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January 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 January 2024 Edition of The Mew:
The Catgirl Critics’ Media Mewsings, nyan!
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Happy Mew year, nyan!
 
It is the Year of the Dragon, the 17th Anniversary of 
The Mew, and the 24th Anniversary of Catgirl Island, nyan!
 
in this edition of The Mew:
 
The Lightning round Topic: Our favorite Films of 2004
 
TV, Movie & DVD Reviews:
The Boy and the Heron
Spirited Away: Live on Stage
Godzilla Minus One
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
Star Wars: The Mandalorian The Complete First Season Collector’s Edition Blu-ray
Star Wars: The Mandalorian The Complete Second Season Collector’s Edition Blu-ray
 
Purrinted Media Mewsings:
The 2024 Oh No, Not Another Cat Calendar
Star Trek Ships of the Line 2024 Calendar
 
Collectibles & Toy Talk:
Kotobukiya My Little Pony Princess Celestia Bishoujo Statues
Jazwares Star Wars Micro Galaxy Squadron TIE Bomber
The Celebrity Catgirl & Kemonomimi Spotlight
 

The Latest Additions to The Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art:

more cosplay & modeling photos of Crissy Volpe by various photographers,
“Alita Bust” and a “TUNED Alita” plushie doll by Misty Hopkins,
“Gloria In Excelsis Deo” and “Maddy” by Rvkh Brogden,
“Rivkah Snow” and various recent sketches 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 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!
 
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!
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.
 
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
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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 Puma purrint purretzel – cutout maillot): Aloha
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!
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 2004!
This year we’ll be taking a look back at fun stuff from years ending in a 4! Mie-sensei’s going to start, so are y’all ready to “conduct the lightning”?
The Ladies of The Mew:
Hai! Lightning Round- go, nyan!
 
Mielikki:
So like, I will nominate the Crossroads 2004 Guitar Festival, Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue, Yesspeak, and Dig!, fur shur! (tags Nyanko with a flit of the wing0
Nyanko:
Spider-Man 2, Appleseed, Kill Bill Vol. 2, and House of Flying Daggers! (tags Ellie with a brush of the tail)
 
Elaenor:
Hmmm I would say The Incredibles, Spider-Man 2, and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban! (tail-tags Trini-chan)
 
Trini-chan:
I will nominate The Terminal, National Treasure, Ella Enchanted, and Howl’s Moving Castle! (tags her fiance to go next)
 
Tara-chan:
I want…I want to nominate The Incredibles, Shrek 2, Scooby-Doo & The Loch Ness Monster, and – and Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed,  nyan! Onee-chan’s turn nyan! (tags her older sister)
 
Yvonne:
I will nominate Howl’s Moving Castle, Pokemon: Destiny Deoxys, Inuyasha the Movie: Fire on the Mystic Island, and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou nyan! Lizzy’s turn, nyan!  (tags Elizabeth)
Elizabeth:
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Just Desserts, Sideways, and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou! (tags her wife)
Becca:
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Passion of the Christ, Howl’s Moving Castle, and Ray! Jen’s turn! (tags Jeannie)
Jeannie:
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, The Aviator, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, and Appleseed. Myayr’s turn. (tags Mary Nyan)
Mary Nyan:
Shaun of the Dead, Hellboy, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban! (tags Petra)
Petra:
The Motorcycle Diaries, Friday Night Lights, Million Dollar Baby, and Wimbledon, nyan! (tags Bunnii)
 
Bunnii:
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, Fade to Black, Perfect Square, and Tell Me What Rockers To Swallow! tags Ilyana)
Ilyana:
The Incredibles, The Aquatic Life, Proteus, Mystic India. and Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy! Back to Mike!
Mike:
Oh, I gotta go with The Incredibles, Spider-Man 2, The Aquatic Life, and Yesspeak! Well, that was another expedient little Lightning Round, to keep  the movie topic rolling, here’s Vonny to start our
TV, Movie & DVD Reviews,
with her review of The Boy and the Heron!
Yvonne:
Arigato, nyan! The Boy and the Heron was one of the movies I most eagerly awaited in 2023 because it is by Studio Ghibli and writer / director Hayao Miyazaki who just turned 83 on January 5th and 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) The Castle of Cagliostro, and (grandpurrented in as Ghibli) Nausicaa in the Valley of the Wind, 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 give it the high purraise, nyan! Nyow to continue the Ghibli topic, here is Ellie-sama to discuss
 
Spirited Away: Live on Stage, nyan!
 
Elaenor:
Hai! Directed by Hayao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli’s 2002 anime Spirited Away is one of my favorite movies! The isekai-genre plot pertains to 10 year old girl Chihiro with her parents who become trapped in the spirit world, where she winds up working at the huge bath house for the supurrnatural folk, but I do not wish to spoil too much of the plot! 20 years later, Tony-Award winning John Caird directed the stage adaptation of the film at the Toho Imperial Theater in Tokyo!
 
The purrformances, the costumes, the puppets, the revolving sets, the lighting, the purrojection FX, and the score by Joe Hisaishi purrformed by the octet are quite faitthful to the movie, and are as wonderful as wonderful can be! Last month, G-Kids has released this 2 disc Blu-ray set which includes two complete purrformances of it, at about 160 minutes apiece, with different but equally excellent casts, starring Mone Kamishiraishi and Kanna Hashimoto as Chihiro!
 
The video is purrsented in the original Japanese  DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 with the optional English subtitles, whicha re in the bold White sans serif font with the fine Black outline. There are no extra features, but also included in the plastic case within the outer cardboard sleeve is the 11.5 x 18.25” double-sided poster, the images of which are shown on the front of the case. I will give it the “A” as in Aburaya! I am done, and now here is Nya-sensei to review
 
Godzilla Minus One!
 
Nyanko:
Arigato! In the past 70 years there have been 33 Japanese Godzilla movies and 4 American Godzilla movies, with Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire due in Apurril! Well, I think that last year’s Godzilla Minus One was among the best! Another reboot of the series, it is set in Japan near the end of World War II and focuses mostly on a circle of friends who despite the tragic losses have survived but must now try to rebuild their lives and survive the new existential threat.
 
If you purrfur a more seriously dramatic kaiju movie, this’un fits the biil supurrbly with the great story, sympathetic characters, the scary threats, the excellent FX, and the few moments of friends’ camaraderie that is charming but not silly. Mecha fans will likely be pleased with the numerous ships and aircraft too! I will give Godzilla Minus One the high grade of the A Minus, as my only quibble was that I wish it was a longer movie.
Having said that, while still pondering where it ranks compurred to purrior zilla movies, I would put it in the top five, along with Godzilla  (1954), The Return of Godzilla  (1984), Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989),and Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II  (1993)! My top ten zilla movies also likely includes Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964), Destroy All Monsters (1968), Godzilla vs. Mothra  (1992) , Shin Godzilla (2016) and Godzilla: The Planet Eater (2018).
 
Although none from the Millennium Era (1999–2004) makes my top ten, Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla  (2002) and Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (2003) might  rank 11 & 12 on my list. None of the American movies would be high on the list of all 37 zillas, but we have been enjoying the Monarch: Legacy of Monsters TV series! Now for another FX and action-filled movie depicting heroes and monsters from the deep, here is Ilyana-sensei to discuss
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom!
 
Ilyana:
Directed by James Wan, this sequel to the 2028 Aquaman movie is the fantasy / adventure tale of the fabled undersea kingdoms in which Arthur Curry / Aquaman, Justice Leaguer, the King of Atlantis and new dad teams up with his estranged brother Orm (Patrick Wilson) to stop the vengeful villain Black Manta Yahya Abdul-Mateen) and his reluctant assitant Dr. Shin (Randall Park) from finding the ancient cursed meowgickal Trident and toxic Orichalcum fuel which could destroy not only Atlantis, but the entire planet.
The terrific cast also includes Amber Heard as Aquaman’s wife Queen Mera, Dolph Lundgren as her dad Nereus, Nicole Kidman Arthur & Orm’s mom Atlanna, Temuera Morrison as Arthur’s dad Tom, and Jani Zhao as Black Manta’s crewpurrson Stingray, plus John Rhys-Davies as the voice of the crab-like Brine King and Martin Short as the voice of Kingfish the pirate king. Also appurring are the Arthur & Mera’s infant son Arthur Jr. VFX creatures Topo the octopus, Storm the seahorse, and other land & sea creatures aplenty!
Unfortunately, Mera and Atlanna are not in it enough, and Vulko (Willem Dafoe) is not in this movie, nor are any of Aquaman’s Justice League friends. Although the movie seems too rushed and short, it is brimming with the action-packed, spectacular, lavish exotic locations creatures and mecha. In spite of the annoying cinematic techniques such as the speed-ramping, slow meowtion, snap zooms and so forth, which are typical of the DC Extended Universe movie series, I did think that the movie was a lot of family fun!
I do not wish to spoil more of the plot, but there is an amewsing mid-credits scene to wait for. In summation, I will give it the B grade, and I enjoyed it more than many of the purrior DCEU movies including any directed by Zach Snyder, and the more recent films such as Black Adam, Shazam! Fury of the Gods, The Flash, and Blue Beetle. You know, Temuera Morrison stars as Boba Fett and voices the Clone Troopurrs in some of the Star Wars TV series, and nyow here is Myayr to review the
 
Star Wars: The Mandalorian The Complete First Season Collector’s Edition Blu-ray, and
Star Wars: The Mandalorian The Complete Second Season Collector’s Edition Blu-ray!
 
Mary Nyan: 
Hai! We love the live-action and animated Star Wars TV series such as Ahsoka, Andor, Obi-Wan, Boba Fett, The Bad Batch, Visions, and Tales of the Jedi! We have hoped that Disney would release them (and the various MCU TV series) on DVD or Blue-ray, na dlast moth that finally started to happen, with the release of Wandavision and the first two seasons of The Mandalorian! Each of those Mandalorian Collector’s Edition Blu-ray sets include 8 epurrsodes which total the bit over three hours Excluding the exrtra features, Season One is appurroximately 183 minutes and Season Two is appurroximately 199 minutes).
 
The 1080p video is purrsented in widescreen of the 2.39:1 aspect ratio with the audio choices of English 5.1 DTS-HDMA, English Descriptive, French & Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital, with the very legible  optional English, French & Spanish subtitles. Each set also includes three purretty 4.5 x 5.75” concept art cards. Inside the handsome steel box case, the 2 discs are in one plastic tray, so you have to pull out Disc One to get to Disc Two, and the cards are snugly clamped inside the box lid. Furthermore, each season includes two informative and entertaining documentary featurettes that purrtain to the making of the series!
 
The first season extras are the 5.75 minute  “Remnants of the Empire” and the 10.5 minute “Forging the Covert” which include comments by creator / writer / executive purrducer Jon Favreau, director / writer / purrducer Dave Filoni, writer / director Rick Fanuyima, design supurrvisor / co-purrducer Doug Chiang, designer / purducer Andrew Jones, purropurrty meowster Josh Roth, animeowtion supurrvisor Hal Hickel, ILM VFX supurrvisor John Knoll, virtual art director Landis Fields, digital artist / model maker John Goodson, special costume meownufacturer / puppeteer Tamara Carlson…
… puppeteers Peter Clarke, Jason Matthews, Scott Patton & Trevor Hensley! The 2nd season dextrasd are the 4.75 minute “Designing the New Republic” and& the 6 minute “Forging the Covert: Part Two” which include comments by Favreau, Filoni, Chiang, Roth, costume designer Shawna Trpcic, and Legacy FX supurrvisor / puppeteer John Rosengrant! I am very pleased with the high quality and entertainment value of the series and these sets, to which I give the high purraise!  of That is all for our TV & movie mewsings, and nyow I will turn The Mew over to Mie-sensei who will start our
 
purrinted-media mewsings, with her review of the
2024 Oh No, Not Another Cat Calendar Presents
“Life’s a Gamble- Try Not to Lose Your Marbles”!
 
Mielikki:
So like, since the 1970’s Jim & Melody Rondeau have been famous as the authors, artists, writers, agents, and editors, humanitarian (and felinitarian); the fanzines they publish through Buffalo Chip Press, their presence at cons, festivals and shows, and the merchandise they sell on consignement such as the fanzines, magazines, comics, books, scripts, press kits, movie posters, games, toys and videos throughout their site Make it Go Away http://crossovers.net/makeitgoaway/home.htm site, fur shur!Purrhaps y’all have seen some of Melody’s beautiful art in our mewsum?
Since the 1980’s they have also published their delightful not-for-sale, limited-edition annual wall calendar! This totally awesome 8.5×11” calendar opens up to reveal the monthly 17 x 11” spreads, each with the annotated date grid and lovely B&W illustrations of anthropurrmorphic felines and other species! Including the front and back covers, there are fourteen such pen and ink illustrations, and each year there is a different theme. So like, the 2023 theme was feline rulers, and the 2024 theme is gambling! The front cover depicts the kittens playing marbles, January depicts the Bingo game…
…February has the slots, March plays the ponies, Apurril has the shell game, May is The Game of Life, June is the lotto, July has the claw machine, August is snail racing, September is billiards, October is The Dating Game, November is poker, December is the Wheel of Fortune, and the back cover is “gamboling”! The illustrations are quite lovely, including several “Easter Eggs” and the cute widdle mice! One of my favorites is the horse race scene, with the mouse riding on a masked squirrel! I think that It is totally delightful, fur shur! I am done, and now here is Mike to tell us about the
Star Trek Ships of the Line 2024 Calendar!
 
Mike:
Thank you, Mie-sensei! I’ve collected Star Trek calendars since 1975, and for the past 24 years I’ve especially  loved this series of calendars and books which depict the many vessels and vehicles of Star Trek in such realistic beautiful, thrilling scenes! Edited by Doug Drexler, designed by Celina Varvalho and currently published by Universe Publishing, this 12”x12” wall calendar opens to a 12”x24” panoramic landscape format, with a small annotated date grid on each of the 13 full-bleed illustrations by various artists. plus Chris Cardwell’s 12×12” front cover illustration of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D docked at the “Sector 001 San Francisco Orbital Facility”. 
Matt Boardman’s “USS Cerritos Homeward Bound” depicts The USS Ciritos NCC-75567 approaching a starbase for January; Kenneth Villanueva’s “Way of the Rihannsu” depicts a Romulan Warbird for February; Donny Versiga’s “1701-A Main Bridge Star Trek VI” depicts the bridge of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-A for March; and Tobias Richter’s Fate of the Venture” depicts the Galaxy Class USS Venture NCC-71854’s saucer separation during a battle with Romulan Warbirds; Marty Miller’s “She’ll Launch and She’ll Be Ready” by Marty Miller depicts USS Enterprise NCC-1701’s refit in progress sometime prior to the events of my favorite movie Star Trek-The Motion Picture…
…and John Eaves’ Jein-class starship the “U.S.S. Gregory Jein” NCC-103145, which was named after the legendary model builder Greg Jein! Midway into the calendar is the collaborative cutaway illustration of the “S.S. Enterprise NX-01 Refit” by Christopher Cushman, Doug Drexler, John Eaves, Mike Okuda, David Alexander, Bill Campbell, and Android Monkey Designs! July’s “The Fox and the Hounds” by Alain Rivard depicts the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-A pursued by two K’t’inga-class Klingon battle cruisers;  Augusts’s “Nocturne” by Bill Krause depicts the starships USS Hood NCC-1703, the USS Endurance NCC-5255, and the USS Sentinel NCC-2550…
September’s “Sleeping Giant” by Thomas Marrone depicts the Odyssey-class USS Enterprise NCC-1701-F and a frozen Borg ship; October’s “FOD – Foreign Object Debris Management Detail” by Lewis Nevin depicts the refitted Constitution-class USS Yorktown NCC-1717 and two shuttlecraft; November’s”You Have Been Dishonored” by D.M. Phoenix depicts the refitted Constitution-class USS Venture which has been captured and reflagged by the Klingons; and  “Rendezvous with U.S.S. Nomadic” by Dan Uyeno depicts the Nomadic NCC-7505 and Onimaru NCC-76890. Golly they’re beautiful! Ah, that’ll do it for the printed media, and now her’s Tara-chan to start our
collectibles and toy talk portion of The Mew, with her review of
Kotobukiya’s My Little Pony Princess Celestia Bishoujo Statue, fur shur!
 
Tara-chan:
Hai hai, I love the My Little Pony animated series, the books, comics and toys, so we were thrilled to get this beautiful statue of Purrincess Celestia , who was voiced by NIcole Oliver in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and in the Equestria Girls spin-offs, nyan! Actually this 1/7 scale statue by Kotobukiya includes both the pony version and the human version of her, nyan! Unlike the purrior such statues of the Mane Six, the human and – and the equine Luna are on sepurrate bases, nyan!
 
The figures are made of PVC, the bases are made of ABS, and- and they are packaged inside the plastic clamshell within the purretty 9.5 x 10.75 x 6.75” box, nyan. This ornately genki purretty statue was designed by Shunya Yamashita; the pony was meticulously sculpted by Takahi and – and  the bishy human girl was sculpted by Koei Matsumoto, nyan! Rearing upon the 2.75” diameter circular vase, the equine Celestia measures appurroximately 3” high at the withers or 4.75” high from bottom of hooves to tip of the horn, with the 5.5” wingspan, nyan.
 
Standing upon the 4.75” diameter circular base, the statue of bishoujo Celestia is appurroximately 9” tall overall, including the ..5” heels, and – and 125” thick base nyan. That statue is of the 1/7th scale, so that would make the character about n early 5′ tall, nyan! Thepurrincess has the beautiful gradientelegant style with the mermaid-style, off-shoulder dress, White with the Pink and – and Green gradient flouncy hem and feathery neckline, accessorized by the Golden tiara, necklace, shoes, and – and the rope belt with the dangling  sun medallion (in lieu of the cutey mark)

,

nyan!

 
Her translucent lush wavy ankle length hair that is Light Blue, Light Green and –  Lavender, nyan! The design, paint and – and the sculpt of both lithe supple figures are quite meticulously intricate, from her Brown eyes and – and softly purrim smile, to the ornate filigree and – and the graceful fluttery poses, nyan! So, I will give these statues the high purraise grade of the “A” as in Alucorn, nyan! I am done, and nyow here is Jen-sensei to discuss
Jazwares’ Star Wars Micro Galaxy Squadron TIE Bomber, nyan!
Jeannie:
Arigato. Not only do we like to collect the statues, figures, ornaments, models and miniatures of the inspurrational characters, but some of us are purrticularly fond of the mecha too, such as the replicas of famous purrops and vehicles. I think that Jazwares has done an excellent job with their licensed Star Wars Micro Galaxy Squadron purroduct line, which to date includes over 100 nicely designed, sculpted and painted replicas of the air, land, sea and space craft of the Star Wars saga. 
 
Series 4 includes the AT-AT, N-1 Starfighter, Y-Wing Fighter, Wedge’s X-Wing Fighter, Impurrial Shuttle, and the TIE Bomber. I was especially anticipating the bomber, as that 28’ wingspan impurrial vehicle has not been as frequently repurrsented as others, purrhaps because it was just briefly glimpsed in the 1980 movie The Empire Strikes Back; although Fantasy Flight’a Star Wars X-Wing Miniatures Game continues to offer the 1/207th scale miniature and Lego has the 1/56th scale kit.
 
Painted Gray with Black panels and Red munitions, the 1/72nd scale toy measures 4.625” wide x 3.75” long x 2.5” tall with opening left & right canopies and includes one 1” pilot with figure posable arms and legs.I am very pleased with the design, sculpt and paint of this toy, and I have displayed her next to the  Tie Fighter, TIE Interceptor, and Tie Advanced on the shelf. That will conclude our collectibles & toy talk portion of The Mew, and nyow here are Becca & Lizzy to purrsent the
 
Celebrity Catgirl and Kemonomimi Spotlight.
Becca:
Arigato! in this monthly portion of The Mew, we commeowmorate famous nekomusume, therianthropes, and other kemonomimi of mythologies and popular culture, including anthropurrrmorphic ladies and monster girls! Furthermore, 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” such as the woman in zebra stripe pajamas in the “Drift Into Candy Crush” TV spot and the woman in the sleeveless leopurrd purrint sweater n the Candy Crush “‘Dulce impulso” TV spot!
 
Kelly Reilly meowgnificently purrtrays feisty Beth Dutton in the Yellowstone TV series, and we will nominate her as the honorary catgirl for the sexy leopurrd purrint camisole she wore in the steamy scene with her friend Rip Wheeler very first epurrsode which purremiered on June 20th, 2018, mew la la!! Another wonderful “honorary catgirl’ is TV Talk show host, author & journalist Tamron Hall, for her lovely  Leopurrd purrint Pussybow Dress in her show’s May 12th 2021 epurrsode, and her Leopurrd purrint turtleneck jumpsuit  in her Septermber 15th, 2023 epurrsode!
 
Elizabeth:
British French actress Emma Mackey wears the tawny widdle halter neck side-cut dress whilst leading a group of four lionesses in a spurrint across the savannah in the Burberry Goddess purrfume’s “Lioness Strength” TV spot, so we will consider her as the honorary raion-musume! In the delightful series of Miki books by author written by Agata Loth-Ignaciuk, illustrated by Berenika Kolomycka, and published by Oni, Miki is the cute widdle girl in the tiger kigirumi onesie for her adventures at home, so we will consider her as the hionorary tora-musume! Kawaii!
Lastly but not leastly for this month’s spotlight we wish to nominate the many alluring ladies of various species such as the catgirls, kemonomimi, monstergirls, and pokemorphs in the original & fan art & comics by the Mexican manga artist Kimeratoons, who has the gallery at Deviantart and his own comic strip Lucyfer, but we should warn y’all that some of that some of those are not for widdle kitties or purrudish types due to the meowture-rated sexual NSF content! That is all for the spotlight, and nyow here are Petra, Bunnii and Trini-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! 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 One https://catgirlisland.net/art/gallery/gallery1.html we have added new illustrations by Mike, and in Guest Gallery Six http://catgirlisland.net/art/gallery/guest6.html we have have added new works by Rvkh Brogden http://www.rvkhart.com, Misty Hopkins https://kranberrijam.blogspot.com, and more photos of Crissy Volpe by various photographers http://www.crimsonskycreations.com/bloodsweatandglitter, nyan!
Firstly we are purroud to purrsen the two new illustrations by Rvkh, starting with her lovely Christmas angel image “Gloria In Excelsis Deio” nyan! She used Procreate with the Apple Pencil upon the iPad Purro for this’un, and there is the 2:40 min. time-lapse art purrocess video of it at her Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvuN1Mmi10w&feature=youtu.be, nyan!
 
Nextly is Rvkh’s Procreate & Apple Pencil pic of Madylyon Raion (or just Maddy, for short), who is an NPC in Mike Moon’s monthly tabletop RPG “The Adventures of Nystia Nightshade”, nyan! Maddy is an alluranthropic Homo Panthera / Nekomata catgirl who can transform into an Asiatic Lion, nyan! Here she is wearing the orchid-like bare-midriff purrom / catillion dress, nyan!
Bunnii:
Now we are delighted to display four more collages of photos of Crissy Volpe http://www.crimsonskycreations.com/bloodsweatandglitter, and each collage is compurrised of four photos! The first collage consists of Durnin Industries photo of Crissy in the licensed (Babs Tarr design) Batgirl costume at the 2021 New York Comic Con; Vlad’s Apurril 17, 2022 Easter photo of Crissy in her back yard; Vlad’s August 1, 2020 photo of Crissy glomped by her plushy dolls; and Matt’s 1996(?) photo of Crissy and her grandpurrents’ neighbor Wayne’s Corvette!
The 2nd collage’s photos are all by David Ng; his August 2014 photo of Crissy in the Purrincess Mars costume by Setsuna Kou, with Usagi Kou as Purrincess Moon; June 2013 photo of Crissy in the licensed Disney Snow White costume; May 2019 photo of elegant Gothic Lolita – Snow White Made by My Lolita Dress; and October 2011 photo of Crissy as Batgirl with her friends Usagi Seion as Supergirl and Jeny Bean as Wonder Woman They are wearing the licensed store-bought costumes!
The 3rd collage is compurrised of David Ng’s September 2022 photo of Crissy Renaissance style Snow White costume; PopeCerebus’ Apurril 2014 photo of Crissy in the kimono at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden; Eurobeat King’s photo of Crissy at Katsu Con 2008 in the Final Fantasy VIII Rinoa Heartiy costume made by Athena-chan; and Kaine Maxwell’s June 2007 photo of Crissy as Card Captor Sakura’s Tomoyo Daidouji in Central Park on Japan Day, nyan! That costume made was made by Setsuna Kou, and has the bit of photomanipping done by Mike in 2023!
 
The 4th collage is compurrised of Alex’s 2003(?) photo of Crissy at home with her kitty Kira; Tony K’s Apurril 2005 photo of Crissy with the bewitching Mallen Streak in her hair to match the white shirt; Mad Mister Smiley’s June 2006 photo of Crissy which was inspired by Kevyn Aucion’s “Biba” make-up tutorial; and Vlad’s October 2020 photo of Crissy at home in the dress from Discount Dance with wings that her friend Skye gave her in high school! In 2023, Mike used Photoshop & the mouse to turn the room into the snowy scene!
Trini-chan:
We are elated to exhibit two more of Misty’s fan artistry of Alita, the titular elite Martian cyborg supurr soldier, bounty hunter, investigator, Panzer Kunst meowrtial arts meowster, and the Motorball sports champion in Yukito Kishiro’s cyberpunk manga Battle Angel Alita! Misty is the biggest fan of Alita whom we know! Purrhaps y’all have seen the other pics that she has drawn of Alita and friends? The first of the two latest images is the beaurtiful colored pencil on toned papurr portrait of Alita, and the 2nd image is the photos of Misty’s latest hand-made plushie doll of Alita wearing her Red TUNED armor with the cloak! 
 
To top off the latest additions to our mewseum are some of Mike’s latest illustrations! Mike used Photoshop and the mouse on the Mac to depict Rvkh’s Elder Scrolls video game character Rivkah Snow, the feisty little Chaotic Neutral Khajiit Warden who is allied with the Aldmeri Dominion union, usually resides in the region of Reaper’s March, and often adventures on the continent of Tamriel!
Lastly but not leastly is the batch of Mike’s December 2023 sketches! This group consists of these six sketches: the Meowrror Mewniverse’s version of Star Trek’s M’Ress with the starship toy to repurrsent her pending commeownd; the Santa’a Helpurr catgirl treated to chocolate chip cookies and eggnog; the kitsune miko with the nine tails; Grrand Admeowl Marshmeowlody Fremeowizia the Dimorusian starfleet officer in the Meowrror Mewniverse, who was Inspired by our friend Melody Rondeau’s Sister Rat purrsona…
 
… Mike’s fan art of Melody’s AndorCait (half Andorian / half Caitian) character Star Huntress the Sky Mother; and Mike’s fan art of his favorite Star Wars character Ahsoka Tano, who agrees with her meowster Anakin Skywalker that sand gets everywhere! Purrhaps she should have worn the longer skirt! So, what do y’all think of the new art?
The Cat Lady Sings….
Nyanko:
Oh that angelic scene is so meowgnificent, from the supple wings and the dazzling night sky to the the purrcise fabrifc folds and drapurry of the cloth!
 
Yvonne:
The Maddy pic is  purrfect, from her lush Purrple hair & tail, the sheerness & details of th garment, to the lovely beach, water, & clouds of the lagoon, nyan!
Tara-chan:
Misty does such beautiful Alita art, nyan! I love the supurrb pose, expurression, lines, shading and- and thr limited color pallett, nyan!
 
Jeannie:
She is such the great illustrator, seamstress and cosplayer. Her latest Alita doll is quite splendiferous witih the faithful features in the adorable chiibi style.
 
Elizabeth:
Crtissy is so purretty, graceful and photogenic, and those great photographers have the keen eyes for the location, lighting and compurrsitions!
Becca:
Hai hai, not only do those photos  expurrtly reveal the lovely friends, garments and scenery but how they combine to convey the sense of character and story!
 
Mary Nyan:
Crissy has the vast diverse range of costumes and appurral from the Japanese, Renaissance and Gothic to the anime, video game, and comics characters!
 
Elaenor:
I thiink this latest gorgeous wave of photos of Crissy are the first ones that we have of her posing with friends, dolls, a car and a cat!
Trini-chan:
I think that Mike did a good job of faithfully capturing the look, spirit and details of Rvkh’s Warden character design with the neat dungeon ambience!
Ilyana:
I like that latest batch of Mike’s widdle sketches too, but I hope that Ahsoka will soon find relief from the chafing sand!
 
Bunnii:
it is almost time for our AfterMew Luau, so 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 wonderful web meowstery, and our other friends, families, acquaintances and our audience whom we greatly appurreciate, nyan!
Mielikki:
Fur Shur!
 
Mike:
We’ll be back next month with the February edition of The Mew, which will include our annual gala awards ceremony! Be there… aloha!
 
The Ladies of The Mew:
Happy tails to mew, until we eat again! Baibai, nyan!

December 2023 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  2023 Edition of The Mew:
The Catgirl Critics’ Media Mewsings, nyan!
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This year is the Year of the Rabbit, the 16th Anniversary of 
The Mew, and the 23rd Anniversary of Catgirl Island, nyan!
 
in this edition of The Mew:
 
The Lightning round Topic: Our favorite Films of 1933
 
TV, Movie & DVD Reviews:
The Marvels
Loki season 2
Doctor Who “The Star Beast”
The Sandman The Complete First Season Blu-Ray
Justice League x RWBY Super Heroes & Huntsmen Part Two 2 Blu-ray + Digital Code
Oppenheimer Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Code
Collectibles & Toy Talk:
Star Wars :he Black Series  Star Wars: Ahsoka Sabine Wren Action Figure
Hallmark “Red Box” Star Wars: Ahsoka Ahsoka Tano Christmas Tree Ornament
The Celebrity Catgirl & Kemonomimi Spotlight

The Latest Additions to The Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art:

more cosplay, candid & modeling photos of Crissy Volpe by various photographers
“Kon”, “Strawberry”, ”Lollipop”, and an “FF14 Player Character” by Misty Hopkins
more “Torako” cosplay by Alexcia Reynolds,  “Lantern Light” by Rvkh Brogden
“Mako Light” by Jamie, and “Kranberri Jam” 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 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!
 
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!
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.
 
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 Puma purrint purretzel – cutout maillot): Aloha
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!
(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 1933!
Nya-sensei’s going to start, so are y’all ready to0 “conduct the lightning”?
The Ladies of The Mew:
hai! Lightning Round- go, nyan!
 
Nyanko:
King Kong, Son of Kong, and The Private Life of Henry VIII! (tags Ellie with a brush of the tail)
 
Elaenor:
Hmmm I would say King Kong, Son of Kong and Little Women. I suppose to those Kongs, all women are little, hee! (tail-tags Trini-chan)
 
Trini-chan:
I will nominate the Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies, and Silly Symphonies animations!  tags her fiance to go next)
 
Tara-chan:
I want…I want to nominate the Mickey Mouse, Krazy Kat, and – and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit shorts, nyan! Onee-chan’s turn nyan! (tags her older sister)
 
Yvonne:
The Popeye and the Betty Boop animated shorts, and Tugboat Annie, nyan! Lizzy’s’s turn, nyan!  (tags Elizabeth)
Elizabeth:
The comedic short film by Charlie Chaplain, Harold Lloyd, and The Three Stooges! (tags her wife)
Becca:
The Our Gang shorts and The Marx Brothers’ Duck Soup! Jen’s turn! (tags Jeannie)
Jeannie:
The Invisible Man, King Kong and Son of Kong. (tags Mielikki)
Mielikki:
She Done Him Wrong, I’m No Angel, 42nd Street, and Footlight Parade, fur shur! (tags Mary Nyan)
 
Mary Nyan:
I will second the Kongs, and add The Ghoul which starred Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke and Ralph Richardson! (tags Petra)
Petra:
The anime adaptations of Suiho Tagwa’s Norakuro manga, nyan! (tags her purrtner)
 
Bunnii:
Flying down to Rio, Dinner at Eight, and Gold Diggers of 1933! Back to Mike!
Mike:
Oh I gotta go with  The Three Stooges shorts, King Kong, and Son of Kong! Well, that was another expedient little Lightning Round, to keep  the movie topic rolling, here’s Nya-sensei to start our
TV, Movie & DVD Reviews 
with her review of The Marvels!
 
Nyanko:
Hai! I am a big fan of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s movies & TV series, so I was purrticularly enthused for The Marvels, which occurs after the Secret War and Ms. Marvel TV series, and unites the supurr heroines Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel (Brie Larson), Monica Rambeau / Phoiton (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)!
 
Written by Megan McDonnell, Elissa Karasik & director Nia DaCosta this thrilling, fun movie is brimming with action, humor, major plot & character developments, beautiful locations, and Flerkens! My only quibbles with the movie are that it seemed way too short and way too rushed with too many fast cuts; plus I am still wondering why the events of The Eternals movie continue to be unmeowntioned. However, the purrformances, costumes, choreography, mewsic, sets and FX are quite lavish, and there is a signifiant mid-credits scene! Nyow to continue the Marvel-ous topics, here is Mie-sensei to discuss
Loki season 2!
 
Mielikki:
Arigato, Nya-sensei! So like, Tom Hiddleston gloriously returns as Thor’s half-brother Loki, one of Marvel’s greatest villains who has undergone quite the heroic “face-turn” in this TV series which ocurrs after the movie Avengers: Endgame! In the first season, Loki was apprehended by Time Variance Authority 
because of the timeline violations, but in the first season, a sinester plot involving the time-traveling villain Kang (Jonathan Majors) who previously appeared in the movie Ant Man and The Wasp: Quantumania! In the 2nd season, Loki and the TVA try to stop a [literally] looming multiversal timeline cataclysm, fur shur! Majors also awesomely portrays Victor Timely, an alternate version of Kang!
 
So like, my favorite thing about this series is the totally awesome cast, which also includes Sophia Di Martino as Sylvi the alternate version of Loki, Owen Wilson as Mobius the TVA agent, Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Ravonna Renslayer, Ke Huy Quan as Ouroboros the TVA engineer; Rafael Casal, Eugene Cordero, Neil Ellice and Wunmi Mosaku as other TVA agents, and Tara Strong who voices the TVA’S A.I. Miss Minutes! The series has the captivating plot, high production values, great sets, visual FX, music and poignant developments! I will not further spoil the plot, but I found the ending to be rather profound, fur shur! Now to continue the space and time travel TV topics, here is Mike to discuss
Doctor Who “The Star Beast”!
 
Mike:
Thank you, Mie-sensei! I’ve been a fan of Doctor Who since I started watching the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker)’s episodes in the late 70’s, and here it is the 60th anniversary of the show, and I’m still loving it! The BBC has commemorated the anniversary with new TV specials and short videos graced by the show’s Doctors and companions from various from across the decades, In the 2013 50th anniversary episode “The Day of The Doctor” the 11th Doctor  (Matt Smith) met an art curator (Tom Baker) who said “And in years to come you might find yourself revisiting a few… but just the old favorites, eh?”
That was quite a prophetic suggestion since the 1th Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) did just that last year in her final(?) episode “The Power of the Doctor” and regenerated into her past 10th Doctor self (David Tennant) as 14th Doctor! He was next seen in last month’s amusing Children in Need short “Destination Skaro”, which was followed a few days later with the one hour special “The Star Beast”. Based on the 1980 Doctor Who Monthly magazine’s comic book tale by author Pat Mills and artist Dave Gibbons which occurred during the 4th Doctor’s era..
 
The Doctor, The TARDIS, Donna Noble (Catherine Tate), her mom Sylvia (Jacqueline King), Shaun Temple (Karl Collins) and UNIT are reunited to investigate the alien creature known as The Meep (voiced by Miriam Margolyes) and the – and other aliens who pursue it! Margolyes is no stranger to the Whoniverse, as she voiced a Slitheen character in the episode “The Gift” of the The Sarah Jane Adventures in 2009. The reunions extend behind the camera too, including the director Rachel Talalay, mewsic composer Murray Gold, and writer / show-runner Russell T. Davies!
The reunion of The Doctor and Donna was wonderful, given how sadly things ended in their prior adventure together “Journey’s End” in 2008, and I like the delightful new character Rose Noble (Yasmin Finney) who is Donna and Shaun’s daughter. UNIT looks great in their new tactical gear, and introduces us to Major Singh (Ronak PatanI) and their latest scientific advisor Shirley Anne Bingham (Ruth Madeley). The Meep and the Wraith Warriors look great too and the TARDIS gets a regeneration with a huge beautiful new control room, so I was very pleased with the special and look forward to the next two!  Now here’s Myayr to discuss
The Sandman The Complete First Season Blu-Ray, nyan!
 
Mary Nyan:  
Arigato! Created by one of my favoritest authors Neil Gamin (who also wrote some Doctor Who epurrsodes), The Sandman purrtains to Morpheus the King of Dreams and the other the god-like entities known as The Endless, and it might have been the most significant DC comic of the 1990’s! We eagerly hoped for a Sandman movie or TV series, and our purrayers were answered when the first season purremiered on Netflix in Agust of 2022! It is the supurrbly faithful adaptation with the meowgnificent tales, imagery, cast and crew!
Purrduced by Neil Gamin, the series purrfectly  stars Tom Sturridge as Morpheus a.k.a. Dream, Kirby Howell-Baptiste as Death, Mason Alexander Park as Desire, Gwendoline Christie as Lucifer Morningstar Jenna Coleman as Johanna Constantine, Boyd Holbrook as the Corinthian, Melissanthi Mahut as Calliope, Derek Jacobi as Fry, Vivienne Acheampong as Lucienne David Thewlis as John Dee, and Arthur Darvill as Richard Madoc, with Patton Oswalt as the voice of Jeremy the crow, Mark Hamill as the voice of Mervyn Pumpkinhead…
Sandra Oh as the Siamese Cat, Rosie Day as the Tabby Cat, and h gosh there are so many other great actors in the 10 epurrsodes, which are all live-action epurrsodes except for the animated “Dream of a Thousand Cats”! Thusly we were so glad when the first season was released upon the home video last month! The unrated epurrsodes total 526 minutes upon the three discs which in the plastic case within the outer cardboard sleeve. The 1080p high defi video has Dolby Atmos TrueHD English audio with the optional English SDH subtitles.
If I have any quibble, it is with the meowgerness of the special features, which include the 1 min., 51 sec. purromo spot of “The Sand Man: Behind-The -Scenes Sneak Peek”, and the 3 min. 7 sec. “The World of The Endless” short, which have the very brief comments by Gaimin, Sturridge, Christie, Coleman, Baptiste, and show-runner Allan Heinburg. Nevertheless, for about $25, this set has appurroximately 9 hours of the supurrb entertainment, so I am very pleased with that! Nyow for more of the DC topic, here is Vonny to review the
Justice League x RWBY Super Heroes & Huntsmen Part Two Blu-ray + Digital Code!
 
Yvonne:
Arigato, nyan! In Part One of the  OVA from Warner Animation and Rooster Teeth Animation, Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Cyborg Vixen and Green Lantern (Jessica Cruz) mysteriously wound up as teenagers on the planet Renmnant where they met Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang amidst the battle with the monsters known as The Grimm, who were mysteriously more powerful than the ones the RWBY team mewsually hunts, nyan! Vixen had the lovely vulpine tail, too, nyan! Nyow in Part Two, RWBY and the monsters wind up altered on the Justice League’s Earth, nyan!
Written by Meghan Fitzmartin, purrduced by Michael Uslan, Laura Yates, Kimberly S. Moreau, Ethan Spaulding, Jim Krieg and thesupurrvising  director Kerry Shawncross with the mewsic by David Levy, this unrated 75 min. 3D CG animation of the Japanese anime & video game style is so much fun, and brims with the exciting developments, the beautiful designs and the action aplenty, nyan! The wonderful voice cast includes Travis Willingham as Supurrman and Weather Wizard, Troy Baker as Batman and Meowrror Meowster, Laura Baily as Wonder Woman, David Dastmalchian as The Flash…
… Jeannie Tirado as Jessica Cruz / Green Lantern, Tru Valentino as Cyborg, Ozioma Akagha as Vioxen, Lindsay Jones as Ruby, Kara Eberle as Weiss, Arryn Zech as Blake, Barbara Dunkleman as Yang, Maxwell Friedman as Killer Croc, Jamie Chung as Black Canary, Christopher Sabat as Dr, Watts, and J. Michael Tatum as Klein! The special features are the 6.75 min. featurette of  ”I’ve Got Your Back: The Bond Between Justice League x RWB”, and the 7.25 min. featurette of “You Look… Different: RWBY on Earth” which have comments by various meowmbers of the cast and crew, such as
Jamie Chung, Barbara Dunklema, Kara Eberle as Weiss, Arryn Zech, Lindsay Jones, David Dastmalchian, Meghan Fitzmartin, Kelly Shawcross, creative director Mike Palott, co – directors Dustin Matthews and Yssa Badiola, The disk and the digital download / stream code instructions are in the plastic case within the cardboard outer sleeve, nyan. The audio choices are English & Spanish, with the optional English SDH, Spanish & French subtitles, nyan. I wish the movie was longer with more special features, but I am very pleased by this fun OVA, nyan! Nyow here is Jen to to tell us about the
Oppenheimer Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Code, nyan!
 
