>>86066855Here's my kemono theory manifesto
There's three sliders
>How cute the animal is>How inconvenient is it to translate its animal traits>does it have mass appeal?analyzing, for example, Koyori gives us
>coyotes are dogs. Cute!>Coyotes are not freaks of nature. put a tail on that girl and she's ready to mate>Everyone loves dogs!This is why the most widespread kemonomimi is Cats, and the harder the slides go in any given direction its harder to gain appeal. With that said, birds are quite cute but they dont have something that exactly makes them pop.
Putting mumei under the microscope
and ignoring cloacas>Owls are 50/50 cute and creepy. Works for mumei>Fliying silently? Rotating its neck? looking goofy if wet? eeeh its kind of hard so have a feather in your design>no one HATES owls but they are not on your mind.This puts her low in a "kemono radar" since most people will just ignore her features unless they really like them.
Coincidentally, the harder you go on a feature the more you land into the monstergirl/anthro/furry scale which brings interesting stuff like Matara, who technically is a 0 in every slider for kemono/anthro stuff but if you fuck bugs that roach is perfect
she cuteDunno how to close this because i just wanted to yap in the middle of a lecture but the point is that its hard to come up with cute unique stuff for birds and birds are not animals people generally think as "the cutest"