All Purpose Cultural Catgirl Nuku Nuku
| All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku | |
English language DVD cover of the first OVA series
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万能文化猫娘 (Bannō Bunka Nekomusume) |
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| Genre | Adventure, Comedy, Mecha |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Yuzo Takada |
| Published by | Futabasha |
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| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Weekly Manga Action, Zoukan-Oh |
| Original run | 1990 – 1991 |
| Volumes | 1 |
| Original video animation | |
| Directed by | Yoshio Ishiwata |
| Written by | Yuzo Takada |
| Studio | Animate Film |
| Licensed by | ADV Films |
| Released | September 21, 1992 – March 24, 1993 |
| Runtime | 30 minutes (each) |
| Episodes | 6 |
| Manga | |
| All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku (Perfect) | |
| Written by | Yuzo Takada |
| Published by | Kadokawa Shoten |
| Published | June 1993 |
| Volumes | 1 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Yoshitaka Fujimoto |
| Written by | Hiroshi Yamaguchi |
| Studio | Ashi Productions |
| Licensed by | |
| Original run | January 7, 1998 – March 25, 1998 |
| Episodes | 12, plus two specials |
| Spin-offs | |
| Manga | |
| New All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku (Origin) | |
| Written by | Yuzo Takada |
| Published by | Kadokawa Shoten |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Shōnen Ace |
| Published | February 1999 |
| Volumes | 1 |
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 anime television series. All three anime adaptations were also licensed in North America by ADV Films. An English language version of the OVA was released by Crusader Video in the United Kingdom on VHS featuring regional accents.
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 Nuku's more stable design. As it stands, Eimi was made after her and seeks to transfer her programming into Nuku Nuku to ditch her own body, which Akiko calls "a piece of junk." In spite of Eimi being more emotionally unstable than Nuku Nuku, both their fights end in a draw.
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