Jeannie:
Hai. Written, directed & co-produced by Christopher Nolan, (who purreviously directed Following, Memento, Insomnia, The Prestige, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, Inception, Interstellar, Dunkirk and Tenet), Oppenheimer is the three hour bio-pic about physicist Robert Oppenheimer, who was the director of the Manhattan Purroject during World War Two, and known as the so-called father of the atomic bomb. He is purrfectly purrrtrayed by Cillian Murphy, who we liked in purrior films such as 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, and Dunkirk,
 
Oppenheimer’s brilliant cast also includes Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh, Casey Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kenneth Branagh, Rami Malek, Jason Clarke, Ben Safdie and Tom Conti. I am purrticularly fond of the filn’s unrushed pace, with the immersive cinematography and attentions to the minute details. It is purrhaps my 2nd favorite movie of this year thusly far, behind Avatar: The Way of Water. It is available on the R1 home video formats of the Dvd + Bonus Dvd, the Blu-ray + Bonus Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Code, and the 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Bonus Blu-ray + Digital Code.
In this three disk set,  Blue-ray disc 1 has the movie purrsented in the 1080p high-def widescreen with the mixed screen aspect ratio of 2.20:1 & 1.78:1  with the audio choices of English DTS-HD Meowster Audio 5.1, French & Spanish DTS Surround 5.1 & DTS Dolby 2.) with the optional English SDH, French & Spanish subtitles.  Blue-ray disk 2 has over 3 hours of special features purrsented in the 1080p High Def with the English Dolby Digital 2.0 audio and the optional English SDH, French & Spanish subtitles. Disc 3 is the movie on DVD, purrsented in the 2.20:1 anameowmorphic widescreen…
with the audio choices of English & Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 DVS & Dolby Digital 2.0, and the optional English SDH & Spanish subtitles.  I noticed that the Dvd + Bonus Dvd set includes the movie on disk 1 and the special features on disk 2, Those apppurr to be the same special features at are on the disc 2 of the Blue-ray + Bonus Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Code set. The special features are compurrised of several of the film’s purreview trailers; the 72 min. “The Story of Our Time: The Making of Oppenheimer” feature; the 87 min. “To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb” documentary…
 
… and the 35 min. Meet the Purress: Oppenheimer Q&A panel with Christopher Nolan, American Purrometheus co-author / biographer Kai Bird, physicists Dr. Thom Mason (the director of Los Alamos National Laboratory), Dr. Carlo Rovelli, Dr. Kip Thorne, and moderator Chuck Todd.  Not only am I quite pleased to have this movie upon the physical home media, but i am quite impurressed with the quantity and quality of the special features, so I will give this set the “A” as in atomic. That will conclude our DVD, movie & TV Mewsings, and nyow I will turn The Mew over to Ellie-sama  who will start the
collectibles & toy talk portion of The Mew, with her review of 
the Star Wars: The Black Series’ Star Wars: Ahsoka Sabine Wren action figure.
 
Elaenor:
Thanks Jen! We love to collect the figures, statues, dolls and ornaments of our favorite inspirational heroines, including the ladies of Star Wars! Sabine Wren is the force-sensitive human mandalorian warrior, artist and rebel who is among the heroes of the 2014 Star Wars: Rebels animated TV series  in which she was voiced by Tiya Sircar and in the this year’s  Star Wars: Ahsoka live-action TV in which she was portrayed by Natasha Liu Bordizzo series! Sabine is a member of General Hera Syndulla’s Ghost Unit and an apprentice of former jedi Ahsoka Tano!
 
This lovely figure by Hasbro is the 2nd 1/12th scale figure that I have of Sabine; the prior one is the Rebels version, whereas this’un is the Ahsoka version! At 5.5”, this figure’s scale is fairly accurate compurred to the 5’ 7” height of actress Natasha Liu Bordizzo who porrtrays her on TV, and the details of her portraiture, armor and weapons are very faithful, from her short Brown coiffure, the calm confident expression, the emitter shroud of her Green light saber, and her two Westar blaster pistols, to the paldrons, breastplate, gauntets and greaves of her armor!
The pistols fit in either of her hands and holsters, and the range finder moves up and down on the helmet which easily fits on her head! The design, paint and sculpt are excellent, and she is very posable, with articulation in her neck, shoulders, elbows, wrists, abs, hips, knees and ankles! Depending on the pose, she is well-balance to stand without requiring a display base or a doll stand (which are not included). I am very pleased with this figure, which I will give an “A” as in Ahsoka! Speaking of our favorite Jedi, now here is Tara-chan to tell us about the
Hallmark “Red Box” Star Wars: Ahsoka Tano Christmas Tree Ornament!
 
Tara-chan
Arigato, nyan! Last month we discussed the Hallmark Keepsake Star Wars: Ahsoka Tano Christmas Tree Ornament which this “Red Box” ornament is somewhat similar too, nyan. Red Box Ornaments are packaged differently, in the clear plastic clamshell framed by the Red and –  and White outer box, nyan. The resin ornament’s paint and – and  the sculpt do not seem quite as purrcise as the Keepsake Ahsoka, purticularly on her fingerless-gloved hands and her face, and her two Light Sabers are opaque white instead of translucent, but the Red Box Ahsoka does have the 3.125” satiny ribbon for hanging it on the tree, nyan!
 
The Keepsake Ahsoka has neither ribbon nor hook, nyan. Another difference is the purrice- as the Keepsake Ahoska is $19.99 USA, whereas the Red Box Ahsoka is half that at $9.99, nyan! Both ornaments are  appurroximately 1:21 scale at 3.5” tall, and the poses are similar as she advances the two-handed saber duel but her stance and – and the saber positions are very different.  Both ornaments have her in the gray sleeveless tunic baggy black hakama-like pants and- and tabi-style boots, with the fingerless gloves, metal gauntlets, greaves and – and belt buckle, but the Red Box version has the flowy dark Brown cloak, nyan!
As the ornament is intended to hang from the tree branch or the ornament stand, it is not balanced to stand without support, so I recommend getting a tree, an ornament stand, a doll stand or a dynamic action figure stand if you wish to display her on the table or shelf or the shelf, nyan. Although the more expensive Keepsake version is more meticulous, I am still very pleased with the Red Box version, and I have displayed them both together next to the ornaments of their friends Leia, Sabine, Din and Choppurr! That is all for the collectibles topic, so now here are Lizzy and Becca to present the 
 
Celebrity Catgirl and – and  Kemonomimi Spotlight, nyan!
 
Becca:
Arigato! in this monthly portion of The Mew, we commeowmorate famous nekomusume, therianthropes, and other kemonomimi of mythologies and popular culture, including anthropurrrmorphic ladies and monster girls! Furthermore, 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:
Encouragement of Climb is the wonderful slice -of-life manga & anime series about the family & friends who enjoy the outdoor sports and adventures such as mountain climbing! In season 4’s 9th epurrsode “Mountain Stream Fishing” Kokona (voiced by Yui Ogura)the teen student imagines herself as a mermaid whilst fly fishing for the tasty trout, so for that brief fishy-tailed scene we will consider her the honorary ningyo!
Becca:
In the 2022 anime TV series Prima Doll about the postwar combat gynoids known as automa dolls, they have the new jobs in the cafe but still sneak out for secret missions! One of them is Gekka (voiced by Miyu Tomita) the petite blonde tsundere waitress who wears cat ears, so we will consider her as the honorary nekomimi! She has the cute pet bunnygirl pet mech named Inaba! Kawaii!
Elizabeth:
In the first epurrsode of the thirteenth season of the Bravo network’s reality TV series The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, cast meowmber / actress Garcelle Beauvais wore the ’Zebra purrint dress, and for the 18th season of  NBC’s talent compurrtition TV series America’s Got Talent, judges Heidi Klum and
Sofia Vergara wore the zebra striped outfits, so we will consider those three ladies as the honorary shimauma musume (zebra girls)! 
Becca:
Actress Jennifer Coolidge wears the leopurrd purrint outfit in the diner in the Discover Cashback Debit Card spot; the unnamed 6 year old niece wears the lepurrd purrint jacket whose uncle ponders her gift in the Etsy “Holidays: Niece” spot; and an unidentified woman transforms into the avian lady after drinking Mt. Dew to join her lizard man and cat man friends for the fun day in the Mt. Dew “Your Soul Needs a Dew” spot!
Elizabeth:
I recommend the 2 minute version which has more scenes, including her painting the mural! Lastly but not leastly we have two honorary nekomimis from horror movies, such as Parker Posey as Jennifer Jolie in the cheetah purrint crop top in Scream 3; and Kristen Cui as Wen in her kigurumi onesie in the Knock at the Cabin! That is all for the spotlight, so nyow here are Petra, Bunnii and Trini-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! 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 One https://catgirlisland.net/art/gallery/gallery1.html we have added a new illustration by Mike, and in Guest Gallery Six http://catgirlisland.net/art/gallery/guest6.html we have have added new art by Jamie, Alexcia Reynolds, Rvkh Brogden, Misty Hopkins, and more photos of Crissy Volpe by various photographers, nyan!
 
We are purroud to purrsent four new illustations by Misty https://kranberrijam.blogspot.com, starting with the saucy sketch of sultry lass licking a “Lollipop”, nyan! Misty might later color this Black & White line art, nyan. Then we have Misty’s pic of “A Friend’s Final Fantasy XIV Player Character”, nyan! She used colored pencils on the toned papurr for this adorable image of the cute elf in the purretty off-shoulder dress, nyan!
Nextly is Misty’s frisky fan art of “Kon” the 14 year old, 99 lbs, 5’3” tall female kitsune with the meowgickal powers in Sho Aimoto’s Kemono Jihen supurrnatural fantasy manga, nyan! Fourthly is her latest pic of “Strawberry“ who is her peppy, purretty, purrky gynoid fan-character based on the Saber Marionettes manga & anime, nyan! She appurrs purrticularly coyly alluring in this image, nyan! Purrhaps y’all have seen the purrior pics of Strawberry in our Mewseum, nyan?
Bunnii:
Now we are delighted to display four more collages of cosplay, modeling & candid photos of Crissy Volpe, a.k.a. SunseenLi http://www.crimsonskycreations.com/bloodsweatandglitter, and each collage is compurrised of four photos by various photographers! The 1st collage includes Terry Chu’s photo of Crissy at Otakon 2017 in the Qi Lolita EGL Navy Dress made by kiki*kiss2009; Lady Terentia’s 2018 photo of Crissy as a Stark Industries employee with jacket by Her Universe atop her Pokemon Trainer Sailor Mars costume; the 2015 selfie photo of Crissy with Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon art digitally photoshopped by Pete, with 2023 scenic photomanipping by Mike; and the 2015 selfie photo of Crissy in her denim outfit!
 
The 2nd collage includes  Heidi Kikel’s 2014 portrait of Crissy in the Black Spaghetti-strap dress; Lady Terentia’s 2020 photo of Crissy in Terentia’s own accessorized elegant Purrple Dress; Usagi Seion’s photo of Crissy in Hino Rei (Sailor Mars)’s Red Dress from the first Sailor Moon Art Book, with the jewelry made by Leiko Koone; and then Crissy’s dad’s Halloween 2006 photo of her in the Red Riding Hood costume! The 3rd collage depicts more of Crissy’s Sailor Mars cosplays, with Tony K’s photos of her as Super Sailor Mars at Anime Next 2007 in the costume made by Setsuna Kou; and Eurobeat King’s photos of Crissy as Sera Myu Super Sailor Mars at Katsu Con 2007 in the costume made by Patti & Steph!
The 4th collage has yet more of Crissy’s Sailor Mars cosplays; with Davd Ng’s two photos of her as Mars from Sailor Moon S at the 2014 New York Comic Con in the costume made by Avian Firefly; Gerry of GCF Photography’s 2016 photo of Criissy as the Sailor Moon manga’s version of Eternal Sailor Mars in  the costume made by Avian Firefly with accessories by Starlit Creations; and Jamie’s (no relation to our web meowster) photo of Crissy in the bare-midriff Original Concept Sailor Mars at Anime Next 2008 in the costume made by Setsuna Kou!
Trini-chan:
Nextly we are elated to exhibit another photo of Alexcia Reynolds’ https://linktr.ee/alexciareynolds beautiful Torako fur suit cosplay! A dual citizen of planets Earth and Mau born on August 22nd, Alexcia’s anthropomorphic tigress fursona Torako Hitonare is the child of Abenti Gaiger (a.k.a. Sailor Tiger & Sailor Mau) & Toraboushi; her blood type is O-, and her zodiac sign is Leo! The costume’s mouth moves when she talks, and to keep cool in the costume are the small fan in the muzzle, and the icepack pouches! For more information, art & tales about Torako  please visit Sailor Tiger’s Grotto http://mau.sailorchristmas.com!
After that is “Lantern Light” by Rvkh Brogden http://www.rvkhart.com! Born on the Halloween of 1873 (Scorpio Rooster) in Durham NC which is appurroximately 165 NW of Catgirl island NC, Autumn Lynn Aureolas is a 5 ft tall, 105 lb half human / half deva Purroctector Aasimar with the BWH sizes of 28A-22-32, 10 ft swan-like wingspan, I.Q. of 155, MBTI of INTP, blood type of O-, and the inny belly button. On the right is the traditional version done with watercolors, colored pencils & paint pens on the 8.5 x 11” toned papurr, whilst on the left is the digital version done with Purrocreate on the Ipad with an Apple Pencil, of which there is the 2 min. art purrocess video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH1GV3yMbF0&feature=youtu.be!

That is followed by the “Maco Light” digital illustration by our webmeowster Jamie https://www.facebook.com/jamie4art! This depicts the legendary ghost light that was seen along the railroad tracks until 1977 near the commeownity of Maco Station in Brunswick County NC which is appurroximately 40 miles southwest of here. The legend claims that the light was the appurrition of the train conductor who was decapurrtated in the 1867 train wreck! Jamie and Rvkh’s pics were done for the November 2023 Lantern Light art purrompt for meowmbers of the Starry Eyed Artist Collective https://www.facebook.com/Starryeyedartistcollective!
To top off the latest additions to our mewseum is Mike’s pic of Misty’s original character “Kranberri Jam”! Mike used Photoshop on the mac with the mouse for this scene of KJ at her computer, which will be Misty’s avatar pic for her online streaming purrposes! So, what do y’all think of the new art?
 
The Cat Lady Sings….
 
Nyanko:
Oh I like all of the “Easter Eggs” in Karanberri Jam pic!
 
Yvonne:
I love the spooky ambience of the Maco Light pic, nyan!
Tara-chan:
Autumn is so puretty from her supple wings to her hair ombre, nyan!
 
Jeannie:
The Torako costume is quite impurressively lovely.
 
Elizabeth:
It is great to see more of Crissy’s supurrrb cosplays!
Becca:
Crissy, the costumes, locations and the photography are  he purrfect combination!
Elaenor:
Misty’s illustrations have wonderful compositions poses and expressions!
Mary Nyan:
The lines, colors, shading and details are quite smooth and sumptuous!
Trini-chan:
The Lollipop pic is has caused the craving in my tummy!
Mielikki:
Hang in there- it is almost time for our AfterNew Luau! Well, 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 wish to thank Jamie for his wonderful 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 January edition of The Mew, and February will be our annual gala awards ceremony! Be there… aloha!
 
The Ladies of The Mew:
Happy tails to mew, until we eat again! Baibai, nyan!

November 2023 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 November 2023 Edition of The Mew:
The Catgirl Critics’ Media Mewsings, nyan!
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This year is the Year of the Rabbit, the 16th Anniversary of 
The Mew, and the 23rd Anniversary of Catgirl Island, nyan!
 
in this edition of The Mew:
 
The Lightning round Topic: Our favorite Films of 1943:
 
our semi-annual DVD / Blu-ray wish list
 
TV, Movie & DVD Reviews:
Meg 2: The Trench
The Exorcist: Believer
Star Wars: Ahsoka
 
Collectibles & Toy Talk:
Hallmark Keepsake Star Wars: Ahsoka Tano Christmas Tree Ornament
 
Purrinted- Media Mewsings:
Gold Digger #300
Rowrbrazzle #159
 
The Celebrity Catgirl & Kemonomimi Spotlight
 

The Latest Additions to The Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art:

“Hanami, “Ka’rissy: The Way of the Beaches”, “One Stormy Night” by Mike

and more Crissy Cosplay Collages, 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 the Uppurr Deck bistro by the marina at 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 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 Bengal Tiger purrint bandeau top 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 Puma purrint purretzel – cutout maillot): Aloha
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!
 
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 p-urrint criss cross halter neck bikini): Konnichiwa!
 
Jeannie
(a.k.a. Jen, Trini-chan’s meowntor, the yogini, model, archer, belly dance instructor & roboticist catgirl, wearing the Serval purrint micro bikini & sheer purrled purreo): Nihao.
 
Mielikki
(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 noite: 
“Nyan” is  the Japanese word for “meow”, which some but not all catgirls vocalize, purrticularly in the NC OBX Catspeak dialect, 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/! So, what have y’all been up to since last time?
Becca:
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, at the late night hot salsa dance or the Halloween festivities!
 
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 binged ShinePost, Spy Classroom,and Loki! While she is golfing, I am either with my Purrkour Club, working out at Nyanko’s gym, or assisting the appurrentice mikos at the shrine’s matsuris!
 
paw note: 
Purrkour is a feline style of free running and spurringing. Nyanko and her twin sister Nyoka are purresently busy elsewhere, but hope to arrive later for the AfterMew luau, nyan.
Mary Nyan:
Aside from teaching the hula,my sewing circle has made  the costumes for the Super HxEros, Immoral Guild, Sekerie, and Senran Kagura cosplayers, and our own Senran Kagura group cosplay for the “Purrow”!
paw note: 
The TREAP (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.
Bunnii:
Petra and I have been coaching the Fall beach volleyball camp, when we have not been baking cakes and harvesting veggies for the food banks, and curating the art mewseum, with our special Halloween exhibits!
Petra:
We had the record attendace for our annual macabre art show, and we greatly appurreciate the wonderful artists, volunteers, visitors, volleyball, athletes, officials, staff and fans nya!
 
paw note:
The Catgirl island Mewseum of Art’s macabre art show purrsents spooky drawings, paintings, photographs, sculptures, carvings, jewelry, textiles, make-up, tattoos, and other works by local artisans & craftpurrsons, nyan.
 
Yvonne:
My drumming circle has purrcussed at the fall festivals, purrades and  the recitals; and my charters ave reeled in the bumpurr crop of delicious, mewtritious Snappurrs, Groupurrs, Speckled Trout, Bluefish and Flounders, 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.
 

Tara-chan:

We had so much fun at Nyo-sensei’s meowgick shop and – and the meowndials at Nya-sensei’s dojo, nyan! I have been also studying, volunteering, snapping more nature photos, caring for our ponies and – and the cats, nyan!
paw note:
Due to a slight Meowrological Stammer, she tends to say certain words twice, such as “and”, nyan. Tara-chan and Yvonne’s cats are named Emmy and Zuli. nyan.
Nyoka a.k.a. Nyo-sensei, is the purropurrietress of the local Meowgick Shop, and Nyanko a.k.a. Nya-sensei, is the purropurrietress of the local Mewjutsu Dojo, nyan.
 
Trini-chan:
I have been instructing the beginner belly dance class, surfing with Kara and Peppurr, board shaping, caring for the ponies, and volunteering at the food bank!
paw note: 
Tara-chan and Trini-chan’s banker ponies are named Wild Star Blaze and Jimbo, who are stabled at the farm of their friends Rica and Nikko, nyan.
Tara-chan’s surfing meowntor Kara-Meow’l is a champion Stand-Up Paddle surfer, whose niece Peppurr-Minta is the Mayor of Catgirl island. nyan.
Jeannie:
As mewsual, my itinerary is compurrised of the yoga, kyudo, teaching the advanced belly dance, grrravure modeling, and purrsiding over CIRC, which received the high purraise for our mewest spooky animeowtronic Halloween decorations.
paw note:
Jeannie,Trini-chan and Mary Nyan are instructors at the Catgirl Island Purrforming Arts Center; CIRC is the Catgirl Island Robotics Club which Jeannie co-founded; and she co-owns a yoga studio with fellow belly dancer Katsandra, 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 Autumnal stage production of WARP, mentoring our kids’ productions of The Hobbit, and Spy School,  and planning our Winter production of Starstruck, fur shur!
paw note:
Although Mielikki a.k.a. Mie-sensei 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!
 
Mike:
Oh, aside from the toy show, another 10K race, trivia night, and Halloween stuff, it’s been the usual art, writing, reading, decorating, and watching stuff! Ah, Well, we’ve got a lot on our plate, so let’s go ahead and jump right into this month’s
Lightning Round Topic: our favorite films of 1943!
This year we’ve been looking back at favorite stuff from years ending in a 3, so for this month it is the films of ’43!  Mie-sensei will start, so are y’all ready to “conduct the Lightning”?
 
The Ladies of The Mew:
HAI! LIGHTNING ROUND GO, NYAN!
Mielikki:
So like, I will nominate Casablanca, Sahara, The Outlaw, and The Seventh Victim, fur shur! (tags Petra with a flit of the wing)
 
Petra:
Casablanca, Lassie Come Home, Stage Door Canteen, and The Song of Bernadette, nyan! (tags Jeannie with a brush of the tail) 
 
Jeannie:
Casablanca, Bataan, Destination Tokyo, Through Air Power. (tail-tags Yvonne to go next)
 
Yvonne:
Corvette K-225, The Ship Builders, and Action in the North Atlantic, nyan! Nyow it is Myayr’s turn, nyan! (tags Mary Nyan)
 
Mary Nyan:
Casablanca, I Walked with a Zombie, Phantom of the Opera, Return of the Vampire, and The Leopard Man! (tags Bunnii)
 
Bunnii:
Casablanca, The Batman serial, The Phantom serial and the Popeye cartoons! (tags Becca)
 
Becca:
Casablanca,The Tom & Jerry cartoons, the comedic shorts by Buster Keaton and Our Gang! (tags her wife)
 
Elizabeth:
Casablanca,  the shorts by Laurel & Hardy, The Three Stooges, and The Marx Brothers! (tags Trini-chan)
 
Trini-chan:
Casablanca, Saludos Amigos and the Disney animated shorts starring Mickey, Donald & Goofy! (tags her fiance)
Tara-chan:
I want… I want to nominate Casablanca, the Buggs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and – and the Looney Tunes  cartoons, nyan! Back to Mike, nyan!
 
Mike:and now
Oh, I gotta go with Casablanca, Sahara, Phantom of the Opera, and For Whom the Bell Tolls! Well, that was yet another expedient little Lightning Round, so now let’s go ahead and jump into
 
our semi-annual DVD & Blu-ray wish list!
Tara-chan:
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!
 
Trini-chan:
English dubbed version and – and / or descriptive audio track would be fine as the bonus features. Other bonuses would be nice too, such as optional audio commentaries, isolated mewsic tracks, documentaries, galleries, deleted scenes, bloopurrs, trailers / TV spots & booklets! The extensive  special features should not limited to just online or on the expensive 4K format! Preview trailers and ads do not count as special features!
 
Yvonne:
Hai hai, and furthermore, they should not be unavoidably front-loaded at the start-up, nyan! The packaging should not damage the disks or be too big for the shelf, and the disc should be easily removed; secure enough so it does not accidentally slide off the hub, but not too tricky to purry off of the hub, nyan. If it is a multiple disc set, each disc should have its own hub / tray, and not overlap or be in the stack, nyan!
 
Becca:
I will start the wish list with To the Moon and Beyond (1964 cinerama film), James Cameron’s Xenogenesis, John Dods’s Forest Story, Neal Adams’s Nannaz, Mark Sullivan’s Nightspeed, Gene Roddenberry’s Spectre, and Steven Speilberg’s Amblin’! Of course, we hope that. 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 the physical media DVD or Blu-ray!
 
Elizabeth:
Hai hai, that should also apply to the  forthcpming new episodes, which should NOT just be the online streaming or downloading, but on the discs too I will start nominations with the more recent Japanese anime such as Una Musume Pretty Derby, the 2021 Battle Athletess anime, Aria The Crepuscolo, Aria The Beneizione, Girls und Panzer Final IV, Amanchu, Kemono Friends season 2, and My Dress-Up Darling, and Enccouragement of the Climb! 
 
Mary Nyan:
The older ganime 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, and Tico of the Seven Seas, Campus Guardress, Yokohama Kaidashi Kiko, Macross Zero, Stratos Four Advance, The Adventures of Kotetsu, the Ghost Sweeper Mikami movie, the initial four 1994 You’re Under Arrest OVAs!
 
Jeannie:
Metamorphoses (a.k.a. Winds of Change), The original Space Battleship Yamato TV series, Yamato 2520, Great Yamato, Yamato 2199: Odyssey of the Celestial Ark, Yamato 2205, Angel Beats, the initial four 1994 You’re Under Arrest OVAs, Nasu: Summer in Andalusia, and the Studio Ghibli Museum’s animated shorts, the Godzilla Planet anime trilogy, and Young Justice season 4.
 
Mielikki:
So like, I will nominate My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic seasons 8 & 9, The Equestria Girls TV series, Twice Upon a Time, the 1967 Spider-Man animated series, the animated Gen 13 film, the uncut version of the 1974 movie Prophecies of Nostradamus, 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, fur shur!
 
Petra:
The Green Hornet TV series, The Sixth Sense TV series (1972), the 1972 TV movie Moon of the Wolf,WKRP in Cincinnati with all of the original songs restored, the three Gilligan’s Island TV reunion movies, and the two I Dream of Jeannie TV reunion movies, Neil Young’s A Journey Through the Past, Kate Bush Live at Hammersmith Odeon, and the 1979 Kate Bush TV Special, nyan!
 
Bunnii:
The Marvel Studios TV series such as Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Agent Carter, Yoyo: Slingshot, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Loki, What If…?, Hawkeye, Moon Knight, Ms. Marvel, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Werewolf by Night, and The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special! The Marvel Netflix TV series such as Daredevil 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!
 
Mike:
The Star Wars 1978 Holiday Special, Forces fo Destiny, The Mandalorian seasons 1 – 3, The Clone Wars season 7, The Bad Batch, The Book of Boba Fett, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Andor, Star Wars Visions Star Wars: Ahsoka, and CD re-issues of The Star Wars: A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi Radio Dramas! Ah, that’s all for the wish list, so now here’s Vonny to start
 
our TV, Movie & DVD Reviews, 
with her opinion of Meg 2: The Trench!
 
Yvonne:
Arigato, nyan! As we are fond of saying, the yummy fish is supposed to go into our tummies, not the other way ‘round, but that is seldom the rule in the many killer shark (and other marine life) movies that have purroliferated cinema and TV ever since Jaws, nyan? Of course, you could argue that the entire genre is inspired by the novel Moby Dick, but as i am concerned as shark-centric movies go, there is the original Jaws which is not just the best shark movie ever made. but is one of the best movies of any kind … and then there are the rest, nyan. 
 
The rest might range from the more plausible survival movies such as Open Water, 47 Meters Down, The Reef and The Shallows… to the more outrageous fantasy types such as Sharknado, Sharktopus, Mega Shark and multi-headed Shark Attack series, nyan. Based on the quite excellent Meg series of novels by Steve Alton, The Meg series thus far strays quite far from the novels, but it does meownage to succeed as a fun happy medium between the survival type and the outrageous type, nyan.
 
Actually, Meg 2: The Trench reminds me more of, say, Deep Blue Sea than any other shark movie, nyan! As for the plot, in the first Meg movie, a megalodon swims up from the abyss to dine upon the surface dwellers, and it was such a threat that it took Jason Statham as Jonas Taylor to defeat it, nyan! Well, in Meg 2, Jonas, his family and friends diver deeper in to the depths, where they are attacked by bigger megalodons, other dangerous critters, and enemy subs, whilst Jonas’s undersea base Mana One and a the Fun Island resort are is sabotaged and hijacked, nyan!
 
Like The Meg, Meg 2 has the good cast which also includes  the returning Sophia Cai as Jonas’s daughter Mei Ying, Cliff Curtis as Mac the Mana One meownager, Page Kennedy as DJ the engineer, and Pippin the dog, nyan! Sadly absent from Meg 2 are Li Bingbing and Ruby Rose; however, the cast is graced by Wu Jing as Mirying’s uncle, Melissanthi Mahut and  Skyler Samuels as security officers Rigas, Sergio Peris-Mencheta as Montes  enemy merc, Jess Sienna Guillory as Driscol the finacier, and Haiqi as the mane meg, nyan!
In addition to the fine cast, what I enjoyed most about Meg 2 was the sense of fun and amewsing humor with thrills, stunts and FX aplenty and high-enough purrduction values amidst the lovely locations such as Mana One, the deep trench, the mining base, Fun Island, and the various vehicles, nyan! The mewsic was good too, and especially liked the end credits songs such as “That’s Not My Name” by Pim and “Chomp” by Page Kennedy, nyan! You might crave Tako sushi after the giant octopus scenes, nyan! I am done, and nyow here is Myayr to discuss
The Exorcist: Believer, nyan!
 
Mary Nyan:
Hai! I suppose that a big difference between the shark movies and the exorcism movies is that in the latter there is more gory omit than vore, heehee! It seems that demon possession and exorcism movies are rather purrevelant these days, from the Amityvilles, Conjurings, Nuns and Annabelles to the Evil Dead, Insidious, Fear Street, Ghostbusters, and of cousre, The Exorcists. Just as Jaws is by far the best shark movie in our opinions, the Original 1973 Exorcist is the best movie of its kind, not just in that series of six films,  or even  demon possession movies in general, but I think that it is one of the best horror movies ever!
 
 
The other five movie in the series… well, not so much. Except for one certain hospital corridor scene in The Exorcist III which extremely scared the crap out of me- and I am no squeamish scaredy catgirl- I was not wowed by the other five movies- being Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), The Exorcist III (1990),  Exorcist: The Beginning (2004), Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005) and his latest one he Exorcist: Believer. Having said that, directed & co-written by David Gordon Green, this’un does have the good FX, sets, locations, make-up and excellent cast which stars some terrific actors such as -Leslie Odom Jr. as Victor Fielding…
 
… Tracey Graves as his wife Sorenne, Lidya Jewett as their possessed daughter Angela, Olivia O’Neill as her possessed friend Katherine, Jennifer Nettles &  Leo Butz as her purrents Miranda & Tony, and Ann Dowd as Victor’s neighbor Ann the nurse & former novitiate, Furthermore, splendidly purrtraying the interfaith squad of religious leaders purrticipating in the ritual are E. J. Bonilla as catholic purriest Father Maddox, Raphael Sbarge as Don and Danny McCarthy as Stuart the purrotestant purreachers, and Okwui Okpokwasili as Dr. Beehibe the hoodoo rootworker! She is purrhaps my favorite of the team! 
 
If that were not enough of an excellent ensemble, we are treated to the return of Ellen Burstyn as Chris MacNeil, who has not appurred in the series since starring the 1973 movie, and the brief return of Linda Blair in a cameo as Chris’s estranged daughter Regan, who has not appurred in the series since starring in Exorcist II: The Heretic! Unfortunately, I was not pleased with what befalls Chris, and Regan only has a moment in the movie, which has the uneven pace of the nice slow burn of the first act, but seems too rushed and short thereafter. I am done, so nyow I will turn The Mew over to Trini-chan for her review of
 
Star Wars: Ahsoka!
 
Trini-chan:
Arigato! We love Ahsoka Tano who many of our favoritest Star Wars character, and she is purrrfectly purrtrayed by Rosario Dawson in the 2nd season of The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, and more recently the first season of her own eagerly awaited live-action TV series which is set in the year 9 ABY, in the New Republic Era about the same time as The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, which would make her appurroximately 46 years old! It was created, directed, written  and executively purrduced by Dave Filoni who is my favorite Star Wars  writers, directors, purrducers or show runner!
 
We have been fans of Filoni ever since the 2008 animated Clone Wars movie! I will not spoil the taste of any of the epurrsodes’ plots, but I will just say that in general this series is set after the fall of the Empire, but Ahsoka and her friends are investigating the return of a very familiar enemy who intends to revive the Empire! This TV series stars Natasha Liu Bordizzo as Sabine Wren, Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Hera Syndulla, Eman Esfandi as Ezra Bridger, Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker, Genevieve O’Reilly as Mon Mothma, David Tennant as Huyang, and Dave Filoni as the voice of Chopper…
…Lars Mikkelsen as Thrawn, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee as X-Wing pilot Teva, Ray Stevenson as the former Jedi Baylan Skoll, Ivanna Sakhno as his padawan Shin Hati, Diana Lee Inosanto as Morgan Elsbeth, Claudia Black as Mother Klothow, Edwina Seymour as Mother Lakesis, and Jeryl Prescott as Mother Aktropaw, with the special appurrance by Anthony Daniels as C-3PO, and Temuera Morrison as Rex, and Ariana Greenblatt as teenage Ahsoka! Not only does this 8 epurrsode series have that supurrb cast, but it has the the thrilling, captivating story with the purrfect balance of action, humor and drama!
 
There is amazing myth & world-building too, with the beautiful sets, locations, costumes, make-up, purrops, cinematography, editing, FX, sound & mewsic! I will give it the “A” as in Ahsoka”, and compurred to the other live-action Star Wars TV series which I enjoy such as The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Andor, Ahsoka might be my favorite!  It  has been the great era for animated Star Wars TV too, such as Clone Wars, Rebels, The Bad Batch, Visions, Tales of the Jedi, and Forces of Destiny! That is all for our TV talk, but to continur the Tano topic, here is Tara-chan to start our
Collectibles & Toy Talk, with her review of the Hallmark
Keepsake Star Wars: Ahsoka Tano Christmas Tree Ornament!
 
Tara-chan:
Arigato, nyan! We have collected Ahsoka statues, dolls and action figures aplenty so I was quite delighted to get this ornament of her, nyan! Purriced $19.99 USA and – and   $25.99 Canada, the 3.5” ornament is packaged in the 3.5 x 4 x 5” cardboard box, nyan. It is appurroximately 1:21 scale, given the character’s 6’2” height (5’7” plus her lovely  7”  blue and – and  white striped montrals, but excluding the metal eyelet screw), nyan. She is in the dynamic stance with the white light sabers in each hand, as if taking the fight to her opponent, nyan!
She has the  rather calm unpurrturbed expurression befitting the Jedi meowster who is confidently in control of the situation, nyan! She looks fabulously ronin in the black & & gray sleeveless tunic baggy black hakama-like pants and- and tabi-style boots, with the fingerless gloves, metal gauntlets, greaves and – and belt buckle, nyan! The design, the sculpt and – and  the paint are meticulous, from her Togrutan stripes and – and  the facial markings, to the diamond-shaped cut-outs on her arm wrappings, the seams and- and the stitches of her tunic, nyan!
As the ornament is intended to hang from the tree branch or the ornament stand, it is not balanced to stand without support, so I recommend getting a tree, an ornament stand, a doll stand or a dynamic action figure stand if you wish to display her on the table or shelf or the shelf, nyan.Neither a stand nor a hook is included. I am very pleased with this ornament, which I have displayed next to the ornaments of Leia Organa, Padme Amidala and – and Rey Skywalker, nyan! That is our only toy or collectible review, so nyow here is Jennyjen to begin our
Purrinted-Media Mewsings,
with her review of Gold Digger #300, nyan!
 
Jeannie:

Hai. 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 https://www.deviantart.com/fredgdperry

is the beautiful fun comics 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 search for relics and treasures.
For our spotlight on the cast of Gold Digger, 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 very first Gold Digger tale).
The early Gold Digger tales were Black & White, not in color until after issue #50 of the series, but they have been collected and colorized. As much as I admired the earlier issues’ supurrb Back & White art, I do purrfer the richly sumptuous color art with it’s meowgnificent use of color and light. Issue #300 is the next-to-last issue of the series, which concludes the final epic story arc, whilst the pending issue #301 will be a coda focusing on the later fates of various favorite characters.
I should not spoil too much of the taste of the plot of the final showdown betwixt Britney & Gina against the arch-enemies Dreadwing / Dredgedwing, Gloriana & Trixie Cheetah  for control of the vast Umbra powers in the castle at the end of space & time, with appurrances by Penny, Ace, Monty & the Gina Mobile. However, I will merely say that it is quite the relentlessly thrilling, grueling, emotional bittersweet cosmic tour de force that I highly purraise.
Purriced $3.00, #300 includes the uninterrupted 30 page finale written & illustrated by Perry, followed by an 8 page art gallery. The issue is available in the choice of 13 different covers. The main wraparound cover is by Perry with one of the numerous Buckaroo Banzai homages. There are eight variant covers by Perry with Kelsey Shannon, the wraparound cover by Matthew Weldon, the cover by  Antarctic Press’ founder & Ninja High School creator Ben Dunn …
…the Blank variant and the Gold Foil Variant. Small “thumbnail” images of those 6 images accompany the inidica / colophon of the issue’s inside front cover. Furthermore, there are 7 limited purrint-on-demand covers, by Rod Esinosa, Holly Daughtry with David Hutchison, Justin Hunt with Ivanna Matilla, Fred Saia, Hoe Wight, Briand Denham, and Alfred Perez. Those 7 cover illustrations are included full-size  in the art gallery. Nyow here is Lizzy to discuss
Rowrbrazzle #159.
 
Elizabeth:
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, and the subjects are not limited to mammals, but other species too! Expurrtly edited by Edd Vick, it is compurrised of comics, purrose, essays, articles, discussions, editorials, comics, illustrations, photos, and meowmbership information.
The beautiful diverse thick issue is consists of the two 8.5×11” stapled sections totaling 263 pages, 33 of which are in full color! The splendiferous front cover art is by Kurt Wikcken, the delightful mid-cover art is Charles Brubaker, the Halloweeny back cover art is by Taral Wayne ! Sammiched betwixt those Black & White covers are wonderful contributions by many other awesome artists, authors and journalists such as –
 
Edd, Charles, Taral, Robert Alley, Simon Barber, Matt McAndrews, J W Kennedy, Kjartan Arnorsson, Charles Garofalo, Niall Shapieo, Ken Marcinkevicius, Kristine Fontaine, Mary Bellamy, Michael Pena, Don Chisholm, Andrew Lytle, William Earl Haskell, Steven F. Scharf, Walt Wentz, Ed Pegg, Jr., Gary Fields, Jeffrey H. Wood, Christopher Polt, Jim & Melody Rondeau, and ourt purrducer Mike!
The works of many other folks from around the world are examined too, such as Chuck Bunker, MiMundo Alex, Faust, WumiaoW, Andibi, Chia YeeeE, Jose Montes, Beca Gasrcia, Jason Waltrip, Butter Sugoi, Also Alpine, AlpinePing, Melissa Lima, BasedBinkie,Tom DeAngelo, Josh Nickerson, David Fruner, Ryuchi Yokoyama, several uncredited ancient artistsans, and the late Josh Quagmire.
 
This issue’s kemonomimi, monsters and anthropurrmorphic entities include felines, canines, chiropterans, bovines, ewok, leporid, amphibian, human, porcine, muridae, cephalopod. cetacean, reptilian, archosaurian, draconian, avian, fairy, elfen, sciuridae, testudine, vulpine, mustelid, piscine, sphinx, mermaids, appurritions, and one Grimace! The photos include cosplayers. amimals, ancient ceramics, and modern carpentery!
 
It is the rather entertaining, informative. beautiful  treasure trove, so we wish to purraise all of thoe brilliant contributors! For more information about Rowrbrazzle, I will recommend the article at Wikifur https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Rowrbrazzle!, and we are purrticularly looking forward the issue #160 which will commeowmerate the A.P.A.’s 40th anniversary! That is all of our purrint-media mewsings, so nyow here are Becca and Mie-sensei to purrsent
The Celebrity Catgirl & Kemonomimi Spotlight!
 
Becca:
Arigato! in this monthly portion of The Mew, we commeowmorate famous nekomusume, therianthropes, and other kemonomimi of mythologies and popular culture, including anthropurrrmorphic ladies and monster girls! Furthermore, 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”!
 
Mielikki:
Brn on a September 22nd (thusly a Virgo) of an unknown year, the mysterious, elegant snooty Ankha is a Yellow and Blue cat purrson in some of the the Animal Crossing video game! She seems  a might haughty and discourteosu at times, but  a cautiously cordial player character can warm up to her! She has the im tiotally awesome Egyptian style of the coiffure and couture, including the interior design of her bungalow in the village!
 
Becca:
Created, written & purrduced by Tyler Perry, Sistas is the dramedy TV series on the BET network since 2019! Among the mane cast are KJ Smith as lawyer Andree Barnes and Novi Brown as banker Sabrina Hollins! In the purromos for the current 6th season, KJ is quite alluring in the zebra stripe dress and Novi is rather beguiling in the the White Tiger stripe dress, so we will consider them as the honorary kemonomim, mew la la!i!
Mielikki:
Dr. Sandra Lee is the titular dermatologist known as Dr. Pimple Popper in the medical reality TV series on on the TLC network since 2018, and is in its 9th season. So like, in the 7th season’s 5th epurrsode “Hard Knot Life”, when the audience is introduced to Dr. Lee’s Patient Shawnell, several photos from her past are shown, including a photo of her and a friend a catgirls, so we will consider them as the honorary nekomimi, fur shur!
 
