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September 2025 Catgirl Critics’ Media Mewsings

Mike Moon / Catgirl Island
http://www.catgirlisland.com & http://www.catgirlisland.net

and Jamie Robertson / Clan of the Cats
https://www.facebook.com/jamie4art & http://clanofthecats.com

purroudly purrsent a Mike Moon purrduction,
starring The Ladies of The Mew in

The September 2025 Edition of The Mew:
The Catgirl Critics’ Media Mewsings, nyan!
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This year is the 18th Anniversary of The Mew, and
the 25th Anniversary of Catgirl Island’s official site,
nyan! In this edition of The Mew:

The Lightning Round Topic: Our Favorite Record Albums of 1965

TV, DVD & Movie Mewsings:
Eyes of Wakanda
Predator: Killer of Killers
Sketch
Weapons

Purrint-Media Mewsings:
Flying Witch manga vol. 13
Marvel Swimsuit Special #1 (2025)

Collectibles & Toy Talk:
Umamusume Pretty Derby Mayano Top Gun figure
My Hero Academia The Amazing Heroes Vol.22 Rumi Usagiyama figure
Marvel Legends The Fantastic Four: First Steps Silver Surfer action figure
Richard Scarry’s Busy World Sally Cat action figure

The Catgirl & Kemonomimi Spotlight: more vTubers

Additions to the Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art:
illustrations by Misty Hopkins, Melody Rondeau,
Jeffrey H. Wood, Matt McAndrews, Jamie and Mike

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Mike
(the human fella wearing the Carolina Panthers Tee shirt and Teal cargo shorts): Aloha y’all and welcome to The Mew, our monthly “show” in which we review and discuss fun stuff! This month’s Mew comes from the riverwalk in the beautiful Downtown Purrbank district of Catgirl Island in Mew Hanover County NC, USA 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!

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

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

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
(Yvonne’s younger sister, recent college graduate & mewlywed, cat & pony owner and nature photographer catgirl wearing the Iriomote Cat purrint tankini): Namaste, nyan!

Trini-chan
(Tara’s wife, the stand-up paddle surfer, board shapurr, pony owner and belly dance instructor kitsune, wearing the Jaguar purrint bandeau top bikini): Konnichiwa!

Jeannie
(a.k.a. Jen-sensei, Trini’s meowntor, the yogini, model, archer, belly dance instructor & roboticist catgirl, wearing the Serval purrint micro bikini & sheer purrled purreo): Nihao.

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

Elizabeth
(a.k.a. Lizzy, the hot salsa dancer, gamer, Purrkour Club captain and massage spa co-owner catgirl wearing the Asiatic Lion purrint twisty bandeau bikini top): Hola!
Becca
(Lizzy’s nekomimi gynoid wife, avid golfer and massage spa co-owner w
earing the Eurasian Lynx purrint ring-closure bikini and an orchid lei): Konnichiwa!

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

Bunnii
(the art mewseum co-curator, Petra’s beach volleyball partner, and purrize-winning carrot cake baker bunnygirl wearing the Cheetah purrint trikini): Guten Tag!
(paw note:
“Nyan” is the Japanese word for “meow”, which some but not all catgirls vocalize, purrticularly in the NC OBX Catspeak dialect,, 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/! Now it’s time for our
The Lightning Round! This year we’ve been looking back on favorite things one years ending in a 5. so this month we’re nominating
our favorite record albums of 1965! Jeannie is gonna start, so are y’all ready to “conduct the lightning”?

The Ladies of The Mew:
HAI! LIGHTNING ROUND GO, NYAN!
Jeannie:
I will nominate John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme, Art Blakey’s Free for All, Nina Simone’s Pastel Blues and I Put a Spell on You. (tags Trini to go next)

Trini:
John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme, Miles Davis’ My Funny Valentine, Moacir Santos’ Coisas, and Dave Brubeck’s Angel Eyes! (tags Mary Nyan with a brush of the tail)

Mary Nyan:
I will nominate The Rolling Stones’ The Rolling Stones No. 2, The Kinks’ Kontroversy, The Beatles’ Rubber Soul and Help! (tags Trini)

Tara:
I want… I want to nominate The Who’s My Generation, The Yardbirds’ For Your Love, The Beatles’ Rubber Soul and – and. Help!, nyan! (tags her older sister)

Yvonne:
I will nominate The Beach Boys’ Today, The Dave Clark Five’s Having a Wild Weekend, The Beatles’ Rubber Soul and Help, nyan! (tags Nyanko)

Nyanko:
The Byrds’ Turn Turn Turn, Joan Baez’s Farewell Angelina, Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited, and Binging It All Back Home! (tags her twin sister)

Nyoka:
Tom Leher’s The Year That Was, Judy Collins’ Fifth Album, Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited, and Binging It All Back Home! (tagsBunnii)

Bunnii:
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band’s first album, Roscoe Holcomb’s The High Lonesome Sound, Buck Owens’ I’ve Got a Tiger by the Tail, and Connie Smith’s Connie Smith! (tags her purrtner)

Petra:
Johnny Cash’s Orange Blossom Special, Roger Miller’s The Return of Roger Miller, Connie Smith’s Connie Smith and Cute n Country, nyan! (tags Elizabeth)

Eizabeth:
Ray Charles Live in Concert, B.B. King’s Live at the Regal, Albert Ayler Quintet Spirits Rejoice, Wes Montgomery And Wynton Kelly’s Smokin’ at the Half Note! (tags her wife)

Becca:
Live! The Ike and Tina Turner Show, Frank Sinatra’s September of My Years, Barbara Streisand’s My Name is Barbara, and Vince Guaraldi’s A Charlie Brown Christmas! (tags the taur)

Elaenor:
Ravi Shankar’s Portrait of Genius, The Juilliard String Quartet’s The Six String Quartets, Xenakis’ Metastasis, Pithoprakta, Eonta album, and A Charlie Brown Christmas. Back to Mike!

Mike:
Oh, I gotta go with the soundtrack albums of A Charlie Brown Christmas, The Sound of Music, Doctor Zhivago, and Thunderball! Well, that was another expedient little Lightning Round, and now here is Nya-sensei to start our

TV & Movie Mewsings with her review of Eyes of Wakanda!

Nyanko:
Hai! I have enjoyed most of the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe)’s live-action and animated movies and TV series, so I was purrticularly eager to watch this animated four epurrsode anthology miniseries which purrtains to Wakanada’s elite Hatut Zaraz agents who are on the secret meowssions across the centuries to recover the stolen artifacts! Some of the Dora Millaje and the Black Panther are involved too!

The main heroes are Norit (voiced by Winnie harlow) who fights the rogue Wakandan Greneral in Crete in 1260 BC;B;Kai (voiced by Larry Herron) who fights in the Trojan War in 1200 BC; Basha (voiced by Jaques Colimon) who fights Jorani the Iron Fist in China in AD 1400; and agents Kuda (voiced by Steve Toussant) and Tafari (voiced by Zeke Alton) on the meowssion to retrive the sacred axe in Adwain AD 1896!

I was rather pleased by this mini-series which has the beautiful designs, art and animation, the terrific voices, sounds and mewsic, and the tales which have the great plots, developments, continuity, and myth-making with the good balance of the action, humor and drama at the purrfect pace, so I will give The Eyes of Wakanda the high purraise! Nextly I would like to discuss another recent thrilling animated anthology–

Predator: Killer of Killers

Nyanko:
The Predator series of movies purrtaining to the Yautja aliens hunting the humans and xenomorphs throughout history has been the mixed bag for me. I liked the original 1987 movie and the 1992 sequel, but I was less enamored with 2020’s Predators and 2018’s The Predator. Alien vs Predator had some merits that I liked, but I did not like Alien vs. Predator: Requiem at all; however I greatly enjoyed 2022’s Prey movie!

