Anthropomorphism

**Anthropomorphism** is the attribution of human traits, emotions, or intentions to wild as well as domesticated animals.

## Stages of Anthropomorphism in Kawaii

### Animalistic Animals

Animals that really like real animals and they not often bipedal, humanlike hand, or foot. They are often quadrupedal, paws, hooves, wings, tentacles, naturally animalistic behaviors, and grab using mouth.

#### Primitive animals

Animals that are cannot move, think, or does not have eyes, mouth, or limbs, they're often treated as living props, scenery, or decoration. Example includes: Corals in Aquatica, the clam treated as a jewelry, or sponges treated as a bathing and or cleaning.

#### Normal animals

Animals that are not intelligent, anthropomorphic or human in appearances. Examples includes: Mety the dog , Anoma the Anomalocaris, and Rely the rabbit.

#### Semi-normal animals

Animals that are looks normal, but have a very little human qualities and traits. Examples includes: Varyn the elephant, Gawil the gopher and Pinni the walrus.

#### Nearly normal animals

Animals that are nearly normal, but have a little but more human traits and behavior than semi-normal animals. Example includes: Osty the ostrich, Dawil the axolotl, and Tutty, the leatherback turtle.

#### Fully trained animals

Animals that are intelligent and trained, but cannot talk. Examples includes: Wally the walrus, Hyan, the hyrax and Cani the Canada goose.

#### Inproperly talking animals

Animals have more human traits than fully trained animals, but cannot talk properly. Example includes Sally, the American mastodon, Klug the leopard seal, and Flili, the fly.

#### Properly talking animals

Animals that can talk properly, but does not have a humanlike body shape and other traits. Examples includes: Talky the dog, Ratestu the rattlesnake, and Wolkami the grey wolf.

#### Truly talking animals

Animals that can truly talks, like humans. Example includes: Sally the sheep, Walla the wallaby, and Seta the hedgehog.

#### Partially/Borderline civilized animals

Animals that are truly little act like modern humans aside from talking. Examples includes: Sega the antelope, Pecora the giraffe, and Pipi the penguin.

### Anthropomorphic Animals

Animals that are act mostly human and they have a humanlike hands, or foot, often bipedal, sometimes replace with humans and they have even pets!

#### Civilized animals

Animals that are act half human but they still have a half natural animal behavior and occasionally stays on four legs and can growl, roar, or squeak. Examples includes: Diddy the cockroach, Sasa the peacock, and Seta the platypus.

#### Funny animals

Animals that are act mostly human with little animalistic behavior, they have clothes, human-styled house, and sometimes human-sized. Example includes: Sally the mouse, Gatesu the tapir and Hatsu, the okapi.

#### Semi-humanoid/Very anthropomorphic animals

Animals that are more human than funny animals and nearly bordering humanoid animals and still they have a humanlike breast, head hair and are fully clothed and their body are curves or muscular. Example includes: Rascy the raccoon, Tella the panda, and Squilla the squirrel.

### Humanoid Animals

Animals /Characters that are more anthropomorphic than semi-humanoid and they're have a human appearances like human skin, faces, and limbs, but they're still have a animal parts such as ears, wings, horn, fangs, fin and limbs. May result from bizarre appearances such as centaur having six limbed for an vertebrates and Kemonomimi have animal ears on atop from a normal human ears.

#### Centauroid

Centauroids are characters that have human upper half, strangely quadruped lower half as in from a normal animals

##### Mermaid

Mermaids are a centauroid form with aquatic creature lower half. Example includes: Selky the seal

##### Centaur

Centaurs are a centauroid form with quadrupedal land creature lower half. Example includes: Hoofy the horse

##### Lamias

Lamias are centauroid form with limbless creature lower half such as snakes.

##### Arachnes

Arachnes are centauroid form with spider lower half.

#### Beastfolk

Beastfolks are humanoid character with animalistic traits and appearances and often confused for an funny animal or semi-humanoid animal. Sometime their appearances seems like less anthropomorphic than a semi-humanoid or even a funny animal!

##### Insectoid

Humanoid character with insect traits such as compound eyes, and exoskeleton.

##### Orcs

Humanoid character with piglike traits such as snouts.

##### Fishfolk

Humanoid character with fishlike traits such as scales and fins, they're often distinguished from mermaids by having a hind legs like a human.

#### Kemonomimi

Animals/Characters that are look mostly human, but added characteristic of animal's ears, tail, wings, horns, fangs, and paws. They're still have a human skin, human face, and human body structure.

##### Nekomimi

A humanoid character with cat ears and tail.

##### Usagimimi

A humanoid character with rabbit ears and tail.

##### Okamimimi

A humanoid character with wolf ears and tail.

##### Nezumimi

A humanoid character with mouse ears and tail.

##### Umamimi

A humanoid character with horse ears and tail.

##### Inumimi

A humanoid character with dog ears and tail.

##### Tanukimimi

A humanoid character with tanuki ears and tail.