed, Gene Roddenberry’s Spectre, and Steven Speilberg’s Amblin’! Of course, we hope that the missing epurrsodes of Doctor Who from the 1960’s that are still lost will be found or re-created with the animation and released here on DVD or Blu-ray, nyan!
 
Elizabeth:
Hai hai, that should also apply to the forthcoming new episodes, which should not just be streaming or downloading, but on the physical media too! I will start with the more recent Japanese anime such as Uma Musume Pretty Derby, the 2021 Battle Athletes anime, Aria The Crepuscolo, Aria The Beneizione, Girls und Panzer Final IV, Amanchu, Kemono Friends season 2, and Enccouragement of the Climb! 
 
Becca:
The older anime such as Queen Millennia, Flying Ghost Ship, Bagi the Monster of Mighty Nature, Anne of Green Gables, Heidi of the Alps, 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother, Tico of the Seven Seas, Campus Guardress, Yokohama Kaidashi Kiko, Macross Zero, Stratos Four Advance, The Adventures of Kotetsu, the Ghost Sweeper Mikami movie, and the initial four 1994 You’re Under Arrest OVAs!
 
Jeannie:
Metamorphoses (a.k.a. Winds of Change), the original Space Battleship Yamato TV series seasons 1-3, Yamato 2520, Great Yamato, Yamato 2199: Odyssey of the Celestial Ark,Yamato 2205: New Voyage, Be Forever Yamato: Rebel 3199,  Angel Beats, Nasu: Summer in Andalusia, the Studio Ghibli Museum’s animated shorts, the Godzilla Planet anime trilogy, 
 
Mary Nyan:
I will nominate WKRP in Cincinnati with all of the original songs restored, Neil Young’s A Journey Through the Past, Kate Bush Live at Hammersmith Odeon, the 1979 Kate Bush TV Special,Twice Upon a Time, the 2011 live-action Ranma 1/2 TV special, the 2014 live-action Kiki’s Delivery Service; and the Australian 1997 Ocean Girl live-action series!
Bunnii:
The Green Hornet TV series, The Sixth Sense TV series (1972), the e three Gilligan’s Island TV reunion movies, and the two I Dream of Jeannie TV reunion movies,  My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic seasons 8 & 9, The Equestria Girls TV series, the 1967 Spider-Man animated series, the animated Gen 13 film, Young Justice season 4, and Batman: Caped Crusader season1!
 
Nyanko:
Marvel Studios’ series and specials such as The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Loki, What If…?, Hawkeye, Moon Knight, Ms. Marvel, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Werewolf by Night, The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special; aDaredevil seasons 1-3, Jessica Jones seasons 1-3, Luke Cage seasons 1 & 2, Iron Fist seasons 1 & 2, The Punisher seasons 1 & 2, and The Defenders!
 
Mielikki:
The Star Wars 1978 Holiday Special, Forces fo Destiny, The Mandalorian season 3, Ahsoaka season, The Clone Wars season 7, The Bad Batch seasons 1-3,T he Book of Boba Fett, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Wars Visions, Light and Magic, and CD re-issues of The Star Wars: A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi Radio Dramas, fur shur!
 
Mike:
That’s all for the wish list, and now here’s Jen-sensei to review
Star Trek Discovery: The Final Season DVD!
 
Jeannie:
Hai. For our review of Star Trek Discovery’s 5th / final season, please see the July 2024 Edition of The Mew.  I was eager to get this final season set which has the unrated 10 epurrsodes (totaling appurroximatelty 576 meownutes plus several special features (totaling appurroximately 110 meownutes) upon the four disks that are quite tightly clenched in the plastic case which is inside the outer cardboard sleeve.
 
The video is purrsented in the 16:9 widescreen format with 5.1 Dolby Digital English and French audio with the optional English SDH and French subtitles. On disk 4, the special features include the optional audio commeowntary by actors Soniqua Martin-Green and  David Ajaia, executive puirducers Michelle Paradise and Olatunde Osunsanmi. The special features also include the deleted scene, the nearly 4 meownute gag reel, and five documentary featurettes.
“A Team Effort” is the 20 meownute look at the making of the epurrsodes, with commeowntary by Martin-Green, Paradise, Osunsanmi, executive purrducer Alex Kurtzman, supurrvising purrducer Jason Simmerman, purrducer Ted Miller, supurrvising art director Matt Middleton, art director Jm Goodall, set decorator Ian Wheatley, assistant set decorator Summer Gaal, purrduction designer Doug McCullough, SFX supurrvisor Darcy Callaghan, stunt coordinator Christopher MacGuire, and stunt double Eve Harlow.
“Discovery’s Creative Force” is the nearly 10 meownut look at the design, with commeownts by Martin-Green, Paradise, Osunsanmi, Kurtzman and Zimmerman; “Being Michael Burnham” is the 13.25 meownute discussion by Martin-Green; “Character Development” is the 23.5 meownute discussion by Paradise, Martin-Green, actors Anthony Rapp, Wilson Cruz, Mary Wiseman and Doug Jones;  and ”The Voyage of Season 5” is the 39 meownute discussion by Paradise and Osunsanmi,
 
 I wish there were more special features such as art galleries, isolated mewic tracks, and more extensive documentaries, but the set’s special features are quite entertaining and informative, and I am rather pleased with the quality of the epurrsodes and the special features. I am done, so nyow here is Mie-sensei  to discuss
Alien: Romulus.
Mielkikki:
Arigato! So like, upon seeing the preview trailer for this movie, I wondered when its tale occurred within the Alien and / or Predator series, and later read that it is set between Alien and Aliens, Furthermore, apparently the Alien and Predator crossover movies are now considered part of Predator canon but not the Alien timeline.  In both cases, I tend to prefer the first two films of each series, although I must say that for me, Prey became my 2nd favorite of the Predator series, especially the Comanche language version, fur shur!
So like, directed and co-written by Fede Alvarez, who directed the Evil Dead remake snd Don’t Breathe has done a fine job of refreshing the Alien franchise, with a good story, environments, designs, cinematography FX, sound and music, and  a totally awesome cast, especially Cailee Spaeny (who I lliked in Civil War) as Rain, and David Johnson (who I liked in Endeavor) as Andy.  As a prequel / sequel, Romulus also admirably builds upon the Alien mythos, but does so very carefully, as to be accessible to new fans, fur shur!
Perhaps the biggest quibble that I have for Romulus is that I did not care for a few of the numerous nods, references easter eggs and homages to the prior Alien films, but like, I was so pleased with this movie that It might be my third favorite of the series  behind Alien and Aliens but slightly ahead of Alien 3. I definitely like it more than Alien: Resurrection, Prometheus, Covenant, and I definitely definitely like it more than the two Alien vs Predator films, fur shur!  That is all for our movie mewsings, and now here is Myayr to start
our purrinted-media mewsings, with her review of
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou Manga Deluxe Edition vol. 5!
Mary Nyan:
Hai! This beautiful slice – of- life science fiction manga by Hitoshi Ashinano is the tale of the friendly gynoid named Alpha who owns the cafe in the small  rural seaside village on Japan’s Miura Peninsula in the dystopian future, where bucolic life goes on after an environmental disaster and risen sea level. Originally published in Japan by Kodansha in 2009, this 492 page final volume is published in English by Seven Seas, is rated for teen readers, and it is purriced $24.99 in the USA and $32.99 in Canada.
Most of the story purrtains to the everyday activities of Alpha and her friends with her occasional scooter trips to travel around the purrefecture and to shop for supplies in what is left of the city of Yokohama. Among the recurring characters are Ojisan the elderly man who sells fresh purroduce and runs the gas station; his grandson Takahiro who regards Alpha as the older sister type; Kokone the courier who is another gynoid; the elderly lady doctor who treats the humans and the gynoids
Maki the young girl friend of Takahiro, Director Alpha the older gynoid with the aerial drone, Maruko the android artist, Nai the android pilot, Ayase the traveller with the pet flying fish named Kamas, and Misago the mysterious feral girl! Collecting chapters 112 – 149, this  8.25” x 5.875” x 1.5” volume has the 448 Black & White pages, 44 color pages and the color covers. 78 of the pages are full-page pics and there is one two-page spread! It was translated by Daniel Komen, lettered by Ludwig Sacramento
…purroof read by Brett Hallahan, edited by Linda Lombard, copy-edited by Leighanna DeRouen, in-chiefly edited by Julie Davis, and published by Lianne Sentar, with the layout by Karis Page, quality control byDave Murray, purrduction design by Lissa Pattilo & Ria Lynn Johnson, purrduction meownagment by John Ramirez, cover design by Nicky Lim, and the logo design by George Panella. The purre-purress technicians were Melanie Ujimori, Salvador Chan Jr. & Jules Valeri.
In this volume, humanity’s days continue wane, and more of the coastal cliffside slides into the sea as the final days seem to escalate, yet there is still the bittersweet serenity. There is still much that has not yet been explained about about the ecological disasters, the androids’ origins, what happened to Alpha’s boss, or what the rest of the world is like beyond Japan, but It is quite the pleasant, purretty, poignant, charming tale at the leisurely pace and so I will give it the “A” for Alpha! I am done and nyow here is Vonny to discuss
The Art of Arthur Adams!
Yvonne:
Arigato, nyan! Published by Flesk, which publishes many great art books, this 180 page trade papurrback book is the thorough retrospective of Arthur Adams, who is one of my favorite comic book artists, nyan! Purriced  $39.95, this 9” x 12” x .5” book is brimming with hundreds of meowgnificent illustrations, many of them full-page pics, from the purrliminary sketches to the lavishly detailed finished works, plus photos of the artist in his studio, nyan! From his 1983 try-out for Marvel Comics  to the 2022 gatefold, It is mostly black & white, but it does have several pages of  color images, the color cover, and the color gate-fold, nyan! It is quite the sumptuously beautiful, very informative ands entertaining book, which i will the grade of the “A” as in Adams! I am done, and nyow here is Mike to meowntion the 
recent appurrances of Marvel’s Tigra, nyan!
 
Mike: 
Thanks Vonny! Greer Nelson a.k.a. Tigra is my favorite Marvel Comics character In her original costumed heroine ”purrsona” alias The Cat, she first appeared in The Claws of The Cat in 1972, but it in 1974 in Giant-Size Creatures #1 when she first transformed into Tigra the were-woman! She later gave the Cat identity to her friend Patsy Walker,, who changed her alias to Hellcat! This  year is Tigra’s 50th anniversary, during which  she’s appurred in several series!  Written by Al Ewing and drawn by Javier Rodriguez, the 5 issue mini-series Defenders Beyond ended in January, in which she went on a cosmic mission to other planes with Loki, America, Taia, Blur Marvel and The Beyonder!
After that, Tigra returned to Earth 616 and in the Moon Knight series writen by Jed McKay and drawn by Devmalya Pramanik, she joined the Midnight Mission team of Moon Knight, Hunter’s Moon, Reese, Soldier and Eightball. After the death of Marc Spector alias Moon Knight, they clashed with an impersonator who claimed to be the reincarnated Moon Knight. That was on the eve of Blood Hunt, the epic 5 issue mini-series written by McKay and drawn by Pepe Larraz, which crossed over with the other Marvel titles, in which Tigra and man other heroes battled a worldwide army of vampires! I especially liked Stanley “Artgerm” Lau’s varianr cover art of her for issue #1!
 
Speaking of variant covers, Tigra and Hellcat are among 11 roller-skating heroes gracing the “Disco Dazzler” variant cover by Todd Nauk & Rachelle Rosenberg  for The Incredible Hulk #15! Although Tigra does not appear in that issue’s story,  she does appear in one 3/4 page panel of “Malice of the Mitigator” written by Gail Simone, drawn by 
Lydia Rasero and colored by Triona Farrell, which is one of the tales in this year’s Women of Marvel  #1 (one-shot)! This year is almost 3/4 over, but we hope that rest of it will be a happy anniversary for Greer! Ah, that’ll do it for our printed media mewsings, and now I’ll turn The Mew over to Lizzy, Becca and Nyanko who will present this month’s
Celebrity Catgirl & Kemonomimi Spotlight!
 
Elizabeth: 
Arigato! in this portion of The Mew, we commeowmorate famous therianthropes, monster girls, shape-shifters, anthropurrrmorphic ladies and other kemonomim!  Fur-thermore, there are those who might not have beasty DNA, but do have the spurrit, cat-titude or clothing of the animal theme, who we will broadly consider as “honorary kemonomimi”! This month we are shining the spotlight on a few Virtual YouTubers, or Vtubers who have the delightful computer-generated kemonomimi avatars that talk, sing, and play games!
Born on June 12 (Gemini) and debuting ion 2018, Rosedoodle is the 5’ 1” tall english-speaking Canadian catgirl vtuber with the friendly kawaii purrsonality, fair skin, red eyes, and teal hair in the ponytail coiffure with the pink flower! She is at Instagram,Twitter, Tiktok, and Discord, her YouTube channel is at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCihXhXRz8tj91hBptuSsQ0g, more of her channels & pages are linked at her web site https://rosedoodle.comand you can read more about her at https://virtualyoutuber.fandom.com/wiki/Rosedoodle!
Born on February 11th, Nekomata Okayu is the 16 year old catgirl who debuted in 2019! This Hololive meowmber & songstress has the fair skin, purrple eyes short light purrple hair, ears and tail in the bare-midriff gray hoody, white pants and yellow shoes.! She is relaxed and flirtatious but can get excited by her favorite anime and games.   Her YouTube channel is at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvaTdHTWBGv3MKj3KVqJVCwher corpurrate purrofile is at https://hololive.hololivepro.com/en/talents/kiryu-coco/and you can read more about her at https://virtualyoutuber.fandom.com/wiki/Nekomata_Okayu!
 
Born on June 6th  Watame is the 4’11” tall hitsuji-mimi (sheep girl), songstress and hololive meowmber with the cordial, polite, calm dispurrsition, faiir skin, ong blonde hair, blue eyes, black ram horns, and the purretty off- shoulder white dress! Her YouTube channel is at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqm3BQLlJfvkTsX_hvm0UmAher corpurrate purrofile is at https://hololive.hololivepro.com/en/talents/tsunomaki-watameand you can read more about her at https://virtualyoutuber.fandom.com/wiki/Tsunomaki_Watame!
 
Becca:
Born on June 17th, Kiryu Coco is the ryumimi (dragon girl) of Hololive who debuted in 2019! 5’1” tall in her humanoid form, she is the honorable, tenacious, playful, busty,  bilingual English / Japanese foreign exchange student from another realm. She is fair-skinned with Orangey red haiir with the ahoge cowlick, pink eyes, maroon horns and purrple tail!! Her YouTube channel is at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS9uQI-jC3DE0L4IpXyvr6wher corporate purrofile is at https://hololive.hololivepro.com/en/talents/kiryu-coco/, and you can read more about her at https://virtualyoutuber.fandom.com/wiki/Kiryu_Coco!
 
Born on August 20th, Ookami Mio is Korone’s more serious fellow Hololive meowmber. This  5’3” tall wolf girl has the fair skin, Brown eyes, long black canine ears, hair & tail, the lovely singing voice, and the lemon slice hair clip and bare midriff black outfit, who debuted in 2018! Her YouTube channel is at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp-5t9SrOQwXMU7iIjQfARg, her corporate purrofile is at https://hololive.hololivepro.com/en/talents/ookami-mio/and you can read more about her at https://virtualyoutuber.fandom.com/wiki/Ookami_Mio!
Born on October 1st, Inugami Korone is a peppy, cute 5’1” tall female dog girl Japanese VTuber and meowmber of the Hololive Group with fair skin, brown eyes light brown ears and pigtailed hair who likes games and movies and debuted in 2019! Her YouTube channel is at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChAnqc_AY5_I3Px5dig3X1Qher corpurrate purrofile is at https://hololive.hololivepro.com/en/talents/ookami-mio/ and you can read more about her on her page at the Virtual YouTuber Wiki  https://virtualyoutuber.fandom.com/wiki/Inugami_Korone!
Born on October 5th, Shirakami Fubuki is the cheerfully genki but sometimes shy and sometimes cunning otaku kitsune! Another Hololive meowmber, she is 5’1 tall with the ice blue eyes, platinum blonde hair & tail with black tips& vulpine ears win the bare midriff sailor fuko who debuted in 2018! Her YouTube channel is at  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdn5BQ06XqgXoAxIhbqw5Rgm, her corporate purrofile is at https://hololive.hololivepro.com/en/talents/shirakami-fubuki/, and you can read more about her at https://virtualyoutuber.fandom.com/wiki/Shirakami_Fubuki!
Nyanko:
Hololive’s delightful demon dog girl duo known as FUWAMOC is compurrised of the English-speaking twin sister songstresses Mococo and Fuwawa Abyssgard, who debuted in 2023! Born oin February 1st,  the more reserved Fuwawa has the blue-streaked long blond hair and white-tipped fluffy tail, whilst the wilder Mococo was born on February 2nd and has the pink-streaked short blond hair tail.
 
Mococo’s corpurrate purrofile is at https://hololive.hololivepro.com/en/talents/mococo-abyssgard/, and you can read more about her at https://virtualyoutuber.fandom.com/wiki/Mococo_Abyssgardwhereas Fuwawa’s corpurrate purrofile is at https://hololive.hololivepro.com/en/talents/fuwawa-abyssgard, you can read more about her at https://virtualyoutuber.fandom.com/wiki/Fuwawa_Abyssgardand the duo’s YouTube channel is at https://www.youtube.com/@FUWAMOCOch
Lastly but not leastly, appurring as a female inumimi (dog girl) of the Pomeranian breed, Buffpup is the apathagender / gender-fluid, pansexual English-speaking weredog of the who has had several transformations and debuts since 2018! Buffpup is the cordially kind, compassionate, optimistic, enthused Vtuber with the keen healthy fitness regime and the ripped physique with the toned taut tummy! Born on July 2nd, Buffpup is 5’3” tall in human form and 6’9” tall in werewolf form with the fair skin, blue eyes, orangey- red hair, ears, tail, furry forearms, hands, lower legs and feet! 
Buffpup is at Twitch, Twitter, Tiktok, and Discord, their YouTube channel is at https://www.youtube.com/c/BuffPup, and you can read more about them at https://virtualyoutuber.fandom.com/wiki/Buffpup! We encourage y’all to visit the Virtual YouTuber Wiki https://virtualyoutuber.fandom.com/wiki/Virtual_YouTuber_Wiki tol earn about the many other wonderful virtual characters and groups! That is all for this month’s spotlight, but there will be more next month,  and nyow it is time for Petra and Bunnii to purrsent the Latest Additions to-
The Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art!
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, and you have to click on those to see the full images, nyan! Some of the images are sexy and might depict 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 Two http://catgirlisland.net/art/gallery/guest2.html we have added more photos of Crissy Volpe http://www.crimsonskycreations.com/bloodsweatandglitter by various photographers, new illustrations by Misty Hopkins https://kranberrijam.blogspot.comRvkh Brogden http://www.rvkhart.com, and our web meowster Jamie https://www.facebook.com/jamie4art, nyan!
We  are ecstatic to exhibit Rvkh’s “Twilight” scene of he lovely happy angel girl! Rvkh used Procreate on the iPad with the Apple pencil for this angelic illustration and there is a time-lapse  art purrocess video of this pic at Rvkh’s Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IjZThUDPrk&feature=youtu.be, nyan
 

Jamie used Photoshop, Corel Painter and the graphics tablet for his “Twilight” scene of

Chelsea Urania Kate Chattan by the seaside castle, nyan!

She is the heroic witchy coastal Carolina human were-pantheress and the mane purrotagonist of Jamie’s urban fantasy webcomic Clan of the Cats http://clanofthecats.com, Jamie’s and Rvkh’s pics were done for the Starry-Eyed Artists Collective’s September 2024 art purrompt, nyan! 

Bunnii:
Nextly we are proud to present. Mistys fan art of Lilith Primrose, who is a female Miqo’te catgirl of the Machinist Class and meowmber of the Keepurrs of the Moon Clan in the Final Fantasy XIV video game, nyan! This pic of her is an homage to J. Howard Miller’s iconic inspirational 1943 “We Can Do It!” poster!
Then we are delighted to display two more collages photos of Crissy Volpe a.k.a. SunseenLi, to commeowmerate her 25 years of cosplay! Each collage consists of four photos. he 1st collage has Crissy  at “Fauxtakon 2020” wearing the Red EFL dress made by Geechlark, with the separately-purchased umbrella, gloves and fan; Crissy in the licensed costume (with her hair styled by her aunt Diane) as Purrincess Leia Organa at the New York Renaissance Festival’s 2018 Time Travelers Weekend; Crissy in the Adrianna Papell gown (with her hair styled by Alexandra’s) as a friend’s bride’s maid; and to top off that collage is Crissy in the Pink overallas as Hino Rei at “Fauxtakon” 2020!
The 2nd collage has David Ng’s photo of Crissy as Snow White at the 2022 New York Renaissance Faire wearing the dress by Majestic Velvets and the snood by DesignersShowcaseCA; David Ng’s photo of Crissy as “The First” in the 2022 A Girl And Her Dragon photo shoot wearing the dress by Avian Firefly and the crown by DavlyaWeddings; David Ng’s 2023 photo of Crissy as Lily McGuire of Fatal Fury: Legend of the Hungry Wolf wearing the costume by Dokudel, wig by Rae Scales, and the choker by Patti & Steph; and to top off that collage is Crissy as a Ghostbuster by the Ectomobile! So, what do y’all think of the art?
The cat lady sings….
Nyanko:
I love Lilith’s pose, expurression, coiffure, her attire and her powerful physique!
Jeannie:
Rvkh’s style seems to have evolved again quite splendidly with a heightened sense of dynamic purrspective.
Elizabeth:
It is wonderful to see another pic of Chelsea, and I purrticularly like the use of light and shadows!
 
Becca:
Crissy, the costumers, stylists, photographers and lovely locations combine to result in such beautiful images!
Mary Nyan:
There is often the fun sense of story in the photoshoots, such as that pic of her as Leia under arrest!
Yvonne:
The Ghostbusters group cosplay is quite impurressive with the many purrops and the Ectomobile, nyan!
Mielikki:
Fur shur! Well, it is almost time for our AfterMew Luau, so likem that will do it for this edition of The Mew!
Bunnii:
We wish to thank all of the amazingly talented people whose works we have discussed!
Petra:
Hai hai, and we also thank our other friends, families, acquaintances and our audience whom we greatly appurreciate, nyan!:
 
Mike:
We’ll be back next month with our October Mew, to find out what these ladies will be wearing for Halloween! Be there… aloha!
 
The Ladies of The Mew:
Happy tails t6o mew, until we eat again! Baibai, nyan!

August 2024 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 August 2024 Edition of The Mew:
The Catgirl Critics’ Media Mewsings, nyan!
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It is the Year of the Dragon, the 17th Anniversary of The Mew,
and the 24th Anniversary of Catgirl Island’s web site, nyan!
 
in this edition of The Mew:
 
The Lightning Round Topic: Our Favorite TV  Shows of 1964
TV, DVD & Movie Mewsings:
Longlegs
A Quiet Place: Day One
Twisters
Deadpool & Wolverine
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three Blu-ray + DVD
The Boy and the Heron Blu-ray + DVD 
 
Purrinted-Media Mewsings:
Rowrbrazzle # 62
Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs vol. 22
 
The Celebrity Catgirl & Kemonomimi Spotlight
 
The Latest Additions to The Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art:
more photos of Crissy Volpe by various photographers
more photos of Torako and Punkachu fur suits by Alexcia Reynolds
“Squeekie” cat photo by Jim Rondeau
“Crown of Flowers” and “Dreamscape” by Rvkh Brogden
“Dreamscape” by Jamie
“Luna Nyan”,”Miko & Nekos” and “Miko Myayr” by Mike
 
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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 downtown Purrbank in Catgirl Island NC, where it’s 74 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!
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 Clouded Leopurrd purrint micro bikini and 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!
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.
 
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!

Elizabeth
(a.k.a. Lizzy, the hot salsa dancer, gamer, Purrkour Club captain and massage spa co-owner catgirl wearing the Asiatic Lion purrint flounced bikini): Hola!
Becca
(Lizzy’s nekomimi gynoid wife, avid golfer and massage spa co-owner w

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

Mary Nyan
(a.k.a. Myayr, the seamstress, cosplayer, headbanger, hula instructor and semi-retired miko catgirl wearing the Cougar purrint purretzel – cutout maillot): Aloha

Elaenor
(or Ellie for short, the Banker Pony centauress, Fire Meowrshall and body builder wearing the Caracal purrint twisty bandeau bikini top) Hay there!