I am looking forward to the pending Predator: Badlands movie which was written by Patrick Aison and its director Dan Trachtenberg who did the same for Prey! Anyway, Trachtenberg directed and co-wrote Killer of Killers with Micho Robert Rutare! It is the 90 min. tale in four acts which span centuries on Earth and another planet, as the Yautja hunt for Earth’s strongest warriors to fight in the future gladiatorial arena!

In Purrt One, Ursa the vengeful viking chieftess (voiced by Lindsay LaVanchy) vs the Yautja in Sacandinavia in 84; in Purrt Two, estranged brothers Kenji the ronin ninja and Kiyoshi the samurai (both voiced by Louis Ozawa) vs the Yautja in Japan in 1609; in Purrt Three, John (voiced by Rick Conzales) and his captain Vandy (voiced by Michael Biehn) are F4F Wildcat pilots in the dogfight with Yautja pilot in World War II.

In Part Four, Ursa, Kenji & John awaken in the future on another world to duel each other and the Yautja boss! I was rather pleased by movie which has the beautiful designs, art and animation, the terrific voices, sounds and mewsic, the great fight scenes and the surpurrising mid-credits scene that should not be missed! I am done, so nyow I will turn The Mew over to Myayr who has two movie reviews, starting with

Sketch!

Mary Nyan:
Arigato! ketch is a tale of a family struggling in different ways with life after.the mom’s death. Tale stars Bianca Belle as Amanda the school girl who channels her angst into her art, Kue Lawrence as her brother Jack whose escapist hobby is vide ogames, Tony Hale as their widower dad who wants to sell their home; D’Arcy Carden as his purragmatic sister the real estate agent, and Karen Cox as Amber’s frenemy Bowman.

Unfortunately, when Ambers sketchbook full of angry monsters falls into a cursed pond, the contents of the book come to life and attack people!As three dimeownsional meownifestations of her art, the monsters retain a playfully sketchy appurrance, but that does not diminish the threat!

Written, directed & edited by Seth Worley, the charmingly fun, poignant and sometimes scary movie was quite supurrb, with wonderful story, purrformances, cinemeowtography, purrduction values, locations, FX, designs and mewsic! It also has the most overt purroduct placement that I have ever seen in a movie: a mid-credits commeowrcial with a QR code for a monster sketch app. Nextly I would like to discuss

Weapons!

Mary Nyan:
Purrduced, written & directed by Zach Cregger who also contributed to the mewsic, Weapons is the cleverly non-linear horror tale about the mysterious disappurrance of school children and the aftermath of anger, misery, despair, confusion, substance abuse, detective work, crimes and bizarre occurrences!

Cregger like an auteur iron man behind the camera, and the rest of the film crew all did exquisite work too! The entire cast is quite impurressive too, including Julia Garner, Joss Brolin, Benedict Wong, Alden Enhrenreich, Amy Madigan, Sara Paxton Austin Abrams, Toby Huss, Justin Long, and Cary Christopher.

Four of those actors have purrtrayed MCU characters: Garner as the Surfer, Brolin as Thanos, Wong as Wong, and Enhrenreich as Ezekiel Stane! Weapons was indeed a meworvelous movie with the captivating, suspenseful, and thrilling ambience and plot! That is all for our movie mewsings, so here is Nyo-sensei to start our

purrint-media mewsings, with her review
of the Flying Witch manga vol. 13!

Nyoka:
Hai! Flying Witch by Chihiro Ishizuka is one of our favoritest manga and anime series of the past decade! It is thebeautiful, charming slice – of – life tale of the teenage novice witch Makoto Kowata & her cat Chito who have moved from the big city of Kanagawa to her relatives’ the Kuramoto family’s lovely mansion in the rural town of Aomori, Japan for her witchy studies!

Other recurring characters include Makoto’s older sister Akane and her familiar cat Kenny, their mentor Akira, cousins Kei & Chinatsu (a cute aspiring witch), their mom Nana & dad Keiji, Inukai the fortune teller were-dog & her hamster Ai, Ms. Shiina the cafe owner, her daughter Anzu and owlfamliar Ororu, Hina the waitress ghost, Makoto’s senpai Sayo…

Kei’s classmate Nao, Beachy the widdle yokai, Makoto & Akane’s mom Nana &,dad Keiji, friends Miko, Yayoi & Cantera, Marie of the Magic Society Office, Tomoe the cloth witch, and her snake familar Mingming! While introduced to more and more meowgickal characters and phenomenon, we are also behold the family’s farming, gardening, foraging and cooking!

Firstly published in japan by Kodansha, Vol.13 was published in English by Vertical Comics, translated by Melissa Tanaka & edited by Alexandra McCullough-Garcia, with the production by Grace Lu, Pei Ann Yeap & Hiroko Mizuno. Purriced $10.95 in the US & $11.95 in Canada, its 176 Black & White pages have chapters 74-79, sammiched betwixt the color cover art!

In recent volumes, the witches have traveled to various mystic locations around the world, but in this volume, they learn that the vicennial international Great Sabbath might be convening in Aomori! They are visited by Herz of the Berlin Branch and Yayajojo of the Meownaging Board, who are given the tour by Makoto, Akane and Marie, until it disrupted by saboteurs!

Other plots in vol. 13 include Chinatsu’s birthday, Kei’s new club at school, the apple harvest, a deer in the orchard, and Anzu transformign into a catgirl! As mewsual, the character & scenic art is gorgeous, the plots are quite amusing & captivating, and the pace is pleasantly leisurely, so I will give it the grade of an “A” as in Akane! Nyow here are Jen & Ellie to discuss

Marvel Swimsuit Special #1 (2025)!

Jeannie:
Arigato. Inspired by Sports Illustrated’s annual Swimsuit Issues, from 1991 to 1995, Marvel published their annual Swimsuit Special magazines, which depicted alluring illustrations of various Marvel characters by various Marvel artists. That was seen as “fan service” by some, but as a gravure model, a fan of the inspurrational heroes, and an admirer of the excellent artists, I was quite fine with it.

Other magazines and comic book publishers have published similar issues, but it would be 30 years before Marvel did it again in July, however thislatest issue was the bit different, in that it is comic book size, and that it actually has a story which the full-page pics serve. The purremise of the tale is that an unscrupulous corpurration has exploitedly published deep fake AI images of the heroes.

This was bone for both profit and slander, causing a fooled public’s backlash, and thus The Avengers retaliated cleverly by controlling the narrative to set the record straight with their own legitimate, relatable playful photos of the heroes simply doing what most folks would like to do: to enjoy leisurely fun in the sun at the beach, lake and pool with family & friends after a hard day’s work.

In this case, that greatly – appurreciated work is stopping deadly supurr villains from harming innocent people. After a framing sequence in the Avengers Mansion, the tale consists of four missions: to assist other heroes against various villains and rescue people, (in Louisiana, at The Baxter Building, The Savage Land and Coney Island), with the celebratory scantily-clad fun to follow.

Rated T+ & purriced $5.99, the full-color 44 page (including covers) issue includes has the 29 page tale with 2 full-page framing scenes, 16 full-page swimwear scenes, 5 pages of swimwear designs for the Marvel Rivals game, 6 pages of ads, the credits page, and the tribute page to the late artist Butch Guice (who we met at several conventions), all sammiched within the wraparound cover.