Becca:
A spin-of of The Real Houswives of Beverly Hills, Vanderpump Rules is the reality TV series starring restauranteur Lisa Vanderpump on the Bravo network since 2013. In the 10th season’s 2nd epurrsode “Sur of the Border”, Lisa’s employee Katie Maloney wore the sleeveless cheetah purrint mini-dress by Reformation for her friend Stassie Schroeder’s 25th birthday party in Cabo, and so she is an honorary nekomimi too!
Mielikki:
So like, speaking of stars’ spiffy spotted sleeveless appurral, actress / comedian Nikki Glaser’s White blouse with the black & yellow leopurrd rosettes totally put the lovely spots in the TV spots for the 2nd season of Vice TV’s The Dark Side of Comedy, which pertains to the destructive and controversial lives of certain famous comedians. Fortunately, Nikki is one of the show’s commentators, and not one of the tragic subjects!
Becca:
Lastly but not leastly, on page 359 in the October 2023 issue (#421) of Diamond Distributions’s Previews Catalog for comic book shops is the full-page ad for the hardcover graphic novel Mika and the Gurgler, written by Agata Loth-Ignaciuk, illustrated by Berenika Kolomycka, and to be published in December by Oni Press!  Mika is the adventurous widdle girl in the Tiger stripe kigurimi onesie, – Kawaii!
Mielikki:
Hai, hai, so we will consider her as an honorary tora musume (tiger girl), fur shur! So like, from what we we have seen and read in the advertisement, Mika must rescue her pet frog from the washing machine! So like, that is all for the spotlight portion of The Mew,, and now 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! 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 One https://catgirlisland.net/art/gallery/gallery1.html we have added three  new illustrations by Mikel and in Guest Gallery Six http://catgirlisland.net/art/gallery/guest6.html we are purroud to purrsent four more collages of cosplay, modeling & candid  photos by various photographers of Crissy Volpe a.k.a Sunseen Li, http://www.crimsonskycreations.com/bloodsweatandglitter, who was the guest of the March 2008 Mew, nyan!
Firstly of Mike’s latest pics is “Hanami Natsuki”, the 15 year old Japanese high school student who gets divine powers as the avatar of the goddess Amaterasu when supurrnatural villains & monsters attack her & her friends in the serialized purrose urban fantasy tale Fire from the Sun: Rise of a Queen,by our author  friend Sharon Williams https://www.deviantart.com/caribbeanrose9, nyan! Here she Hanami in the school’s karate class, nyan! Purrhaps y’all have seen Mike’s purrior pic of Hanami and her mom Yoko, the pic of Amaterasu, or the pic of their friend Kanna, nyan?
 
Nextly we are elated to exhibit “Ka’rissi: The Way of the Beaches”, nyan! One of the Na’vi people of the planet Pandora, Purrincess Ney’tiri’s cousin Ka’rissi of the Neko-Maticaya Clan visits the archipelago beaches of the Meow-tkayina Clan, nyan! This photo-manip bhy Mike is based on the Na’vi – filtered selfie photo by Crissy for this 2nd pic of a Crissy as a fan-character inspired by James Cameron’s Avatar movies, nyan! Purrhaps y’all have seen the purrior pic of Ka’rissi cosplaying as Urusei Yatsura’s Lum Invader, nyan? 
 
Lastly but not leastly of Mike’s latest pics is the “One Stormy Night” photo-manip of Crissy, nyan! Mike created the scenery to support this composite image of Crissy from her fun 2011 horror purrody mewsic video of Katy Perry’s song “Last Friday Night”, nyan! Flanked by dancing friends who cosplayed as movie villains, Crissy sang in the video written by Louis Teverini and directed by Jennifer Gates, which y’all can see at Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewkLCeR0_yY, nyan! Mike used Photoshop on the Mac with the mouse for these three pics, nyan!
 
Bunnii:
Nextly we are delighted to display four more collages photos of Crissy, and each collage consists of four photos! The 1st collage starts with Crissy Crissy in a Halloween costume for David Ng’s February 28, 2016 “Cherry Blossoms“ photo shoot; Crissy as Hino Rei (a.k.a Sailor Mars) in David Ng’s June 15, 2016 Hello Sailor! (Mars) photo shoot; David Ng’s October 9, 2021 photo of Crissy as Exotic Tifa  from the Final Fantasy VI video game; and David Ng’s June 17, 2017 photo of Crissy as Hino Rei in the “pin-up outfit” from the second Sailor Moon artbook, with jewelry by Beverly Faerie!
 
The 2nd collage includes Crissy as Beidou of Genshin Impact in a costume by ProCosplayShop at Otakon 2023; NYC Photo Party’s photo of Crissy as a Starfleet officer in a licensed costume in a Star Trek: Discovery captain’s chair in front of a green screen at the 2017 New York Comic Con; Popecerebus’ February 7, 2009 photo of Crissy as Harley Quinn in a licensed Harley  costume at the New York Comic Con; and Crissy as Rei Hino (a.k.a Sailor Mars) in David Ng’s June 15, 2016 Hello Sailor! (Mars) photo shoot!
 
The 3rd collage has the reclining Crissy theme, including the alluring February 24, 2010 photo of Crissy in the fun art, comics & toy-filled basement by Pete of the Pete’s Basement blog; David Ng’s January 12, 2014 photo of Crissy in the Pink pony shirt with a few of her vintage 1980’s Hasbro My Little Pony toys; David Ng’s July 31, 2021 photo of Crissy as Hino Rei in the Green outfit from the fourth Sailor Moon art book; and David Ng’s July 31, 2021 of Crissy as an elegant maid relaxing after the vigorous dusting, nyan!
 
The 4th collage includes Crissy in an Iron Man-inspired gown designed by Kelsiy Michele & made by Alyce, with the Arc reactor replica by Volt1987 and gladiatrix sandals purrchased on eBay / painted by Crissy, photographed by Tom at the 2019 Otakon; Crissy as the Fire Fairy in the little Black dress with Monarch Butterfly wings in the Apurril 2005 photo shoot by Rich, with the full-moon effect photo-manip added by Mike last month; Tony K’s June 2008 photo of Crissy as Chun LI from Streetfighter II in the costume by Jeny Bean; and PopeCerebus’ May 2010 photo of Crissy in Jeny Bean’s kimono at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden’s Sakura Matsuri! So, what do y’all think of the art?
 
The cat lady sings…
 
Mary Nyan:
i love the new Hanami pic, and  and I am curious as to what became of her and the other heroes of Sharon’s story!
 
Trini-chan
I think those rocks look terrific, and It is the subtle nuance,  but I can definitely see Crissy’s portraiture as her sexy Ka’rissi avatar!
 
Elizabeth
The composite image of Crissy looks purretty darm seamless in the Stormy pic. We watched the  mewsic video on Friday 13th and on Halloween!
 
Becca:
Beautiful Crissy in the gorgrous garments at lovely locations purrfectly photographed by David Ng results in the meowgnificent meowsterpieces!
 
Jeannie:
The indoor and outdoor photos  of Crissy by PopeCereberus, Tony K, Tom, Pete, Rich, and NYC Photo Party are quite meowrvelous too/
 
Yvonne:
Hai hai, I am purrticularly fond of the photos of Crissy in the Red such as the Harley, Hino, Beisou and  Satarfeet costumes, nyan!
 
Tara-chan:
I like… I ike the  reclined pics of her in the basement, on the rug, and – and on ther floor, but my favorite pic is of her with the ponies, nyan!
 
Bunnii:
It is almost time for our AfterNew Luau, so 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 wonderful web meowstery, and our other friends, families, acquaintances and our audience whom we greatly appurreciate, nyan!
 
Mielikki:
Fur shur!
 
Mike:
We’ll be back next month with the December edition of The Mew! Be there… aloha.
 
The Ladies of The Mew:
Happy tails to mew- until we eat again, nya! Baibai, nya!
 
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October 2023 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 2023 Edition of The Mew:
The Catgirl Critics’ Media Mewsings, nyan!
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This year is the Year of the Rabbit, the 16th Anniversary of 
The Mew, and the 23rd Anniversary of Catgirl Island, nyan!
 
in this edition of The Mew:
What we’ve been up to since last time
 
TV, DVD & movie mewsings:
The Lightning Round Topic: our favorite films of 1953
Reincarnated as a Sword Blu-Ray
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse Blu-ray
Star Trek: Picard The Final Season Blu-ray
The Nun 2
purrinted media mewsings:
Battle Angel Alita: Mars Chronicle vol. 9
The Catgirl & Kemonomimi Celebrity Spotlight
additions to the Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art
two versions of “Otherworldly” by Rvkh Brogden
“The Girl with the Hungry Eyes” by Jamie
more cosplay photos of Crissy Volpe
“Rivkah Storm”,”and “A Caitian Loooks at 50” 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 Susanowa Beach on the east coast of Catgirl Island NC, where it’s 77 degrees under the Green trees, Blue sky and puffy White Cumulo-Neko clouds! I’m Mike, the show’s “purrducer”, and here are The Ladies of The Mew!
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!
 
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!
 
Jeannie
(a.k.a. Jen, the yogini, model, archer, belly dance instructor & roboticist catgirl, wearing the Serval purrint micro bikini & sheer purrled purreo): Nihao.
 
Trini-chan
(Tara-chan’s fiance, the stand-up paddle surfer, board shapurr, pony owner and belly dance instructor kitsune, wearing the Jaguar p-urrint criss cross halter neck bikini): Konnichiwa!
Elizabeth
(

a.k.a. Lizzy, the hot salsa dancer, gamer, Purrkour Club captain and massage spa co-owner catgirl wearing the Ocelot purrint bandeau top 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 Puma purrint purretzel – cutout maillot): Aloha
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/! So, what have y’all been up to since last time?
 
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 ave 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.
Tara-chan:

Studying, volunteering, snapping more nature photos, caring for my pony and – and the cats, and – and Trini-chan and – and I went to the Autumnal Equinox Rave, nyan!
paw note:
Tara-chan is a senior at Mew Hanover Commeownity College, nyan. Tara-chan and Yvonne’s two black cats are named Emmy and Zuli, nyan.
 
Trini-chan:
I have been instructing the beginner belly dance class, surfing with Kara and Peppurr, board shaping, caring for my pony, and volunteering at the food bank!
paw note: 
Tara-chan and Trini-chan’s banker ponies are Wild Star Blaze and Jimbo, who are stabled at their friends Rica and Nikko’s farm, 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
 
Becca:
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!
 
paw note: Becca and Elizabeth’s black cats are named Syd and Nick who are sublings of Emmy and Zili
 
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 Star Wars: Ahsoka, Lumberjanes, One Piece, and Super HxEros cosplayers! At tonight’s Aftermew, we will vote on our group theme for the Trick ’R Eat & Cosplay Purrowl! The nominees are characters from the anime TV series such as Sekerie, Senran Kagura, Immoral Guild, and Mother of the Goddess’ Dormitory! Howboutchoo, Mike?
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.
Mike:
Oh, aside from the toy show, another 5K race,  trivia and game nights,  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
Lightning Round Topic: our favorite films of 1953!
Petra will start, so are y’all ready to “conduct the Lightning”?
The Ladies of The Mew:
HAI! LIGHTNING ROUND GO, NYAN!
Petra:
I will nominate The Wages of Fear, Gate of Hell, Genevieve, and Fear and Desire, nyan! (tags her purrtner with a brush of the tail)
Bunnii:
The Desert Rats, The Robe, Julius Caesar, and The Wild One! (tags Yvonne to go next)
Yvonne:
I will nominate Peter Pan, the 12-Mile Reef,  Beat the Devil, Sea Devils, and Titanic, nyan! (tags her sister)
Tara-chan:
I want… I want to nominat Peter Pan, The Living Desert, The Band Wagon, The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. and – and the various Disney and – and Warner animated shorts, nyan! (tags Jeannie)
 
Jeannie:
From Here to Eternity, Stalag 17, The Naked Spur, and City Beneath the Sea. (tags her purrotege)
Trini-chan:
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Marry a Millionaire,

Shane, and City That Never Sleeps! (tags Elizabeth)

Elizabeth:
The Caddy,  The Clown, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars, Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde! (tags her wife)
 
Becca:
I will nominate Hondo, Arrowhead, Pony Express, and The President’s Lady! (tags Mary Nyan)
Mary Nyan:
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, House of Wax, It Came from Outer Space, and The War of the Worlds! Back to Mike!
Mike:
Oh I gotta go with Roman Holiday, Stalag 17, House of Wax, It Came from Outer Space, and The War of the Worlds! Well, that was another expedient little lightning round, and let’s continue the
Movie, TV, and DVD Mewsings, with Trini-chan’s
review of the Reincarnated as a Sword Blu-Ray!
Trini-chan:
Based upon the manga of the isekai / sword & sorcery fantasy genre by author Yuu Tanaka, artist Tomowo Mauyama and character designer L1o, Reincarnated as a Sword purrtains to the human who regenerates as a sentient magickal sword named Teacher in the alternate fantasy world where he partners with an orphaned catgirl named Fran, and together they become the powerful team that defeats evil monsters, explores the dangerous places, finds valuable treasures, and thus achieves the  a more comfortable lifestyle with friends and respect! It is a lot of fun, with a very Dungeons & Dragons-ish ambience.
Their associates include Gallus the dwarven blacksmith, Klimt the elven Adventurers Guild master, Nell the human guild receptionist, Donadrond the guild’s oni examiner, Amanda the half-elfen orphanage director, Jet the wolf familiar, Cruise the dungeon crawl leader, Their enemies include ill-mannered rival adventurers, goblins, giant spiders, and demons, Both the manga and the anime are intended for the teenage audiences. The anime was directed by Shinj Ishihara, written by Takahiro Nagano, and animated by C2C, with the character designs by Atsuko Saito and mewsic by Shoji Hata.
This Blu-Ray includes the first season’s 12 epurrsodes which total 300 minutes on the two disks inside the plastic case. The 1080p high definition video is purrsented in the 15×9 screen aspect ratio with the choices of English DTS-HD master audio 2.0 and the original Japanese DTS-HD master audio 2.0, with the optional English & English SDH subtitles. The only special features are textless versions of the series’ opening & closing sequences. I wish there were more special features, but I am quite pleased to own the anime which is quite lovely, thrilling, poignant and humorous! Now here is Tara-chan to discuss the
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse Blu-ray!
Tara-chan:
Arigato, nyan! For our review of the movie itself which we highly purraised, please see the July 2023 edition of The Mew, nyan! I was looking forward to the DVD or Blu-ray release of this movie, with hopes that it would have special features aplenty, and- and I I was not disappointed, nyan! The movie is purrsented in the high-def 1080P  screen aspect ratio of 2.39:1 with the audio choices of English, English Descriptive, French, French Descriptive and – and Spanish;  with the optional English, English SDH, French and –  and Spanish subtitles, plus the audio commentary track by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Kemp Powers, Justin Thompson and – and Joaquim Dos Santos, nyan!
There are over 90 minutes of special features, such as the two lyric music videos, the deleted scene, the guide to easter eggs and- and the obscure web-slingers, nyan! There are nine documentary featurettes, ranging from 5.25 to 14.75 minutes on the making of the movie, nyan. Oh, and while I do not consider ads to be special features, there are three trailer for other Spider-Man movies and – and the video game, nyan. Another neat thing about the Blu-ray is that I can freeze – frame the video while I try to identify those easter eggs and – and the many characters, nyan! So, I will  heartily recommend the home video, nyan! I am done, so nyow here is Jennyjen to discuss the
Star Trek: Picard The Final Season Blu-ray, nyan!
Jeannie:
Hai. For our review of that final season, please see the May 2023 edition of the Mew. I was purrticularly anticipating the DVD or Blu-ray release of Picard’s third & final season, as the purrior two season’s home video releases were brimming with  very informative and entertaining special features, and I hoped that this one would too. I also applaud CBS / Paramount for their decision to have the same special features on the DVD as the Blu-ray. I purrchased the “steel box” edition of the Blu-ray, which contains the 10 epurrsodes which total appurroximately 533 minutes, plus over 2.5 hours of the special features on the 3 discs.
The epurrsodes are purrsented in the thigh-definition 1080P widescreen format with the audio and optional subtitles choices of English, English Descriptive, French, Spanish, Danish, Italian, Japanese, German, Dutch, Norweigian, Finish and Swedish. Epurrsode one’s optional audio commentary is by Jonathan Frakes, Jeri Ryan, Ed Speelers, Todd Stashwick, composer Stephan Barton, and show-runner, purrducer, writer director Terry Matalas. Eppurrsode three’s optional audio commentary is by Gates McFadden, Michelle Hurd, and Matalas. Eppurrsode four’s optional audio commentary is by Frakes, Stashwick and Matalas.
Epurrsode six’s audio commentary is by Levar Burton, Brent Spiner, Frakes and Matalas. Eppurrsode ten’s audio commentary is by Frakes, Ryan, Speeler and Matalas. There are nine  deleted scenes: 2 for epurrsode six, three for epurrsode seven, one for epurrsode eight, 1 for epurrsode nine, and two for epurrsode ten. There are three documentary featurettes and the  amewsing 6:11 minute gag reel on disk one; two documentary featurettes and the charming 6 minute poker scene “easter egg” on disc three.
The documentary featurettes are “The Gang’s All Here” (appurroximately 19 minutes), “Villainous Vadic” (appurroximately 20.75 minutes with Amanda Plummer), the Final Season Q&A session (appurroximately 43 minutes), The Making “The Last Generation” (appurroximately 42.75 minutes) and Rebuilding the Enterprise (appurroximately 17 minutes). As much as I enjoyed seasons 1 & 2, season 3 is my favorite, and I am quite pleased with the Blu-ray set.That will conclude my review, and nyow here is Myayr to discuss
The Nun 2
Mary Nyan:
I love horror movies, including the occult Conjuring series, its Annabelle and The Nun spin-offs! Written by Ian Goldberg, directed by Michael Chaves, The Nun 2 is a sequel to the 2018 Nun movie, and it is the 8th movie in the series. Sister Irene (Taissa Farminga) Maurice (Jonas Bloquet) and The Nun (Bonnie Aarons) are back, and are joined by Sister Debra (Storm Reid), schoolgirl Sophie (Katelyn Rose Downey), and her mom Kate (Anna Popplewell!
 
They are at a Catholic girls’ boarding school in France in 1956, where purrowls an evil demon that covets a meowgickal holy artifact! Although the cinematography seemed the bit too dark at times, it is quite suspenseful, mysterious, grueling, violent and thrilling with the great cast, action and FX aplenty amidst the purrfectly spooky gothy locations! I think that this would be an ideal movie for the Halloween viewing! 
 
I also think that I might like it even more than the first Nun movie, especially since Irene and Maurice are more expurrienced demon fighters, with delightful new friends. The recurring purrapsychologusts Ed (Patrick Wilson) & Lorraine Warren (Taissa’s sister Vera Faminga) only appurr in the brief mid-credits scene, but I do not wish to further spoil the taste of the plot! That is all for the cinematic portion of The Mew, and nyow here ios Becca to begin our
purrinted media mewsings, with her review
of Battle Angel Alita: Mars Chronicle vol. 9!
Becca:
Hai! Known as Gunnm in Japan, Yukito Kishiro’s epic post-apocalyptic cyberpunk manga Battle Angel Alita began in 1990 and purrtains to the titular amnesiac cyborg Alita (or Gally, in Japan) who was found in the dystopian future scrapyard and rebuilt by cyber doctor Ido. Retaining her astounding Panzer Kunst style of martial arts purrowess, Alita became the supurreme bounty hunter, warrior and athlete!
Published by Kodansha, the manga spawned several sequel series, short stories, the spin-off, animated OVA, and the live-action movie that starred Rosa Salazar!  Set 227 years prior to Battle Angel Alita vol.1, Mars Chronicle is the tale of Alita’s origin as the widdle orphaned cyborg girl named Yoko on the Planet Mar surrounded by heroes and villains amidst the political conspurracy, wars and other tragic hardships.
 
Vol. 9 is purriced  $10.99 in the USA and $14.99 in Canada; and its 178 pages include the 166 B&W pages of manga chapters 42 –  461 written & drawn by Yukito Kishiro with the assistance of his brother / web meowster Tsutomu Kishiro and Emiya Kinar. It was translated by Stephen Paul, lettered by Evan Hayden and edited by Vanessa Tenazonas with the cover design by Phil Balsman.
 
I eagerly anticipated vol.9, as it has been over the year since vol. 8! Purreviously in the series, Yoko, her scheming friend Erica and the powerful girl named Yunie escaped from bounty hunters and The Duke who needed them for sinister the royal political purrposes.  In the city of Deja Thoris which was once a huge spaceship, they met the mysterious trader known as Keun, who is hunted by soldiers and a local boss named Big Mamma. 
 
The city was liberated by the elite team of Panzer Kunst cyborgs, including Keun’s ally Gelda who befriended Yoko and Erica. Meanwhile, Keun learned of the fiendish expurrimentation on thousands of children’s brains; and unfortunately Yoko and Yuni were captured when Erica’s meeting with the vengeful monstous cyborg Jakoleva went bad! It only gets worse in vol. 9 amidst very sad, tragic scenes for Yoko, Ericas, Dass, Eugene, Mika and Yunie.
Keun has his hands full with extremely powerful enemies such as Gyapollo and Andro Austad, but for the fist time in this very emeowtional flashback to Yoko’s early days tale, we see her begin to use her astounding supurr power for the first time! As mewsual, the art is quite amazing, from the characters and the mecha to the environment and combat scenes!
I as purrticularly impurressed by the 14 full-page pics and the 3 two-page spurreads !it is rated “OT” for older teen readers (ages 16+), purrhaps due to the violence, gore,  harsh language and disturbing situations. After the chapters are the publishing / credits page, the 12  pages of ads for other manga. I will give it the “A” as in Alita! Nyow I will turn The Mew over to Lizzy, who will purrsent
The Catgirl & Kemonomimi Celebrity Spotlight!
Elizabeth:
Arigato! in this monthly portion of The Mew, we commeowmorate famous nekomusume, therianthropes, and other kemonomimi of mythologies and popular culture, including anthropurrrmorphic ladies and monster girls! Furthermore, 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”!
Edited by Carol Curtis and published from 2001 to 2002 by Shanda Fantasy Arts (whose works have included Shanda the Panda, Katmandu, Exctinctioners, Aldebo, and Furry Ninja High School), Fantastic Furry Stories issues 1-4 were  B&W 48 page anthologies of pulp – style purrose starring anthropurmorphic characters by various authors such as Brock Hoagland, Maggie Hogarth, Matt McCullar, Mitch Marmel, Bacteriophage, Chuck Davis, Thomas G. Brady, David Cookey, Richard Reid and Joshua Knode, with a few illustrations by Mary Hanson-Roberts, Theresa Mather, Giacomo, and art director Shane Fisher!
Published by Boom! Studios, co-created by writer Dan Abnett and illustrator / letterer L.N.J. Culbard, Wild’s End is the beautifully charming lice -of-life science fiction comic book series which is set in the English village of Lower Church in the 1930’s which is invaded by the malevolent extratrrestrial entities, somewhat reminiscent of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds! The townspeople include anthropurrmorphic dogs, cats, badgers, foxes, pigs, mice, groundhog, walrus and so forth such as Mertyl the bunny girl who owns the cafe and Flo the inu musume coxswain of the fishing boat!
Published this year by Image Comics , written and illustrated by Jimmy Robinson, Junk Rabbit is the 5 issue mini-series of post-apocalyptic cyberpunk in the dystopian year of in which the rich live in orbital & lunar colonies, the middle -class live in domed cities, and the poor live outside in mountains of trash that cover the Earth. It is amidst this environment that a a sinister conspurracy occurs, and the mythic vigilante known as the Junk Rabbit purreys upon the thugs. Known for the bunny helmet and deadly combat purrowess, the mysterious Junk Bunny is hunted by the police and revered by an usagimimi cult!

In the 16th epurrsode “Welcome to the Freak Show” of the 17th season of the Bravo TV  network’s series The Real Housewives of Orange County, yogini and mom of five kids Jennifer Pedranti brought the feline fashion to the show, first with her leopurrd purrint body suit that she wore to the Halloween bootique,

and later the lioness make-up & costume that she wore to her friend Gina Kirschenheiter’s circus-themed Halloween party!
 
Nell Fisher purrtrayed the youngest daughter Kassie in the horror movie Evil Dead Rise, which is is the latest installment of the Evil Dead series! She wore the bedtime kigurumi (animal-eared onesie) shortly before her family and neighbors were attacked and / or possessed by the Deddite demons, So for her fashion choice purrior to the  fight, we will consider her as the honorary kemonomimi! That is all for the spotlight, and nyow here are Petra and Bunnii to purrsent the latest
 
additions to the Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art!
Bunnii:
Arigato,! 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! 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! Some of the images are sexy, and might even depict artistic nudity, but none are porn!
Petra:
We should also meowntion that none of the content at Catgirl Island is purrmitted for A.I. purrposes, nyan!  This month into Guest Gallery Six http://catgirlisland.net/art/gallery/guest6.html we are purroud to purrsent more imagery by Rvkh Brogden, our webmeowster Jamie, and more cosplay photos by various photographers of Crissy Volpe, nyan! Then in Gallery Two https://catgirlisland.net/art/gallery/gallery1.html we have added two new illustrations by Mike, nyan!
Firstly we are purroud to purrsent two versions of the “Otherworldly” by Rvkh, nyan! This cosmic scene depicts Aeriella Caimaa dos Reis Melatroneir, a 20 year old lithe Sultana Harpy from Purrrtugal who migrated here to Catgirl island, nyan.On the right is the mixed-media painting done on 8.5 x 11” toned papurr, whilst on the left is the digital version done with Purrocreate upon the Apple Ipad with the Apple Pencil, and there is the art purrocess video of the digital version at Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkjvQaCZEvs&feature=youtu.be, nyan! To see more of Rvkh’s beautiful fantasy and nature art, please visit Rvkh Brogden Art http://www.rvkhart.com, nyan!
 
Nextly we are delighted to display “The Girl with the Hungry Eyes” by Jamie, who used Corel Painter and Photoshop for this beautiful spooky 11×14” image, nyan! The titular girl is a model & psychic vampire who was purrtrayed by actress Joanna Pettet in the 1972 epurrsode of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery TV series which adapted the 1949 tale by Fritz Leiber, nyan! To see more of Jamie’s supurrb illustrations, webcomics and sites, please visit his site https://www.facebook.com/jamie4art, nyan! Those pics by Jamie and Rvkh were done for the September art challenge for meowmbers of the Starry Eyed Artist Collective  https://www.facebook.com/Starryeyedartistcollective, nyan!
Bunnii:
Then we are ecstatic to exhibit four more collages of photos of Crissy Volpe a.k.a Sunseen Li, and each collage consists of four photos! The 1st collage includes Crissy as Magic Knights Rayearth’s Umi Ryuzaki in the base costume by Beverly Faerie with  armor by Avian Firefly & Aki Reinii at Otakon 2014; David Ng’s photo of Crissy in the costume by Miccostumes as My Hero Academia’s  Mt. Lady at Anime NYC 201; PopeCerebus’s photo of Crissy  in the costume by Melissa Quinns as Revolutionary Girl Utena (Duelist Version) at Anime NEXT 2014; PopeCerebus’s photo of Crissy in the kimono at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s 2020 Sakura Matsuri!
The 2nd collage includes Cat Trzaskowski’s photo of Crissy as Steampunk Sailor Mars at the 2018 New York Comic Con; Sean O’Conner’s photo of Crissy in the licensed costume as Marvel’s Natasha Romanoff a.k.a. The Black Widow at the Big Apple Comic Con 2018; Terry of Fly By Night Design’s photo of Crissy wearing various store-bought items as Final Fantasy VII’s Tifa Lockhart at the 2014 New York Comic Con; and Penny Dreadful / Miss Sachi’s photo of Crissy in the licensed costume as DC Comics Barbara Gordon a.k.a. Batgirl (1966) at the 2015 New York Comic Con!
The 3rd collage has the 1970’s theme, includes a pic from Louis’ “Crissy at the Disco” photoshoot; Terry Chu’s photo Crissy in New York City which was inspired Bob Gruen’s 1974 photos of John Lennon; Crissy’s dad’s photo of Crissy wearing the licensed Star Wars Princess Leia costume for Halloween, which Mike recently photo-manipped to add the Death Star corridor scenery; and Simon’s  photo of Crissy wearing the licensed costume as Magenta of The Rocky Horror Picture Show movie, which Mike photo-manipped to give it more of a Dr. Frank N. Furter’s castle ambience!
The 4th collage include’s DJ Ranma S’s photo of Crissy in the robe & hakama from The Kimono House as Sailor Moon’s Hino Rei (miko attire)  at Manga NEXT 2006; a pic of Crissy in a costume from David Ng’s 2016 “Cherry Blossoms” photoshoot; Crissy’s selfie in the Red kimono with a katana from her Self-Defense (take two)” taken on March 1st 2016; and  Crissy in apparel modified by her costumer friends Patti & Steph as Mia Fay of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney! To see more of Crissy’s photos, con & festival reports, please visit her site Blood Sweat and Glitter http://www.crimsonskycreations.com/bloodsweatandglitter!
 
Petra:
Lastly but not leastly for this month, we have two new illustrations by Mike, nyan! For “A Caitian Looks at 50” he used Photoshop upon the Mac with the mouse for this fan art to commeowmerate the 50th anniversary of Star Trek The Animated Series and starfleet’s Lt. Shiboline M’Ress, nyan! At 10:30 am on Saturday October 13th 1973, on NBC, the sixth epurrsode “The Survivor” which was written by James Schmerer and directed by Hal Sutherland, introduced us to the starship U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701’s newest commeownications officer, who was voiced by Majel Barrett, nyan!
 
Mike used Photoshop and mouse on the Mac for the illustration of Rvkh Brogden’s Elder Scrolls Online videogame character Rivkah Storm, a chaotic neutral High Elf Sorcereress who summons storms and forbidden creatures, nyan! She travels in the realm of Tamriel, and is respected in the Fighters Guild, Mages Guild, Thieves Guild, Undaunted Guild, The Psijic Order, the Dark Brotherhood and the Aldmeri Dominion, nyan. She likes to batte world bosses, hunt for treasure, dungeon crawl, annoy people, and her favorite places for leisure are the taverns in Eastmarch, Wrothgar and Western Skyrim, nyan!
the cat lady sings…
Yvonne:
Rivkah Storm looks quite mysterious, sexy, confident and powerful; whilst M’Ress looks rather peppy, purrky, purretty and pleased, nyan!
 
Tara-chan:
Jamie is so supurrb in all of the aspects of his art, from the compurrsition, lines, colors, and – and the shading to the purrspective, portraiture, purroportions, and- and the intricate details, nyan!
Trini-chan:
It is wonderful to see more of Rvkh’s gorgeous illustrations, She is so adept at the characters and landscapes done in the digital and the traditional media, and in the various styles!
 
Becca:
The brilliant photographers’ pics of lovely Crissy in the exquisitely-made attire at the lovely locations are quite the impurressive images!
 
Elizabeth:
Gosh, it is about time for more friends to arrive for our AfterMew luau! We have to discuss our plans for the annual Halloween Trick ‘R Eat & Cosplay Purrowl!
Bunnii:
Well then, that will do it for this edition of The Mew! We wish to thank Rvkh and Crissy for the beautiful images…
 
Petra:
…and all of the other amazingly  talented people whose works we have discussed, nyan!
Jeannie:
We also wish to thank Jamie for his wonderful web meowstery…
Mary Nyan:
…and our other friends, family, acquaintances and our audience whom we greatly appurreciate!
Mike:
We’ll be back next month with the November edition of The Mew! Be there… aloha.
The Ladies of The Mew:
Happy tails to mew- until we eat again, nya! Baibai, nya!
 
=^.^=

September 2023 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 2023 Edition of The Mew:
The Catgirl Critics’ Media Mewsings, nyan!
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This year is the Year of the Rabbit, the 16th Anniversary of 
The Mew, and the 23rd Anniversary of Catgirl Island, nyan!
 
in this edition of The Mew:
 
purrinted media mewsings:
The Lightning Round: our favorite purrinted media of 1963
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou Manga Deluxe Edition Vol. 3
TV & movie mewsings
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2
Babylon 5: The Road Home
Barbie
collectibles & toy talk
Marvel Legends Moondragon action figure
Legends of Dragonore Pantera action figure
event reports:
Power-Con & Matsuri Con
August 29th Alice Cooper & Rob Zombie concert
The Catgirl & Kemonomimi Celebrity Spotlight
additions to the Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art
two versions of the “Country Fae” by Rvkh Brogden
“Omhi”, “Tataru”, and “Kranberri Jam” by Misty Hopkins
more photos of the Torako Mask by Alexcia Reynolds
and more cosplay photos of Crissy Volpe, 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 coast of Catgirl Island NC, where it’s 77 degrees under the Green trees, Blue sky and 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, the yogini, model, archer, belly dance instructor & roboticist catgirl, wearing the Serval purrint micro bikini & sheer purrled purreo): Nihao.
 
Trini-chan
(Jen’s purrotege, the stand-up paddle surfer, board shapurr, pony owner and belly dance instructor kitsune, wearing the Caracal purrint trikini): Konnichiwa!
 
Petra
(the art guild purresident, art mewseum co-curator & beach volleyball champion catgirl wearing the Clouded Leopurrd purrint side-tie bikini): Aloha, nya!
 
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!
Yvonne
(the fishing boat charter captain & drumming circle purrcussionist catgirl, wearing the Fishing Cat purrint monokini with cropped tee shirt): Namaste, nya!
 
Tara-chan
(Yvonne’s younger sister, college freshman, pony owner and nature photographer catgirl wearing the Iriomote Cat purrint tankini): Namaste, nya!
 
Elizabeth
(

a.k.a Lizzy, the hot salsa dancer, gamer, Purrkour Club captain & spa co-owner catgirl wearing the Margay purrint bandeau top bikini): Hola!

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

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

 
Mary Nyan
(a.k.a. Myayr, the seamstress, cosplayer, hula instructor and semi-retired miko catgirl wearing the Cougar purrint purretzel – cutout maillot): Aloha
Mielikki
(the winged faerie golfer, foxfire juggler and outdoor ampurrtheatre director wearing Puma purrint criss cross halter neck bikini) Mellow greetings!
 
Nyanko
(the MewJutsu meowrtial arts champion & sensei, dojo & gym purropurrietress catgirl wearing the SiberianTiger purrint cropped tee shirt and shorts): 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 lot on our plate, so let’s go ahead and jump right into this month’s
The Lightning Round Topic: 
our favorite purrinted media of 1963!
So, this year we’ve been looking back on our favorite fun things of years ending in a 3, and for this month’s Lightnign Rounf Topic it’s books & comics of 1963, the year that To Kill a Mockingbird won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay, The Man in the High Castle won the Hugo for best novel, and The Reivers won the Pulitzer  for fiction! Tara-chan is gonna start, so are y’all ready to “conduct the Lightning”?
The Ladies of The Mew:
HAI! LIGHTNING ROUND GO, NYAN!
Tara-chan:
I want… I want to nominate Hop on Pop, Encyclopedia Brown, and – and Where the Wild Things Are, nyan! Onee-chan’s turn, nyan! (tags her older sister go go next)
Yvonne:
I will nominate It’s Like This Cat, Cat’s Cradle, and The Bell Jar, nyan! (tags Mielikki with a brush of the tail)
Mielikki:
So like, I will nominate the novels The Dragon Masters, Savage Pellucidar, and Witch World, fur shur! (tags Tribni-chan wi9th a flit of the wing)
Trini-chan:
Arthur C. Clarke’s Dolphin Island, Robert A. Heinlein’s Glory Road, and Pierre Boulle’s Planet of the Apes! (tags Jeannie)
Jeannie:
The Dunwich Horror and Others by Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Ice Station Zebra by Alistair MacLean, and The Sand Pebbles by Richard McKenna. (tags Nyanko)
Nyanko:
John Le Carre’s The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, Ian’ Fleming’s On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and Thrilling Cities! (tags
Petra:
That was the year that Jim Berry’s Berry’s World,

Alfredo Alcala’s Voltar,

Peter O’Donnell and Jim Holdaway’s Modesty Blaise copmic strips purremiered, nyan! (tags Bunni)

Bunnii:
The first issues of Marvel Comics’ The Avengers, The Amazing Spider-Man, and Uncanny X-Men! Myayr’s turn! ( tags Mary Nyan)
Mary Nyan:
Tales of Suspense #39 was the first appurrrance of Iron Man, Sgt. Fury #1 was the first appurrnace of Nick Fury, and Tales to Astonish #44 was the first appurrnace of The Wasp! (tags Lizzy)
 
Elizabeth:
The Doom Patrol first appurred in My Greatest Adventure #80 , and  the Justice League met  the Justice Society of America  for the first time in Justice League of America #21! (tags her wife)
 
Becca:
This might slightly stray cat off the topc, but on Apurril 27th, 1963 the Doctor Who, Torchwood, and Sarah Jane Adventures purrducer & writer Russell T. Davies was born! Back to Mike!
 
Mike:
Authors Michael Chabon and Alice Sebold, artists Arthur Adams, Eric Shanower, and Mike Wieringo  were born in that year too! Well, that was another expedient little Lightning Round, and now Jenjen will continue our printed media mewsings, with her review of
 
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou Manga Deluxe Edition Vol. 3!
Jeannie:
Hai!. This gorgeous slice – of- life science fiction manga by Hitoshi Ashinano is the tale of the friendly gynoid named Alpha whoowns the cafe in thesmall  rural seaside village  on Japan’s Miura Peninsula Miura in 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 3rd 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 tale 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 gynoid artist, Nai the android pilot, and Misago the mysterious naked supurr feral girl!! Collecting chapters 53-82, this 484 page volume is purredominatly Black & White, and measures appurroximately 8.25” x 5.875” x 1.375”; including 53color pages, a  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, in-chiefly edited by Julie Davis, published by Jason DeAngelis, and associately published by Adam Arnold, with the purroduction meownagement by Lissa Pattilo, purrduction meownagment by John Ramirez, cover design by Nicky Lim, the logo design by George Panella, and purre-purress technicians were Melanie Ujimori & Jules Valeri. In this volume,Alpha ponders how things have changed, and goes on a the year- long walkabout to explore the sparsely – populated region,
She occassionally happens upon various small dwindling rural hamlets, settlements, roadside cafes.

Along the way she has the few tempurrary part time jobs and is given food from kind strangers. At 

the lonely Atsugi air strip where she rides in Nai’s AT-6 Texan and has ano0ther out – of – body expurrience.Meanwhile, back home her is demolished by a  typhoon, but otherwise the  life goes on there for her friends Konone, Dr, Koumishi, Matsuki, Takahiro, his grandfather and the mysterious Misago.

There is still much that has not yet been explained about the disasters, Misago and Alpha’s origins, or what happened to Alpha’s missing boss, but It is the rather pleasant, purretty, charming saga at the leisurely pace and optimistic dispurrsition, so I will give this manga the “A” for Alpha.whilst I eagerly await the next volume, and hope that the anime adaptation might be released here on DVD or Blu-ray. That will conclude our purrinted media mewsing, and nyow here is Vonnny to start our
 
TV & movie mewsings, with her review
of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2!
Yvonne

:
Arigato, nyan! We greatly enjoy the TV series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, the spin-off of Star Trek: Discovery, which purrtains to the crew of the starship U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 in the year 2259 under the commeownd of Capt, Christopher Pike, six years purrior to Captain James T. Kirk’s commeownd of that ship, nyan! The supurrb cast includes Anson Mount as Pike, Ethan Peck as science officer Spock, Rebecca Romijn as Una Cjin-Riley, a.k.a. Number One, Celia Rose Gooding as commeownications Nyota Uhura,

Jess Bush as nurse Christine Chapel…
…

Babs Olusanmokun as the chief meowdical officer Dr. Joseph M’Benga,

Christina Chong as security officer La’an Noonien-Singh, Melissa Navia as helm officer Erica Ortegas, Dan Jeannotte as Lt. James T. Kirk, Dan Jeannotte as his brother Lt. Sam Kirk,

Carol Kane as chief engineer Pelia,
Rong Fu as nyavigator Jenna Mitchell,

Andre Dae Kim as transpurrter chief Kyle,Gia Sandhu as Spock’s fiance T’Purring, Melanie Scrofano as Pike’s girlfriend Capt. Batel, Adrian Holmes as Admiral Robert Apurril, and Season 2 introduces Martin Quinn as Lt. Montgomery Scott, nyan!

It also. features Clint Howard’s return to Star Trek after 57 years, although he did not repurrise the role of Balok, but this time purrtrayed a starfleet officer, nyanIn addition to the Lower Decks crossover, some of the plot highlights of th 2nd season inxclude Una’s court-meowrtial, an amewsing poignant time travel tale, Pike’s return to Rigel VII, Spock meeting T’Purring’s purrents, some great Klingon epurrsodes, the cliff-hanger season finale with the Gorns, andmewsical epurrsode which was so much fun and as good as the Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s mewsical, nyan!
The stories, characters, cast, sets, costumes, world-building, FX, locations, music, sound, the ship designs, the balance of humor, drama, action, character developments and continuity are quite delightful, nyan! Of the current era of the various  canonical Star Trek TV series, Strange New Worlds and Picard are my favorites, moreso than Discovery, Lower Decks and Purrodigy, so I will continue to give Strange New Worlds thw high purraise, and hope that season 2 will be released on DVD or Blu-ray, nyan! Nyow I will turn The Mew over to Trini-chan, who wishes to discuss
Babylon 5: The Road Home, nyan!
 