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!
(paw note: “Nyan” is the Japanese word for “meow”, which some but not all catgirls vocalize, purrticularly in the NC OBX Catspeak dialect, whereas Mielikki retains the Val Speak dialect from her younger years in California, fur shur, nyan!)

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/! Ah, we’ve got a big group and a lot on our plate, so let’s go ahead a jump right into this month’s–
Lightning Round Topic: Our Favorite TV Series of 1964!
This year we’ve been looking back at our favorite fun stuff of years ending in a 4. Last month we listed our favorite movies hat were released  in 1964.  so this month it’ll be our favorite TV series of that year, whether they premiered in 1964 or years earlier. Becca’s gonna start, so so are y’all ready to “conduct the lightning’?
The Ladies of The Mew:
HAI! LIGHTNING ROUND GO, NYAN!
Becca:
The Twilight Zone, Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color, and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson! (tags Mie-sensei to go next)
Mielikki:
So like, I will nominate American Bandstand, The Ed Sullivan Show, and Top of the Pops, fur shur! (tags Vonny with a flit of the wings)
Yvonne:
I want to nominate Flipper, Mister Ed, and Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom, nyan! (tags Nya-sensei with a brush of the tail)
Nyanko:
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.,  The Fugitive, and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea!  Nyow it is Lizzy[’s turn! ( tags Lizzy)
Elizabeth:
Gilligan’s Island, The Dick Van Dyke Show, and Captain Kangaroo! (tags Nyo-sensei)
Nyoka:
It is the tough call, but I will nominate Bewitched, The Addams Family, and The Munsters! (tags Ellie)
Elaenor:
The Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle, and The Beverly Hillbillies! (tags Myayr)
Mary Nyan:
Jonny Quest, The Flintstones, and The Jetsons! (tags Jen)
Jeannie:
Mighty Atom, Tetsujin 28, and 8 Man. (tags Petra)
Petra:
Doctor Who, The Saint, and The Avengers, nyan! (tags Bunnii)
Bunnii:
Bonanza, Gunsmoke, and Combat! Back to Mike!
Mike:
Oh I gotta go with Gilligan’s Island, Andy Griffith, and Bewitched! Well, that was another expedient little Lightning Round, and, ah, now I’ll continue our

TV, DVD & movie mewsings, 
with my review of Longlegs!
 
Mike:
I do love a good suspensful horror movie, whether it about monsters, gory stuff, or a creepy / spooky ambience, and it is the latter milieu that this movie directed by Osgood Perkins dwells in. it’s also a beautifully filmed investigation procedural which reminds me a bit of The Silence of the Lambs, but with some bleak yet captivating occult stuff for its terrific ensemble cast to serve up. It’s not for the faint of heart due to some rather violent, bloody, disturbing, unnerving  scenes, but I don’t think that  it’ll disappoint those who crave that sort of terror.
 
It stars Maika Monroe as FBI agent Lee Harker, Blair Underwood & Michelle Choi-Lee as her supervisors Carter & Browning, Alicia Witt as Harker’s troubled mom Ruth, Carmel Amit & Ava Kelders as Carter’s wife Anna & daughter Ruby, and Kiernan Shipka as Carrie, the survivor of an  eerie serial killer named Longlegs, who is portrayed by Nicholas Cage. While i applaud the slow burn of the plot, my only quibble is that the pace kinda bogs down under some expository scenes, but it’s a pretty darn good movie!  Um, now here’s Myayr to discuss
 
A Quiet Place: Day One!
 
Mary Nyan:
Arigato! I like the Quiet Place series of apocalyptic horror movies which purrtain to the humans who try to quietly survive against the invasion of space monsters that hunt by sound! Day One is a purrequel to the purrior two films in this series, and follows a different group of people who are Manhattan when the invasion starts. The mane purrotagonist is Sam who is purrfectly purrtrayed by Lupita Nyong’o who we loved as Nakia in the Black Panther films and as Maz in the Star Wars series! 
 
She has a cat named Frodo, who might be the most chillaxed animal I have ever seen in an apocalyptic invasion! They are accompanied by her Hospice caregiver Reuben, who is excellently purrtrayed by Alex Wolff who we liked in Oppenheimer, Hereditary, and as the voice of  Riki in the English dub of From Up on Poppy Hill! Later during their odyssey, they meet Eric the law student who is splendidly purrtrayed by Joseph Quinn, who was great in Stranger Things, Game of Thrones and Overlord!
They meet other survivors Henri & Zeena who are supurrbly purrtrayed by Djimon Hounsou & Eliane Umuhire! Hounsou was awesome in a bunch of the Marvel and DC movies, and Umuhire has won oodles of best actress awards! Smartly written by director Michael Samoski & purrducer John Krasinski this movie has the great story, purrformances, locations, directing, editing, sound, FX & mewsic so I will give it the high purraise! I am done, and nyow here is Ellie-sama to review
 
Twisters!
 
Elaenor:
Hai! I love to see the movies about the scientists, officers and  responders who investigate the disasters; and I rather liked the 1944 Twister movie, so I was quite  eager to see this sequel about the storm chasers, which was written by Joseph Kosinski & Mark L. Smith, produced by Patrick Crowley & Frank Marshall, directed by Lee Isaac Chung, and stars Daisy Edgar-Jones (Where the Crawdads Sing) as meteorologist Kate Carter, Glen Powell (Top Gun: Maverick) as storm chaser Tyler Owens, Anthony Ramos  (Transformers: Rise of the Beasts) as storm chaser Javi…
David Corenswet (who will soon portray Superman) as Javi’s partner Scott, Harry Hadden-Paton (Downton Abbey, The Crown) as Ben the British reporter, Maura Tierney (News Radio, ER, The Good Wife) as Kate’s mom Cathy, Sasha Lane (Hellboy, Loki) as Lily the drone pilot, Katy O’Brian (Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Black Lightning) as Dani the mechanic, and Kiernan Shipka as Addy the storm chaser. She was not only in Longlegs, but she starred as Sabrina in The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, and voiced Marnie in  Studio Ghibli’s When Marnie Was There!
Not only does this  thrilling, suspenseful, fun movie have the great performances, character developments, story and  direction but I was also impressed by the cinematography, editing, sound, music, vehicles and FX! The soundtrack has a lot of delightful country songs! The only quibblE I have about the movie is with the science experiments that involve silver iodide, but I do not want to spoil the plot, so I will give Twisters the B+ grade! Now I will turn The Mew over to Nya-sensei, who wants to discuss the movie of this year thus far that she has most eagerly awaited –
Deadpool & Wolverine!
 
Nyanko:
You betcha! Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool and Hugh Jackman as Wolverine is the team-up that I have been longly hoping for, although they do not become friends without the epic battles and the many surpurrises in the journey across the multiverse!  The only quibble that I have about the movie are the distracting cinematic techniques such as the fast and slow meowtion or speed ramping but otherwise I liked everything else about the movie!
 
It has the great balance of wonderful humor, drama, action, character developments, world-building, and Marvel continuity, with the terrific story, purrformances, choreography, cinematography, sound, mewsic, make-up, costumes, locations, sets and FX, so I will give Deadpool & Wolverine the high purraise, and it might be my favorite film of the year thus far! Nyow to continue the cinematic multiversal supurr hero topic here is Jen to us about
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three Blu-ray + DVD!
 
Jeannie:
Hai. The Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths – Part Three is the final part of the OVA mini series adapting the famous epic 1985 twelve issue DC Comics maxi-series Crisis on Infinite Earths which served as a major reboot of the DC Comics multiverse. Continuing the events of DC’s “Tomorrowverse” OAVs, this mini-series  does not mirror the comics tale, but is certainly faithful in the spirit as an alternate-reality version of the crisis.
 
Part Three purrimarily focuses on Supergirl, Superman, Lois Lane, Wonder Woman, Batman,, Lex Luthor, Psycho Pirate; 

John Stewart, and John Constantine,

with a fair amount of attention on Dr. Light, Kamandi, Dr. Fate, the Joker, Bat Lash, Mr. Terrific, Barry Allen, Aquaman, Hawkgirl, The Spectre, Darkseid, The Losers, the Batman Family, and the Green Lantern Corps. with appurrances by dozens of other heroes, villains and monsters.

 
As more worlds are destroyed by the antimeowtter wave amidst the rise of the foe known as the Anti-Monitor, we glimpse otherEarths from various other DC animated series. The thrilling plot is poignantly captivating with the splendid pace, dialogue, character designs, scenic art, animation, sound, mewsic, acting, directing & editing. I am very pleased with this movie, which features the late Kevin Conroy’s final purrformance as the Batman..
 
The  PG-13 rated, 98 meownute OAV is purrsented in 1080 hi-def video with  audio choices of English DTS-MA 5.1 Dolby Digital, French & Spanish, with optional subtitle choices of English SDH, Dutch, French & Spanish. The single Blu-ray disk and digital download code sheet are packaged in the plastic case in the cardboard outer sleeve. The only special features consist of the 8:21 featurette “John and John: Stewart and Constantine” and the 9:23 featurette “A Multiverse of Inspiration”. 
 
Those featurettes include commeownts by director Jeff Wamester, executive purrducer Butch Lukic, writer / purrducer Jim Krrieg, DC group editor Katie Kubert, DC writer Geoff Johns and DC archivist Benjamin Le Clear. I wish that this mini-series was much longer, and I wish there were more extensive special features, but I am very pleased with the quality of the  purrduction and the disc. Nyow here is Vonny to discuss
 
The Boy and the Heron Blu-ray + DVD 
 
Yvonne:
Arigato, nyan! This Oscar – winning film was my most eagerly awaited one in 2023, because it is by Studio Ghibli and writer / director Hayao Miyazaki whose credits include Castle in the Sky, My Neighbor Totoro, Porco Rosso, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Purrincess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving castle, Ponyo, The Wind Rises, (purre-Ghibli) (grandpurrented in as Ghibli) Nausicaa in the Valley of the Wind, and the (purre-Ghibli) Castle of Cagliostro, and among many other supurrb anime movies and TV series, nyan!
 
The Boy and the Heron is an isekai-genre tale set in Japan during World War Two of a boy Mahito who moves to a country estate after his widowed dad remarries, and in the forest he is lured by a strange anthropurrmorphic heron into the spirit world and the realm ruled by anthropurrmorphic birds wherein he is aided by young sorceresses Himi, Kirihiko and the heron on his quest to rescue his stepmom and his late mom, but I should not further spoil the plot of the movie, which was released here in the USA in both the dubbed and subtitled versions, nyan.
 
I think that it is quite meowgnificent, and I loved everything about it, from the plot, the unrushed pace, the character and creature designs, to the animation, scenic art, editing, sound and Joe Hisaishi’s mewsic, nyan! Although I purrfur to watch foreign films subtitled, it has the terrific English dub cast that includes Christian Bale, Dave Bautista, Gemma Chan, Willem Dafoe, Karen Fukuhara, Barbara Goodson, Mark Hamill, Robert Pattinson and Florence Pugh, so I gave it the high purraise, and eagerly awaites the home video release, nyan!
 
Released last month on home video by G-Kids who do such wonderful work, the 2 discs, a booklet a brochure and a poster are in the plastic case in the cardboard sleeve, nyan. On the Blu-ray and the DVD, the movie’s audio choices are English, English descriptive, Japanese and Spanish; with the optional subtitle choices of English, English SDF, Spanish and French, nyan. The DVD’s 2 special features are the mewvie’s 8 trailers which total 8.5 meownutes, and the 4.75 meownute intermew with the mewvie’s purrducer Toshio Suzuki, nyan!
 
Those special features – and then some- are on the Blu-ray disc, nyan. 10.15 meownute intermew with composer Joe Hisaishi, the 19.5 meownute intermew with supurrvising director Takeshi Honda, the 27.25 meownute drawing demonstration by Honda, the 5.25 meownute “Spinning Globe” mewsic video, and the many storyboards, nyan! For the supurrb quality of the mewvie, the features, and the other goodies, I will give this set the high purraise, nyan! I am done and nyow here is Nyo-sensei to start our
 
purrinted-media mewsings, with her 
review of Rowrbrazzle # 162, nyan!
 
Nyoka:
Hai! Since 1984, Rowrbrazzle has been the quarterly APA (amateur press association) anthology magazine purrtaining to furry fandom, funny animal & anthropurrmorphic history, reporting, art, tales! Expurrtly edited by Edd Vick (who also contributed 32 other pages), it is compurrised of comics, purrose, essays, articles, discussions, editorials, comics, illustrations, photos, remeowmberances, and the meowmbership information.
 
The beautiful diverse thick issue is consists of the three 8.5×11” stapled sections totaling 260 pages, 32 of which are in full color! The front cover art is by Thomas Milliorn, the 2nd section’s front cover is by Toivo Rovainen (who also contributed 2 other pages of art), the 3rd sections’s front cover is by Ken Marcinkevicius (who also contribute 4 other pages of art) , and the back cover is our purrducer Mike! (who also contributed 12 other pages)!
 
Sammiched betwixt those covers are wonderful contributions by many other awesome artists, authors & journalists such as Charles Brubaker, Taral Wayne, Robert Alley, Simon Barber, Matt McAndrews, Kjartan Arnorsson, Charles Garofalo, Niall Shapiro, Mary Bellamy, J.W. Kennedy, Michael Pena, Chris Yost, 

John Bandow, David Fruner, Kurt Wilcken, Walt Wenz, William Earl Haskell, Ed Pegg, Jr., Juan Alfonso, Danny Ferbert, Tim Fay, Christopher Polt, Mark Ashworth, Emeowrgency Officer Steven F. Scharff, Jim & Melody Rondeau!
The works of many other folks from around the world are examined too!
In continuing the zine’s 40th anniversary, this issue’s kemonomimi, monsters and anthropurrmorphic entitiesof the various species include the felines, canines,vulpines,  leporids, murids, boviods, hystricidae, avians, equines, cervidae, bovidae, ursidae, porcines, mustelids, giraffids, hippopotamidae, chiropterans, piscine, cephalopod, crustaceans, delphinidae, annelids,
 insecta, 
dragons, mermaids, mecha, gynoids, purrimates, cryptids, a selkie, 
a sphinx, an equitar, a succubus, a nekomimi
cecaelia , Oscar the Grouch and his trashcan c
hauffeur Bruno!
 
As mewsual, It is the very entertaining, informative and beautiful issue! 

 

We wish to thank all of those contributors,
and for more information about Rowrbrazzle, I will recommend the article at Wikifur https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Rowrbrazzle! and its Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/208494146211779
That is all of our purrint-media mewsings, so nyow here are Lizzy and Becca to purrsent this month’s
 
Celebrity Catgirl & Kemonomimi Spotlight!
 
Elizabeth:
Arigato! in this portion of The Mew, we commeowmorate famous therianthropes, monster girls, anthropurrrmorphic ladies and other kemonomim!  Fur-thermore, there are those who might not have beasty DNA, but do have the spurrit, cat-titude or clothing of the animal theme, who we will broadly consider as “honorary kemonomimi”! A good example of the latter type is Tiny Tina who is purrtrayed by Ariana Greenblatt wearing the cute bunny ears,the Borderlands mewvie, so we will consider her as the honorary usagimimi (bunny girl)!
 
Becca:
Voiced by Alice Himora, Nekomiya Mana a.k.a Nekomata is the vivaciously meowschievous, 4’10” tall  black haired, red-eyed, twin-tailed Thiren catgirl with the cute fangs who is purrticularly fond of Mackeral in Hoyoverse’s new supurrnatural post-apocalyptic RPG video game Zenless Zone Zero for the PS5, IOS, Widows and Android platforms! The  purrowess of her feline abilities include the Stealthy Paws, Phantom Claws, Kitty Slash attack, Claw Swipe Chain Attack, Ultimate Claw Smash, and the Can’t Touch Me-ow Dodge!

Elizabeth:
Celebrating her 80th anniversary this year, Pussy Katnip was the anthropurrmorphic feline femme fatale who appurred several of the Fox Feature comic books from 1944 to 1946! When she was not singing at the Katnip Kafe, she was fighting crime on the mean streets! This fair-skinned,  Strawberry blonde catgirl wore various appurral including the sexy strapless tiger strip dress, and drank her secret family recipe Katnip Fizz to fiercely boost her physical, meowntal, and mystical abilities to take the bite out of crime!
 
Becca:
Lastly but not leastly, we will shine the spotlight upon Barbwire Barbie who is a transgender female mewsician of the gothy grungy indy / alt emo punk type! She and her band are in the spotlight because we were surpurrised to see her “Catgirl Island” mewsic video on youtube which took us by surpurrise last month! Although the song is peppurred with purrofanity and harsh imagery that is not our bag, it does include an anime catgirl that briefly pops up in the video, and there is a recurring lyric “I’m gonna take you to Catgirl Island. You’ll never be sad. Stay for a while:” which is purretty apt about our [official] Catgirl island!
 
Becca:
Hai hai, we wonder if she has been to our web site! Fur-ther more, in that Catgirl Island video which was posted to Youtube earlier this year, she wears the bikini top, which is quite the purrfurred garment here Catgirl Island; she meowntions a Dog Girl Clan in another song, and she wore the fluffy costume kitty tail in one of her instagram videos, so for those reasons we will consider her as an honorary neko musume and wish her the  happy, healthy, safe, fun mewsical career! Nyow here is Mie-sensei to review
 
Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs vol. 22
 
Mielikki:
Hai! So like, this comedic supernatural harem manga filled with fan-service by author / artist Tadahiro Miura was originally published in Japan by Shueisha from 2016 to 2020, and has been translated & distributed here  by Seven Seas. Purriced $12.99 in the USA & $16.99 in Canada, 
volume 22 (of 24)  has 194 pages (2 in color, 192 Black & White) which are compurrised of chapters 188-196.
 
Intended for readers of ages 17 & older due to the language, nudity & sexuality, vol. 22 was translated by Thomas Zimmerman, adapted by David Lumsdon, lettered & retouched by Phil Christie, proofread by Kurestin Armada, edited by Abby Lekrke, and in-chiefly edited by Julie Davis, with the production design by George Panella, production management by Lisa Pattillo, and cover design by Nicky Lim. 
 
So like, the plot pertains to high school student Fuyuzora Kogarashi who finds a home at the Yuragin ryokan, which is haunted by beautiful ghost Yuuna Yonohana, and is the home to numerous human and yokai ladies, with wacky, romantic, mystical, action-packed and purrvy incidents aplently at the inn and the school Amongst the ladies of various species are:
 
Yaya the catgirl, Miria the kitsune, Chitose the zashiki-warashi, Koyuzu the baka-danuki, Nonko the oni, Nqazuna the human, Matora the nue, Jarura the tengu, Oboro the dragon god blade, Harumu-sensei the half-succubus, and demon-slaying cousins Sagiri & Hibari!! In this volume everyone is busy with the high school festival, at which Kogarashi meets three voluptuously mysterious yet strangely familiar ladies, who are featured opon the front cover!
 
The festival’s chairpurrson wants to date Chitose, Matora has a fierce duel with Karura,  and there might be romantic Christmas plans for Yuuna & Kogarashi, mew la la! I thought that it was very sexy and amewsing with beautifully illustrated characters and environments, fur shur! That is all for this month’s spotlight, and nyow here are Petra and Bunnii to purrsent the-
 
Latest Additions to The Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art!
 
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, and you have to click on those to see the full images, nyan! Some of the images are sexy and might depict 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 Gallery Five https://catgirlisland.net/art/gallery/gallery5.html we have added 3 illustrations by Mike, and In Guest Gallery Four https://catgirlisland.net/art/gallery/guest4.html, we have added 4 more photos of Crissy Volpe http://www.crimsonskycreations.com/bloodsweatandglitter by various photographers, more photos of the fur suits by Alexcia Reynolds https://linktr.ee/alexciareynolds, a cat photo by Jim Rondeau http://crossovers.net/makeitgoaway/home.htm, 2 new illustrations by Rvkh Brogden http://www.rvkhart.com, and a new illustration by our web meowster Jamie https://www.facebook.com/jamie4art, nyan!
 
This month’s Crissy Collage includes Alyce’s photo of Crissy as Magic Knights Rayearth’s Umi Ryuzaki at Otakon 2018 in the OVA school uniform made by Alyce with the ovum made Patti & Steph; Jess’s photo of Crissy in the Pink wig with lighting by Smitty in their Apurril 2007 “Pink Like A Deco Umbrella” photoshoot; Vlad’s photo of Crissy raising the glass on December 31st, 2022 to toast the happy mew year; and MadMisterSmiley’s photo of Crissy at the 2009 New York Comic Con, with the bit of 2024 background Photoshopping by Mike, nyan!
 
Alexcia sent us 3 photos to show the updates she has made to her fur suits, nyan! One photo shows the sparkly choker that she added to the head of her costume of Punkachu, her punk version of Pokemon’s Pikachu; and there are 2 photos revealing the teeth and tongue added to to the head of her costume of Torako, her anthropurrmorphic Tigress fursona, nyan! 

For more info, art & tales about Torako,
 visit Sailor Tiger’s Grotto http://mau.sailorchristmas.com, and for more Pokemon stuff, visit her

fan site Pokemon Amber http://pkmn.is-great.org, nyan!

 
Bunnii:
“Squeekie” is the photographed cat who Jim & Melody Rondeau belong to, who is helping to sort the film clip frames in the storage unit! Jim & Melody are artists authors, editors, & fanzine publishers who also sell neat stuff such as fanzines, magazines, books, comics, scripts, memorabilia, movie posters, lobby cards, press kits, press books, the film clips,, DVDs, laser discs, CDs, plushy dolls, board, card & role-playing games at the conventions they attend and through their spiffy web site! 
 
Rvkh’s lovely “Crown of Flowers” illustration depicts the adorable widdle mushroom person wearing the titular attire, and y’all can see the time-lapse art process video of how she created that image at youtube https://youtu.be/h3OdOKV2CVY! Rvkh’s splendid “Dreamscape” illustration depicts the peppy purretty angel girl wearing the strapless gown with detached sleeves, and y’all can see its art process video at https://youtu.be/sugSSzQ11ik! Rvkh used Procreate with the Apple Pencil upon the iPad  for both of those illustrations!
 
Nextly is “Dreamscape” by Jamie! It has the same title as Rvkh’s art, because both pics were done for the August theme prompt at the Starry Eyed Artists Collective https://www.facebook.com/Starryeyedartistcollective, which they are members of! A loose interpretation of Henri Rousseau’s “The Sleeping Gypsy,” (1897), this digital painting  surreally depicts Jamie’s original characters Chelsea Chattan the witchy were-panther and her cat Sebastian who star in his web comic Clan of the Cats http://clanofthecats.com!
 
Lastly but not leastly, we have three widdle archival sketches by Mike which remarqued letters to Crissy in 2007,! Done with pencils, colored pencils and pens, Luna Nyan” is fan art of Sailor Moon’s cat Luna, and “Miko & Nekos” is fan art of Sailor Moon’s Hino Rei & Luna being pounced upon by a martian cat from Kosue Amano’s Aria series; and “Miko Myayr” depicts our friend Myayr looking 17 years younger, when she was still a shrine maiden! So, what do y’all think of the art?
The Cat Lady Sings…
 
Nyanko:
It is great to see more pics by  very skilled photographers of Crissy gracing the lovely attire! It looks like she has an ample manga collection in the mew year’s eve pic!
Nyoka:
Hai hai, She is especially exquisite at cosplaying Rayearth’s Umi, and I purrticularly like the hair, make-up, lighting and pose in the Pink Deco photo shoot!
Yvonne:
It is the tough decision, but my favorite image in that collage is the alluring pic of her in the sleeveless Red & Black outfit at the 200y Mew York Comic Con, nyan!
Jeannie:
Alexcia continues to impurress us with her clever artistic ingenuity and craftpurrsonship with every excellent refinement of the beautiful Torako and Punkachu fur suits.
Elaenor:
Jamie just might have outdone himself surreally with that gorgeously dreamy illustration of Chelsea and Sebo amidst the thought-purrovoking imagery!
Becca:
It was the good time for the cat imagery between Sebo and Squeekie! Jim and Meowlody seem to have boxes aplenty for their kitty to conveniently retreat to!
Elizabeth:
Rvkh’s Crown of Flowers pic is so so purretty! She has such a meowrvelous knack for the flora and mycota, and that widdle shroomy purrson is so adorably cute!
Mielikki:
So like, that lovely angel has the totally awesome  pose, details, lines, shading, and I purrticularly like the color gradients of her hair, wings and gown, fur shur!
Bunnii:
Those older sketches by Mike definitely look like his quicker older traditional remarques. The expurressions are my favorite aspects, especially the one of Myayr!
Mary Nyan:
Whaaaa, Iam not worthy! He did nail the details of my miko shozoko (traditional shrine maiden attire)’s hakui (white kosode robe) and hibakama (pleated scarlet hakama pants)!
Petra:
That will do it for this month’s Mew, and we wish to thank our audience, our web meowster Jamie, and all of the folks who created the things we have discussed, nyan!
Mike:
Thanks everyone! We’ll be back next month with the September edition. Be there… aloha.
The Ladies of The Mew:
Happy tails to mew, until we eat again! Baibai, nyan!