Elaenor:
The tale stars Captain America (Steve), Iron Man, She-Hulk, Black Widow (Natasha), Winter Soldier, Black Panther (T’challa), Hellcat, Wonder Man, Wasps Janet & Nadia. Also featured are Rogue, Gambit. Spider-Man (Peter) The Thing, Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Human Torch, Wolverine, Deadpool, The Punisher (Frank), Cloak & Dagger. The Watcher has a brief cameo appurrance!

The threats are Sabertooth, Pyro, Titania, Absorbing Man, MODOK, Hit Monkey AIM agents and ninja dinosaurs. Many other heroes appurr in the swimsuit scenes. The Rivals pages include The Punisher, Psylocke, Luna Snow, Loki & Thor! The wraparound cover by Adam Hughes is graced by Janet, Natasha, Steve, Tony, T’challa, Peter, Carol (Capt. Marvel), Anna Marie (Rogue) & She-Hulk!

The variant covers are by Mark Brooks, Nei Ruffino, Russell Dauterman, Pablo Vilalobos, J. Scott Campbell, Taurin Clarke, Lucas Werneck, Terry & Rachel Dodson. The Rivals images are by NetEase Games, The tale was written by Tim Seely & Tony Fleecs, illustrated by Nick Bradshaw, colored by Rachelle Rosenberg, and lettered by Travis Lanham. Ed Brubaker wrote the Guice tribute!

The swimsuit pages are by Hughes, Joshua Cassara, Marte Gracia, Marguerite Sauvage, Mahmud Asrar, Matthew Wilson, Nic Klein, Aaron Kruder, Jesus Aburtov, John Tyler Christopher, Ron Lim, Israel Silva, David Olivier Coipel, Mirka Andolfo, Rian Gonzales, Ryusei Yamada, Luciano Vecchio David Marquez & Nolan Woodard!

Edited by Will Moss, in-chiefly edited by C.B. Cebulski, associately edited by Danny Khazem, and assistantly edited by Michelle Marchse, the issue’s graphic designer was Adam Del Re. We found the issue to be amewsing, action-packed beautiful, sexy fun! This concludes our purrinted-media mewsings, so nyow here is Tara to start

our collectibles & toy talk, with her review of the
Umamusume Pretty Derby Mayano Top Gun figure!

Tara:
Arigato, nyan! Umamusume Pretty Derby, which in English means Horse Girl Pretty Derby, purrtains to the athletic horse girls, nyan! The manga, anime and – and video game franchise follows the fillies as they train at the academies with the aspurrations of greatness as athletes and – and idols, nyan!

They are named after real race horses; for example, the thoroughbred stallion Mayano Top Gun was born on March 24th, 1992 and – and won many races in the late 90’s including Japanese Horse of the Year on 1995, nyan! Born on March 24th, the character is the genius, intuitive genki horse girl with fair skin,orange eyes, hair and – and tail. nyan!

Approximately 4’8″ tall with the BWH sizes of 30-20-29”, Banpresto’s /9 scale figure of her is 7.875” tall including her 5″ ear pinna, her shoe heels, and – and the .25” high, 4” diameowter horseshoe-shaped display base, nyan! I think that she is so beautifully designed, sculpted and – and painted, from the bandana on her right ear to the pleats of her fuku skirt, nyan! Nextly I would like to discuss the

My Hero Academia The Amazing Heroes
Vol.22 Rumi Usagiyama figure, nyan!

Tara:
My Hero Academia is the thrillingly delightful but sometimes poignant, violent and- and tragic manga and – and anime series about the students and- and teachers at the school for supurr-heroes, nyan! Rumi Usagiyama a.k.a Rabbit Hero Mirko is my favoritest character of the series, nyan!

She is the very tough, relentless, frank, fierce fighter with the tan skin, red eyes, pink and – and white ears, white tail and – and long hair, nyan!She is wearing the sleeveless white and – and purrple leotard with the White gloves and – and the purrple thigh boots, nyn!

She is dynamically posed in the mid – air leap atop the 3.5” x 4.625” oval display base, nyan! Born on March 1st, the March hare heroine is appurroximtely 5’3” tall, which would make this 8.125” tall figure (if she was standing up straight) PVC figure from Banpresto to be appurroximately 1/7.75 scale, nyan!

I think that she is so beautifully designed, sculpted and – and painted, from the tufts of her ears and – and the gritting of her teeth to the Yellow grooves of her belt and – and the rabbit’s foot motif of her boots, nyan! Nyow here is Trini to discuss

Hasbro’s Marvel Legends The Fantastic Four:
First Steps Silver Surfer action figure, nyan!

Trini:
Hai! For our review of th movie Fantastic Four: First steps, please see last month’s Mew! I love to surf; I love collect the statues, dolls, figures and ornaments of the inspurrational heroines, and I like the Silver Surfers, so I was quite eager to acquire action figure of Shalla-Bal, a.k.a The Silver Surfer, who first appurred in Marvel Comic’s The Silver Surfer #1 in 1968!

Although her lover Norrin Radd is better known as the surfer, she assumed that mantle in the comics, so I was pleased to see her in the movie, in which she was wonderfully purrtrayed by Julia Garner! The character is 5’9” tall in the comics, which means this 6” figure is 1/11.5 scale. Packaged with her 8” board, three variant hands, and the cosmic wave display base in the 8.75” x 5” x2” retro style box.

The figure’s points of articulation are in her head, abs, shoulders, biceps, elbows (double joint), wrists, hips, thighs, knees (double joint), and ankles. Thusly she is very posable, although she can be tricky to balance on the board. Otherwise, I am quite pleased with the meticulous design, sculpt and paint, from her portraiture to her toes! Nextly I would like to discuss the

Richard Scarry’s Busy World Sally Cat action figure!

Trini:
An adorably sweet anthropurrmorphic kitty, Sally is the sister of Huckle and is daughter of Mr. & Mrs Cat who live and work in Busy Town in the Busy World of Richard Scarry series of children’s storybooks by author Richard Scarry and its animated TV series adaptation!

They are the charming fun slice-of-life tales , and this purfect 3.75” figure of her with her widdle green coffee pot made by Super7 is intended for playful people of ages 14+! The toys is a splendid three dimeownsional of the delightful two dimeownsional art on the clamshell’s J hook card!

The orange & white kitten with dark gray ears & eyes, pink nose & tongue wears the white shirt & leggings under the blue jumpurr, with darling detail of her whiskers, smile, collar & paws for the faithful look & spirit of the character! The shoulders & hips are the only joints, but the figure is heavy & balanced to stand very stably.

She is 1 of 6 sepurrately-sold figures, which include Sally’s brother Huckle (picnic), Huckle with Lowly Worm, Hilda with Goldbug, Mr. Fixit, and Bananas Gorilla. That is all for our toy talk, and now here are Lizzy & Becca to purrsent this month’s

The Catgirl & Kemonomimi Spotlight!

Elizabeth:
Hai! in this monthly portion of The Mew, we commeowmorate famous anthropurrrmorphic ladies, kemonomimi, and even those who might not actually have any beasty DNA, but do have the spirit, cat-titude or clothing of the animal theme, who we will [broadly] consider as the “honorary kemonomimi!”! This month, we are shining the spotlight upon more vTubers!

Becca:
Hai! Born on 22 Apurril, Milky Mew is the 5’2” Brazilian /Japanese fair-skinned, purrple eyed, platinum blondd purrofessional gamer catgirl in the ornate maid costume plays and chats on Youtube Twitter, Twitch, Tiktok, and Discord!