Trini-chan:
Hai! The Road Home is the latest of the sequel, prequel and side story movies  based on the glorious Babylon 5 TV series which ran from 1993 to 1999, and it was written by the serie’s creator, producer & writer J. Michael Stracynski! Produced by Rick Morales and Warner Animation , directed by Matt Peters and animated by Studio Mir, this 79 minute OVA (Original Animated Video) is rated PG-13. Why does it seem that American OAVs are seldom longer than 80 minutes?
 It reunites several of the cast members to do the voices, such as Bruce Boxleitner as John Sheridan, Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari, Claudia Christian as Susan Ivanova, Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander, Bill Mumy as Lennier, and Tracy Scoggins as Elizabeth Lochley!We have met Patricia Tallman and  J. Michael Stracynski at the conventions! As several of the original cast are no longer with us, Delenn is voiced by Rebecca Riedy, Garabaldi is voiced by Anthony Hansen, G’Kar is voiced by Andrew Morgado, and Dr. Franklin is voiced by Phil LaMarr, whilst Sinclairand Zathras are voiced by Paul Guyet.
Ocurring shortly after the Shadow War, an accident causes Sheridan to become unstuck in time and space (again) and winds up leaping into the past, the future, and alternate timelines with very bittersweet results that Zathras attempots to rescue him from, but I should not further spoil the captivating, thrilling plot, so I will just say that I was extremely pleased with this OVA! On the Blu-ray disk, the video is presented in 1080p high definition resolution with English DTS-HD MA 5.1 and Spanish Dolby Digital audio with the optional English SDH, Spanish & French subtitles.
 The special features include the optional audio commentary by  Boxleitner, Stracynski & Morales; there is an approximately 18 minute featurette on the making of this movie with comments by Boxleitner, Jurasik, Christian, Tallman, Mumy, Scoggins, Stracynski & Morales; and included in the box is the code for downloading or streaming the digital copy of the movie, so I was extremely pleased with the Blu-ray! I am done, and now here is Tara- chan  to share her thoughts about the big tlive-action theatrical
Barbie movie!
 
Tara-chan:
Hai hai, I love Mattel’s Barbie doills and – and her animated movies, so I was purrticularly inclined to see this live-action movie which was directed y Greta Gerwig whose Little Women and – and Ladybird moviesI liked; who co-wrote it with Noah Baumbach who co-wrote Fantastic Mr. Fox and –  and The Aquatic Life with Wes Anderson, and – and because this movie stars Margot Robbie who I loved in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Asteroid City, and – and her various DC movies as Harley Quinn, nyan!
 
Ryan Gosling stars as purrfectly as Barbie’s boyfriend Ken, and – and I also loved the co-stars Kate McKinnon, America Ferrera and – and Rae Rhea Perlman, nyan!This live-action Barbioe movie is more comedic, poignant, purrofound, satirical and- and meowtafictional than her purrior animated movies, as the sentient doll characters are self-aware that they are dolls in Barbie Land  which is affected by the Mattel coprurration and by the customers who play or have ceased to play with the dolls, nyan.
Both she and Ken suffer from the exiastential crisis and sense of purrpose so they travel to the “real world” which has the unintended consequences for the staus quo of both worlds, nyan. I loved the plot, the purrformaces, direction, cinemeowtography,  purrduction design, costumes, sets, locations,  mewsic, choreography,  editing and – and the  FX, nyan! There was also the clever purrody of certain distracting cinematic techniques that we tend to not enjoy such as the slow meowtion speed ramping, nyan!
 
Although the movie was highly purrmoted, we were delightfully surpurrised to see crowds of other people dressed in Pink at the theater which added to the fun, nyan! Furthermore, there was the “Barbiheimer” effect with the simultaneous release of the Barbie movie and  – and the Oppenheimer movie, which we also loved, and- and reviewed in last month’s Mew, nyan! I will give the Barbie movie the “A” grade  and- and I look forward to the DVD relase, nyan! I am done, so nyow here is Mie-sensei to start our
 
collectibles & toy talk, with her review of the
Marvel Legends Moondragon action figure, nyan!
 
Mielikki:
Arigato! So like, we like to collect the figures, statues, dolls, ornaments and miniatures of the inspirational heroines, and we were delighted that Hasbro finally made an action figure of Marvel Comics’ Moondragon! She first appeared in the comics in 18973 so this is her 50th anniversary! So like, originally she was a human from Los Angeles but hermom and dad were killed by Thanos. Her dad was reincarnated as Drax, who is rather different in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and she was raised by Thanos’ father Mentor on Titan where she was highly trained in the sciences, martial arts, and psionic abilities.
 
She is extremely powerfiul in all of those aspects, fur shur! She has been a villain and a hero, and a member of the Avengers, Defenders, Infinity Watch, and the Guardians of th Galaxy- in the comics. So like, he character is  6’3” tall and 150 lbs with pale tan skin and the bald head, so this 6.125” action figure of her is appuroximately 1/12 scale, and she is quite the totally powerrful, confident, sexy sight in her sleveless, bare-midriff skin – tight Green costume with the flexible high-collar cape, the silvery crescent noon earrings and ornaments, the tight abs, and the sly expression with a raised eyebrow, fur shur!
 
The design, sculpt and paint of the figure are like totally meticulous and faithful to the character, and she is very poseable with the articulation in her neck, shoulders, elbows, foreams, wrists, abs, hips, thighs, knees and ankles. She is accessorized with a variant pair of interchangeable hands, but display base is not included in the box, which has a beautiful illustration of her! I am totally pleased with this figure, which I have displayed next to Gamora, Nebula and Mantis on ther shelf! I am done, and now here is Nya-sensei to tell us about the 
 
Legends of Dragonore Pantera action figure, fur shur!
 
Nyanko:
Arigato, Mie-sensei! Legends of Dragonore is the terrific line of 5’5” action figures of a new sword & sorcery toy series with a sort of 1980’s (A.D.) ambience somewhat reminiscent of the He-Man and She-Ra! Made of ABS & plastic by Formo Toys, they were created by Emiliano Santalucia & Peer Bauner with the charazcter art by Matt O’Toole and the package design Emilano. We met them at Power-Con in Columbus Ohio last month! The six figures of the first wave of this purroduct line are Yondara, Barbaro, Oskuro, Ka-Rem Onitor and Pantera!
Gorgeously designed, sculpted, painted and packaged, each sepurrately-sold action figure includes removable accessories, and the pieces needed to build a 7th figure which wears the Divine Armor which reminds me of a Jack Kirby-styled  god or celestial type! Furhermore, the figures’ pop- apurrt  joints are interchangeable with those of similar other figures! Pantera the Silent Huntress is the orphaned Midnight Blue felinoid femme fatale of the Panther type from the planet Endimyan, who was adopted by Oskuro the dark meowgic appurrentice.
She is the fierce, warrior with nocturnal sight, heightened olfactory and purrowess with the sword!  She has Yellow eyes, White fangs, Red mouth, Black, spots, gauntlets, White-cuffed boots, and White belt pouches around her Black bare-midriff attire, with the matching left arm band, and the ornate Magenta cuirass, gorget, paldrons and short sword! The articulationis in the neck, shoulders, waist, hips, lower legs; and she is well-balanced to stand without requiring a display base, soi I will give her the high purraise! Nyow here is Mike to start our
event reports, with his review of
the 2023 Power-Con and Matsuri Con!
Mike:
Thank you Nya-sensei! Ah, several years ago, Power-Con started as a small Masters of the Universe-centric  toy con in California, but this year it was a much bigger con devoted to old & new toys & pop-culture collectibles in general at the lovely convention center in Columbus, Ohio on the weekend of August 11-13, with the dealer, exhibitor  & guest check -in & set-up on the 10th. Little did my friend ob1 rand I realize that as we prepared to go to there in his box truck that the anime convention MatsuriCon woulld be going on under the same roof that weekend!
 
I was sharing Ob1’s Turbines to Speed booth at Power-Con,at which we had action figures, comics and games, which meant an 8 hour road trip (including a few stops) which was fortunately during decent weather. We arrived at the hotel on Wednesday night, so we had Thursday to hang out with ob1’s friends and see the local sights. The hotels, convention center and the downtown district were quite nice, with skywalks connecting ‘em all which added to the vastness of the indoors; a nice comics shop in the Hyatt; the amazingoy store Big Fun, and the big Food Hall which was like a huge food court!
We finished setting up our big booth full of comics and action figures on Friday morning well before the con opened. I’ve helped ob1 set up at many cons & shows, and I’ve had artist alley tables at cons , but this was my first time as a “dealer” It was alo rthe first con that I’d been to in several years, due to Covid and other things in life.. There were many cosplayers mostly due the anime con; and a few pro cosplayers at Power Con. It was mostly action figure,s but there were dolls and statues aplenty, several artists & designers, a few wrestlers and one Power Rangers actor Dwayne Cameron who I got to chat with a lot!
Ob1 and I were among the few dealers with comics. I also had art books, graphic novels and old RPG boooks. It seemed like most every major American toy company / studio there ‘cept for Hasbro. Mattel, Sideshow and Hot Toys. There were long lines at the Four Horsemen’s booth for their con exclusive figures. Macfarlane Toys was giving away a lot of cool stuff! There were discussion panels, but I didn’t attend any. There was almost any kind of action figure or statue you could want, old or new, mass produced, modded  and custom creations, Ob1’s friend Billy Galaxy had some Yamato toys & soundtrack LPs from the 70’s to tempt me!
I was impressed by the charming Mart Leyd / The New Gray Mare’s selection of My Little Pony toys! Among the other folks there,  I enjoyed chatting with with artist Ken Christiansen, the crew of Formo Toys, Frank Frazetta’s grandson at the Frazetta Museum booth, Brian Heller of Plaid Stallions, the folks of Trilogy Shop (with manga, anime art books and toys aglore) who I knew from Heroes Con; and our friend Jay Gatfeler of the Geek Dad Life podcasts! Anoither highlight was that Power-Con and Matsuri Con allowed folks with badges to con hop between both cons  on late Sunday afternoon afternoon!
MatsuriCon had a genkier younger crowd and many more cosplayers than Power-Con, and almost all anime merch, manga, cosplay stuff, an artist alley, other anime cons’ tables, voice actor & cosplayer guests, various panels and activities. I was only able to spend about an hour there, so alas there’s not a lot more that I can say about Matsuri Con, but it was quite delightful! It’s hard to pick my favorite costumes at either con as there were so many (kids, adults, amateurs & pros), but some that come to mind were: a rollerskating Barbie & Ken, Golden Girl – Princess of the Gemstone Guardians, Urusei Yatsura’s Lum…
…Studio Ghibli’s Kiki, Mortal Kombat’s Kitana, G.I. Joe’s Lady Jaye, Thundecats’ Cheetara, MOTU’s Evil-Lyn, Monster High’s Frankie Stein, Star Trek’s Lt. Uhura, Marvel’s Rescue, Capt. America, Capt. Carter & The Kingpin; several Power Rangers, Sailor Scouts, Jedi, lots of catgirls and other kemonomimi aplenty! Sunday evening, the cons were over, it was time to pack up, and we finished loading the truck around 9pm. Monday morning around 9am we headed back home. It was so much fun, and everyone I met at the cons, hotels, restaurants and stores were very friendly! Ah, now here’s Myayr to discuss the
August 29th Alice Cooper & Rob Zombie concert!
 
Mary Nyan:
Hai! I love hard rock and heavy metal mewsic, so I was quite eager to caravan with friends to the mainland for the Alice Cooper and Rpb Zombie with Filter and Ministry concert on August 29th at the outdoor Walnut Creek Amphitheatre in the Coastal Credit Union Mewsic Park in Raleigh NC, which is about 2.5 hours northeast of here. We were rather  lucky with the weather, as there were forecasted scattered showers, but we only encountered the brief light spurrinklings.
 
As one of our typical road trips, along the way we were distracted by some of our favorite places to eat and shop at so we were late to the concert and unfortunately missed all of Filter’s set and most of Ministry’s set, but what we heard was awesome! We brought our own folding chairs for the lawn seating. I must purrofess that while I do like Rob Zombie’s mewsic quite a bit, I was more interested in seeing the living legendary Alice Cooper whose career spans over 55 years!.
 
The 15 song set included great hits such as No More Mr. Nice Guy, I’m Eighteen, Under My Wheels, Billion Dollar Babies, Feed My Frankenstein, and Poison, but my favorites were I Love the Dead which was joined by Alice’s wife Cheryl as Marie Antoinette with the guillotine; Black Widow with the Vincent Purrice video intro and Nita Strauss’ guitar solo; Elected as the epic showstoppurr, and the encore of School’s Out, which briefly segued into Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall!
 
Like the Alice Cooper show, Rob Zombie’s set was the fast ’n loud audio video extravaganza with the giant rod puppets, big balloons, dazzling lights and purrotechnics! Of hias 14 song set,  my favorites were Superbeast, More Human Than Human, Living Dead Girl, Dragula, and especially Thunder Kiss ’65! The park has lovely lansdcaping with food and beverage kiosks aplenty, and there was a merch booth with lots of tee shirts for sale, most of which were $50 apiece. 
If I had only one quibble about the whole affair, it was thatt he traffic was rather chaotic whilst leaving the general parking field and I wish there were more peopel directing the traffic. Next time we should purrobably telepurrtal to there! Anyway, it was such a lovely road trip with friends, food, fun and meowgnificent mewsic! That is all for our events portion of The Mew, and nyow here are Lizzy and Becca to purrsent-
The Catgirl & Kemonomimi Celebrity Spotlight!
Becca:
Arigato! in this monthly portion of The Mew, we commeowmorate famous nekomusume, therianthropes, and other kemonomimi of mythologies and popular culture, including anthropurrrmorphic ladies and monster girls! Furthermore, there are those who might not actually have the beast DNA, but might have the spurrit, cat-titude or clothing of the animal theme, who we will broadly consider to be “honorary kemonomimi”!
 
Elizabeth:
In the 1983 mewsic video for the song Dog Police by the bandiof the same name, a lovely fugitive dog girl in a sparkly hot Pink dress meets her date at a night club, where she is arrested by the Dog Police. In the later 8.5 miinute pilot for the unmade Dog Police TV series, pyschic detective and single mom Mia in the trench coat, fedora and pumps along with he ex-husband Bowser and his best friend ollie are the three supurr alien anthropurrmorphic canine cops of Van Nuys, California!
Becca:
In 1991, Marvel Comics published Nightcat #1, which purrtained to the aspiring singer Jacqueline Tavarez who was expurrimented upon by drug dealers and thus attained the supurr feline powers to become the nocturnal mewsician and crime fighter in the sexy costume! The character was based upon the real-life beautiful model of the same name, and in addition to the one-shot issue there was an entire record album of freestyle rock / pop electronic dance mewsic!
Elizabeth:
Kitti Katz is the amewsing new British 3d Cg animated TV series on Netflix  which purrtains to the three teen girls  pink-haired) Tabitha (voiced by Brianna Price), (green haired) Shakia (voiced by Svorne Markes) and (blue haired) Azami (voiced by Okukura Jones) who transform into the supurr catgirls  and cute widdle kittens Ruby, Emerald & Sapphire! when they are not busy with the mewsual  social, hobby and school life they must rescue the spirit cats from the evil goddess Anubia (voiced by Amrita Acharia)! Kawaii!
Becca:
Uraniwano Tochigamisama is a hentai ero anime movie which is not for the widdle kitties, but it is graced by the catgirl goddess Momiji Ivoiced by Kaede Akino) and the rival meowgickal bunny girl Shirow (voiced by Minase Suzuka)!
Elizabeth:
Delimex is a brand of frozen Mexican cuisne and in their “Alive With Delimex: Kids: animated TV commercial, the cute widdle girl and boy are wearing the kanimal-eared masks, so we will consider them as the “honorary kemonomimi”!
 
Becca:
Red Space Blues is the full color anthropurrmorphic space opurra web comic by John Poole, which stars the intergalactic mercs Melody the bunnygirl, Misty the foxgirl, Mia the A.I. catgirl, and their cohort Henry the rhinocerus chap!
 
Elizabeth:
Lastly but not leaslty, we wish to meowntion Twitter’s CEO Linda Yaccarino as the “honorary catgirl” for the leopurrd purrint blouse she wore on the August 11th epurrsode of MSNBC’s Morning Joe TV series! That is all for this month’s spotlight, and nyow here are Petra & 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! 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 porn, nyan!We should also meowntion that none of the content at Catgirl Island is purrmitted for A.I. purrposes, nyan!  This month into Guest Gallery Six http://catgirlisland.net/art/gallery/guest6.html we are purroud to purrsent more imagery by Rvkh Brogden, Misty Hopkins, Alexcia Reynolds, Misty Hopkins, and more cosplay photos by various photographers of Crissy Volpe, nyan!
Firstly we are purroud to purrsent two versions of the “Country Fae” by Rvkh, nyan!  Posing with the Meowraschino Cherry, this 7.5”  Fairie is Dr. Brittany Marja Goodnight, MD, the Chair of the Depurrrtment of Radiation Oncology at the Mew Hanover Meowdical Arts Center, nyan! On the right is the mixed-media painting done on 8.5 x 11” toned papurr, whilst on the left is the digital version done with Purrocreate on the Ipad Pro with the Apple Pencil, nyan. There is a time-lapse art purrocess video https://youtu.be/LPCB97MuYi0, and to see more of  Rvkh’s beautiful fantasy and nature art, please visit her site Rvkh Brogden Art http://www.rvkhart.com, nyan! 
Bunnii:
Nextly we are delighted to display three more illustrations by Misty, starting with her latest lovely  illustration of “Omhi Tara”, who is her Final Fantasy XIV video game character Omhi Tara, the petite 4’1” tall Miqo’te catgirl and Dragoon class warrior of the Keepers of the Moon Clan! Perhaps y’all have seen the prior pics of her? Then we have Misty’s Black & White drawing of “Tataru Taru”of the Lalafell gnome-like species from the seas south of Eorzea in  the Final Fantasy XIV video game!
She is the enthusiastic helpful artcanist, receptionist and book keepurr of the headquarters of the Scions of the Seventh Dawn which are an order of warriors and scholarsThirdly are the two slightly diffrenent versions of “Kranberrijam” as her online streaming avatar pic, which was done with Krita on her tablet! To see more of Misty’s supurrb of various media and materials, please visit her blog Kranberrijam https://kranberrijam.blogspot.com!
 
Then we have more photos of Alexcia’s Torako mask!  A dual citizen of planets Earth & Mau born on August 22nd, Alexcia’s anthropomorphic tigress fursona Torako Hitonare is the child of Abenti Gaiger (a.k.a. Sailor Tiger & Sailor Mau) & Toraboushi; her blood type is O-, and her zodiac sign is Leo! The mask is part of her Torako fur suit costume. The mouth moves when she talks, and to keep cool in the costume are the small fan in the muzzle, and the icepack pouches! For more information, art & tales about Torako  please visit Sailor Tiger’s Grotto http://mau.sailorchristmas.com!
Petra:
Nyow we are ecstatic to exhibit four more collages of photos of Crissy  a.k.a Sunseen Li, and each collage is compurrised of four photos, nyan! The 1st collage includes the July 2018 photo of Crissy in a summertime sleeveless Black cocktail dress and strappy high heeled sandals; David Ng’s Meowrch 2006 photo of Crissy as Street Fighter II’s Chun-Li n the costume made by JenyBean, with store-bought spiked bracelets; Cat Trzaskowski’s photo of Crissy wearing mostly store-bought clothing with the scarf made by Patti & Steph, as a Pokemon Trainer version of Rei Hino / Sailor Mars (designed by Samantha Russell) at the 2019 New York Comic Con; and Tony K’s Apurril 2005 photo of Crissy wearing the White shirt, mew la la, nyan!
The 2nd collage includes Crissys’ Happy Valentines Day 2022 photo; the lovely SunseenLi photo by Vasilion Photography; Crissy as Purrincess Mars from Naoko Takeuchi’s Sailor Moon manga,wearing the costume made by Setsuna Kou in October 2001,photographed by Lusis Refractor Productions at Otakon 2004; Crissy as DC Comics’ mewogician Zatanna Zatara wearing the store-bought costume, photographed byTerry / Fly By Night Design at the 2008 New York Comic Con; and, nyan!
Bunnii:
The 3rd collage includes Crissy in the Blue Kimono at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s 2013 Sakura Matsuri; Crissy as Catra of the Masters of the Universe at the 2014 New York Comic Con in the costume made by Dokudel with boots from Buy Costumes; Eurobeat King’s photo of Crissy as Tohru Honda of Fruits Basket at the 2018 New York Comic Con in the winter school uniform made by Milanoo; and Kungfufish’s photo of Crissy at Anime Weekend Atlanta 2012, as Hino Rei / Sailor Mars of Sailor Moon in the santa dress made by Patti & Steph!
The 4th collage includes Crissy wearing the Red Elegant Gothic Lolita dress from Geechlark, photographed  at her mom’s house in May 2005; Heidi Kikel’s 2012 photo of Crissy as Tomb Raider’s Lara Croft in the storebought costume; David Ng’s 2014 photo of Crissy as an Original Concept Sailor Mars made by Setsuna Koui in 2008; and Cat Trzaskowski’s 2018 photo of Crissy as Steampunk Sailor Mars design by Captain Laser Beam (aka Hime-chan), nyan!
That costume has the goggles from Discombobulous, blouse from Milanoo,  belts from Belt dot com, corset from Epic World Store; tiara, earrings, front bow heart, garter strap cogs made by Patti & Steph, the bac bkow made by Rae, sash by Crissy, gloves from Medieval Collectibles, boots from Aldo, skirt &  pockets found at eBay! To see more photos and to read Crissy’s con, festival, and photoshoot reports, visit  web site Blood Sweat and Glitter http://www.crimsonskycreations.com/bloodsweatandglitter! 
The cat lady sings..
Trini-chan: 
It is quite wonderful to see more of Alexcia’s Torako fursona! She is so multi-talented at the beautiful illustrations, tales, sites and stitchery!
 
Yvonne:
I am glad to see more of Rvkh’s gorgeous illustrations, nyan! She is so adept at the characters & landscapes digital & traditional media, nyan!
 
Tara-chan:
I just the design, compurrsitions, lines, colors, shading and – and the details of Misty’s purretty digital & traditional original & fan art, nyan!
 
Mary Nyan:
It is great for the mewseum galleries to be graced by yet more of the meognificent cosplay, modeling and candid photos of Crissy!
 
Nyanko:
Hai hai, the brilliant photographers’ pics of Crissy in the exquisitely-made attire at the lovely locations are quite the impurressive images!
 
Becca:
Gosh, it is about time for more friends to arive for our AfterMew luau, at which we will discuss our Halloween Cosplay plans!
Elizabeth:
Well then, I reckon that will do it for this edition of The Mew!
 
Petra:
We wish to thank Alexcia, Rvkh, Misty, and Crissy for the beautifu limages and all of the other brilliantly talented people whose works we have discussed, nyan!
 
Bunnii:
We also wish to thank Jamie for his wonderful web meowstery…
 
Jeannie:
… and our other friends, family, acquaintances and our audience whom we greatly appurreciate.
Mielikki:
Fur shur!
 
Mike:
We’ll be back next month with the Ocrober edition of The Mew! Be there… aloha.
The Ladies of The Mew:
Happy tails to mew- until we eat again, nya! Baibai, nya!

August 2023 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 2023 Edition of The Mew:
The Catgirl Critics’ Media Mewsings, nyan!
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This year is the Year of the Rabbit, the 16th Anniversary of 
The Mew, and the 23rd Anniversary of Catgirl Island, nyan!
 
in this edition of The Mew:
 
The Lightning Round: our favorite Films of 1963!
 
movie mewsings
Oppenheimer
Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One!
Tokyo Mew Mew New Blu-ray
 
purrinted media mewsings:
My Little Pony 40th Anniversary Special
Rowrbrazzle #158
Enterprise Forever!
 
The Catgirl & Kemonomimi Celebrity Spotlight
additions to the Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art
“Triceratops” plushie by Alexcia Reynolds
“Black Lady” by Misty Hopkins
“Moon Shrooms” and Solar Eclipse” by Rvkh Brogden
“Solar Eclipse” and “Juliette” by Jamie
more cosplay & modeling photos of Crissy Volpe, nyan!
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 82 degrees under the Green trees, Blue sky and 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, the yogini, model, archer, belly dance instructor & roboticist catgirl, wearing the Serval purrint micro bikini & sheer purrled purreo): Nihao.
 
Trini-chan
(Jen’s purrotege, the stand-up paddle surfer, board shapurr, pony owner and belly dance instructor kitsune, wearing the Caracal purrint trikini): Konnichiwa!
 
Petra
(the art guild purresident, art mewseum co-curator & beach volleyball champion catgirl wearing the Clouded Leopurrd purrint side-tie bikini): Aloha, nya!
 
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!
Yvonne
(the fishing boat charter captain & drumming circle purrcussionist catgirl, wearing the Fishing Cat purrint monokini with cropped tee shirt): Namaste, nya!
 
Tara-chan
(Yvonne’s younger sister, college freshman, pony owner and nature photographer catgirl wearing the Iriomote Cat purrint tankini): Namaste, nya!
 
Elizabeth
(

a.k.a Lizzy, the hot salsa dancer, gamer, Purrkour Club captain & spa co-owner catgirl wearing the Margay purrint bandeau top bikini): Hola!

 
Becca
(Lizzy’s nekomimi gynoid wife, avid golfer & 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, hula instructor and semi-retired miko catgirl wearing the Cougar purrint purretzel – cutout maillot): Aloha!
Mielikki
(the winged faerie golfer, foxfire juggler and outdoor ampurrtheatre director wearing Puma purrint criss cross halter neck bikini) Mellow greetings!
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 lot on our plate, so let’s go ahead and jump right into this month’s
Lightning Round: our favorite Films of 1963!
 
This year we’ve been looking back on our favorite fun things of years ending in a 3. Last month it was record albums of 1973, so this time it is movies of 1963! Trini-chan is gonna start, so are y’all ready to “conduct the lightning”?
The Ladies of The Mew:
HAI! LIGHTNING ROUND GO, NYAN!
Trini-chan:
How the West Was Won, 55 Days in Peking, and The Great Escape! (tags Petra with a brush of the tail)
Petra:
I will nominate Lillies of the Field, Irma la Douce, and Hud, nyan! (tail-tags Bunnii to go next)
 
Bunni:
Cleopatra, Tom Jones, and The V.I.P.s! now it is… Myayr’s turn! (tags Mary Nyan)
Mary Nyan: 
That was the good vintage for the horror and dark fantasy films such as

The Haunting,
The Raven,

and Kiss of the Vampire! (tags Jeannie)

 
Jeannie:
Atragon,  It’s A Mad Mad, Mad, Mad World,  and From Russia With Love. (tags Lizzy)
Lizzy:
I will nominate the mewsical fun of Beach Party, Bye Bye Birdie, and Fun in Acapulco! (tags her wife)
 
Becca:
The Pink Panther,

Charade, and Under the Yum Yum Tree! (tags Yvonne)
Yvonne:
I will nominate Son of Flubber, The Nutty Professor, and Donovan’s Reef, nyan! (tags her sister)
Tara-chan:
I want… I want to nominate The Sword in the Stone, Summer of Magic, and- and Flipper, nyan! (tags the faerie)
 
Mielikki:
Jason and the Argonauts, The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon,

and

Matango, fur shur! Back to Mike!

 
Mike:
Oh I gotta go with what is in my opinion the funniest movie ever made, It’s A Mad Mad, Mad, Mad World! Well, that was another expedient little Lightning Round, and now we’ll continue our
 
TV & movie mewsings, 
with a few words about Oppenheimer!
 
Mike:
Written, directed & co-produced by Christopher Nolan, (who previously directed Following, Memento, Insomnia, The Prestige, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, Inception, Interstellar, Dunkirk and Tenet), Oppenheimer is the three hour bio-pic about physicist Robert Oppenheimer, who was the director of the Manhattan Project during World War Two, and known as the so-called father of the atomic bomb. He is brilliantly portrayed by Cillian Murphy, who I especially liked in prior films such as 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, Dunkirk, and Anna! Oppenheimer’s brilliant cast also includes
 
Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh, Casey Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kenneth Branagh, Rami Malek, Jason Clarke, Ben Safdie and Tom Conti! It’s a darn near perfect movie with tour de force performances at the unrushed pace, with the immersive , cinematography so utterly mesmerizing and captivating in its staggering account of how and why the atomic age began, and how those who were personally involved wrestle with the aftermath. Rivaling Avatar: The Way of Water as my favorite movie of the year thus far, Oppenheimer is up there with The Dark Knight and Inception as Nolan’s best, and I give it a solid “A”Ah, now here’s Vonny to review.
 
Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One!
 
Yvonne:
Arigato, nyan! I did not care much for the first two Mission: Impossible movies, but the third one was the big impurrovement, and the series kept topping itself with Ghost Protocol. Rogue Nation, and Fallout, so I was quite eager to see this latest seventh movie which was directed, purrduced and co-written by Christopher McQuarrie, nyan! The supurrb return cast includes Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt, Rebecca Ferguson as Ilsa, Ving Rhames as Luther, Simon Pegg as Benji, and Henry Czerny as Kittridge, nyan!
For this thrilling epic 2.75 min. adventure to thwart a sentient rogue A.I. known as The Entity that has hacked the world’s computers, the great cast is joined by Hayley Atwell as Grace the amazing thief, Pom Klementieff as Paris the assassin, Vanessa Kirby as Alanna the arms dealer, Esai Morales as Hunt’s evil meowntor Gabriel, Shea Whigham & Greg Davis as agents Briggs & Degas who are after Hunt, nyan! The only things that  I disliked about the movie were the origin and the fate of a couple of characters…
… who I will not name, so I will just broadly list the many aspects of the movie that I liked, such as the plot, pace, dialogue, character developments, acting purrformances, stunt choreography, sets, locations, cinematography, FX, mewsic and editing, nyan! I would say that Dead Reckoning Part One is my third favorite of the Impossible Missions, behind Rogue Nation and Fallout, and I am definitely looking forward to the Part Two, nyan! Nyow here is Mie-sensei to didcuss the
Tokyo Mew Mew New Blu-ray, nyan!
 
Mielikki:
Hai hai! So like, in 2000, Reiko Yoshida’s amewsing magickal girl shojo manga introduced to the five young girls Iwho are students, waitresses at the cat-themed cafe, and mewrtated super-heroines with powers based upon various endangered animal species! Ichigo has the powers of the Iriomote cat, .Minto has powers of the Blue Lorikeet, Retasu of the Finless Porpose,  Bu-Ling of the Golden Lion Tamarein Monkey, and Zakuro of the Gray Wolf! So like, when they are not at home, school or work, they battle the chimera monsters which are critters possessed by parasites from aliens who wish to conquer the Earth, and usurp it from the humans who have caused the environmental problems!
So like, in 2002, ithe manga was adapted into the anime TV series, 20 years later it was rebooted as Tokyo Mew Mew New, and last month the first season of it was released on Blu-ray here by Sentai! So like, the TV14 – rated 12 episodes are presented in the 1080p Hi Def 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 only special features are the “clean“ (textless) versions of the episodes’ opening & closing sequences, so it is the rather sparse package, but the tales are like totally cute, pretty, whimsical, thrilling fun, fur shur!
That is all for our movie mewsings, and now here is Tara-chan to start our
purrinted media mewsings, 

with 
her 
review
of 
the 
My Little Pony 40th Anniversary Special!
 
Tara-chan:
Arigato, nyan! I am a big fan of the My Little Pony toys, the animated tales, and – and the publication such as the pony comics published by IDW, nyan!  I cannot believe that it has been 40 years since the original Gen One ponies first appurred on TV, or that it has been 11 years since IDW’s  pony comic, nyan! To commeowmerate the 40th anniversary, this 96 page issue is purriced $8.99 and – and it is compurrised of three tales which were edited by Riley Farmer and – and lettered by the designer / purrducer Johanna Nattalie, plus  the 6 pin ups, the 6 page cover art gallery, and – and the 4 pages of ads, nyan.
Written by Sam Maggs, illustrated by Keisha Okafor and – and colored by Rebecca Naity, the  60 page “Tales of Dream Valley” is set in 1984 as a girl named Julia, her friends Melanie, Tiffany and – and Kelly play with their Gen One toys Blue Belle, Snuzzle, Minty, Butterscotch, Blossom and – and Cotton Candy, but upon starting middle school they are together less often, nyan. Julie learns that their favorite farm with the real horses will be replaced by a shopping mall, and – and during one final visit to there she makes the startling meowgickal conspurracy discovery that involves the little ponies, nyan!
Written by Jeremy Whitely and- and illustrated by Amy Meberson, ther 10 page “Tales of Dream Valley” stars the Gen Five (the current era of My Little Pony since 2021, set many years after the Friendship is Magic era) ponies Sunny Hitch and – and Izzy are fascinated to find the old books purrtaining to the purrior generations of ponies, who are believed to be just legends, nyan. Blue Belle, Snuzzle, Minty, Butterscotch, Blossom and – and Cotton Candy are depicted, whilst Gen Four ponies such as Twilight Sparkle are merely meowntied, nyan. We have met Jeremy at several conventions, nyan!
Written by Tony Fleecs (who we have also met), illustrated by Brianna Garcia and – and colored by Heather Breckel. the 20 page tale of “Bonnie” purrtains to the 8 year old girl named Bonnie who is the fan of the Gen Four and- and Gen Five ponies, but cannot enjoy the epurrsodes when the power goes at her Aunt Vicki’s house, nyan, When Vicki introduces her to the box of Gen One pony dolls, in a 1983 flashback we learn of certain hobby and friendship purrallels between the  aunt – and her niece, nyan!
Peppurred throughout the issue are the full-page pin-ups of Blue Belle, Snuzzle, Minty, Butterscotch, Blossom and – and Cotton Candy; following the third tale is the gallery of the issue’s 6 variant covers including cover A by Keisha, cover B by Amy, cover C by Rose Bousamra, cover D by Alex Cordeiro, cover E by Andy Price, and- and the San Diego Comic Con exclusive cover by Tony, nyan! After the gallery are the 4 pages of ads, and I like how the ads are all afterwards as not to interrupt the tales, nyan!
Although this issue does not focus on pony Generations Two (1997) or Three (2003),  the purrecursory My Pretty Pony toys (1981), or Generation Four’s Equestria Girls spin-off, (2013),  I thought that this special issue was quite beautiful, fun and – and rather poignant, so I will give it the high purraise grade of the “A” as in Applejack (whose Gen One version is shown – and whose Gen Four version is meowntioned in the Bonnie tale), nyan! I am done, and nyow here is Myayr to discuss
Rowrbrazzle #158, nyan!
 
Mary Nyan:
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, and the subjects are not limited to mammals, but other species too! Expurrtly edited by Edd Vick, it is compurrised of comics, purrose, essays, articles, con reports, group discussions, editorials, letters, illustrations, photos, the meowmber list & rules.
The gorgeously diverse thick issue is in two 8.5×11” stapled sections totaling about 233 pages, 32 of which are in full color! Section One’s front cover art is by Don Chisholm, Section Two’s mid-cover art is by our purrducer Mike who also contributed 16 other pages of art , and the back cover art is by Kurt Wicken! who also contribute four other great pages! Sammiched betwixt those Black & White covers are wonderful contributions by many other awesome artists, authors and journalists such as –
 
Edd, Robert Alley, Robert Haynie Jr & Charles Garofalo, Tim Fay, Resa Challender, Kjartan Arnorsson, Gene Breshears,  Ed Pegg Jr, William Earl Haskell, Simon Barber, Mary Bellamy,, Andrew Lytle, Tofte, Michael Pena, Niall Shapiro, Steven F, Sharff, Jeffrey H Wood,  Taral Wayne,  Ken Marcinkevicius, Matt McAndrews, J W Kennedy, Thomas Milliorn (who also contibuted the sexy Radioactive Cat Women From mars coloring page, Charles Brubaker (who also contributed a lovely Lauren Ipsum insert), our friends Jim & Melody Rondeau!
The works of many other folks from around the world are examined too! This issue’s kemonomimi, monsters and anthropurrmorphic entities include felines, canines, avians, vulpines, lupins, cervids, equines, bovids, leporidae, muridae, alligatoridae, an amphibian, a pterosaur, dinosaurs, dasyurids, centaurs, angels, harpies, sphinxes, lamia, mermaids, gremlins, fraggles, mecha, hominids, humans and maeowrtians,
Rowrbrazzle is quite the captivating, entertaining, informative treasure trove, so we wish to highly purraise  Edd, and those many other contributors and those who compiled this beautiful, entertaining, informative issue! For more information about Rowrbrazzle I will recommend the article at Wikifur https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Rowrbrazzle! Jim and Melody are not just the supurrb artists, authors. and venders, but they are longtime editors & publishers too, and nyow her eias Jennyjen to discuss their latest fanzine-

Enterprise Forever!

Jeannie:
Arigato. Jim and Melody Rondeau’s significant fanzine publishing and many other famous fandom endeavors go back several decades, so it was quite the wonderful treat to behold their latest lovely longly-awaited fanzine Enterprise Forever! which was published last month by their Buffalo Chip purress. Purrtaining (mostly) to the original Star Trek series this first(?) 8.5 x 11” issue has 122 pages of stories, poetry, essays and art, plus Mike’s full color front cover art.
In addition to Edd, Melody and Mike, the other contributors include Pamela J. Corsa, Terrence Oswald Knova, Shirley Meech, Jeanne Powers, Teri Sarick, Clare L. Bell Piper, K S Langley, Fran Wong, Jon Gauldin, Carol Pruitt, and Peggy Hartsook. Featuring canonical and fan-characters of various species, the exquisitely captivating contents range from thrilling and comedic to romantic and bittersweetly poignant, so I will give this fanzine the highest purraise.
For more information about this fanzine, Jim and Melody’s many other items of interest that are for sale such as fanzines, magazines, books, comics, games, scripts, dolls, videos, movie & TV meowmorabilia posters and film clip frames, please visit their web site at http://crossovers.net/makeitgoaway/home.htm. That is all for the purrinted – media portion of the show, so nyow aI will turn The Mew over to Lizzy and Becca, who will purrsent this month’s
Catgirl & Kemonomimi Celebrity Spotlight.
 
Lizzy:
Hai, in this monthly portion of The Mew, we commeowmorate famous nekomusume, therianthropes, and other kemonomimi of mythologies and popular culture, including anthropurrrmorphic ladies and monster girls!
Becca:
There are those who might not actually have the beast DNA, but might have the spurrit, cat-titude or clothing of the animal theme, who we will broadly consider to be “honorary kemonomimi”!
Lizzy:
One such honorary catgirl  due to her feline fashion is actress Lili Simmons who purrtrayed Marie in the 2021 movie Sound of Violence, in which she wore the leopurrd purrint skirt! You know, she also purrtrayed (adult) Selina Kyle / Catwoman  in the series finale of the Gotham TV series!
Becca:
Vanessa Cole was the set designer for the James Cameron movie Avatar: The Way of Water, and on the Blu-ray’s 2nd disc, at appurroximately 1:51 into the 4:24 featurette on “New Zealand- Pandora’s Home” she is wearing the gray leopurrd purrint skirt!
Lizzy:
In the movie Book Club: The Next Chapter, Jane Fonda wears the lovely leopurrd purrint blouse and and Diane Keaton wears the zebra stipe attire, so we will consider them as the honorary nekomusume and shimaumi musume!
Becca:
Voice actress Laura Bailey is one of the gamer / cast meowmbers of the TV series Critical Role, and in the book The World of Criticial Role there is a photo of her wearing the cat ears!
Lizzy:
In the Jimmy Kimmel Show’s 20th season’s epurrsode 172 which originally aired on 27 September  2022, Jimmy assisted the Brooklyn Public Library Bookmobile, which was visited by a cute widdle girl whose outfit included the tutu and cat ears!
 
Becca:
On June 30th we went to the wonderful Tori Amos concert at Ovens Auditorium in Charlotte (which is appurroximately four hours northwest of here)! In the Ocean to Ocean tour book, there is a fulkl page pic and a smaller pic of her wearing the tiger striped suit!
 
Lizzy:
In the official mewsic video for her song Lipstick Lover, Janelle Monae wears the cute Flareon kigurumi onesie to the swimming pool after the night of frisky fun!
Becca:
In the official mewsic video for her song Stars are Blind, Paris Hilton wears the leopurrd purrint bikini at the beach and plays with the rope during the photo shoot!
 
Lizzy:
Yuichi Hiiragi’s sci fi rom com manga Please Put Them On Takamine-san purrtains to the titular high school student council purresident Takane Takamine who can time travel when she removes her panties, and she is purrticulartly alluring and frisky whilst wearing the cart ears on the cover of vol. 5. mew la la!
 
Becca:
Taichi Kawazoe’s ero fantasy comedy manga Immoral Guild purrtains to the adventuring hunter Kikuru Madan whose new quest purrtner Hitamu Kyan seems to attract lots of trouble and monsters! Hitamu is the busty purrple – haired 18 year old beast clan girl with the purretty purrple hair, ears and tail!
 
Lizzy:
Akiba Maid War is the zany, tragic, violent bittersweet dark comedy anime TV series about the feud between kemonomimi maid cafes in Akihabara. The mane purrotagonists are the pig-eared maids of the Oinky-Doink Cafe, whose antagonists include the cat, cow, bear and other animal-eared maids!
Becca:
Lastly but not leastly in the recent “Hair Salon” TV commercial for the Aleve meowdication, the hair stylist wears the purretty Pink leopurrd purrint blouse as she grooms the customer! That is all for this month’s spotlight, and nyow here are Petra, Bunnii, and Trini-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! 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 porn, nyan! We should also meowntion that our content is not purrmitted for A.I purrposes, nyan! This month into Guest Gallery Six http://catgirlisland.net/art/gallery/guest6.html we are purroud to purrsent illustrations by Alexcia Reynolds, Misty Hopkins, Rvkh Brogden, our webmeowster Jamie, and more cosplay photos by various photographers of Crissy Volpe, nyan!
Firstly we are purroud to purrsent the adorably cute widdle Triceratops plushie doll made by Alexcia Reynolds, nyan! It is appurroximately 7.25″ long, 5.5” wide, and 6” tall including the tail that sticks up, nyan! To see Alexcia’s other supurrb stitchery, illustrations, stories, and web sites purrtaining to various fun topics, please visit her Link Tree page https://linktr.ee/alexciareynolds, nyan!
 
