A catgirl is a female kemonomimi character with feline traits, such as cat ears, a cat tail, or other cat forms and feline characteristics on an otherwise human body. Cat girls are found in various fiction genres, most commonly Japanese anime and manga. Cat girls in anime and manga are usually associated with various fantasy works and are a very specific type of character in various otaku communities. For those who like cat girl characters, here are the 35 best anime cat girl characters.
35. Catherine
Franchise: Gintama
Catherine is a middle-aged neko girl, a former thief whom Otose took under his wing and hired into his bistro. She speaks with a weird accent and has cat ears. She was a member of a group of Amanto thieves called Cat’s Punch. She has a habit of imitating poses of Otose, for smoking, for example. She is one of the beloved characters in both anime and manga.
34. Felicia
Franchise: Darkstalkers
Felicia is one more popular anime cat girl. She was adopted when she was just a kitten by a Catholic nun named Rose. When Rose dies, Felicia leaves her town hoping to be a musical star, during many of her travels she meets other Catgirls (beings of the same species as her), and together, they set out to fulfill her dreams. Finally, she and her friends have a musical play, where Felicia is the main star. In the events of Darkstalkers 3, she wonders how she could make others happy, so she becomes a nun and founds an orphanage called Felicity House. Her ears and tail truly make her stand out.
In her adventures in other media based on video games, Felicia heads to an unknown bar and there she meets John Talbain who befriends her and swears to protect her from her. When she leaves, four evil guys appear (followers of Demitri Maximoff), she runs and gets trapped in an alley, but to her surprise, Morrigan appears to defend her.
33. Persia
Franchise: Gate
One of the characters from Persia. An anime cat girl with glasses, cat ears, and a tail who is romantically involved with Kurata. She is recognizable for her purple hair.
32. Nuku Nuku
Franchise: All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku
The undisputed star of the anime and manga series, Nuku Nuku anime cat girl at first is just a stray cat that Ryunosuke stumbles upon while on the run with his father Kyusaku, after stealing an android prototype designed by Kyusaku himself but which could be used for evil purposes. Ryu decides to keep the stray cat, but it is mortally wounded.
In a moment of clarity, Kyusaku puts the brain of the dying cat into the android, giving it the intellect and feelings of the feline. Nuku Nuku considers Ryu his brother and Akiko and Kyusaku his parents, although he is fully aware of his origins. Almost indestructible, she becomes something of a bodyguard for Ryu, although she is very naïve and childish, and is easily distracted by things that interest cats.
31. Melwin
Franchise: Cat Planet Cuties
cat planet cuties is a treasure trove of cat girls. Melwin is the Catian Starship First Officer. She is slimmer and smaller-chested than the other anime girls and has short blue hair while sporting cat ears. Nevertheless, she made it onto our best anime cat girl list.
30. Shizuka Nekonome
Franchise: Rosario + Vampire
One of the many teachers at Yokai Academy, Shizuka Nekonome is the tutor for the journalism club. She is a cat-woman and a beloved anime cat girl, she is somewhat carefree in her attitude, and somewhat forgetful of certain things. Due to the monster that she is, the Nekonome teacher loves to eat fish, especially Gold-Fish. In the anime, Shizuka does not seem to despise human beings, the counterpart of her other co-workers, to such an extent that she promotes harmonious coexistence between demons and humans.
29. Chloe Lolo
Franchise: DanMachi
One of the characters from DanMachi both anime and manga. Chloe our next anime cat girl has a somewhat tragic story. Chloe was born to parents who were members of a family that operated as a criminal organization. From birth, she learned various methods of murder and was praised when she used them correctly. However, she began to dislike her family after her mother died while protecting her. Her goddess agreed to let her go, though she was ordered to complete a number of tasks before leaving, including assassinating a Level 3 Empire Knight with only a knife.
Despite the extreme difficulty of her tasks, she succeeded and rose in the process. After leaving her family, she traveled for a while until she came to Orario about nine years before the story. There she failed her first mission to assassinate Shakti Varma, narrowly escaped, and began turning down jobs to kill top-notch adventurers. After failing to kill a wanted Ryuu, she finally joined the Fertility Hostess.
28. Haineko
Franchise: Bleach
Accentuating her feline side and cat ears in both anime and manga, Haineko has shown to be a mischievous anime cat girl and mischievous person, who loves to annoy the people around her and make herself noticed whenever she can. However, few things hold his attention for a relatively long time, and he tends to get bored and lose interest quite easily.
As Matsumoto said in the manga, Haineko is a self-centered and superficial Zanpakutō (just like herself, although she is unable to see it), as well as a lazy and lively character, who is quite easy to get on her nerves. One of the easiest ways to make Haineko angry is by criticizing her physical appearance or calling her “fat” or “old”, to which she responds with similar arguments or, if she is in the middle of a fight, more fiercely.
She not only considers herself to possess great beauty and qualities far superior to those of Matsumoto, but she is also willing to prove it, even if she is wielding puerile arguments. Really, it is difficult for Haineko to be serious and reasonable, but not impossible, and in fact, she has been seen in this guise whenever the occasion has required it.
27. Natsuki Sasahara
Franchise: Hyper Police
Natsuki is a 17-year-old half-human/half-Nekomata anime cat girl from Hyper Police. She is the daughter of a human father and a Nekomata mother. Natsuki is very kind and friendly to everyone, always trying to protect the weak and uphold the law. His personality is very feline; She’ll eat cat food, groom herself like a cat, and play with ropes and other moving objects (including Sakura’s tails) she also has cat ears while in human form.
Her favorite drink is catnip milk, which has an alcoholic effect on her. Batanen hired her to join the police company when he saw her ability to deliver electric shocks taken advantage of as she was accidentally taken hostage by a criminal he was chasing and then fried her into fries. However, this is also her main problem as Natsuki is so young that she still has trouble controlling her powers and has been known to set off random sparks when scared and eat everything within a few feet of her.
She is also a dangerously bad marksman with a gun and has accidentally shot her allies at least twice, so she only uses a short dagger as her preferred melee weapon. When angry or frightened, its tail temporarily splits in two. She prides herself on owning an Orihalcon blade and controls two “Parasites”, which is unusual for the setting. having one yourself is considered powerful. As of volume nine, it was revealed that she was the daughter of the ancient Egyptian goddess Bast.
26. Lin Xiao-Mei
Franchise: Shining
Lin Xiao-Mei, also known as Lin Lin, is a recurring character in The Shining anime series as an anime cat girl. She is a secondary character in Shining Hearts and the main character in Shining Blade. She is an antique saleswoman of the beast race in the game. She also has a different identity than the Phantom Thief “Black Tail”.
Xiao-Mei’s first appearance is in the first episode where Rick questions the young woman’s identity, to which Airy replies that she brings him bread from time to time, that her name is Xiao-Mei, and that she is a fan of Rick’s bread. She appears in The Shining Blade as Lin Lin and initially takes on a cat form with cat ears.
25. Kuune
Franchise: Cat Planet Cuties
Qoone is the Catian Starship captain and one of the best anime cat girls. She is in charge of the contingent responsible for establishing diplomatic relations with Earth’s leaders.
24. Chaika
Franchise: Chaika: The Coffin Princess
A young teenage anime cat girl with silver hair and purple eyes who sets out to collect the pieces of her father’s body to give him a proper funeral. She carries a large coffin serving both her weapon, a Gandr, but also to store the remains of her father. Chaika has no memory of the past 5 years, since the fall of the Gas Empire, other than his mission.
A fact all the more disturbing as other Chaika with the same appearance and the same coffin quickly appear, each claiming to be the legitimate daughter of Emperor Arthur Gaz which will push Chaika to want to know more about her origins. As a Wizard, she is able to use magic through her gun called Gandr using special ammunition.
The gun’s heaviness as well as her summoning times, however, make her a very static target that often needs Toru and Akari to protect or distract her. Wearing generally white clothes, sometimes with shades of black, she is nicknamed “Chaika la blanche” by the other Chaika as well as the Kleeman Agency.
23. Ichigo Momomiya
Franchise: Tokyo Mew Mew
Ichigo Momomiya our next anime cat girl is introduced while going to a Red Listed Animals exhibit with Masaya Aoyama, her love interest, where she ends up accidentally kissing him when she trips and falls on him. This is when she first meets Mint Aizawa, who offers her a handkerchief and treats her in a rude manner. Later, Ichigo runs into Lettuce Midorikawa at the museum, where she is being harassed by three girls who are yelling at her because she spilled her hot coffee on them, even though they said they wanted hot coffee, which possibly means they just wanted hot coffee.
Ichigo goes to help Lettuce, but Pudding Fong stands in front of the girls first to tease them, and they run away. They get angry but Zakuro Fujiwara stops the girls from bothering Lettuce anymore. Lettuce states that she will have to apologize to them later, Ichigo questions why and doesn’t see Lettuce again until a few moments after the earthquake.
Ichigo Momomiya then leaves the exhibit to get some air and shortly after encounters the future Mew Mews before being injected with the DNA of an Irimote cat. After her she finds herself acting like a cat and remembering a dream sequence where a cat jumped on her body when she was injected, realizing something happened to her.
22. Ibaraki Dōji
Franchise: Onigiri
Ibaraki is a half-Oni anime cat girl, similar to the main player character in this anime series. It makes her feel connected to the main character in some way. She has the unique career of running a traveling bar, similar to Miroku’s status as a traveling merchant. She is often mistaken for a cat that can transform due to her cat ears. Ibaraki is an alcohol seller and is very willing to sell it to the player.
These potion-like items allow the player to gain special stats not found in normal items, most of which grant temporary stat boosts such as movement speed or damage output. As a liquor seller, Ibaraki honed her skills as a sommelier, enabling her to create all types of spirits and liquors. From stat-boosting drinks to revitalizing alcohol, she can brew all kinds of drinks as long as the recipe is provided by the player. Increasing Ibaraki’s affection increases the type of spirits she can create while also adding certain exclusive drinks to the shelf.
21. Misaki / Yoriko Sagisawa
Franchise: Da Capo
Misaki/Yoriko Sagisawa from Da Capo is a young anime cat girl who stays home and watches the world through her bedroom window, and Yoriko is her cat. In the game, the Sakura Magic Tree granted her wish and she possessed Yoriko’s body, which transformed into a copy of her original body but with cat ears. In the anime, Yoriko jumps out of Misaki’s window to see the world for her and has been transformed into a Misaki-like maid cat form with cat ears.
Yoriko Sagisawa is afraid of humans after an incident involving children, and her events describe how she has settled down as a maid and slowly ventured into the outside world. As the series progresses, she eventually overcomes her fear and is able to get out. As she says, it’s because of Junichi’s kindness. Due to Sakura Yoshino choosing to kill the giant Sakura tree, the magic that turned her into a human disappeared.
On her last day as a human, she asked Junichi out on a date, whose destination was her school. After messing around at school, she reveals everything to Junichi and then disappears. She is later seen returning to the house where she once was in cat form. While in human form she has a cat tail.
20. Eris
Franchise: Cat Planet Cuties
She is one of the protagonists of Cat Planet Cuties anime and is an alien belonging to the Catians race. She is cheerful anime cat girl, somewhat innocent, friendly, and relaxed, she is very curious to know everything about the Earth, she is very interested in the culture of humans, although she usually does not understand things very well, and in the end, she ends up understanding more the perverted part (when there is one), she is representative of the Catians on Earth and was chosen to know everything about Earth, in order to more easily achieve an officially friendly relationship between humans and Catians.
Her greatest wish is to achieve the relationship between the two races and thus make many more friends, in addition to being with Kio.
The first boy she becomes friends with is Kio, awakening her feelings towards him when he went to rescue her from her kidnapping by the CIA, from that moment she has a special relationship with him, so when she has her first season of fever (or mating) at 16 years old, he chooses Kio as his first companion but to his sadness, he has to postpone it because it could interfere with his missions, since his instincts were out of control and could make him make mistakes, even so, chose once as his companion for the next time.
She is in love with Kio but despite the fact that she has rivals (also friends: Aoi and Manami) she does not feel worried because according to her Kio can be shared, even so, she does not like that they do things with Kio without her being able to do something, like when Aoi and Manami kiss him in space.
Little is known about her life on her planet, only that she feels guilt for deeds done by her ancestors, aside from the fact that she gets along very well with the crew. She has a special suit that gives her various abilities, she also has approximately 18 assist droids and has a small ship.
19. Chocola
Franchise: Nekopara
Chocola is a dark-haired Neko anime cat girl From Nekopara anime series, with a cheerful and energetic personality. She is very attached to Kashou and calls him “Master”. She can’t stand the thought of being separated from her master, which is why she followed him when he moved into his new store. She is Vanilla’s twin sister.
