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 May 2026 Edition of The Mew:
The Catgirl Critics’ Media Mewsings, nyan!
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This year is the 19th Anniversary of The Mew, and
the 26th Anniversary of Catgirl Island’s official site, nyan!
In this edition of The Mew:
The Lightning Round Topic: Our Favorite Albums of 1986
DVD, TV & Movie Mewsings:
Lupin The 3rd vs Cat’sEye
Collectibles & Toy Talk:
Banpresto Umamusume Vodka Figure
Zatanend Catgirl Mia Ecchi Waifu Figure
Purrinted-Media Mewsings:
Ruri Dragon vol. 3
My Dress-Up Darling Official Anime FanBook
Rowrbrazzle #169
Additions to the Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art by:
Rvkh Brogden, Melody Rondeau, Jeffrey H. Wood,
Misty Hopkins, Jane Parker, Jamie and Mike, nyan!
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Petra:
(the art guild purresident, art mewseum co-curator & beach volleyball champion catgirl wearing the Cheetah purrint side-tie bikini): Aloha y’all and welcome to The Mew, our monthly “show” in which we review and discuss fun stuff, nyan! This month’s Mew comes from beautiful downtown Purrbank’s riverwalk on Catgirl Island in Mew Hanover County NC, USA where it’s 71 degrees under the Blue sky full of puffy White Cumulo-Neko clouds, nyan! Mike and Jamie could not be here today, so for the first time in 19 years we will hafta purroceed without them, nyan. I‘m Petra, and here are other Ladies of The Mew, nyan!
Nyoka:
(the Meowgick Shop purropurrietress catgirl, wearing the Bengal Tiger purrint micro bikini and an open-front cover up): Howdy!
Ilyana:
(the underwater archaeologist and meowritime historian wearing the Eurasian Lynx purrint twisty bandeau bikini top) Whassup?
Meryl:
(the island’s Police Chief and motorcyclist wearing the Caracal purrint shorts and knotted blouse with her Police hat and badge): ‘Allo!
Daytona:
(the Atlantic bottlenose dolphin – tailed mermaid, speed swimming champion and Surf Purrtrol, captain wearing the Golden Cat purrint triangular bikini top): Shello!
Beebee:
(the island’s supurrvising Purrk Ranger and orienteering coach catgirl wearing Ocelot purrint cutout micro bikini): G’day, nyan!
Mielikki:
(the winged golferand repurrtory company’s director faerie wearing the Margay purrint criss cross halter neck bikini): Mellow greetings!
Becca:
(the golfer, hot salsa dancer and meowssage spa co-owner nekomimi gynoid w
earing the Panther purrint ring-closure bikini): Konnichiwa!
Bunnii:
(Petra’s co-curator, beach volleyball partner, and carrot cake baker bunnygirl wearing the Clouded Leopurrd purrint trikini): Guten Tag!
Trini:
(the surfer, board shapurr, pony owner and belly dance instructor kitsune, wearing the Jaguar purrint bandeau top bikini): Konnichiwa!
Tara:
(Trini’s wife, the cat & pony owner, nature photographer catgirl wearing the Iriomote Cat purrint tankini): Namaste, nyan!
Petra:
For purrrofiles and illustrations of us and other Ladies of The Mew, please visit our Meet The Critics page http://www.mewsings.catgirlisland.com/meet-the-critics, nyan! More friends will be joining us later for our AfterMew Luau, but now it’s time for
The Lightning Round Topic, mnyan!! This year, we’re looking back on favorite fun things of past years ending with a 6, so this month, we’ll be nominating our favorite albums that debuted in 1986, nyan! ?Beebs will start, so are y’all ready to “conduct the lightning”, nyan?
The Ladies of The Mew:
HAI! LIGHTNING ROUND GO, NYAN!
Beebee:
I will nominate The Tannahill Weavers’ Land of Light, Fairport Convention’s Expletive Delighted!, New Grass Revival’s first album, Dwight Yoakam’s Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc., Crystal Gayle’s Straight to the Heart, Janie Frick’s e Black & White, Julia Ecklar’s Divine Intervention, Leslie Fish’s Chickasaw Mountain, and Quarks and Quests by the various artists! (tags Trini with a swish of the tail.)
