All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku

All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku
English language DVD cover of the first OVA series
万能文化猫娘 (Bannō Bunka Nekomusume)
Genre	Adventure, Comedy, Mecha
Manga
Author	Yuzo Takada
Publisher	Kadokawa Shoten
Other publishers: ADV Manga
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Weekly Manga Action Zoukan-Oh
Original run	1990 – 1991
Volumes	1
Original video animation
Director	Yoshio Ishiwata
Writer	Yuzo Takada
Studio	MOVIC Starchild Records
Licensor	ADV Films
Released	1992
Runtime	30 minutes per episode
Episodes	6
Manga
All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku (Perfect)
Author	Yuzo Takada
Publisher	Kadokawa Shoten
Published	June 1993
Volumes	1
TV anime
Nuku Nuku
Director	Yoshitaka Fujimoto
Writer	Hiroshi Yamaguchi
Studio	Ashi Productions MOVIC Starchild Records TV Tokyo
Licensor	ADV Films
Original run	January 7, 1998 – March 25, 1998
Episodes	12, plus two specials
Original video animation
All Purpose Cultural Cat-Girl Nuku Nuku DASH!
Director	Yoshitaka Fujimoto
Writer	Yuzo Takada
Studio	MOVIC Starchild Records
Licensor	ADV Films
Released	September 23, 1998 – December 23, 1998
Runtime	30 minutes per episode
Episodes	12
Manga
New All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku (Origin)
Author	Yuzo Takada
Publisher	Kadokawa Shoten
Published	February 1999
Volumes	1
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All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku (万能文化猫娘, Bannō Bunka Nekomusume^?) is a Japanese single-volume manga series written and illustrated by Yuzo Takada and serialized in Weekly Manga Action. The manga was released as a single volume in December 1997. The story begins when genius inventor Kyusaku Natsume transplants the brain of a cat found by his son Ryunosuke on Christmas Eve, into a schoolgirl android that he created and subsequently stole from his former employer, Mishima Heavy Industries (owned by his estranged wife and Ryunosuke's mother, Akiko Natsume). The result, Nuku Nuku (also known as Atsuko Natsume), is a nekomusume or cat girl. The manga was licensed by ADV Manga and published as a single volume on August 24, 2004.

Cat Girl Nuku Nuku has been adapted into two OVA series and one television anime series. All three anime adaptations were also licensed in North America by ADV Films. A English language version of the OVA was released by Crusader Video in the United Kingdom on VHS featuring regional accents.^[1] ADV's English language release was shown on PBS affiliate KTEH San Jose along with Generator Gawl and City Hunter.^{[citation needed]}

Plot

The plot generally focuses on the custody battle for Ryunosuke and the attempts by Akiko and Mishima Heavy Industries to reclaim Nuku Nuku's body, which often involves amusingly larger-than-life battles between Nuku Nuku and military hardware produced by Mishima Heavy Industries.

Two episodes also deal with a one-sided war between Nuku Nuku and another android named Eimi, who suffers from an over-the-top inferiority complex and envies Nuku's more stable design. As it stands, Eimi was made after her and seeks to transfer her programming into Nuku to ditch her own body, which Akiko calls "a piece of junk." In spite of Eimi being more emotionally unstable than Nuku, both their fights end in a draw.

Characters

Atsuko 'Nuku Nuku' Natsume

Voiced by: Megumi Hayashibara (Japanese), Allison Keith (English)

Ryunosuke Natsume

Voiced by: Kazue Ikura (Japanese), Kira Vincent-Davis (English)

Kyusaku Natsume

Voiced by: Akira Kamiya (Japanese), Andrew Klimko (English)

Akiko Natsume

Voiced by: Saeko Shimazu (Japanese), Kelly Manison (English)

Arisa

Voiced by: Aya Hisakawa (Japanese), Kaytha Coker (English)

Kyouko

Voiced by: Akiko Hiramatsu (Japanese), Tiffany Grant (English)

Eimi

Voiced by: Mika Kanai (Japanese), Cynthia Martinez (English)

Media

Manga

The manga is published in English by ADV Manga. It was serialized in Weekly Manga Action. It was created by Yuzo Takada and originally contained three chapters which focused on Nuku Nuku trying to be a human after her brain was transferred into an android. The manga was licensed by ADV Manga and published as a single volume on August 24, 2004 with the name All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku.

Anime

Cat Girl Nuku Nuku has been adapted into two OVA series and one television anime series. The first OVA adaptation, All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku, was directed by Yoshio Ishiwata and released in Japan as six individual episodes on both VHS and Laserdisc during 1992. A English language version of the OVA was released by Crusader Video in the United Kingdom on VHS featuring regional accents. A Masturbation scene was removed prior to release.^[1]

Spanning fourteen episodes, the full anime adaptation, Nuku Nuku, was directed by Yoshitaka Fujimoto.^[1] It premiered in Japan on January 7, 1998 and ran until March 25, 1998. It introduces new characters and makes several changes to the manga story line.

The third adaptation was a 12-episode OVA series called All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku DASH! and also directed by Yoshitaka Fujimoto.^[1] It was released on DVD in three volumes from September 23, 1998 to December 23, 1998.

All three anime adaptations were also licensed in North America by ADV Films.

Reception

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} Clements, Johnathan; McCarthy, Helen. The Anime Encyclopedia, Revised and expanded edition. ISBN 1-933330-10-4. 

External links

• All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku (anime) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia