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Hello. I'm an author writing a book about the Dragon Ball cartoon and comic book series, and I need your help to identify the breed of cat that this anthropomorphic talking cat was inspired by.
This requires some fun detective work.
Here's a picture of the talking cat, named Karin:
http://www.mangahere.com/manga/dragon_ball/v06/c088/4.html
You can click the page to advance forward and see more angles of him.
Here's a picture of a real life cat that seems to resemble him, along with an image of what Karin looks like in the anime, with white fur:
http://en.rocketnews24.com/2013/08/22/this-cat-looks-amazingly-like-dragon-balls-korin/
Do you know the breed of this real life cat in the photograph? Are they the same as the cat illustrated in the comic?
What I do know is that the illustrator and author of Dragon Ball, named Akira Toriyama, has said that he based the face of Karin on his own cat's face as it was sleeping. The cat, named Koge, was a stray cat he picked up in the rain while living in Japan. Here is a picture of it:
See the black cat with the yellow eyes? What type of cat breed is this? Is it the same as Karin?? If it's the same, is the only difference that he changed the black fur to white?
The Cat Site... You're my only hope. Thank you!!
This requires some fun detective work.
Here's a picture of the talking cat, named Karin:
http://www.mangahere.com/manga/dragon_ball/v06/c088/4.html
You can click the page to advance forward and see more angles of him.
Here's a picture of a real life cat that seems to resemble him, along with an image of what Karin looks like in the anime, with white fur:
http://en.rocketnews24.com/2013/08/22/this-cat-looks-amazingly-like-dragon-balls-korin/
Do you know the breed of this real life cat in the photograph? Are they the same as the cat illustrated in the comic?
What I do know is that the illustrator and author of Dragon Ball, named Akira Toriyama, has said that he based the face of Karin on his own cat's face as it was sleeping. The cat, named Koge, was a stray cat he picked up in the rain while living in Japan. Here is a picture of it:
See the black cat with the yellow eyes? What type of cat breed is this? Is it the same as Karin?? If it's the same, is the only difference that he changed the black fur to white?
The Cat Site... You're my only hope. Thank you!!
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