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* Dejiko and Puchiko from ''DiGiCharat''.

* ''Everyone'' in ''DogDays'' has these or dog ears (with a few other animals thrown into the mix) except [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Shinku]].

* In ''Manga/DotHackLegendOfTheTwilight'', an event prize is a set of MoeMoe fetish items, including cat ears; Shugo begins to idolize the programmer, while the girls are mortified.

* Any ''{{City of Heroes}}'' character can have cat ears, and the normal human ears only "go away" if you hide them.

* True to form, ''VideoGame/GaiaOnline'' has a tremendous variety of ear accessories for your avatar to wear.

* Antenna ears, floppy pig and bear ears, and most other things you can staple to the side of your head are available in ''{{City of Heroes}}''/''[[CityOfVillains Villains]]''.
* True to form, ''GaiaOnline'' has a tremendous variety of ear accessories for your avatar to wear.

* Odd of ''CodeLyoko'' gets cat ears added to his Lyoko avatar in Season 4.

* In ''NinthElsewhere'', the Muse people have feathered-wings ears.
* In ''{{Terinu}}'' instead of ears, every Galen has four to seven thin tines of bone like piano keys on either side of their skull.
* In the ''{{Homestuck}}'' End of Act 5 flash: [[spoiler:Upon ascending to God Tier, Jade gains a snazzy pair of dog ears to go with near omnipotence and immortality.]]

* Kagome Higurashi's first act upon seeing ''Manga/InuYasha'', sealed and stuck to a tree? ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbf3D5wUAvs Messing with his ears]]). The first thing Kagome's ''mother'' says when a dog-eared boy busts into Kagome's house to drag her back to the feudal era is not "Who are you?" or "Where are you taking my daughter?" or even "Why are you dressed like that?" It's, "Your ears; are they real?" whilst reaching up and touching them. As does Kagome's little brother; it appears to be something of a family thing.

-->-- '''StarTrekEnterprise''', "Cease Fire"

* The cast of ''Webcomic/{{Karin-dou 4koma}}'' are primarily youkai, so there are plenty of characters with ears to match their type, be it animal ears or some variant of PointyEars.

* Yomi from ''YuYuHakusho'' has six huge, pointy ears, three on each side of his head.

* From ''{{UFO Princess Valkyrie}}'', while not exactly ears, the princesses of Valhalla all have wings on their heads that they can apparently control. Additionally, the various alien races seen throughout the series often have their own ear types.
* Chii and the other persocons in ''Manga/{{Chobits}}'' have "ears" that open up and contain electrical connectors.
* Hayama Akito from ''Manga/KodomoNoOmocha'' occasionally sprouts leopard ears (and tail) for comedic effect.
* Meirin and Tamamo no Mae in ''YamiToBoushiToHonNoTabibito'' have fox (kitsune) ears and tails.
* The other Mew Mews in ''TokyoMewMew'' also have two animal parts; Bu-ling/Mew Pudding (monkey), Zakuro/Mew Zakuro (wolf) and Berii/Mew Berry (cabbit) all have animal ears.
* Almost everyone in ''{{Utawarerumono}}'' (pictured above) has animal or demon ears of some description, including cat, lion, wolf, rabbit and some rather strange wing-ears.
* In ''Anime/GalaxyAngel'', Mint has goat ears.
* Horo from ''{{Spice and Wolf}}'' has wolf ears and a tail, but this is somewhat [[JustifiedTrope justified]] as she's a wolf-god. However, that doesn't change the fact that they look more like they belong to a fox (being red-orange with white fluffy tips). When you see her in full wolf form, her fur pattern is distinctly different from fox's, despite of sharing similar ears and tail, which are the same as on her humanoid form.
* The Harpie Ladies in ''Franchise/YuGiOh'' usually have jigokumimi-type ears. However, when Harpie's Feather Duster is played, they sprout extra wings and get winglike ears.
* Quick indication of someone being a familiar in ''LyricalNanoha'' is the existance of furry animal ears where human ears would usually be found.
* Kuon of ''TriangleHeart3SweetSongsForever'' naturally has fox ears, being a kitsune.
* Solty from ''SoltyRei'' has long, pointy ears/antennae that are the same color as her hair.
* In LastExile, some members of the Guild (Dio and Luciola are most prominent) have slightly pointed ears. They're normal-sized, just...pointed at the top.
* [[spoiler:Romulus]] from the 1 + 1/2 Nekutai doujinshi sports a pair of wolf ears, [[spoiler:hidden under his hat]]. It holds true for [[spoiler:basically all the werewolves after their first transformation, including Remus]].
* In ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'':
** Kotaro, being [[HalfHumanHybrid half]]-{{inugami}}, has a pair of pointed ears sprouting from his head which he can [[HyperspaceEars somehow fold beneath his hair]].
** In the Magic World arc, large part of Magic World population have some unusual ears: jigokumimi, cat ears, sheep ears... Wearing fake cat ears becomes an [[PaperThinDisguise effective disguise]], not a decoration.
* In the "extra chapter" of ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'', Hinagiku gains [[http://img35.tx.us.mangafox.com/store/manga/708/267.0/compressed/echp267.1pg02.jpg donkey ears]] (Though they look much more like kyuubi ears). Something similar happens when Arthur of the current series ''{{Series/Merlin}}'' gains donkey ears.
* The Dogsians in ''LightNovel/AsobiNiIkuYo!''
* Yomi from ''YuYuHakusho'' has six huge, pointy ears, three on each side of his head.

* Aisha Clanclan and all of the other Ctarl-Ctarl in ''Manga/OutlawStar''. (Though the shape and position have jigokumimi aspects too, perhaps intentionally.)

** ... though as they are sensitive to touch (making for some quite good [[UnusualEuphemism euphemism fodder]]), [[spoiler:"nothing but"]] is something of an overstatement.

** And [[TakeOurWordForIt she follows his "suggestion"!]]

* Yomi of ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' has ''six'' long, [[PointyEars almost goat-like]] ears. It is revealed in a {{flashback}} that [[spoiler: he once had only two ears like this, but after losing his sight, he grew another four ears in compensation]]... he is a demon, after all.
** His son Shura also has similar ears (though only two).
* Kagome Higurashi's first act upon seeing ''Manga/InuYasha'', sealed and stuck to a tree? ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbf3D5wUAvs tweak tweak!]])
** The first thing Kagome's ''mother'' says when a dog-eared boy busts into Kagome's house to drag her back to the feudal era is not "Who are you?" or "Where are you taking my daughter?" or even "Why are you dressed like that?" It's, "Your ears; are they real?" whilst reaching up and touching them. (tweak tweak!)
*** As does Kagome's little brother; it appears to be something of a family thing. (tweak tweak!)

* In the ''{{LARP}}'' campaign set "IsoleDelCielo" (Island of the Sky), some race has UnusualEars. Dremmach have furry ears, while Arno have big, pointed ears, with big earrings. Those are needed to calibrate the magic perception sense, so that Arno can feel a single kind of magic, instead of every kind at the same time (that would be uncomfortable).
** Underworld LARP has Savar and Wolven (cat and dog/wolf people respectively) who wear unusual ears as part of their costume.

** They *somewhat* act like radio receivers, and are susceptible to [[strike:EMI]] particle jamming. Why are they rendered as bunny ears? [[MST3KMantra Don't ask, just roll with it]].
*** Why? It makes perfect sense to us older people. The twin extendible antennae you used to use to pick up TV channels before cable were called "Rabbit ears" in English. Thus...

* All of the Reploids in ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'' & cyborgs in ''MegaManZX'' seem to have these strange white headphone-like things instead of human ears, which is strange, considering that the first ''VideoGame/MegaMan'' had proper ears, despite being much less advanced.
** Certain Robot Masters in ''Mega Man'' tend to have these ears, such as Metal Man and Turbo Man.

* [[PettingZooPeople Animal youkai]] in ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' often have ears reflecting their animal nature.

** Mystia, oddly enough, has feathered PointyEars that look like wings. She's a sparrow and wouldn't normally have external ears. Artistic license?
*** FridgeBrilliance: They may be small head wings like [[HornyDevils Koakuma's]].
** Toyosatomimi no Miko from ''Ten Desires'' has [[AnimeHair her hair]] shaped like animal ears.

* Horo from ''{{Spice and Wolf}}'' has wolf ears and a tail, but this is somewhat [[JustifiedTrope justified]] as she's a wolf-god. However, that doesn't change the fact that they look more like they belong to a fox (being red-orange with white fluffy tips).
** When you see her in full wolf form, her fur pattern is distinctly different from fox's, despite of sharing similar ears and tail, which are the same as on her humanoid form.

* [[spoiler:Romulus]] (...although, with [[spoiler:a name like that]], is it really much of a spoiler?) from the 1 + 1/2 Nekutai doujinshi sports a pair of wolf ears, [[spoiler:hidden under his hat]].
** Not to mention [[spoiler:basically all the werewolves after their first transformation.]]
*** ...including [[spoiler:Remus]], of course.
* In ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', Kotaro, being [[HalfHumanHybrid half]]-{{inugami}}, has a pair of pointed ears sprouting from his head which he can [[HyperspaceEars somehow fold beneath his hair]].

* In the "extra chapter" of ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'', Hinagiku gains [[http://img35.tx.us.mangafox.com/store/manga/708/267.0/compressed/echp267.1pg02.jpg donkey ears]] (Though they look much more like kyuubi ears) O.o
** Something similar happens when Arthur of the current series ''{{Series/Merlin}}'' gains donkey ears.