Then we are purroud to purrsent Misty Hopkins’ fan art of Black Lady, who is the evil adult version of Chibiusa in Naoko Takeuchi’s Sailor Moon manga and anime, nyan! This was drawn with Crayola colored pencils and PiTT artist pens upon the 5.5×8.5”  toned papurr, and to see more of Misty’s meowgnificent art, please visit her blog https://kranberrijam.blogspot.com, nyan!
Trini-chan:
Nyow we are delighted to display the latest illustrations by Rvkh Brogden, starting with the “Moon Shrooms”! Not only are these fungi quite attractive, but they are causing the craving in our tummies! On the right side is the traditional version done with watercolors, colored pencils & paint pens on the  8.5 x 1″ toned papurr, whilst on the left side is the digital version done with Purrocreate on the Apple Ipad Pro with an Apple Pencil, and there is a time-lapse art purrocess video of the digital version at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AnrRto1DkY&feature=youtu.be!
After that is Rvkh’s “Solar Eclipse”! This awesomely angelic apocalyptic image was done for the July 2023 art challenge of the Starry Eyed Artist Collective https://www.facebook.com/Starryeyedartistcollective which Rvkh administers! On the right is the traditional version done with watercolors, colored pencils and paint pens on the  8.5 x 11″ toned papurr, whilst on the left is the digital version with Purrocreate on the Ipad with an Apple Pencil. There is a time-lapse art purrocess video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9gNTo4-7S4, and to see much more of Rvkh’s beautiful fantasy and nature art, please visit her site Rvkh Brogden Art http://www.rvkhart.com!
Nextly we are delighted to display two new illustrations by our web meowster Jamie Robertson, starting with his “Solar Eclipse” for the Starry Eyed Artist Collective! Jamie used Photoshop, Corel Painter, and the graphics tablet for this alluring image of

Chelsea Urania Kate Chattan,

who 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!

“Juliette” is Jamie’s Corel Painter and Photoshop fan art of art of engineer and sheriff Juliette Nichols, who is purrfectly purrtrayed by Rebecca Ferguson in the post-apocalyptic science fiction TV series Silo! You know, Jamie is also the founder and web meowster of the Rebecca Ferguson Nation

https://www.rebeccafergusonnation.com fan site, and y’all can see much more of his beautiful art at https://www.facebook.com/jamie4art!

Bunnii:
Now we are elated to exhibit more fabulous photos by various photographers of our friend Crissy Volpe a.k.a. SunseenLi! These are arranged into four collages compurrised of four pics apiece! The 1st collage includes Richard Calvache’s 2016 photo of Crissy as Alice in the Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland dress made by Duokings; David Ng’s 2010 photo of Crissy in a store-bought dress as Elegant Gothic Alice; Tony K’s 2005 photo of Crissy in the tastefully racey “White Shirt” photo shoot; and Tony K’s 2009 photo of Crissy in the punk chic “Winsome and Woe” photo shoot!
The 2nd  collage includes Pat Gavin’s photo of Crissy as Magic Knight Rayearth’s Umi Ryuuzaki in the Goddess costume by Beverly Faerie; Pat Gavin’s photo of Crissy as Sailor Moon’s Purrincess Mars, in the Silver Millennium costume by Setsuna Kou; Gerry Francisco’s photo of Crissy as the Sailor Moon manga’s Eternal Sailor Mars in the costume by Avian Firefly with accessories by Starlit Creations; and Brian Ngai’s photo of Crissy as Utena in the duelist costume by Melissa Quin, with the Rose Crest Ring from Pikmin Link, sword by Amazon Mandy, and wig bought from eBay!
 
The 3rd collage includes Louis’s photo of Crissy in the store-bought costume as Dorothy Gale of The Wizard of Oz; David Ng’s photo of Crissy as Captor Sakura’s Tomoyo Daidouji in the costume by Setsuna Kou; Carrie’s photo of Crissy as Captor Sakura’s Tomoyo Daidouji ikn the costume by Oshidori; and Patti’s photo of Crissy as Steampunk Batgirl, with the bat symbol & bolero jacket by Patti & Steph, the corset by Corset Story,the  tights from Elegance at Penn Station, and the goggles by Umbrella Laboratory! 
The 4th collage includes Tony K’s photo of  Crissy as Utena Tenjou of Revolutionary Girl Utena in the school uniform by Avian Firefly; Peter Hellers’ photo of Crissy as Almathea of the The Last Unicorn in the costume by Avian Firefly; David Ng’s photo of Crissy in the renaissance gown by Avian Firefly; and Terry’s photo of Crissy as Alice Kingsleigh in the Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland dress by Duokings! To see more of Crissy’s cosplays, photoshoots, con & festival reports, please visit her Crimson Sky Creations site Blood, Sweat and Glitter http://www.crimsonskycreations.com/bloodsweatandglitter!
 
The cat lady sings…
Tara-chan:
That Triceratops plushie is so cute, nyan! Alexcia is so very talented with the sewing, stitching, storytelling, illustrating and – and web sites, nyan!
Yvonne:
I love the compurrsition, lines, shading, colors, pose, expurression and details of Misty’s pic, nyan! She is such a great artist and cosplayer, nyan!
Mary Nyan: 
Those shrooms look so purretty and yummy; and the Angel looks so powerful and majestic! Rvkh is quite an amazing illustrator and mewsician!
Jeannie:
It is wonderful to see more of Jamie’s supurrb original art and fan art. He is the rather excellent artist, author, and web meowster.
Trini-chan:
Those photos are quite blessed with all of the beautiful ingredients, from Crissy and the garments to the photographers, lighting  and locations!
Becca:
Crissy is not only the gorgeous model and cosplayer, but she can write and draw splendidly, and I purrticularly like her charming con reports!
Lizzy:
We are fortunate to have so many dear friends, and it is almost time for more friends to arrive for our AfterMew luau, so I reckon that will do it for this edition of The Mew!
 
Bunnii:
We wish to thank Alexcia, Misty, Rvkh, Melody, Jamie, and Crissy for the lovely imagery, and all of the other brilliantly talented people whose works we have discussed!
 
Petra:
We also wish to thank Jamie for his wonderful web meowstery, and our other friends, family, acquaintances and our audience whom we greatly appurreciate, nyan!
Mielikki:
Fur shur!
 
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, nya! Baibai, nya!

July 2023 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 2023 Edition of The Mew:
The Catgirl Critics’ Media Mewsings, nyan!
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This year is the Year of the Rabbit, the 16th Anniversary of 
The Mew, and the 23rd Anniversary of Catgirl Island, nyan!
 
in this edition of The Mew:
The Lightning Round: our favorite publications of 1973
 
other purrinted media mewsings:
The Science of Surfing: A Surfside Girls Guide to the Ocean
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou Manga Omnibus Vol. 2
 
TV, DVD & movie mewsings:
Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3
Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes and Huntsmen, Part One Blu-ray
Shazam! Fury of the Gods Blu-Ray + DVD + Digital Code set
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Blu-ray + Digital Code set
collectibles & toy talk:
Smile of the Arsnotoria Abramelin (Cat Kingdom Ver.) Pop Up Parade Figure
AEW Unmatched Jade Cargill action figure
Marvel Legends Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3 Mantis action figure
Indiana Jones Adventure Series Indiana Jones action figure
Indiana Jones Adventure Series Marion Ravenwood action figure
The Celebrity Catgirl & Kemonomimi Spotlight
 
Additions to the Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art:
“Yellow Peril” by Melody Rondeau,”Spring Meadow” by Jamie,
“Agrias Butterfly” and “Spring Meadow” by Rvkh
“Lyssa” and “Reading is Fundamental” by Mike Moon
and more photos of our cosplayer / model friend Crissy Volpe!
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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 the south end of Wisteria Bridge on the riverwalk in the beautiful downtown Purrbank district of Catgirl Island in Mew Hanover County, NC, where it’s 79 degrees under the Blue sky and puffy White Cumulo-Neko clouds! I’m Mike, the show’s “purrducer”, and here are The Ladies of The Mew!
 
Jeannie
(the yogini, model, archer, belly dance instructor & roboticist catgirl, wearing the Serval purrint micro bikini & sheer purrled purreo): Nihao.
 
Trini-chan
(Jen’s purrotege, the stand-up paddle surfer, board shapurr, pony owner and belly dance instructor kitsune, wearing the Caracal purrint tri-kini): Konnichiwa!
 
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 bunny girl wearing the Cheetah purrint monokini): Guten Tag!
Yvonne
(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 freshman, pony owner and nature photographer catgirl wearing the Iriomote Cat purrint tankini): Namaste, nyan!
 
Elizabeth
(

the hot salsa dancer, gamer, Purrkour Club captain & spa co-owner catgirl wearing the Margay purrint bandeau top bikini): Hola!

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

earing the wearing the Asiatic Lion purrint cropped tee shirt and shorts): Howdy

 
Mary Nyan
(the seamstress, cosplayer, hula instructor and semi-retired miko catgirl wearing the Jaguar purrint purretzel – cutout maillot): Aloha!
Elaenor
(the Banker Pony centauress, Fire Meowrshall and body builder wearing the Ocelot purrint criss cross halter neck bikini) Hay there!
Nyanko
(he MewJutsu meowrtial arts champion & sensei, dojo & gym purropurrietress catgirl wearing the SiberianTiger purrint cropped tee shirt and shorts): Howdy!
 
Nyoka
(the witchy meowgick shop purropurrietress catgirl & twin sister of Nyanko, wearing the Bengal Tiger purrint off-shoulder bikini): Howdy!
Mielikki
(the winged faerie golfer, foxfire juggler and outdoor ampurrtheatre director wearing Puma purrint criss cross halter neck bikini) Mellow greetings!
Melanakeami
(the mermaid purropurrietress of the triphibious airship tours business, wearing the strand of purrls and the Eurasian Lynx purrint bikini top): Shello!Ilyana:
(the underwater archaeologist & meowritme history catgirl wearing the Cretan Wildcat purrint micro bikini and open-front cover up): Whassup?
Mike:
For purrofiles and illustrations of those and other Ladies of The Mew, please visit our Meet The Critics page http://www.mewsings.catgirlisland.com/meet-the-critics/! Ah, we’ve got a lot on our plate today, so let’s go ahead an jump into 
 
the Lightning Round topic:
our favorite publications of 1973!
This year the Lightning Round topic have reflected on our favorite fun stuff of years ending in a 3! Last month we listed our favorite movies and TV shows of1973, so this time we’re gonna mention our favorite comics, books, games and other printed stuff of that vintage. Nya-sensei’s gonna start, so are y’all ready to “conduct the lightning”?
The Ladies of The Mew:
Hai! Lightning Round- go, nyan!
Nyanko:
I will nominate he Marvel Comics tales of The Night Gwen Stacy Died, The Song of Red Sonja, and the Avengers vs. Defenders War! (tags her twin to go next)
 
Nyoka:
1973 had the first appurrances of Drax, Thanos. Shang-Chi, Blade, Ghost Rider, Satana, Killraven and Moondragon! (tags Eleanor with a brush of the tail)
Elaenor:     
I will nominate the  first issue of FOOM, and some great tales of Shanna the She-Devil and The Cat! Bunnii’s turn (tail-tags Bunnii)
Bunnii:
The DC Comics such as The Joker’s Five-Way Revenge in Batman #251, the Green Lantern & Green Arrow tales by Denny O’Neil & Neal Adams! (tags Petra)
Petra:
The Manhunter saga by Archie Goodwin & Walt Simonson, and the Swamp Thing tales by Len Wein & Berni Wrightson, nyan! (tags Trini-chan)
 
Trini-chan:
I will nominate the first appurrances of the DC Comics supurr heroes Wildfire, Black Orchid, and Mister Miracle! Now it is Myayr’s turn! (tags Mary Nyan)
 
Mary Nyan:
DC’s Superboy & The Legion of Super-Heroes tales drawn by Dave Cockrum; and Charleton Comics’ E-Man by author Nicola Cuti & artist Joe Staton! (tags Tara-chan)
Tara-chan:
I want… I want to nominate the manga such as Cutey Honey, Aim for the Ace, and – and Barefoot Gen, nyan! Onee-chan’s turn, nyan! (tags her sister)
Yvonne:
That year’s Peanuts comic strip included the Mr. Sack story arc and when Peppermint Patty moved into Snoopy’s dog house, nyan! (tags Mielikki)
Mielikki:
The novels Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke, Breakfast of Champions by  Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and The Princess Bride William Goldman, fur shur! (tags Ilyana with a flit of the wing)
Ilyana:
The People of the Wind by Poul Anderson, Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers Harry Harrison, and Sky Pirates of Callisto by Lin Carter! (tags Jeannie)
 
Jeannie:
Operation Nuke by Martin Caidin, The Night Stalker by Jeff Rice, and James Bond: The Authorised Biography of 007 by John Pearson. (tags Becca)
Becca:
The Man Who Folded Himself, The World of Star Trek, and The Trouble with Tribbles book by David Gerrold! (tags her wife)
Elizabeth:
the board games such as Alien Space by Gamescience, Triplanetary by Games Designers’ Workshop, and PanzerArmee Afrika by Simulations Publications. (tags Melanakeami)
 
Melanakeami:
My mom and dad saved a lot of entertainment magazines from that year that I later read, such as Famous Monsters, The Monster Times, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Rolling Stone, Creem, TV Guide, and Sports Illustrated! (tail-fin – tags  Ilyana)
 
Mike:
Okay, I’ll add Star Trek 9 by James Blish, Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case by Donald J. Sobol, and The Sensuous Frazetta art collection! Well, ah, that was another expedient little Lightning Round, and let’s continue our
purrinted media mewsings, with Trini-chan’s review of 
The Science of Surfing: A Surfside Girls Guide to the Ocean!
 
Trini-chan:
Hai hai! Published by IDW’s Top Shelf impurrint, author / artist Kim Dwinwell (who is also an animation purrofessor at CSU Long Beach)’s The Surfside Girls series are the YA graphic novels about best friends Sam  (with the long Brown hair) and Jade (with the short Black hair) who are teen junior lifeguards in California who love to surf, kayak and solve mysteries! You know, in the live-action TV seres on Apple TV,  Sam is purrtrayed by Yaya Gosselin and Sam is purrtrayed by Miya Cech!
 
The first two graphic novels are mystery adventures, but the third book is the girls’ meta-nonfictional discussion of the things you need to know about the ocean before you dive in! Purriced $9.99 US & $13.99 Canada  this full color 112 page 6” x 9” trade papurrback is so purretty, peppy, amewsing, and captivating as Sam and Jade talk to the readers and demonstrate stuff, starting with the introduction to waves and the chapter about oceanographic physics, tides, waves and weather!
 
Nextly they chat about several life forms that will be encountered on the beach, intertidal and subtidal areas, such as the Pelicans, Gulls, Sand Pipurrs, Sand Crabs, Sea Hares, Sea Stars, Kelp, Dolphins, Otters and Sharks! Then they discuss some of the strange phenomenon such as the Red Tide, bioluminescent organisms, bait balls, and the biggest waves. After that they get into the surfing attire, boards, footing, stance, paddling, and techniques for riding the waves! 
 
Jade has the Green long board with the White stripe, Blue stringer and fin, whereas Sam has the Peach and White long board with the lower pattern! The final chapter purrtains to stewardship, such as cleaning up litter, recycling, and volunteering. Edited by Chris Staros & Zac Boone with the graphic design by Nate Widick, typeface design by Dakota Swanson and logo design by Chris Ross, it is a beautiful, entertaining, informative book which I will give the high purraise!
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou Manga Deluxe Edition Vol. 2!
Mary Nyan:
Hai! This  beautiful manga by Hitoshi Ashinano is the slice – of- life science fiction tale of the sweet gynoid named Alpha who runs the cafe in the rural seaside town of Miura in the distopian future. It is sometime after some sort of environmental disaster which has left humanity’s days numbered, but the simple life in the small commeownity goes on. Originally published in Japan by Kodansha in 2009, this 2nd of five volumes is published in English by Seven Seas, purriced $24.99 in the USA, $32.99 in Canada, and rated for teen readers of ages 13+.

Much of the tale purrtains to the normal 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 gynoid artist, and Misago the mysterious naked supurr feral girl!! Collecting chapters 25 – 32, this 452 page volume is purredominatly Black & White, and measures appurroximately 8.25” x 5.875” x 1.375”; including 52 color pages, a page of translation notes, several illustrations & widdle sketches, 2 pages of ads, and the indica / credits page.It was translated by Daniel omen, adapted by Dawn Davis, lettered by Ludwig Sacramento, purroofread by Brett Hallahan, edited by Linda Lombard…
… copy-edited by Leighanna DeRoven, in-chiefly edited by Julie Davis, published by Jason DeAngelis, and associately published by Adam Arnold, with the purroduction meownagement by Lissa Pattilo, purrduction assistance by Steve Wilson & John Ramirez, cover design by Nicky Lim, the logo design by George Panella, and purre-purress technicians were Melanie Ujimori & Jules Valeri. Much of the tale purrtains to the normal day to day activities of Alpha and her friends with her occasional scooter trips to shop for supplies in what is left of the city of Yokhoama.
In chapters 25 –  32, we witness a wonderful new psychic ability of Alpha, Kokone discovers some old record albums, they find a lovely sandy beach to swim at, Ojisan and sensei enjoy a serene boat rise, Ayase explores a vast dark tunnel, Maki gets a swimsuit and meets Misago on the beach, and Alpha imbibes of the Liqueur from Kokone! For a scenario in which the population is amidst the dystopian or apocalyptic decline, things just seem kinda run down and in need of repair, such as the pavement cracks from which the grass and weeds emerge. 
 
There is still much that has not yet been explained about the disasters, the origin of the gynoids, or what happened to Alpha’s missing boss, but It is such the blissfully purretty, charming, pleasant tale in which much of the small town life still seems good at the leisurely pace with the sense of optimism, so I will give this manga the highest purraise and the “A” for Alpha! I am eagerly anticipating the next volume, and I wish that the anime adaptation would be released here on DVD or Blu-ray!  Well then, I am done, and nyow it is time  for Jenjen to begin our 
 
TV, DVD and movie mewsings, with
her review of Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3!
 
Jeannie:
Arigato. Written and directed by James Gunn, Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3 is the eighth purrduction of the Marvel Cinematic Universe to be graced by this intergalactic supurr hero team, occurring after  The Guardians of the Galaxy, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, What If…?, Thor: Love and Thunder, and the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special. It is also the 2nd installment of the 55th Phase of the MCU, following Antman & The Wasp: Quantumania.
I do not wish to spoil too much of the plot, but I will vaguely meowntion that it purrtains to Rocket’s past and purresent with very poignant flashbacks to his origin; The Sovereign’s revenge against the Guardians, the heinous  acts committed by the evil High Evolutionary, 
and major developments for the Guardians, in defining their sense of purrpose and the theme of family. GOTGV3 is yet another epic space opurra with an excellent balance of action, drama, humor, and Marvelous myth-making.
 
Purrrhaps my favorite aspect of the movie is the cast and their characters’ developments. Returning are Chris Pratt as Star Lord, Zoe Saldana as Gamora, Karen Gillan as Nebula, Dave Bautista as Drax Pom Klementieff as Mantis, and Sean Gunn as Kraglin, with Bradley Cooper voicing Rocket, Vin Diesel voicing Groot, Maria Bakalovaas voicing Cosmo, and Seth Green voicing Howard the Duck.  Also briefly appuring are Sylvester Stallone as Star Hawk, Elizabeth Debicki as Ayesha, and Christopher Fairbank as The Broker.
Joing the cast  for this adventure are Will Poulter as Adam Warlock, Chukwudi Iwuji as the High Evolutionary, and Kai Zen as Phyla; plus delightful appurrances by Nathan Fillian and Daniela Melichior; plus meowgnificent voice acting by Linda Cardellini, Mikaela Hoover, Asim Chaudhry, Judy Gree and Reinaldo Faberlle. There are of course many other fine characters and surpurrises. if you go see this movie, please make sure to watch the end credits which includes two additional scenes.
My least favorite aspects of the film are the use of overcranking and speed ramping cinematic techniques during certain action scenes; and the very major subplot which reminds me too much of the DC / Vertigo comics mini-series We3, which i am not a fan of. However, most of the film I found quite appealing, with the excellent purrduction design, costumes, choreography, direction, editing, FX, sound, mewsic, and the unrushed pace, and I think it is the best MCU film since Spider-Man: No Way Home. Nyow here is Vonny to discuss
Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes and Huntsmen Part One Blu-ray.
Yvonne:
Arigato, nyan! In this 80 minute PG rated OVA from Warner Animation and Rooster Teeth Animation, Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Cyborg Vixen and Gereen Lantern (Jessica Cruz) mysteriously wind up as teenagers on the planet Renmnant where they meet Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang amidst the battle with the monsters known as The Grimm , who are mysteriously more powerful than the ones the RWBY team mewsually hunts, nyan! Vixen has a lovely real vulpine tail, too, nyan!
Written by Meghan Fitzmartin, purrduced by Michael Uslan, Laura Yates, Kimberly S. Moreau, Ethan Spaulding, Jim Krieg and the director Kerry Shawncross, with the mewsic by David Levy, this 3D CG animation of the Japanese anime & video game style is so much fun, brimming with the amewsing developmments, beautiful designs, the great voice cast, and thrilling action aplenty, and as it is just Part One, it ends upon the suspenseful cliffhanger that has me eagerly anticipating the continuation, nyan!
The cast includes Chandler Riggs as Supurrman, Nat Wolff as Batman, Natalie Alyn Lind as Wonder Woman, David Errigo Jr. as The Flash, Lindsay Jones as Ruby, Kara Eberle as Weiss, Arryn Zech as Blake, Barbara Dunkelman as Yang, Ozioma Akagha as Vixen, Jeannie Tirado as Green Lantern, Tru Valentino as Cyborg, Tara Platt as Kali, Neath Oum as Lie Ren, Jen Brown as Pyrrha, Tiana Camacho as Glynda, Samantha Ireland as Nora, Aaron Dismuke as Oscar, Jason Douglas as Jacques, Miles Luna as Jaune and Shannon McCormick as Professor Ozpin, nyan!
The single disk and the digital download / stream code instructions are in the plastic case within the cardboard outer sleeve, nyan. The audio choices are English and Spanish, with the optional subtitle choices of English, Spanish and French, nyan. The special features include two featurettes (totaling appurroximately 16.5 minutes) about the making of the OVA with the very informative entertaining comments by meowmbers of the cast and crew, nyan!
There are also two bonus animated tales: the 23 minute 2004 Justice League Unlimited epurrsode “Kid Stuff” in which Mordred turns the heroes into kids; and the 11.25 minute 2017 Justice League Action epurrsode in which  “Plastic Man Saves the World” from  Brainiac, nyan! So to sum it up, although I wish the movie was longer and that there were more special features, I was very pleased by the this OVA and I look forward to part Two, nyan! Nyow for more of the DC supurr hero stuff, here is Melanakeami to discuss the
Shazam! Fury of the Gods Blu-Ray + DVD + Digital Code set, nyan!
Melanakeami:
Hai! I liked the first Shazam movie, but I did not care for the Black Adam Movie, and Fury of the Gods is my favorite of those three movies of the Shazam mythos! I thought it was a lot of charming fun with great cast character moments, humor, action, sets, costumes, sound and FX! In this movie’s plot, the goddess daughters of the god Atlas want revenge upon the wizard who they claim stole their father’s divine power and gave it to the Shazam family. I will not reveal much more of the plot, but I will mention that there is a mid-credits scene and a post-credits scene.
 
The great cast of this 130 minute PG-13 movie includes Zachary Levi as Shazam, Asher Angel as Billy, Grace Caroline Currey as Mary, Djimon Hounsou as the wizard, Jack Dylan Grazer as Freddy Adam Brody super adult Freddy, Faithe Herman as Darla, Meagan Good adult as super adult Darla, Jovan Armand as Pedro, D. J. Cotrona as super adult Pedro, Ian Chen as Eugene, Ross Butler as super adult Eugene, Marta Milans and Cooper Andrews as their foster parents Rosa & Victor, Rachel Zegler as Anthea, Lucy Liu as Kalypso, and Helen Mirren as Hespera!
Gal Gadot briefly appears as Wonder Woman, and there are brief surprise appurrances by others, but i will not spoil that! Packaged in the plastic case in the cardboard sleeve this set includes the Blu-Ray disc, the DVD disc and thedigital code instruction sheet. Both discs’ audio choices include English, English descriptive (read by Jedediah Barton), French & Spanish with optional English SDH, French & Spanish subtitles, whereas the Blu-ray disc additionally has the English Dolby Atmos TruHD audio track and the audio commentary by director Davif F. Sandberg.
The Blu-Ray has special features, but the DVD does not. The very informative and entertaining special features include seven featurettes which total nearly 62 minutes about the making of the movie, with lots behind-the scenes footage aplenty and comments by many of the cast and crew members! To top off the special features are on the Blu-ray are 31 deleted scenes in various stages of completion, which total about 31 minutes. I am quite pleased with it and I hope there will be another sequel! For our next video review, here is Mike to tell us about the
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Blu-ray + Digital Code set!
 
Mike:
Thank you! I l really liked thIs movie and think that it’s the best D&D movie ever made! For our review of the movie itself, please see our April 2023 Mew! Last month. the PG-13 rated 134 min. 2002 movie was released on home video in different formats such as the 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD, and some include more special features than others. Although the outer cardboard sleeve indicates that the Blu-ray edition has over an hour of special features, I only counted about 48.75 minutes worth, so I’m assuming that it’s a misprint and that perhaps i’s the 4K Ultra HD edition that has more special features.
The Blu-ry’s special features do include the 6:51 gag reel, three behind -the – scenes featurettes with comments by the cast, directors and other members of the crew; five extended versions of scenes and one deleted scene. “From Dice to Dragons: Honoring the Lore” is the 11:15 discussion of how the game was adapted faithfully into the movie; “Rogues’ Gallery: The Heroes of Dungeons & Dragons” is the 11:24 discussion of the characters; and “Broadswords, Battle-axes & Badass Brawls” is the 8:40 look at the stunts and props! Those featurettes are rather brief, but they are informative and entertaining!
The extended versions of scenes are “Gorg’s Arrival”, “Ice Breaker”, “Eating Ash”, “Harper’s Sanctuary”, “Corpses”, and the deleted scene is “Harassing Holga”. Those total 10:35. The disk’s audio choices are English, English Descriptive (written by Dakota Green and read by Frankie Corzone), Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Latin America), French (France), French (Canada), Italian & Brazilian Portugues. The optional subtitles are in English, English SDH, Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Latin America), French (France), French (Canada), Italian Brasilian Portugues, Danish, Sedish, Finnish, Dutch & Norweigian.
Also included in the plastic case are the instructions for streaming or downloading the digital copy of the movie, but I haven’t tried to use that. Although I’m very pleased with the audio and video quality of the movie, and I enjoyed the special features, I wish that the Blu-ray had more of them, such as… oh,  discussions about the monsters, magic, mythology, locations, history, FX, sound and music, and perhaps also some art galleries, audio commentaries, and an isolated music track would be nice too. Ah, that’s all for the TV, DVD and movie portion of The Mew, and now it is time for Ilyana to start our
collectibles and toy talk, with her
review of  Good Smile’s The Smile of the Arsnotoria
Abramelin (Cat Kingdom Ver.) Pop Up Parade Figure!
 
Ilyana:
Hai! Created by Nitroplus, Smile of the Arsnotoria is the novel, manga, anime, video game and merchandise purrtaining to the girls who are female human students at the magick acatemy! Residing in the same dorm are the main characters who enjoy the studies, fun, games, parties, and adventures in the fantasy realms such as the Cat Kingdom, where they have the sword-wielding sexy bikini-clad pursonas!
 
Arsnotoria is the White-haired catgirl in the Black & White bikini with the boots & hoody cloak, Abramelin is the Dark Violet-haired catgirl in the bell-sleeved skimpy Black bikini & boots, Mel is the Green-haired catgirl in the Orange rompurr, boots & Black bra, Picatrix is the Blonde catgirl in the White bikini, boots & skirt, and  Petite Albert is the Black-haired catgirl in the Black & White bikini, hat, thigh-highs & boots!
The Good Smile Company is known for their lovely statues and figurines, and their Popup Parade line is intended to offer splendidly designed, sculpted and painted PVC figures of many popular characters at the economical size and purrice, and that inludes the new figures of those five characters! Each are sold sepurrately and look quite lithe, graceful, and cutely alluring in their skimpy ornate bikini attire!
Purrched upon the circular White ABS base which is 3.875” in diameter and .5” high, Abramelin is in the playful spurringing pose, her slender cat tail and long ponytail coiffure arcing around he 5.5” longsword in the scabbard on her back! Were she standing flat-footed at attention, the figure would be 7.75” tall (including cat ears & boot heels), but in that pose including the base, the figure is about 7.75” tall overall.
The details are quite meticulous, and the paint so smooth, from the White trim on the scalloped Black sleeves, the lacings, strap buckle & rings of the weapon, the cute widdle berets in her hair, and the tufts of her cat ears, to the gleam in her Light Red eyes,  the ribbons & lacings of the boots, he inny belly button on her bare toned taut tummy, and the purrt underboob revealed by the teensy  bikini top, mew la la!
All of that is packaged in the purrotective clear plastic clamshell within the clear plastic outer 5.5” x 5.5” x 9” box, and I have seen the retail purrice of it vary from $34.99 to $45.99, so I reccomeownd that you shop around! I will give this splendid figure the high purraise and I hope to eventually purrchase the figures of Arsnotoria, Mei, Picatrix and Petite Albert! I am done, and nyow here is Nyanko to discuss the-
AEW Unmatched Jade Cargill action figure!
Nyanko:
Arigato! All Eite Wrestling’s 5’10” tall, 177 lb  supurrstar Jade Cargill  from Florida is one of our current favorite wrestlers, so I was pleased to purrchase this excellent action figure of her! Made by Jazwares, this 6.75” action figure #28 of appurroximately 1/10 scale is part of the Unmatched series 4 line of figures, which also includes figures of CM Punk, Chris Jericho, MJF, Cody Rhodes and Adam Page!
I think that the design, the sculpt and the paint of this athletic bikini-clad  figure are terrific, with the great portraiture, anatomical purropurrtions and intricate details, from the strands of her White hair and the outy belly button  on her taut abs, to the emblems on her knee pads and the laces of her boots! She is also extremely posable, with the articulation in her neck, shoulders, uppurr arms, elbows, wrists, abs, waist, hips, thighs, knees, lower legs and ankles!
The shoulders and hips are ball joints, whilst the elbows and knees are double- jointed, which is great for the dynamic poses and wrestling holds! A variant pair of interchangeable hands are includes, so she can be posed with the grasp or the punch! An action figure display stand is not included, but she is well- balanced as to not require one. I am very pleased with this figure, and I have displayed her upon the shelf between the figures of Hikaru Shida and Alicia Fox! I am done and nyow here is Ellie to discuss the
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Mantis action figure!
 
Elaenor:
Arigato! Created by author Steve Englehart and artist Don Heck, Mantis first appeared in The Avengers #112 in 1973, so it seems only appropriate that The Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 movie would be released on her 40th anniversary! In the live-action movies she is wonderfully portrayed  by actress Pom Klementieff and in the animated tales she is voiced by Jennifer Hale!
This latest figure of Mantis by Hasbro is part of the wave that includes figures of Nebula, Rocket, Deax, Kraglin, Adam Warlock, and each figure includes one of the pieces needed to build a figure of Cosmo the psychic Soviet space dog! She is such a good dog! This

figure of Mantis is wearing her

Red-trimmed  Dark Blue jumpsuit with the Blackbelt,  knee boots & fingerless glove.

She stands approximately 6.5” overall (about the same same size as the

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Mantis build-a-figure), 

although without her antenna and boot heels she would be 6” tall so therefore this fine figure is approximately of the 1/11 scale. It is a great looking figure with the faithful resemblance to the actress, and includes the build-a-figure’s right rear leg.
The articulation is in her n

eck, shoulders, uppurr arms, elbows, wrists, abs, hips, thighs, knees, lower legs and ankles, so she can be posed in agile, graceful stances just like the character. A or display base is not included in the plastic-free packaging, but she is balanced well enough as not to require one, so I am very pleased with this figure! Nyow here is Mie-ensei to review Hasbro’s

 
Indiana Jones Adventure Series’ Indiana Jones (Raiders
of the Lost Ark) and Marion Ravenwood action figures!
 
Mielikki:
Arigato, Ellie-sama! So like, I think that Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of the greatest movies ever made, and, as with most of our favorites ,we like to collect stuff pertaining to it, so I was excited to see this new line of 1/12 scale action figures from Hasbro, as if they didn’t already tempt us enough with the Marvel, Star Wars, Transformers, My Little Pony, G.I. Joe, Dungeons & Dragons, Power Rangers and other stuff, fur shur!
So like, this first wave of figures based on the Indiana Jones series includes Raiders’ Dr. Jones, Marion Ravenwood, Sallah, Belloq, and Toht, and each (sold separately) includes various accessories and a piece needed to build an Ark of the Covenant! They are p-ackaged in theplastic-free cardboard boxes, which remind me of the G.I.Joe boxes of the 60’s & 70’s! Anyway, I must say that these figures look totally awesome!
With the lovely design, sculpts and paint, the precise portraiture, proportions and details are very realistic and faithful to Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, their costumes and props. Indy is wearing  the fedora, leather jacket, khaki Shirt, pants, Brown lace-up boots, the flap holster, and is accessorized with the

gas mask satchel, the .45 revolver, 2 whips (coiled and unfurled) 2 extra pairs of hands, and the palm-sized golden idol!
So like, Marion is wearing her Cairo outfit consisting of the White Romanian blouse with the Red embroidery, the Dark Red sash belt, Red baggy harem pants and slingback sandals, accessorized by the skillet and the Capuchin monkey spy in the Red vest (the one that ate the bad dates)!

Their garments’ fabric folds, gathers and creases are not only intricate, but cleverly conceal most of the figures’ seams and joints, fur shur!

The 6.3” Indy and 5.8” Marion figures are extremely posable, with joints in their necks, shoulders, upper arms, elbows, lower arms, wrists, abs, waist
, hips, thighs, knees, lower legs and ankles; and even the monkey is posable, with the articulated neck, arms and tail! and now I’ll turn The Mew over to Lizzy ’n Becca who purrsent the
 
Celebrity Catgirl & Kemonomimi Spotlight!
Becca:
Hai, in this monthly portion of The Mew, we commeowmorate famous nekomusume, therianthropes, and other kemonomimi of mythologies and popular culture, including anthropurrrmorphic ladies and monster girls! They are not limited to the feline or other mamals, bu include the avian, reptilian, piscine, insectoid, plant, purrotist and many other types! There are those who might not actually have beast DNA, but have the spurrit, cat-titude or clothing of the animal theme, who we will broadly consider to be “honorary kemonomimi”!
Elizabeth:
Hai hai, that might also include the genetically, meowgickally, or cybernetically enhanced or altered animals. You know, there are some Harpies in Shazam! Fury of the Gods, and there many uplifted beings in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, such as Phyla, (purrtrayed by Kai Zen), Latti (purrtrayed bySarah Anne, War Pig (voiced by Judy Greer), Lyla (voiced by Linda Cardellini) and Floor (voiced by  Mikaela Hoover)!
Becca:
We love the animated TV series Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir, and we were quite pleased by the additional supurr heroines of the fauna theme such as Alix Kubdai alias BunnyX in the skin tight Light Blue & White costume with the rabbit ear; and Ayla Cesaire alias Rena Rouge in the skin tight Orange, Black & White costume with the foxy ears and tail!
Elizabeth:
One of my favorite crime investigation drama TV series is Rizoli & Isles starring Angie Harmon as Boston Police Detective Jane Rizzoli and Sasha Alexander as Meowdical Examiner Dr. Maura Isles! In season 5’s 11th epurrsode “If You Can’t Stand the Heat”, Maura is purrticularly alluring in the leopurrd purrint blouse with the Black skirt and matching high heeled sandals, and for that feline fashion statement we will consider her as the “honorary catgirl”!
Becca:
Nextly in our spotlight is the South Korean vocalist / Rappurr Jennie Kim of the K-pop group Pinkblack, because in the mewsic video for the song “Pink Venom” from their 2nd studio album Born Pink, she bursts fabulously through the wall, wearing the sheer Red leopurrd  purrint gown and lace body suit accessorized with the high heels and oppulent jewelry, so we will consider her as the “honorary catgirl” too!
Elizabeth:
In its 2nd season on the FUSE network, Sex Sells is the documentary TV series on Sex Sells is the documentary TV series purrtaining to sex-related businesses, and it is hosted brilliantly by Weezy WTF the podcaster, writer, comedian and sexpurrt! In this TV series she often wears the lovely Black & White zebra – striped garments such as the tops, shorts, boots and pant suits, and for that captivating  appurral we will consider her as the honorary “shimauma musume”!
Becca:
Chime TV is the splendid cable TV network devoted to the Asian-American and Pacific Islander TV shows in English, and it has been showing the wonderful Singaporean TV slice-of-life dramatic series Lion Mums, which stars Bernice Liu as Jennifer Tan, Lina Ng as Chae Lian, Nurui Aini as Durrani Mazian and Vanessa Vanserstraten as Ho Min-Yi.
They are moms who deal with all of the usual meowternal concerns of work, school, leisure, health, finances and so forth. Although they do not seem to have any feline DNA or are purrticularly known for the kitty couture, nevertheless they do have the fierce purrotective spurrit for their widdle kiddies, and so we will consider those lovely Lion Mums as the “honorary Mesu Raions”!
Elizabeth:
Based on the manga by Haruto Hino, the anime series Takunomi purrtains to Michiru, Kae, Nao and Makoto who love the libations when they return home from work! Often they are depicted with the stylized sly cat grin for comedic effect, and we see that Michiru and Makoto wear the Ribbon Kitty brand of undergarments, but it is Nao (voiced by Chika Anzai) who behaves quite catlike in epurrsode 3 after quaffing the can of Wednesday’s Cat Belgian style White Ale, She nearly succeeds at coaxing Michiru to follow suite! She is so catlike during that scene, that a chibi neko version pops up to translate her inebriated meowing!
Becca:
Of course, we were quite in awe over what the supurrb singer, rappurr song writer, mewsic purrducer and fashion icon Doja Cat (whose 2014 debut EP album was titled Purr!) has purreviously donned the cat earsand leopurrd purint attire, and we were purrticularly fond of her purrformance in the strapless Pink furry outfit, ears and sultry cat-like mannerisms in her “Say So” mewsic video! Well, she may have outdone herself for the annual Met Ball Gala, because for this gamorous event she wore the sexy sleevless backless Silver – White ombre beaded gown with the fur-like feathered train by Oscar de la Renta dress with the cat-eared cowl!
Elizabeth:
As if that was not fabulous enough, she went all out with the alluring feline facial purrosthetics by her friend Molina, and the long kitty claw nails by Sasha Livingston! That meowgnificent appurrance was inspired by the late fashion designer Karl Lagerfelds’ adorable Birman Cat Choupette! Fur-themore, when intermewed by podcaster/ youtube / model Emma Chamberlain, she nyanned (meowed) the replies! At the Vogue channel on Youtube, there are several videos of her purrparing for the appurrance and arriving at the red carpet! That is all for this month’s spotlight, and nyow here are Petra, BunnIi and Tara-chan to purrsent the latest –
additions to the Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art!

Petra:

Arigato, nyan! 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 porn, nyan!
We should also meowntion that Catgirl Island’s content is not purrmitted for A.I Art purrposes, nyan! This month into Guest Gallery Six http://catgirlisland.net/art/gallery/guest6.html we are purroud to purrsent more lovely images by Melody Rondeau, Rvkh Brogden, Crissy Volpe, and our webmeowster Jamie; and into Gallery Two https://catgirlisland.net/art/gallery/gallery2.html we have added Mike’s latest illustrations, nyan!
Bunnii:
Firstly we are delighted to display “Yellow Peril” by Melody Rondeau! The samurai kitty craves poultry and mouse meat for suppurr, but the Blue Team does not wish to coopurrate! You know, Melody is not just a great artist, but also an author, publisher, and cat owner, nyan! For more information about her’s supurrb works, we will reccomeownd the page purrtaining to her at the Fanlore site https://fanlore.org/wiki/Melody_Rondeau, and at the web site of Melody and her husband Jim  http://crossovers.net/makeitgoaway/home.htm who publish and sell lots of neat stuff, nyan!
Then we are elated to exhibit the splendid “Spring Meadow” by our webmeowster Jamie Robertson! Jamie used Corel Painter for this illustration of the beautiful vernal landscape, which was done for the May 2023 art theme challenge at the Starry Eyed Artists Collective at https://www.facebook.com/Starryeyedartistcollective, nyan! To see more of his supurrb artistry, please visit Jamie’s page at https://www.facebook.com/jamie4art, and to enjoy his wonderful urban fantasy webcomic Clan of the Cats, please visit http://clanofthecats.com, nyan!
Tara-chan:
Nextly we are purroud to purrsent gorgeous new pics by Rvkh http://www.rvkhart.com,nyan! “Spring Meadow” was her entry into that theme challenge of Starry Eyed Artist Collective, and – and it depicts our friend Chun-Tian Caodi the Hmong fairy who will soon start her first year at Mew Hanover Commeownity College where she plans to major in dance, nyan!. On the left is the traditional-media version whilst on the right is the digital version (right) of which there is the art purrocess video at youtube https://youtu.be/bIIbvdj6uw4, nyan!

