History Main / SproutingEars

** Kisa (who's possessed by the Tiger) pops out her ears and tail occasionally, like when she perked up at hearing Tohru (who she views as an older sister figure) come back from the bathroom.
** Kyo the Cat will sometimes visibly bristle ears and tail up when angered, or flatten his ears when embarrassed.

* ''Manga/KomiCantCommunicate'' makes a RunningGag out of Komi sprouting cat ears when she gets excited about something. This is even lampshaded in one chapter, when she's up late at night worrying about things she might have done to embarrass herself, and one of her "anxiety points" is "Why do I sometimes grow cat ears?"

* [[ThatOneGuy Hiroki]] [[ButtMonkey Komachi]] from ''ChuBra'' grows cat ears and tail whenever he's nervous, which is the result from being surrounded by [[AllergicToLove girls]] [[AccidentalPervert who deal with underwear on daily basis.]]

** Kisa (who's possessed by the Tiger) pops out her ears and tail at one point, when she perked up at hearing Tohru (her surrogate mother) come back from the bathroom.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': Squidward grows a human ear in shock when he hears SpongeBob swearing over the Krusty Krab's PA in the episode "Sailor Mouth".

** Kisa, the tiger-girl from, pops out her ears and tail at one point, when she perked up at hearing Tohru (her surrogate mother) come home.
** Kyo the cat will sometimes visibly bristle ears and tail up when angered, or flatten his ears when embarrassed.

* In in the manhwa ''Chocolat'', Kum-Ji's aunt sprouts fox ears and a tail during her apology after a member of their rival favorite band overhears her trash-talking them.

* Though it doesn't happen in the finished game, the [[http://pics.livejournal.com/nunuu/pic/0021hfqk/g33 storyboards]] for ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Crisis Core'' show Zack sprouting dog ears and a tail to fit his nickname of "Puppy".

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* Tsumiki in ''Manga/PlaceToPlace''.

* ''Manga/KomiSanWaKomyushouDesu'' makes a RunningGag out of Komi sprouting cat ears when she gets excited about something. This is even lampshaded in one chapter, when she's up late at night worrying about things she might have done to embarrass herself, and one of her "anxiety points" is "Why do I sometimes grow cat ears?"

** And in one of Creator/{{CLAMP}}'s earlier works, ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'', Hikaru would sometimes get cat ears.

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* This occurs to a large amount of various characters in ''Manga/GakuenAlice''. It's more prevalent in the manga than in the anime.

** You know what, Creator/{{CLAMP}} in general. ''{{Suki|ALikeStory}}'' has the main character sprout dog ears and tail almost every chapter.

* Hayate of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' had tanuki ears (and sometimes tail) pop up every so often during the ''[=StrikerS=]'' [[ComicBookAdaptation manga]] when she's feeling mischievous.

* Morgan [=McKnight=], from ''AoiHouse'', tends to grow cat ears, as befitting her GenkiGirl personality.

* In a 1930s ''{{Popeye}}'' cartoon, a Creator/MaeWest expy is brazenly flirting with Popeye and smacking around Olive Oyl, who finally downs a can of spinach and momentarily sprouts cat ears while [[DesignatedGirlFight yowling and hissing!]]

* In ''RurouniKenshin'', Megumi's NoblewomansLaugh is occasionally accompanied by growing fox ears. Her nickname on the show itself is "Kitsune-onna" (literally "Fox Woman") or "Vixen" in the English version.
* The cursed characters in ''FruitsBasket'' sometimes take on characteristics of their animal selves in comedic situations:

* Tamaki (who's basically a GenkiGirl in a {{bishonen}}'s body) does this with puppy ears once in a while in ''OuranHighSchoolHostClub''.
* Happens a few times with Hazuki in the first part of Tsukuyomi, before she gets into the habit of wearing a CatEaredHeadband. This was initially intended to be only an occasional gimmick, sometimes done with headbands and other times with this trope, until the Anime made it a central aspect of the entire design, and then went on to add cat ears to everything, with absolutely no exceptions.
* In the ''YamiNoMatsuei'' anime series, Tsuzuki gets dog ears and a tail a few times when acting especially {{keet}}ish. This has apparently lead some fans to think he can actually turn into a dog if they don't get the visual metaphor.
* Ichigo literally has her kitty features (ears and occasionally a tail) pop up when she gets excited or nervous in ''TokyoMewMew''. Later on, it accelerates to actually becoming an adorable kitten. Unlike others, this is actually canon, and a plot point, and also leads to a lot of awkward scenes of her having to stick her head in bushes or suddenly having to find a quick way to hide them.
* Yuzuriha in ''{{X1999}}'' (especially when trying to cheer Kamui up) has pointy dog ears because her spirit animal is a dog.

* ''HidamariSketch'': As a one-time thing, [[http://img81.imageshack.us/i/hidag.jpg/ Sae sprouts cat ears and tail]] purely out of surprise/confusion when Yuno's dad angrily points at her and shouts "[[YouExclamation It's YOU!]]" as she walks in. (He mistook her as Yuno's boyfriend based on a stray hair he found in Yuno's room.)

* Liza Wildman of ''PrincessResurrection'', is half werewolf. Besides her transforming forearms, her only wolf-like feature are her wolf ears that only pop up when she is embarrassed/annoyed, or listening intently.

* ''{{Nana}}'' has Nana K sprouting dog ears with some regularity. It's part of the [[UsefulNotes/{{Hachiko}} origin]] behind her nickname Hachi.
* This occurs to a large amount of various characters in ''GakuenAlice''. It's more prevalent in the manga than in the anime.

* In ''HunterXHunter'' Killua does this at least twice in the anime.

* Maron/Jeanne does this several times in the ''KamikazeKaitouJeanne'' manga. Usually when thinking of Kaitou Sinbad.

* In ''Manga/{{Kotoura-san}}''--from [[DirtyMindReading Haruka's point of view]], at least--Manabe's entire head often goes into werewolf-mode when he's feeling lustful.

* Tsumiki in ''Manga/AcchiKocchi''.

* In the BugsBunny short "The Hare-Brained Hypnotist", after Elmer learns to perform a HypnoticGaze and tries it on Bugs, Bugs reverses the hypnosis and mind-controls Elmer into acting like a rabbit. Elmer's ears briefly grow into rabbit-like ears to set up a [[SwappedRoles role-reversal]] scene.