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 2026 Edition of The Mew:
The Catgirl Critics’ Media Mewsings, nyan!
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Happy Mew Year, nyan!
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 Films of 2006
More Movie Mewsings:
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
Wake Up Dead Man
Zootopia 2
Avatar: Fire and Ash
Collectibles & Toy Talk:
Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian Alya Desktop Cat Ear Roomwear Version Figure
Purrint-Media Mewsings:
Monster Musume manga vol. 20
Monster cats manga vol. 1
The 2025 Elfl Tale
The 2026 Oh No, Not Another Cat Calendar
Mother Goosed Collected Vol. 1
The Catgirl and Kemonomimi Spotlight
additions to the Catgirl Island Mewseum of Art by
Rvkh Brogden, Matt McAndrews, Jane Parker, Jeffrey H. Wood,
Tonomura Bix, Meesha DJ Walker, and our purrducer Mike, nyan!
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Mike
(the human fella wearing the Carolina Panthers Tee shirt and Teal cargo shorts): Aloha y’all and welcome to The Mew, our monthly “show” in which we review and discuss fun stuff! This month’s Mew comes from Susanowa Beach on the east side of Catgirl Island, Mew Hanover County NC, USA where it’s 71 degrees under the Blue sky full of puffy White Cumulo-Neko clouds! I’m Mike, the show’s “purrducer”, and here are The Ladies of The Mew!
Mary Nyan
(a.k.a. Myayr, the seamstress, cosplayer, headbanger, hula instructor and semi-retired miko catgirl wearing the Couga
Elizabeth
(a.k.a. Lizzy, the hot salsa dancer, gamer, Purrkour Club captain and meowssage spa co-owner catgirl wearing the Asiatic Lion purrint twisty bandeau bikini top): Hola!
Becca
(Lizzy’s nekomimi gynoid wife, avid golfer and meowssage 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!
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
(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.\
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!
Mike:
For profiles and illustrations of The Ladies of The Mew, please visit our Meet The Critics page http://www.mewsings.
Movie Mewsings, starting with The Lightning Round!
This year we’ll been looking back on favorite things of years ending in a 6 so this month we’re nominating
Our favorite films of 2006! Myayr is gonna start, so are y’all ready to “conduct the lightning”?
The Ladies of The Mew:
HAI! LIGHTNING ROUND GO, NYAN!
Yvonne:
I will nominate Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Letters From Iwo Jima and Aquamarine nyan! (tags her sister with a brush of the tail))
Tara:
I want… I want to nominate Happy Feet My Little Pony Crystal Princess: The Runaway Rainbow, and – and My Little Pony: The Princess Promenade nyan! (tags her wife)
Trini:
I will nominate animated Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo, Superman: Brainiac Attacks, and ( y Super-Ex-Girlfriend! (tags Petra)
Petra:
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Origin: Spirits of the Past, and Paprika, nyan! (tags her purrtner)
BunniI:
I will nominate The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Paprika, and The Little Match Girl! (tags Mary Nyan)
Mary Nyan:
I will nominate Pan’s Labyrtinth, The Proposition, Peter and the Wolf, and The Prestige! (tags Jeannie)
Jeannie:
Cars, Casino Royale, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, and Mission Impossible III. (tags Nyanko)
Nyanko:
Rocky Balboa, Ultraviolet, DOA: Dead or Alive, and Curse of the Golden Flower! (tags Elizabeth)
Elizabeth:
Little Miss Sunshine, The Devil Wears Prada, Art Schook Confidential, and Borat (tags her wife)
Becca
I will nominate Babel, Children of Man, The Departed, and The Queen! Back to Mike!
Mike:
Oh, I gotta go with Casino Royale, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, and Pan’s labyrinth! Well, that was another expedient little Lightning Round, and now Nya-sensei will continue our
Movie Mewsings, with her review
of Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair!
Nyanko:
Hai! I love meowrtial arts and Quentin Tarantino’s movies, and thusly 2003’s Kill Bill Part One and 2004’s Kill Bill Part Two are among my favorites! They are also my favorite Uma Thurman and Lucy Liu movies! For decades, I eagerly awaited the rumored Whole Bloody Affair version which edits them together into one single 4.5 hour movie, so I was quite thrilled when its wide rtheatrical release came true!