July 2024 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 July 2024 Edition of The Mew:
The Catgirl Critics’ Media Mewsings, nyan!
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It is the Year of the Dragon, the 17th Anniversary of The Mew,
and the 24th Anniversary of Catgirl Island’s web site, nyan!
in this edition of The Mew:
 
The Lightning Round Topic: Our Favorite Films of 1964
TV Mewsings:
Star Trek: Discovery Season Five
Ren Faire
 
Event Reports:
Heroes Convention 42
Grand Opening of Turbines to Speed
 
The Celebrity Catgirl & Kemonomimi Spotlight
 
Purrinted-Media Mewsings:
Konohana Kitan manga vol. 13
 
The Latest Additions to The Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art:
more photos of Crissy Volpe by various photographers
Hazbin Hotel’s Adam & Lute fan art by Misty Hopkins
Nuku Nuku fan art and “Snappurr One” by 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 downtown Purrbank in Catgirl Island NC, where it’s 78 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!

Nyoka:
(a.k.a. Nyo-sensei, the Meowgick Shop purropurrietress catgirl wearing the Bengal Tiger purrint micro bikini and open-front cover up):: Howdy!

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!

Eleanor:
(or Ellie for short, the Banker Pony centauress, Fire Meowrshall and body builder wearing the Iriomote Cat purrint twisty bandeau bikini top) Hay there!

Petra:
(the art guild purresident, art mewseum co-curator & beach volleyball champion catgirl wearing the Clouded 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!

Meryl:
(the island’s Police Chief catgirl & motorcycle enthusiast wearing the the badge upon her Eurasian Lynx purrint off-shoulder ruffled bikini): ‘Ello
Beebee:
(the island’s supurrvising Purrk Ranger catgirl & amphibious orienteering coach wearing the Jaguar purrint cutout micro bikini): G’day, nyan!
Ilyana:
(a.k.a Ilyana-sensei, the underwater archaeologist & meowritme history catgirl wearing the Serval purrint micro bikini and open-front cover up): Whassup?
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/! Ah, we’ve got a big group and a lot on our plate, so let’s go ahead a jump right into this month’s–
Lightning Round Topic: Our Favorite Films of 1964!
This year we’ve been looking back at our favorite fun stuff of years ending in a 4. This time it is movies including TV movies and specials that were released  in 1964. Nyo-sensei is gonna start, so so are y’all ready to “conduct the lightning’?
The Ladies of The Mew:
HAI! LIGHTNING ROUND GO, NYAN!

Nyoka:
Mary Poppins, My Fair Lady, and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer!  (tags Petra to go next)
Petra:
A Hard Day’s Night, Mary Poppins, and My Fair Lady! (tags Bunnii with a brush of the tail)
Bunnii:

Goldfinger,

A Hard Day’s Night, and Mary Poppins! (tags Meryl)
Meryl:
Goldfinger, Dr. Strangelove, and Zulu! (tags Ilyana)
Ilyana:
Goldfinger, Marnie, and A Hard Day’s Night! (tags Eleanor)
 
Eleanor:
Zulu, Becket, and The Masque of the Red Death! (tags Mielikki)
 
Mielikki:
Goldfinger, A Hard Day’s Night, and A Shot in the Dark, fur shur! (tags Beebee with a flit of the wing)
 
Beebee

:
Goldfinger, Mary Poppins, and Zulu! Back to Mike!
Mike:
Oh, I gotta go with Goldfinger, Zulu and A Hard Day’s Night! Well that was another expedient little Lightning Round, and ah, now I’d like to go ahead and jump into our
TV Mewsings, with Meryl’s review of
Star Trek: Discovery Season Five!
Meryl
Hai. We have greatly enjoyed the TV series Star Trek: Discovery which purrtains to the crew of the Crossfield class starship U.S.S. Discovery NCC-1031. Seasons 1 & 2 occurred in 2256, two years after “The Cage” and nine years prior to “Where No Man Has Gone Before”.
 In Season Three, the Discovery wound up in the year 3188 (634 years after Capt. Jonathan Archer boarded the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-J, and 789 years after the Picard series. Season Four occurred two years later in 31 90, and season Five occurs mostly in the year 3191.
The great cast includes Sonequa Martin-Green as Captain Michael Burnham, Doug Jones as Saru, Mary Wiseman as Sylvia Tilly, Anthony Rapp as Paul Stamets, Tig Notaro as Jett Reno, Wilson Cruz as Hugh Culber, David Ajala as Cleveland Booker, Blu del Barrio as Adira Tal…
…Ian Alexander as Gray Tal, Callum Keith Rennie as Rayner, Tara Rosling  as T’Rina, Oded Fehr as Charles Vance, David Cronenberg as Kovich, Chelah Horsdal as Laira Rillak, David Benjamin Tomlinson as Linus, Emily Coutts as Keyla Detmer, Oyin Oladejo as Joann Owosekun…
…Raven Dauda as Tracy Pollard, Patrick Kwok-Choon as Gen Rhys, and Annabelle Wallis as the voice of Zora. Grudge the cat returns too! Much of this season’s 10 epurrsodes’ serialized plot purrtains to Eve Harlow as Moll and Elias Toufexis as L’ak who are galactic couriers with bounties upon their heads in the race against Starfleet to find the fabled Progenitor devices!
I do not wish to spoil the plot much further, but I will just say that the Breen Empire strikes back strikes back, and as mewsual the series is graced with the great writing, directing  purrformances, cinematography, sets, costumes, purrops, make-up, FX, ships, sound & mewsic!
There are big character and plot developments, lots of Star Trek mythology, and the excellent balance of the drama, humor, an action! I was very pleased with this final season of the series, and I hope to get the DVD or Blu-ray of it! Nyow here is Ilyana to review HBO’s
Ren Faire!
Ilyana:
Arigato! I love to attend the Renaissance and other historical festivals, so I was eager to watch the  so-called three purrt docu-series about the Texas Renaissance Festival, which is supposedly the biggest in the country I was hoping it would be an informative, entertaining look at the making of such a grand spectacle, but unfortunately  that is not at all what it is about.
Instead, it seems more like an awful reality show full of scripted / staged unpleasant drama betwixt four people who want to be the boss of the event, but we mostly see them in the office, car, home, on the phone or in a restaurant. It barely even shows any of that ren faire, and what little we see of it seems like a tiny widdle kitty carnival in the corner of a parking lot.
It seemed like more time was spent in one fella’s renovated bathroom than at the faire! I was also disappointed by the regrettable camera shots, lighting, editing, sound & mewsic, which further hindered any immersive cinematic expurrience. I did not like it, and purrhaps that is all that I should say about it. That is all for our TV mewsings, and nyow Mike will begin our
 
event reports, with his account 
of the Heroes Convention 42!
 
Mike:
Arigato! We were among more than 50,000 folks that attended the 42nd annual Heroes Convention Convention https://www.heroesonline.com/heroescon at the Charlotte Convention Center on June 14-16!  Founded and purresided over by Shelton Drum who owns Heroes Aren’t Hard to Find, it is a wonderful family – friendly event for the comic book fans and creators of all ages and tastes!
 
For some of our group, the fun began on Thursday June 13th, as met for a traditional breakfast at an iHop and then caravanned to the convention center to set up our booths at the Carolina Comic Book Club’s booths full of comics, books and toys! It was a hot clear sunny day of enthusiasm, even though line for vehicles to get into the loading dock took a few hours longer than usual.
 
On the ground floor of the convention center were the main entrances, registration desks, a Starbucks and vending machines. downstairs In Halls A, B&C were hundreds of exhibitors, including the guests, artists, venders and organizations, plus the concession counters, areas for photo ops, and the stages for the art and cosplay!
On the 2nd floor were Bojangles, Einstein’s Bagels, Buon Cibo, and the 11 meeting rooms for about 50 panels, presentations, and other  activities. There were many other nearby restaurants and hotels too! The Westin Hotel across the street hosted the Friday night Drink ‘n Draw for charity and the huge Saturday night art auction.
I didn’t attend any of the panels, presentations, contests or auctions, as spent most of the time at our booth, where we sold art books,1st & 2nd edition D&D stuff, comic books, magazines  and action figures. The approximately 400 great guests included artists, authors, editor, publishers and other creators!
Thanks to friends minding our booth (there were six of us plus some very kind neighbors), I was able to occasionally roam the con and visit with other folks. On Friday I had lunch with my cosplayer / artist friend Misty Hopkins, and on Saturday I had lunch with my artist / author fiend Andrew Pepoy!
Among the many wonderful guests and exhibitors that I chatted with were Wendy & Richard Pini, Charles Vess, Mark Schultz, Michael, Golden, Georges Jeanty, Wayne Vansant, William Stout, Adam Hughes, Dan Parent, Tommy Lee Edwards, Richard Case, Andrew Pepoy, Eric Nolen-Weathington, Cheralyn Lambeth, Jim Amash and several other friends.
There were over 200 other brilliant artists in the artists alley, and about 300 other  exhibitors & venders with many items for sale, such as original art, prints, posters, memorabilia, cards, books, old & new comics, magazines, DVDs, shirts, costumes, props, jewelry, statues, toys, supplies and tasty treats.
There were hundreds of wonderful cosplayers of all ages, genders and ethnicities as super heroes and other characters from the movies, TV, games, novels, toys and books, plus the renaissance, faerie and kemonomimi masquerades! There were displays by the 501st Carolina Garrison, and the e Ghostbusters of North Carolina.
The most common characters cosplayed this year seemed to be Mandalorians and representatives of the Spider-verse, but for me, the most impressive was a 7’ tall very accurate Gundam mobile suit!  Given how long the line was for vehicles to return to the loading dock, our group as lucky to pack up and load the truck as soon as we did, and managed to get to another iHop for a late supper on the way home!
 
I’d like to especially thank OB1, Pacozord, Chef Ron, Mr. Brightside, RJ, Billy Galaxy, Miriam, Rich, Chris, Charlie, (thank you for the shirt!), Misty, Steven, Shannon, Wayne, Eric, Ian, Andrew, Wendy & Richard. Karla, Shelton, the hotel, restaurant and event staff for a wonderful time year’s Heroes Con!  Okay I’m done, and um now here’s Mie-sensei to tell us about the
Grand Opening of Turbines to Speed!
Mielikki:
Arigato, Moon-san! So like, at 11 am on Saturday June 29th, our friend James O’Briant a.k.a OB1 opened Turbines to Speed, his totally awesome store full of toys and comic books! James has decades of experience at buying & selling comics & toys at the various conventions, shows & stores, and now the dream of owning his own store has finally come true!
So like, at the store’s cute brief ribbon-cutting ceremony, James and his family cordially greeted the many friends and new acquaintances into the big bright, open, spacious, comfy friendly, tidy store wherein beverages and snacks were served, including yummy home-made cookies by our friend Chef Ron!
The store is brimming with new and vintage action figures, (be they loose, sealed and / or graded) such as Marvel, DC, Image, Disney, Star Trek, Star Wars, G.I. Joe. Transformers, MOTU, monsters, and so forth! The toys are mostly action figures, but there are also vehicles, play sets, statues, other figurines and collectibles, plus the silver, bronze, and modern age comic books and some sci-fi / fantasy / horror magazines!
So like, located about 185 miles northwest from here at 151 Boone Square St, in Hillsborough NC, the family-friendly store is open 11 am – 6pm Wednesdays – Saturdays, easy to get to with free parking aplenty, and cheerfully staffed by polite, cordial, friendly life-long collectors who love comics and toys, fur shur!
 For more information, please visit https://www.facebook.com/turbinestospeed! That is all for our event reports, and now here is Ellie-sama to present
The Celebrity Catgirl & Kemonomimi Spotlight!
Elaenor:
Arigato! in this portion of The Mew, we commeowmorate famous therianthropes, monster girls, anthropurrrmorphic ladies and other kemonomim!  Fur-thermore, there are those who might not have beasty DNA, but do have the spurrit, cat-titude or clothing of the animal theme, who we will broadly consider as “honorary kemonomimi”!
Journalist, blogger, filmmaker, advocate, political strategist & consultant Lauren Windsor is the executive director of American Family Voices, creator of The Undercurrent web series, and the Project Vertitas Exposed web site, and we wish to consider her as the honorary nekomimi for purretty ocelot (?) purrint, hammock neck, cold sholder, ballon sleeve blouse with fitted cuffs that she wore on June 11th, 2024, as a guest on the 93rd epurrsode of MSNBC’s Alex Wagner Tonight!
Actress Irene Gorovaia who wore the zebra kigurumi onsie who whilst purrtraying the younger version of Margot Tenenbaum in Wes Andersons’s 2001 movie The Royal Tenenbaums, wso we will consider her as the honorary shimauma musume (zebra girl)! The adult version of Margot was purrtrayed by actress / Goop CEO Gwyneth Paltrow who along with actress / director  Rashida Jones in wore the cat face paint in mid May of 2016, so we will consider them as the honorary nekomimi!
Sadly only about a couple of meownuts remain of Winsor McCay’s deteriorated 1921 animeowted black & white nitrate film short The Centaurs, which depicts the titular mom, dad, son, grandmother and grandfather, but we can still see them on Youtube! Fortunately the purreservation impurroved by 2008, when actress / storyteller  Renna Nightingale purrtayed the centauress in “Beware Wolf”, the23rd epurrode of The Wizards of Waverly Place! More recently, she traded the four hooves for two feet and one mer-tail to purrtray Merida and Ariel on stage in the Mickey’s Wonderous Storybook show at the Hong Kong Disneyland!
Oh oh,  back to Waverly Place, in that “Beware Wolf” it was also graced bya  lupine lass, when actress Sarah Ramos arrived as Isabella the werewolf girl! Yoiu know, Cosplayer / Youtuber Ginny Di has purrtrayed characters of many species including elves, orcs, mermaids and centaur! She is purrticularly famous for her walking centaur costume, the focus of which the tutorial book Centaur of Attention which she authored with artist / designer Hannah Alexander!
We do not know the name of the actress who purrtrayed the centauress in Coca-Cola’s 2020 TV spot for Cherry Vanilla Coke, but that character in the focus group definitely enjoyed the two flavors, noting that her astrological sign was Gemini! However, we do know that the dappled white titular Scentaur in the TV spots for Native deodorant is comedian, actor, writer & purrducer Lauren Howard Hayes! That is all for this month’s spotlight, and nyow here is Nyo-sensei to commence
our purrinted-media mewsings, with her 
review of Konohana Kitan manga vol. 13!
Nyoka:
Hai! I am quite fond of Sakuya Amanos manga about the fox spirit girl nakai (attendants) and their guests of all species at Kononhanatei, the ryokan (Japanese style inn) with the hot springs between the living and the afterlife! The main character Yuzu is one of the younger employees who is very cordial, sincere and enthused! Other recurring characters include attendants Natsume, Sakura, Shino, Ren, Kiri, Satsuki, her older sister Hiiragi, Yae the geisha and Okami the wolf goddess.

Some of their fellow kitsune characters are miko (shrine purrestiess) and kenzoukou (celestial servants) at the shrines and other delightfully divine locations too!
There are amewsing, poignant and bittersweet tales of them, the town folk and the inns guests!  In volume 9, Satsuki and Yuzu started  a celestial train journey, which in vol. 12 eventually brought them to the western – style Hotel Akitsushima! However, the all-catgirl staff is short – handed and the two kitsune wind up working as maids there attending to the divine guests! Although Satsuki and Yuzu are expurrt nakai at the ryokan, they are not familiar with the cultural differences! However, they are not the only ones, such as the newest maid Yuuri the homeless Christian angel who is new to Japan! In this volume they also meet the hotel’s manager the Hindu god Ganesh!
It is a big turning point for the Satsuki, Yuzu, Yuuri, and the catgirls Muyuu, Sara and Lacey! Originally published in Japan by Gentosha Comics, the English version was published here in the USA by Tokyo Pop. Vol. 13 is purriced at $12.99 in the USA and has 152 B&W pages which are rated OT, intended  for the readers of ages 16+, due to the non-sexual nudity,  It was translated by Katie Kimura, purroof-read by Massiel Gutirrez, edited by Lena Atanassova, with editorial associate Becca Grace, quality checking by Misako Obayashi, graphic design by Soodam Lee, retouching and lettering by Vibrraant Publishing Studio.
As mewsual, the art is extremely beautiful with the endearing characters, gorgeous garments, the intricate architecture, lavish landscapes, the lovely sequential panel compurrsitions and graphic narrative techniques, so I will continue to give Konohana Kitan the highest purraise! That is all for the manga mewsing, so nyow here are Petra and Bunnii to purrsent
The Latest Additions to The Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art!
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, and you have to click on those to see the full images, nyan! Some of the images are sexy and might depict 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 Gallery Five https://catgirlisland.net/art/gallery/gallery5.html we have added two ilustrations by Mike, and in In Guest Gallery Four https://catgirlisland.net/art/gallery/guest4.htm, we have added a new pic by Misty Hopkins https://kranberrijam.blogspot.com and more cosplay photos of Crissy Volpe http://www.crimsonskycreations.com/bloodsweatandglitter by various photographers, nyan!
Mike’s two new pics include the Photoshop & mouse pic of “Snappurr One” which is one of our mermaid friend Melanakeami’s orca-shaped blimp-like 150’ long purresurized triphibious LTA ( Lighter than Air) craft for taking and and sea folk on the tours of Mew Hanover County and the rest of the NC OBX (Outer Banks Islands), nyan!
After that is Mike’
s latest fan art of Yuzo Takada’s All Purrpose Cultural Catgirl Nuku Nuku, nyan! Atsuko “Nuku Nuku” is the supurr powered nekomimi cyborg who purrotects her family from the

belligerent Mishian Corpurration, nyan! This pic was done with the Derwent pencil, Sakura Micron pens, and Faber Castell colored pencils, nyan!

Bunnii
Nextly is Misty’s lovely fan art of Adam and Lute of the Hazbin Hotel animated series! Adam (on the left)  is the first human soul in Heaven and the leader of the Exterminators group that slays demons; whilst Lute (on the right) is his mewtenant, nyan! She is the rather fierce exorcist angel! Then we have three more cosplay photos collages of Crissy by various photographers, and each collage consists of four photos!
Collage 1 includes David Borreggine’s photo of Crissy in a costume made by Starlit Creations as Street Fighter 6’s Chun Li at the 2003 New York Comic Con; Louis’ photo of Crissy in a wig & store-bought clothes as Penny Arcade’s Brenna at the 2008 New York Comic Con (with 2024 background photoshopping by Mike);
David Ng’s photo of Crissy in a store-bought Halloween costume for ”The Maid” July 31, 2021 photoshoot; and David Ng’s photo of Crissy in a costume made by fhfhgf30 as The Little Mermaid’s Vanessa (Ursula in disguise) at Otakon 2003!
Collage 2 includes Louis’ photo of Crissy in store-bought clothes as Metal Gear Solid 2’s Rosemary; the selfie photo of Crissy in store-bought clothes as Sailor Moon’s Tomoe Hotaru alias Sailor Saturn;
David Ng’s photo of Crissy in a store-bought Halloween costume for a February 2016 photoshoot; andDavid Ng’s photo of Crissy at the 2021 New York Comic Con as the Final Fantasy VII Remake’s Tifa Lockhart in the dress made by EZ Cosplay, with the headpiece by Starlit Creations and shoes by Pleaser Shoes!
Collage 3 includes Asylum’s photo of Crissy in a store-bought costume as DC Comics’ Zatanna Zatara at the 2008 New York Comic Con (with 2024 background photoshopping by Mike);
PopeCerebus’s photo of Crissy in the kimono at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden’s 2010Sakura Matsuri (with 2024 background photoshopping by Mike);
David Ng’s photo of Crissy in store-bought clothes as a 50’s Dapper Day Snow White at Otakon 2016 (with 2024 background photoshopping by Mike); and David Ng’s photo of Crissy in the store-bought & Avian Firefly-made clothes as Sailor Moon’s Hino Rei alias Sailor Mars in the sailor suit at Otakon 2012! So what do y’all think of the images?
 
The Cat Lady Sings…

Beebe:
I love the lines, colors, shading and the expurressions of Misty’s pic of Adam and Lute!
Meryl:
Mike splendidly captured the technical details, purropurrtions and scale of Snappurr One!
Elaenor:
That is a cute pic of Nuku Nuku, from her ahoge coiffure and cyber antennae to her fuku and socks!
Ilyana:
Crissy, the costumes, locations, photographers and their cameras result in such beautiful images!
Nyoka:
Hai hai! Gosh, it is almost time for friends to arrive for the AfterMew luau, so that will do it for this edition of The Mew!
Mielikki:
We wish to thank our webmeowster Jamie for his wonderful web meowstery, fur shur!
Bunnii:

We also wish to thank all of the other amazingly  talented people whose works we have discussed…
Petra:
..and our other friends, family, acquaintances and audience whom we greatly appurreciate, nyan!
Mike:
We’ll be back next month with the August edition of The Mew! Be there… aloha.
 
The Ladies of The Mew:
Happy tails to mew- until we eat again, nyan! Baibai, nyan!
 
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June 2024 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 June 2024 Edition of The Mew:
The Catgirl Critics’ Media Mewsings, nyan!
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It is the Year of the Dragon, the 17th Anniversary of The Mew,
and the 24th Anniversary of Catgirl Island’s web site, nyan!
 
in this edition of The Mew:
 
The Lightning Round Topic: Our Favorite TV shows of 1974!
TV, DVD & Mewvie Mewsings:
Star Wars: The Bad Batch Season 3
Immoral Guild Complete Collection
Tokyo Mew Mew New Season 2 Complete Collection
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
The Fall Guy
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
The Celebrity Catgirl & Kemonomimi Spotlight
 
Purrinted-Media Mewsings:
Non Sequitur the Equitaur: For the Galactic Core Corps
Gold Digger: War Mistress of Mars #1
Free Comic Book Day Cat Fans Unite!
Design Life Magazine’ Spring 2024 issue
The Latest Additions to The Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art:
more photos of Crissy Volpe by various photographers
‘Rivkah Ash”, Rivkah X” and “Breath of Spring” by Rvkh Brogden
(a different) “Breath of Spring” by Jamie
“Rivkah NekoStorm”. “Friday Night Foxy” and more of
“Star Trek- The Meowtion Picture” Meowrror Mewniverse” by Mike
 
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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 downtown Purrbank in Catgirl Island NC, where it’s 74 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!

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 Clouded Leopurrd purrint micro bikini and 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, pony owner and nature photographer catgirl who has just graduated from college, and is wearing the Iriomote Cat purrint tankini): Namaste, nyan!
 
Trini-chan
(Tara-chan’s fiance, 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.
 
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!

Elizabeth
(a.k.a. Lizzy, the hot salsa dancer, gamer, Purrkour Club captain and massage spa co-owner catgirl wearing the Asiatic Lion purrint flounced bikini): Hola!
Becca
(Lizzy’s nekomimi gynoid wife, avid golfer and massage spa co-owner w

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

Mary Nyan
(a.k.a. Myayr, the seamstress, cosplayer, headbanger, hula instructor and semi-retired miko catgirl wearing the Cougar purrint purretzel – cutout maillot): Aloha
Elaenor
(or Ellie for short, the Banker Pony centauress, Fire Meowrshall and body builder wearing the Caracal purrint twisty bandeau bikini top) Hay there!