Trini:
I wil nominate the Jpop albums such as Ryuichi Sakamoto”s Futurista, Momoko Kikuchi’s Adventure, Kaoru Akimbo Cologne, Omega Tribe’s Navigator, Akina Nakamori’s Crimson, Tatsuro Yamashita’s Pocket Music, Kuwata Band’s Nippon No Rock, Rebecca IV’s Maybe Tomorrow, Yoko Oginome’s Raspberry Wind aqlbum and her Nonstopper album! (tags Tara to go next)
Tara:
I want… I want to nominate the soundtrack albums of Castle in the Sky, Project A-ko, Maison Ikkoku, Pastel Yumi, Maple Town Monogatari, Saint Seiya, My Little Pony – The Movie, Transformers – The Movie, Big Trouble in Little China, Top Gun, Labyrinth, and – Blue Velvet, and Under the Cherry Moon, nyan! Nyow it is Becca’s turn, nyan! (tags Becca)
Becca:
Whitney Houston’s first album, Grace Jones Island Life, Anita Baker’s Rapture Phyllis Hyman’s Living All Alone, Luther Vandross’ Give Me the Reason, Patty LaBelle’s Winner, George Benson’s While the City Sleeps, Janet Jackson’s Control, Run-D.M.C.’s Raiding Hell, Beaastie Boys’ Licensed to Ill, Salt-n-Pepa’s Hot, Cool & Vicious! (tags Meryl)
Meryl:
Hai! I will nominate ELO ’s Balance of Power, Zebra’s 3v, Euope’s The Final Countdown, Queensryche’s Rage for Order, Bon Jovi’s Slippery When Wet, Iron Maiden’s Somewhere in Time, Judas Priest’s Turbo Ozzy Osbourne’s Ultimate Sin, Metallica’s Master of Puppets. and the Vinnie Vincent Invasion’s Vinnie Vincent Invasion! (tags Mertyl)
Daytona:
Kraftwerk’s Electric Cafe; Depeche Mode’s Black Celebration; David Sylvian’s Gone To Earth, Hiroshi Yoshimura’s Green; Stephan Micus’ Ocean; Lustmord s Paradise Disowned; Muslimgauze’s Hajj; Marc Barreca’s The Sleeper Awakes; Cocteau Twins’ Victorialand; Elizabeth Fraser, Robin Guthrie Harold Buddand Simon Raymonde’s The Moon and the Melodies! (tailfin-tags Nyoka)
Nyoka:
Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love, Peter Gabriel’ So, The Moody Blues‘ The Other Side of Life, Sting’s The Dream of the Blue Turtles, Shadowfax’s Too Far to Whisper, Mannheim Steamroller’s Fresh Aire VI, Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s Keyboard Fantasies; Jean-Michel Jarre’s Rendez-vous: and Enya’s first album! (tags Ilyana)
Ilyana:
Paul Simon’s Graceland, Madonna’s True Blue , Dire Straits’ Brothers in Arms, Joan Armatrading’s Sleight of Hand, Jackson Browne’s Lives in the Balance, Belinda Carliisle’s Belinda, Robert Palmer’s Riptide, The Bangles’ Different Light, The Fabulous Thunderbirds’ Tuff Enuff, and The Pretenders Get Close! (tags Mielikki)
Mielikki:
So like, I will nominate Suzanne Ciani’s Velocity of Love, Philip Glass’s Songs from Liquid Days, Virginia Astley’s Hope in a Darkened Heart, Vladimir Horowitz’s The Last Romantic, Constance Demby’s Novus Magnificat, William Ackerman’s Conferring with the Moon, Michael Manring’s Unusual Weather, Scott Cossu & Eugene Friesen’s Reunion, fur shur! (tags Bunni with a flit of the wing)
Bunnii:
The B-52’s Bouncing off the Satellites, Talking Heads’ True Stories, R.E.M.’s Life’s Rich Pageant, Eurythmics’ Be Yourself Tonight, Siouxsie and the Banshees’ Tinderbox, The Cure’s Standing on the Beach, Pet Shop Boys’ Please, The Smiths’ The Queen is Dead, Suzanne Vega’s first album, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ Kicking Against the Pricks album, and their Your Funeral, My Trial album! Back to Petra!
Petra:
Oh, I gotta go with Frank Zappa’s Jazz from Hell, Spyro Gyra’s Breakout, Pat Metheny & Ornette Coleman’s Song X, Bob James & David Sanborn’s Double Vision, Kenny G’s Duotones Najee’s Najee’s Theme, Larry Carlton’s Alone / But Never Alone, Cabo Frio’s Right on the Money, Abdullah Ibrahim’s Water from an Ancient Well, and The Indestructible Beat of Soweto Vol. One by various artists, nyan! Well, that was another expedient little Lightning Round, and let’s keep the Mew rolling as Meryl starts our
DVD & Movie Mewsings, with her
review of Lupin The 3rd vs Cat’s Eye, nyan!
Meryl:
Hai! On In 1967 magna-ka Monkey Punch created the world’s greatest thief character Aresene Lupin the 3rd, along with his gang consisting of Fujiko Mine, Daisuke Jigen and Goeman Ishikawa, who are forever chased by Interpol’s inspector Zenegata. The fiin adbentures have been the subject of numerous TV series and movies, of which Hayao Miyazaki’s 1979 anime film The Castle of Cagliostro is still my favoritest animeowted movie of all time!
In 1981, manga-ka Tuskasa Hojo created Cat’s Eye, the tale of three sisters Hitomi, Rui and Ai Kisugi opurrate the charming Cat’s Eye cafe by day, but at night they are the elusive sexy Cat’s Eye thieves who are purrsued by Tokyo Police Detective Toshio Utsimi, who is naively unaware of the ladies’ identities! Ever since their irst anime TV series debuted in 1985 I have wanted to see Lupin meet Cat’s Eye which finally happened with this 2023 OAV!
It was finally released here on Blu-ray by Diskotek Media last month! Directed by Kobun Shizuno, 90 min.adventure pits the two teams against the cops and the evil arms dealers who are all concerned about a legendary purriceless treasure. It is a typical Lupin tale, but it is nonetheless quite thrilling, violent, amewsing, beautiful and nostalgic,so I was quite pleased with it! Ah, that is our only movie review, so I will turn The Mew over toTara’who will start
Our Collectibles & Toy Talk, with her review of
Banpresto’s Umamusume Prtetty Derby Vodka 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 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 real thoroughbred mare named Vodka was born on Apurril 4th, 2004 and won many races in the early 200s, nyan! The umamusume character is voiced by Ayaka Ohashi, nyan!
Appuroximately 5”5″ tall with the BWH sizes of 30-22-31”, the character horse girl with fair skin, purrple eyes, Dark brown hair and – and tail, nyan. The 1/9 scale figure of her is 7” tall including her 5″ ear pinna, her shoe heels, and – and the .25” high, 4” diameowter display base, nyan! It is beautifully designed, sculpted and – and painted, with the purrcise details such as her hair’s ombre and – and ornaments; her fuku’s pleats, thigh highs, sailor collar, and – and ribbons, nyan! I am done so nyow here is Daytona to discuss the
Zatanend Catgirl Mia Ecchi Waifu Figure, nyan!
Daytona:
Arigato! Zatanend’s painted 1/7 scale PVC and ABS figure of the artist Koyafu’s original character Mia the shy waifu nekomimi is quite endearing! Sitting in the ahiru-zuwari pose with the beckoning cat gesture, she is also rather sexy, clad in only the opened white shirt, the matching thong and the neko-te paw gloves, this figure is considered ecchie because of how much of her buttocks and breasts are visible, so she is therefore intended for the adult collectors!
Appurroximately 5” high including her ears, if were she standing. she would be about 9.5” tall, which would make the character about 5’5” tall. She is nicely designed, sculpted and painted, from the white tufts in her dark brown ears, the dark brown curved tail and waist-length hair, to her her pink eyes, nipples and paw pads; the details such as her moe fang and the shirt’s fabric folds, so I will give this figure the high praise, and now here is Trini to present our
Purrinted-Media Mewsings,
with her review of Ruri Dragon vol. 3!