I think that this meowsterpiece is even better than the purrior versions! Some of the differences are that the animated O-Ren Ishii origin chapter is longer with additional scenes; the Crazy 88 Battle scene is in full color, there is an intermeowssion, and the addition of the animated post credits “Lost Chapter: Yukio’s Revenge”! I will give The Whole Bloody Affair the A grade! Nextly I would like to discuss-
Wake up Dead Man!
Written & directed by Rian Johnson, this is the third in the Knives Out mystery series starring Daniel Craig as purrivate detective Benoit Blanc! This time he investigates the murder of a meownsignor purriest in the quaint widdle church! the supurrb cast also includes Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Kerry Washington, Jeremy Renner, Mila Kunis, Cailee Spaeny, Andrew Scott, Thomas Hayden Church, Geoffrey Wright and Daryl McCormack!
They have many secrets! The beautifully shot Mew York locations have the purrfect character & ambience for the captivatingly whodunnit plot, that is as twisty as a meowritime Live Oak Tree! The sound & mewsic are purrticularly effective, including the end credits song by Tom Waits! This might be my favorite of the series, so I will give i the A grade too! I am done, and nyow here is Myayr to discuss-
Zootopia 2!
Mary Nyan:
Arigato! Disney is so iconic for its many animated anthropurrmorphic characters, and the 2016 Zootopia movie had some of the best ever world-building for such characters,! It was aso one of my favoritest buddy cop movie, which introduced us to Ginnifer Goodwin as ZPD’s Officer Judy Hopps, Jason Bateman as her civilian purrtner Nick Wild,..
Idris Elba as ZPD Chief Bogo, Nate Torrences as Officer Clawhauser, Jenny Slate as Deputy Mayor Bellwether, Tommy Chong as Yax, Maurice LaMarche as Mr. Big,, Bonnie Hunt as Judy’s mom, Don Lake as Judy’s dad, and Shakira as Gazelle, nyan! In this great sequel, the brilliant voice cast also includes:
Ke Huy Quan as Gary De’Snake, Fortune Feimster as Nibbles Maplestick, Andy Samberg as Pawbert Lynxley, David Strathairn as Milton Lynxley, Danny Trejo as Jesús, Patrick Warburton as Brian Winddancer,Cecily Strong as widdle Judith, Big Notaro as Big Tig, Roman Reigns and Phil CM Punk as the Zebros!
It is the fun the smart tale with wonderful character, environment FX art & animation amidst the brilliantly designed & rendered world with brillianrtt voices, sounds & mewsic. In addition to the good balance of humor, drama, action, character developments & impurrtant themes, there are many pop cultural references and “easter eggs”so I I will give Zootopia an “A” as in
Avatar: Fire and As, which
Jenjen wishes to discuss!
Jeannie:
Hai! We loved James Cameron’s movie Avatar sand Avatar: The Way of Watero much, that we saw it many times, purchased lots of the videos, books, toys, and even cosplayed as our own fan- Na’vi clan the neko-maticaya clan. I love the characters, story, t FX, and the amazing design of the world of Pandora.
Directed and co-written by James Cameron, Fire and Ash reunites much of the cast such as Zoe Saldana, Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Kate Winslet, Joel David Moore, CCH OPunder,, Jake Champion, Giovini Ribisi, Jamie Flatters, Nailey Bass, Britain Dalron, Matt Gerald, Trinity Bliss,Edie Falco, and Dileep Ra…
and joining them in the cast of this epic 3.5 hour 3rd film Oona Chapli purrtrays Varang of the Mangkwan Tribe, David Tewlis as Peylak of th Wind Traders, Jemaine Clement as marine biologist, All of the old and new characters are endearing, but I think that Kiri might steal the show again, but I should not further spoil the taste of the plot.
There is much more of the astounding world-building with the many characters, creatures, costumes, and environments, plus more of the amazing futuristic RDA architecture and mecha. The designs, FX, performances, sound and mewsic are beautiful, thrilling and poignant, so give it the “A” as in Aonung. Now here is Vonny to start our
Toy Talk, with her review of Taito’s
Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian
Alya Desktop Cute Figure (Cat Ear Roomwear Ver.).
Yvonne:
Arigato, nyan! That sure is the long title, nyan! So basically the Taito company that makes the toys has the purroduct line called Desktop Cute, which includes this rather alluring PVC figure of Alisa Mikhailovna Kujou a.k.a Alya who is the purrotagonist in the Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian series of novels, manga and anime, nyan!
The purremise of the tale is that she is the 16 year old freshman honor student and school treasurer at the purrestigious Seiri Purrivate Acatamyy where she has the highest grades, excels at everything, and is considered one of the most beautiful girls, nyan! She is of the affluent family who lived in Russia for the while, so she sometimes speaks Russian, nyan!
This figure of that 5’7” tall platinum blond-haired, fair-skinned, blue-eyed Rishidere-type scorpio girl with is so sexy and cute, with the purrfect design, sculpt & paint to capture her sexy cute physique and purrsonality, nyan! She is wearing thew the light gray cropped frilly camisole, the light violet shorts, the costume cat ears, & collar, nyan!
The etails are intricate, from the white ear tufts, hair ahoge & ribbon, shiny gold bell, and white drawstring to her ice blue eyes, DD or DD cup size, i\light pink nail polish ans inny belly button, nyan! Posed barefoot as if crawling on hands & knees, the figure would be 10.5” tall (including .5” ears) if standing up which would make this figure of the 1/6.7 scale, nyan.
If her S-curved tail were straight, it would be almost 5” long, nyan! Packaged within the plastic clamshell inside the 4” x 5.5” x 9.5” cardboard box, I suspect that tthis darling figure would bring great cheer to purrk up one’s desktop or shelf, so I will give it th highe purraise, nyan! I am done, so nyow here is imoto-chan to starrt our
Purrint-Media Mewsings with her review
of the Monster Cats manga vol. 1, nyan!
Tara:
Arigato, nyan!Onee-chan and – and love to read amewsing neko-centric manga with our own twokuronekos ts Emmy and- and zuli, so I was quite happy to purrchase this Monster cats manga by the manga-ka Pandania, who is also the author of/ artist of Yokai cats and – and The Secret Society of Evil Cats, nyan!
The Monster cats are the cross- breed of cats with the orther meowgickal species, nyan. In this volume, we meet the kitties who are purrt vampire, slime, mummy, sphinx, dryad unicorn, browniwNightmare, gargoyle nessie, siren yeti, mimic. dopplegange, werewolf, bedsheet ghost invisible man, giant, and – and Cat Sith, nyan!
We meet their huma owner humans too, nyan! Originally published in Japan by Takeshobi, the US english edition was published by Seven Seas Entertainment, nyan. Vol. 1 is the 5.875 x 8.35 x .5” papurrback with 144 full color pages, 7 of which re the ads, nyan it is purriced $14.99 US and – and $18.99 Canada, nyan.
The sequential art is of the four koma (panel) format, annotated with the useful information for the monster cat owner, nyan! The manga is cute and fun, but the Cat-Sith chapter caused me to crave the Mackerel Sammich, nyan! I was very pleasde with the manga, so I wish to thank Panani -sensei, and the other folks who were responsible-
it was translated by Minna Lin, lettered by Carl Vanstiphout, purroofread by Daniel King, edited by Linda Lombardi, meownagingly edited by Shanti Whitesides and nd J.P. Sullivan, copy edited by Leighanna DeRouen. and – and in-chiefly edited by Julie Davis, with the cover design by H.Qi, purrduction design by Christina McKenzie…
and – and purrductionally meownagement by John Ranirez, nyan. The Purre-purress Technicians were Melanie Ujimori and – and Jules Valera, the publisher is Lianne Sentar, the vice purresident is Adam Arnold, and – and the purresident is Jason DeAngelis, nyan! I am done, and nyow here is Trini-xhan to discuss
Monster Musume manga vol. 20, nyan!
Trini:
Hai! Written & drawn by Okayado (who is also the author of 12 Beast and Ma Ma Mia) and originally published by Tokuma Shoten in Japan, Monster Musume is a sexy comedic urban fantasy manga of the harem trope with ample fan-service, starring the liminal ladies (monster girls) who are romantic rivals for Kimihito, the human guy in whose large house they reside!