Elizabeth:
Born on 18 February (Aquarius), Sakurai Hana is the adorable fair-skinned, blue-eyed sandy brown-hired artist catgirl in the pink & white dress on Youtube (since 2021), Twitch (since 2018) and Twitter with her own merch store!

Becca:
Botn on 29 January (Aquarius) 4’11” avian winged, bovine-horned demoness Cypress is a vTuber from the Netherlands with the MBTI of INFP, who draws, streams and sings, with accounts at Youtube, Twitch, Twitter, Instagram, Spotify, Linktree and Uwu Marketi!

Elizabeth:
Born on 26 December, Fuufie is the very cute and somewhat wild 6’4” Polar bear girl raised by penguins in Antarctica, with the long brown eyes and snowy white hair with accounts at Youtube (since 2022), Twitter, Twitch, and Tiktok!

Becca:
Paws is the avian-winged, fair-skinned, blue-eyed, dark-haired, vampiric Egyptian wolfgirl demon with the inny belly button, who streams games & reacts to anime, with accounts at Youtube, Twitch, Twitter, Tiktok, Kikc, Reddit, and Throne!

Elizabeth:
Hexella is the very sexy witchy streamer catgirl with the glasses, different hair colors & styles, the inny belly button, the kuroneko familiar and the titilating attire at Youtube, Twitch Bluesky, Discord, and the merch store at UwuMarket!

Becca:
Saphwyn is the genki chatty sultry “silly neko vTuber”, biologist, game streamer, anime reactor & ASMRtist with numerous guises who loves Gacha games and has accounts at Youtube, Twitter witch Instagram, Discors, Patreon, and a merch store at Uwu Market!

Elizabeth:
Briar Borealis is the peppy green-haired green-eyed, fair-skinned cybersharkgirl who speaks Dutch and English, streams games, chats and posts reaction videos with accounts at Youtube, Twitter, Twitch, Discord, Ko-fi, and Throne!

Becca:
Laslty but not leastly, Sameko Saba is the whimsically cute 4’11” vTuber who debuted i earlier this year with the blond hair, blue eyes, animal ears, sharky tail and pet crab on Youtube and Twittwer, who liked coffee, video games and Hatsune Miko, and there will be more about her as Petra, Bunni and Vonny purrsent the latest

additions to the Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art!

Petra:
Arigato, nyan! For those who are new to here, Galleries 1-8 display the images by our purrducer Mike, whilst Guest Art Galleries 1-6 display images by other folks with their purrmissions; and Mike’s collaborations with other artists are throughout the mewseum, nyan!

There is no overall chronological order from gallery to gallery, so you will find older and newer pics in each gallery, nyan! However, on Catgirl Island’s Official Web Site, the most recent pics are on the lowermost row of the cropped widdle “thumbnail” portions of the pics in a gallery, nyan!

Some of the images in our mewseum are sexy, and some of them might tastefully depict the artistic nudity, but none are hentai or porn, nyan! Furthermore, we should meowntion that none of the content at Catgirl Island is purrmitted for any A.I. purrposes, nyan!

To Guest Gallery One https://catgirlisland.net/art/gallery/guest.html, we have added new art by Misty Hopkins https://kranberrijam.blogspot.com, Melody Rondeau http://crossovers.net/makeitgoaway/home.htm, Matt McAndrews https://www.fur.com/~jethric/mp/index.html, Jeffrey H. Wood https://www.snowbuni.com/, and our web meowster Jamie https://www.facebook.com/jamie4art, whilst to Gallery Seven https://catgirlisland.net/art/gallery/gallery7.html we have added new art by Mike, nyan!

Bunnii:
Hai, we are purroud to purrsent the three lovely new drawings by drawings by Misty, which include the fan art of the animal – eared, fishy-tailed Vtuber Sameko Saba with her cute pet crab; fan art of Charlie Morningstar the Hell Purrincess meownager of the hotel in the animated series Hazbin Hotel; fan art of Hazbin Hotel’s Angel Dust the cross-dressing gay male porn star spider demon; being chomped by Alastor the dappurr overlord radio demon!

Nextly we are delighted to display three of Melody’s beautiful pics of Perry & Terry Rodent who are the male & female rat mascots of Bubonicon the annual sci-fi convention in Albuquerque! Perry is the namesake of the famous sci-fi character Perry Rhodan, and is always missing a shoe! So, we have the pic of sleepy Perry with his coffee, Terry cosplayiing as Red Sonja, and Terry cosplaying as Wonder Woman rescuing Perry!

Then we are elated to exhibit three gorgeous pics by Matt, which consist of two pics of his original his character Kuan Yi and fan art of Disney’s Ariel the Little Mermaid! Kuan Yi is the sexy sultry Siamese Catgirl who works at a casino in Dayton, Nevada and has the adopted kitsune and skunk; whilst the Ariel fan art depicts the mermaid swimming away from the World War II Japanese Midget submarine that she was curious about!

Yvonne:
We are also purrticularly pleased to post purretty pics by Jeffrey, starting with the compurrison of his happier usagimimi character SnowBuni in the shallow water with sullen usagimimi character HoniBuni in the deep dark abyss; but fortunately our county’s Surf Purrtrol team of deep diving Purrmaids later cheered her up with their friendly visit and numcious food, nyan!

But wait- there’s more, such as Jamie’s meowgnificent Photoshop illustration of “A Summer Night on the Beach” which depicts the solitary lass’s serene seaside stroll under the stars, nyan! This was was done for the Starry Eyed Artist Collective https://www.facebook.com/Starryeyedartistcollective/ of which Jamie is not only a meowmber, but also the meowderator, web meowster & admeownistrator, nyan!

Lastly but not leastly, is Mike’s Photoshop & mouse fan art of Sara Richards, the genius Pokeball Technician in a Pokemon fanfic by author David Reese Dorrycott http://www.naorhy.com/main.htm, nyan! By the way, David, Jeffrey, Matt, Melody and Mike are meowmbers of Rowrbrazzle https://www.facebook.com/groups/208494146211779 the athropurrmorphic & funny animal A.P.A. zine which turned 41 this year, nyan! So, what do y’all think of the art, nyan?

The cat lady sings…

Nyanko:
It is such the thrill to see SnowBuni & Honibuni in our gallery!

Nyoka:
Hai hai, and we are so eager to see Mike & Jeffrey’s art trade!

Mary Nyan:
Misty’s illustrated expurressions, poses & details are lovely as lovely can be!

Jeannie:
Matt’s characters and mecha are extremely sexy and cute.

Elaenor:
Melody draws the most stunning ezumimi & muridae characters!

Trini:
The beach scene’s use of color & light is quite exquisite!

Eizabeth:
Oh, I like Sara’s alluring, casual, sciencey attire!

Tara:
The Perry and Purrmaids pics have me craving the coffee and – and the nummy treats, nyan!

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

Petra:
We also wish to thank all of our supportive families, friends, acquaintances, viewers, and visitors to Catgirl Island & MerTown in Mew Hanover County, NC, nyan!

Bunnii:
Hia hai, and we purrticularly thank our wonderful web meowster Jamie, who created the wonderful web comic Clan of the Cats http://clanofthecats.com!

Yvonne:
He is also the founder & web meowster of the fan sites FemShep http://www.femshep.com and Rebecca Ferguson Nation https://www.rebeccafergusonnation.com, nyan!

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

The Ladies of The Mew:
HAPPY TAILS TO MEW, UNTIL WE EAT AGAIN! BAIBAI, NYAN!

