If those names sound like they might be real horses, then you'd be right. Travelling to Tokyo, she joins Team Spica, along with such gifted girls as 'Silence Suzuka' (middle), 'Tokai Teio' (far), and 'Vodka'. Horse Racing mobile games in Japan also get a look in, but being Japanese it's not good enough to just have regular horses - these are horse girls! Sporting equine ears and tails and the ability to run very, very fast, this is Chariots Of Fire at Aintree! 'Special Week' (closest) is a horse girl who wants to be the best in Japan to impress her adoptive Mother, and honour the memory of her birth mother. It's not just Manga that gets adapted to Anime, and it's not only foxes, cats, and demons that become Kemonomimi (animal ears). Tsundere is a portmanteau of two Japanese onomatopoeia 'TsunTsun' (the pointing of one's nose away in a huffing manner) and 'DereDere' (the fast heartbeat of one who is deeply in love.) The dual plot lines in InuYasha make it a very popular series, so much so that it has run for 167 episodes, and spawned four movies and two spinoffs. Tsundere is a character who displays very little emotional attachment to the one they love when around others, but becomes very affectionate and comforting when alone, or when their guard is down. InuYasha himself is also an example of the Japanese tsundere (soon-dare-eh) personality type. Moving away from comedy, InuYasha focuses on a feudal fantasy, in which the titular half-demon character (white fur, far right) is unleashed by Kagome (black hair, green and white sailor suit), a schoolgirl transported to a strange world where she becomes the unwilling hero against the evils of the land that threaten to destroy her, her friends, and her abilities to control a jewel of immense spiritual power. Also, the kawaii (cute) factor helps too. Some Anime focus heavily on folklore and Kami stories, often using the idea of human characters with animal characteristics that give them certain strengths and abilities. Their magic can be broken though, through shock or intense fear which would then reveal their true form and cause them to leave immediately to never return. Often, the Kitsune will transform into human form, usually a woman or a girl in order to befriend the one they have sworn to serve. Even now, donations of small items of food are often left at Japanese temples for the Kitsune to feed upon. This may be related to a donation to a shrine, or a prayer said when times are hard. Alternatively, some do have kind intentions and may attach themselves to a household (or a sole householder), and promise to serve as a maid or servant in exchange for repayment of a favour made. However, sometimes they would turn fully malevolent and abuse hard working tradesmen and devout monks simply for their own delight. Considered to be wily, cunning, and sneaky, the Kitsune has been referred to a trickster that would play mischievous pranks on people, teasing those who displayed pomposity and ignorance. One of the messengers that is very well-known in modern Japanese stories is the Kitsune, seen in the form of a Fox. These messengers usually took the form of the animals that lived with humanity on earth. The biggest group of deities are the Kami, the highest ranking of all the Gods and those that possessed the skills to control messengers that would deliver their words to the human population. It is said that Japanese Gods are not omnipotent or even immortal, just beings of incredible power with the ability to build realities. Amaterasu, the God of the sun, was even depicted as a white winged wolf (See main picture) in the highly successful Playstation 2 game, 'Okami'. This gave rise to the idea that certain Gods had the power to transform themselves into various animals and mingle with the humans that lived in their world. They were the wind, the trees, the many creatures that roamed the landscape. However, rather than being entirely human, these deities were said to be part of the very fabric of reality itself. Japanese folklore and religion like many other parts of the world, has a lot of Gods.
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