* Japan's newest bullet train, the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fastech_360 Fastech 360]] has pairs of yellow air brakes that [[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4621217.stm extent outward from the top]], earning it the nickname "Nekomimi Shinkansen". A [[MoeAnthropomorphism moe anthropomorphic]] mascot exists, a CatGirl called [[http://www.meidokon.net/edit_tags.py?b9dfaee258014dacf3b6b4a204cb20a4242e606f Fastech-tan]] whose yellow ears match the Fastech's air brakes. Models of Fastech-tan have been sold with the approval of East Japan Railway Company.

* The protagonist [[spoiler:Quote]] and Curly Brace from ''VideoGame/CaveStory''.
** However, they're very hard to see and so it comes as a surprise when [[spoiler:you find out that your character, Quote, and Curly Brace are robots from the surface.]]

* Everyone in ''{{Utawarerumono}}'' except Hakuoro has strange ears of some sort.

* Everyone in ''{{Loveless}}'' is born with nekomimi and a tail, and [[spoiler:loses them once they lose their virginity.]]
* Nekoko in ''KannazukiNoMiko'' has cat ears (and a tail) due to experimentation by unscrupulous scientists/doctors.

* Aisha Clanclan and all of the other Ctarl-Ctarl in ''OutlawStar''. (Though the shape and position have jigokumimi aspects too, perhaps intentionally.)
* Merle, Naria, and Erya from ''{{Vision of Escaflowne}}''.

* Nya Nia from ''TowerOfGod''.

* Ichigo/Mew Ichigo from ''TokyoMewMew''.

* The Medicine Seller of {{Mononoke}} has pointed ears, in a setting where no normal human character does. This is only one of [[CuteLittleFangs many]] [[FacialMarkings unusual]] [[Really700YearsOld things]] about him that people [[WeirdnessCensor just don't seem to notice]].

* Ikuto from ''ShugoChara'' gets cat ears and tail when he character transforms with Yoru.
* Holo from ''SpiceAndWolf'' has her very [[ExpressiveHair expressive wolf ears]], which she always keeps hidden in public with a [[InTheHood hood]] or a hat.

* Shroedinger from ''{{Hellsing}}'' is a {{catboy}} with feline ears.

* Yomi of ''YuYuHakusho'' has ''six'' long, [[PointyEars almost goat-like]] ears. It is revealed in a {{flashback}} that [[spoiler: he once had only two ears like this, but after losing his sight, he grew another four ears in compensation]]... he is a demon, after all.

* Kagome Higurashi's first act upon seeing ''InuYasha'', sealed and stuck to a tree? ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbf3D5wUAvs tweak tweak!]])

* The first thing Kagome's mom says when ''InuYasha'' busts into Kagome's house to drag her back to the feudal era is not "Who are you?" or "Where are you taking my daughter?" or even "Why are you dressed like that?" It's "Your ears; are they real?" whilst reaching up and touching them. (tweak tweak!)
** Kagome did the same thing upon seeing him, though he was still sealed and stuck to the tree at the time.
*** As does Kagome's little brother; it appears to be something of a family thing.

* While not actually ears, the Diclonius in ''ElfenLied'' have horns that look like nekomimi.

* In ''{{FLCL}}'', the main character, Naota, sprouts nekomimi for an episode. [[spoiler:Of course, they prove to be nothing but part of a monster slowly emerging from Naota's head.]]

* Ikuto from ''{{Shugo Chara}}'' gets cat ears and tail when he character transforms with Yoru.

* [[HalfHumanHybrid Half]] dog [[{{Obake}} demon]] Kotaro of ''MahouSenseiNegima'' has a pair of pointed ears sprouting from his head which he can [[HyperspaceEars somehow fold beneath his hair]].

In SpeculativeFiction and {{Mythology}}, it is not surprising to see characters with non-standard ears. Having non-human ears is a common way of indicating that a character that otherwise looks mostly human is NotQuiteHuman, whether it be an alien, supernatural creature or human significantly modified through magical or pseudo-scientific means. UnusualEars are particulary popular in SpeculativeFiction television and film, where they are used as a relatively cheap way of making a RubberForeheadAliens. PointyEars are by for the most common type, having been associated with everything from demons and [[TheFairFolk magical faeries]] to [[Franchise/StarTrek Vulcans]]. In Japan, PointyEars are called jigokumimi, which translates to "hell ears".

* The Cheshire Cat from ''{{Miyuki-chan in Wonderland}}''.

* In ''[[DotHack .hack//Legend of the Twilight]]'', an event prize is a set of MoeMoe fetish items, including cat ears; Shugo begins to idolize the programmer, while the girls are mortified.

* Medicine Seller of ''Mononoke'' has long elvish like ears, where every other human character has normal ears.

** This is actually an InvertedTrope, as the above is very much the norm in this continuity - even for the humans. The only characters in the entire ''Zero'' and ''ZX'' series shown to have normal, human ears are Neige (a human) and Dr. Weil ([[spoiler: ''formerly'' human]]), making ''them'' are the unusual ones.

* EarWings - Wing like ears