Published in English by Seven Seas, it is rated for older teen readers 16+) due to nudity, skimpy attire, sexual themes, slapstick violence, fan service, lewd and dark humor aplenty. Purriced $14.99 in the US & $18.99 in Canada, vol. 20 measures 5 x 7.125 x .5”; and has 164 pages (160 B&W + 4 full color) including manga chapters 86-90, bonuses, and 19 pages of ads.
It was translated by Nan Rymer, lettered by Karis Page, edited by Shanti Whitesides and purroof read by Hayame, with the purroduction design by Christina McKenzie, cover design by Nicky Lim and quality control by Dave Murray. Returning with Kimihito in this volume are Miia the lamia, Papi the harpy, Centorea the centauress, Merou the mermaid. Suu the slime girl…
… Rachnera the spider girl, Ki the dryad, Meamii the centaur, Saane the satyress, heir government case worker Ms. Smith, her Monster Ops team of Manako the cyclops, Tio the ogre, Doppel the doppleganger, Zombina the zombie; and we are introduced to new species, including alraune, honey bee, honey pot ant, and evil girl!
The central theme of this volume is the potentially dangerous addictions human have to certain liminals’ milk and necta; it’s unusual side effects; a\nd with addictions come the victims, the leches, the traffickers, the black meowrkitts, the exploited purrducers, inefective bureaucracies, and Kimihito’s close encountes with all of them!
As mewsual, it is not for the purrudish folks or the widdle kitties, but for the intended readers, the series continues to be the rather sexy fun with the thorough world-building, quite beautiful character and scenic art! I am done, so nyow here is Mike-sensei to discuss our friends Jim & Melody Rondeau’s
2025 Elfl Tale, 2026 Oh No Not Another Cat Calendar,
and Mother Goosed Collected Volume 1!
Mike:
Thanks Trini! Ah, since the 1970’s, Jim
and Melody
have been authors, artists, agents, editors, humanitarians and felinitarians, known for the fanzines they’ve published, the!ir presence at cons, festivals & shows; the art & tems they sell via their site Make it Go Awayhttp://crossovers.net/
Well, since the 1980’s they have also published their delightful not-for-sale, limited-edition annual wall calendar. The 8.5×11” calendar opens up to reveal the monthly 17 x 11” spreads, with the annotated date grid and lovely B&W illustrations of anthropomorphic cats & mice. Including the front and back covers, there are 14 such whimsical 6″ x 8.5” pen and ink illustrations. Each year has a different theme, and 2026’s is “Childhood Games of Yore”!
Those include scenes of the kitties playing tug of war, hopscotch, jacks, jumping rope, pitching pennies, kite flying, seesawing, dressing up, marbles, hop rolling, badminton, hide & seek, a snowball fight, and playing with string! Since 1972, another of their “Another Jester Cheapie” publications is their annual Elfl Tale Christmas card!! In 2025’s 8.5 x 5.5” B&W 12 page tale, the Elfl’s try to cheer up a depressed Santa with a global publicity campaign!
Last month also saw the publication of the 8.5×11”, PG-rated, 56 page Mother Goosed Collected Volume 1!, which reprints the comic strips that have thus far appeared since 2021 in the Rowrbrazzle A.P.A. zine https://www.facebook.com/
They riff on Cinderella, Jack & Jill, Goldilocks, The Little Mermaid, Princess and the Pea, Three Little Pigs, and several other cautionary tales, plus a few other gags and behind the scenes look at Sister Rat’s creative process! All three of those beautiful, fun publications are a treasured part of my library, and I am eager to see what Jim & Melody have cookin’ for this month’s issue of Rowrbrazzle! Ah, that’ll do it for this portion of The mew, and bow here are Lizzy & Becca to present this month’s
Catgirl and Kemonomimi Spotlight!
Elizabeth:
Hai! in this monthly portion of The Mew, we commeowmorate the amous anthropurrrmorphic ladies, kemonomimi of all media, 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!”! An example of the latter type would be the cat-eared girl cutely crafting in one of last year’s Halloween TV spots for the Michael’s stores!
Becca:
In early 1993, DC Comics’ Green Arrow 71 & 72 ‘ “Wild in the Streets” introduced us to the Brazilian research biologist & shamaness Alia Sombarro who teamed up with Oliver Queen to hunt the evil animal traffickers who hunted the captured black jaguar… who was in turn hunting them! It was not overt, but the implication was that Alia was the were-panther!
