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Kemonomimi (獣耳 or けものみみ, animal ears) are characters who have animal ears, usually in addition to their regular human ears. This commonly includes an animal tail. The ears can be fake, such as a headband, or part of the character's anatomy. A big part of kemonomimi is being cute or moe, and fans love it because "everything can be improved by drawing cat ears and a tail on it."

Kemonomimi can be a canon character design, but it's also a common fan activity to draw human characters with animal ears.

Kemonomimi is a Japanese term used mostly in anime/manga fandom, but adding animal ears and tails to characters happens in many other fandoms as well.

Transforming characters into kemonomimi is not the same thing as animal transformation since kemonomimi characters are still human.