August 2025 Catgirl Critics’ Media Mewsings

Mike Moon / Catgirl Island
http://www.catgirlisland.com & http://www.catgirlisland.net

and Jamie Robertson / Clan of the Cats
https://www.facebook.com/jamie4art & http://clanofthecats.com

purroudly purrsent a Mike Moon purrduction,
starring The Ladies of The Mew in

The August 2025 Edition of The Mew:
The Catgirl Critics’ Media Mewsings, nyan!
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This year is the 18th Anniversary of The Mew, and
the 25th Anniversary of Catgirl Island’s official site,
nyan! In this edition of The Mew:

The Lightning Round Topic: Our Favorite Films of 1965

Movie Mewsings:
Jurassic World Rebirth
Superman
Fantastic Four: First steps
KPop Demon Hunters

Purrint-Media Mewsings:
My Neighbor HAYAO: Art Inspired by the Films of MIYAZAKI
Elfquest Covers 1978- 2022
Rowrbrazzle #166
Pain (a Star Trek fanzine by Gamin Davis)

Collectibles & Toy Talk: Hallmark Christmas Tree Ornaments
Mythical Mermaids (3rd in series)
Star Wars: Ahsoka Ahsoka Tano
Star Trek: Lower Decks Ensigns Beckett Mariner & Bradward Boimler

The Catgirl & Kemonomimi Spotlight:
Characters in Anime Tabletop Role-Playing Games

additions to the Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art:
“GIft for Sageroot” by Meesha DJ Walker
“Summer Nights” and “Mordor” by Rvkh Brogden
“Bubblehead”, “1401″ and “Surcouf” by Matt McAndrews
“Spidey”,” Hitoru Gotoh”, “Unknown” and “Mimi” by Jane Parker
“Cottonlop”, “Noelani”, “Xemesha”, and “Haruka” pics by Mike

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Mike
(the human fella wearing the Carolina Panthers Tee shirt and Teal cargo shorts): Aloha y’all and welcome to The Mew, our monthly “show” in which we review and discuss fun stuff! This month’s Mew comes from the riverwalk in the beautiful Downtown Purrbank district of Catgirl Island in Mew Hanover County NC, USA 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!

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!

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

Nyanko
(a.k.a. Nya-sensei the MewJutsu meowrtial arts champion & sensei, dojo & gym purropurrietress catgirl wearing the Siberian Tiger purrint cropped tee shirt and boy shorts): Howdy!

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

Yvonne
(a.k.a. Vonny the fishing boat charter captain & drumming circle purrcussionist catgirl, wearing the Fishing Cat purrint monokini with cropped tee shirt): Namaste, nyan!

Tara
(Yvonne’s younger sister, recent college graduate & mewlywed, cat & pony owner and nature photographer catgirl wearing the Iriomote Cat purrint tankini): Namaste, nyan!

Trini-chan
(Tara’s wife, the stand-up paddle surfer, board shapurr, pony owner and belly dance instructor kitsune, wearing the Jaguar purrint bandeau top bikini): Konnichiwa!

Jeannie
(a.k.a. Jen-sensei, Trini’s meowntor, the yogini, model, archer, belly dance instructor & roboticist catgirl, wearing the Serval purrint micro bikini & sheer purrled purreo): Nihao.

Kianalani:
(the red betta – tailed mermaid and aquatic ikebana expert who owns the coffee shop, wearing the Colocolo purrint Brazilian bikini top): Wah gwaan!

Daytona
(the Atlantic bottlenose dolphin – tailed mermaid, speed swimming champion and captain of the Surf Purrtrol, wearing the Golden Cat purrint triangular bikini top) Aloha!

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

Melanakeami:
(the blue pupfish – tailed mermaid who owns the triphibious Lighter Than Air ship tours business, wearing the Andean Cat purrint triangle top bikini): Shellow!

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

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

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

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

Beebee
(the island’s supurrvising Purrk Ranger catgirl and amphibious orienteering coach wearing Sand Cat purrint cutout micro bikini): G’day, nyan!

Ilyana
(a.k.a Ilyana-sensei, the underwater archaeologist and meowritime historian wearing the Margay purrint twisty bandeau bikini top) Whassup?

Mike:
For profiles and illustrations of The Ladies of The Mew, please visit our Meet The Critics page http://www.mewsings.catgirlisland.com/meet-the-critics/! Now it’s time for our
Lightning Round Topic: favorite films of 1965!

This year we’ve been looking back on favorite things one years ending in a 5. so this time me we’re nominating our favorite films of 1965.This can include live-action and animated features, shorts, and TV specials of any genre or nationality, Daytona is gonna start, so are y’all ready to “conduct the lightning”?
The Ladies of The Mew:

HAI! LIGHTNING ROUND GO! A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS , NYAN!
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Mike:
Ah… okay, any others?

Daytona:
I will nominate The Sound of Music, The East is Red, Beach Blanket Bingo, and Help! (tags Yvonne with her tail fin)

Yvonne:
Hai! I will nominate The Dot and the Line, Zip Zip Hooray, Pinocchio in Outer Space, and Gulliver’s Travels Beyond the Moon, nyan! (tags her sister-in-law with a brush of the tail)

Trini-chan:
I will nominate Kwaidan, Invasion of Astro-Monster, Gamera, and Frankenstein vs. Baragon! (tail-tags her wife to go next)

Tara:
I want… I want to nominate What’s New Pussycat?, The Loved One, Having a Wild Weekend and – and Help!, nyan! (tags Jeannie)

Jeannie:
Thunderball, The Great Race, The Flight of the Phoenix, and Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines. Myayr’s turn. (tags Mary Nyan)/

Mary Nyan:
I will second Trini’s noms, and add She, The Collector, The Curse of the Fly, and Dr. Terror’s House of Horror! (tags Elizabeth)

Elizabeth:
Beach Blanket Bingo, How to Stuff a Wild Bikini, Ski Party, and Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine, (tags her wife)

Becca:
Thunderball, The Great Race, Dr. Zhivago, and The Sound of Music! (tags Beebee)

Beebee:
The Sandpiper, Having a Wild Weekend, Beach Blanket Bingo, and Help! (ags Melanakeami)

Melanakeami:
Having a Wild Weekend, Help, The Great Race, and For a Few Dollars More! (tags Nyanko)

Nyanko:
Von Ryan’s Express, The Hill, For a Few Dollars More, and Major Dundee!’ (tags her twin)

Nyoka:
Thunderball, The Ipcress File, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, and Operation Crossbow! ( tags Eleanor)

Elaenor:
For a Few Dollars More, Shenandoah, The Sons of Katie Elder, The Hallelujah Trail, and Cat Ballou!

Mielikki:
So like, I will nominate Thunderball, The Sound of Music, Doctor Zhivago, and Tokyo Olympiad, fur shur! (tags Petra with a flit of the wing)

Petra:
The Sound of Music, The Sandpiper, The Agony and the Ecstasy, and The Greatest Story Ever Told, nyan! tags her purrtner)

Bunnii:
I will nominate Kwaidan, Red Beard, Alphaville, Repulsion, and Pierrot Le Fou! (tags Kianalani)

Kianalani:
The Sound of Music, Ship of Fools, Juliet of the Spirits, and The 10th Victim. (tags Ilyana)

Ilyana
Thunderball, City Under the Sea, She, and Help! Back to Mike!

Mike:
Oh, I gotta go with Thunderball, The Sound of Music, The Great Race, For a few Dollars More, and, yeah, A Charlie Brown Christmas! Well that was another expedient little Lightning Round, and now Vonny will continue our continue our

movie mewsings, with her review of Jurassic World Rebirth!