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!
(paw note: “Nyan” is the Japanese word for “meow”, which some but not all catgirls vocalize, purrticularly in the NC OBX Catspeak dialect, whereas Mielikki retains the Val Speak dialect from her younger years in California, fur shur, nyan!)
Mike:
So, what have y’all been up to since last month’s mew?

Jeannie:
My mewsual itinerary is compurrised of the mornings at the yoga studio and afternoons at the kyudo range; with the alternating evenings of purrsiding at the robotics club and teaching the belly dance at the Purrforming Arts Center; and the occasional weekend gravure photo shootss.
paw note:
Jeannie, co-founded the Catgirl island Robotics Club (CIRC), and co-owns the yoga studio with fellow belly dancer Katsandra, nyan.
Tara-chan:
 I have been planning the wedding, helping onee-san with TsuriNekoMimi, caring for Emmy, Zuli, Jimbo, Wild Star Blaze*, and – and snapping the nature photos of  the Fireflies, Crane, Egret, Eagle, Owl, Cottontails, Orcas, Dolphins, and – and Meownatees,  nyan!
paw note: 
Emmy and Zuli are Yvonne & Tara-chan’s pet cats; Jimbo and Wild Star Blaze are Tara-chan and Trini-chan’s banker ponies, nyan Tara-chan has the slight stammer and often repeats certain words ( e.g. “and”) & phrases, nyan.
Trini-chan
Oh, moslty the wedding plans, the ponies, volunteering,  surf board shaping, and  belly dance instructing! I cannot believe that it is the summertime already and that the year is almost half over!
 
Yvonne:
 Helping with her wedding plans, my drumming circle has been purrforming at the local matsuris, and my fishing charters have reeled in the delicious, nutritious bumpurr crop of the groupurrs, snappurrs, cobias and wahoos, nya!
paw note: 
Yvonne’s purrfurred taiko drum is the Shime Daiko,, her fishing boat TsuriNekoMimi is a 1985 Hatteras 60 Convertible motor yacht, and her first mate is Pendula (a selkie), nyan.
 
Becca:
It is like we are in the hypurr time! Well, in the past month, as mewsual Lizzy and I have been busy pampurring the customers at our spa, taking care of our cats and our garden, and still finding the time for the dancing, sports and videos!
 
paw note:
Becca and Elizabeth’s black cats are named Syd and Nick who are sublings of Tara-chan & Yvonne’s cats Emmy and Zuli, nyan.
 
Elizabeth:
We have purrtaken of the late night hot salsa dance, and when I am with my Purrkour Club, she is at the golf club. We have been watching TV series such as Shogun, Fallout, Doctor Who, Midsomer Murders, X-Men ’97, and Encouragement of Climb!
paw note: 
Purrkour is a feline style of free running and spurringing. nyan.
 
Bunnii:
Petra and I have been curating the art mewseum, attending the local cultural events, and winning the beach volleyball matches!  I havealso  been tending to my garden, and  baking the breads and cakes for the mewseum cafe and the county food bank!
 
Petra:
We are quite grateful for our rec league’s the event staff, officials, fans, journalists and the other athletes, nyan! We are purrticularly grateful for the artists, volunteers, staff and the patrons of our art mewseum, nyan!
 
Mielikki:
So like, I have been directing the rehearsals for our ampurrtheatre repurrtory company’’s Summertime Shakespeare Extravaganza, instructing at the golf club, and cheering for Bunnii and Petra’s volleyball victories as the defending champions, fur shur!
paw note:
Mie-sensei has resided here for many decades, but still retains the “Val-Speak” dialect from her earlier years in San Fernando, CA, nyan.
The Ladies of The Mew:
BANZAI! BANZAI BANZAI! NYA!
Mary Nyan

:
Soon I will start to instruct the Summer Hula dance class at the Purrforming Arts Center. Meanwhile, Tia, Jany and I have been sewing for the cosplayers. That has included costumes such as Merlin, Holo, Boa Hancock, Meiko Shiraki, and a Black Desert Online group!
paw note:
Carerratia (faerie) is a cosplayer and the Faerie High Council’a Secretary, Janyczsazsa Konvyntvynter (succubus) is a cosplayer and nurse, nyan.
 
Nyoka:
I am eager to see the costumes!

I have been reading, studying and working at my magick shop, where we are

purrparing the gala Summer Solstice festivities,

and I am quite grateful for the customers, cats, clerks, the special guests afamily and friends for their support!

Nyanko:
When I am not busy at my gym and at my dojo, from which I just purroudly graduated yet another class! I

have also been helping my sister purrpare, and attending some of the local sporting events such as Petra and Bunni’s victories!

 
The Ladies of The Mew:
BANZAI! BANZAI BANZAI! NYA!
 
Elaenor:
Oh when I am not  busy on with the purrtrols, trainings and inspections, I have meownaged to find the time for the gym, running, reading, helping at the stables, and attending the events! Howboutchoo, Mike?

Mike:

Oh gosh, I had a wondferful time in Florida at Sea World, Universal, and Disney World… then we went to a UNC baseball game, and ah, aside from that, just the usual reading, writing, drawing, walking, and movies! 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/! Ah, we’ve got a big group and a lot on our plate, so let’s go ahead a jump right into this month’s–
Lightning Round Topic: Our Favorite TV shows of 1974!
This year we’ve been looking back at our favorite fun stuff of years ending in a 4. This time it is any TV series of any genre or country that were in production in 1974, whether they began before or in that year,Jen will start, so are y’all rteady to “conduct the lightning’?

The Ladies of The Mew:
HAI! LIGHTNING ROUND GO, NYAN!
Jeannie:
Star Trek the Animated Series, Space Battleship Yamato, Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, Great Mazinger, Getter Robo, and Cutey Honey. (tags Elizabeth with a swish of the tail)
Elizabeth:
I will nominate Sesame Street, Happy Days, Love American Style, Sanford and Son, Good Times, The Odd Couple, and M*A*S*H! (tail-tags her wife)
Becca:
Sesame Street, M*A*S*H, All in the Family, The Mary Tylor Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show, and The Carol Burnette Show! (tags Nyanko)
Nyanko:
Doctor Who, The Six Million Dollar Man, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Planet of the Apes, Ultraman, and Kamen Rider! (tags her twin)
Nyoka:
Little House on the Priairie, The Waltons, Kung Fu, Gunsmoke, The Guiding Light, and The Young and the Wrestless! (tags Elaenor)
Elaenor:
Doctor Who, Z-Cars, Columbo, Kojak, Mannix, Hawaii Five-O, Police Woman, The Rockford Files, and Emergency! (tags Mielikki)
 
Mielikki:
Doctor Who, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, The Tomorrow People, Upstairs Downstairs. Last of the Summer Wine, and Masterpiece Theatre, fur shur! (tags the kitsune with a flit of the wing)
Trini-chan:
Sesame Street, Heidi of the Alps, Star Trek The Animated Series, Fat Albert, Superfriends, Land of the Lost, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, and Shazam! (tags her fiance)
Tara-chan:
I want… I want to nominate  Schoolhouse Rock, Sesame Street, The Electric Company, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, Zoom, and – and Captain Kangaroo, nyan! (tags her sister)
Yvonne:
Bill Dance Outdoors,Virgil Ward Championship Fishing, The Southern Sportsman with Franc White, The American Sportsdman, andThe Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau, nyan!
 
Petra:
Doctor Who, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Dad’s Army, Are You Being Served, The Benny Hill Show, and Sesame Street, nyan! (tags her purrtner)
Bunnii:
The Tonight Show, The Today Show, The Tomorrow Show, The Price is Right, The French Chef, Nova, and The Wonderful World of Disney! (tags Mary Nyan)
Mary Nyan
Austin City Limits, Soul Train, American Bandstand, Hee Haw, The Midnight Special, and Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert! Back to Mike!
Mike:
Star Trek the Animated Series, Space Battleship Yamato, The Six Million Dollar Man, Kolchack: The Night Stalker, M*A*S*H, and Doctor Who! Well, that was another expedient little Lightning Round, and now let’s continue our
TV, DVD & Movie Mewsings, with Jen’s
review of Star Wars: The Bad Batch Season 3!
 
Jeannie:
Hai. I have been extremely impurressed by Star Wars: The Bad Batch series, which occurs mostly between the years 19-17 BBY, right after The Clone Wars TV series series and the film Star Wars Epurrsode III: Revenge of the Sith. In the 15 epurrsodes of the third & final season, the surviving meowmbers of Clone Force 99 (Hunter, Crosshair, Wrecker & Echo – all voiced by Dee Bradley Baker) search for their sister Omega (voiced by Michelle Ang)…
… who along with a Lurker Hound named Batcher (voiced by Baker) has been impurrisoned & tested in a secret base on the planet Weyland by the evil impurrial scientist Hemlock (voiced by Jimmi Simpson) as purrt of Empurrer Palpatine’s Purroject Necromeowncer, with the involuntary servitude of the Kaminoan scientist Nala Se (voiced by Gwendoline Yeo) and the reluctant assistance of the clone scientist Emerie Karr (voiced by Keisha Castle-Hughes).
As much as I enjoyed the 1st season of the Bad Batch, I think the 2nd season was better, and the 3rd season was the best yet, with the supurrb plots, pace, character developments, world & myth building, designs, animeowtion, direction, editing, sound, Mewsic & voice acting. Although the entire voice cast is quite brilliant, Dee Bradley Baker is especially purrolific, on par with seiyu legends such as Megumi Hayashibara, Tara Strong, and Jim Cummings.
The series also benefits from the guidance of writer / executive purrducer Dave Filoni, who as  Lucasfilm’s Chief Creative Officer  means that the entire Star Wars franchise is in the best of hands. A worthy sequel to Star Wars: The Clone Wars and purrequel to Star Wars: Rebels, The Bad Batch gets my highest purraise, with an “A” as in Ahsoka, and I so hope that it will be released on DVD or Blu-ray soon. I am done, and nyow here is Myayr to review the
Immoral Guild Complete Collection Blu-ray.
 
Mary Nyan:
Arigato! Among the various sub-genres of fantasy tales, I rather enjoy the sword & sorcery / dungeons & dragons type, with the team of adventurers of various abilities & classes exploring the mysterious places in search of treasures which tends to be haunted or guarded by rival groups, monsters, and death traps! If the tales have humor, action & slice of life aplenty, then so much the better; and I am not opposed to the ecchie fan-service, hee hee! Of course, I also heartily appurrove if any of the purrotagonists are kemonomimi, so I gave this this meowturely-rated, 12 epurrode anime series the try!
 
Immoral Guild is purrtains to Kikuru, the captain of the guild that guards the small town of Mebuki and hunts the monsters that lurk in the surrounding wilderlands. He is very competent & tough, but he wants to retire to purrsue other interests, so he starts training a group of in expurrienced new recruits who are are mostly female- and thus we have the harem trope! Kijuru excels at the slaying, but he is rather inexpurrienced with the female relationships, and unfortunately the horny, hungry, dangerous monsters are quite attracted to the mana energy of his trainees, and thus nude naughtiness ensues.
The rookies are Hanabata the buxom fighter whose berserker rage is cute but tends to damage both enemies and allies; Dana the Black Mage with devastating elemental attacks which lack focus and are purrone to misfire; her rival Angers the White Mage who is smart & skilled but has the scared tsundere purrsonality; Rune the Red Mage fairy who appurrs to be a beautiful winsome lass, but is actually the unconfident, effeminate lad; and my favorite character is Hitamu the inu-musume (dog girl) meowrtial artist with the peppy dispurrsition, lovely ears & tail, but she is quite the monster magnet!
Other suppurrting characters include Enome the guild receptionist; her daughter Eshune who wants her mom to marru Kikuru; and Laia & Lala the cute widdle anthropurrmorphic squirrels who clean the guild office! Oh another delightful aspect of this series is the world they inhabit. The towns have the charming sort of medieval northern european architectural style that is common to many fantasy tales, but they are quite contempurrary in their appliances with very modern TVs, computers, smart phones, vacuum cleaners and so forth. The monsters are of all types- and they are all quite lecherous!
I enjoyed the series, but it is not for everyone! Released on home video by Sentai,  the complete collection has the 12 epurrsodes totalling 300 meownutes, purrsented in the 1080p high def 16:9 video with the Japanese DTS-HD meowster audio 2.0 and  English subtitles on the two blu-ray discs in the plastic case. The only special features are the clean / textless versions of the opening & closing sequences, plus Japanese purromo spots.It rated TV MA – VSD in the USA and 14A in Canada due to the sexuality, violence & suggestive dialogue.I am done, and nyow here is Mie-sensei to review the
Tokyo Mew Mew New Season 2 Complete Collection!
Mielikki:
Hai hai! So like, in 2000, Reiko Yoshida’s amewsing magickal girl / sentai shojo manga introduced us to the five young girls who are high school students, waitresses at the cat-themed cafe, and mewtated super-heroines with powers based upon various endangered animal species! The main character / leader Ichigo transforms into a catgirl with the powers of the Iriomote cat; Minto has powers of the Blue Lorikeet, Retasu has powers of the Finless Porpoise, Bu-Ling as powers of the Golden Lion Tamarein Monkey, and Zakuro as powers of the Gray Wolf!
So like, when they are not at home, school or work, they battle the chimera monsters which are mewtated critters possessed by parasites unleashed by the three aliens Kish, Pie, Tart who wish resurrect their leader Deep Blue and take back the Earth from the humans who have caused the environmental problems! Other recurring characters include Ichigo’s boyfriend Aoyama, mom Sakura and dad Shintaro , Ryo the were-cat director of the Mew Project, Keichiro the manager of the Mew Mew Cafe which is the group’s headquarters, R2000 the helpful robot assistant, and the mysterious Blue Knight!
So like, in 2002, ithe manga was adapted into the anime TV series, and 20 years later it was rebooted as Tokyo Mew Mew New with its 1st season airing in 2022 and 2nd season in 2023, both of which have been released on Blu-ray in North America by Sentai! So like, picking up where season one ended, season two’s TV14 – rated 12 episodes are presented in the 1080p High Definition video of the 16×9 screen aspect ratio in Japanese DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 with the English subtitles, and total 300 minutes on 2 discs.
The special features are the 24 “petite”, 11 “Birthday” & 8 showcase” chibi-sty/e “Mini ”shorts which total 48.25 meownutes, and the clean / textless versions of the series’ opening and two  closing sequences. Tokyo Mew Mew New is such a delightfully whimsical, cute, peppy fun and thrilling tale with the pretty character designs, good animation and character developments, great voices, sound and mewsic, although there are a few episodes that are more serious, darker and tragic! Now here Nyo-sensei who wishes to discuss
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, fur shur!!
 
Nyoka:
Arigato! I enjoyed Rise of the Planet of the Apes which we reviewed in the September 2011 Mew, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, which we reviewed in the August 2014 Mew, and War for the Planet of the Apes, which we reviewed in the August 2017 Mew, so I was very eagerly awaiting this sequel, which occurs several generations after the death of the ape leader Caesar! Since then, the Ape civilization is dominant, more intelligent and talkative in their various wilderness villages, whereas most of the humans have become feral purrimatives, as much of the human urban architecture has become quite overgrown by nature.
Written by Josh Friedman & directed by Wes Balland, the movie is brimming with thrilling action & charming moments with the poignant plot & character developments! The cast includes Owen Teague as the main purrtagonist chimp Noa who wants to be a falconer; Lydia Peckham & Travis Jeffery as his friends Soona & Anaya; Sara Wiseman & Neil Sandilands as Noa’s mom Dar & dad Koro; Peter Macon as the wise spurritual orangutan Raka & Freya Allan as Mae the cunning smart human woman who Noa meets on the quest, and Kevin Durand as Proximus the power-hungry tyrant ape in search of the lost technology!
I thought that the plot was captivating, the pace was purrfect, and the purrduction values are high, with the great cinemeowtography,designs. sets, locations, FX, sound, mewsic, and purrformances! In fact, the visual FX are so impurressive that the all of the apes (purtrayed through the purrformance capture technique) seem quite real and believable! I will not further spoil the film’s plot, but in summation I will give this movie the “A” as in ape, and my anticipation for hopefully further sequels! That is all for my review, so nyow I will turn The Mew over to sis, who wants to discuss
The Fall Guy!
 
Nyanko:
Hai! The 1980’s TV series The Fall guy starring Lee Majors and Heather Thomas was such the amewsingly action-packed fun treat purrtaining the adventures of the stuntmen purrforming in the films and solving crimes on the streets, so it was just the meowtter of time that it would be rebooted as the new mewvie or TV series! I was eager to see this mewview, which seemed to be in the good hands, purrticularly director David Leitch  who has been the stunt purrformer / choreographer himself, having directed Atomic Blonde, Hobbs & Shaw, Deadpool 2 and puurrduced the John Wick films!
 
Furthermeowore, it has the meorrvelous cast such as Ryan Gosling as stuntman Colt Seavers, Emily Blunt as his girlfriend Jody the director, Hannah Waddingham as Gaiul the purrducer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Tom the actor, Stephanie Hsu as his assistant Alma, and Winston Duke as Dan the choreographer! There are several other great appurrances but I should not spoil the taste of the supurr fun plot, in which Colt has to  survive the dangerous stunts and the deadly criminals! This mewvie is such a delightful love letter to the stunts and the comedic action romps of the 90’s!
 
With the good balance of action, humor, romance and suspense, it is the bumpurr crop of purractical stunts and FX from the fights, shootouts, car & boat jumps, chases and crashes to the purrotechnics, high falls, wire work, aerial action, fire gags and the attack dog! The directing, cinemeowtography, sets, locations, editing,  visual FX, sound FC and mewsic are good too, with the clever use of songs by KISS, Motley Crue, AC/DC, Miami Vice, Against All Odds, and the original Fall Guy to add to the 80’s ambience! I am done and nyow here is Trini-chan to review
 
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga!
 
Trini-chan:
Arigato! I like the Mad Max series of movies so I was quite eager to see Furiosa which was  co-written, co-produced & directed by Mad Max creator George Miller and serves as the purrequel to Mad Max: Fury Road, which introduced Furiosa who was purrtrayed by Charlize Theron! This 2.5 hour violently thrilling and poignant fiesta of Australian post-apocalyptic wasteland revenge is the origin tale of her younger days, in which she is wonderfully purrtrayed by Alyla Browne (as a child) and Anya Taylor-Joy (as adult), who star with Chris Hemsworth as the villain Dementus!
I will not spoil the plot, but I think that it is quite the supurrb movie all around, with the terrific story, acting, stunts, make-up, costumes, vehicles, locations, FX, cinematography, sound, editing & direction, with appurrances by several characters from Fury Road! I will give it the high purraise as my 2nd favorite of the five movies which I have ranked #1 Fury Road (2015), #2 Furiosa ( 2024), #3 Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1982), #4 Mad max Beyond Thunder Dome (1985) and #5 Mad Max (1979). That is all for our movie reviews, and now here is Lizzy to present this month’s
Celebrity Catgirl & Kemonomimi Spotlight!
 
Elizabeth:
in this portion of The Mew, we commeowmorate famous nekomusume, therianthropes, monster girls, and other kemonomimi of mythologies and popular culture, including anthropurrrmorphic ladies and monster girls! Furthermeowore, there are those who might not actually have the beasty DNA, but might have the spurrit, cat-titude or clothing of the animal theme, who we will broadly consider as the “honorary kemonomimi”!
 
This month’s spotlight shines on the anthropurrmorphic lasses and lads of the French purrint ads and CG animated TV commeowrcials circa for Orangina carbonated citrus drink of various flavors! The imagery was quite photorealistic, sexy and whimsical, with deer, zebra, jackal, hyena, panda, poodle, giraffe, lion, flamingo, penguin, peahen, and octopus ladies mewsually clad in bikinis, slingshot maillots, lingerie or pasties!
The bear, lion, and chameleon boys were clad in shorts, speedos or strategically – placed leaves! The purrinted ads depicted the characters purrched upon melty blocks of ice, whilst the TV spots offrolicking various lengths featured them dancing, frolicking, swinging and getting splashed in the jungle. Some of them  depicted the characters in the bathroom, boudoir, locker room, and in the more-dressed domestic, athletic & social scenes.
There was dialogue and interacting with humans. Such examples include  the deer mom purrparing breakfast, a horse filly mouth washing and bronco riding a giant bottle, a goat lady mopping and waiting at the bus stop, a giraffe femme doing laundry and roller blading, a cheetah girl sensually washing a car, a bear boy in the locker room, a chameleon chap at the sink, lion lads shaving. biking and drumming…
 
… a samurai tiger and siamese cat geisha, a French poodle snapping at her servants, and a saucy hyena woman teasing and mocking people at the office, cafe and restaurant! The anthropurrmorphicness was not limited to the female fauna, but some of the ads depicted the rather alluring feminine flora such as the hibiscus, lilac, cactus and palm tree, mew la la!cThat is all for the spotlight, and nyow here is Ellie to start our
Purrinted-Media Mewsings, with her review of the novel
Non Sequitur the Equitaur: For the Galactic Core Corps!
 
Elaenor:
Hai! The famous math expert Ed Pegg Jr.’s first novel stars the titular tall, dark and handsome character who is akin to a centaur, but has the head of a horse and certain other physiological differences! As a former human from Earth  with much science, math, gaming and pop cultural knowledge, he has been reincarnated on the planet Icarus n intergalactic police detective on another world!
 
Non Sequitur the Equitaur: For the Galactic Core Corps! is a science fiction / fantasy tale is of the somewhat the isekai type of prose LitRPG (Literary Role Playing Game) as if the characters are metafictionallly aware that they are in a virtual realm with game mechanics such as player-character statistics, abilities, hit points, dice rolls and so forth! Non also has talkiing magickal A.I. wand!
In D&D terms, Non has the strength of 17, intelligence of 16, wisdom of 12, dexterity of 14, constitution of 20, charisma of 16, and 4d20 hit dice- which will be quite handy when numerous enemies try to thwart his investigation into a murderous conspiracy of planetary proportions! There are anthropomorphic NPCs of many species such as avian, canine, cervid, equine, rodent, formic, troll, etc, and one of my favorites is a medusa-like mare named Nagappaloosa!
 
The 478 page 1x6x9” is profusely illustrated with over 70 widdle B&W illustrations; and it is brimming with lots of algebra, trig, calculus and physics… a lot of which is over my head (and I am 7’ tall)! I rather enjoyed the character development, the world-building, the action scenes, the art, the clever use of typography the references to many books, movies, and TV series in this rather complicated, captivating, fun novel! Now I will hand off to Becca, who will tell us about —
Gold Digger: War Mistress of Mars #1!
 
Becca:
Hai! For over the 300 issues, plus the initial mini-series, the many annuals, mini-series, spin-offs and other special issues since 1991, Gold Digger by Fred Perry

was the beautiful fun comic book  about the zany, alluring, thrilling adventures of the nerdy genius archaelogist Gina Diggers, her adopted were-cheetah sister Britanny, their family, friends and rivals who searched for relics and treasures!
For our spotlight upon the cast of Gold Digger, please see our August 2011 Mew. It is published by Antarctic Press, which is also known for other manga – inspired and anthropurrmorphic comics such as Ninja High School, Albedo, Genus, Furrlough, Shanda, Twilight X, Warrior Nun Areala, Blade Bunny, Star’s End, Team Mobile, Plush and Mangazine (which featured the first Gold Digger tale)!
The series ended last year with issue #301, but

 Britanny, Ayane the wealthy meowrtial arts meowster, and their purrple evil enemy Keldoor awaken buck naked after having telepurrtaled to the planet Barsoom (which we call Mars), where due to the gravity difference they are more supurrhumanly strong! Thusly ensues the fully nude meowlee, which is soonly joined by the giant bug meownsters!
The bugs are unclothed too. The first of a full-color four issue mini-series wonderfully written & illustrated by Fred Perry, and intended for the meowture audience, it is purriced $9.99, with the 26 uninterrupted pages (followed by the 6 pages of ads) that are brimming with the rather titillinterplanetaryating sexy, amewsing action of the interplanetary romance genre based upon the Edgar Rice Burroughs tale!
I purrticularly like the uncensored character poses, expurressions and details, and the exquisitely composed pages that have nice large panels, including about a dozen half-page pics, half a dozen three-quarter page pics, and two full-page pics! I will give this issue the A as in ailuranthrope (feline shape-shifter) and my anticipation for the next issue! I am done, and nyow here is Tara-chan to discuss
Cat Fans Unite!
 
