Line #38 Manga/FreeCollarsKingdom


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4	->''"You!! Human child!! Brush your ear hair out of the way and listen well! We are no simple strays! We are cats who have won our freedom from humans by removing our collars by ourselves! We are the Free Collars!"''
5	->--'''Amesho'''
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7	''Free Collars Kingdom'' is a short manga series by Takuya Fujima (who would later illustrate ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid''), which was serialized in ''Magazine Z'' from 2003 to 2004 and compiled into three volumes. It focuses on a small band of cats who call themselves the "Free Collars". These cats, having been [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters abandoned or hurt by humans]] in some way have removed their collars, believing that it chains down their 'Wild Spirit', and giving themselves a scar in the process from where their old collars had dug into their necks as the cats had grown.
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9	The main character is Cyan, a young cat who gets abandoned in the basement of Nyan-Nyan Mansion, a fancy apartment, after his master Kokoro becomes ill. There he meets the Free Collars (Amesho, Coon, Char and Rat) who use the basement for their main base, and are currently fighting with another group of cats led by a siamese cat called Siam, who wishes to take control of the basement.
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11	It turns out that the basement of Nyan-Nyan Mansion was once the stronghold of a mighty cat called Wild Cat who ruled over the other cats, and that his collar (which gave him amazing strength) was hidden nearby.
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13	Thus Cyan is pulled into the conflict....
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15	An interesting thing to note is that although the main characters are cats (and appear as such to humans), to each other they appear as [[CatGirl catgirls/catboys]].
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17	!!This manga provides examples of:
18	%% * {{Anchors Away}}: Coon's weapon.
19	* {{Beach Bury}}: Happens to Amesho, and the sand is sculpted to look like he's got a ''woman's'' body. [[DirtyOldMan He doesn't mind.]]
20	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Cyan stays with the Free Collars, instead of going with Kokoro (who had been Cyan's driving force throughout the series), who was moving to the countryside (because it was better for his health).]]
21	* {{Calling Your Attacks}}: Most of the main characters in this series have special attacks, naturally called "Ultimate Cat Attacks".
22	* CatGirl: ''All'' the main characters are either cat girls or cat boys. However, this is only how they view each other and [[StylizedForTheViewer how they're presented to the viewers]]; they're actually just regular cats and are viewed and treated as such by humans.
23	* CerebusSyndrome: The first two volumes are rather lighthearted, but then the third volume gets rather serious.
24	%% * {{Clothing Damage}}
25	%% * {{Corner Of Woe}}
26	%% * DirtyOldMan: Amesho, but as usual, {{Played For Laughs}}.
27	%% * {{Fanservice}}:
28	%% ** Scottie is subjected to this mostly, a couple of times as a joke.
29	%% ** Siam and Char also get this treatment a few times.
30	* FingerLickinEvil: Siam has a habit of licking her paw pads until they're waterlogged... and then complains about it. This habit is what allowed Scottie and Cyan to uncover her disguise at a book signing being done by her favorite mangaka.
31	%% * {{Gadgeteer Genius}}: Rat, who is often a little too obsessed with his work.
32	* {{I Call It Vera}}: Rat has the habit of naming his inventions. He also named his camera 'Alfred'.
33	* {{Improbable Weapon User}}:
34	** Quite a few of the cats, but in particular Coon uses ''an anchor''.
35	** Char's guitar picks should also count, as would several of the antagonists weapons, which include an umbrella, a top-spinning toy, and a ''broom'', the last of which turns out to be surprisingly bad ass.
36	* {{Mistaken For Gay}}: Rat, to the point of the other cats wondering if he was neutered before he joined.
37	%% * TheOjou: Siam
38	%% * {{Otaku}}:
39	%% ** ''Both'' Amesho and Siam.
40	%% ** Considering how they define otaku, Cyan and Rat can also be included.
41	* {{Serious Business}}: Amesho is a game {{Otaku}}. Siam is an anime/manga {{Otaku}}. To them, defending what they like against the other is {{Serious Business}} indeed.
42	* SticksToTheBack: The general way Coon carries his [[ImprobableWeaponUser anchor]].
43	%% * TitleDrop: At the end of the first chapter.
44	%% * {{Too Many Belts}}: Siam.
45	%% * {{Train Station Goodbye}}: [[spoiler:Kokoro and Cyan.]]
46	* {{Unusually Uninteresting Sight}}: All of the cats wear clothes, and some carry weapons, yet no human really seems to notice.
47	%% * {{Winged Humanoid}}: The crows.

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