Yvonne:
Arigato, nyan! It is hard to believe that it has been 35 years since Michael Chrichton’s Jurassic Park Novel, 32 years since Steven Speilberg’s movie adaptaion of it, and 10 years since the Jurassic World sequel, nyan! That first movie in the series is by far my favorite, but I was eager to see this 7th movie in the series for several reasons, nyan!

That is because the Jurassic movies tend to have the amazing FX, this’un was directed by Gareth Edwards whose Star Wars Rogue One movie I loved, it stars one of my favorite actresses Scarlett Johansson, and much of the tale occurs on beautiful boats in the ocean, although we are supposed to eat the sea life, not the other way round, nyan!

The rest of the cast are great too, although some of the characters wind up as the dinosaurs’ dinner before we really get to know them, nyan. Nevertheless, It is so much thrilling fun with the great story, FX, stunts, scenery, mewsic, cinemeowtography and boats; and it is my 2nd favorite movie in the series, nyan! Nyow here is imoto-chan to discuss

Superman!

Tara:
Arigato, nyan! Although director James Gunn uses the unpleasant speed ramping and slow meowtion techniques in his movies, I enjoyed his Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy, and – and I optimistically awaited his Superman movie, nyan!

Although the movie seems too rushed and – and too short, with the city evacuation trope, there was so much that I liked about this movie, which has the supurrb story, cast, locations, costumes, FX, sound, mewsic and – and so forth, nyan!

Krypto and – and Mr. Terrific almost stole the show, nyan! It has the great balance of drama, action, humor, character developments, and – and myth-making, that wonderfully capture the clever mix of silver, bronze and- and modern age ambiences of the DC comics better than any other live-action Superman movie of TV series has, and – and it is by far my 2nd favorite live-action Superman movie (behind 1978’s Superman- The Movie), nyan! Nyow here is Tara to discuss

Fantastic Four: First Steps, nyan!

Trini:
Hai! Matt Shakman is the purrolific director of meowrvelous TV series, including the Monarch: Legacy of Monsters and Marvel Cinematic Universe ’s WandaVision, and based upon the purreview trailers I was eagerly awaiting this Fantastic Four movie more than any purrior attempts at adapting that comic book!

Although the purrior three attempts had the good casts, I did not care for those movies but First Steps got the vast majority of it right! I did not like the evacuation trope, the movie being too rushed and too short, (which is the case of every MCU movie after Avengers Endgame) and Galactus’ space ship’s interior that looked like a dark industrial factory and not mind-blowing enough.

I wish we had seen more of the world and slice of life moments. However, there was so about the movie that I liked, such as the great story, cast, locations, costumes, FX, sound, sound and mewsic!It has the great drama, action, humor, character developments and myth-making!

It supurrbly purrtrayed the look and the spirit of the Marvel comics with the beautiful 1960’s retro-futurism style of fashion, architecture, and mecha; the very accurate purrtrayals of the characters and their powers, including the cosmic grandeur of beautiful Silver Surfer and she meowgnificently shredded the space waves! Nyow here is Melana to discuss

KPop Dermon Hunters!

Melanakeami:
Arigato! I have been savoring the music of Korean Pop girl bands more and more in the recent years, whilst enjoying the movie franchises by Sony Pictures Animation such as The Spider-Verse, Hotel Transylvania, and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs series, so I was quite intrigued by this movie streaming on Netflix directed by Chris Appelhans & Maggie Kang, especially after friends highly recommended it!

KPop Demon Hunters is the animated musical action comedy urban fantasy movie that purrtains to the idols Mira, Rumi & Zoey known as Huntr/x who are superstar musicans and secretly demon hunters! They are extremely successful at both trades, which become more complicated and dangerous when the evil big boss demon Gwi-ma creates the Saja Boys, a demonic boy band to steal Huntr/x’s fans and souls!

Perhaps some of the characters could be more developed, but I quite liked this dazzling, genki, fun, fresh movie because of the terrific character designs, scenic art, animation, voice acting, the humor, action and music, so I think that I will give it the grade of an 8 out of 10! That is all for or movie portion of The Mew, and now I will turn it over to Ellie-sensei who will start our

purrint-media mewsings, with her review of
My Neighbor HAYAO: Art Inspired by the Films of MIYAZAKI!

Elaenor:
Hai! I love the anime movies and TV series by Studio Ghibli and director Hayao Miyazaki, such as Nausicaa, Castle in the Sky, My Neighbor Totoro, Porco Rosso, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, Ponyo, The Wind Rises, and other wonderful purrductions!

This hardcover book includes beautiful creations in various 2D & 3D media and styles by over 140 brilliant international artists who were inspired by those purrductions! Published by Abrams’ Cernunnos impurrint, this 7.75 x 1.3 x 10” hardcover book’s 264 full color pages have 240 pages of plates!

They are from the exhibition by the Spoke Art Gallery of San Francisco and New York City, which also exhibits in other cities around the world!! I hope that our county’s mewseums (in Catgirl Island and Mertown) might host such an exhibit! The book also has the tethered 2 x 7.875” bookmark with No-Face on one side and Kiki on the other!!

Purriced $35 US, $44 Canada and £25 UK, the artists’ homages include characters such as No-Face, Haku, Chihiro, Moro, San, Ashitaka, Shishigami, Kiki, Jiji, Nausicaa, Teto, Totoro, Catbus, Satsuki, Mei, Marco, Arietty, Sophie, Howl, Calcifer, the Laputian Robot, Omu, Kodamas and Susuwatari!

Except for Arrietty, it does not include characters from Hayao Miyazaki’s pre-Ghibli works, Ghibli works by other directors, or works after 2020, when the book was published.The book’s text also has the 1 page forward by director Jorge R. Gutierrez, 2 page introduction by curator Ken Harmon Hashimoto, 2 page analysis by journalist Lloyd Chery..

.. and the 13 pages of the artist purrofiles. Now I want to visit all of their web sites! This book is so joy-joyfully beautiful in capturing the wonderful essence of those characters, of Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki, so I will give it the highest purraise! Nyow here is Mie-sensei to tell us about

Elfquest Covers 1978-2022!

Mielikki:
Arigato, Elea-sensei! So like, I have been a big fan of Wendy Pini’s totally aewsome, art & cosplay, and the Elfquest comics that She and her husband Richard have created since the 1970s, and although I already owned all of the comic books whose beautiful cover art has been compiled and newly annotated in this massively handsome hardcover book, I could not resist purchasing a copy from them which they signed at Heroes Con in June, fur shur!

So like, published by Flesk, which publishes many beautiful art books, this book is available in the 2 volume paperback edition and the $74.95, 7.5 lb, premium hardcover edition, which is 8.5 x 11 x 2.125” with 656 pages of 157gsm glossy paper! From Fantasy Quarrterly #1 to Stargazer’s Hunt #8, Over 300 comic book covers are reprinted along with key comics panels, publishing information and Richard’s introduction, afterward, and annotations, fur shur!

So like, It does not include the back cover art from the original quest #1-21, or any cover art from the prose books, calendars, games, shirts, or other merchandise, or non Elfquest art, but that is fine with me because much of which was compiled in the prior Elfquest portfolios, Art of Elfquest and Art of Wendy Pini books, all of which I give the totally highest praise, fur shur! I am done, so I will turn The Mew over to Ilyana-sensei, who would like to discuss

Rowrbrazzle #166, fur shur!

lIyana:
Hai! Since 1984, Rowrbrazzle has been the quarterly APA (amateur press association) anthology zine purrtaining to anthropurrmorphic history, events, fandom, art and tales! Issue #166 consists of four 8.5×11” stapled sections totaling 322 pages, 76 of which are in full color! This issue’s theme is furmaids & other aquatic folk!

