The long-awaited new anime series of Spice and Wolf will begin airing in 2024, and the biggest attraction of this work is the exploits of Holo, the beautiful girl with animal ears who plays an active role in the story. Holo is the most popular character in this work, and many fans will watch the new series just to see Holo's exploits drawn with new drawings. Holo is a female character who is very popular not only in this work but also in the anime industry as a whole, and is attracting attention especially due to the unique attribute of her animal ears. From this perspective, Holo is one of the most well-known female characters in Japanese animation works, and is a female character who represents the genre of beautiful girl with animal ears. This time, for anime fans who love animal-eared girls like Holo, we would like to introduce animation works in which beautiful girls with animal ears like Holo play an active role. Even though they are all called animal-eared girls, there are many different types of female characters, so if you are interested, please check them out.
Spice and Wolf
The first animated work in which a beautiful girl with animal ears plays an active role is "Spice and Wolf". "Spice and Wolf" is the main work of this article, so I'm sure there is no one who doesn't know about it, but just to explain, it is a work set in a medieval European world where the merchant Lawrence and Holo, the incarnation of a wolf who is the god of fertility, go on a journey. This work is well-known for its focus on business transactions and battles of wits.
Holo
The animal-eared beautiful girl who plays an active role in "Spice and Wolf" is Holo. Holo's true identity is not human, but a wolf in human form, and she plays a major role in the story by utilizing her wolf characteristics. She is a character who strongly assists Lawrence in his business, based on the amount of knowledge and wild instincts she has gained from living for many years. Combined with her dignified way of speaking, she can be said to be a very distinctive animal-eared beautiful girl.
Sword Art Online
The second animated work featuring a beautiful girl with animal ears is "Sword Art Online." Sword Art Online is a monumental light novel work that attracted attention during the golden age of light novels, and is a work that depicts characters who play various roles in a large cyberspace stage that has advanced so much that it is indistinguishable from the real world.
Sinon
Sinon is a beautiful girl with animal ears who plays an active role in "Sword Art Online". Sinon is a character who acts with the main character Kirito from the middle of the story, and there are scenes where she appears wearing cat ears on her avatar. Since Sword Art Online is a work that goes back and forth between various games, there are also game spaces where Sinon does not wear cat ears, but she looks very cute with cat ears on, and many anime fans probably remember Sinon as a cat ear character.
I Was Reincarnated as a Sword
The third animation work in which a beautiful girl with animal ears plays an active role is "I Was Reincarnated as a Sword." "I Was Reincarnated as a Sword" is a light novel that was recently animated, and it is a work that depicts a tricky setting in which the protagonist who is reincarnated in another world is reincarnated as a sword. The work is about the disadvantage of the protagonist being a sword being made up for by the heroine, a cat-eared girl.
Fran
The animal-eared beautiful girl who plays an active role in "I Got Reincarnated as a Sword" is Fran. Fran is an animal-eared beautiful girl with black hair, cat ears, and a tail, and is a character that has gained overwhelming popularity due to its high level of perfection. It can be said that she is one of the most popular animal-eared beautiful girls among the works that have been animated recently.
Urara Meirochou
The fourth animation work in which beautiful girls with animal ears play an active role is "Urara Meirochou". Urara Meirochou is a work in which girls who dream of becoming fortune tellers, called Urara, work together, and the story is popular due to the appearance of many cute characters. It is characterized by many cute and unique characters that are so-called Kirara type.
Kon
Kon is the beautiful animal-eared girl who plays an active role in "Urara Meirochou". Kon is a character who plays an active role alongside the main characters, and as you can tell from her appearance, she is a polite and reliable girl character. In this work, the main character has a very wild and crazy personality, so she is a character who plays a role in checking the main character's wild behavior. She has cat ears, but she is a popular character among fans who like characters with a reliable personality.
Kemono Friends
The fifth animated work in which beautiful girls with animal ears play an active role is "Kemono Friends." Kemono Friends is a work in which a lost child interacts with various cute animals called Friends in a safari-like zoo called Japari Park. The theme song for this work was created by Masayoshi Oishi, a famous anime song writer, and was very popular, so I'm sure there are many people who have heard even just the opening song.
Servals, moose, etc.
In "Kemono Friends," there are servals, moose, and other beautiful girls with animal ears. As the title Kemono Friends suggests, most of the characters in this work are anthropomorphized animals, so there are many characters with animal ears. In that sense, it is a paradise for animal ear fans. There are a wide variety of animal ear girls with different personalities, so be sure to find your favorite animal ear character.
Sengoku Youko
The sixth animated work in which beautiful girls with animal ears play an active role is "Sengoku Youko". This work is a manga that was broadcast as an anime last year in 2023, and since it was broadcast very recently, many fans may still remember it. It is a work set in the Sengoku period, depicting the coexistence and conflict between demons and humans.
Tama
Tama is a beautiful girl with animal ears who plays an active role in "Sengoku Youko". Tama and Jinka, the protagonist of the first part of this work, call themselves the world-changing siblings and are characters who are trying to solve various youkai-related incidents. As a fox spirit, and because she has lived for a very long time, she has an elderly mental age, and while she has animal ears, she is also a loli-baba, making her a character with a very diverse setting.