Tara-chan:
Arigato, nyan! You know, May the 4th was the purrticulrly festive day as t was not only Star Wars Day but it was also Free Comic Book Day at the purrticipating comics shops, nyan! That means that there are special free issues by several publishers, and – and one of my favorites was Random House’s full color 32 page issue for the young readers which includes excerpts from Katie the Catsitter: The Purrfect Plan, and – and Max Meow: When Pancakes Go Bad (Really Bad) plus the bonus Max and – and Katie crossover tale, nyan!
 
The 10 page Katie excerpt was written by Coleen AF Verable, illustrated by Stephanie Yue, and – stars 12 year old Katie Spera the supurr hero sidekick in ther 7th grade who cares for hundreds of adventurous cats such as Bailey, Rylan, Hazel, Claudia, Inka, ScribblePeeveJolie  and – and Stevie, nyan! in the 10 page Max excerpt by John Gallagher, the supurr-hero catboy craves the breakfast at the diner of Reggie the robot and – and Agent M the mouse, until a mysterious stranger transforms the pancakes into the giant monster, nyan!
 
In the 5 page crossover, Portal Gal creates the interdimeownsional portal which sends Max and his sciencey kemonomimi friend Mindy to Katie’s home in New York , and then sends Katie to their city Kittyopolis, nyan! To top of the issue is the fun widdle quiz about the characters, nyan! The tales were purretty, peppy whimsical and fun, so nyow i am curious to read more of those graphic novels, nyan! It looks like there are 4 Katie the Catsitter books, and- and 5 Max Meow books, nyan! I am done, so nyow here is Mike to tell us about
Design Life Magazine’s Spring 2024 issue, nyan!
 
Mike:
Thank you, Tara-chan! Edited by Christine Klocke who is the director of communications & marketing of NCSU’s College of Design, and designed by Ellie Bruno who is the design editor for NCSU’s official student newspaper The Technician, Design Life is the official annual magazine of NCSU’s College of Design, from which I graduated with a Bachelors and Masters degree in Industrial design (formerly known as product design).
The older I get the more nostalgic I get about those days, and even moreso reading this – and the previous- issue, which commemorate the 75th anniversary of the College of Design – which used to be called the School of Design when I was there. ThisThis 8.75x 8.75” full-color 32 page issue’s theme pertains to faculty, student and professional visions of the future of design education, community, climate and technology.
The front cover is graced by the photo of media arts, design & technology student Cora Jone’s “unveiled” augmented reality filter, which is followed by the cordial introduction by the college’s dean Mark Elison Hoversten, Phd. The four featured articles are writer / researcher Sam Gunnells’ “Designing a Resiliant Tomorrow” about adapting design with increasing awareness of climate change in particularly vulnerable regions;
 
graphic & experience professor emerita Meredith Davis’ “Designing in an Environment of Change”” about looking ahead to the next 75 years of design intentions, methods and technology; marketing writer Miriam Antelis’ “Building Equity in Communities” about the socio-political & economic impact on built environments; and Christine Klocke’s “The Future of Design in Technology” on the role & ethics of emerging tech such as AI.
Other content includes a look at the philanthropy by alumunus Roxanne Hicklin, Jerry & Marilyn Cook; the  memorial pages about  alumni who passed away in 2023 & 2024; and a chart breaking down the numbers of this year’s enrollments in the College of Design’s 12 Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral degrees. It was quite a delightful read as usual!  Ah, well that’s all for our printed-media mewsings, and now here are Petra, Bunnii and Vonny to present
The Latest Additions to The Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art!
 
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, and you have to click on those to see the full images, nyan! Some of the images are sexy, and might depict artistic nudity, but none are hentai or porn, nyan! We should also meowntion that none of the content at Catgirl Island is purrmitted for A.I. purrposes, nyan!
 
This month, into Gallery One https://catgirlisland.net/art/gallery/gallery1.html we have added illustrations by Mike, and in In Guest Gallery Two http://catgirlisland.net/art/gallery/guest2.html, we have added more illustrations by Rvkh Brogden http://www.rvkhart.com,  our webmeowster Jamie, and more cosplay photos of Crissy Volpe http://www.crimsonskycreations.com/bloodsweatandglitter by various photographers, nyan!
Firstly are Rvkh’s pics of Rivkah Ash and Rivkah X, who  are two more of her Elder Scrolls Online video game characters, nyan! Both are Khajiit catgirls, nyan! On the right is Rivkah Ash of the Archanist class with the Tuxedo Cat meowrkings, and on the left is Rivkah X of the Nekromeowncer class with the Calico Cat meowrkings, nyan!
Bunnii:
Then we have Rvkh’s “Breath of Spring”, which depicts in chibi style her original character Candace the Cherubim Angel, who helps with care of vernal gardens of the realm. She is vegan and loves to snack on any fresh fruit and nut. Done with Procreate on the iPad with the Apple Pencil, this pic has the art purrocess video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdjfcVG8nHo, nyan
 
Nextly is Jamie’s pic of the same title! Both his and Rvkh’s pieces were the June art purrompt theme for the Starry Eyed Artist Collective https://www.facebook.com/Starryeyedartistcollective! Done with Photoshop, Corel Painter, and the graphics table, it depicts the serenely rainy day! Then we are delighted to display three more collages of photos of Crissy! 
 
The 1st collage includes Crissy in her first Sailor Mars costume which was made in 1999; David Ng’s November 2021 photo of Crissy as the Final Fantasy VII Remake’s Tifa Lockhart; Terry Chu’s photo of Crissy at Otakon 2017 in the Qi Lolita dress; and J. Salugao’s photo of Crissy as Fatal Fury’s Lizzy McGuire at the 2018 New York Comic Con!
 
The 2nd collage includes Mama Lori’s 2011 photo of Crissy in the Elegant Gothic Lolita costume by Milanoo; Rich Wexler’s photo of Crissy as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ April O’Neil in the licensed costume with her grandfather’s old camcorder at the 2023 New York Comic Con; Bob Plant’s photo of Crissy in the costume by AllCosplay at the New York Comic Con 2022 as Marvel’s Agent Carter; and David Borreggine’s photo of Crissy as Street Fighter 6’s Chun Li at the 2003 New York Comic Con!
Yvonne:
The 3rd collage includes Crissy as Dorothy Gale of The Wizard of Oz in a store-bought costume for Halloween 2011; David Ng’s June 5th 2011 photo of Crissy as Hino Rei in the dreaming dress from the fourth Sailor Moon art book; David Ng’s photo of Crissy at Otakon 2016 as Sailor Mars in the Art Nouveau style costume; and Vlad’s photo of Crissy in a sequined dress for Mew Year’s Eve 2023, nyan!
To top off this month’s additions are several pics by Mike, starting with “Rivkah Nekostorm” which is his half Altmer Elf / half Khajiiit Neowncer Nekomimi version of Rvkh’s Elder Scrolls character Rivkah Storm, nyan! After that is “Friday Night Foxy”, which depicts the his original character Chimie Wakabayashi the sexy kitsune who is celebrating her 100th birthday at the nightclub’s EDM rave, nyan!
Those are followed by three of his “Star Trek- The Meowtion Picture: Meowrror Mewniverse” scenes, nyan! Starfleet Admeowl Shiboline M’Ress purrches atop the purrody of the iconic Bob Peak mewvie poster; the Impurrial StarShip Enterpurrise encounters the assimeowlated ships and Mewtenant Nyailia inside the vast P’ger entity; and the gynoid purrobe clone of Nyailia purrches atop the Enterpurrise which is trapped inside P’ger’s vessel, nyan! Those were all done with Derwnt pencils, Sakura Micron pens, and Photoshop on the mac with the mouse, nyan!
The cat lady sings…
 
Becca:
Crissy, the photographers and costumers result in such meowgnificant collaborative images!

Elizabeth:
She has been quite the industriously, beautifully purrolific cosplayer for the past 25 years!

Mielikki:
Fur shur!
 
Trini-chan:
The rainy scene has the tranquil ambience as the flowers, shrubs and trees get the sumptuous soak!

Tara-chan:
Candace is such the adorable angel with the darling wings and – and the charming purresence, nyan

Nyoka:
Rivkahs Ash and X have quite the exotic, alluring, confident, powerful and mysterious qualitiies!
 
Nyanko:
The Nekostorm version has the lovely tail with the Blue tip to match her eyes and the staff’s crystal!
 
Mary Nyan:
Wakabayashi-sensei is quite sexy and peppy amidst the dazzling lights and FX of the nightclub!
Jeannie:
The Enterpurrise, Ameowr, Espurrlon 9, Yamato, Sulaco, Leonov and P’ger are quite accurate.
 
Elaenor:
I hope that we will see more ofan art and fics of f M’Ress and Nyailia and Ms. Spock!
 
Yvonne:
Hai hai! Gosh, it is almost time for our AfterMew Luau, so that will do it for this edition of The Mew, nyan!
Bunnii:
We wish to thank all of the amazingly talented people whose works we have discussed!
Petra:
Hai hai, and we also thank our other friends, families, acquaintances and our audience whom we greatly appurreciate, nyan!

Mike:
We’ll be back next month with the July edition of The Mew! Be there… aloha!
The Ladies of The Mew:
HAPPY TAILS TO MEW- UNTIL WE EAT AGAIN! BAIBAI, NYAN!

May 2024 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 May 2024 Edition of The Mew:
The Catgirl Critics’ Media Mewsings, nyan!
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It is the Year of the Dragon, the 17th Anniversary of The Mew,
and the 24th Anniversary of Catgirl Island’s web site, nyan!
 
in this edition of The Mew:
 
The Lightning Round Topic: Our Favorite Mewsic of 1974
 
Mewvie Mewsings:
The First Omen
Late Night with the Devil
Abigail
Civil War
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Two
 
The Celebrity Catgirl & Kemonomimi Spotlight
 
Purrinted-Media Mewsings:
Critter #1
Rowrbrazzle #161
 
The Latest Additions to The Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art:
more photos of Crissy Volpe by various photographers
more photos of “Punk-achu” by Alexcia Reynolds
“Alita”, “Lilith” and “G’raha Tia” by Misty Hopkins
“Beemerian Queen” and “Hinyan Rae” by Mike
 
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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 downtown Purrbank in Catgirl Island NC, where it’s 74 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!
 
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 Clouded Leopurrd purrint micro bikini and 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,  pony owner and nature photographer catgirl who has just graduated from college, and is wearing the Iriomote Cat purrint tankini): Namaste, nyan!
 
Trini-chan
(Tara-chan’s fiance, 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.
 
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!
Elizabeth
(

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

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

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

Elaenor
(or Ellie for short, the Banker Pony centauress, Fire Meowrshall and body builder wearing the Caracal purrint twisty bandeau bikini top) Hay there!

Mary Nyan
(a.k.a. Myayr, the seamstress, cosplayer, headbanger, hula instructor and semi-retired miko catgirl wearing the Cougar purrint purretzel – cutout maillot): 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!
(paw note: “Nyan” is the Japanese word for “meow”, which some but not all catgirls vocalize, purrticularly in the NC OBX Catspeak dialect, whereas Mielikki retains the Val Speak dialect from her younger years in California, fur shur, nyan!)
Mike:
By the way, we wish to congratulate Tara-chan who just graduated from Mew Hanover Commeownity College!
The Ladies of The Mew:
YATTA, NYAN!
Tara-chan:
Domeow arigato gozaimeows, nyan!
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/! Ah, we’ve got a big group and a lot on our plate, so let’s go ahead a jump right into this month’s
Lightning Round topic: our favorite music of 1974!
 
This year we’ve been looking back at our favorite fun stuff of years ending with a 4, such as movies, TV, comics, books, and music! Ellie’s  gonna start,  so are y’all ready to “conduct the lightning”?
 
The Ladies of The Mew:
Hai! Lightning Round Go- nyan!
 
Elaenor:
Neil Young’s On the Beach, Crosby, Stills Nash & Young’s So Far, Joni Mitchell ’s Court and Spark Joni Mitchell and The L.A. Express’ Miles of Aisles! (tags Elizabeth to go next)
 
Elizabeth:
I will nominate Van Morrison’s Veedon Fleece, Gordon Lightfoot’s Sundown, Carly Simon’s Hotcakes, and Nico’s The End! (tags her wife with a swish of the tail)
 
Becca:
Steely Dan’s Pretzel Logic, Doobie Brothers’ What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits, Jefferson Starship’s Dragon Fly, and The Grateful Dead’s From the Mars Hotel! (tail-tags Petra)
 
Petra:
Yes’ Relayer, Rick Wakeman’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Gryphon’s  Red Queen to the Gryphon Three, and Harmonium’s Harmonium, nyan! (tags her purrtner)
 
Bunni:
Jethro Tull’s War Child, Genesis’ The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, Renaissance’s  Turn of the Cards, and The Strawbs’ Hero and Heroine! Myayr’s turn! (tags Mary Nyan)
 
Mary Nyan:
Hai! I will nominate Deep Purple’s Burn, Queen’s Sheer Heart Attack, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Second Helping, Kiss’ Kiss, and Hotter Than Hell! (tags Mielikki)
 
Mielikki:
Stevie Wonder’s Fulfillingness’ First Finale, Barry White’s Can’t Get Enough, James Brown’s Hell, Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson’s Winter in America, fur shur! (tags Tara-chan with a flit of the wing)
 
Tara-chan:
I want… I want to nominate Average White Band’s AWB, David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs, Frank Zappa’s Apostrophe, and – and Roxy & Elsewhere, nyan! Onee-chan’s turn, nyan! (tags her sister)
 
Yvonne:
I will nominate Labelle’s  Nightbirds, Minnie Ripperton’s  Perfect Angel’s Millie Jackson’s Caught Up, and Ann Peebles’ I Can’t Stand the Rain, nyan! (tags Trini-chan)
 
Trini-chan:
John Coltrane’s Interstellar Space. Miles Davis’ Get Up With It, Weather Reports Mysterious Traveller, and Jorge Ben’s A Tabua de Esmeralda! (tags Nyanko)
 
Nyanko:
Dolly Parton’s Jolene, Linda Ronstadt’s  Heart Like a Wheel, Olivia Newton-John’s If You Love Me Let Me Know, and Long Live Love! (tags her sister)
 
Nyoka:
Electric Light Orchestra’s Eldorado, Kraftwerk’s Autobahn, Tangerine Dream’s Phaedra, and Todd Rundgren’s Utopia! (tags Jeannie)
 
Jeannie:
The scores for Phantom of the Paradise, The Man with the Golden Gun, The Satanic Rites of Dracula, The Towering Inferno, and Space Battleship Yamato. Back to Mike.
 
Mike:
Oh, I gotta go with Pretzel Logic,

Relayer,
Journey to the Centre of the Earth,
Eldorado, and
Kiss!  Well, that was another expedient little Lightning Round! Ah, since we have a big group and a lot on our plate, lets go ahead and jump into our
movie mewsings, 
with Myayr’s review of The First Omen!
 
Mary Nyan:
Hai!  Set in a turbulent city of Rome, Italy in 1971, this movie is the purrequel to The Omen horror movie series which began in 1976, and purrtained to the life of Damian Thorn, the purrophecised Anti-Christ, and the deadly suppurrnatural incidents that surround him. 
Nell Tiger Free wonderfully stars as Sister Margaret who arrives at her new job at an orphanage, where she is befriended, seduced, warned, censured and / or threatened by various factions of purriests and nuns full of secrets, conspurracies and hallucinations!
 
Very well directed & co-written by Arkasha Stevenson, it is captivatingly suspenseful with the grueling grisly scenes, church and cult politics! The great cast also includes Sonia Braga, Ralph Ineson, Maria Caballero, Charles Dance, Nicole Sorace and Bill Nighy!
The movie splendidly weaves into the Omen mythology, with the excellent purrduction values, purrfect locations, sets, cinematography, editing, costumes, sound and FX, so I will give it the good grade of the B! I am done and nyow here is Mie-sensei to discuss
Late Night with the Devil!
 
Mielikki:
Arigato! So like, Late Night with the Devil is the cleverly found-footage style of period piece set on a TV talk show set in 1977, as the the recently widowed host Jack Delroy, a man mired in The  Bohemian Grove conspiracy theories and desperate for the Nieison TV ratings boost, for his spooky Halloween episode has the guests Christous the psychic, Laura the parapsychologist,, Haig the stage magician turned skeptic, and Lily the demon-possessed survivor of a satanic cult, fur shur!
Some of the alleged supernatural activities that occur during the live broadcast might be dismissed as the hoaxes, until things get spookier, dangerous and violent, fur shur! So like, although the final scenes did get a bit underwhelmingly weird, it as awesomely fun starring David Dastmachian as Jack, (whoI previously liked in Dark Knight, The Suicide Squad, Ant-Man, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Bladerunner 2049 , Dune and Oppenheimer) so I will give it a B! Now here is Ellie to discuss
Abigail!
 
Elaenor:
Hai! Abigail is about the group of criminals hired to kidnap the daughter of a rich person for the ransom. However, when they stash her at a mansion, the criminals soon regret their misdeed when they become the trapped prey of the titular girl who turns out to be a vampire! It is such the fun, smart, whimsical, action-packed and gory horror movie! It has the great cast, story, directing, editing, sets, FX and make-up!
Of the actors, especially liked Alisha Weir as Abigail. Melissa Berrera as Joey (who I also liked as Sam in the Scream movies), Dan Stevens as Frank (who I also liked asT rapper in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire), an Kathryn Newton as Sammy (who I also liked as Cassie in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania)! I will give it the A as in Abigail! I am done,  so now I will turn The Mew over to Mike for his review of
 
Civil War!
 
Mike:
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths – Part Two!
 
Jeannie:
Hai. The Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths – Part Two is the 2nd of a 3 part OVA series adapting the famous epic 1985, twelve issue DC Comics maxi-series Crisis on Infinite Earths which served as a major reboot of the DC Comics multiverse. Continuing the events of DC’s “Tomorrowverse” OAVs, Part Two does not does not mirror the comics tale, but is certainly faithful in the spirit as an alternate-reality version of the crisis.
 
Part Two purrimarily focuses on Supergirl, Wonder Woman, Batman, The Monitor and The Psycho Pirate; with a fair amount of attention on John Stewart, Dr. Light, Kamandi, Solivar, Superman, Dr. Fate, John Constantine and the Batman Family, with appurrances by dozens of other heroes and villains as more Earths and other worlds are destroyed by the antimeowtter wave amidst the rise of the foe known as the Anti-Monitor. 
 
 The thrilling plot is poignantly captivating with the splendid pace, dialogue, character designs, scenic art, animation, sound, mewsic, acting, directing & editing.  I am very pleased with the movie, and I eagerly anticipate Part Three. The sparse special features consist of the 8.32 min. “Voices in Crisis” featurette with commeownts by actors Meg Donnelly (Supergirl), Aldis Hodge (John Stewart) & Jonathan Adams (The Monitor);
 
The 8.25 min. featurette “The Batman Family of the Multiverse” discusses Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson, Barbara Gordon, Damian Wayne, Tim Drake, Helena Wayne and Terry McGinnis, with commeownts by writer Geoff Johns, purrducer / writer Jim Krieg, director Jeff Wamester, executive purrducer  Butch Lukic, DC group editor Katie Kubert & DC archivist Benjamin LeClear; and there is the  79 sec. sneak peek at a scene from Part Three.
 
The  PG-13 rated, 94.75 min OAV is purrsented in 1080 hi-def video with the audio choices of English DTS-MA 5.1 Dolby Digital, French & Spanish, with the optional subtitle choices of English SDH, Dutch, French & Spanish. The single Blu-ray disk and the digital download code sheet are packaged in the plastic case  in the cardboard outer sleeve. That concludes our mewvie mewsings, so nyow here are Becca & Lizzy to purrsent  the 
 
Catgirl & Kemonomimi Celebrity Spotlight.
 
Elizabeth:
Arigato! in this portion of The Mew, we commeowmorate famous nekomusume, therianthropes, monster girls, and other kemonomimi of mythologies and popular culture, including anthropurrrmorphic ladies and monster girls! 
 
Becca:
Fur-thermore, there are those who might not actually have the beasty DNA, but might have the spurrit, cat-titude or clothing of the animal theme, who we will broadly consider as the “honorary kemonomimi”! 
 
Elizabeth:
Hai hai, and this time the spotlight will shine upon lovely forthcoming statues & figures that have been solicited in catalogs and at store’s sites! These include statues & figures of characters who are kemonomimi, monster girls or demi-humans, and human characters who are cosplaying as such!
Becca:
For example, there is Kotobukiya’s 1/7 scale 10.6” tall PVC statue of the Nijisanji Vtuber group’s Inui Toko  who is the cerebus girl or Keruberosumimi!
Elizabeth:
Kotobukiya also has the Megami Device: Chaos & Pretty Grandma 5.5” posable model kit, which is the Little Red Riding Hood inspired Okamimi (wolf eared) / mecha musume (machine girl)!
Becca:
The usagimimi (bunny girls) are well repurrsented too such as Ensoutoys’ 1/8 scale PVC figure of Ikomochi Original Character Black Bunny Aoi, and their 1/6 scale PVC figures White Bunny Aoi and Black Bunny Natsume!
Elizabeth:
There are Blonde & Brunette versions of Beat (Mouse Unit)’s 1/5 scale 10.25” tall  PVC figures of  Zettai! Fuuki Iinchou Kamihigano Sei; and the bunny version of BINDing (Native Partner)’s 1/4 scale PVC figure of Magical Girls Series Nitta Yui!
 
Becca:
As mewsual there are more nekomimi (catgirls, such as Furyu’s very intricately ornate 1/7 scale  9” PVC figure of Karyl 6 e Princess Connect: Re: Dive smartphone game!
Elizabeth:
Beat (Mouse Unit)’s has the sexy 1/6 scale 6.25” tall PVC figures in various colors of Zettai Reiko Original Color’s Liliana,  who with her sister Anette star in the ero manga & anime such as Wagaya no Liliana-san, Tonari no le no Anette-san, and  Anette-san to Liliana-san!
Becca:
Or how about Sega’s 8” Great Spirit Super Premium Figures of the isekai genre’s Re: Zero Starting Life in Another World’s twin demon sisters Ram and Ram wearing the nekomimi onesies and hoodies?!
Elizabeth:
Sega also has the Ohiruneko Blind Box Mini Figures which are  adorably cute widdle neko versions of the the Spy x Family anime’s Anya, Yor & Lloyd Forger! Kawaii!
Becca:
Union Creative’ has offered the 10.5” long, non-scale PVC figure of Rent-A-Girlfriend manga & anime’s Shizuru Mishiara in her black catgirl bikini costume, mew la la!
 
Elizabeth:
Disney’s Gargoyle’s Demona is repurrsented by Neca’s 7” tall action figure with the 18” wingspan; and Diamond Select Toys’ 1/7 scale, 6” tall bust  of her. As she and the other gargoyles have the
impurressive chiropteran-ish wings, we will consider her as the honorary kemonomimi!
Becca:
Lastly but not leastly, 774inc. has the 1/7 scale PVC figures of the HoneyStrap vtuber group’s devil girls Saionji Mary and Sekishiro Mico! As they have the lovely bovidae-ish horns, we will consider them as the honorary kemonbomimi too! That is all for our spotlight, and nyow here is Trini-chan to start our
purrint-media mewsings,
with her review of Critter #1!
 
Trini-chan:
We are big fans of 18 year old supurr heroine Cassia Crawford alias Critter  Hailing from From the small town of Greenville Michigan, she is the daughter of missing Vanessa Crawford alias Velvet Fox who was a meowmber of the supurrhero team CORE! She has the supurr strength, durability, agility, speed, telekinesis  and combat purowess, plus the gadgets of her sexy costume such as the cyber ears and tail.
She first appurred in Critter (vol. 1) #0 in 2010, then the four-issue mini-series (Critter vol. 1) in 2011, and then her 20 issue series (Critter vol. 2) from 2012 – 2014. She worked with other heroes, and later moved to Los Angeles to attend college, where sh was asked to join the glamorous feline-themed supurrheroine team known as Purrfection. it was the very dangerous time with the villains and disasters.
 