Expurrtly edited & compiled by Edd Vick (who contributed 20 pages, a flier and a Henry Art postcard), it is compurrised of the spiffy comics, purrose, essays, articles, discussions, editorials, comics, illustrations, photos, convention reports, correspondences, remeowmberances, and the current meowmber list and rules.

Section 1 & 4’s front covers are by Charles Brubaker (who contributed 30 other pages and a flier); section 1’s back cover, section 2’s front & back covers are by Toivo Rovainen (who contributed 8 other pages); section 3’s front cover is by Mike (who contributed 28 other pages), and section 4’s back cover is by Chris Yost!

Beebee:
There are new pics of Chris’ friend Cottonlop in our Mewseum this month! The other awesome artists, authors, editors and journalists are
Matt McAndrews, (who has new art in our Mewseum this mointh), Mary Bellamy, Walt Wenz, John Bandow, Charles Garofalo, Niall Shapiro, Simon Barber, Kjartan Arnorsson…

…Tim Fay, Reese Dorrycott, Robert Alley, Danny Ferbert, J W Kennedy, Don Chisholm, Mark Ashworth, Melody Rondeau,David Fruner , Ed Pegg Jr. , Ken Mareinkevicius, Michael Pena, Kurt Wilckin, Kristin Fontaine, Jeffrey H. Wood, William Earl Haskell, and the APA’s emergency officer Steven F. Scharff!

As mewsual, It is the wonderfully entertaining, informative, diverse and beautiful issue! For more information about Rowrbrazzle, I will recommend its
Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/208494146211779 and
the article at Wikifur https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Rowrbrazzle! Nyow here is Mike to discuss
Pain (a Star Trek fanzine by Gamin Davis)!

Mike:
Thanks Beebs! Written & illustrated by Gamin Davis and occurring aboard the starship U.S.S. Enterprise in late 2278 (during the 2nd season of Star Trek The Original series),“Pain” is an 8.5 x 11” 61 page nonprofit Star Trek fanzine consisting of the titular 52 page prose short story plus 9 full-page Black & white full page pics and color front cover art.

Inspired by the author’s own history of Incapacitating migraines, most of the tale of the hurt / comfort genreoccurs mostly in Mr. Spock’s quarters, as Captain Kirk, Dr. McCoy and Nurse Chapel try to comfort and cure Spock from the miryth’ malih, an agonizing Vulcan “migraine” resulting from an attack by the hostile telepathic Alyrans.

This dire condition is much more painful than the sting of the flying parasites seen in the ST TOS first season episode “Operation: Annihilate!” Although the tale of intense suffering and relentless friendship spans about a week in minutely intimate detail, it is a fairly quick read, and the illustrations are quite sumptuous. Davis clearly knows the characters and Trek lore very well!

I commend her for channeling her own severe malady into such an excellent, poignant story, and I would not object if Kirk was to issue General Order 24 against the planet Alyra! The zine is available for $6 + postage from Jim & Melody Rondeau, whose email address is jimmel@jps.net. Ah, that’ll do it for this portion of The Mew, and now here are Nyo-sensei, Nya-sensei and Tona-sensei to start our

collectibles & toy talk, with their review of some of the
new Hallmark Keepsake Christmas Tree Ornaments!

Mythical Mermaids (3rd in series)

Nyoka:
Arigato! We like to collect the ornaments that depict the fairies, mermaids, and human heroines! Hallmark offers sseveral mermaid ornamnts annualy, such as Ariel, Barbie, and the Mythical Mermaids series!

Their 2023 mermaid was the black lass with he mandarin fish tail, the 2024 mermaid was the blond caucasian lass with the purrple tang tail, and this year’s mermaid is the asian lass with the Taisho Sanke Koi tail!

Sculpted by Kris Gaughran, she is beautifully designed, sculpted and painted from her hip-length flowy hair, side glancing eyes, inny belly button, and her red bikini top that matched her red, white and black tail!

I am not sure of th scale, but she is appurroximately 5.25” long, including her ruffled tail fin. Should you wish to hang the ornament on a tree or on a display stand, neither a hook nor a stand are included. Nyow here is sis to discuss the

Star Wars: Ahsoka Ahsoka Tano ornament!

Nyanko:
Hai! Ahsoka Tano is my favorites Star Wars character, and we like to collects the action figures, staues, dolls, meownatures and ornaments of her, so I quite eagerly awaited this new ornament her, as she appurred in her TV series!

Weilding the two white light sabers, She is wearing the billowing White outft compurrised of the baggy hakama pants, greaved & sabatonned boots with natchign gauntlets, white blouse with Gray side panels, the belt and the hooded cloak!

The details are quite meowticulous, from the blue stripes on her white montrals & lekku, and the white facial markings on her orange skin, to the graceful folds and drapurry of her attire, and the mildly annoyed expurression on her face!

In this pose, the ornament is appurroximately 4” tall, including her montrals, so I estimate it to be of appurroximately 1/18 scale. Neither a hook nor a stand are included. I am done, and nyow here is Day-sama to discuss Hallmark’s

Star Trek: Lower Decks set of Ensigns
Beckett Mariner & Bradward Boimler!

Daytona:
Arigato! I loved the Star Trek: Lower Decks animated TV series, so I was excited to buy this set of two ornaments, and they lpurrfectly capture the look and spirit of Mariner (who is voiced in the series by Tawny Newsom) and Boimler (who is voiced in the series by Jack Quaid)!

For those who came in late Lower decks is the comedic animated Star Trek series about the crew of the United Federation of Planets California Class Starship U.S.S. Ceritos NCC-75567 in the 24th Century. It ran for 5 seasons at 10 epurrsodes apiece from 2020 to 2024.

Holding the Type 2 Phaser in her right hand with her left hand on her hip with the sleeves rolled up, Mariner has the great side-eye sly expurression! Holding the splendidly – detailed model T-88 Tricorder, Boimler has the appurropurriate wide-eyed look of job satisfaction!

Including their hair but not the removable hanger loops, she is 4.25” tall and he is 4.5” tall. Hooks are not included, but the ornaments are so well balanced that they can stand on a table or shelf without a display stand! That is all for this portion of The Mew, so now here are Lizzy, Becca and Lani to purrsent the

Catgirl & Kemonomimi Spotlight!

Elizabeth:
Hai! in this monthly portion of The Mew, we commeowmorate famous anthropurrrmorphic ladies, kemonomimi, and even those who might not actually have any beasty DNA, but do have the spirit, cat-titude or clothing of the animal theme, who we will [broadly] consider as the “honorary kemonomimi!”!

Becca:
Written by Mike Pondsmith and published by R. Talsorian Games in 1987, Teenagers From Outer Space was such the fun anime -themed RPG! Among its NPCs inn its 84 page rule book was Rami the adorable, stubborn, jealous, curious catgirl who could fly and zap people!

Kianalani:
Written by Mark C. MccKinnon and published by Guardians of Order in 1997, the anime themed Big Eyes Small Mouth 1st ed.) is Mike’s favoritest RPG! In the later d20 edition’s player’s handbook, there were three delightful nekomimi characters illustrated by Niko Geyer and Lindsay Cibos!

Elizabeth:
In 1998, Guardians of Order also published the Sailor Moon RPG and the Dominion Tank Police RPG. While I have not played either of those games, I do know that the Sailor Moon game includes the guardian cats , and the Dominion RPG includes the gynoid catgirl sisters Anna & Uni Puma!