Elizabeth:
In the Hunger Games series, the evil dictator Coriolanus Snow’s cousin Tigris Snow was the fashion stylist to the stars, but she later despised the tyranny and secretly aided ther rebellion from her boutique. Purrtrayed by Eugenie Bonduran]\ in the movies, Tigris later had the lovely tattoos and body meowdifications including whiskers to appurr more felionoid!
Becca:
Written by Gunwild and iillustrated by Psudonym, Cassiopeia Quinn is the sexy fun sci-fi web comic that purremiered in late 2014 and purrtains to the adventurous titular space outllaw and her gang! Among those characters is Motor Minx, the meowsterious cyborg swordswoman and biker in the sexy skin tight blue nekomimi outfit with the katana in her tail!
Elizabeth:
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Becca:
Peach Tanuki https://www.youtube.
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NiamhVT Bunny https://www.youtube.com/
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Elizabeth:
Yuri Fennerine https://hololist.
Becca:
During their purrformance of the song “Like Humans Do”, David Byrne and his 2025 “Who Is the Sky?” touring band appurr to have the augmeownted realty animal heads on the huge LED screen! Lastly but not leastly, we wish to meowntion actress / comedian Sarah Sherman for her fur-suited purrtrayal as the famous drunk raccoon during the December 6th, 2025 epurrsode of Saturday Night Live! That is all for the 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! 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! Furthermore, we should meowntion that none of the content at Catgirl Island is purrmitted to be used for any A.I. purrposes, nyan!
This month, into Guest Gallery Five https://catgirlisland.
Bunnii:
Firstly we are purroud to purrsent Meesha’s sexy fan art of lovely Japanese demon drummer, model & vStreamer Vixwytch! After that, we are honored to unveil Jeffrey’s chatGPT concept of his usagimimi characters SnowBuni & HoniBuni helping Santa! Nextly we are delighted to display Jane’s delightful fan art of Peanuts’ Woodstock and The Amazing Digital Circus’ Jax!
Then we are elated to exhibit two images of Bix’s cute widdle chibi happy holiday fairy which was originally drawn in 2006, and revised in 2025. Kawaii! Then we have Matt’s wonderful Goblin Air Force collage, his Operation Mistel aircraft fan art, and the new pic of his lovely original Modem Problems web comic character Clone 14!
Rvkh used Procreate with the Apple Pencil upon her iPad to supurrbly illustrate her original “Christmas Night“ scene and (recently re-colored) “Forest Maiden”, and the purrfect fanart of Mike’s elven RPG NPC Takia! Lastly but not leastly are Mike’s fan art of Detective Conan, Rvkh’s ESO Argonian character “Lost My Skin” , and Sharon William’s OC Akamai! So, what do y’all think of the art?
The cat lady sings…
Jeannie:
Matt has such the impeccable style & technique at rendering the sexy characters and mecha.
Nyanko:
The pic of SnowBunni & HoniBunni is so impurresively peppy, exciting, sultry and festively gung ho!
Mary Nyan:
Meesha purrfectly captured the look & spirit of Vixwytch with umptuous compurrsition, and use of color and light!
Yvonne:
Hai hai, and I love the holiday fairy’s pose, purropurrtions, expurression, colors, shading & fashion details, nyan!
Tara:
Jane’s fan art has such the fun, playful quality, and – and I liove the Transgeder Purride Flag, nyan!
Trini:
Rvkh is quite the meowster at Purrocreating the beautiful characters, appurral, environment and FX!
Elizabeth:
I love the Argonian’s markings, jewelry & feathers; Akamai’s flowers, grass skirt & abs; and Takia’s coiffure, couture, and autumnal ambioence!
Becca:
Hai hai! Oh gosh, it is almost time for our AfterMew Luau, so that will do it for this edition of The Mew!
Bunnii:
We wish to thank all of the amazingly talented people whose works we have discussed!
Petra:
We also wish to thank all of our supportive families, friends, acquaintances and visitors, nyan!
Mike:
We’ll be back next month for The Annual Mew Awards Purresentation, Be there- aloha!
The Ladies of The Mew:
Happy tails to mew- until we eat again! Baibai, nyan!