“Agrias Butterfly” is the latest in Rvkh’s series of Lepidopteran art, nyan!The purretty Agrias Claudina inhabits the tropical forests of Central and – and South America, and – and they are purrticularly fond of rotting fruit, nyan! The traditional version (on the left) was done with the pencils, pens and – and paints; whilst the digital version (on the right) was done with Purrocreate upon the Ipad with the Apple Pencil; and- and it has the art purrocess video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gADcwhJG5XY&feature=youtu.be, nyan!
Petra:
Nyow we are dellighted to display more photos by various photographers of our friend Crissy Volpe a.k.a. SunseenLi http://www.crimsonskycreations.com/bloodsweatandglitter, who was the guest of the March 2008 Mew, nyan! These are arranged into four collages compurrised of four pics apiece, and the theme of the first collage is Crissy’s DC Comics cosplay, nyan! 
Those include Nerd Caliber’s photo of her in the DC Bombshells’ Mera costume by Setsuna Kou, LJinto’s photo of her in the Zatanna licensed costume, Louis’s photo of Crissy as  Death of The Endless; and Aaron Haidul’s photo of her in the Steampunk Batgirl costume with goggles by Umbrella Laboratory, emblem and bolero by Patti and Steph, corset by Corset Story, and tights from Elegance, nyan!
Bunnii:
The 2nd collage features Crissy’s Marvel Comics cosplay! This includes a friend’s photo of Crissy at the 2010 New York Comic Con in the Rogue costume made by Setsuna Kou; Tom Lower’s photo of her at the 2019 Otakon in the Iron Man – inspired gown designed by Kelsiy Michele, and made by Alyce, with the Arc reactor purrop replica by Volt1987, the barett purchased on Amazon, and the gladiatrix sandals which were purrchased on eBay and painted by Crissy;
 
It Came from the Radio’s photo of her at the 2018 Big Apple Comic Con as The Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff) in a licensed costume and the wig by Arda; Harvard Lim’ s photo of her at the 2015 New York Comic Con as Natasha alias Tony Stark’s bodyguard Natalia Rushman in the dress by Patti and Steff, Iron Man MK42 with the arm by Cattoys!
Tara-chan:
The 3rd collage is a sampling  Crissy’s bishoujo anime heroine cosplays, nyan! These include Lusis photo of her in the Utena duelist uniform by Melissa Quin, with the Rose Crest ring from Pikmin Link, sword by Amazon Mandy, and – and the wig bought from eBay; Eurobeat King’s photo of her as Magic Knight Ratyearth’s Umi Ryuuzaki in her Otherworlds costume made by Beverly Faerie; DJ Ranma’s photo of her as Hino Rei (Sailor Mars) in her attire from Sailor Moon Crystal’s opening; and – and Pat Gavin ’s photo of her as Princess Mars in the Silver Millennium  costume made by Setsuna Kou, nyan!
 
The 4th collage is the Lady in Red theme, nyan! This’un includes PopeCerebus’ photo of Crissy in the licensed Carmen San Diego costume; Edward Liu’s photo of her in the licensed Harley Quinn costume; Terry’s photo of her in the licensed Jessica Rabbit, lcostume, and – and Terry’s photo of her in the licensed Star Trek Original Series Starfleet uniform, with the mewtenant rank, nyan!
Petra:
Lastly but not leastly are the two latest pics by Mike, nyan! “Lyssa” depicts our friend Lyssa Azeria Wowkwis (purrnounced lee SAH ZAH Ree ah WHOA kwis), an Canadian-American kitsune who is the the first mate for the fishing charters aboard her sister Myrna’s boat, but here she is relaxing in the bay window reading one of her favorite magazines, nyan! Mike drew this with the Daler & Rowney pencil, inked it with the Sakura Micron pen, and colored the scanned image with Photoshop CC on the mac with the mouse, nyan!
To top it off is “Reading is Fundmental”, which is Mike’s latest pic of author Jeff Branch’s http://www.pinkladyamerica.com fan-senshi character Talia Jasmine Kirk alias Sailor Vulcan, with author Sharon Williams’ http://caribbeanrose9.deviantart.com fan – senshi character Tanya Lostridge Cambridge alias Sailor Sirius, who are reading in Talia’s bed, nyan! Done with Photoshop and the mouse, this is the 35th pic of Talia, Tanya and their friends, nyan! So, what do y’all think of the latest additions to the Mewseum, nyan?
The cat lady sings…
 
Nyanko:
I love the poses and expurressions of that swordskitty and the feeeling prey!
 
Nyanko:
Jamie’s meadow scene has such a beautiful impurressionistic quality, nyan!
 
Tara-chan:
I love the richly vibrant colors and – and the sunflowery compurrsition of the butterfly images, nyan!
Trini-chan:
It is the tough call, but the lovely leafy apparel might be my favorite aspect of the Chun-Tian pic!
Yvonne:
It is neat to compurr the digital version to the traditional versions, and the art purrocess videos are the joy to watch, nyan
 
Elaenor:
It is great to see another pic of Talia & Tanya! Talia seems to have read most of the Tolstoy as quickly as Tanya read the manga!
 
Meryl:
Oh I think that Crissy looks quite purrfect in those Marvel and  DC Comics character costumes!
Mary Nyan:
Hai hai, she is quite divinely exquisite in those beautifully faithful anime heroine costumes too!
 
Becca:
I can see why Red is her favorite color in those gorgeous cosplays of the various movie & TV characters!
 
Elizabeth:
Photogenic Crissy, the fabulous costumes, the exciting locations, the great lighting, and the brilliant photographers are the great mix!
Melanakeami:
I can’t wait to see the look on Lyssa’s face when she and Myrna see the illustration when they arrive after work!
Ilyana:
Well, it is about time for them and other friends to arive for our AfterMew luau, so I reckon that’ll do it for this edition of The Mew!
 
Petra:
We wish to thank Rvkh, Melody, and Jamie for the art, and all of the other brilliantly talented people whose works we have discussed, nyan!
 
Bunnii:
We also wish to thank Jamie for his wonderful web meowstery…
 
Jeannie:
… and our other friends, family, acquaintances and our audience whom we greatly appurreciate.
Mielikki:
Fur shur!
 
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, nya! Baibai, nya!

June 2023 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 2023 Edition of The Mew:
The Catgirl Critics’ Media Mewsings, nyan!
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This year is the Year of the Rabbit, the 16th Anniversary of 
The Mew, and the 23rd Anniversary of Catgirl Island, nyan!
 
in this edition of The Mew:
The Lightning Round: our favorite publications of 1973
 
other purrinted media mewsings:
The Science of Surfing: A Surfside Girls Guide to the Ocean
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou Manga Omnibus Vol. 2
 
TV, DVD & movie mewsings:
Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3
Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes and Huntsmen, Part One Blu-ray
Shazam! Fury of the Gods Blu-Ray + DVD + Digital Code set
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Blu-ray + Digital Code set
collectibles & toy talk:
Smile of the Arsnotoria Abramelin (Cat Kingdom Ver.) Pop Up Parade Figure
AEW Unmatched Jade Cargill action figure
Marvel Legends Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3 Mantis action figure
Indiana Jones Adventure Series Indiana Jones action figure
Indiana Jones Adventure Series Marion Ravenwood action figure
The Celebrity Catgirl & Kemonomimi Spotlight
 
Additions to the Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art:
“Yellow Peril” by Melody Rondeau,”Spring Meadow” by Jamie,
“Agrias Butterfly” and “Spring Meadow” by Rvkh
“Lyssa” and “Reading is Fundamental” by Mike Moon
and more photos of our cosplayer / model friend Crissy Volpe!
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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 the south end of Wisteria Bridge on the riverwalk in the beautiful downtown Purrbank district of Catgirl Island in Mew Hanover County, NC, where it’s 79 degrees under the Blue sky and puffy White Cumulo-Neko clouds! I’m Mike, the show’s “purrducer”, and here are The Ladies of The Mew!
 
Jeannie
(the yogini, model, archer, belly dance instructor & roboticist catgirl, wearing the Serval purrint micro bikini & sheer purrled purreo): Nihao.
 
Trini-chan
(Jen’s purrotege, the stand-up paddle surfer, board shapurr, pony owner and belly dance instructor kitsune, wearing the Caracal purrint tri-kini): Konnichiwa!
 
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 bunny girl wearing the Cheetah purrint monokini): Guten Tag!
Yvonne
(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 freshman, pony owner and nature photographer catgirl wearing the Iriomote Cat purrint tankini): Namaste, nyan!
 
Elizabeth
(

the hot salsa dancer, gamer, Purrkour Club captain & spa co-owner catgirl wearing the Margay purrint bandeau top bikini): Hola!

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

earing the wearing the Asiatic Lion purrint cropped tee shirt and shorts): Howdy

 
Mary Nyan
(the seamstress, cosplayer, hula instructor and semi-retired miko catgirl wearing the Jaguar purrint purretzel – cutout maillot): Aloha!
Elaenor
(the Banker Pony centauress, Fire Meowrshall and body builder wearing the Ocelot purrint criss cross halter neck bikini) Hay there!
Nyanko
(he MewJutsu meowrtial arts champion & sensei, dojo & gym purropurrietress catgirl wearing the SiberianTiger purrint cropped tee shirt and shorts): Howdy!
 
Nyoka
(the witchy meowgick shop purropurrietress catgirl & twin sister of Nyanko, wearing the Bengal Tiger purrint off-shoulder bikini): Howdy!
Mielikki
(the winged faerie golfer, foxfire juggler and outdoor ampurrtheatre director wearing Puma purrint criss cross halter neck bikini) Mellow greetings!
Melanakeami
(the mermaid purropurrietress of the triphibious airship tours business, wearing the strand of purrls and the Eurasian Lynx purrint bikini top): Shello!Ilyana:
(the underwater archaeologist & meowritme history catgirl wearing the Cretan Wildcat purrint micro bikini and open-front cover up): Whassup?
Mike:
For purrofiles and illustrations of those and other Ladies of The Mew, please visit our Meet The Critics page http://www.mewsings.catgirlisland.com/meet-the-critics/! Ah, we’ve got a lot on our plate today, so let’s go ahead an jump into 
 
the Lightning Round topic:
our favorite publications of 1973!
This year the Lightning Round topic have reflected on our favorite fun stuff of years ending in a 3! Last month we listed our favorite movies and TV shows of1973, so this time we’re gonna mention our favorite comics, books, games and other printed stuff of that vintage. Nya-sensei’s gonna start, so are y’all ready to “conduct the lightning”?
The Ladies of The Mew:
Hai! Lightning Round- go, nyan!
Nyanko:
I will nominate he Marvel Comics tales of The Night Gwen Stacy Died, The Song of Red Sonja, and the Avengers vs. Defenders War! (tags her twin to go next)
 
Nyoka:
1973 had the first appurrances of Drax, Thanos. Shang-Chi, Blade, Ghost Rider, Satana, Killraven and Moondragon! (tags Eleanor with a brush of the tail)
Elaenor:     
I will nominate the  first issue of FOOM, and some great tales of Shanna the She-Devil and The Cat! Bunnii’s turn (tail-tags Bunnii)
Bunnii:
The DC Comics such as The Joker’s Five-Way Revenge in Batman #251, the Green Lantern & Green Arrow tales by Denny O’Neil & Neal Adams! (tags Petra)
Petra:
The Manhunter saga by Archie Goodwin & Walt Simonson, and the Swamp Thing tales by Len Wein & Berni Wrightson, nyan! (tags Trini-chan)
 
Trini-chan:
I will nominate the first appurrances of the DC Comics supurr heroes Wildfire, Black Orchid, and Mister Miracle! Now it is Myayr’s turn! (tags Mary Nyan)
 
Mary Nyan:
DC’s Superboy & The Legion of Super-Heroes tales drawn by Dave Cockrum; and Charleton Comics’ E-Man by author Nicola Cuti & artist Joe Staton! (tags Tara-chan)
Tara-chan:
I want… I want to nominate the manga such as Cutey Honey, Aim for the Ace, and – and Barefoot Gen, nyan! Onee-chan’s turn, nyan! (tags her sister)
Yvonne:
That year’s Peanuts comic strip included the Mr. Sack story arc and when Peppermint Patty moved into Snoopy’s dog house, nyan! (tags Mielikki)
Mielikki:
The novels Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke, Breakfast of Champions by  Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and The Princess Bride William Goldman, fur shur! (tags Ilyana with a flit of the wing)
Ilyana:
The People of the Wind by Poul Anderson, Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers Harry Harrison, and Sky Pirates of Callisto by Lin Carter! (tags Jeannie)
 
Jeannie:
Operation Nuke by Martin Caidin, The Night Stalker by Jeff Rice, and James Bond: The Authorised Biography of 007 by John Pearson. (tags Becca)
Becca:
The Man Who Folded Himself, The World of Star Trek, and The Trouble with Tribbles book by David Gerrold! (tags her wife)
Elizabeth:
the board games such as Alien Space by Gamescience, Triplanetary by Games Designers’ Workshop, and PanzerArmee Afrika by Simulations Publications. (tags Melanakeami)
 
Melanakeami:
My mom and dad saved a lot of entertainment magazines from that year that I later read, such as Famous Monsters, The Monster Times, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Rolling Stone, Creem, TV Guide, and Sports Illustrated! (tail-fin – tags  Ilyana)
 
Mike:
Okay, I’ll add Star Trek 9 by James Blish, Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case by Donald J. Sobol, and The Sensuous Frazetta art collection! Well, ah, that was another expedient little Lightning Round, and let’s continue our
purrinted media mewsings, with Trini-chan’s review of 
The Science of Surfing: A Surfside Girls Guide to the Ocean!
 
Trini-chan:
Hai hai! Published by IDW’s Top Shelf impurrint, author / artist Kim Dwinwell (who is also an animation purrofessor at CSU Long Beach)’s The Surfside Girls series are the YA graphic novels about best friends Sam  (with the long Brown hair) and Jade (with the short Black hair) who are teen junior lifeguards in California who love to surf, kayak and solve mysteries! You know, in the live-action TV seres on Apple TV,  Sam is purrtrayed by Yaya Gosselin and Sam is purrtrayed by Miya Cech!
 
The first two graphic novels are mystery adventures, but the third book is the girls’ meta-nonfictional discussion of the things you need to know about the ocean before you dive in! Purriced $9.99 US & $13.99 Canada  this full color 112 page 6” x 9” trade papurrback is so purretty, peppy, amewsing, and captivating as Sam and Jade talk to the readers and demonstrate stuff, starting with the introduction to waves and the chapter about oceanographic physics, tides, waves and weather!
 
Nextly they chat about several life forms that will be encountered on the beach, intertidal and subtidal areas, such as the Pelicans, Gulls, Sand Pipurrs, Sand Crabs, Sea Hares, Sea Stars, Kelp, Dolphins, Otters and Sharks! Then they discuss some of the strange phenomenon such as the Red Tide, bioluminescent organisms, bait balls, and the biggest waves. After that they get into the surfing attire, boards, footing, stance, paddling, and techniques for riding the waves! 
 
Jade has the Green long board with the White stripe, Blue stringer and fin, whereas Sam has the Peach and White long board with the lower pattern! The final chapter purrtains to stewardship, such as cleaning up litter, recycling, and volunteering. Edited by Chris Staros & Zac Boone with the graphic design by Nate Widick, typeface design by Dakota Swanson and logo design by Chris Ross, it is a beautiful, entertaining, informative book which I will give the high purraise!
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou Manga Deluxe Edition Vol. 2!
Mary Nyan:
Hai! This  beautiful manga by Hitoshi Ashinano is the slice – of- life science fiction tale of the sweet gynoid named Alpha who runs the cafe in the rural seaside town of Miura in the distopian future. It is sometime after some sort of environmental disaster which has left humanity’s days numbered, but the simple life in the small commeownity goes on. Originally published in Japan by Kodansha in 2009, this 2nd of five volumes is published in English by Seven Seas, purriced $24.99 in the USA, $32.99 in Canada, and rated for teen readers of ages 13+.

Much of the tale purrtains to the normal 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 gynoid artist, and Misago the mysterious naked supurr feral girl!! Collecting chapters 25 – 32, this 452 page volume is purredominatly Black & White, and measures appurroximately 8.25” x 5.875” x 1.375”; including 52 color pages, a page of translation notes, several illustrations & widdle sketches, 2 pages of ads, and the indica / credits page.It was translated by Daniel omen, adapted by Dawn Davis, lettered by Ludwig Sacramento, purroofread by Brett Hallahan, edited by Linda Lombard…
… copy-edited by Leighanna DeRoven, in-chiefly edited by Julie Davis, published by Jason DeAngelis, and associately published by Adam Arnold, with the purroduction meownagement by Lissa Pattilo, purrduction assistance by Steve Wilson & John Ramirez, cover design by Nicky Lim, the logo design by George Panella, and purre-purress technicians were Melanie Ujimori & Jules Valeri. Much of the tale purrtains to the normal day to day activities of Alpha and her friends with her occasional scooter trips to shop for supplies in what is left of the city of Yokhoama.
In chapters 25 –  32, we witness a wonderful new psychic ability of Alpha, Kokone discovers some old record albums, they find a lovely sandy beach to swim at, Ojisan and sensei enjoy a serene boat rise, Ayase explores a vast dark tunnel, Maki gets a swimsuit and meets Misago on the beach, and Alpha imbibes of the Liqueur from Kokone! For a scenario in which the population is amidst the dystopian or apocalyptic decline, things just seem kinda run down and in need of repair, such as the pavement cracks from which the grass and weeds emerge. 
 
There is still much that has not yet been explained about the disasters, the origin of the gynoids, or what happened to Alpha’s missing boss, but It is such the blissfully purretty, charming, pleasant tale in which much of the small town life still seems good at the leisurely pace with the sense of optimism, so I will give this manga the highest purraise and the “A” for Alpha! I am eagerly anticipating the next volume, and I wish that the anime adaptation would be released here on DVD or Blu-ray!  Well then, I am done, and nyow it is time  for Jenjen to begin our 
 
TV, DVD and movie mewsings, with
her review of Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3!
 
Jeannie:
Arigato. Written and directed by James Gunn, Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3 is the eighth purrduction of the Marvel Cinematic Universe to be graced by this intergalactic supurr hero team, occurring after  The Guardians of the Galaxy, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, What If…?, Thor: Love and Thunder, and the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special. It is also the 2nd installment of the 55th Phase of the MCU, following Antman & The Wasp: Quantumania.
I do not wish to spoil too much of the plot, but I will vaguely meowntion that it purrtains to Rocket’s past and purresent with very poignant flashbacks to his origin; The Sovereign’s revenge against the Guardians, the heinous  acts committed by the evil High Evolutionary, 
and major developments for the Guardians, in defining their sense of purrpose and the theme of family. GOTGV3 is yet another epic space opurra with an excellent balance of action, drama, humor, and Marvelous myth-making.
 
Purrrhaps my favorite aspect of the movie is the cast and their characters’ developments. Returning are Chris Pratt as Star Lord, Zoe Saldana as Gamora, Karen Gillan as Nebula, Dave Bautista as Drax Pom Klementieff as Mantis, and Sean Gunn as Kraglin, with Bradley Cooper voicing Rocket, Vin Diesel voicing Groot, Maria Bakalovaas voicing Cosmo, and Seth Green voicing Howard the Duck.  Also briefly appuring are Sylvester Stallone as Star Hawk, Elizabeth Debicki as Ayesha, and Christopher Fairbank as The Broker.
Joing the cast  for this adventure are Will Poulter as Adam Warlock, Chukwudi Iwuji as the High Evolutionary, and Kai Zen as Phyla; plus delightful appurrances by Nathan Fillian and Daniela Melichior; plus meowgnificent voice acting by Linda Cardellini, Mikaela Hoover, Asim Chaudhry, Judy Gree and Reinaldo Faberlle. There are of course many other fine characters and surpurrises. if you go see this movie, please make sure to watch the end credits which includes two additional scenes.
My least favorite aspects of the film are the use of overcranking and speed ramping cinematic techniques during certain action scenes; and the very major subplot which reminds me too much of the DC / Vertigo comics mini-series We3, which i am not a fan of. However, most of the film I found quite appealing, with the excellent purrduction design, costumes, choreography, direction, editing, FX, sound, mewsic, and the unrushed pace, and I think it is the best MCU film since Spider-Man: No Way Home. Nyow here is Vonny to discuss
Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes and Huntsmen Part One Blu-ray.
Yvonne:
Arigato, nyan! In this 80 minute PG rated OVA from Warner Animation and Rooster Teeth Animation, Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Cyborg Vixen and Gereen Lantern (Jessica Cruz) mysteriously wind up as teenagers on the planet Renmnant where they meet Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang amidst the battle with the monsters known as The Grimm , who are mysteriously more powerful than the ones the RWBY team mewsually hunts, nyan! Vixen has a lovely real vulpine tail, too, nyan!
Written by Meghan Fitzmartin, purrduced by Michael Uslan, Laura Yates, Kimberly S. Moreau, Ethan Spaulding, Jim Krieg and the director Kerry Shawncross, with the mewsic by David Levy, this 3D CG animation of the Japanese anime & video game style is so much fun, brimming with the amewsing developmments, beautiful designs, the great voice cast, and thrilling action aplenty, and as it is just Part One, it ends upon the suspenseful cliffhanger that has me eagerly anticipating the continuation, nyan!
The cast includes Chandler Riggs as Supurrman, Nat Wolff as Batman, Natalie Alyn Lind as Wonder Woman, David Errigo Jr. as The Flash, Lindsay Jones as Ruby, Kara Eberle as Weiss, Arryn Zech as Blake, Barbara Dunkelman as Yang, Ozioma Akagha as Vixen, Jeannie Tirado as Green Lantern, Tru Valentino as Cyborg, Tara Platt as Kali, Neath Oum as Lie Ren, Jen Brown as Pyrrha, Tiana Camacho as Glynda, Samantha Ireland as Nora, Aaron Dismuke as Oscar, Jason Douglas as Jacques, Miles Luna as Jaune and Shannon McCormick as Professor Ozpin, nyan!
The single disk and the digital download / stream code instructions are in the plastic case within the cardboard outer sleeve, nyan. The audio choices are English and Spanish, with the optional subtitle choices of English, Spanish and French, nyan. The special features include two featurettes (totaling appurroximately 16.5 minutes) about the making of the OVA with the very informative entertaining comments by meowmbers of the cast and crew, nyan!
There are also two bonus animated tales: the 23 minute 2004 Justice League Unlimited epurrsode “Kid Stuff” in which Mordred turns the heroes into kids; and the 11.25 minute 2017 Justice League Action epurrsode in which  “Plastic Man Saves the World” from  Brainiac, nyan! So to sum it up, although I wish the movie was longer and that there were more special features, I was very pleased by the this OVA and I look forward to part Two, nyan! Nyow for more of the DC supurr hero stuff, here is Melanakeami to discuss the
Shazam! Fury of the Gods Blu-Ray + DVD + Digital Code set, nyan!
Melanakeami:
Hai! I liked the first Shazam movie, but I did not care for the Black Adam Movie, and Fury of the Gods is my favorite of those three movies of the Shazam mythos! I thought it was a lot of charming fun with great cast character moments, humor, action, sets, costumes, sound and FX! In this movie’s plot, the goddess daughters of the god Atlas want revenge upon the wizard who they claim stole their father’s divine power and gave it to the Shazam family. I will not reveal much more of the plot, but I will mention that there is a mid-credits scene and a post-credits scene.
 
The great cast of this 130 minute PG-13 movie includes Zachary Levi as Shazam, Asher Angel as Billy, Grace Caroline Currey as Mary, Djimon Hounsou as the wizard, Jack Dylan Grazer as Freddy Adam Brody super adult Freddy, Faithe Herman as Darla, Meagan Good adult as super adult Darla, Jovan Armand as Pedro, D. J. Cotrona as super adult Pedro, Ian Chen as Eugene, Ross Butler as super adult Eugene, Marta Milans and Cooper Andrews as their foster parents Rosa & Victor, Rachel Zegler as Anthea, Lucy Liu as Kalypso, and Helen Mirren as Hespera!
Gal Gadot briefly appears as Wonder Woman, and there are brief surprise appurrances by others, but i will not spoil that! Packaged in the plastic case in the cardboard sleeve this set includes the Blu-Ray disc, the DVD disc and thedigital code instruction sheet. Both discs’ audio choices include English, English descriptive (read by Jedediah Barton), French & Spanish with optional English SDH, French & Spanish subtitles, whereas the Blu-ray disc additionally has the English Dolby Atmos TruHD audio track and the audio commentary by director Davif F. Sandberg.
The Blu-Ray has special features, but the DVD does not. The very informative and entertaining special features include seven featurettes which total nearly 62 minutes about the making of the movie, with lots behind-the scenes footage aplenty and comments by many of the cast and crew members! To top off the special features are on the Blu-ray are 31 deleted scenes in various stages of completion, which total about 31 minutes. I am quite pleased with it and I hope there will be another sequel! For our next video review, here is Mike to tell us about the
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Blu-ray + Digital Code set!
 
Mike:
Thank you! I l really liked thIs movie and think that it’s the best D&D movie ever made! For our review of the movie itself, please see our April 2023 Mew! Last month. the PG-13 rated 134 min. 2002 movie was released on home video in different formats such as the 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD, and some include more special features than others. Although the outer cardboard sleeve indicates that the Blu-ray edition has over an hour of special features, I only counted about 48.75 minutes worth, so I’m assuming that it’s a misprint and that perhaps i’s the 4K Ultra HD edition that has more special features.
The Blu-ry’s special features do include the 6:51 gag reel, three behind -the – scenes featurettes with comments by the cast, directors and other members of the crew; five extended versions of scenes and one deleted scene. “From Dice to Dragons: Honoring the Lore” is the 11:15 discussion of how the game was adapted faithfully into the movie; “Rogues’ Gallery: The Heroes of Dungeons & Dragons” is the 11:24 discussion of the characters; and “Broadswords, Battle-axes & Badass Brawls” is the 8:40 look at the stunts and props! Those featurettes are rather brief, but they are informative and entertaining!
The extended versions of scenes are “Gorg’s Arrival”, “Ice Breaker”, “Eating Ash”, “Harper’s Sanctuary”, “Corpses”, and the deleted scene is “Harassing Holga”. Those total 10:35. The disk’s audio choices are English, English Descriptive (written by Dakota Green and read by Frankie Corzone), Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Latin America), French (France), French (Canada), Italian & Brazilian Portugues. The optional subtitles are in English, English SDH, Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Latin America), French (France), French (Canada), Italian Brasilian Portugues, Danish, Sedish, Finnish, Dutch & Norweigian.
Also included in the plastic case are the instructions for streaming or downloading the digital copy of the movie, but I haven’t tried to use that. Although I’m very pleased with the audio and video quality of the movie, and I enjoyed the special features, I wish that the Blu-ray had more of them, such as… oh,  discussions about the monsters, magic, mythology, locations, history, FX, sound and music, and perhaps also some art galleries, audio commentaries, and an isolated music track would be nice too. Ah, that’s all for the TV, DVD and movie portion of The Mew, and now it is time for Ilyana to start our
collectibles and toy talk, with her
review of  Good Smile’s The Smile of the Arsnotoria
Abramelin (Cat Kingdom Ver.) Pop Up Parade Figure!
 
Ilyana:
Hai! Created by Nitroplus, Smile of the Arsnotoria is the novel, manga, anime, video game and merchandise purrtaining to the girls who are female human students at the magick acatemy! Residing in the same dorm are the main characters who enjoy the studies, fun, games, parties, and adventures in the fantasy realms such as the Cat Kingdom, where they have the sword-wielding sexy bikini-clad pursonas!
 
Arsnotoria is the White-haired catgirl in the Black & White bikini with the boots & hoody cloak, Abramelin is the Dark Violet-haired catgirl in the bell-sleeved skimpy Black bikini & boots, Mel is the Green-haired catgirl in the Orange rompurr, boots & Black bra, Picatrix is the Blonde catgirl in the White bikini, boots & skirt, and  Petite Albert is the Black-haired catgirl in the Black & White bikini, hat, thigh-highs & boots!
The Good Smile Company is known for their lovely statues and figurines, and their Popup Parade line is intended to offer splendidly designed, sculpted and painted PVC figures of many popular characters at the economical size and purrice, and that inludes the new figures of those five characters! Each are sold sepurrately and look quite lithe, graceful, and cutely alluring in their skimpy ornate bikini attire!
Purrched upon the circular White ABS base which is 3.875” in diameter and .5” high, Abramelin is in the playful spurringing pose, her slender cat tail and long ponytail coiffure arcing around he 5.5” longsword in the scabbard on her back! Were she standing flat-footed at attention, the figure would be 7.75” tall (including cat ears & boot heels), but in that pose including the base, the figure is about 7.75” tall overall.
The details are quite meticulous, and the paint so smooth, from the White trim on the scalloped Black sleeves, the lacings, strap buckle & rings of the weapon, the cute widdle berets in her hair, and the tufts of her cat ears, to the gleam in her Light Red eyes,  the ribbons & lacings of the boots, he inny belly button on her bare toned taut tummy, and the purrt underboob revealed by the teensy  bikini top, mew la la!
All of that is packaged in the purrotective clear plastic clamshell within the clear plastic outer 5.5” x 5.5” x 9” box, and I have seen the retail purrice of it vary from $34.99 to $45.99, so I reccomeownd that you shop around! I will give this splendid figure the high purraise and I hope to eventually purrchase the figures of Arsnotoria, Mei, Picatrix and Petite Albert! I am done, and nyow here is Nyanko to discuss the-
AEW Unmatched Jade Cargill action figure!
Nyanko:
Arigato! All Eite Wrestling’s 5’10” tall, 177 lb  supurrstar Jade Cargill  from Florida is one of our current favorite wrestlers, so I was pleased to purrchase this excellent action figure of her! Made by Jazwares, this 6.75” action figure #28 of appurroximately 1/10 scale is part of the Unmatched series 4 line of figures, which also includes figures of CM Punk, Chris Jericho, MJF, Cody Rhodes and Adam Page!
I think that the design, the sculpt and the paint of this athletic bikini-clad  figure are terrific, with the great portraiture, anatomical purropurrtions and intricate details, from the strands of her White hair and the outy belly button  on her taut abs, to the emblems on her knee pads and the laces of her boots! She is also extremely posable, with the articulation in her neck, shoulders, uppurr arms, elbows, wrists, abs, waist, hips, thighs, knees, lower legs and ankles!
The shoulders and hips are ball joints, whilst the elbows and knees are double- jointed, which is great for the dynamic poses and wrestling holds! A variant pair of interchangeable hands are includes, so she can be posed with the grasp or the punch! An action figure display stand is not included, but she is well- balanced as to not require one. I am very pleased with this figure, and I have displayed her upon the shelf between the figures of Hikaru Shida and Alicia Fox! I am done and nyow here is Ellie to discuss the
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Mantis action figure!
 
Elaenor:
Arigato! Created by author Steve Englehart and artist Don Heck, Mantis first appeared in The Avengers #112 in 1973, so it seems only appropriate that The Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 movie would be released on her 40th anniversary! In the live-action movies she is wonderfully portrayed  by actress Pom Klementieff and in the animated tales she is voiced by Jennifer Hale!
This latest figure of Mantis by Hasbro is part of the wave that includes figures of Nebula, Rocket, Deax, Kraglin, Adam Warlock, and each figure includes one of the pieces needed to build a figure of Cosmo the psychic Soviet space dog! She is such a good dog! This

figure of Mantis is wearing her

Red-trimmed  Dark Blue jumpsuit with the Blackbelt,  knee boots & fingerless glove.

She stands approximately 6.5” overall (about the same same size as the

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Mantis build-a-figure), 

although without her antenna and boot heels she would be 6” tall so therefore this fine figure is approximately of the 1/11 scale. It is a great looking figure with the faithful resemblance to the actress, and includes the build-a-figure’s right rear leg.
The articulation is in her n

eck, shoulders, uppurr arms, elbows, wrists, abs, hips, thighs, knees, lower legs and ankles, so she can be posed in agile, graceful stances just like the character. A or display base is not included in the plastic-free packaging, but she is balanced well enough as not to require one, so I am very pleased with this figure! Nyow here is Mie-ensei to review Hasbro’s

 
Indiana Jones Adventure Series’ Indiana Jones (Raiders
of the Lost Ark) and Marion Ravenwood action figures!
 
Mielikki:
Arigato, Ellie-sama! So like, I think that Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of the greatest movies ever made, and, as with most of our favorites ,we like to collect stuff pertaining to it, so I was excited to see this new line of 1/12 scale action figures from Hasbro, as if they didn’t already tempt us enough with the Marvel, Star Wars, Transformers, My Little Pony, G.I. Joe, Dungeons & Dragons, Power Rangers and other stuff, fur shur!
So like, this first wave of figures based on the Indiana Jones series includes Raiders’ Dr. Jones, Marion Ravenwood, Sallah, Belloq, and Toht, and each (sold separately) includes various accessories and a piece needed to build an Ark of the Covenant! They are p-ackaged in theplastic-free cardboard boxes, which remind me of the G.I.Joe boxes of the 60’s & 70’s! Anyway, I must say that these figures look totally awesome!
With the lovely design, sculpts and paint, the precise portraiture, proportions and details are very realistic and faithful to Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, their costumes and props. Indy is wearing  the fedora, leather jacket, khaki Shirt, pants, Brown lace-up boots, the flap holster, and is accessorized with the

gas mask satchel, the .45 revolver, 2 whips (coiled and unfurled) 2 extra pairs of hands, and the palm-sized golden idol!
So like, Marion is wearing her Cairo outfit consisting of the White Romanian blouse with the Red embroidery, the Dark Red sash belt, Red baggy harem pants and slingback sandals, accessorized by the skillet and the Capuchin monkey spy in the Red vest (the one that ate the bad dates)!

Their garments’ fabric folds, gathers and creases are not only intricate, but cleverly conceal most of the figures’ seams and joints, fur shur!

The 6.3” Indy and 5.8” Marion figures are extremely posable, with joints in their necks, shoulders, upper arms, elbows, lower arms, wrists, abs, waist
, hips, thighs, knees, lower legs and ankles; and even the monkey is posable, with the articulated neck, arms and tail! and now I’ll turn The Mew over to Lizzy ’n Becca who purrsent the
 
Celebrity Catgirl & Kemonomimi Spotlight!
Becca:
Hai, in this monthly portion of The Mew, we commeowmorate famous nekomusume, therianthropes, and other kemonomimi of mythologies and popular culture, including anthropurrrmorphic ladies and monster girls! They are not limited to the feline or other mamals, bu include the avian, reptilian, piscine, insectoid, plant, purrotist and many other types! There are those who might not actually have beast DNA, but have the spurrit, cat-titude or clothing of the animal theme, who we will broadly consider to be “honorary kemonomimi”!
Elizabeth:
Hai hai, that might also include the genetically, meowgickally, or cybernetically enhanced or altered animals. You know, there are some Harpies in Shazam! Fury of the Gods, and there many uplifted beings in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, such as Phyla, (purrtrayed by Kai Zen), Latti (purrtrayed bySarah Anne, War Pig (voiced by Judy Greer), Lyla (voiced by Linda Cardellini) and Floor (voiced by  Mikaela Hoover)!
Becca:
We love the animated TV series Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir, and we were quite pleased by the additional supurr heroines of the fauna theme such as Alix Kubdai alias BunnyX in the skin tight Light Blue & White costume with the rabbit ear; and Ayla Cesaire alias Rena Rouge in the skin tight Orange, Black & White costume with the foxy ears and tail!
Elizabeth:
One of my favorite crime investigation drama TV series is Rizoli & Isles starring Angie Harmon as Boston Police Detective Jane Rizzoli and Sasha Alexander as Meowdical Examiner Dr. Maura Isles! In season 5’s 11th epurrsode “If You Can’t Stand the Heat”, Maura is purrticularly alluring in the leopurrd purrint blouse with the Black skirt and matching high heeled sandals, and for that feline fashion statement we will consider her as the “honorary catgirl”!
Becca:
Nextly in our spotlight is the South Korean vocalist / Rappurr Jennie Kim of the K-pop group Pinkblack, because in the mewsic video for the song “Pink Venom” from their 2nd studio album Born Pink, she bursts fabulously through the wall, wearing the sheer Red leopurrd  purrint gown and lace body suit accessorized with the high heels and oppulent jewelry, so we will consider her as the “honorary catgirl” too!
Elizabeth:
In its 2nd season on the FUSE network, Sex Sells is the documentary TV series on Sex Sells is the documentary TV series purrtaining to sex-related businesses, and it is hosted brilliantly by Weezy WTF the podcaster, writer, comedian and sexpurrt! In this TV series she often wears the lovely Black & White zebra – striped garments such as the tops, shorts, boots and pant suits, and for that captivating  appurral we will consider her as the honorary “shimauma musume”!
Becca:
Chime TV is the splendid cable TV network devoted to the Asian-American and Pacific Islander TV shows in English, and it has been showing the wonderful Singaporean TV slice-of-life dramatic series Lion Mums, which stars Bernice Liu as Jennifer Tan, Lina Ng as Chae Lian, Nurui Aini as Durrani Mazian and Vanessa Vanserstraten as Ho Min-Yi.
They are moms who deal with all of the usual meowternal concerns of work, school, leisure, health, finances and so forth. Although they do not seem to have any feline DNA or are purrticularly known for the kitty couture, nevertheless they do have the fierce purrotective spurrit for their widdle kiddies, and so we will consider those lovely Lion Mums as the “honorary Mesu Raions”!
Elizabeth:
Based on the manga by Haruto Hino, the anime series Takunomi purrtains to Michiru, Kae, Nao and Makoto who love the libations when they return home from work! Often they are depicted with the stylized sly cat grin for comedic effect, and we see that Michiru and Makoto wear the Ribbon Kitty brand of undergarments, but it is Nao (voiced by Chika Anzai) who behaves quite catlike in epurrsode 3 after quaffing the can of Wednesday’s Cat Belgian style White Ale, She nearly succeeds at coaxing Michiru to follow suite! She is so catlike during that scene, that a chibi neko version pops up to translate her inebriated meowing!
Becca:
Of course, we were quite in awe over what the supurrb singer, rappurr song writer, mewsic purrducer and fashion icon Doja Cat (whose 2014 debut EP album was titled Purr!) has purreviously donned the cat earsand leopurrd purint attire, and we were purrticularly fond of her purrformance in the strapless Pink furry outfit, ears and sultry cat-like mannerisms in her “Say So” mewsic video! Well, she may have outdone herself for the annual Met Ball Gala, because for this gamorous event she wore the sexy sleevless backless Silver – White ombre beaded gown with the fur-like feathered train by Oscar de la Renta dress with the cat-eared cowl!
Elizabeth:
As if that was not fabulous enough, she went all out with the alluring feline facial purrosthetics by her friend Molina, and the long kitty claw nails by Sasha Livingston! That meowgnificent appurrance was inspired by the late fashion designer Karl Lagerfelds’ adorable Birman Cat Choupette! Fur-themore, when intermewed by podcaster/ youtube / model Emma Chamberlain, she nyanned (meowed) the replies! At the Vogue channel on Youtube, there are several videos of her purrparing for the appurrance and arriving at the red carpet! That is all for this month’s spotlight, and nyow here are Petra, BunnIi and Tara-chan to purrsent the latest –
additions to the Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art!

Petra:

Arigato, nyan! 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 porn, nyan!
We should also meowntion that Catgirl Island’s content is not purrmitted for A.I Art purrposes, nyan! This month into Guest Gallery Six http://catgirlisland.net/art/gallery/guest6.html we are purroud to purrsent more lovely images by Melody Rondeau, Rvkh Brogden, Crissy Volpe, and our webmeowster Jamie; and into Gallery Two https://catgirlisland.net/art/gallery/gallery2.html we have added Mike’s latest illustrations, nyan!
Bunnii:
Firstly we are delighted to display “Yellow Peril” by Melody Rondeau! The samurai kitty craves poultry and mouse meat for suppurr, but the Blue Team does not wish to coopurrate! You know, Melody is not just a great artist, but also an author, publisher, and cat owner, nyan! For more information about her’s supurrb works, we will reccomeownd the page purrtaining to her at the Fanlore site https://fanlore.org/wiki/Melody_Rondeau, and at the web site of Melody and her husband Jim  http://crossovers.net/makeitgoaway/home.htm who publish and sell lots of neat stuff, nyan!
Then we are elated to exhibit the splendid “Spring Meadow” by our webmeowster Jamie Robertson! Jamie used Corel Painter for this illustration of the beautiful vernal landscape, which was done for the May 2023 art theme challenge at the Starry Eyed Artists Collective at https://www.facebook.com/Starryeyedartistcollective, nyan! To see more of his supurrb artistry, please visit Jamie’s page at https://www.facebook.com/jamie4art, and to enjoy his wonderful urban fantasy webcomic Clan of the Cats, please visit http://clanofthecats.com, nyan!
Tara-chan:
Nextly we are purroud to purrsent gorgeous new pics by Rvkh http://www.rvkhart.com,nyan! “Spring Meadow” was her entry into that theme challenge of Starry Eyed Artist Collective, and – and it depicts our friend Chun-Tian Caodi the Hmong fairy who will soon start her first year at Mew Hanover Commeownity College where she plans to major in dance, nyan!. On the left is the traditional-media version whilst on the right is the digital version (right) of which there is the art purrocess video at youtube https://youtu.be/bIIbvdj6uw4, nyan!