18. Ao Nanami
Franchise: Yozakura Quartet
Ao Nanami is 16 years old and is a satori who works in Hiizumi’s office. She works as a city announcer. She has cat ears which she usually hides under her hat. She has the ability to read the minds of living beings and, through this ability, to understand animals. She can also predict the steps the person is going to take in the future. She has a special device that allows her to read the thoughts of all the citizens of the city, but it takes too much strength. In the manga, like Hime, she likes to eat a lot. She has an older brother named Gin, who went missing before the start of the series.
17. Cyan Hijirikawa
Franchise: SHOW BY ROCK!!
Cyan Hijirikawa is the protagonist of the Show By Rock anime series and the best anime cat girl, she is a shy girl with a great passion for music. She gets sucked into the video game she was playing on her smartphone and inexplicably finds herself in Midi City. She joins Plasmagica when Retoree asked her to be a part of it. During performances, like all other members of the band, she also undergoes a transformation into Myumons, 2 she turns into a dressed-up black cat wearing a gothic lolita outfit with striped stockings. She is the singer and guitarist for Plasmagica in Show By Rock.
16. Nozomi Kiriya
Franchise: Mayoi Neko Overrun!
Nozomi Kiriya from Mayoi Neko Overrun anime is the best anime cat girl who was lost, being found by Otome, who mistakes her for a giant cat, and gives her shelter in her house. She sometimes seems a bit lost and distracted, but despite that, like most cat girls, she is very smart and athletic. Nozomi Kiriya all the time repeats “Nya” as she makes hand gestures identical to those of a cat, coincidentally she also possesses one’s abilities like speed and agility.
Something that draws her attention is her hair, her hairstyle in the Mayoi Neko Overrun series resembles the ears of a feline but it is only hair, even so, she can move these “ears” at will as if they were real. She is usually very affectionate and sentimental with everyone, although especially with Takumi.
Apparently, from the beginning Nozomi has a fondness for Takumi; this can be seen in various scenes: like when she asks him to help her prepare the meringue, when she holds his hand during the storm, or when she hints that she would like to go into the hot springs with Takumi.
15. Vanilla
Franchise: Nekopara
One more cat girl from Nekopara anime series. Vanilla is a silent and calm Neko anime cat girl with white hair. She rarely expresses her feelings, more or less making her a kūdere character. She adores her sister Chocola more than anything and would follow her anywhere. Chocola and Vanilla are the youngest of the Minaduki family Nekos.
14. Merle
Franchise: The Vision of Escaflowne
A thirteen-year-old cat girl, Van’s companion puppy, and childhood friend. Merle is terribly jealous of Van’s relationship with Hitomi, but will eventually accept the Earth girl’s presence and even become friends with her. She is an orphan. Merle was raised by the Fanel family, to which she has always been very faithful, to the point of being ready to sacrifice her life for Van’s. Isn’t she just the best anime cat girl?
13. Leone
Franchise: Akame ga Kill!
A girl who likes to party and have fun with her team even on a mission, she is like a spoiler; she shows herself sometimes, impulsive or angry. She has blonde hair and yellow eyes. His power is to transform into a lion and regenerate himself thanks to his Imperial weapon Lionelle.
She has a lot of sympathy for Tastumi and feels responsible for it, since it was she who made her join the Night Raid. She is the one who kills the Prime Minister, but dies from his injuries.
12. Coconut
Franchise: Nekopara
Coconut is the third youngest of the Nekos of the Minaduki family. Other characters praise her for her “cool” personality, but she wishes she was cuter than cool. She suffers from low self-esteem due to her clumsiness and her self-proclaimed lack of abilities. She also tries to do more than she can to be more like an older sister, as well as not be a burden to Kashou and the other catgirls. It was discovered that she tries to be someone that she is not. She is a Maine Coon.
11. Alicia Rue
Franchise: Sword Art Online
Alicia Rue is one of the cat girls from Sword Art Online. She is the chief of the Cait Sith clan. Kirito saves her from an attack by the Salamanders during the negotiations between the Sylphs and the Cait Siths by facing and defeating their champion, Eugene, and funds their faction with all the money he raised in the game.
To thank him, Alicia Rue organizes a joint expedition with her friend Sakuya, the chief of the Sylph clan, to help her pass the “Great Quest” of ALfheim Online by reaching the inaccessible top of the World Tree and save Asuna.
