The main cast of Caribbean Blue, featuring Kimi, Yuki, Maya, Tina, and Nekonny.
Caribbean Blue is one of a group of Furry Webcomics in Kemono Cafe, which can be read here
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Written by Ronaldo Rodrigues (also known as Nekonny), Caribbean Blue takes place on a tropical island for what where three friends think is going to be nothing more than a relaxing vacation, only to be received by the locals as the heroes of legend reborn! This apparent misunderstanding is due to the fact that, as the heroine before them, they are all unique cat hybrids; Tina Vermillion: a tiger nekomimi, Yuki Keystone: a lynx nekomimi, and Nekonny: a human stuck in the body of a cat. The would-be heroes aren't quick to believe that they are anything special, but fate keeps putting further evidence that there is more to the legend than the local's stories alone. When they meet the nekomimi Maya working in the local inn, they feel that this legend may not only be real, but may contain the secrets that will give Nekonny his human form back and through it, his normal life.
As of 2014, the comic has reached its conclusion.
This webcomic contains examples of:
- Action Dress Rip: Subverted with Yuki. Not really a dress rip, but a tux rip, with a tux sized for Nekonny.
- Ambiguously Brown: Kimi in human form.
- Arc Words: "This is your destiny."
- Author Avatar: ...let's just say that Nekonny's name is Nekonny for a reason.
- Back from the Dead: The Nekocat Spirits use the last of their power to resurrect Kimi as a final reward for her Heroic Sacrifice.
- Bed Mate Reveal: After Nekonny gains the Nekobell, he wakes up in bed at the Inn, and Kimi was in it as well.
- Berserk Button: Do NOT hurt or threaten Kimi in front of Nekonny. Maya learned she's no exception to this.
- Big "NO!": Nekonny when Maya revealed to him that if he becomes a Nekocat, he'll turn female. He was not happy with the idea. She was joking, of course.
- Chekhov's Gunman: Kimi was first seen in the 23rd comic and didn't appear again for a while, then became part of the main cast.
- Dance of Romance: Nekonny and Kimi. Extra points as they're both cats.
- Deal with the Devil: Maya is seduced into stealing the Neko Bell for the black monster for the promise of having Nekonny.
- Department of Redundancy Department: Neko-Cat.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: It took multiple Break the Cutie instances, multiple brushes with death, a friend suffering Demonic Possession, and a horrifyingly dark and brutal villain that required a Heroic Sacrifice to defeat, but in the end, the Island is saved, Maya is redeemed, and Kimi is resurrected from her sacrifice to be with Nekonny.
- Forceful Kiss: Tina on Taco Paco.
She did not enjoy it one bit. - Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: When Maya throws the Neko Bell into the ocean for the Dark Beast, then verbally attacks Kimi for supposedly "stealing her life," a Nekomimi Nekonny angrily slaps her hard for her shallow selfishness, snapping Maya out of her tirade before she tearfully reverts back into a cat.
- Good Old Fisticuffs: Tina's method of fighting against the black monster army invading the island. It also helps she's equipped with magical heavy gauntlets.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Yuki and Maya, who only have cat ears and tails. Tina is a full-blown tiger.
- He Cleans Up Nicely: Nekonny in Nekocat form. Yuki certainly thinks so.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Kimi uses all of her life force in her final attack against Jormungar, something no previous Nekocat was willing or able to do. This causes Jormungar to die for good, ending the cycle forever.
- Hollywood Kiss: Between a cat Nekonny and a catgirl Kimi on the shores of the beach after Nekonny confessed his love for Kimi.
- Interspecies Romance: Nekonny and Kimi, as the former is really a human in a cat's body while the latter is a real cat. Roles then get reversed as Nekonny is the cat and Kimi a nekomimi trying to get used to the new body. Recently, Nekonny finally confesses his love for her despite what they are.
- Love Triangle: Kimi/Nekonny/Maya. Though it seems Maya's lost due to her latest action.
- Marshmallow Hell: Tina kicked Nekonny right into Maya's chest. Then later, he was held quite close to Nekomimi Kimi's ample bosom.
- Motivational Kiss: Before the cast go off to fight the army of black monsters, Nekocat Kimi gives this to Nekocat Nekonny. Yuki is impressed and Tina gushes about the possibility of kittens. Mika and Muna were not so happy aout it.
- Ms. Fanservice: The catgirls, but due to popular vote, goes to Kimi.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Maya when she stole the Neko Bell and gives it to the Dark Beast all for the sake of getting her nekomimi form back and get Nekonny for herself. Nekonny was NOT pleased.
- Nightmare Sequence: Kimi has a dream where she and Nekonny are not only together, but have kittens. Then it all gets brutally torn away from her when some dark being takes Nekonny away.
- Only Sane Man: Nekonny feels like this. Yuki as well.
- Remembered I Could Fly: Tina, after seeing Maya as a cat then turned back into her nekocat form, screams, thinking she's a werecat and yells at her not to get near her as she fears she'll get bitten and turned into a hybrid monster. THEN Tina remembers that she herself is a tiger nekocat.
- The Rival: Tina and Maya have a huge rivalry.
- Sanity Slippage: Maya at the climax, if her new red eyes and ravings about things "going back to the way they were" are anything to go by.
- Sex Sells: Tina was jealous how Yuki and Maya had no trouble attracting tourists to the Coral Inn, so she devises a plan to rake in the most tourists. Her solution? A bikini contest!
- Shout-Out: The volleyball in Yuki's dream had a face painted on it like Wilson the volleyball in "Castaway". Only difference is that it talked.
- The spaghetti scene from "Lady and the Tramp" was re-enacted in a Valentine special between Nekonny and Kimi.
- Show Some Leg: Mika and Muna do this with Yani the cat warden to distract him and break Nekonny out of his jail cell.
- Stripperific: Kimi in nekocat form in her initial outfit.
- Take Off Your Clothes: Nekonny tells catgirl Kimi to take off her dress when they were on the beach to keep it from getting wet. She does so, then also proceeds to take off her bikini as well before Nekonny quickly stops her.
- The Tease: Mika and Muna are prominent in this regard. Both flirted with Nekonny upon their first meeting.
- There Can Be Only One: Literally; there can only be one Neko-Cat.
- Title Drop: "What's it called again? Oh Yeah! Caribbean Blue!"
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Tina and Yuki respectively.
- Too Dumb to Live: While scuba-diving, Tina grabs a fish and tries to eat it but couldn't. Yuki reminds her that the scuba mask is blocking, then comments that Tina would have to choose between not eating the fish or to give up her ability to breath in order to eat said fish. To Yuki's horror, Tina actually TRIED to take off her mask so she could eat right then and there.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Hilariously, the Twins' reaction to Kimi's resurrection is rather subdued."Geez, Nekonny, get a room."
- Unwanted Harem: Nekonny unintentionally grabs the attentions of Mika and Muna.
- Vicious Cycle: Late in the story, it is revealed that Jormungar is destined to resurface every 100 or so years, at which point a Nekocat rises to drive him away, but never be able to kill him. The cycle is broken when Kimi sacrifices herself to destroy Jormungar for good.