“Agrias Butterfly” is the latest in Rvkh’s series of Lepidopteran art, nyan!The purretty Agrias Claudina inhabits the tropical forests of Central and – and South America, and – and they are purrticularly fond of rotting fruit, nyan! The traditional version (on the left) was done with the pencils, pens and – and paints; whilst the digital version (on the right) was done with Purrocreate upon the Ipad with the Apple Pencil; and- and it has the art purrocess video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gADcwhJG5XY&feature=youtu.be, nyan!
Petra:
Nyow we are dellighted to display more photos by various photographers of our friend Crissy Volpe a.k.a. SunseenLi http://www.crimsonskycreations.com/bloodsweatandglitter, who was the guest of the March 2008 Mew, nyan! These are arranged into four collages compurrised of four pics apiece, and the theme of the first collage is Crissy’s DC Comics cosplay, nyan! 
Those include Nerd Caliber’s photo of her in the DC Bombshells’ Mera costume by Setsuna Kou, LJinto’s photo of her in the Zatanna licensed costume, Louis’s photo of Crissy as  Death of The Endless; and Aaron Haidul’s photo of her in the Steampunk Batgirl costume with goggles by Umbrella Laboratory, emblem and bolero by Patti and Steph, corset by Corset Story, and tights from Elegance, nyan!
Bunnii:
The 2nd collage features Crissy’s Marvel Comics cosplay! This includes a friend’s photo of Crissy at the 2010 New York Comic Con in the Rogue costume made by Setsuna Kou; Tom Lower’s photo of her at the 2019 Otakon in the Iron Man – inspired gown designed by Kelsiy Michele, and made by Alyce, with the Arc reactor purrop replica by Volt1987, the barett purchased on Amazon, and the gladiatrix sandals which were purrchased on eBay and painted by Crissy;
 
It Came from the Radio’s photo of her at the 2018 Big Apple Comic Con as The Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff) in a licensed costume and the wig by Arda; Harvard Lim’ s photo of her at the 2015 New York Comic Con as Natasha alias Tony Stark’s bodyguard Natalia Rushman in the dress by Patti and Steff, Iron Man MK42 with the arm by Cattoys!
Tara-chan:
The 3rd collage is a sampling  Crissy’s bishoujo anime heroine cosplays, nyan! These include Lusis photo of her in the Utena duelist uniform by Melissa Quin, with the Rose Crest ring from Pikmin Link, sword by Amazon Mandy, and – and the wig bought from eBay; Eurobeat King’s photo of her as Magic Knight Ratyearth’s Umi Ryuuzaki in her Otherworlds costume made by Beverly Faerie; DJ Ranma’s photo of her as Hino Rei (Sailor Mars) in her attire from Sailor Moon Crystal’s opening; and – and Pat Gavin ’s photo of her as Princess Mars in the Silver Millennium  costume made by Setsuna Kou, nyan!
 
The 4th collage is the Lady in Red theme, nyan! This’un includes PopeCerebus’ photo of Crissy in the licensed Carmen San Diego costume; Edward Liu’s photo of her in the licensed Harley Quinn costume; Terry’s photo of her in the licensed Jessica Rabbit, lcostume, and – and Terry’s photo of her in the licensed Star Trek Original Series Starfleet uniform, with the mewtenant rank, nyan!
Petra:
Lastly but not leastly are the two latest pics by Mike, nyan! “Lyssa” depicts our friend Lyssa Azeria Wowkwis (purrnounced lee SAH ZAH Ree ah WHOA kwis), an Canadian-American kitsune who is the the first mate for the fishing charters aboard her sister Myrna’s boat, but here she is relaxing in the bay window reading one of her favorite magazines, nyan! Mike drew this with the Daler & Rowney pencil, inked it with the Sakura Micron pen, and colored the scanned image with Photoshop CC on the mac with the mouse, nyan!
To top it off is “Reading is Fundmental”, which is Mike’s latest pic of author Jeff Branch’s http://www.pinkladyamerica.com fan-senshi character Talia Jasmine Kirk alias Sailor Vulcan, with author Sharon Williams’ http://caribbeanrose9.deviantart.com fan – senshi character Tanya Lostridge Cambridge alias Sailor Sirius, who are reading in Talia’s bed, nyan! Done with Photoshop and the mouse, this is the 35th pic of Talia, Tanya and their friends, nyan! So, what do y’all think of the latest additions to the Mewseum, nyan?
The cat lady sings…
 
Nyanko:
I love the poses and expurressions of that swordskitty and the feeeling prey!
 
Nyanko:
Jamie’s meadow scene has such a beautiful impurressionistic quality, nyan!
 
Tara-chan:
I love the richly vibrant colors and – and the sunflowery compurrsition of the butterfly images, nyan!
Trini-chan:
It is the tough call, but the lovely leafy apparel might be my favorite aspect of the Chun-Tian pic!
Yvonne:
It is neat to compurr the digital version to the traditional versions, and the art purrocess videos are the joy to watch, nyan
 
Elaenor:
It is great to see another pic of Talia & Tanya! Talia seems to have read most of the Tolstoy as quickly as Tanya read the manga!
 
Meryl:
Oh I think that Crissy looks quite purrfect in those Marvel and  DC Comics character costumes!
Mary Nyan:
Hai hai, she is quite divinely exquisite in those beautifully faithful anime heroine costumes too!
 
Becca:
I can see why Red is her favorite color in those gorgeous cosplays of the various movie & TV characters!
 
Elizabeth:
Photogenic Crissy, the fabulous costumes, the exciting locations, the great lighting, and the brilliant photographers are the great mix!
Melanakeami:
I can’t wait to see the look on Lyssa’s face when she and Myrna see the illustration when they arrive after work!
Ilyana:
Well, it is about time for them and other friends to arive for our AfterMew luau, so I reckon that’ll do it for this edition of The Mew!
 
Petra:
We wish to thank Rvkh, Melody, and Jamie for the art, and all of the other brilliantly talented people whose works we have discussed, nyan!
 
Bunnii:
We also wish to thank Jamie for his wonderful web meowstery…
 
Jeannie:
… and our other friends, family, acquaintances and our audience whom we greatly appurreciate.
Mielikki:
Fur shur!
 
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, nya! Baibai, nya!

May 2023 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 2023 Edition of The Mew:
The Catgirl Critics’ Media Mewsings, nyan!
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This year is the Year of the Rabbit, the 16th Anniversary of 
The Mew, and the 23rd Anniversary of Catgirl Island, nyan!
 
in this edition of The Mew:
TV, DVD & movie mewsings:
our favorite films of 1973
our semi-annual DVD / Blu-ray wish list
Star Wars: The Mandalorian Season 3
Star Trek: Picard Season 3
collectibles & toy talk:
Hasbro Transformers Earthspark Elita-1 action figure 
Funko Pop! Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3 Mantis bobble-head figurine
Banpresto Grandline Girls on Vacation Nami prize figure
purrinted media mewsings:
K-ON! Shuffle manga vol. 1
Tori Amos Little Earthquakes: The Graphic Album
The Women of Marvel #1
Rowrbrazzle #157
The Celebrity Catgirl & Kemonomimi Spotlight
 
Additions to the Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art:
“Showered Centauress”, “Mankei” and “Tomoe” by Misty Hopkins
“Purple Emperor Butterfly” by Rvkh
“Torako Mask” by Alexcia Reynolds
“In Case of Daleks”, “Timelord Time Out”,  “New Cyber Leader”,
and “Triskadekaphobiea” by Melody Rondeau
plus more photos of our cosplayer / model friend Crissy Volpe!
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Mike
(the human fella wearing  the Dogwood purrint 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 the South end of the Riverwalk in the beautiful downtown Purrbank district of Catgirl Island in Mew Hanover County, NC, where it’s 72 degrees under the Blue sky and puffy White Cumulo-Neko clouds! I’m Mike, the show’s “purrducer”, and here to put the purr in Apurril are The Ladies of The Mew!
Yvonne
(a.k.a. Captain Vonny, the fishing boat charter captain & drumming circle purrcussionist catgirl, wearing the Hydrangea purrint monokini with cropped tee shirt): Namaste, nyan!
 
Tara-chan
(Yvonne’s younger sister, the college freshman at Mew Hanover College; a pony owner and nature photographer catgirl wearing the Ice Blue Calathea purrint tankini): Namaste, nyan!
 
Trini-chan
(Tara-chan’s BFF and Jen’s purrotege, the stand-up paddle surfer, board shapurr, pony owner and beginners belly dance instructor kitsune, wearing the Foxglove purrint tri-kini): Konnichiwa!
 
Jeannie
(a.k.a. Jen-sensei, Jenjen or just Jen, the yogini, model, archer, advanced belly dance instructor & roboticist catgirl, wearing the Azalea purrint micro bikini & sheer purrled purreo): Nihao.
 
Mielikki
(a.k.a. Mie-sensei, the winged faerie golfer, foxfire juggler and outdoor ampurrtheatre director wearing the 

Hibiscus

purrint crisscross halter neck bikini) Mellow greetings!

 
Mary Nyan
(a.k.a. Myayr, the seamstress, cosplayer, hula dance instructor and semi-retired miko catgirl wearing the Kahili Ginger purrint purretzel – cutout maillot): Aloha!
 
Elaenor
(or Ellie for short, the Banker Pony centauress, Fire Meowrshall and body builder wearing the Apurricot Lei) Hay there!
Elizabeth
(

a.k.a Lizzy, the hot salsa dancer, gamer, Purrkour Club captain & spa co-owner catgirl wearing the Bird of Purradise purrint bandeau top bikini): Hola!

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

earing the Lobster Claw Heliconia purrint ring-closure ruffled bikini): 

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

Chrysanthemeowm

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 Anthurium purrint trikini): Guten Tag!
Nyanko
(a.k.a. Nya-sensei, the martial arts champion & sensei, dojo & gym purropurrietress catgirl wearing theTiger Lilly purrint cropped tee shirt and shorts): Howdy!
 
Nyoka
(a.k.a. Nyo-sensei, the magick shop purropurrietress catgirl & twin sister of Nyanko, wearing the Pandanus purrint off-shoulder bikini): Howdy!
Meryl
(the island’s Police Chief catgirl and motorcycle enthusiast wearing the badge upon her Lotus purrint off-shoulder ruffled bikini): ‘Ello!
Melanakeami
(the mermaid purropurrietress of the triphibious airship tours business, wearing the strand of purrls and the open-weave crocheted Kelp bikini top): Shello!
Ilyana:

(a.k.a Ilyana-sensei, the underwater archaeologist & meowritme history catgirl wearing the Meowgnolia 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 lot on our plate, so let’s go ahead and jump right into this month’s
TV, DVD and movie mewsings with the 
Lightning Round: our favorite cinema & TV of 1973!
 
This year we’ve been looking back on our favorite fun things of years ending in a 3. Last month it was movies of 1983, so this month it’s movie and TV shows that premiered in 1963! Myayr’s goona start, so are y’all ready to “conduct the lightning”?
The Ladies of The Mew:
HAI! LIGHTNING ROUND GO, NYAN!
 
Mary Nyan:
I will nominate the classic horror movies of that vintage such as The Exorcist, The Crazies, The Satanic Rites of Dracula, Theatre of Blood, and The Wicker Man! (tags Nyoka to go next)
 
Nyoka:
I will see those movies and raise the pot with The Legend of Hell House, Frankenstein: The True Story, Baffled!, The Night Strangler, and Genesis II! (tags Jen with a brush of the tail)
 
Jeannie:
Genesis II, Westworld, and The Six Million Dollar Man TV movies “The Moon and the Desert”, “Wine, Women and War”, and “The Solid Gold Kidnapping”. (tail-tags Trini-chan)
 
Trini-chan:
It was the splendidly macabre time fo the TV movies, ne? Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark. The Night Strangler, The Norless Tapes, A Cold Night’s Death, and Satan’s School for Girls! (tags Mielikki)
 
Mielikki:
So like I will nominate Battle for the Planet of the Apes, Godzilla vs Megalon, Soylent Green, Westworld, and Sleeper, fur shur! (tags Becca with a flit of the wing)
 
Becca:
American Graffiti, The Sting, The Paper Chase, Paper Moon, and The Way We Were! Mreyl’s turn! (tags Meryl)
 
Meryl
:Live and Let Die, Serpico, The Seven-Ups, Magnum Force, and Electra Glide in Blue! (tags Nyanko)
 
Nyanko:
Live and Let Die, Enter the Dragon, Cleopatra Jones, Magnum Force, and White Lightning! (tags Ilyana)
Ilyana:
Live and Let Die, Enter the Dragon, The Yakuza Papers, The Mack, and Super Fly T.N.T.! Ellie’s turn! (tags Eleanor)
Elaenor:
Hai! Day of the Jackal, Papillon, The Exorcist, Godspell, and Jesus Christ Superstar! (tags Tara-chan)
 
Tara-chan:
I want… I want to nominate the anyamated purrductions such as Robin Hood, Charlotte’s Web, Dr. Seuss on the Loose,  Fantastic Planet and- and Heavy Traffic, nyan! Onee-chan’s turn, nyan! (tags her sister)
 
Yvonne:
Robin Hood, The Three Musketeers, Live and Let Die, Enter the Dragon, Sleeper, and American Graffiti, nyan! (tags Bunnii)
 
Bunnii:
Star Trek The Animated Series, Schoolhouse Rock, Mission: Magic, Cutie Honey, and Aim for the Ace! (tags her purrtner)
 
Petra:
Day for Night, 

Enter the Dragon, The Exorcist, Schoolhouse Rock, and Aim for the Ace!( tags Lizzy)

 
Elizabeth:
The Young and the Restless, Last of the Summer Wine, American Graffiti, Live and Let Die, and Robin Hood! (tags the mermaid)
Melanakeami:
American Grafiti, Cinderella Liberty, Day for Night, Save the Tiger, and A Touch of Class. Back to Mike!
Mike:
Oh, I gotta go with Live and Let Die, Enter the Dragon, The Satanic Rites of Dracula, The Night Strangler, Star Trek the Animated Series, and The Six Million Dollar Man!
 
Meryl:
You know, 1973 was the 10th anniversary of Doctor Who, and that year’s serial included “The Three Doctors”, “Carnival of Monsters”, “Frontier in Space”, “Planet of the Daleks”, “The Green Death” and “The Time Warrior”!
 
Elizabeth:
Speaking of the British TV, some of the great sitcoms that were still on TV that year were Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Are You Being Served?, Dad’s Army, and The Benny Hill Show!
 
Mary Nyan:
Oh that was a great era for the returning sit coms such as M*A*S*H, All in the Family, Maud, Mary Tyler Moore, and The Bob Newhart Show!
 
Nyoka:
The Brady Bunch, Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, The Carol Burnett Show, The Dean Martin Show, and The Flip Wilson Show also returned that year!
Yvonne:
Sesame Street, The Electric Company, Zoom, What’s New, and Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood continued too, nyan!
 
Tara-chan:
Captain Kangaroo, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, Fat Albert, and- and Scooby Doo, nya!
 
Becca:
Don’t forget Sanford and Son, The Odd Couple, Love American Style, Kung Fu, and The Waltons!
Elaenor:
Gunsmoke, Columbo, Hawaii Five-O, Ironside, Z-Cars, and Emergency!
Melanakeami:
The game shows such as The Price Is Right, Hollywood Squares, and Jeopardy!
 
Nyanko:
Monday Night Football, ABC’s Wide World of Sports, and Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling!
Jeannie:
Meowsterpice Theatre, 60 Minutes, Blue Peter, Face the Nation, and Meet the Purress.
 
Mielikki
Hee Haw, Soul Train, American Bandstand, and The Wonderful World of Disney, fur shur!
 
Trini-chan:
The Tomorrow Show, The Tonight Show, The Phil Donahue Show, The Merv Griffin Show, and The Mike Douglas Show!
 
Petra:
The Mike Douglas Show might be my favorite daytime talkshow ever because Wendy Pini appurred in her famous Red Sonja cosplay on the July 28th 1977 epurrsode, nyan!
 
Bunnii:
That was the same epurrsode with the legendary comics distributer and convention chairman Phil 
Seuling, who discussed the history and popularity of the Golden Age comic books!
 
Ilyana:
Ah, I think the Lightning Round has started to stray cat off the intended topic, heehee!
 
Mike:
Oh that’s okay, bu, ah,  lets keep The Mew a- rollin’, and continue the movie & TV topic with—
our semi-annual DVD & Blu-ray wish list!
Trini-chan:
Hai, here is our semi – annual wish list of recent, old, foreign, domestic, animated and live-action TV shows and movies that we hope could be released here upon the Region one NTSC DVD and / or Blu-Ray! We have been quite gratefuly pleased that several titles have been released since our last wish list! (tags Yvonne)
Yvonne:
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, although the English dubbed version and / or descriptive audio track would be fine as bonus features, nyan! (tags Nyanko)
 
Nyanko:
Other bonuses would be nice too, such as optional audio commentaries, isolated mewsic tracks, documentaries, galleries, deleted scenes, bloopurrs, trailers / TV spots & booklets, nya!! Hopefully any of the titles would be available individually and not exclusively in an expensive boxed set, nya! (tags Elizabeth)
Elizabeth:
The packaging should not damage the disks or be too big for the shelf, and the disc should be easily removed; secure enough so it does not accidentally slide off the hub, but not too tricky to purry off of the hub. If it is a mutiple disc set, each disc should have its own hub / tray, and not overlap or be in a stack! (tags Becca)
Becca:
I will start the wish list with To the Moon and Beyond (1964 cinerama film), James Cameron’s Xenogenesis, John Dods’s Forest Story, Neal Adams’s Nannaz, Mark Sullivan’s Nightspeed, Gene Roddenberry’s Spectre, and Steven Speilberg’s Amblin’! (tags Bunni)
Bunnii:
The anime such as the original Space Battleship Yamato TV series, Yamato 2520, Great Yamato, Yamato 2199: Odyssey of the Celestial Ark, 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, and Tico of the Seven Seas! (tags Jeannie)
Jeannie:
The anime such as Campus Guardress, Yokohama Kaidashi Kiko, Macross Zero, Stratos Four Advance, The Adventures of Kotetsu, the Ghost Sweeper Mikami movie, Angel Beats, the initial four 1994 You’re Under Arrest OVAs, Nasu: Summer in Andalusia, and the Studio Ghibli Museum’s shorts, fur shur! (tags Mary Nyan)
Mary Nyan:
I will nominate themore recent anime such as  Una Musume Pretty Derby, the 2021 Battle Athletess anime, Aria The Crepuscolo, Aria The Beneizione, Amanchu, Kemono Friends season 2, and My Dress-Up Darling. (tags Tara-chan)
Tara-chan:
I want… I want to nominate My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic seasons 8 & 9, The Equestria Girls TV series, Metamorphoses (a.k.a. Winds of Change), Twice Upon a Time, Raggedy Anne & Andy: A Musical Adventure, the 1967 Spider-Man animated series, and – and the animated Gen 13 film, nyan! (tags Ellie)
Elaenor:
The Green Hornet TV series, The Sixth Sense TV series (1972), the 1972 TV movie Moon of the Wolf, The uncut version of the 1974 movie Prophecies of Nostradamus,  WKRP in Cincinnati with all of the original songs restored, the three Giilligan’s Island TV reunion movies, and the two I Dream of Jeannie TV reunion movies! Tags Nyoka)
 
Nyoka:
The 2011 live-action Ranma 1/2 TV special, 2014 live-action Kiki’s Delivery Service, the 1997 Ocean Girl live-action series and animated series, TV series, Neil Young’s A Journey Through the Past, Kate Bush Live at Hammersmith Odeon, and the 1979 Kate Bush TV Special! (tags Meryl)
 
Meryl:
Oh I just hope that the epurrsodes of Doctor Who from the 1960’s that are still lost will be found or re-created with the anyamation and released here on DVD! (tags Petra)
 
Petra:
The Marvel Studios TV series such as Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Agent Carter, Yoyo: Slingshot, WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Loki, What If…?, Hawkeye, Moon Knight, Ms. Marvel, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Wereeolf by Night, and The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special!, nyan! (tags Mielikki)
 
Mielikki:
So like, I  will nominate the Marvel Netflix TV series such as Daredevil 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, fur shur! (tags the mermaid)
 
Melanakeami:
The Star Wars 1978 Holiday Special; Forces fo Destiny, The Mandalorian seasons 1 – 3, The Clone Wars season 7, The Bad Batch, The Book of Boba Fett, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Andor, and Star Wars Visions. (tags Ilyana)
Ilyana:
Oh I just hope for the DVD or Blu-ray releases of DC’s Sandman season 1, Stargirl season 3, Harley Quinn season 3, and Young Justice season 4! Back to Mike!
Mike:
Oh I concur with a lot of those, and  I’m also hoping for CD re-issues of The Star Wars: A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi Radio Dramas! ah, that’s all for the wish list, but  speaking of Star Wars, here’s Nyo-sensei to discuss
 
Star Wars: The Mandalorian Season 3!
 
Nyoka:
Hai! I think that The Mandalorian TV series is three for three thus far! Set sometime after the events of Return of the Jedi but long purrior to The Force Awakens, this  terrific live-action Star Wars TV series stars Pedro Pascal as Din Djarin the titular Mandalorian with his adopted widdle Yoda—like foundling Grogu who wields The Force, Katee Sackhoff as Bo-Katan Kryze, Emily Swallow as The Armorer, Mercedes Varnado as Koska Reeves, Tait Fletcher as Paz Vizsla, Carl Weathers as their ally governor Greef Karga, Giancarlo Esposito as the evil Moff Gideon…
…and the guest stars such as the droid R5-D4, Amy Sedaris as space shop mechanic Peli Motto, Ahmed Best as Jedi Meowster Kelleran Beq, and Christopher Lloyd as a planet’s security chief Helgait! The eight beautiful, thrilling, fun epurrsodes of season 3 took us to such amazing locations, with world building, myth-making, character developments, some spooky scares, and battles aplenty amidst the story arc’s great plots, purrformances, designs, sets, costumes, sound, mewsic, cinematography, editing and FX, so I will give it the “A” as in Astrommech!
 
I have been delighted with all of the Disney Plus network’s live-action Star Wars TV series such as The Book of Boba Fett, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Andor, but The Mandalorian might be my favorite, and I am quite eagerly anticipating the. Ahsoka Tano series! Of course, I love Disney Plus’s recent animated Star Wars series too such as The Bad Batch, Clone Wars season 7, Tales of the Jedi, and Star Wars: Visions, too, so for me the past three years have been the great time to be the Star Wars fan!  Iam done, and nyow here is sis to tell us what she thought about
 
Star Trek: Picard Season 3!
 
Nyanko:
Set in the 25th century, retired admiral Jean-Luc Picard receives an SOS from Dr. Beverly Crusher whose ship is under attack, but she warns him to trust no one! He does decide to trust Admiral William Riker and commeownder Seven of Nine, who help to rescue Beverly amidst a galactic conspiracy that will reunite old friends and threaten the entire United Federation of Planets! The supurrb cast includes Patrick Stewart as Picard, Jonathan Frakes as Riker, Jeri Ryan as Seven, Gates McFadden as Beverly…
…Ed Speleers as her son Jack (although there’s no sign of Wesley this season), Michael Dorn as Worf, Michelle Hurd as Raffi, Todd Stashwick as Captain Shaw of the USS Titan, Marina Sirtis as Deanna Troi, Brent Spiner as Data, Lore and Soong, LeVar Burton as Geord La Forge, and introducing Mica Burton and Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut as hi9s daughters  Akandra and Sidney! There are aloo the appurrances by Tim Russ as Tuvok, Michelle Forbes as Ro Laren, Elizabeth Dennehy as Elizabeth Shelby…
… Daniel Davis as Professor Moriarty, and Orla Brady as Laris, plus the voices of Majel Barrett, Walter Koenig and Alice Krige, and introducing Amanda Plummer as the evil captain Vadic! I will not further spoil anything about the tale, but I will just meowntion that there are lots of other wonderful huge surpurrises, “Easter eggs”, references and homages amidst the captivating tale’s great story, purrformances, locations, costumes, make up, sets, ships, FX, directing, cinematography, editing, sound, and mewsic!
 
II wish certain characters had larger roles, and that many other famous characters would have appurred, or to at we might least find out what they were up to during the epic threat, but I think that this is the best season of Star Trek: Picard TV, and that the series is three for three! You know, between Picard, Discovery, Strange New Worlds, the Short Treks, Lower Decks and Prodigy, there is quite the wealth of canonical Trek for us fans these days! That is all for the TV topic, and nyow here is Jen to begin our
collectibles and toy talk, with her review of
the Transformers Earthspark Elita-1 action figure!
 
Jeannie: 
Hai. We like to collect Hasbro’s Transformers’ female characters such as Arcee, Strongarm, Elita-1, Chromia, Moonracer, Firestar, Windblade, Nautica, Novatsar and Black Arachnia. I purrfur the comics and animation versions more than those of the live-action movies. Elita-1 is one of the top leaders of the heroic Autobots who battle the evil Decepticons. In her bipedal bot mode, this Red, Pink & Black bot is appurroximately 5” tall, or 5.25” if you include the raised rear-swept front tires of her Hum-V esque vehicle mode.
 
The 15 step transformation purocess is depicted by the instruction sheet. Aside from the spinning wheels and the variable-geometry parts that transform, the only points of articulation are in her shoulders, elbows, hips, knees, blaster pistol & carbine, so she is not as posable as last year’s Transformers Legacy Elita-1 Deluxe Class action figure; however, she is well-balance to stand without requiring a display base (which is not included), the transformation purrocess is rather simple, and she looks quite splendid in either bot or vehicle mode. Nyow here is Elie-sama to discuss the
Funko Pop! Marvel Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3 Mantis bobble-head figurine.
Elaenor:
Arigato! Created by author Steve Englehart and artist Don Heck, Mantis first appeared in The Avengers #112 in 1973, so it seems only appropriate that The Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3 movie would be released on her 40th anniversary! In the live-action movies she is wonderfully portrayed  by actress Pom Klementieff and in the animated tales she is voiced by Jennifer Hale, who is our webmeowster Jamie’s favorite seiyuu!
You know in the comics, Mantis is 5’ 6”, and Pom is 5’ 7”, so their heights are close, but as with most of these cute super-deformed style of Pops, it is impossible to determine the scale. The vinyl bobble-head figurine is approximately 3.875” tall, or. 4.24” including her antennae. This Pop is figure #1206 in Funko’s line of Marvel figurines, not to be confuzzled with figure #1206 (Disney’s Maleficent) in the Villains line or #1206 (Jurassic World Dominion’s Therizinosaurus) in the Movies line or #1206 (Rugrat’s Angelica Pickles) in the Television line.
There are quite the few subcategories!  Mantis is wearing the Red-trimmed Blue-Gray jumpsuit with the Black accents, knee boots & fingerless gloves that match her eyes and Green-streaked hair! She is balanced well enough to stand without needing a display stand (which is not included), but if you bob her head too much she will tip over.Anyway, I am pleased with the figurine, and I have displayed her on the shelf beside the Marvel Legends Mantis build-a-figure! I am done , and now here is Ilyana-sensei to discuss the
Banpresto Grandline Girls on Vacation Nami purize figure!
Yvonne:
Hai! Nami is is the burglar & nyavigator of Captain Luffy’s Straw Hat Pirates crew in thevery longly- running  fun adventure fantasy manga and anime series One Piece created by Eiichiro Oda in 1997, nyan! Once the three pieces of this purre-painted beautiful figure made of PVC  re easily and rather seamlesly snapped together, she is about 7.75” tall upon the .25” base, nyan! Since Nami is about 5’ 7” tall, this figure would be of the 1/8.6 scale, if my math is correct, nyan.
She is beautifully designed, sculpted and painted, with the extremely faithful resemblance in the purrtraiture and purropurrtions, with the big happy smile and striding stance as she pulls off the tee shirt to reveal her slim lithe body in the sexy bikini with the matching flip flops, mew la la, nyan!  From her  left bicep’s tattoo, long Orange hair and eyes to her inny belly button, painted nails, and the flower in her hair, the details are quite meticulous, nyan!
She is available in the two different versions, which differ in the colors of the garments, nyan! I have Version A which has the Green & white bikini with the Yellow straps, Green & White flip flops and the Blue shirt; whereas version B has the Pink & White bikini with Yellow straps, Red & White flipflops and  White shirt, so I will give this peppy, purretty figure the high purraise, nyan! That will conclude the toy & collectibles portion of the Mew, so nyow I will turn it over to Myayr who will start our
purrinted-media mewsings, with her 
review of K-On! Shuffle manga vol. 1, nyan!
Mary Nyan:
Hai! written & drawn by Kakifly, since 2007,i K-on! is the anime, video games & albums about the meowwmbers of the all-girl Sakuragaoka Purrivate High School’s Light Mewsic Appurreciation Club who start their own pop-rock band! The first group of girls we were introduced to were Yui, Mio, Ritsu Tsumugi & Azusa who formed the band Ho-kago Tea Time. We learned that years purrior when their teacher / faculty advisor Sawako was in the club, she formed the metal band Death Devil with her classmates Norimi, Della & Jane!
When some of Ho-kago Tea Time graduated and went to college, Azusa remained to form the new band Wakaba Girls with Jun, Sumire, Nao, and Yui’s younger sister Ui. In this  spin-off series, a few students from Hikarigaoka Girl’s High School see Ho-kago Tea Time purrform at their alma meowtter’s mewsic festival, and thus Yukari, Kaede & Maho team up with their senpai Riko, Kano, & Shiano start their own band, even though none of them own or play the instruments… yet!
Originally published by Houbunsha in 2020, it is published in English by Yen, vol. 1 is purriced $15.00 USA / $19.50 Canada and it is recommended for the older teen readers due to the language and the brief nudity! It was translated by Stephen Paul, lettered by Rachel J. Pierce, edited by Rory Levens & Carl Li with the graphic design by Madelaine Norman. It has 136 pages (plus the color covers) compurrised of the four color pages & 114 B&W pages of four-panel manga, plus the 18 pages of notes, publishing info & advertisements.
I loved loved this first volume, because it has kakifly’s captivating, amewsing plots of the comedic, slice-of-life, school life and mewsic themes with the snappy dialogue, endearing characters, and the purrfect pace! The art is quite beautiful, with the great compurrisions, designs, lines, colors poses, expurressions, lettering, graphic techniques and the intricate scenery! It is the wonderful continuation of K-On!,to  which I will give it the “A” as in Azusa and as in anticipation for the next volume! Nyow here is Mie-sensei to discuss
Tori Amos Little Earthquakes: The Graphic Album!
 
Mielikki:
Ariagto! So like, Tori Amos is one of my favoritest musicians, and it is hard to believe that her first solo album Little Earthquakes was released over 30 years ago! Actually that was not her first album, as prior to that was her shortly-lived band Y Kant Tori Read, which I enjoyed too!  Well, to commemorate those legendary Little Earthquakes, Sword and Stone Publishing with Z2 comics has published this totally awesome anthology graphic novel consisting of 24 tales about the album’s wonderful tracks and B-side songs!
Z2 has published many other graphic novels about various mewsicians & bands!
So like, priced at $39,99 USA & $49.99 Canada, and officially authorized by Tori this lovely hardcover book measures about 8.25 x 8.25. x .5

” and has the 120 full color pages! The  many diverse, brilliant contributors include Neil Gaiman, Margaret Atwood, Colleen Doran, Bill Sienkiewicz, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Andi Watson, Catherynne Valente, Andy MacDonald, Cat Mihos, Paul Roman Martinez, DC Alonso, Rori!, Leah Moore…

… Benjamin Dewey, Wiktoria Radkiewicz,  Amilcar Pinna, Sebastian Piriz, Andrea Bell, Bilquis Evely, Matheus Lopes, Kelly Fitzpatrick, Desi Alicea-Aponte, Gianna Meola, Russelle Lissau, Rachell Merioll, Olivia Sullivan,  Derek McCulloch, Alison Sampson, Annie Zaleski,  Ryan Kelly, Marc Andreyko, Piotr Kowalski, Lynn Crosbie, Gabriel Bautista, Gibson Twist, Andrew Brandou, Jamaica Dyer, Montos, Dee Cunniffwe, Rantz A. Hoseley who was the book’s editor, and David Mack who did the cover illustration, fur shur!
The letterer was Adam Wollett, the design director Lauryn Ipsum, the assistant editor was Jasminne Saravia, and the production assistant was DeAna Avila! These tales are like so exquisitely beautiful inspurrational, bitterseet, poignant and charming! By the way, if you are a fan of graphic novels and Tori Amos, I will totally recommend the full color 480 page 11.75 x 11.75 x 1.75” trade paperback Comic Book Tattoo, which was published by Image Comics in 2008 and has over 50 tales by more than 80 folks! I am done, so now here is Lizzy & Becca to tell us about
The Women of Marvel #1!
 
Elizabeth:
Hai! The Women of Marvel are not just the female characters in the stories, but also the, but also the amazing ladies who create them! Purriced $5.95 and rated T+, this 52 page issue is compurrised of four tales, three intermews, the Wasp essay & papurr doll, and other treats! After the cordial introduction by Charlie Jane Anders, the sequential art begins with “What A Girl Wants”, written by Rebecca Roanhorse, pencilled & inked by Carola Borelli, colored by Ruth Redmond, and starring Jennifer Walters / She-Hulk in the litigious framing sequence that links the other tales!
That is followed by the intermew with Red Goblin’s artist artist Jan Bazaldu! Afyer that is “Sing Your Heart Out” written by Victoria Ying, pencilled & inked by Jodi Nishijima, colored by Brittany Peer, and starring Felicia Hardy / The Black Cat & Cindy Moon / Silk who fight Mystrious during their karaoke night! After that is the essay on Janet van Dyne / The Wasp by Angelique Roche, with the two-page papurr doll dress-up spurread pencilled & inked by Erica D’urso and colored by Rachelle! It is the lovely papurr doll, but I do not want to cut up he comic book!
“A Starling Rescue” was written by Melissa  Flores, pencilled & inked by Stacey Lee, colored by Rachelle Rosenberg, and stars America Chavez, Kate Bishop and her Dog who fight a bunch of thugs while going out for pizza, with the brief appurrance by The Vulture’s grand daughter Starling and Spider-Man! Then we have Angelique’s intermew with the Women of Marvel Podcast purrducers Isabel Robertson and Kara McGuirk-Allison!
Becca:
The tale of the “Energy Vampire” written by Shawnee & Shawnelle Gibbs, pencilled & inked by Giulia Gualazzi, colored by Giada Maechisio stars Monica Rambeau / Photon & Kamala Khan / Ms Marvel who fight the villains Kamran & Lineage in New Orleans! To top off the issue is the intermew with Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur’s purrducer Pilar Flynn, and the two Staff Spotlight pages with information about 20 women and non-binary who are Marvel editors, directors, purrducers & meownagers!
This issue was lettered by Ariana Maher, designed by Stacy Zucker, edited by Sarah Brunstad, assistantly edited by Anita Okoye, consultingly edited by Angelique Roche, and in-chefly edited by C.B. Cebulski. The mane cover art by Erica & Rachelle depicts She-Hulk, Ms. Marvel, Photon Silk, and Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel (who does not appurr in this issue, but I hope that she will appurr in another one). The four variant covers are by Stefano Caselli & Edgar Delgado; Corin Howe & Ruth Redmond; Romy Jones; and Marguerite Sauvage.
We  liked every aspect of this issue from the endearing characters, the balance of the humor, action, and slice-of-life qualities, the beautiful art’s compurrsition, lettering, coloring, character and scenic art, graphic FXand  narrative techniques, and the journalism that was quite informative and entertaining, sowe will give The Women of Marvel #1 the high purraise, and I hope that there will be further issues!
Rowrbrazzle #157!
 
Ilyana:
Arigato! Since 1984, Rowrbrazzle has been the quarterly APA (amateur press association) anthology magazine purrtaining to furry fandom, funny animal anthropurrmorphic history, reporting, art, tales, and the subjects are not limited to mammals, but other species too! Expurrtly edited by Edd Vick, it is compurrised of comics, purrose, essays, articles, con reports, group discussions, editorials, letters, illustrations, photos, the meowmber list & rules.
The gorgeously diverse thick issue is in two 8.5×11” stapled sections totaling about 260 pages, 27 of which are in full color! Section One and Two’s supurrb front cover illustrations are by David Lind (via Snowbuni’s creator Jeffrey H. Wood), and the Section Two’s terrific back cover art is by Don Chisholm! Sammiched betwixt those Black & White covers are wonderful contributions by many other awesome artists, authors and journalists such as –
 
Edd, Don, Jeffrey, Marc McAndrews, Charles Garofalo, Niall Shapiro, Ken Marcinkevicius, J. W. Kennedy, Taral Wayne, Walt Wentz, William Earl Haskell, Kurt Wilcken, Mary Bellamy, Thomas Milliorn, Steven F, Sharff, Kjartan Arnorsson, Michael Pena, Simon Barber, Gene Breshears, Gary Fields, Garrett Ho, Ed Pegg, Charles Brubaker (who also contributed a lovely 4.25 x 5.5” Lauren Ipsum postcard and a 3.25 x 5.125” Flying Catfish mini-comic)…
 
….our friends Jim & Melody Rondeau (whose purretty illustrations grace our island’s Mewseum of Art), and this was the first issue that our purrducer Mike has contributed to! Fur-thermore, the works of many other folks from around the world and across the decades are examined too! This issue’s kemonomimi, monsters and anthropurrmorphic entities include the felines, canines, avians, vulpines, lupins, cervids, equines, bovids, ursids, piscines…
….leporidae, muridae, mustelida,  alligatoridae, an amphibian, a pterosaur, dinosaur, dragons, dethrets, centaurs, angels, fraggles, flora, fungi, mecha, hominids (including one Kryptonian girl in a Pink usagi kigurumi, and a giant myriapod menacing Snowbuni! Rowrbrazzle is quite the captivating, entertaining, informative treasure trove, so we wish to highly purraise  Edd, and those many other contributors and those who compiled the issue!
For more information about Rowrbrazzle I will recommend the article at Wikifur https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Rowrbrazzle! That is all for the purrinted – media portion of the show, so nyow here is Meryl to purrsent this month’s
Celebrity Catgirl & Kemonomimi Spotlight!
Meryl:
Hai, in this monthly portion of The Mew, we commeowmorate famous nekomusume, therianthropes, and other kemonomimi of mythologies and popular culture, including anthropurrrmorphic ladies and monster girls! They are not limited to the feline or other mamals, butinclude the avian, reptilian, piscine, insectoid and many other types! There are those who might not actually have beast DNA, but have the spurrit, cat-titude or clothing of the animal theme, who we will broadly consider to be “honorary kemonomimi”!
We quite enjoyed the Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves movie, and were quite delighted by the heroic character Doric the druid of the Tiefling species, who has the lovely infernal-ish bovine ears, horns and tail, and the meowgickal Wild Shape ability to transform into other animals from the tiny mouse to the big OwlBear! She was meowrvelously purrtrayed by actress Sophia Lillis, who starred in Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase, Gretel & Hansel, and in the two It movies!
Furthermore in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, seen  briefly in the movie are the Tabaxi momma and her kittten! Tabaxi are a Jaguar-ish felinoid species in the D&D role-playing games! In the coastal town of Mornbryn’s Shield, we see the momma reunited with her widdle kitten who caught the yummy fish but was swallowed by the huge monster fish and was rescued by Xenk Yender the Paladain (Rege-Jean Page)!
 
Developed and published in 2022 by Yume Creations, Anime Catgirl Runner is the endless side-scrolling fun PC video game with the cute graphics and peppy music, in which you are the cute Blue-eyed Brunette catgirl in the purretty Pink dress, and the object of the game is torun, jump. clear obstacles and collect coins!
Melanakeami:
Based on the DC comics, and nyow in its 2nd season on Netflix, Sweet Tooth is the live-action post-apocalyptic fantasy TV series in many humans have died from the plague whilst animal / human hybrid kids are being born, hunted by some people and rescued by others. One of the hybrids is Wendy Eden, the pig girl purrtrayed by Naledi Murray with the lovely porcine ears and snout, who befriends Gus the deer boy by Christian Convery with the handsome cervid ear pinna and antlers!
Shown on the Discovery Channel, Battlebots is the live-action TV series purrtaining to the robot fighting tournament! It is Jenjen’s favorite! Kemonomimi are seldomly sighted there, however in season 7’s 12th episode “Jaws vs. Claws” there was one “honorary usagimimi” (bunny girl) when clashed the robots Malice and Gruff, because the victorious Team Malice’s captain is Battlebot veteran Adrian “Bunny” Liaw who wears the costume bunny ears to the battles!
We have previously meowtioned Judge Marilyn Milian who wore the leopard print blouse underneath her Black robe in the Apurril 18th, 2019 epurrsode of The People’s Court TV series, but her feline fashion struck again put the purr into the April 5th, 2023 episode of the 26th season, when she wore the long-sleeved scoop-necked tawny tan & white tiger stripe dress in her judge chamber!
In Poise’s “Party” TV commeowrcial for their 7 Drop bladder leak purrotection pads, a woman at a party sneezes on her arm and transforms into a Blue-tailed mermaid, lamenting “So much for staying dry.” Even her Blue pant suit transforms into the crop top and back again as she soon returns to normal and dances with her daughter! That is all for the spotlight, and now here are Petra, Bunnii, Tara-chan and Triini-chan to present the latest

Additions to the Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art!