In the story of the movie Ordinal Scale, Alicia Rue is one of the Sword Art Online players loyal to virtual reality games who appear in an online report on the decline in server traffic, and express their reluctance to play Ordinal Scale: she carries Eugene during her swagger. She participates with her friends and their allies in the final confrontation against the very powerful Boss of the 100th Tier of New Aincrad.
10. Rem Galleu
Franchise: How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord
Rem Galleu is one of the main female cat girls characters in How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord anime. She is from the “Pantherian” race, a race of half-man half-feline demons. A level 40 summoner, she chose to be an adventurer in order to become stronger for a certain reason. Rem Galleu has seven beasts that she contracted after summoning them. It was later revealed that his ancestors from generation to generation had the soul of a Demon King, named Krebskulm, sealed within them and that Rem also inherited it from his mother and sought ways to overcome it. It was with this in mind that she summoned Diablo. With Edelgard, she was able to extract the Demon King.
9. Himari Noihara
Franchise: Omamori Himari
Himari Noihara is a bakeneko, a shapeshifting demon cat, and the female protagonist of the Omamori Himari japanese anime series. She appears to Yuto as his bodyguard to protect him from the ayakashi, due to an ancient oath taken by his ancestor, which was spared by one of Amakawa’s leaders after he refused to kill her. Known to other ayakashi as the Crimson Blade of Noihara for her expert swordsmanship, she describes herself as “the sword that protects Yuto”.
Himari Noihara usually wears traditional Japanese clothes (when not wearing her school uniform) and always wears her hair in a long ponytail with a large pink bow to hold it in place, and uses keigo in her speech. She is very close to Yuto, whom she calls the “Young Lord”, and is sometimes philosophical, fearing that if her abilities awaken, Yuto will kill her.
However, she is very much in love with him as she wants to be with him as a person and is very flirtatious with him as she and Yuto got along well in Noihara in the past when she was a white cat. This flirtation annoys Rinko often to no end. In the anime, Himari is one of the few people who kissed Yuto (the other is Kuesu). Nonetheless, she takes her duty as a bodyguard very seriously and is willing to protect Yuto from harm by any means necessary.
8. Millianna
Franchise: Fairy Tail
Millianna is a childhood friend of Erza when they were in Heaven’s Tower. She loves cats and Happy. After being saved from Gerald and the Tower of Heaven, she gives up on joining Fairy Tail for a world tour. After the seven-year absence from Fairy Tail, she joins Mermaid Heel. She joined this guild so she could get revenge on Jellal, by following Kagura.
On the third day of the great magic tournament, she takes part in the “Pandemonium” event and earns her team 3 points, to which will be added the 10 points won during her fight against Semus of the Quattro Toutous team. On the fourth day, she faces alongside Kagura, Leon Bastia, and Yūka of Lamia Scale. She faces, at the start of the fight, her two opponents alone, but Leon defeats her with his ice magic. On the fifth day, she is taken prisoner by Minerva who tortures her, then brings her back with Lector who had clung to her clothes.
7. Karyl (Kyaru)
Franchise: Princess Connect! Re:Dive
Princess Connect! Re: Dive Kyaru is a member of the Beast Race with long black hair with a white streak in her bangs and green eyes. She can be described as a tsundere, as she often complains about Pecorine, but she always follows her regardless. She has a sharp tongue and often gets angry or flustered. She is a member of the ‘Gourmet Edifice’ guild.
In real life, Kyaru’s family has an extremist mentality when it comes to family relationships. Since she was little she was raised without a hint of love in anything so she put emotions aside and become a genius, but it turned out to be a failur; even so, her mom did not want to give up because Kyaru is her only ticket to regaining the position inside to the family.
This caused her to not have friends at school, since her mother would always make scandals at the school she went to so that Kyaru would not have friends. Because Mana Senri (Kaiser Insight) was the only one who treated her kindly, Kyaru developed an affection towards him, unaware that she was only manipulating her for her own purposes. After Kaiser’s defeat, Kyaru is more open towards others, especially Yuuki, as she has a crush on him.