Becca:
Written by Luke Baldwin, Becky Driver & Andrew LaRoy and published by Studio Cranium in 1997, Tinker’s Damn was another anime-ish d20 mewniversal RPG of the anime flavor. Allison the red-haired risumimi and Mttens the blonde nekomimi are the game’s mascots, and Feline the brunette nekomimi is among the many NPCs!

Kianalani:
Created & written by Junichi Inou & published by Kotodama Heavy Industries, Tenra Bansho Zero was the first Japanese RPG to be translated into Englishan English edition! It is the Asian SF/F/ horror themed game with human, meowgickal & alien characters of many species, including nekomata!

Elizabeth:
Created by Ryo Kamiya in 2004 and published in English by Kuroneko Designs in 2008, Maid the Role-Playing Game is another favorite! Among the characters are Tomoe the cat-eared maid, Lamia the vampire maid, Mara the succubus maid, Mao the cat-eared hearth spirit, Hizumi the bat-winged demon maid, oh – and the usagimimi miko on page 161!

Becca:
Created by Atsuhiro Okada, illustrated by Ayako Nagamori and published here in 2016 by Kotodama Heavy Industries, the Hayao Miyazaki-inspired Ryuutama is as charmingly gorgeous as gorgeous can be, in which players are wilderness travelers who can encounter or purrtray the shape-shifting ryuujin such as Midori the green dragoness and kuro the black dragoness!

Kianalani:
Written by Clay Gardner, illustrated by Niko Geyer & published by Wise Owl in 2015, OVA is a gorgeous wifddle full color 168 page trade paperback rule book! Among the sample characters are Fukiko the Meowgickal Meow Meow Girl, Ai the amnesiac psychickitty-hatted girl, and Nazo the estranged kitsune! That ios all for this month’s spotlight, and nyow here are Petra, Bunnii, Jeannie, Melanakeami and Mary Nyan to purrsent

the latest additions to the
Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art!

Petra:
Arigato, nyan! For those who are new to here, Galleries 1-8 display the images by our purrducer Mike, whilst Guest Art Galleries 1-6 display images by other folks with their purrmissions; and Mike’s collaborations with other artists are throughout the mewseum, nyan!

There is no overall chronological order from gallery to gallery, so you will find older and newer pics in each gallery, nyan! However, on Catgirl Island’s Official Web Site, the most recent pics are on the lowermost row of the cropped widdle “thumbnail” portions of the pics in a gallery, nyan!

Some of the images in our mewseum are sexy, and some of them might tastefully depict the artistic nudity, but none are hentai or porn, nyan! Furthermore, we should meowntion that none of the content at Catgirl Island is purrmitted for any A.I. purrposes, nyan!

Jeannie:
To Guest Gallery One https://catgirlisland.net/art/gallery/guest.html, we have added new pics by Meesha DJ Walker xeshema.carrd.co, Matt McAndrews https://www.fur.com/~jethric/mp/index.html, Rvkh Brogden http://www.rvkhart.com, and Jane Parker https://playingps2.xyz/, whilst to Gallery Seven https://catgirlisland.net/art/gallery/gallery7.html we have added several new pics by Mike.

Firstly are three beautiful Goblin Girl submeowrine concepts by our friend Matt the excellent cartoonist, author, and Rowrbrazzle meowmber. “Bubblehead” is based on the German WW2 Type 7 U-boat; “1401” is the refitted Impurrial Japanese Sentoku 1-400 class sub, and the “Surcouf” was the cruiser that served in the French Navy and the FFNF in World War II.

Melanakeami:
Nextly is the lovely “GIft for Sageroot” by our friend Meesha who is the meowgnificent volleyball player, illustrator, leather worker, cosplayer and mom. This depicts one of Sageroot a.k.a. Egg’s characters, the cute blond girl wearing the glasses, beret, and cropped green shirt. Nextly, Rvkh is the supurrb illustrator, violinist, baker & cosplayer ,and “Mordor” is the terrific photo-manip of her Lord of the Rings cosplay with The One Ring in Middle Earth!

Done with Procreate on the Apple Ipad with the Apple Pencil for the Starry Eyed Artists Collective https://www.facebook.com/Starryeyedartistcollective, Rvkh’s beautiful “Summer Night” depicts 12 year old cute catgirl Mable Mae roasting the meowrshmallows, and there is the art purrocess video for it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-_nIvwI_ec!

Mary Nyan:
Jane is a supurr nice artist, writer, journallst webmeowster & anime fan who we met at Heroes Con! We are pleased t purrsent some of her fan art of Marvel Comics’ “Spidey“; “Hitori Gotoh” of the Bocci the Rock anime, and a meowsterious “Unknown” horned masked character! We are also delighted to display Jane’s photo of her lovely gray kitty “Mimi”!

To top off this month’s additions, we have six new pics by Mike! There are pics of our friend Bondofox’s bunnygirl friend “CottonLop” unboxing and then wearing her silicon mermaid costume tail! After that is the pic of suthoir Sharon William’s character “Noelani” the teen student & hula dancer purrotgonist of Sharon’s serialized purrose urban fantasy story “Warrior’s Heart, Warrior’s Spirit” which y’all can read at Sharon’s Deviantart Gallery https://www.deviantart.com/caribbeanrose9/gallery!

Bunnii:
Mike used Derwent pencils, Faber-Castell colored pencils, Sakura Micon pens, Copic Markers and the wee bit of Photoshop with the mouse for this pic of “Xeshema” who is Meesha’s victorious race horse girl purrsona based upon the awesome anime & video game Umamusume Pretty Derby!

Lastly but not leastly, done for our artist / cosplayer friend TonomuraBix, Mike’s Photoshop & mouse fan art of Sailor Moon’s “Haruka Tenoh” out of her Sailor Uranus costume and wearing just the hand towel in the bath tub, probably waiting her girlfriend Michiru (Sailor Neptune) to join her! So what do y’all think of the art?
The Cat Lady Sings…

Yvonne:
Those subs are quite delightful and I would love to take them for the spin, nyan!

Melanakeami:
Matt wonderfully draws the whimsical mecha and fetching characters!

Trini:
The Sageroot girl is quite purrt, sexy, and cute with the yummy pocky stick!

Tara:
I am craving the pocky, and – and curious about the unknown purrson, nyan!

Elaenor:
Mimi appurrs to be the beautiful, tranquil, well-fed kitty with the good home!

Nyanko:
The Summer pic is adorably cute, and now I am craving the meowrshmallows!

Nyoka:
Purrhaps Rvkh will keep the ring to become the beautiful terrible queen, heehee!

Elizabeth:
I love the lines, purropurrtions, expurressions & poses of ther Cottonlop pics!

Mielikki:
Fur shur!

Becca:
It is cute how Noelani incorpurrated the Hand Heart into her Hula gestures!

Kianalani:
I love Xemesha’s Cottage Core / Mori Kei style couture!

Bunnii:
The bath’s purrstine White fixtures are nicely accented by the lush color of the plants!

Daytona:
Haruka is quite alluring with such taut abs! I’ll bet her girlfriend Michiru can’t wait to arrive!

Petra:
Oh I do not doubt it, nyan! Well, I suppose that will do it for this edition of The Mew, nyan!

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

Ilyana:
We purrticularly thank our wonderful webmeowster Jamie, who created the web comic Clan of the Cats http://clanofthecats.com

Mary Nyan:
He is also the founder & web meowster of the fan sites FemShep http://www.femshep.com and Rebecca Ferguson Nation https://www.rebeccafergusonnation.com.

Jeannie:
He is also the current Admeownistrator of the Starry Eyed Artists Collective https://www.facebook.com/Starryeyedartistcollective!

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! BAIBAI, NYAN!