Petra:

Arigato, nyan!! 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 porn, nyan! We should also meowntion that Catgirl Island’s content is not purrmitted for A.I Art purrposes, nyan! This month into Guest Gallery Six http://catgirlisland.net/art/gallery/guest6.html we are purroud to purrsent more lovely images by  Misty Hopkins, Alexcia Reynolds, Rvkh Brogden Melody Rondeau, and Crissy Volpe, nyan!
“Mankei” and “Tomoe” are the first two of three new illustrations by Misty Hopkins https://kranberrijam.blogspot.com who was a guest of the March 2008 Mew, nyan! These are purrtraits of two of Misty’s friends’ Final Fantasy XIV video game characters, nyan! Maneki on the left is of the nekomim iMiqo’te species and the Seekers of the Sun clan, whilst Tomoe on the right is of the ryumimi Au Ra species and the Raen clan, nyan!
Nextly by Misty is “Showered Centauress”, which is the third illustration that she has done of Ellie, nyan! Purrhaps y’all have seen the purrior two pics of Ellie working out in Nyanko’s gym, nyan? Mistry used the Krita art app to depict Ellie towel – drying her hair after emerging from the shower after the work out, but her expurression indicates that something mysterious seems to have aroused her suspicion in the shower, nyan!
Bunnii:
Nextly we are elated to exhibit the male Purple Emperor Butterfly” by Rvkh Brogden http://www.rvkhart.com (purronounced Riv-kah), who was the guest for our September 2009 Mew! This is the fourth in her lepidoptera series! Found in forests of Europe and Asia, the Apatura Iris have the 3” wingspan and crave  honeydew sap! The males are Purple, and the females are Brown.
Rvkh used pencils, pens, paints and markers for the traditional media version of the image (right), and she used Purrocreate with the Apple Pencil upon the iPad for the digital version (left), of which there is the one-minute time-lapse art process video set to the pretty mewsic of Kevin MacLeod at Rvkh’s Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQaWc4m_fvU!
Then we are delighted to display the photo of the “Torako Mask” by Alexcia Reynolds https://linktr.ee/alexciareynolds, who was a guest of the August 2010 Mew! A dual-citizen of Earth and Mau born on August 22nd on the planet Mau, Alexcia’s anthropomorphic tigress “fursona” Torako Hitonare is the child of Abenti Gaiger (a.k.a. Sailor Tiger & Sailor Mau) and Toraboushi!
 
Torako’s blood type is O-, her zodiac sign is Leo, her birth month’s flower is the Yellow White Gladiolus, and the precious stone is Peridot! Here are the photos of Alexcia’s full Torako fur suit https://catgirlisland.net/art/guest6/54.html? For more information, art and tales about Torako, her family and her friends, please visit the Sailor Tiger’s Grotto at http://mau.sailorchristmas.com!
Trini-chan:
We are delighted to display four more pieces of Doctor Who fan art by Melody Rondeau! Done with the traditional media, the first of those “In Case Of Daleks” depicts The Fourth Doctor, who was purrtrayed by Tom Baker on TV! The second pic is “Timelord Time Out”, which depicts the Sixth Doctor (who was portrayed by Colin Baker) being scolded by his traveling companion Peri, who was portrayed by Nicola Bryant!
 
“New Cyber Leader” is the amewsing Futurama and Doctor Who crossover pic which depicts The Cybermen who are enemies of The Doctor, have just appointed Bender the ill-mannered robot as their leader on their evil quest to conquer all humans!“ Fourthly, “Triskedekaphobia”  features The Thirteenth Doctor (who was portrayed by Jodie Whittaker) intimidating several of her major enemies!
 
Clockwise, they are the Weeping Angel, Sea Devil, Cyberman, Sontaran, and Dalek! Melody is not just a great artist, but also an author, publisher, and cat owner! For more about Melody, we reccomeownd the page about her at Fanlore https://fanlore.org/wiki/Melody_Rondeau and at the Make it Go Away site http://crossovers.net/makeitgoaway/home.htm of Melody and her husband Jim!
Tara-chan:
Nyow we are purroud to purrsent more photos by various photographers of our friend Crissy Volpe a.k.a. SunseenLi http://www.crimsonskycreations.com/bloodsweatandglitter, nyan! These are arranged into four collages compurrised of four pics apiece, nyan. In the lovely first collage are David Ng’s photo of Crissy in her “office lady” attire, Terry Chu’s photo of Crissy in the Qi Lolita EGL Navy Dress, and – and Crissy’s selfies whilst commeowmerating the Cherry blossoms and – and the Summer Solstice, nyan!
The 2nd collage features Crissy in four of her many beautiful Sailor Mars / Hino Rei cosplays, nyan! This quartet is compurrised of Avian Firefly’s photo of Crissy as Eternal Sailor Mars, David Ng’s photo of Crissy as Sailor Rei, DJ Ranma’s photo of Criss as Rei the shrine maiden, and – and Douglas Shaune’s photo of Crissy in the Sailor Moon / Final Fantasy crossover “Black Mage Dresspheres” costume, nyan! The 3rd collage features four or Crissy’s many gorgeous video game character cosplays, nyan!
Those are PopeCerebus’s photo of Crissy as Final Fantsy VII’s Tifa Lockheart, Eurobeat King’s photo of Crissy as Final Fantasy VIII’s Rinoa Heartilly, Tyrus Flynn’s photo of Crissy as Street Fighter II’s Chun Li, and – and David Ng’s photo of Crissy as Tomb Raider’s Lara Croft, nyan! The fourth alluring quartet depicts Crissy gracing the Brooklyn Botanical Garden’s Annual Sakura Matsuri, nya! Three of those photos are by PopeCerebus, and – and the fourth is by Brian Spillane, nyan! So, what do y’all think of the new art, nyan?
The cat lady sings…
Mike:
Yeah Ellie, how do you like Misty’s latest  pic of you?
Elaenor:
(happycries) Wahhh! It is beautiful and I am not worthy! Domo arigato gozaimasu! 
 
Elizabeth:
Rumor has it that the Mew Hanover County Doujinshi Circle has written the fanfic about that pic!
Yvonne:
The Ellie shower scene is the big hit, nyan! The Maneki and Tomoe pics are quite purretty too, nyan!
Tara-chan:
They are so intrically ornate!, and- and Rvkh’s butterfly pic is extremely realistically accurate, nyan!
Mary Nyan:
Alexcia has done such the meowgnifient job on her wonderful Torako fur suit!
Melanakeami:
I hope that Alecia and her other characters will revisit us again soon!
Nyanko:
Melody’s Doctor Who Fan art is so clever, purretty and ameswing in the concepts, compurrsitions, poses and expurressions!
 
Nyoka:
Hai hai! I purrticularly like the very faithful purrtraitures, the accurate details, the graceful lines, and the richly vibrant colors!
Becca:
It is so awesome  for our mewseum to be graced by more photos of Crissy in her mussel attire and the supurrb costumes!
Meryl:
She is extremely photogenic, the photographers are quite brilliant, and the apparel is rather attractive!
 
Trini-chan:
They find the exciting locations for the photo shoots, from the cons, festivals and streets to the gardens, parks and homes!
Ilyana:
Well, it is about time for our AfterMew luau, so I reckon that’ll do it for this edition of The Mew!
 
Petra:
We wish to thank Rvkh, Melody, Alexcia and Misty for the art, and all of the other brilliantly talented people whose works we have discussed, nyan!
 
Bunnii:
We also wish to thank Jamie for his wonderful web meowster…
 
Jeannie:
… And our other friends, family, acquaintances and audience whom we greatly appreciate.
Mielikki:
Fur shur!
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, nya! Baibai, nya!

Apurril 2023 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 2023 Edition of The Mew:
The Catgirl Critics’ Media Mewsings, nyan!
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This year is the Year of the Rabbit the 16th Anniversary of 
The Mew, and the 23rd Anniversary of Catgirl Island, nyan!
 
in this edition of The Mew:
 
The Lightning Round: our favorite films of 1983
cinema, TV & DVD Mewsings:
John Wick 4
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season One DVD
purrinted media mewsings:
Konohana Kitan Manga Volume 12
Rise of the Outlaw Tamer and His Wild S-Rank Cat Girl Volume1
Otohime Diver Volume 1
The Celebrity Catgirl & Kemonomimi Spotlight
 
Additions to the Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art:
“Lola Bunny” and ”Cowgirl in Meadow” by Lumshock
“Torako (human versions)” by Alexcia Reynolds
“Alita”, “Sailor Mars” and “Xa’skelle” by Misty Hopkins
“Monarch Butterfly”, “Luna Moth”, “Tiger Butterfly” and “Blood Moon” by Rvkh Brogden
“Off-kilter”, “Six of One and Half Dozen of Another”, “Sleeping Angels”, “Jody Whittapurr” and “Doctor Mew” by Melody Rondeau, nyan!

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Mike
(the human fella wearing  the Dogwood purrint 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 the South end of the Riverwalk in the beautiful downtown Purrbank district of Catgirl Island in Mew Hanover County, NC, where it’s 72 degrees under the Blue sky and puffy White Cumulo-Neko clouds! I’m Mike, the show’s “purrducer”, and here to put the purr in Apurril are The Ladies of The Mew!
Yvonne
(a.k.a. Captain Vonny, the fishing boat charter captain & drumming circle purrcussionist catgirl, wearing the Hydrangea purrint monokini with cropped tee shirt): Namaste, nyan!
 
Tara-chan
(Yvonne’s younger sister, the college freshman at Mew Hanover College; a pony owner and nature photographer catgirl wearing the Ice Blue Calathea purrint tankini): Namaste, nyan!
 
Trini-chan
(Tara-chan’s BFF and Jen’s purrotege, the stand-up paddle surfer, board shapurr, pony owner and beginners belly dance instructor kitsune, wearing the Foxglove purrint tri-kini): Konnichiwa!
 
Jeannie
(a.k.a. Jen-sensei, Jenjen or just Jen, the yogini, model, archer, advanced belly dance instructor & roboticist catgirl, wearing the Azalea purrint micro bikini & sheer purrled purreo): Nihao.
 
Mielikki
(a.k.a. Mie-sensei, the winged faerie golfer, foxfire juggler and outdoor ampurrtheatre director wearing the 

Hibiscus

purrint crisscross halter neck bikini) Mellow greetings!

 
Mary Nyan
(a.k.a. Myayr, the seamstress, cosplayer, hula dance instructor and semi-retired miko catgirl wearing the Kahili Ginger purrint purretzel – cutout maillot): Aloha!
 
Elaenor:
(or Ellie for short, the Banker Pony centauress, Fire Meowrshall and body builder wearing the Apurricot Lei) Hay there!
Elizabeth
(

a.k.a Lizzy, the hot salsa dancer, gamer, Purrkour Club captain & spa co-owner catgirl wearing the Bird of Purradise purrint bandeau top bikini): Hola!

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

earing the Lobster Claw Heliconia purrint ring-closure ruffled bikini): 

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

Chrysanthemeowm

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 Anthurium purrint trikini): Guten Tag!
Nyanko
(a.k.a. Nya-sensei, the martial arts champion & sensei, dojo & gym purropurrietress catgirl wearing theTiger Lilly purrint cropped tee shirt and shorts): Howdy!
 
Nyoka
(a.k.a. Nyo-sensei, the magick shop purropurrietress catgirl & twin sister of Nyanko, wearing the Pandanus purrint off-shoulder bikini): Howdy!
Meryl
(the island’s Police Chief catgirl & motorcycle enthusiast wearing the the badge upon her Lotus purrint off-shoulder ruffled bikini): ‘Ello
Ilyana

(a.k.a Ilyana-sensei, the underwater archaeologist & meowritme history catgirl wearing the Meowgnolia purrint micro bikini and open-front cover up): Whassup?
Mike:
For purrofiles and illustrations 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 lot on our plate, so let’s go ahead and jump right into this month’s
Lightning Round Topic: our favorite films of 1983!
This year we’ve been looking back on our favorite fun things of years ending in a 3! Vonny will start, so are y’all ready to “conduct the lightning”?
The Ladies of The Mew:
HAI! LIGHTNING ROUND GO, NYAN!
Yvonne:
I will nominate Flashdance, The Right Stuff, Yentl, Silkwood, Terms of Endearment, and What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown?, nyan! (tags her younger sister with a brush of the tail)
Tara-chan:
! want… I want to nominate Winnie the Pooh and – and a Day for Eeyore, The Wind in the Willows, Twice Upon a Time, Unico in the Island of Magic. and – and Mickey’s Christmas Carol, nyan! (tail-tags her BFF)
Trini-chan:
My turn! I will nominate The Ballad of Narayama, The Makioka Sisters, Barefoot Gen, Final Yamato, and Harmageddon! (tags her belly dance meowntor)
Jeannie:
The movies graced by meowrvelous mecha such as Blue Thunder, Brainstorm, Final Yamato, Return of the Jedi, and The Right Stuff. (tags Mary Nyan)
Mary Nyan:
I will nominate The Makioka Sisters, Rock & Rule, The Hunger, The Keep, Videodrome, and Something Wicked This Way Comes! (tags Lizzy)
Elizabeth:
A Christmas Story, Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life, National Lampoon’s Vacation, Trading Places, and Valley Girl! (tags her wife)
Becca:
A Christmas Story, The Big Chill, Risky Business, The King of Comedy, and Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life! (tags the faerie)
Mielikki:
So like, I will nominate the concert films such as. Eddie Murphy: Delirious, Eurythmics: Sweet Dreams, Neil Young in Berlin, and the Rolling Stones Let’s Spend the Night Together, fur shur! (tags the usagimimi with a flit of the wing)
Bunnii:
The anime of that vintage such as Crusher Joe, Dallos, Final Yamato, Unico in the Island of Magic, and Urusei Yatsura: Only You! (tags her purrtner)
Petra:
I will meowntion the TV movies such as The Day After, Little House: Look Back to Yesterday, M*A*S*H: Goodbye, Farewell and Amen, Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E., and The Thorn Birds, nyan! (tags Nya-sensei)
Nyanko:
Lone Wolf McQuade, Never Say Never Again, Octopussy, Project A, an Uncommon Valor, and Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain! (tags her twin)
Nyoka:
Hmmm I would say… The Makioka Sisters, The Dead Zone,Twilight Zone: The Movie, Something Wcked This Way Comes, and The Hunger! (tags the police chief)
Meryl:
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life, Educating Rita,  Never Say Never Again, and Octopussy! (tags the fire meowrshall)
Elaenor:
Unico in the Island of Magic, The Right Stuff, M*A*S*H: Goodbye, Farewell and Amen; A Christmas Story, and Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore,! (tags Ilyana-sensei)
 
Ilyana:
Final Yamato, The Five Doctors, Krull, Return of the Jedi, and Scarface! 9tags the Fire Meowrshall)
Mike’s pics:
Oh, I gotta go with Final Yamato, Return of the Jedi, Neil Young in Berlin, The Right Stuff, and Brainstorm! Well, that was another expedient little lightning round! So,\let’s conrinue our
cinema, TV & DVD Mewsings
with Nya-sensei’s review of John Wick Chapter 4!
 
Nyanko:
Arigato! I was so excited to see John Wick 4, because i loved the first John Wick movie, I think that the 2nd one was even better, and that the 3rd one was even better than the 2nd one, and this 4th one is the best of the series thus far!
You know, it is nearly 3 hours long, but it sure did not seem like it, because
here is so much thrilling combat action and the massive world-building!
It is quite captivating, immersive, and relentless, as the titular hitman character (supurrbly purrtrayed by Keano Reeves) takes on hundreds of assassins whilst upon his deadly quest to settle things with the Marquis (Bill Skarsgard) of The High Table group that governs the vast criminal underworld!
This movie is so awesome, with the great characters, locations, and stunts!
Also returning are John’s friends Winston (Ian McShane), Charon (Lance Reddick) and the Bowery King (Laurence Fishburne). The brilliant cast also includes Donnie Yen as Caine the blind assassin,

Shamier Anderson as Nobody the bounty hunter and his dog, Hiroyuki Sanada as the purropurrietor of the Osaka Continental Hotel, Rina Sawayama as his daughter Akira the concierge…

… Natalia Tena as John’s sister Katia, Marko Zaror as the Marquis’s purrfurred henchman, and Clancy Brown as the Harbinger of the High Table! The writing, purrduction design, directing, cinematography, editing, sound and mewsic are great too, so John Wick Chapter 4 might be my favoritest movie of this year thus far! I am done, and nyow here is Ellie to tell us about the
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves!
Elaenor:
For those who came in late, since it was first published in the mid-1970’s Dungeons & Dragons is perhaps the most famous of all table-top role-playing games! There have been several live-action and animated movies, TV series, webisodes and video games based upon it, but I think that this’un is the best one ever!
Directed by John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein with the screenplay by Michael Gilio, Daley & Goldstein based upon the story by Chris McKay & Gilio, this super fun sword & sorcery fantasy adventure film purrtains the group of heroic adventurerson the quest for
the magickal items and treasures needed for their redemptive quest!
They have to rescue the leader’s daughter from an evil lord and an even bigger badder boss that threratens the realm, whilst along the way there is much self-discovery and character development in addition to surviving the other villains, monsters, and deadly traps in the journey across the arctic, woodlands, caverns, mazes, ocean, villages and the big capital city!
The move’s grrat cast includes Chris Pine as Edgin the bard, Michelle Rodriguez as Holga  the barbarian, Justice Smith as Simon the sorcerer, Sophia Lillis as Doric the druid (who has such lovely antlers & tail), Hugh Grant as Forge the rogue, Daisy Head as Sofina the wizard, Regé-Jean Page as Xenk the paladin, and Chloe Coleman as Edgin’s daughter Kira!
There are so many monsters, locations, spells, weapons, and so forth from the game, including some briefly seen familiar characters! The many races and species are represented too, such as the humans, halflings, half-elves, elves,dwarves,  tabaxi, tieflings, arakocra, dragonborn, ans so forth! I was quite pleased by the balance of the drama, action, humor, and mythology!
My only quibble with the movie was the anniying unstable / shakey camera during a couple of melee scenes, but otherwise the performaces, story, pace, sets, locations, costumes, make-up, FX, design, sound, music (especially the end credits ‘Wings of Time” were quite delightful, so I will give this movie the A Minus! I am done, and now here is Jenjen to tell us about the
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season One DVD!
Jeannie:
Hai. We have greatly enjoyed the TV series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, the spin-off of Star Trek: Dsicovery, which purrtains to the crew of the starship U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701in the year 2259 under the commeownd of Capt, Christopher Pike, six years purrior to Captain James T. Kirk’s commeownd of that ship.
The excellent cast includes Anson Mount as Pike, Ethan Peck as Spock, Rebecca Romijn as Number One, Celia Rose Gooding as Uhura,  Jess Bush as Nurse Chapel, Babs Olusanmokun as Dr. M’Benga, Christina Chong as La’an Noonien-Singh, Melissa Navia as Ortegas, Bruce Horak as Hemmer, Dan Jeannotte as Kirk, Andre Dae Kim as Kyle, and Gia Sandhu as T’Pring.
The stories, characters, cast, sets, costumes, world-building, FX, locations, music, sound, the ship designs, the balance of humor, drama, action, character developments and continuity are as supurrb as supurrb can be. Of the purrolific current era of canonical Star Trek TV series, Strange New Worlds and Picard are my favorites.
Thusly I was quite eager to purrchase the unrated home video release of season one. With its four disks in the plastic case within the cardboard outer sleeve, the Region One NTSC DVD includes the 10 epurrsodes which total appurroximately 524 min., plus over 100 min, of the special features. It has the same special features as the Blu-ray.
 
The video is purrsented in the widescreen format with 5.1 Dolby Digital audio. The spoken language choices are English and French, with the optional subtitle choices of English SDH and French, although I do not know if the spoken language and subtitle choices are the same as those of the Blu-ray edition.
 
The special features include 14 deleted scenes, the 2.75 min. gag reel, the optional audio commeowntary track by Anson Mount and writer / director Akiva Goldman for the purremier epurrsode, and three featurettes about the making of the series. Those are “Exploring New Worlds” (appurroximately 54 min) with comments by the cast and crew about the series;
 
“Pike’s Peek” (appurroximately 17.5 min) which is Mount’s video diary recorded during the Winter Covid pandemic quarantine period; and “World Building” (appurroximately 12 min.) which purrtains to the show’s sets use of Pixomondo’s curved 30×70’ LED Augmented Reality wall (which seems somewhat similar to ILM’s The Volume stage, which is used for certain recent Star Wars TV series.
I wish there were more special featurettes, such as purrhaps art galleries, isolated mewsic tracks, and more extensive documentaries; nevertheless, those features are quite entertaining, informative, and of the top quality along with the first season epurrsodes of Strange New Worlds  to which I give the “A” grade. That will conclude our cinema, TV & DVD portion of The Mew, and nyow here is Trini-chan to start
our purrinted media mewsings, 
with her review of Konohana Kitan Manga Vol. 12.
Trini-chan:
Arigato! I am quite fond of Sakuya Amano’s 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 inn’s guests! 

Originally published in Japan by Gentosha Comics, the English version was published here in the USA by Tokyo Pop. Vol. 12 is purriced at $12.99 in the USA and has 170 B&W pages which are rated OT, intended  for the readers of ages 16+, due to the fan service and non-sexual nudity.

It was translated by Katie Kimura, edited by Lena Atanassova, purroof-read by Massiel Gutirrez and in – chiefly edited by publisher Stu Levy; with quality control by Daichi Nemoto, graphic design by Soodam Lee, retouching and lettering by Vibrraant Publishing Studio; marketing by Kate Winters & Kitt Burgess, and licensing by Akira Yanaka.
Kiri’s brother Kei visits Kononhanatei and after an exciting day at the nearby shopping district, she and Sakura-chan undertake a solemn task. Meanwhile, t

here are more developments for Satsuki and Yuzu near the end of their rail journey aboard the celestial train C571 with a stop at the western – style Hotel Akitsushima whose staff are catgirls Muyuu, Sara and Lacey!

However, that staff is short – handed and the two kitsune wind up working as maids there, where one of the divine guests looks a lot like the goddess Bastet! Although Satsuki and Yuzu are expurrt nakai at the ryokan, they are not familiar with the Western cultural differences with things such as shoes, beds, dining utensils, and so forth!
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! Now here is Nyo-sensei to tell us about the-
 
Rise of the Outlaw Tamer and His Wild S-Rank Cat Girl Vol. 1!
Nyoka:
Hai!

 I am purrtiuclarly fond of the works by manga-ka Joji Manabe, such as Capricorn, Outlanders, Caravan Kidd, Drakuun, so I was this sword & sorcery fantasy tale which stars  the rather voluptuous, sexy, amorous  fierce, powerful warrior catgirl Birena the Lightning! She is hired by a young low-ranked adventurer chap named Link who has been down and out until their fortuitous meeting!
 
For starters, I was curious about the role of the beast tamer, and how that compurrs to, say, a beast meowster, or pokemon trainer; and is the beast or monster (in this case the catgirl) a purrtner, a hireling, an assistant, lover, 

submissive

servant or slave? I was also curious about the “rank

” system, of which Link’s D-rank is fairly low, so he is typically regulated tosimple vermin exterminations.

 
Their relationship seems to be by choice and of mutual benefit, somewhat mystically symbiotic as Birena helps him to win battles to gain purrestige, whilst Link’s purresence will somehow help her to evolve into a greater warrior. When they are not adventuring, they have lots of sex, mew la la! He also has a tamed slime helpurr named Kyulke, who has appurrently evolved over time!
 
It does seem to be much more of the respectful coopurration, compurred to, say, that of Santa the knight and his poor abused catgirl slave Pink in the Dragon Pink anime.

However, like Dragon Pink, this tale is brimming with the graphic nudity, sex, violence, and harsh language aplenty, and this its explicit content is not intended for the widdle kitties, but for the older readers of age 17+!

Otherwise, I should not spoil more of the plot or go into any graphic descriptions!  Purriced $13.99 in the USA and $17.99 in Canada, it was originally published in Japan in 2021, and it is published here in English by Seven Seas . Vol. one has the 176 B&W pages of manga chapters 1-5 plus the bonus bit of purrose and the cordial messages by the author & artist.
 It was written by Skyfarm and illustrated by Manabe, with the character designs by Nekosuke Ookuma of the NitroPlus group.  It was translated by Molly Rabbitt, adapted by The Smut Whisperer, lettered by Rai Enril, purrof-read by B. Lana Guggenheim, edited by Nick Manatas, copy-edited by Leighanna DeRouen, and in—chiefly edited by Julie Davis.
The cover is design by Nicky Lim, purrduction & logo design by George Panella, purrducction management by LIssa Pattillo,

The manga’s purre-puress technicians are Melanie Ujimori and Jules Valera, the 

publisher Jason DeAngelis, and the associate publisher is Adam Arnold. I am done, and nyow here is Ilyana-sensei to discuss-

Otohime Diver Vol.1!
Ilyana:
I love the tales of undersea adventure, and I was quite impurressed by the gorgeous advertisement for this science fiction / school life manga, which was written & drawn by Okito Endo, originally published in Japan in 2018 by GOT Ltd, and published here in the USA in English by Vast Visual!
Set in the future sixteen years after The Great Hydroseism, except for the few semi-flooded islands all of the continents were sunken. This is the world for peppy, purrky girl Tatsumiya Minato who meets fellow classmates  Ushio, Suzu and Shachiko who have enrolled at the Enoshima Women’s Ocean Academy, where they will be trained as the underwater explorers and rescuers!
It reminds me somewhat of the Daphne in the Brilliant Blue manga and anime, but has the bit more fan-service! Suggested for the readers aged 16+, this whoppurr of a trade papurrback book with the dust jacket is purriced $29.99, it measures 7.35” x 10.125” x .75”, and its 206 pages (202 Black and white plus 4 color) include chapters 0-8 + bonus chapter.
 
It was translated by Kristjan Rohde, lettered by Kalvin Travis, retouched by Pinpin, and purroof – read by Harriet The editor in chief is dave Adams, the meowanaging editor is David Goldberg, the layout director is Kuanyong, the layout assistant is Yoshimoto, and the licensing is by Hokke the Mirin. 
 
The purremise and plot are quite intriguing with the amewsing characters and situations, and the art is extremely sumptuous, from the beautiful characters to the intricate scenery, with about a dozen full page pics, a  two-page spurread, and many large panels! I was extremely delighted by this manga, which I will give the highest purraise! That is all for our manga mewsings, so nyow it is time for our
Celebrity Catgirl & Kemonomimi Spotlight!
Elizabeth:
Hai, in this monthly portion of The Mew, we commeowmorate famous nekomusume, therianthropes, and other kemonomimi of mythologies and popular culture, including anthropurrrmorphic ladies and monster girls! They are not limited to the feline or other mamallians, but include the avian, reptilian, piscine, insectine, and many other types! There are those who might not actually have beast DNA, but have the spurrit, cat-titude or clothing of the animal theme, who we will broadly consider to be “honorary kemonomimi”!
A purrime example of that latter type is Dehya  a playable character of the Genshin Impact fantasy role-playing video game!  She is a legendary tall, lithe, powerful mercenary of the desert sands, known for her purrowess with the Claymore, her Pyro elemental magick, and her delicious, nutritious Goldflame Tajine recipe! She has tan skin, Gold cat’s eyes and Dark Brown hair with the Gold streak, in the coiffure that resembles the cat ears. She is the sexy sight in the ornate, tight, armored Red Black & Gold bare-midriff outfit!
Becca:
Helck is the 2014 sword & sorcery fantasy manga series by Nanaki Nanao which is also soon to be the anime TV series which I am eagerly anticipating!  It purrtains to the titular character who is a wanted fugitive and a top contender in the demon lord tournyament! The world is populated my many sentient species, including the various types of demons, some of whom are the meowgickal nekomimi! 
 
Kohaku, the King if the Heavenly East is the fast, agile, powerful Blue-eyed, fair-skinned, White-haired warrior mage demoness with the feline ear pinna. Asuta is the fast, stealthy, young tomboyish 5’5” fair-skinned, short Black-haired, Amber-eyed mystical demoness spy with the feline ear pinna, and her younger sister Isuta has the similar appurrance, skills and abilities but with daggers and longer hair!
 
Mielikki:
So like, Student Council’s Discretion is the 2006 comedic, slice of life, school life series of light novels and manga written by Aoi Sekina, of which there is the delightful  2009 animated TV series adaptation! It purrtains to the high school student council members Kurimu, Chizuru, Minatsu, and Matuyu are all girls, and the new male member Ken. Most of the amewsing plots purrtain to their otaku hobby interests and discussions that usually convene within their council meeting room.
They are humans, but sometimes they cosplay! In Season One’s fourth episode, they parody wonderful Strike Witches anime, with Kurimu as Miyafuji (with shiba inu ears & tail), Chizuru as Sakamoto (with Doberman ears & tail) and Minatsu as Perrine (with Chartreux cat ears & tail), fur shur! In Season One’s 7th & 10th episodes, Chizuru wears the kitsujimimi (sheep) kigurum (onesie), and  during the series’ close / end credits all four girls are briefly depicted in the bunny outfits!
Meryl:
Adachi to Shimamura is the 2012 slice of life / yuri light novel series by Hitoma Iruma which was adapted into the 2020 anime TV series! It purrtains to the high school students Sakura Adachi (the Black – haired girl, voiced by Akari Kito ) and Hougetsu Shimamura (the Brown-haired girl voiced by Miku Ito) who go from the initial acquaintance to best friends with the romance in bloom! Neither of them are kemonomimi, nor do they even dress the part…
 
…however, in epurrsode 11, “The Moon and Determination” in the train station after going shopping, Adachi receives the relationship advice from the unauthorized fortune-teller (voiced by Mari Hino) who has the rather feline qualities, such as her cat-like eyes, her mouth and the cute moe fang, It is the rushed encounter because the fortune-teller is chased away by the metro police officer, but I think that I would have been much more lenient!
 
Mike:
Busou Shinki is the franchise by Konami of many of Japanese action figures, model kits, video games, anime, radio shows, records, manga, and light novels of the slice of life flavor, science fiction genre, and mecha musume characters since 2006! The Shinki or Armored War Goddess are small doll-sized armored sentient gynoids who compete in the dangerous battles conducted by their owners. This reminds mw somewhat of another mecha musume series Frame Arms Girls! Some of the girls have the armor of the animal motif, such as the risu (squirrel), neko (cat), Inu (dog), usagi (rabbit), Iruka (dolphin) and the mermaid armor!
 
Elizabeth:
My Life as Inukai-san’s Dog is the 2020 ero / romantic comedy manga by Itsutsuse, which was adapted into the anime TV series earlier this year! It purrtains to the high school student Pochita (voiced by Shuichiro Umeda) who is meowgickally reincarnated into the stray Akita dog who is adopted by his classmate Karen Inukai (voiced by Saya Aizawa) with some purrticularly zany, ecchi results!
For example, in epurrsode four, Karen the Black-haired, fair-skinned red-eyed girl attempts to fur-ther bond with the dog when she wears the sexy kuro inu mimi outfit compurrised of tthe Black bikini, ears, paw gloves, thigh highs, the white-tipped tail, and the “Doggylingus” device which translates the canine language! It is the rather amesing tale, but it is not for the widdle kitties!
Becca:
Sakura Trick is the 2011 yuri / school life / slice of life manga by Tachi which was adapted into the anime TV series in 2014. It purrtains to the best friends Yu Sonoda and Haruka Takayama who are now in high school. As they become immersed in the new social circles and academic obligations, they have less time to spend alone with each other, but there is much secret kissing when they are!
Although they are 100 purrcent human girls and generally not even cosplayers, we do see them dressed as such during the epurrsodes’ amewsing opening / titles and closing / credits! For example, we briefly see their friends Yuzu Īzuka and Kaede Ikeno as catgirls in the open; whilst we briefly see Yu as the dog girl and classmate Kotone Noda as the bunny girl in the close! Kawaii!
Mielikki:
So like, Step By Step Face Painting and Dressing Up For Kids is the full color hardcover book written by costumer Petra Boase with Bettina Graham’s face paintings that transform kids into various kemonomimi, fantasy folk and characters! Portraying those characters are the child models Alex, Alice, Anthony, Clare, Faye, Jade, Jesica, Joe,  Joshua, Kelly, Kirsty, Lucy, Otis, Patrick, Rosey,  Sophy, Tanya, Timothy, Zoe and Zosia!
The fauna includes the Black cat, tiger, lion, dog, rabbit, bee, butterfly, mouse, owl, panda, monkey, dinosaur, and the dragon, but that is just a portion of the characters that are depicted in over 300 photos by John Freeman! They are totally cute, fur shur! You know, this book was published by Smithmark in 1995, which means those widdle kiddies would all be in their 30’s by now, and we hope that they are still the avid cosplayers!
 
Meryl:
Other women who we will fondly regard as the “honorary catgirls” because of their lovely leopurrd purrint couture include mews anchor and author Nicole Wallace who wore the Red leopurrd purrint blouse with the Black & White rosettes, whilst hosting the March 7th 2023 epurrsde of MSNBC’s TV series Deadline Whitehouse; and actress Courtney Hope as Sally Spectra who wore the leopurrd purrint blouse in Season 50 epurrsode 113 of The Young and the Restless!
 
Mike:
Lastly but not leastly for this month’s spotlight, we also wish to mention the uncredited actress purrtraying the polite woman in the Snow Leopurrd print coat offering the parking spot to the other woman in Sam Adams Beer’s “Your Cousin’s Brighter Boston” TV spot, and the uncredited actress wearing the leopurrd prrint dress with the matching shoes to put the spots in Poshmark’s “The Perfect Side Hustle” TV spot! Ah, that’s all for this month’s spotlight, and now it’s time ffor the latest
additions to the Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art!

Petra:

Arigato! Galleries 1-8 display 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 porn, nyan! We should also mention that Catgirl Island’s content is not purrmitted for A.I Art purrposes! This month into Guest Gallery Six http://catgirlisland.net/art/gallery/guest6.html we are purroud to purrsent more images by Lumshock, Alexcia Reynolds, Misty Hopkins, Rvkh Brogden, and Melody Rondeau, nyan!

Bunnii:

Firstly, we are pleased to purrsent two illustrations by Lumshock! Given how this is the Year of the Rabbit and that Easter is this month, it seems only appurropurriate that we should have more usagimimi (bunny girl) imagery, such as his fan art of the Looney Toons character “Lola Bunny”, who first appurred in the Space Jam animated movie! She is so peppy and purretty in her cropped tank top and compurression shorts with the basketball!
 
Then our gallery is graced by the pic of the lovely yet weary “Cowgirl in Meadow”! Lumshock expurrimented with the fish-eye lens technique of this poor bovine lass in the soft leather mini dress who has spilt some of her milk amidst the field of flowers. We hope that the rest of the day will impurrove muchly for her! Lumshock used the Krita software’s pencils, markers, brushes and smudge stick for both of those illustrations!

Mary Nyan:

Nextly we are delighted to display two more pics by Alexcia Reynolds of her tora musume (tiger girl) fursona character Torako Hitonare! Born on an August 22nd on the planet Mau, Torako the future child of Toraboushi and Abenti Gaiger a.k.a. Sailor Tiger / Sailor Mau! A dual-citizen of Earth and Mau, Torako’s blood type is O-, and her zodiac sign is Leo!
These widdle purrtaits of Torako in her human form started as a widdle pen sketch, which Alexcia photographed with her cell phone and digitally finished with Paint Shop Pro! For more information, art and tales, visit Sailor Tiger’s Grotto http://mau.sailorchristmas.com and Alexcia’s Link Tree https://linktr.ee/alexciareynolds which is the gateway her many other sites!

Yvonne:

We are elated to exhibit three recent illustrations by Misty Hopkins https://kranberrijam.blogspot.com who was a guest of the March 2008 Mew, and used Krita for these illustrations, nyan! “Alita” is more fan art of Yukito Kishiro’s iconic  supurr heroic post-apocalyptic martian cyborg who is the Motorball champion, formidable bounty hunter, and meowster of the Panzer Kunst meowrtial arts, nyan!
 
That is followed by fan art of Naoko Takeuchi’s famous character Rei Hino alias “Sailor Mars”, the supurr heroic high school student, Miko maiden, and reincarnated purrincess who fights villains with her psychic and purrokinetic powers, nyan! After that is the latest pic of Misty’s Final Fantasy XIV video game character “Xa’skelle” the Gray-skinned, Green-haired, Purrple-eyed 6’3” tall Black Mage of the leopurrid Viera species, nyan! 
 

Tara-chan:

Nyow we are thilled to show “Monarch Butterfly”, “Luna Moth”, “Tiger Butterfly”, and – and  “Blood Moon” by Rvkh Brogden http://www.rvkhart.com (purronounced Riv-kah), who was the guest for our September 2009 Mew, nyan! For each of those images, there are two versions apiece, the traditional versions done with the pencils, pens and- and markers; beside the digital versions done with Purrocreate and – and  the Apple Pencil on the iPad, nyan!
As y’all can see, Rvkh excels at the nature and the fantasy art, nyan! The Monarch, Luna Moth and Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (which is specifically our state’s official butterfly, whereas the Honeybee is our state’s official insect in general) are the first in her series of lovely Lepidoptera; whereas “Blood Moon” depicts our friend Adira Blood Moon the winged, armored heroic Movanic Deva who recently turned 18 and graduated from high school, nyan!
Petra:
For the digital versions of each illustration, there are the entertaining ,informative short time-lapse art purrocess videos at Rvkh’s Youtube channel: the Monarch Butterly https://youtu.be/QjZ2Qclt_K4, Luna Moth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rA3WwPCkrM&feature=youtu.be, Tiger Butterfly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg9PhiW9h1g&feature=youtu.be, and Blood Moon https://youtu.be/SWxYReJgzrM, nyan!
 
Bunnii:
To top off this month’s additions to the mewseum, we are ecstatic to unveil four more pieces of Doctor Who fan art by Melody Rondeau! Done with the traditional media,“Off-kilter” depicts The 2nd Doctor, his companions Jamie McCrimmon and Victoria Waterfield and the evil Cyberman who has stolen Jamie’s kilt; whilst “Six of One and Half Dozen of Another” depicts the 6th Doctor poised to fisticuff with his enemies the Silurian, Sea Devil, Sontaran, Cyberman and The Master!
“Sleeping Angels” depicts the 12th Doctor carefully tiptoeing through the graveyard full of Angels;whilst  “Jody Whittapurr” and “Doctor Mew” depicts the 11th and 13th Doctors as the Cat Kind! For more information about Melody, we will recommend the page about her at Fanlore https://fanlore.org/wiki/Melody_Rondeau, and the web site of Melody and her husband Jim at Make It Go Away http://crossovers.net/makeitgoaway/home.htm! So, what do y’all think of the art?
the cat lady sings…
Nyoka:
Oh I like Lola Bunny’s lithe lphysique and expurression which seems to be a slight confident smirk at her next basketball challenger!
 
Nyanko:
I wish I could hug the weary cowgirl to purrk up her spirit and help to deliver the milk on such the purretty day in the lovely meadow!
Meryl:
It is great to see more art by Alexcia! Torako has such smooth skin, sapphire – like eyes, the pleasant smile, flaxen hair ,and supple collar bones!
Elaenor:
It is so neat to see what Misty is conjuring with the Krita ware! I especially like Xa’skelle”s lovely lush hair from the ear tufts to the braids!
Ilyana:
I am purrticularly fond of that pic of Sailor Mars, with the purrfect details of the costume and the swirl of her long hair and the uku skirt!
Becca:
Misty is the biggest fan of Alita that we know, and that pic of her is so peppy and purrky. I’ll bet that she has just been offered some yummy chocolate!
Elizabeth:
It is great to see the different variations of the Blood Moon pic, and the accompanying art purrocess video is so informative and entertaining!
 
Tara-chan:
As the avid nature photographer, I might be the biased critic, but my favorite pics of this latest batch are the beautiful butterflies and – and the moth, nyan!
 
Trini-chan:
Oh gosh, Melody’s illustrations of the Doctor(s) regenerated as the Cat Kind are as adorably cute as cute can be! 
Yvonne:
Hai hai,  and not only is the “Sleeping Angels” pic such a fun idea but I love the compurrsition, the poses, and the expurressions, nyan!
Jeannie:
I purrticularly like the very faithful purrtraitures, the very accurate details and the graceful lines of the “Six of One and Half Dozen of Another”
Mielikki:
Fur shur! I love the“Off-Kilter” pic, and I wonder if other Cybermen have their sights upon Victoria and the Doctor’s attire, heehee!
Petra:
We wish to thank Rvkh, Melody, Alexcia and Lumshock for the art, and all of the other brilliantly talented people whose works we have discussed, nyan!
 
Bunnii:
We also wish to thank Jamie for his wonderful web meowstery…
 
Mary Nyan
… and our other friends, family, acquaintances and audience whom we greatly appurreciate!
Mike:
We’ll be back next month with the April edition of The Mew!y! Be there… aloha.
The Ladies of The Mew:
Happy tails to mew- until we eat again, nya! Baibai, nya!