6. Neko
Franchise: K
Neko is a 16-year-old girl and a strain who exists as Shiro’s cat. She has a childish character. He has the power to create illusions, which allows him to change shape, become invisible, manipulate the environment, and even modify people’s memories: He has the ability of sensory interference, with which he affects the senses of other human beings to make them perceive that their environment has changed. She is deeply attached to Shiro and goes to great lengths to keep him safe. She refers to herself as “Shiro no Neko” (Shiro’s Cat).
5. Tsumiki Miniwa
Franchise: Acchi Kocchi
The main protagonist, Tsumiki is somewhat small in stature and delicate. She is a mix between a Tsundere and a Kuudere personality, meaning that she has a strong, sarcastic, and cold attitude on the outside, but is loving on the inside. She is madly in love with Io. Every time Io gives Tsumiki a pat on the head or Tsumiki sees something she likes about her, she grows cat ears. Tsumiki is unusually strong for her size, and this is often shown at Mayoi’s expense. She is also an expert in arcade games.
4. Kaneko Toujou
Franchise: High School DxD
Koneko from High School DxD is a little girl in first grade, she is the high school mascot thanks to her cute little girl appearance. Being the “Tower” of Rias, she boasts superhuman strength and ironclad defense. In Japanese animation jargon, she is considered a Tsundere. She is not very talkative, and is the one of the group who gets along the least well with Issei; when she speaks it is most often to insult her, reproach her or humiliate her for her perverse nature.
That said, she seems to be more comfortable in the presence of Issei in the third season, after his meeting with Kuroka, since she sometimes sleeps against him, on the train for example. However, the end of season three shows a more relaxed Koneko, who even offers some sexual services to the hero to prove that she is not worse than another. She is a nekomata (a weak class of demon-cats in High School DxD).
3. Neferpitou
Franchise: Hunter × Hunter
Neferpitou is a genderless Chimera Ant in the manga (and female in the anime), with the appearance of a cat. She was the first to be born out of the three royal guards, belonging to the “Nen” Specialist category. Like most cat girls is endowed with extraordinarily powerful abilities. During Kaito, Gon, and Killua’s attempted infiltration of the Chimera Ant nest, Neferpitou kills Kaito and using his Hatsu “Doctor Blythe”, repairs his corpse to manipulate him into a puppet.
Even Netero, president of the Hunter Association and considered the strongest Hunter in the world during his heyday, claims that Pitou may be stronger than him. During the Hunter extermination team’s assault on the Eastern Goruto palace, Komugi, the king’s protégé girl, is accidentally mortally wounded, and under the king’s orders, Neferpitou heals her using her skill.
Gon, however, threatens to kill Komugi unless Pitou promises to restore Kaito’s body after healing Komugi. Although he made a promise to go with Gon to Peijin to restore Kaito, once they have reached the area, Pitou states that the task is impossible since he was dead, and subsequently prepares to kill Gon.
Filled with rage, Gon dangerously uses his Nen to force his growth and gains incredible power with which he ends up killing Pitou. After his death, Pitou’s body moves again by his Nen ability: Terpsichora, with which he becomes even more powerful by devotion to the king. Using all of his Nen, Gon uses her Jajanken and destroys her for good.
2. Blair
Franchise: Soul Eater
Our next cat girl hails from Soul Eater. Blair is a feline magician with a very sexy appearance like most cat girls, with an advantageous chest and generous curves. She appears during the prologue of Soul and Maka: they kill her by taking her for a witch (she uses a humanoid physique). She likes to play with Soul. In reality, she is a cat with magical powers often referring to the witches’ festival.
She is very attracted to Soul; she also lives with him and Maka. She likes to have fun and spend money to buy new lingerie and also likes fish. Her spells are Halloween and pumpkin-oriented. Although she does not play an important role in the Soul Eater sequel, she knows how to be of help to fight the Mizune and the Wandering Dutchman. She is part of Kid’s rescue party in Eibon’s book.
1. Yoruichi Shihōin
Appears in: Bleach
Yoruichi Shihōin appears in the manga as a black cat speaking with a male voice (in the anime, during broadcasts in countries other than Japan, the male aspect of the voice has been enhanced). It is only later that it is discovered that she is in fact a woman, ex-commander of special operations and ex-captain of the 2nd division, 22nd head of the Shihōin family, one of the noble families of Soul Society, which she fled after Kisuke Urahara was banished. She has never been seen with her Zanpakutō in a fight. She is defined, when appearing in the form of a cat, as Kisuke Urahara’s best friend.