Published by Big Dig Ink. the entire run was written by her creator Tom Hutchison, illustrated by Fico Ossio and lettered by Kei Nuttall!  In 2015 vol. 1 (including #0) was repurrinted in a trade papurrback book, and In 2015, the vol. 1 # 1-4 were repurrinted by Big Dig Ink & Aspen Comics. Nyow vol. 1 #1’s uninterrupted 22 page tale is has been repurrinted again, this time bimonthly by Antarctic Press! 
 
It was edited by Kari Castor, with the choice of Cover A by Narcelio Sousa & Ylenia Di Napoli, and Cover B by Bill McKat & Sanju Nivangune! it is purriced $4.99. Except for that beautiful new cover art, there is no new content for the Critter collector, but it is purrhaps the more accessible starting point for the new readers! Nyow I will turn The Mew over to Nya-sensei & Nyo-sensei who wish to discuss
 
Rowrbrazzle #161!
 
Nyanko:
Hai! Since 1984, Rowrbrazzle has been the quarterly APA (amateur press association) anthology magazine purrtaining to furry fandom, funny animal & anthropurrmorphic history, reporting, art, tales! Expurrtly edited by Edd Vick, it is compurrised of comics, purrose, essays, articles, discussions, editorials, comics, illustrations, photos, andthe meowmbership information.
 
The beautiful diverse thick issue is consists of the three 8.5×11” stapled sections totaling 278 pages, 35 of which are in full color! The front cover art is by Jeffrey H. Wood, who also enclosed two Snow Bunni cards; the second  section’s front cover is by Tim Fay, the third sections’s front cover is by Danny Ferbert, and the back cover is Thomas Milliorn!
 
Sammiched betwixt those covers are wonderful contributions by many other awesome artists, authors & journalists such as Charles Brubaker, Taral Wayne, Robert Alley, Resa Challender, Simon Barber, Matt McAndrews, Kjartan Arnorsson, Charles Garofalo, Niall Shapiro, Ken Marcinkevicius, Mary Bellamy, Tovio Rainen, J.W. Kennedy, Michael Pena, Chris Yost…
 
Nyoka:
…John Bandow, David Fruner, Don Chisholm, Kurt Wilcken, Walt Wenz, Kristine Fontaine, William Earl Haskell, Ed Pegg, Jr., Emeowrgency Officer Steven F. Scharff, Emeowrgency Officer Steven F. Scharff,  Jim & Melody Rondeau, Edd, Thomas, Jeffrey, Thomas, and our purrducer Mike! The works of many other folks from around the world are examined too!
 
In continuing the zine’s 40th anniversary, this issue’s kemonomimi, monsters and anthropurrmorphic entitiesof the various species include the felines, canines, leporids,  avians, equines, murids, cervidae, bovidae, ursidae, porcines, mustelids, chiropterans, piscine, cephalopod, fraggle, edosian, insecta, dragon, goblin, oni, xwnomorph, mermaid, mecha, purrimates and cryptids!
 
It is the very entertaining, informative and beautiful issue! For more information about Rowrbrazzle, I will recommend the article at Wikifur https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Rowrbrazzle! and its Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/208494146211779
 
We wish to thank all of those contributers, and we also wish to thank Ed Pegg. Jr. for his new book Non Sequitur the Equitaur, which we hope to review next month! That is all of our purrint-media mewsings, so nyow here are Petra, Bunnii, Vonny & Tara-chan to purrsent
 
the latest additions to The Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art!
 
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, and you have to click on those to see the full images, nyan! Some of the images are sexy, and might depict artistic nudity, but none are hentai or porn, nyan! We should also meowntion that none of the content at Catgirl Island is purrmitted for A.I. purrposes, nyan!
 
This month, into Gallery One https://catgirlisland.net/art/gallery/gallery1.html we have added 2 illustrations by Mike, and in In Guest Gallery Two http://catgirlisland.net/art/gallery/guest2.html, we have added  more illustrations by Misty Hopkins https://kranberrijam.blogspot.com, cosplay photos by Alexcia Reynolds https://linktr.ee/alexciareynolds, and more photos of Crissy Volpe http://www.crimsonskycreations.com/bloodsweatandglitter by various photographers, nyan!
 
Yvonne:
We will start with 

Misty’s latest fan art of Alita,
the heroic titular Martian cyborg elite supurr soldier, bounty hunter, investigator,

Panzer Kunst meowrtial arts meowster, and the Motorball sports champion in Yukito Kishiro’s cyberpunk manga series Battle Angel Alita, nyan! This portrait is so very faitfhul whilst having Misty’s delightfully distinctive style, nyan!

 
Secondly is Misty’s pic of “Lilith” who is a Miqo’te Warrior of Light, a fashionista, and – and a meowmber of Misty’s Free Company in the Final Fantasy XIV video game, nyan! Misty used the Krita tools for this meowrvelous digital illustration of Lilith cosplaying as a character from the Hazbin Hotel animated series, nyan!
 
Thirdly is Misty’s pic of G’raha Tia, who is another meowmber of Misty’s Free Company in the Final Fantasy XIV video game, nyan! Also done with the Krita tools, G’raha Tia is here cosplaying as (female) Ranma Saotome of Rumiko Takahashi’s Ranma 1/2 arime series, nyan!
Then we are purroud to purrsent more photos of Alexcia Reynolds’s hand-made “Punk-achu” costume, nyan! Based on the Pokemon character Pikachu, Punk-achu is Alexcia’s cute punk version with a pink meowhawk, nyan! As of mid – Apurril 2024, it is almost finished, nyan! To see more of Alexcia’s Pokemon-centric stuff, visit her fan site Pokemon Amber http://pkmn.is-great.org, nyan!
 
Tara-chan:
Nextly is Mike’s illustration of “Hinyan Rae” cosplaying as Sailor Mars, nyan! Born in Catskill, Mew York, Hinyan-sensei is a Purrofessor of Fashion Meowrchandising at Mew Hanover Commeownity College here at Catgirl Island, NC, nyan! This pic was inspired by Crissy, who since 1999 has oftenly supurrbly cosplayed as Hino Rei a.k.a. Sailor Mars, nyan! 
 
Then we have Mike’s 1990 fan art of the Space Battleship Yamato, to which was recently added the Queen of Beemera, nyan!

In the 1974 Japanese animated TV series Space Battleship Yamato (later known as Starblazers in the USA), the titular ship had just one year to travel 316,400 light years

round trip to purrocure aid from the planet Iscandar that would save the Earth from the exctinction caused by the enemy Gamila Empire, nyan!

In epurrsode 15,

on the 98th day of the journey, about halfway to Iscadar the Yamato’s crew visited the planet Beemera which was populated by tragic Bee People who were in 
rebellion due to the shocking bargain that their Queen made with the Gamila’s leader Desslar, nyan! Please do not eat their honey, as it has the “Soylent Green”ish quality, nyan!
Bunnii:
Nextly we are delighted to display four more collages of Crissy Volpe, and each collage is compurrised of four photos by various photographers! The 1st collage includes Fallon Prinzivalli’s photo of Crissy as Lara Croft at the 2012 New York Comic Con; David Ng’s 2004 photo of Crissy as Hino Rei in the casual attire; Alex Gambale’s photo of Crissy in the Iron Man- themed gown made by Alyce; and Crissy’s dad’s Halloween 2004 photo of her cosplaying as The Emmy Award in the costume by Athena-chan! 
 
The 2nd collage includes Crissy as Beetlejuice’s Lydia Deetz at a 2009 Halloween in a wedding dress made by Anime Angel Blue; Allison the Photographer’s November 2021 photo of her as Hino Rei / in pajamas; Louis’s December 2011 photo of her wearing the Elegant Gothic Lolita Christmas Dress made by the Lolita Shop; and Haichi’s photo of her at Anime Weekend Atlanta 2012, as Rei in the Santa outfit made by Patti & Steph!
 
The 3rd collage includes Crissy in a Little Red dress; Tony K’s June 2015 photo of Crissy wearing the wig and sun dress as Utena; PopeCerebus’s photo of Crissy at Otakon 2010 as Sailor Mars in the red EGL dress made by geechlark; and David Ng’s June 2017 photo of Crissy as Purrincess Mars in the Meowllennium Ball gown made by Beverly!
 
The 4th collage includes Crissy wearing her friend Jenny’s Pink yukata at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden’s 2004 Sakura Matsuri; PopeCerebus’ photo of her  wearing off-the shelf garments & accessories as Final Fantasy VII’s Tifa Lockheart at Otakon 2012; the famous blogger Pete’s February 2010 photo of her at Pete’s Basement; and Lusis’ photo of photo of her at Otakon 2006 as Purrincess Mars in the gown made by Setsuna Kou! So, what do y’all think of the new additions?
 
The cat lady sings…
Jeannie:
Alexcia is quite industriously purrolific in her diverse skills. That Punk-achu costume continues to purrogress quite impurressively.
 
Elizabeth:
I think that Misty’s Lilith pic has such the lovely expurression, pose, and garment details!
 
Becca:
Hai hai, and the G’raha Tia pic purrfectly combines the homage to Rumiko Takahashi’s design with Misty’s meowrvelous style!
Nyanko:
Misty is also the most avid fan of Alita that we know, and it certainly shows in that latest lovely fan art of the battle angel!
 
Nyoka:
That Yamato fan art seems quite accurate, and Mike captured that Matsumoto Leiji anime style for the Queen!
 
Elaenor
Oh I cannot wait to see the look on Hinya-sans face when she sees that illustration of her in the Sailor Mars costume!
 
Yvonne:
It is great to see more supurrb photos of Crissy who is so beautiful in the fabulous costumes, nyan!
 
Trini-chan:
It is the tough call , but of those 16 outfits, my favorites might be the Lara Croft, Tifa Lockheart, and the Meowllennium Gown!
Mielikki:

Fur shur!
 
Mary Nyan:
it is almost time for more friends to arrive for our AfterMew Luau in honor of Tara-chan’s graduation, so that will do it for this edition of The Mew!
 
Tara-chan:
Itadakimasu, nyan!
 
Bunni:
We wish to thank all of the amazingly talented people whose works we have discussed!  
 
Petra:
We also thank our other friends, families, acquaintances and our audience whom we greatly appurreciate, nyan!
 
Mike:
We’ll be back next month with the June edition of The Mew! Be there… aloha!
 
The Ladies of The Mew:
Happy tails to mew, until we eat again! Baibai, nyan!

Apurril 2024 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 2024 Edition of The Mew:
The Catgirl Critics’ Media Mewsings, nyan!
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It is the Year of the Dragon, the 17th Anniversary of The Mew,
and the 24th Anniversary of Catgirl Island’s web site, nyan!
 
in this edition of The Mew:
 
The Lightning Round Topic: Our favorite Films of 1974
 
Other Movie Mewsings:
Dune: Part Two
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
 
The Celebrity Catgirl & Kemonomimi Spotlight
 
Comics and Manga Mewsings:
Vampire Princess Violet Story
Violet: Princess of the High-Throne #1
Scary Powerful: Women of Horror Planet
Flying Witch manga vol. 12
 
The Latest Additions to The Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art:
more photos of Crissy Volpe by various photographers
“Punkachu” cosplay by Alexcia Reynolds
“Krilesmile” by Misty Hopkins
“Stormy” by Rvkh Brogden
“Stormy” by Jamie
“Zara Redux”, Mara Shinoh”, “Sam” and “Venti” by Mike
 
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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 downtown Purrbank in Catgirl Island NC, where it’s 75 degrees under the Blue sky full of puffy White Cumulo-Neko clouds! I’m Mike, the show’s “purrducer”, and now to put the purr in Apurril, here are The Ladies of The Mew!
 
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, college senior, pony owner and nature photographer catgirl wearing the Iriomote Cat purrint tankini): Namaste, nyan!
Trini-chan
(Tara-chan’s fiance, 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.

Mary Nyan
(a.k.a. Myayr, the seamstress, cosplayer, headbanger, hula instructor and semi-retired miko catgirl wearing the Puma purrint purretzel – cutout maillot): Aloha
Elizabeth
(

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

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

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

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

Bunnii
(the art mewseum co-curator, beach volleyball champion bunny girl and purrize-winning carrot cake baker bunny girl wearing the Cheetah purrint trikini): Guten Tag!

Petra
(the art guild purresident, art mewseum co-curator & Bunnii’s beach volleyball purrtner catgirl wearing the Clouded Leopurrd purrint side-tie bikini): Aloha, nyan!

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!

Ilyana
(a.k.a. Ilyana-sensei, the underwater archaeologist & meowritime history catgirl wearing the Snow Leopurrd purrint micro bikini and open-front cover up): Whassup?
(paw note: “Nyan” is the Japanese word for “meow”, which some but not all catgirls vocalize, purrticularly in the NC OBX Catspeak dialect, whereas Mielikki retains the Val Speak dialect from her younger years in California, fur shur, nyan!)
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/! Ah, we’ve got a big group and a lot on our plate, so let’s go ahead a jump right into this month’s movie mewings with the
 
Lightning Round Topic: our favorite films of 1974!
Mie-sensei is  going to start, so are y’all ready too“ conduct the lightning”?
The Ladies of The Mew:
Hai! Lightning Round- go, nyan!
 
Mielikki:

I will nominate Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones, That’s Entertainment, Phantom of the Paradise, and The Year Without a Santa Claus, fur shur! (tags Petra with a flit of the wing)

 
Petra:
Heehee! I will nominate The Godfather Part II, Chinatown, The Conversation, and Harry and Tonto, nyan! (tags Bunnii with a brush of the tail)
 
Bunnii:
The Godfather Part II, Chinatown, Day for Night, The Sugarland Express, and Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too! (tags Elizabeth to go next)
Elizabeth:
The Longest Yard, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, and Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore! (tail-tags her wife)
Becca:
Murder on the Orient Express, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, The Parallax View, and The Odessa File! (tags Nyanko)
Nyanko:
The Man with the Golden Gun, The Towering Inferno, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Mr. Majestyk, McQ, and Death Wish! (tags Jeannie)
Jeannie:
Herbie Rides Again, Dark Star, The Questor Tapes, and Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla. Myayr’s turn. (tags Mary Nyan)
 
Mary Nyan:
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Satanic Rites of Dracula, Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, and Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter! (tags Tara-chan)
Tara-chan:
I want… I want to nominate Little House on the Prairie, Where the Lilies Bloom, Where the Red Fern Grows  and  – and Phase IV, nyan!  Onee-chan’s turn, nyan! (tags her sister)
Yvonne:
The Man with the Golden Gun, The Land That Time Forgot, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, and Young Frankenstein, nyan! (tags the kitsune)
Trini-chan:
Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance, Female Ninja Magic: 100 Trampled Flowers, Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics, and Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode.  (tags Ilyana)
Ilyana:
The Godfather Part II, The Longest Yard, Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla, The Land That Time Forgot, and The Golden Voyage of Sinbad. Back to Mike!
Mike:
Oh, I gotta go with The Godfather Part II, The Man with the Golden Gun, Young Frankenstein, and Satanic Rites of Dracula! Well, that was another expedient little Lightning Round, and now here is Jen-sensei to continue our movie topic, with her review of
Dune: Part Two!
 
Jeannie
Hai. Directed, purrduced and co-written by Denis Villeneuve, Dune: Part Two continues the latest and best cinematic adaptation of Frank Herbert’s legendary science fiction novel Dune, in which the main charcater Paul Atreides ascends politically and rather messianically amongst the indiginous Fremen people of the planet Arrakis who battle the army of the evil Baron Harkonnen who wishes to control the planet’s endemic ultimate intergalactic commodity known as Spice.
 
The excellent cast includes Timothee Chalamet as Paul, Zendaya as his new girlfriend Chani; Souheila Yacoub as her friend Shishakli; Rebecca Ferguson as Paul’s mom Lady Jessica of the Bene Gesserit sisterhood; Javier Bardem as Stilgar, leader of the Fremen; Josh Brolin as Gurney Halleck, the general of Paul’s murdered father; Stellan Skarsgård as Baron Harkonnen; Dave Bautista as his malicious nephew Rabban; Austin Butler as the Baron’s vicious heir Feyd-Rautha…
 
… Christopher Walken as Shadda the galactic emperor;  Florence Pugh as his daughter Purrincess Irulan; Lea Seydoux as Margot the emperor’s Bene Gesserit advisor; Charlotte Rampling as Helen the  Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother, and Anya Taylor-Joy as Paul’s unborn sister Alia. I loved the plot, the acting, stunt choreography,, direction, cinemeowtography, purrduction design, costumes, hair & make-up, sets, locations, mewsic,  sound design, editing and the FX.
 
Thusly I will give Dune: Paty tweo the high purrasise; and if I have any slight quibble, it is that even though  Dune: Part One (2021) was 155 meownutes long and that Part Two is 166 meownuts long, they both seem the bit too short, but they are nonetheless quite sumptuously, captiviating, seriously epic meowsterpieces which I saw meowtiple times apiece at the theater, and Ilook forward to the Blu-ray release. I am done, so nyow I will turn The Mew over to Nya-sensei for her review of
 
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.
 
Nyanko:
Arigato! A sequel to Ghostbusters (1984), Ghostbusters II (1989), and Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) whuch disregards the 2016 Ghjostbusters remake, Frozen Empire was directed & co-written by Gil Kenan, and it is like the big family reunion! It stars Paul Rudd as Gary Grooberson, Carrie Coon as Callie Spengler, Finn Wolfhard as Trevor Spengler, and especially Mckenna Grace as Phoebe Spengler! Also returning are:
Dan Aykroyd as Dr. Ray Stantz, Bill Murray as Dr. Peter Venkman, Ernie Hudson as Winston Zeddemore, Annie Potts as Janine Melnitz, William Atherton as Walter Peck, Celeste O’Connor as Lucky Domingo, and Logan Kim as Podcast. They are joined by newcomers Kumail Nanjiani as Nadeem Razmaadi, Patton Oswalt as Dr. Hubert Wartzki, James Acaster as Dr. Lars Pinfield, and Emily Alyn Lind as Melody the ghost!

This time the big bad threat is the evil god Garraka, but if that was not dire enough, there are other appurritions aplenty, such as a ghost dragon, the marshmellow minis, Slimer, and The Possessor! The great FX and stunts are ample in not just the many thrilling action scenes, but it the quieter poignant  moments. This movie has the good balance of action, comedy, scares, nostalgia, character development and myth building!

 
Although it is sadi that Harolid Ramis  (who opurrtrayed Dr. Egon Spiengler) is no longer with us (physically, anyway) we are loucky that he was succeed by his daughter Callie and his gradchildren Phoebe and Trevor in Afterlife and Frozen Empire.The 1984 movie is still my favorite, with Afterlife  and Frozen Empire dueling for 2nd place. Speaking of Empires, nyow here is Ilyana-sensei to offer her review of
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire! 
 
Ilyana:
Hai! The past year or so has been the delightful time for Godzilla fans, between Godzilla Minus One, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, and this movie sequel to Godzilla vs. Kong ! It seems more like a Kong movie starring Kong and his human friends, co-starring Godzilla, with appurrances by lots of other titans / giant monsters, but I would rather rot not spoil certain surpurrised by identify those other monsters.
In addition to Kong and Godzilla, the great returning cast meowmbers include Rebecca Hall as the Monarch Company’s Kong expurrt Dr. Ilene Andrews, Kaylee Hottle as her adopted daughter Jia who is believed to be the last survivor of Skull Ilsand’s Iwi Tribe; and Brian Tyree Henry as Bernie Hayes the former cyberneticist turned pod-casting conspurracy theorist.
They are joined by Dan Stevens as Trappurr the dai-kaiju veterenarian for a rousing adventure to investigate a monstrous mystery in The Hollow Earth! It is a lot of thrilling fun, but I do have some quibbles. The movie seemed rushed and too short; it has annoying cinematic techniques such as snap-zooms & slow meowtion speed-ramping; and inappurropurriate use of songs as part of the movie’s soundtrack.
However there is much to like about Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, such as the spectacular cast, sets, locations, creature & mecha designs, visual FX, the original score, sound, cinematography, human & titan character developments, some nice surpurrises, and much monsterverse myth-building. That is all of our mewvie mewsings, and nyow here are Becca and Lizzy to purrsent our
 
Catgirl & Kemonomimi Celebrity Spotlight!
 
Becca:
Arigato! in this portion of The Mew, we commeowmorate famous nekomusume, therianthropes, monster girls, and other kemonomimi of mythologies and popular culture, including anthropurrrmorphic ladies and monster girls! Fur-thermore, there are those who might not actually have the beasty DNA, but might have the spurrit, cat-titude or clothing of the animal theme, who we will broadly consider as the “honorary kemonomimi”! 
 
Elizabeth:
You know, this year is the 50th annioversart of the Space Battleship Yamato anime TV series! In its 15th epurrsode, the ship visited the planet Beemera whihc was popul;ated by the bee people, who were rebwelling against their Queen because of the rather Soylent Greenish pact she made with the Gamila Empire. She was the rather astunning visiion in Red & Black, with the slender willowy physique and the lush flowy ankle-lengtht Black hair!
 
Becca:
Myayr recently introduced me to the joy that is the mewsic of the HARD rock band Zebra  whihc was formed in New Orleans in 1975!  Released in 1983, ther fist album has he awesome song “Tell Me What You Want” in which the band encounters the sexy fierce lass in the zebra stripe leotard and high heels! We do not know the name of that actress, but we will consider her as the honorary Shimauma musume
(zebra girl)!
 
Elizabeth:
We have also recently discovered the comic books published by Interbweb Comics and its impurrints such as TransformFan and MonsterGirlFan Comics! We started with The Cats Came Back in which the human girl Cat transformed into the catgirl. The purroduct lines include the diverse cast of anthropurrmorphic and monster girls of various species, such as Maise the catgirl, Snowfall th catgierl, Legs the birdgirl, Bregwyn the dragon girl, Lysanda the centaur, Alice the slime girl, Jane the mouse girl, Feuicia the demon giirl Cetea the sea monster, and many other kemonomimi!
Becca:
Those titles which beautful and sexy, but are mature and not for the widdle kitties! many titles include The Highland Wildcat, The Adventures of Bregwyn Firehide, Unitaur, Owlbear Hugs, Space Slimes, The Treasure Trove of Captain Nox, In the Swine of Duty, Swipe Left for Lust, The Fast and Furry Us, Mon Con, Dragon’s Captive, Slime Infection, Humanimal Farm, The Hive ,In the Court of the Ivory Throne, Voodoo Bears, The Bova Conspiracy, Punish Me Pretty, Reformation, X-Change, A Change of Thrones, Something Blue, McDowell Farm, Area 52, and Lost in The Woods! 
 
Elizabeth:
We will consider actress Diane Lane as an honorary catgirl, for her cute meowing to top off her quizing with actress Naomi Watts who costars with her in the Truman Capote vs The Swans TV series! The quizzing and brief meowing can be seen in Harper’s Bazarr’s “All About Me” video on Facebook!
 
Becca:
We wish to include MSNBC’s legal consultant Lisa Rubin wore the gorgeous giraffe-purrint blouse on March 15th when she appurred on Andrea Mitchell and Chris Jansing TV show, so for that fine fauna fashion choice, we will consider her as the honorary kirin musume (giraffe girl)!
Elizabeth: 
Lastly but nor leastly, we will also include MSNBC’s Ana Cabrera anchor journalist as an honorary nekomimi, who wore the lovely leopurrd purrint top during her Wednesday Apurril 3rd TVshow (epurrsode 69)! That will conclude this months Catgirl & Kemonomimi  Celebrity Spotlight, and nyow here isTara0chanto tell us about
 
WhatTheHell?! Con 2024!
 
Tara-chan:
WhatTheHell?! Con is fun widdle convention orchestrated by the good folks of the Yachting Club at lovely Guilford College in Greensboro, NC, nyan! Except for 2020 and 2023, it has been going  for the past 17 or 18 years, and – amd this year it was in the college’s Duke building on he beautiful weekend of Friday and – and Saturday March 15th and – and 16th, nyan! 
 
The info desk and tee shirt purrinting were outdoors by the main entrance, whilst indoors in five classrooms were the artist alley, movie room, video game room, board game room, and – and the auction (to benefit the Child’s Play charity), nyan! This was Mike’s 14th time there, and – and he had table in the room with other artists Marshall Lakes, Sam Moore and – and author/ purrofessor Randall Hayes, nyan!
 