Trini:
Hai!I love the whimsical school life & slice of life tales about the supurrnatural girls, so I have been enjoying this manga series by Masaoki Shindo which purrtains to thr high school freshman Ruri awakens with feshly- spurrouted horns! That is when her mom decides to reveal that Ruri is half-dragon, thanks to her seldom-seen fad! As if the teen girl in high school did not have enough purroblems, nyow she and the classmates struggle with her meownifesting dragon powers!!
It reminds me of the Demon Girl Next Door series. Originally published by Shonen Jiump, the english version is published by Viz. Rated T for teens, Vol. 3 has the 192 pages of black & white chapters 16-24 plus the bonus pages in which Ruri has more changes whilst she and new friends staff the sports festival! It was translated by Caleb Cok, lettered by Kyla Aiko, designed by Julian Robinson, edited by Jack Carrillo Concordia, and I will give it the A grade! Nyow here is Mie-sensei to discuss
My Dress-Up Darling Official Anime FanBook!
Mielikki:
So like, Shinichi Fukada’s slice of life / romeowntic comedy manga series My Dress-Up Darling manga series is about Wakana the loner dollmaker who sews costumes for the genki cosplayer Marin, and it was adapted into the fanservicey anime TV series which is totally sexy, fun and charming, fur shur! Thusly, this 12 x 8.5 x .5” full color 104 page hardcover book published by Square Enix has several full-page illustrations, many screen caps. nterviews with several of the anime staff, and a complete guide to the anime with all sorts of trivia and background information, so I found this book to be quite alluring, entertaining, informative, fur shur! So like, I am done, and now here are Becca and Beebs to discuss
Rowrbrazzle #169!
Becca:
Arigato! Since 1984, Rowrbrazzle has been quarterly APA (amateur press association) anthology zine pertaining to funny animal and anthropomorphic history, events, fandom, art and tales! Issue #169 is mostly of the equine theme, and consists of four 8.5×11” stapled sections / tranches totaling 279 pages, 39 of which are in full color!
Edited & compiled by Edd Vick (who contributed 22 pages), it consists of the awesome comics, purrose, essays, articles, discussions, editorials, comics, illustrations, photos, convention reports, correspondences, remembrances, the current member list and rules.Section 1’s front cover is by Toivo Rovainen (who contributed 4 other pages).
Section 1’s back cover is by Charles Brubaker (who contributed 34 other pages); section 2’s front cover is by Ed Schreiber, section 3’s front front cover is by Kim J; section 4’s front cover is by Mary Bellamy(who contributed 5 other pages), and section 4’s back cover is by Robert Alley (who contributed 26 other pages)
Beebee:
The other contributing artists, authors and journalists are Matt McAndrews, Niall Shapiro, JW Kennedy, Charles Garofalo, Chris Yost, Kjartan Anorsson, Simon Barber, Timothy Fay, Ken,Marcinkevicious, William Earl Haskell, Walt Wentz, Danny Ferbert, David Fruner, Kurt Wilcken, Michael Pena, Ed Pegg Jr., John Bandow, Evan Waldron, Kristen Fontain, Jeffrey H. Wood, and the APA’s emergency officer Steven F, Scharff!,
In addition to the many equines, the diverse characters include the bovid, feline, canine, mephitine, leoprid, murine, cervine, vulpine, lupine, argonian, dragon, primates, piscine, reptilian, elephantine, avian, porcine, goblinoid, droid and dairy! As usual, it is the wonderfully entertaining, informative, and beautiful issue!, fur shur!
That is all for the printed – media portion of The Mew, so here are Petra, Bunnii, Nyoka and Ilyana to present the
Additions to the Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art!
Bunny:
Hai hai! This month we have added twelve illustrations to the mewseum, including images by Rvkh Brogden, Misty Hopkins, Jane Parker, Melody Rondeau, Jeffrey H. Wood, and our webmeowster Jamie Robertson into Guest Gallery Six https://catgirlisland.net/art/gallery/guest6.html, and two new pics by our purrducer Mike Moon into Gallery Eight https://catgirlisland.net/art/gallery/gallery8.html!