Monster Incidents
The second animation work in which a beautiful girl with animal ears plays an active role is "Monster Incidents". Monster Incidents is set in a world where there are mysterious beings called monsters, and depicts the exploits of Natsuha, who is employed by a man named Inugami, who is a detective specializing in the occult. As a dark fantasy, it is a very high-quality work and is highly recommended, so if you are even slightly interested, please check it out.
Kon
The beautiful animal-eared girl who plays an active role in "Monster Incidents" is Kon. Kon is a character who appears in Monster Incidents as a fox spirit belonging to the Metropolitan Police Department. She is very attached to the main character, Natsuha, and is one of the female characters who has particularly many interactions in the work. She is devoted and cute, and sometimes has a silly side, making her popular as a pure-hearted animal-eared character.
Mushoku Tensei
The seventh animated work in which a beautiful girl with animal ears plays an active role is "Mushoku Tensei". This work is one of the most popular works among works of reincarnation in another world, and it is a story about an unemployed protagonist who suddenly loses his life and tries to get serious in another world. It is a very well-made work as a human drama, and the growth of the protagonist is depicted in great detail, so not only can you enjoy the attractive female characters, but you can also be very moved by it.
Riña, Pursena
The beautiful girls with animal ears who play an active role in "Mushoku Tensei" are Riña and Pursena. The two are from the beast-like beast tribe, and are characters characterized by their distinctive animal ears and cute dog-like faces. The two had a dispute while the protagonist was attending school, but in the end, the protagonist brushed them off and punished them. After that, they are beautiful girls who follow the protagonist like an obedient servant from start to finish, behaving like dogs.
Uma Musume Pretty Derby
The eighth animated work in which beautiful girls with animal ears play an active role is "Uma Musume Pretty Derby." This work gained popularity after being released as a smartphone game and was made into an animated work. The work is about raising beautiful girls based on various real horses and winning races.
Special Week, Gold Ship, etc.
Special Week and Gold Ship are famous animal-eared beauties who play an active role in "Uma Musume: Pretty Derby". Most of the female characters that appear in this work are based on real horses, so they are all animal-eared characters. The number of characters that appear is huge, so you can definitely find a character that suits your taste, making it the ultimate content for animal ear lovers.
Monogatari Series
The ninth animated series featuring beautiful girls with animal ears is the Monogatari Series. The series sees the protagonist Araragi Koyomi confront various supernatural phenomena, and it has been a long-lived piece of content that has been popular for a long time. As the name Monogatari Series suggests, there are many different series, and it can be said that it is content that can be enjoyed over time.
Hanekawa Tsubasa
Hanekawa Tsubasa is a beautiful girl with animal ears who plays an active role in the Monogatari series. Hanekawa is a classmate of Araragi Koyomi who has appeared since the beginning, but when she accumulates stress, she has the characteristic of turning into animal ears due to the influence of a supernatural phenomenon. Hanekawa Tsubasa herself is a glasses-wearing character in the early days and has a rather plain image, but her impression changes drastically when she turns into cat ears, so I'm sure there are many fans who are attracted to the overwhelming gap.
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World
The third animation work in which a beautiful girl with animal ears plays an active role is "Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World". The story is about the protagonist Natsuki Subaru, a NEET who lost his life in an accident, and his struggle for Emilia, a girl he fell in love with at first sight in another world. It is a "return by death" type of work in which the protagonist returns to the past every time he dies, and it has become a popular work due to its extreme depictions and setting.
Ferris
Ferris is a beautiful girl with animal ears who plays an active role in "Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-". Ferris is a knight who is the attendant of the candidate who is competing with Emilia for the throne, and is actually a man with this appearance. It can be said that he is a beautiful girl character with a very unique combination of animal ears and a boyish girl. Therefore, it can be said that he is a character who has enthusiastic support from a maniac fanbase.
Japan, the Land of Animal Ears
As introduced this time, there are many animation works in Japan that feature beautiful girls with animal ears. No matter where you look in the world, there is no other country than Japan that has established and developed the unique genre of animal ears. It can be said to be one form of Japanese female characters, and I would like to continue to pay attention to the genre of beautiful girls with animal ears, which is a unique genre unique to Japan.
Why do we love animal ears so much?
But why do Japanese people love beautiful girls with animal ears so much? In the old days, there was a story about a fox disguised as a human and marrying a human, and one reason may be that myths about animals disguised as humans and falling in love with humans are firmly established in our culture. In any case, it is certain that there are nutrients that can only be replenished by beautiful girls with animal ears.
Summary
What did you think? In this article, we have introduced some attractive beautiful animal ear characters, such as the heroine of this work, "Spice and Wolf". It is amazing that there are such a wide variety of girl characters just in the unique genre of animal ears. In addition to the beautiful girl characters introduced this time, there are many other characters, so be sure to look for animal ear characters in this article yourself.