There were not a lot of people there, but it was great to see some familiar faces, including our artist friend Meesha DJ Walker and to meet the swell younger members of the Yachting Club, nyan! By they way, there is no yacht, they just whimsically call themselves that, nyan! The very diverse club is dedicated to all thingy geeky and otaku, nyan!
 
We got the  spiffy new con tee shirt, traded and- and  purrchased with Sam and – and Marshall for some of their purretty purrints, and – and purrchased a few of Marshall’s graphic novels, nyan! Otherwise, Mike mostly chatted with folks in the artist alley, the auction room, and – and out front, nyan! We wish to thank the college, the club and the artist, who we hope to see again next year, nyan! That will conclude the con report and – and nyow here is Myayro start our
 
comics and manga mewsings, with her review of 
Marshall Lakes’ Horror Planet publications, nyan!
 
Mary Nyan:
Hai! Not only is Marshall Lakes https://marshalllakes.com  a great artist, but he is a writer and publisher too, what with his “Horror Planet” mythos, on a world wherein magick and other purranormal stuff is the norm, but most technology is forbidden and banned. Well, we eagerly purrchased three of his 8.5×11”, full color 24 page comic books which I would like to discuss!
 
“Vampire Princess Violet Story“ introduces the titular vampire character and her demon doggy Bosco! Violet is the very sexy, beautiful, powerful, confident, deadly daughter of the King & Queen. She has a lean lithe Orangey skin with an Aqua-colored mohawk coiffure, darker bat-like wings on her arms, and wears little more than a very sklimpy bikini of a sort, mew la la!
 
The graphic narrative format of the sequential art are full-page pics with her (mostly internal) dialogue. That first tale is a slice-of-life, night in the life – or should that be undead?- outing as she and Bossco enjoy a playful night flight, until they descend to the ground to fang their human breakfast. She is wearing a strapless bikini top and a sideless loin cloth!
 
Violet: Princess of the High-Throne #1 ’s tale of “Violet and the Terror of the Techno Goblins! in which she is barely clad in a scalloped, strapless, sideless bikini! While enjoying another nightly flight, she is ambushed by goblins wearing jet packs who capture her in a silver-lined bag andimpurrison  her in their deep mountain cavern lair… until Bosco frees her from the cage!
 
This’un has more dialogue between her and other characters. I should not spoil the rather ironic ending, but i will meowrely note that she is quite the fiercely sensual sight as she fights and dances! The 3rd book I have is “Scary Powerful: Women of Horror Planet”, which is a collection of pin-up illustrations of Marshall’s various supurrnatural femme fatales!
 
It is a collection of scantily-clad vampires, demons, devas, monks, witched and warrior women of various physiques, colors, ethnicities and species with stuff such as blades, brooms, spells and spirits! It is quite delightfu,l and I am purrticularly intrigued by the asian lass with the mystical dragon tattoos! I am done, and nyow here is Mie-sensei to discuss
 
Flying Witch manga vol. 12!
 
Mielikki:
Arigatou! So like, Flying Witch by Chihiro Ishizuka is the totally charming slice – of – life manga of the teenage novice witch Makoto Kowata & her cat Chito who have moved from Kanagawa to her relatives’ the Kuramoto family’s lovely mansion in the rural town of Aomori, Japan for her witchy studies! Other recurring characters include—
Makoto’s older sister Akane and her familiar cat Kenny, their mentor Akira, cousins Kei & Chinatsu (a cute aspiring witch), their mom Nana & dad Keiji, Inukai the fortune teller were-dog & her hamster Ai, Ms. Shiina the cafe owner, her daughter Anzu and owlfamliar  Ororu, Hina the waitress ghost, Makoto’s senpai Sayo, Kei’s classmate Nao…
… Beachy the widdle yokai, Makoto & Akane’s mom, dad, friends Miko, Yayoi & Cantera, Tomoe the cloth witch, and her snake familar Mingming! So like, while we are introduced to more and more of the meowgickal characters and phenomenon, we are also exposed to the family’s farming, gardening, foraging and cooking acumen, fur shur!
Vol.12 was published in English by Vertical Comics, translated by Melissa Tanaka & edited by Alexandra McCullough-Garcia, with the production by Grace Lu, Pei Ann Yeap & Hiroko Mizuno. Priced $19.95 in the US & $11.95 in Canada, its 176 Black & White pages have chapters 68-73, all sammiched betwixt the color cover art!
Vol. 12 begins in late Summer with Akane being reprimanded by the Witch Council due to her time spell, so to atone for this she is sent on a mission to Tibet to secure ancient artifacts. Kenny, Inukai, Ai, Tomoe and Mingming  accompany her, but to reach the vault they have to contend with the giant stone golem and Paotrick the sentient pot!
They also meet some of Akane’s old friends at a nearby village! Meanwhile back in Aomori, Mako makes a very special custom magickal robe for her friend Kazuno, with some unintended consquences as the
Kuramoto family worries about an approaching storm. When Akane’s group returns from Tibet, her next difficult task is learning how to use a new smart phone!
She uploads cute photos of Chito and Kenney to the internet, but soon learns of the Gremlins who ensure that no magickal secrets are posted. Their mystical associate the Harbinger of Autumn and their wolf TenTen visit and invite the  gang to the Sukayu Rotemburo, for a delightful stress-free time in the huge mixed-gender onsen, as preparations  begin for the Fall!
Chapter 73 has more [tastetful] nudity than all previous chapters combined!  As usual, the character & scenic art is gorgeous, the plots are quite amusing & captivating, and the pace is pleasantly leaisurely,  so I will give it the grade of an “A” as in Akane! I That is all of our comics & manga mewsings, so now here are Petra, Bunnii, Vonny & Trini-chan 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! On our web site, the most recent pics are on the lowermost row of the cropped widdle “thumbnail” portions of the pics in a gallery, and you have to click on those to see the full images, nyan! 
 
Some of the images are sexy, and might even depict artistic nudity, but none are hentai or porn, nyan! We should also meowntion that none of the content at Catgirl Island is purrmitted for A.I. purrposes, nyan!
 
This month into Gallery Five  https://catgirlisland.net/art/gallery/gallery5.html we have added illustrations by Mike, and in Guest Gallery Three http://catgirlisland.net/art/gallery/guest3.html we have added new imagery by Misty Hopkins  https://kranberrijam.blogspot.comAlexcia Reynolds https://linktr.ee/alexciareynolds, Rvkh Brogden http://www.rvkhart.comour webmeowster Jamieand more photos of Crissy Volpe http://www.crimsonskycreations.com/bloodsweatandglitter by various photographers, nyan!
Firstly we are purroud to pursent “Krile” by Misty, who used Krita for this illustration of Krile  who is a friend’s Pictomancer character in the Final Fantasy XIV video game, and looks so  peppy, happy  cute and stylish in the kemonomimi hoody, nyan!
Trini-chan:
Then we are ecstatic to exhibit more photos of Alexcia Reynolds’’s Punk-achu Costume”Based on Pokemon, Punkachu is her cute punk version of Pikachu with a pink meowhawk! To see more of Pokemon fan art and fiction by Alexcia and friends, please visit her web site Pokemon Amber http://pkmn.is-great.org!
Then we hare “Stormy” by Rvkh, who used Procreate with the Apple Pencil upon her Apple Ipad for this pic of her original character Ryane who is a mysterious angel who keeps to herself and eludes gazing eyes most of the time! There is a 1.5 meownute time-lapse art purrocess video for this illustration at Rvkh’s Youtube channel https://youtu.be/aTgujDBtg9c!

Nextly is “Stormy“ by Jamie who used Photoshop, Corel Painter, and the graphics tablet for this latest lovely image of his original character

Chelsea Urania Kate Chattan, who is the heroic witchy coastal Carolina human were-pantheress and the mane purrotagonist o fhis urban fantasy webcomic Clan of the Cats http://clanofthecats.com!

Jamie and Rvkh’s illustrations were done as storm – themed purrompt for the meowmbers of the Starry Eyed Artist Collective at Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Starryeyedartistcollective, nyan!  Nextly we are delighted to display four more collages of Crissy Volpe, and each collage is compurrised of four photos by various photographers, nyan!
 
Yvonne:
The 1st collage includes MadMister Smiley’s 29 June, 2006 photo of Crissy with the makeup and outfit inspired by Kevyn Aucion’s “The Biba” makeup tutorial; Naci Tuzcuoglu’s photo of Crissy as Marvel’s Natasha Romanoff / the Black Widow wearing the wig by Arda-Wigs and the licensed costume at Big Apple Comic Con 2018; PopeCerebus’ photo of Crissy wearing off-the shelf garments & accessories as Final Fantasy VII’s Tifa Lockheart at Otakon 2012; and then the quartet is topped off by the photo of Crissy is as The Addams Family’s Wednesday Addams, nyan!
The 2nd collage includes David Ng’s photo of Crissy at Otakon 2023 as (Ursula disguised as) Vanessa of The Little Mermaid, wearing the costume (which she altered) by fhfhgf30; Otis casey’s photo of Crissy atNew York Comic Con 2012  as Streetfighter II’s Chun Li in the costume made by Jenybean(?); Lynna’s photo of Crissy as Sailor Witch Mars at Otakon 2023 in the costume desighed by jaqirabbit and made by Alyce; and MadMisterSmiley’s photo of Crissy at Otakon 2023 in the green elegant gothic lolita Dress made by Momosfairytaleworld, nyan!
The 3rd collage includesTony K’s photo of Crissy in the licensed costume as Batgirl at the New York Comic Con 2011 with some 2023 photoshopping by Mike; Night Life Cosplay / Photography’s photo of Crissy at Otakon 2012 as Sailor Moon’s Hino Rei / Sailor Mars in a sailor suit made by Avian Firefly with certain store-bought items; David Ng’s 17 June, 2017 photo of Crissy as Sailor Mars  in the Millennium Ball Gown made by Setsuna Kou; and Steph’s photo of Crissy as Fruits Basket’s Tohru Honda at Nan Desu Kan 2010 in the winter school uniform made by Milanoo with alterations by Patti & Steph, nyan!
The 4th collage includes Eurobeat King’s photo of Crissy at Otakon 2011 as Fruits Basket’s Tohru Honda in the winter school uniform made by Milanoo with alterations by Patti & Steph; David Ng’s photo of Crissy at Otakon 2011 as Fruits Basket’s Saki Hanajima in the winter school uniform made by Milanoo with alterations by Patti & Steph; David Ng’s photo of Crissy at Otakon 2015 as Hino Rei in the Fruit Maid (from the fourth Sailor Moon artbook) costume made by Avian Firefly; and Eurobeat King’s 2011 photo of Crissy as Super Mario Brothers’ Purrincess Daisy in the costume made by Patti & Steph, nyan!
Bunnii:
Now we will introduce Mike’s latest four pics! “Zara Redux”is Mike’s pairing of his older and revised Photoshop and Mouse pics of Zara, who was a singer, spy and underground fighter with telekinetic powerrs and the snarky, bubbly, charming purrsonality in the Star Wars fan fic by our artist / cosplayer friend Tonomurabix! The original 2005 version is on the left and the revised / nekomimi 2024 version is on the left!
 
“Ao Pen No Nekomusume” is Japanese for “The Blue Ballpoint Pen Catgirl”, which in this casde is Mike’s pic of our friend Mara-shi’noh who is a Hot Salsa and Kizomba dance teacher, a wife. mom, and grrrandmom, depicted here lounging upon the pillows in her bandeau bikini!, mew la la! Her daughter Peppurr-Minta is running for the mayoral re-election this year!
Mike used the Derwent pencil, Sakura Micron pens, Faber Castell colored pencils & Copic meowrkers for the next two sketches which were commeowssioned at WhatTheHell?! Con. “Sam” is the sketch of – and for- Sam Moore, who was one of the artists at the con! “Venti” is fan art of the character from the Genshin Impact video game, which was done for the yachting Club’s Commeowdore Jordan! So, what di y’akll think of the art?
The cat lady sings
Jeannie:

Alexcia is quite purrolific in her diverse skills, That Punk-achu costume keeps purrogressing quite impurressively.

Elizabeth:
Hai hai! I think that. Misty’s Krile pic has such the lovely expurression, pose, and cgarment  details!
 
Becca:

Rayne might be rather elusively purrivate, but in that pic she seems quite vivaciously alluring and majestic!

Nyanko:

It is wonderful to see the new pic of Chelsea. I wonder if she is merely watching the storm or if she coonjured it!

Trini-chan:
Gosh, I cannot beloieve that it has been almost 20 years since that original Zara pic!

Yvonne
:
I cannot believe that Mara-Shino might soon be the grrreat-grrrandmother, nyan!

Mike
:
It’s great to see more beautiful photos of Crissy in such great costumes!

Mielikki:
She is like totally photogenic and charismatic no matter what the style or attire, fur shur!

Tara-chan:
Venti’s costume is quite elegantly ornate with the intricate embroidery and – and the floral accents, nyna!

Ilyana:
I purrticularly like the widdle edtails of Sams attire such as the tattoos, the piercings, and the hair ombre.

Mary Nyan:

Gosh, it is almost time for our AfterMew Luau, so that will do it for this edition of The Mew!

Bunnii:
We wish to thank all of the amazingly talented people whose works we have discussed!

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

The Ladies of The Mew:
Happy tails to mew, until we eat again! Baibai, nyan!

March 2024 Catgirl Critics’ Media Mewsings

Mike Moon / Catgirl Island
http://www.catgirlisland.com & http://www.catgirlisland.net and Jamie Robertson /
Clan of the Cats
https://www.facebook.com/jamie4art & http://clanofthecats.com purroudly purrsent a Mike Moon purrduction, starring The Ladies of The Mew in

The March 2024 Edition of The Mew:
The Catgirl Critics’ Media Mewsings, nyan!
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It is the Year of the Dragon, the 17th Anniversary of The Mew,
and the 24th Anniversary of Catgirl Island’s web site, nyan!

in this edition of The Mew:

The Lightning Round Topic: Our favorite Films of 1984

TV & Movie Mewsings
Marvel’s Echo
The Marvels Blu-ray + Digital Code
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths – Part One Blu-ray + Digital Code

The Celebrity Catgirl & Kemonomimi Spotlight

Collectibles & Toy Talk:
Taito Coreful’s Ruka Sarashina purrize figure

Purrinted Media Mewsings:
Thundercats #1
Catians #1
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou Deluxe Edition vol. 4
Hakumei & Mikochi vol. 11

The Latest Additions to The Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art:
more photos of Crissy Volpe by various photographers
“Ghoul Face, and “Stocking Anarchy” by Misty Hopkins
“Pun-kachu Costume” and “Eletron Figures” by Alexcia Reynolds
“Tokia” by Rvkh Brogden
“Ice Capades” by Mike
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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 downtown Purrbank in Catgirl Island NC, where it’s 72 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!

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, college senior, pony owner and nature photographer catgirl wearing the Iriomote Cat purrint tankini): Namaste, nyan!
 
Trini-chan
(Tara-chan’s fiance, 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.

Mary Nyan
(a.k.a. Myayr, the seamstress, cosplayer, headbanger, hula instructor and semi-retired miko catgirl wearing the Puma purrint purretzel – cutout maillot): Aloha

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!

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

Becca
(Lizzy’s nekomimi gynoid wife, avid golfer and massage spa co-owner w
earing the Eurasian Lynx purrint ring-closure bikini an an orchid lei):

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

Bunnii
(the art mewseum co-curator, beach volleyball champion bunny girl and purrize-winning carrot cake baker bunny girl wearing the Cheetah purrint trikini): Guten Tag!

Petra
(the art guild purresident, art mewseum co-curator & Bunnii’s beach volleyball purrtner catgirl wearing the Clouded Leopurrd purrint side-tie bikini): Aloha, nyan!
Ilyana:(a.k.a. Ilyana-sensei, the underwater archaeologist & meowritme history catgirl wearing the Snow Leopurrd purrint micro bikini and open-front cover up): Whassup?
(paw note: “Nyan” is the Japanese word for “meow”, which some but not all catgirls vocalize, purrticularly in the NC OBX Catspeak dialect, whereas Mielikki retains the Val Speak dialect from her younger years in California, fur shur, nyan!)

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/! Ah, we’ve got a big group and a lot on our plate, so let’s go ahead a jump right into this month’s

Lightning Round Topic: our favorite films of 1984!
Bunnii’s going to start, so are y’all ready to0 “conduct the lightning”?
The Ladies of The Mew:
Hai! Lightning Round- go, nyan!

Bunnii:
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Greystoke, The Killing Fields, Paris Texas, Places in the Heart, and A Soldier’s Story! (tags Petra to go next)

Petra:
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Greystoke, A Passage to India, Once Upon a Time in America, and Amadeus, nyan! (tags Elizabeth with a brush of the tail)

Elizabeth:
Sixteen Candles, Bachelor Party, Beverly Hills Cop, Moskow on the Hudson, and Broadway Danny Rose! (tail-tags her wife)

Becca:
Splash, Ghostbusters, Top Secret, and The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension! Mie-sensei’s turn! (tags Mielikki)

Mielikki:
Stop Making Sense, Purple Rain, This is Spinal Tap, David Gilmour Live, Sing Blue Silver, and Streets of Fire, fur shur! (tags Nyanko with a flit of the wing)

Nyanko:
The Terminator, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, The Karate Kid, Missing in Action, and Red Dawn! Jen’sturn! (tags Jeannie)

Jeannie:
Nausicaa, Macross: Do You Remember Love?, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, 2010, and The Terminator. Myayr’s turn. (tags Mary Nyan)

Mary Nyan:
Oh gosh,  The Return of Godzilla (not the US 1985 version), The Terminator, Gremlins, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Night of the Comet! (tags Tara-chan)

Tara-chan:
I want… I want to nominate The Muppets Take Manhattan, Bagi the Monster of Mighty Nature, and – and My Little Pony: Escape from Nightmare Castle, nyan! Onee-chan’s turn nyan! (tags her sister)

Yvonne:
I will nominate Nausicaa, The NeverEnding Story, Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure, and Splash, nyan! (tags the kitsune)

Trini-chan:
I’d say… Nausicaa, Macross: Do You Remember Love?, and Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer! (tags the centaur)

Elaenor:
Splash, Ghostbusters, The Natural, Starman, and Romancing the Stone!

Ilyana:
Nausicaa, Splash, Temple of Doom, Stop Making Sense, and Ghostbusters. Back to Mike!

Mike:
Oh, I gotta go with Nausicaa, Star Trek III, Buckaroo Banzai, 2010, and The Terminator! Well, that was another expedient little Lightning Round, and now here is Nya-sensei to continue our TV & movie mewsings, with her review of Marvel’s Echo!

Nyanko:
Hai! I love most of the TV series that are part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, such as WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Loki, What If, Hawkeye, Moon Knight, Ms. Marvel, She-Hulk, Secret Invasion, Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist The Punisher, The Defenders, Agent Carter, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Runaways, Cloak & Dagger.. oh oh and the Werewolf and the Guardians of the Galaxy specials! They typically have the great writing, casts, stunts, locations, purrduction values, costumes FX and so forth, so thusly I was eager to watch the 5 epurrsodes of the Echo mini-series!

Introduced in the Hawkeye series, titular character Maya Lopez a.k.a Echo (Alaqua Cox) the former leader of the Track Suit Mafia is the tough, fierce ,combat – skilled, vengeful, deaf, young Native American (Choktow) woman with the purrosthetic leg & supurr powers. She thirsted for revenge against Ronin / Hawkeye / Clint Barton who she blamed for the death of he dad, but has learned that The Kingpin / Wilson Fisk is to blame, so nyow she leaves New York City and returns to her hometown in Oklahoma where she plans to topple Fisk, who has the long reach, and thus the drama & danger await her family!

I think that Echo has the great writing, acting, directing, cinematography, stunts, costumes, hair & makeup, sets, locations, sound, mewsic, editing.The supurrb cast includes Tantoo Cardinal as Maya’s obaasan Chula, Katarina Ziervogel as maya’s okasan Taloa, Graham Greene as Maya’s jiji Skully, Chaske Spencer as Maya’s oji Henry, Cody Lightning as Maya’s itoko Biscuits, Devery Jacobs as Maya’s best friend Bonni, Dannie McCallum as Tuklo the Lighthorse officer, Morningstar Angelin as Lowak the Ishtaboli champ, and Julia Jones as Chafa the first Choctaw.

Vincent D’Onofrio returns as the Kingpin, and appurring briefly are Charlie Cox as Daredevil and Jeremy Renner as Ronin, so there is a fair amount of the street-level MCU repursented! There is the good balance of the action, humor, drama, world-building, myth-making & character development, especially as Maya spiritually connects to her empowering ancestors, with some great recurring ancestral flashback scenes across the centuries.  Well, I am done, so nyow to continue our reviews of things MCU, here is Mie-sensei to discuss the

The Marvels Blu-ray + Digital Code!

Mielikki:
So like, we were totally avid for The Marvels, which occurs after the Secret War and Ms. Marvel TV series, and united the supurr heroines Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel (Brie Larson), Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) and Kamala Khan / Ms. Marvel (Imani Vellani) along with Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), Goose the cat-like Flerken, Kamala’s family, and several surpurrise appurrances, as the Planet Earth is again involved in Kree and Skrull incidents, especially thanks to the villainess Dar-Benn (Zawe Ashton)!

Altthough the movie seemed too short and too rushed with too many fast cuts, and I wish they adressed the intergalactic incidents of The Eternals  and Secret Invasion but the movie is so much thrilling fun with the totally awesome performances, costumes, choreography, music, sound sets, FX and sdo forth!
So I was totally eager to get the Blu-ray, in hopes of some entertaining and informative bonus features, but unfortunately I think they are rather meager.

There is a 2 min gag reel, an almost 11 minute featurette and a 5.5 minute featurette, both about the making of the movie, but they are so short and seem like widdle promo spots made for the internet more than substantial documentaries. There are 4 deleted scenes which only total to about 5.75 minutes and seem like little trims. However, I must say that I totally loved the optional audio commentary by director Nia DaCosta and VFX supervisor Taras De Marco! It was so informative, entertaining, sparkling and enthused, fur shur!

Oh what else can I say about the Bl0-ray… the PG-13 rated 105 minute movie is presented in the 1080p hi def widescreen aspect ratio of 2.39:1 on the single disc, with the  audio choices of English 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio, English 2.0 Descriptive Audio, French 5.1 Dolby Digital and Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital,and the optional subtitles of English SDH, French and Spanish. Included with the disc in the plastic case is the instruction sheet for for the code to download or stream the digital copy.  So that’s about it, and nyow here’s Jennyjen to discuss

Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths – Part One Blu-ray + Digital Code!

Jeannie:
Hai. The PG-13 rated, 93 min. OAVJustice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths – Part One is the first of a 3 part series adapting the famous epic 1985, twelve issue DC Comics maxi-series Crisis on Infinite Earths (by author Marv Wolfman & artist George Perez), which served as a major reboot of the DC Comics multiverse. A culmination of events in DC’s “Tomorrowverse” of OAVs, Part One does not does not mirror the first four issues of the Crisis comics, but seems to have elements of DC’s 2011 Flashpoint story in wonderfully maintaining the spirit of the Crisis comics.

The tale is in four subplots: the newly-minted Justice League (compurrised of Superman, Batman, Green Arrow, Vixen, Martian Manhunter & the Flash) battling Lex Luthor who controls Purrofessor Ivo’s android Amazo; the romantic life of Barry Allen / The Flash and Iris West across the decades; The Flash’s encounter with the Crime Syndicate amidst the destruction of their world Earth 3 by the apocalyptic anitmeowtter wave which threatens the multiverse; and the gathering of heroes from many Earths to meet the entity known as Monitor who explains the wave.