The two supurrb pics by Misty Hopkins https://linktr.ee/kranberrijam are the genki kawaii winged bunny girl “Meroko Sketch” and the confidently tough miquote catgirl “Strongest Cat!!” The two delightful Krita pics by Jane Parker https://playingps2.xyz/ are fan art of Konoha of the Ninkoro manga & anime series in “Konoha Is Gay, Keep Scrolling” and fan art of a sleepy Elphelt Valentine of the Guilty Gear video game series in “Elphelt Wake TF Up!!!”
Ilyana:
Nextly is is the lovely vintage pic by Jeffrey H. Wood https://www.snowbuni.com/ of his famous sexy alien usagimimi spy Snowbuni from the “Chicago ComiCon 1987”! Then we have two whimsically beautiful pieces of Doctor Who fan art by
Melody Rondeau https://fanlore.org/wiki/Melody_Rondeau which depicts the Sixth Doctor and Adric retrieving the “Foul Ball”, and the Sontaran wanting the T-bone steak grilled by he Dalek neighbor in “Kiss the Cook”!
You know, Jeffrey, Melody and Mike are meowmbers of Rowrbrazzle https://www.facebook.com/groups/208494146211779; whilst at Melody and her husband Jim’s web site https://11a1ab8.netsolhost.com/makeitgoaway/ they consignment sell lots of
fanzines, magazines, books, calendars, scripts, film clips, comic books, graphic novels, movie posters, lobby cards, press kits, games, CDs, DVDs laser discs, plates and stuffed animals!
Nyoka:
We are purroud to purrsent the purretty “Robin” by Jamie https://www.facebook.com/jamie4art who used Rebelle8 for that digital painting! Then we have two gorgeous pics by Rvkh Brogden https://www.rvkhart.com who used the watercolors for the “Canvas Sunrise”, and she used Procreate with the Apple pencil on the ipad for the adorable widdle “Spring Mouse”!
Oh oh, and that latter pic has the art purrocess video at Rvkh’s Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK_dViRAf1g&feature=youtu.be&themeRefresh=1! You know, Rvkh, Jamie and Mike are meowmbers of the Starry Eyed Artists Collective https://www.facebook.com/Starryeyedartistcollective/!
Petra:
Lastly but not leastly we are delighted to display two Photoshop & mouse illustrations by Mike. nyan! “Namaka” depicts the titular Hawaiian ocean goddess who appurrs in the splendid serialized prose YA urban fantasy tale of “Warrior’s Heart, Warrior’s Spirit” by our author friend Sharon Williams https://www.deviantart.com/caribbeanrose9, nyan!
“Xeshema” depicts the titular mimicsona – the anthropurrmorphic mimic purrsona – and her pet mimic – the treasure chest monster- in her dungeon tavern, nyan! This was done for our artist, cosplayer & leathercrafter friend Meesha DJ Walker https://xeshema.carrd.co/, nyan! So, what do y’all think of the newa art, nyan?
The Cat Lady Sings…
Nyoka:
Oh, I love the poses and expurressions of the sexy, confident characters drawn by Misty!
Ilyana:
Hai hai, and I think that Jane has quite the knack at using Krita for the delightful images!
Meryl:
Melody’s Doctor Who fan art is so purretty, charming, and clever with the accurate details.
Beebee:
Rivkh is brilliantly adept at illustrating characters & nature with traditional & digital tools!
Daytona:
That Robin by Jamie is as lovely as lovely can be, and I hope that he will return soon!
Bunnii:
It is wonderful to see more pics of Snowbuni, and I hope that she will visit us again soon!
Becca:
I like the rich colors cenic details and alluring figures in the Nakama and Xeshema pics!
Trini:
It is almost time for our the Aftermew luau, so we wish to thank all of those creative folks whose works we have meowntioned
Tara:
We also wish to thank our families, friends, fans and – and viewers, so that will do it for this month’s Mew, nyan!!
Mielikki:
Fur shur!
Petra:
Hai hai, and we will be back next month with the June edition of the Mew. Be there… aloha, nyan!!
The Ladies of The Mew:
HAPPY TAILS TO MEW, UNTIL WE EAT AGAIN! BAI BAI, NYAN!