Line #23 Manga/NekoDeGomen


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3	''Neko-de Gomen!'' (''Sorry, I'm a Cat!'') is a manga by Nagano Akane that ran in ''Magazine/ShonenMagazine'' from 1989 to 1990. Its plot focuses on a OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent named Shiraishi Yayoi as she tries to live a normal life after being turned into a CatGirl by her father's teleporter. Shortly thereafter, the ineffectual MadScientist Kuroda creates a very large Venus fly trap that ends up attacking the city. Seeing this on the news, Yayori's father decides to send her out to fight them as Super Cat Yayoi. [[CrazyEnoughToWork Surprisingly, this works out rather well.]]
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5	What follows is a hurricane of bizarre and often amusing situations, mostly caused by Kuroda's equally bizarre inventions and Yayori's new cat instincts. All the while, Yayoi tries to keep the fact that she's part cat a secret yet somehow manages to both fail spectacularly and succeed at the same time.
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7	!!''Neko-de Gomen!'' provides examples of:
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9	* AbhorrentAdmirer: Eiko, to Masaru.
10	* AnAesop: [[LampshadeHanging Outright delivered]] by [[LemonyNarrator Nagano Akane]] at the end of Chapter 13.[[note]] He shows up at the school Yayoi and Minoru attend, right as Kuroda is selling his "cosmetic surgery gas" invention to students. Not being in the know about this, he's entranced by the sheer number of stunningly beautiful school girls there are and invites them all to a vacant classroom. Before he can do anything with them, however, the side effect of the gas [[spoiler:of causing the user to become much uglier than the user looks originally after some time passes]] kicks in, and he can only [[OhCrap express his justifiable shock]] as he finds himself trapped in a ghoulish-looking setting before he can escape.[[/note]]
11	-->Well, as they say... if you chase two rabbits, you will lose them both... let this be a lesson.
12	* AlmostKiss: At the end of chapter 4, between Yayoi and Minoru.[[note]] It wouldn't be the only time, either...[[/note]]
13	* AlphaBitch: Meiko is this at first, when she harbors a crush on Minoru.
14	* AmusingInjuries: Every time Yayoi attacks Shiraishi-sensei.
15	* BaseballEpisode: Chapter 16.
16	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor:
17	** Meiko in chapter 17 privately wishes for more attention to be given to her as she bathes in a unisex hot spring. Unfortunately for her, the ones who pay attention to her are [[DirtyOldMan a group of middle-aged and elderly men]], resulting in her spending the rest of the chapter fighting them off.[[note]] It doesn't turn into anything physical because the only thing the men there do is to gawk at her, though that doesn't change the fact that she prefers the attention from someone closer to her own age instead of some DirtyOldMan.[[/note]]
18	** Masaru makes many attempts to have Yayoi swayed to him. They always fail, and some of those attempts end up with him being the center of attention -- from [[CreepyLonerGirl Eiko]].
19	* BeachEpisode: Chapter 5.
20	* BlindWithoutEm: Minoru has trouble seeing without his eyeglasses.
21	* BreakingTheFourthWall: Happens several times. Of particular note is in chapter 8 where Minoru ends up breaking the side of the panel.
22	* CatGirl: Yayoi, obviously.
23	* CatapultNightmare: PlayedForLaughs.
24	** Yayoi jerks herself awake after reliving her moment of being unwillingly changed into a CatGirl in her dream.
25	** Minoru is shocked awake after dreaming of Yayoi becoming a CatGirl.[[note]] Both Yayoi and Minoru himself would insist that Yayoi being a CatGirl is AllJustADream, though for different reasons.[[/note]]
26	** Chapter 13 starts with Minoru rejecting Reiko by stating that Reiko looks monstrous, resulting in Reiko waking up screaming, calming down after realizing it was AllJustADream.
27	* ChristmasEpisode: Chapter 42.
28	* ClingyJealousGirl: Eiko, to Masaru, but it's PlayedForLaughs. It may also be played with in general in that everyone, males and females alike, gives [[CreepyLonerGirl Eiko]] a wide berth around her regardless of whether she's with Masaru or by herself.
29	* CrazyEnoughToWork: Send a high school CatGirl out to fight mutant Venus fly traps? You bet it'll work!
30	* CreepyLonerGirl: Eiko.
31	* CuteClumsyGirl: Yayoi until she turns into a CatGirl.
32	* CuteLittleFangs: Yayoi when in her CatGirl form.
33	* DietEpisode: Chapter 39 (titled "Fat Girl Yayoi...?") center around this, which starts after Minoru tactlessly asks her whether she had gained weight while viewing a picture of both of them. Yayoi is forced to concede Minoru is right after weighing herself at home, at which point she decides to go on a diet.
34	* DidntThinkThisThrough: Chapter 12 starts with Yayoi asking her father for a doppelgänger robot due to her period of sexual arousal being present. Her father obliges, and the Yayoi robot goes to school in her stead... except he fails to discover in time that the program he put into the robot, which matches Yayoi's habit and behaviors, also included her ''sexual arousal period''.
35	* FaceFault: One time done in a pool.
36	* FailureIsTheOnlyOption:
37	** Whatever invention Yayoi's father creates to reverse Yayoi's CatGirl status will either fail to work or succeed until Yayoi needs to become a CatGirl again, after which it ceases to work.
38	** Anytime Kuroda concocts something to make money in order to escape the PerpetualPoverty status he and Reiko are stuck with, it's doomed to fail.
39	* FrenchMaidOutfit: What the uniform for the student cafe in chapter 9 becomes after being PlayboyBunnies.
40	* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: Yayoi has little control over when she has cat ears and tail and when she doesn't.
41	* KidAnova: Masaru, a teenager himself, is quite popular with girls. He appreciates the popularity... as long as [[CreepyLonerGirl Eiko]] isn't around.
42	* KindheartedCatLover: Yayoi and Masaru.
43	* LemonyNarrator: Starting with chapter 3, Nagano Akane starts to chime in with rather amusing notes.
44	* LieDetector: A face mask Yayoi's father invents in chapter 15 serves this purpose, as it SCREAMS the truth when its wearer attempts to lie. Then Yayoi finds it the next day and wears it to mitigate her hay fever, assuming it's just an ordinary face mask, on her date with Minoru...
45	* LovableAlphaBitch: Meiko, initially an AlphaBitch, becomes this trope once she stops chasing Minoru, as she is much more genuinely friendly to Yayoi while remaining as shallow and boy-crazy as ever.
46	* MadScientist: Kuroda. Yayoi's father, meanwhile, is a more benign version of this.
47	* OhCrap:
48	** Masaru has an epic one when Eiko shows up after he's been tied up in chapter 7.
49	** Masaru also has this expression whenever he kisses Yayoi, only to find out "Yayoi" is Eiko in disguise.
50	** Minoru gets this way when Yayoi looks drastically different from her usual (by his expectations, anyway) appearance. Most of the time it's due to [[InvoluntaryShapeshifting her cat ears and tail showing themselves]], but the end of chapter 12 has her doppelgänger robot, on the verge of self-destruction, appearing in BodyHorror fashion.[[note]] In the context of chapter 12, Yayoi has doppelgänger robot pose and go to school as her for the day to avoid the risk of her estrus period showing itself at inopportune times and exposing her CatGirl identity to her peers, especially Minoru. After she wakes up from her nap and her estrus period passes, her father informs her that [[DidntThinkThisThrough the robot, which matches Yayoi's habit and behaviors, also included her sexual arousal period]], prompting Yayoi presses the self-destruction button on her remote control that she uses to get her robot to function. Unbeknownst to her or her father, said robot happens to be on a date with Minoru at the time, and the self-destruction mechanism causes the eyes of the robot to eventually spring out of the sockets right as Minoru turns to "Yayoi", a bare second before the robot explodes next to him...[[/note]]
51	** Masaru has another epic moment of this at the end of chapter 13.[[note]] He shows up at the school Yayoi and Minoru attend, right as Kuroda is selling his "cosmetic surgery gas" invention to students. Not being in the know about this, he's entranced by the sheer number of stunningly beautiful school girls there are and invites them all to a vacant classroom. Before he can do anything with them, however, the side effect of the gas [[spoiler:of causing the user to become much uglier than the user looks originally after some time passes]] kicks in, and he finds himself trapped in a ghoulish-looking setting before he can escape.[[/note]]
52	* OneTrueLove: Yayoi and Minoru consider each other this.
53	* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Yayoi at first. The rest of her classmates as well.