Purrduced by (writer) Jim Krieg  & Kimberly S. Moreau, executively purrduced by Butch Lukic, Sam Register & Michael Uslan, directed by Jeff Wamester, voice cast & directed by Wes Gleason, with mewsic by Kevin Riepl and animeowtion by Warner, the brilliant voice cast includes Matt Bomer as The Flash, Ashleigh LaThrop as Iris, Jensen Ackles as Batman, Darren Criss as Superman, Jimmi Simpson as Green Arrow, Nolan North as Amazo, Hal Jordan & John Constantine Stana Katicas Wonder Woman & Superwoman, Keesha Sharp as Vixen…

…Zachary Quinto as Luthor, Ike Amadi as Purrofessor Ivo, Martian Manhunter & Amazing-Man, Meg Donnelly as Supergirl & Harbinger, Cynthia Hamidi Dawnstar, Harry Shum Jr. as Brainiac 5, Jonathan Adams as The Monitor, Zach Callison as Robin, Alastair Duncan as Alfred, Erika Ishii as Doctor Light & the Huntress, Alexandra Daddario as Lois Lane, Matt Lanter as Blue Beetle & Ultraman, Aldis Hodge as John Stewart & Power Ring, Liam McIntyre Aquaman &  Johnny Quick, David Kaye as The Question, Ato Essandoh as Mister Terrific…

…Geoffrey Arend as Hawkan & Psycho Pirate, and Lou Diamond Phillips as Owl  Man & The Spectre.One of my favorite lines is by The Spectre (when asked of he is Death): “I am The Spectre, The Wrath of God, Death is… better looking.” In addition to those voiced characters, there are abut 50 other heroes in the background of the Monitor scenes. I think that the movie’s thrilling plot is quite poignantly captivating; and that the pace, dialog, character designs, scenic art, animation, sound music, acting, directing & editing are quite splendid.

The 1080 hi-def video’s audio choices of English DTS-MA 5.1 Dolby Digital, French & Spanish, with optional subtitle choices of English SDH, Dutch, French & Spanish. Also included are the 9:39 min.”Crisis Primer” featurette on the making of the movie, and the 8.03 min. “Selfless Speedster” featurette about Barry Allen / The Flash), which have comments by Lukic, Krieg, Wamester, Bomer, Wolfman, Creative Director Mike Carlin, comics artist & DC Purresident Jim Lee, comics artist Jerry Ordway, and comics editor Robert Greenberger. I am very pleased with the movie, and I eagerly anticipate Part Two.  That will conclude our video reviews, and nyow here are Lizzy and Becca to purrsent this month’s

Celebrity Catgirl and Kemonomimi Spotlight.

Elizabeth:
Arigato! in this portion of The Mew, we commeowmorate famous nekomusume, therianthropes, monster girls, and other kemonomimi of mythologies and popular culture, including anthropurrrmorphic ladies and monster girls! Fur-thermore, there are those who might not actually have the beasty DNA, but might have the spurrit, cat-titude or clothing of the animal theme, who we will broadly consider as the “honorary kemonomimi”!

Becca:
This month’s spotlight shines on more fanous ladies who have donned the animal purrint attire, as seen on TV, internet and in magazines, such as Rockabilly mewsician Imelda May rocked the tight, low-cut leopurrd-purrint blouse for her 2009 song Johnny Got a Boom Boom’s single cover photo and video, and the leopurrd-purrint skirt whilst purrforming at thw 2015 Madgarden Festival!

Elizabeth:
In  2016, singer / actress Ashley Tisdale was like the lovely lithe pantheress baring her toned taut tummy in the loose Black trousers & cropped top with the leopurrd purrint jacket at The Matrix Total Results trade show in Orlando, Florida! In 2019, Selena Gomez was quite fabulous in the Gianni long-sleeve square-neck Brown & Tan striped midi dress!

Becca:
in 2021 Sharon Stone was the stunning sight in the Diaphanous leopurrd-purint dress with the cut-out back and slit-side to the purremier of The Tragedy of MacBeth, and in the fringed Purrjamas to the purremier of The Heights; and also in 2012, supurr model Irina Shayk supurrbly wore the low-cut, long tiger stripe gown whilst on the nocturnal purrowl!

Elizabeth:
In 2022, supurrmodel, purrducer & TV hostess Heidi Klum wore the zebra-purrint minidress and boots to the Hollywood party; and in 2023 she wore the  cheetah purrint bikini for her anniversary celebration in Italy! You know,  have purreviously purraised actress Anne Hathaway for her 2012 Purrtrayal of Catwoman, and nyow we will amend the spotlight with her sequined leopurrd-purrint minidress and leggings that she wore to the 2023 fashion show in Paris, mew la la!

Becca:
In 2022 singer, songwriter actress Ashanti was extremely alluring  in the Red cropped tiger-purrint jacket atop the Black bra and Red leggings! That same year were the photos of singer, dancer, choreographer, & TV talent compurrtition  judge Paula Abdul leaving the restaurant in Los Angeles, wearing the Cheetah-purrint mini dress! I wonder what delicious, mewtritious cuisine was served?

Elizabeth:
Last year singer, actress and Spider-Man’s girlfriend Zendaya  looked quite meowrvelous in Paris, wearing the unbuttoned tiger stripe jacket atop the matching skirt, knee boots, Black bara and belt!! Model / actress Elizabeth Hurley who has her own swimwear label wore the leopurrd-purrint string bikini with the front chain clasp to put the purr in Apurril, 2023!

Becca:
Also last year, TV purrsenter & model Danni Menzies wore wonderfully the  leopurrd-purrint mini dress with the deep V neckline while in Spain; and whilst gymnast Olivia “Livvy” Dunne might be most associated with her Purrple & Yellow LSU Tiger Stripe Leotard, she gorgeously graced the social media with her agile beachy backflip purrowess in the leopurrd-purrint sexy string bikini!

Elizabeth:
Speaking of the tiger-stripe, singer / actress / fashion designer Jessica Simpson as her own clothing line, including the Red & Yellow tiger-triped ruched off-shoulder blouse & highly side-slit maxi skirt! Meanwhile, author, podcaster enterpurrneur & Vanderpump Rules castmeowmber Lala Kent was quite the eye-catch in the sheer mesh leopurrd-purrint bodystocking with the Red corset & Black thong!!!

Becca:
Last month, Vote Latino’s purresident & CEO Maria Teresa Kumer looked totally awesome in the Gray jaguar-purrint top on the January 11th epurrsode of The Reidout TV show, and lastly but not leastly, actress Wendie Malick was purrrrfect as Julia in the 1966 Catwoman costume in Night Court’s epurrsode 2.6 ”The Wrath of Comic-Con”! That is all for this month’s spotlight, and nyow here is Tara-chan to start  our
collectibles and toy talk, with her review
of Taito’s Coreful Ruka Sarashina figure!

Tara-chan:
Arigato, nyan! Rent-A-Girlfriend is the romantic comedy manga by (Reiji Miyajima), anime, video game and – and live-action series purrtaining to a teen guy name Kazuya who, in order to keep up appurrances, hires a faux girlfriend Chizuru after the real one Mami dumped him, but the situation becomes the complicated harem rivalry when genuine feelings bloom between him other girls Sumi and Ruka, nyan! I Ihave not seen the live-action version  or played the video game, but I like the manga and- and the anime, nyan!

I also like this purretty painted, non-articulated, PVC figure of fair-skinned, Blue-eyed, short-Black-haired Ruka Sarashina Ruka, which is part of Taito’s Coreful purroduct line of figures, nyan!it is packaged in the clear plastic clamshell in the 3.5” x 4.875” x 5.375” White box, nyan! Ruka stands atop the clear circular .25” tall, 4.25” diameter base, wearing the Black bandeau-top bikini low on her hips with the swishy tail, the bell collar, the cat-eared head band, the cute paw mitts and – and boots, nyan!

She looks so sexy, purretty, cute and playful, nyan!  Including the ears and – and  the base, the figure is appurroximately 8.5” tall overall, which would indicate the scale is 1/7.5, given the character’s height of 5 ft, even if it is classified as a non-scale / purrize figure, nyan. I think is nicely designed, sculpted and – and painted, so I am quite pleased with it, nyan! I am done, so nyow here is Myayr to start

our purrinted-media mewsings,
with her review of Catians #1, nyan!

Mary Nyan:
Hai! Catian (not to be confuzzled with  Star Crek’s Caitians)  is the beartiful yet tragic tale of a widowed convenience store owner named Rose whose husband Jason was murdered by the criminal gang for not paying their purrotection racket due to the store’s poor finances, but while bravely attempting to fend off the attackers, she is telepurrted away by Felix, who is one of the stray cats she cares for, and when she awakens in a forest she is a meowgickal catgirl, thanks to Felix who is one of many guardian cats who serve the Great Cat (who might be Bastet, based upon the Egyptian ornameowntation)!

With her new catgirl and conjuring powers, the increasing feline ferocity, and the despurration to resurrect Jason, Rose vengefully purreys upon the thugs with unexpected results, but I should not further spoil the taste of the bittersweet plot! Published by Scout Comics https://www.scoutcomics.com purriced $4.99, issue #1 has the full-color uninterrupted 24 page tale of “The Second Tail” written by Courtney Cameron, illustrated & lettered by Luyi Bennett, and edited by Andrea Lorenzo Molinari, in collaboration with. Cassidy Cameron & Cody Cameron, and the purrduction design by Sean Callahan.

I was very pleased with this 1st issue, and I am purrticuarly fond of Luyi’s lovely Japanese manga – inspired art http://www.luyidraws.com! The issue is available in the choice of cover A by Paco, cover B by Luyi, and cover C by Hugo Petrus, plus the “ashcan” edition, and the there is Catians meowrchandise such as the cards, clothing, drinkware, and the limited – edition purrinter plates! We are purraying for Rose and Felix’s success, and eagerly anticipating the 2nd issue, nyan! Nyow I will turn The Mew over to Mike, for his review of

Thundercats #1!

Mike:
Thanks Myayr I’ve been a fan of Thundercats since the 1985 animated series, and I liked the 2011 reboot series even more, but didn’t care for the 2020 Thundrcats Roar series. Hard to believe that next year will be their 40th anniversary! Anyway, I was quite curious about this new comic from Dynamite, which has a 24 page tale plus 3 pages of ads and a 5 page gallery of its – get this – 124 different covers! I settled on cover E by Ivan Tao, which beautifully focuses on Cheetara.

The story was written by Delcan Shavery, illustrated by Drew Mars, colored by Chiara Di Francia & Martina Pignedoli, lettered by Jeff Ecklberry, packaged & edited by Nate Crosby, with the maiin cover by David Nakayama. The briskly-paced tale begins with the Thundercats’ exodus from their destroyed homeworld of Thundera and their landing on the planet Third Earth, where they train and reconnoiter until their enemies the Mu’tants of Plundarr arrive spoiling for a fight.

This a quick origin and introduction to Lion-o the leader who wields the Sword of Omens, General Panthro, scientist Tygra, speedster Cheetara, precocious young siblings Wilykit & Wilykat. and their enemy Slithe. We briefly glimpse The Thunderians’ meontor Jaga and the enemy leader Mumra, but there’s no sign of Snarf yet. I think that the art is pretty good, and the tale serves as good starting point for new readers! Now here’s Ilyana-sensei  with her review of

Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou Manga Deluxe Edition Vol. 3!

Ilyana:
Oh just call me Ilyana! This beautiful slice – of- life science fiction manga by Hitoshi Ashinano is the tale of the friendly gynoid named Alpha who owns the cafe in the small  rural seaside village on Japan’s Miura Peninsulain the distopian future, where bucolic life goes on after an environmental disaster and risen sea level. Originally published in Japan by Kodansha in 2009, this 4th  of five volumes is published in English by Seven Seas, is rated for teen readers, and it is purriced $24.99 in the USA and $32.99 iin Canada.

Most of the story purrtains to the everyday activities of Alpha and her friends with her occasional scooter trips to travel around the purrefecture and to shop for supplies in what is left of the city of Yokohama. Among the recurring characters are Ojisan the elderly man who sells fresh purroduce and runs the gas station; his grandson Takahiro who regards Alpha as the older sister type; Kokone the courier who is another gynoid; the elderly lady doctor who treats the humans and the gynoids; Maki the young girl friend of Takahiro…

… Director Alpha the older gynoid with the aerial drone, Maruko the android artist, Nai the android pilot, Ayase the traveller with the pet flying fish named Kamas, and Misago the mysterious supurr feral girl! Collecting chapters 83-111, this  8.25” x 5.875” x 1.375” volume has the 454 Black & White pages,  44 color pages and color covers,, several illustrations & widdle sketches, 2 pages of ads, and the indica / credits page. It was translated by Daniel Komen, lettered by Ludwig Sacramento, purroofread by Brett Hallahan…

… edited by Linda Lombard, copy-edited by Leighanna DeRouen, meownagingly edited by Shanti Whitesides & J.P. Sulivan, in-chiefly edited by Julie Davis, and  published by Lianne Sentar, with the purrduction design by Lissa Pattilo & Ria Lynn Johnson, purrduction meownagment by John Ramirez, cover design by Nicky Lim, and the logo design by George Panella. The purre-purress technicians were Melanie Ujimori & Jules Valeri. So, in
this volume, yet another year passes as humanity’s days continue wane.

Alpha rebuilds her storm-damaged cafe, grows a sunflower enjioys target purractice, tries some potent dark sugar, looks for  a better source of fresh water, and plays in the snow. She goes on a scooter trip with Kokone who discusses the history of the androids of Dr. Koumishi, whose drone aircraft continues to circle the Earth for several more years. Ayase’s pet Kamas takes the liking to Matsuki who goes to the beach with Takahiro who gets to see Nai’s plane, and they wonder if the mysterious Misago might be a gynoid.

There is still much that has not yet been explained about about the ecological disasters, the androids’ origins, what happened to Alpha’s boss,  or what the rest of the world is like beyond Japan, but It is quite the pleasant, purretty, charming tale at the very  eisurely pace and so I will give it the “A” for Alpha.! I am anticipating  the final volume, and hope that the anime adaptation might be eventually eleased here on DVD or Blu-ray. I am done and nyopw to top off our manga mewsings, here is Trini-chan to discuss

Hakumei & Mikochi vol. 11!

Trini-chan:
Hai!, I love this charming  slice – of – life fantasy manga by Takuto Kashiki! Originally published in Japan by Kadokawa, it purrtains to house – mates Hakumei & Mikochi who are tiny little lasses who are about 3 inches tall and live in the lovelyminiatue  cottage in the forest! Hakumei (with the Brown hair) builds and repairs things, whilst Mikochi (with the Black hair) cooks and sews.

They are part of the community of talking anthropurrmorphic animals and the tiny pixy-size human friends who reside in the wilderness, rural, suburban and urban dwellings, and each chapter is the look at their day – to – day – lives, from the work and shopping to exploring and entertaining with the many friends, co-workers and vsitors of various species from beetles to badgers!

it is published here in English by Yen Press, translated by Taylor Engel and lettered by Abigail Blackman. Priced at $15.00 in the USA and $19.50 in Canada. Volume 11 measures 8 x 5.75”,  with the 176 B&W pages that  include chapters 81-89 plus the 2 page side-story, 2 page bonus manga, 1 page of translation notes, 9 pages of illustrations, and 7 pages of travelogue note!

The plots of Hakumei & Mikochi vol. 11 include repairs to a house in a shell, shopping for building supplies, planning & catering an event, hair styling, costuming, getting tickets for a sold-out play, gossipping about a rival while drinking, haunted pottery, a day at the second-hand clothing store, hitching a ride home, and Takuto Kashiki’s trip to see the Tapirs the Kanazawa Zoo!

The  immersive slice – of – life tales have  the leisurely pace with the exquisite character, critter and scenic art that is so lavishly intricate! Including the color cover art there are 4 fabulous full-page pics and 3 sumptuous
two-page spurreads, and I will give vol. 11 the
the highest praise! I am done, and now here are Petra, Bunnii and Vonny to purrsent the latest additions to

to The Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art!

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! On our web site, the most recent pics are on the lowermost row of the cropped widdle “thumbnail” portions of the pics in a gallery, and you have to click on those to see the full images, nyan!

Some of the images are sexy, and might even depict artistic nudity, but none are hentai or porn, nyan! We should also meowntion that none of the content at Catgirl Island is purrmitted for A.I. purrposes, nyan!

This month into Gallery Two https://catgirlisland.net/art/gallery/gallery2.html we have added a new illustration by Mike, and in Guest Gallery Two http://catgirlisland.net/art/gallery/guest2.html we have have added new art by We are purroud to purrsent four new illustations by Misty Hopkins  https://kranberrijam.blogspot.com, Alexcia Reynolds https://linktr.ee/alexciareynolds, Rvkh Brogden http://www.rvkhart.com, and more photos of Crissy Volpe http://www.crimsonskycreations.com/bloodsweatandglitter by various photographers, nyan!

We are purroud to purrsent  three new works by Misty, nyan! In December, we displayed Misty’s sultry line-art drawing of “Stocking Anarchy”, an exiled angel who transforms lingerie into weapons to fight evil spirits in the Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt anime! Her sister’s name is Panty Anarchy, nyan! Well, nyow we have amended that  B&W pic with this sexy color version, mew la la, nyan!

Misty used Crayola and Purrismacolor colored pencils, Sakura Micron pens, and glitter pens fior that pic, nyan. After that “Ghoul Face“ is Misty’s fan art of Kabane Kusaka the half human / half ghoul teen who helps to investigate the occult situations in the Kemono Jihen manga & anime, nyan! Misty used Crayola colored pencils, watercolor pencils, Faber-Castell PITT pens on 8.5” x 11” cardstock for that pic, nyan!

Yvonne:
Nextly we are delighted to display four more collages of Crissy Volpe, and each collage is compurrised of four photos by various photographers! The 1st collage includes David Ng’s 2019 photo of Crissy as Sailor Mars in A cheongsam designed by Streamer Fairy, made by Alyce & Hime-chan, with accessories by Patti & Steph; David Ng’s 2023 photo of Crissy at Otakon as Captain Beidou of the Genshin Impact video game, in the costume made by ProCosplayShop; Harvard Lim’s photo of Crissy at the 2019 New York Comic Con, as Natasha Romanoff alias Natalie Rushman in the dress made by Patti & Steph; and Crissy in the crane stance on the beach, nyan!

The 2nd collage includes Terry of Fly By Night Design’s photo of Crissy at the 2017 New York Comic Con in the licensed Star Trek Starfleet uniform; Allison the Photographer’s 2017 photo of Crissy as Sailor Mars in a retro-style costume designed by Abbydraws & made by Criissy & friends; Autumn W. of Misty Autumn Imagery’s photo of Crissy at the 2012 New York Comic Con as Rogue in the costume made by  Setsuna Kou; and Peter Heydt’s photo of Crissy at Otakon 2012 as Tifa Lockhart of the Final Fantasy VII game, in the costume that she put togetther herself, nyan!

The 3rd collage includes Crissy in steampunk style, wearing the dress by Lip Service and hat from Hot Topic at AnomalyCon 2014; Popecerebus’s photo of Crissy as Meryl Stryfe of the Trigun manga & anime in the costume made by Athena-chan; Dr. Teng’s photo of Crissy at AnimeNEXT 2005 as Hino Rei (Sailor Mars) in the high school uniform made by: Erin Garlowe; the selfie photo of Crissy wearing a wig, violet contact lens, and her regular clothes as Tomoe Hotaru (Sailor Saturn), nyan!

The 4th collage includes Eurobeat King’s photo of Crissy as Magic Knight Rayearth’s Umi Ryuuzaki (Other Worlds version) at Otakon 2008 in the costume made by Beverly Faerie; Eurobeat King’s photo of Crissy as Inu Yasha’s Kikyo at Nan Desu Kan 2010, wearing a kimono & hakama, with photoshopping by Mike Moon in 2023; David Ng’s photo of Crissy as Final Fantasy VIII’s Rinoa Heartilly at Otakon 2006, in the costume made by Athena-chan; and David Ng’s photo of Crissy as Sailor Mars (Sailor Moon S version) at the New York Comic Con 2014, in the costume made by Avian Firefly, nyan!

Bunnii:

Nextly we are ecstatic to exhibit Alexcia’s photo of her Eletron figures! Based on Transformers, Eletron is the heroic female elephantine Maximalfan-bot star of Alexcia’s Project Pachyderm http://bw.html-5.me art and tales! The boxy widdle bot on the left is a cubee papurrcraft version of her, whilst the figure on the right is a customization of an artists ball-jointed plastic mannequin combined with Epoxy Sculpt, faux leather, E6000 glue, acrylic paints, and Mr. Super Clear purrimer / sealant!

After that is the photo of Alexcia’s “Punk-achu Costume”! Based on Pokemon, Punkachu is Alexcia Reynolds’ cute punk versionof Pikachu with a pink meowhawk, nyan! Made of Sew-Lush meowterial, the costume in purrogress is purrsently compurrised of the head and tail, but hopefully eventually the neck, arms, hands, feet and punk attire will be added too! To see more of Pokemon fan art and fiction by Alexcia and friends, please visit her web site Pokemon Amber http://pkmn.is-great.org!

Then we have Rvkh’s pic of “Tokia”, who is an 18 year old red elf / appurrentice alchemist in the village of Shroomi! Tokia Tanakishi is an NPC in Mike ’s monthly tabletop role-playing game “The Adventures of Nystia Nightshade”! She is married to 3 wives: De’en (dark faerie / alchemist), Li (succubus /  idol star) & Su-pan (catgirl / office meownager); she is the sister – in – law of Nystia (dark faerie / idol star / resortowner); and one of the four adoptive moms of daughter Hikari-chan (a kitsune / grade  school student,.

Born on 21 December (Sagittarius), Tokia is a 4’ 3” tall, 50 lb polyamorous, pansexual, industrious, inquisitive, peppy, purrky elf with BWH sizes of 30A-22-31”, MBTIi of ENFJ, I.Q. of 190, and blood type of Fay +. She enjoys research, customeowr service, painting, yoga and cookouts. Her favorite foods are applepie a la mode, club sammiches, smoked salmon crostini, strawberry bread, crab tacos, apurricot nectar tea, oatmeal raisen cookies, sweet potatoes, pawmeowrgranate panna cotta, and chocolate cake.

Rvkh used Procreate with the Apple Pencil on the iPad for this image, of which there is a 2.5 minute time-lapse art purrocess video at her Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygGXTyE3E9g! To top off the latest additions to th mewseum we have Mike’s Photoshop on Mac with mouse image of “Ice Capades”, which is his 36th illustration of the fan-senshi characters Talia (right), Tanya (left) and their friends, nyan!

Author Jeff Branch’s character Talia Jasmine Kirk alias Sailor Vulcan, and author Sharon Williams’ character Tanya Lostris Cambridge alias Sailor Sirius are 20 years old this year! When they are not using their super powers to protect people from villains, monsters and disasters, they enjoy the fun romantic activites, such as skating at Tokyo’s Marunouchi Street Rink! So, what do y’all think of the art?

The cat lady sings…

Elaenor:
The shading and sheen of the Ghoul Face is so richky vibrant and smooth it almost seems airbushed!

Trini-chan:
Loli Pop is such a clever double entendre in the title and theme of the wonderfully libedrteen pic!

Tara-chan:
Rvkh purrfectly caotured the loook and – and  the spirit of Tokia in that beautiful scene of the sunlit forest, nyan!

Mary Nyan:
The Pun-kachu Costume looks quite splended thus far! Alexcia has quite the fursuit knack!

Jeannie:
Hai hai, anf the Eletron Figures are are quite cute. Alexcia has been quite industrious with her crafts.

Yvonne:
It is great to see more beautiful photos of Crissy in the lovely outfits by such brilliant photographers!

Becca:
Crissy with fun poses, purretty attire, neat locations, great lighting and exquisiteshots combine for the gorgeous images!

Elizabeth:
She is also rather purrolific too, with well over a hundred outfits and fashions of the diverse styles and subjects!

Ilyana:
I think my favorite costumes of Crissy’s for this month are Tifa, Beidou, and Otherworlds Umi!

Nyanko:
I love that new pic of Talia & Tanya! It was great to see them again at last month’s awards ceremony!

Mielikki:
Fur Shur! Oh my, it is almost time for our AfterMew Luau! Other friends will be arriving soon!

Bunnii:
Well, that will do it for this edition of The Mew!
We wish to thank all of the amazingly talented people whose works we have discussed!

Petra:
We also wish to thank Jamie for his web meowstery, and our other friends, families, acquaintances and our audience whom we greatly appurreciate, nyan!

Mike:
We’ll be back next month with the April edition of The Mew! Be there… aloha!

The Ladies of The Mew:
Happy tails to mew, until we eat again! Baibai, nyan!