54	* PerpetualPoverty:
55	** Kuroda and his daughter, Reiko, are stuck barely getting by despite Kuroda being a high school chemistry teacher.
56	** Downplayed with Yayoi and her family, who, despite not rich like Minoru and Masaru's, can stay afloat better (Yayoi's father is a physics teacher in the same high school as Kuroda, though he has to keep paying off the mortgage on the house in which they reside).
57	* PlayboyBunny: All of the girls dress up in the outfit for a student cafe in chapter 9.
58	* ReedRichardsIsUseless: The inventions made by Kuroda and Yayoi's father could change the world in many ways and make them very rich if they were to patent them and sell the designs to the proper company or the government.
59	** The trope is played with in chapter 13, where Kuroda, after seeing the popularity his "cosmetic surgery gas" (it's applied the same way as one uses a perfume) causes Reiko, decides to sell it to the public, starting with the school, to enrich himself. Unfortunately for him, its side effect [[spoiler:of causing the user to become much uglier than the user looks originally after some time passes]] ensures [[StatusQuoIsGod that he'll never get to do so again]].
60	** Yayoi's father's intention behind his creation of the teleporter is actually to get himself a Nobel Prize (and most likely enrich himself and his family as a result), but it's broken soon after use, so he can't have it patented. He manages to fix it in chapter 4, but it gets broken again at the end of the selfsame chapter, more permanently this time [[note]]as the cost for the repair is greater than what he can afford to spend money for it[[/note]].
61	* SchoolFestival: The cultural festival for the school kick-starts the events of chapter 9, which is titled "{{Youkai}} Festival".
62	* ShipperOnDeck: In chapter 6, Meiko arranges for Eiko to be with Masaru.[[note]] The plot involves her getting hold of a camera invented by Kuroda, which is left lying around due to Reiko's accidental misuse of it. It stores the memory of the initial image captured by it and then transforms the image of the subsequent target into that of the initial image, and the effect is undone with a kiss (or after 12 hours without a kiss). Meiko, after Eiko confides about her crush on Masaru, takes a picture of Yayoi and changes Eiko's facial image into that of Yayoi via the camera in question, before setting Masaru up to meet Eiko, who poses as Yayoi.[[/note]] Masaru is devastated when he discovers that he has kissed not Yayoi, but Eiko instead.
63	* ShoutOut:
64	** To ''Film/TheFly1986'', due to the similarities in how humans got mixed with another creature via teleporter.
65	** The uniforms worn by Kuroda and Yayoi's father in chapter 8 are very similar to the ones worn by the {{Franchise/Ghostbusters}} and come complete with a Proton Pack.
66	* SiblingYinYang: The dynamic between Minoru and Masaru.
67	** Minoru is socially awkward, sees Yaoyi as his OneTrueLove, and considers any other girl he's around as JustFriends. Masaru is an outgoing, self-confident KidAnova who relishes the attention he attracts from many other girls who fawn over him -- except for [[CreepyLonerGirl Eiko]].
68	** While they're raised in a rich household, Minoru is more frugal with his expenses (except for when he spends money going on a date with or buying presents for Yayoi), whereas Masaru isn't above buying fancy clothes for himself when he sees fit.
69	** Minoru [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes has a severe fear of cats]], but Masaru [[KindheartedCatLover loves them]].
70	* StalkerWithACrush:
71	** [[CreepyLonerGirl Eiko]] pines for Masaru, [[SarcasmMode oh-so-subtly]]. And that's when she's not being a ClingyJealousGirl.
72	** Masaru wants Yayoi ever since he discovers Yayoi's CatGirl form, though Yayoi and Masaru are JustFriends as far as Yayoi is concerned.
73	** Reiko wishes for Minoru's affection, even though Minoru has eyes only for Yayoi.
74	* TakeOverTheWorld: This is Kuroda's goal for rather petty reasons (e.g. being able to afford better food choices like ''meat'' and never having to pay apartment rent and other outstanding bills -- to escape PerpetualPoverty, in short).
75	* UnnamedParent: We don't know Kuroda (that's his family name) or Yayoi's father's first name.
76	* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Minoru is terrified of cats.
77	* {{Yakuza}}: Make an appearance in chapter 7.
78	* {{Youkai}}: Kuroda makes a serum that turns people into youkai that fits them best for ten hours in chapter 9.

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