ケモショタ[kemoshota]
If you happen to be a shota fan, you might be sure of this genre of shota. Well as you can see above image, kemoshota is a hybrid of an animal(dog, cat, lion, wolf etc.) and a shota-looking boy. It is an abbreviation form of ケモノショタ[kemono shota]. ケモノ means an animal…and if you love this, you would be a ケモナー[kemona-].
There are technically five types of ケモショタ.
a. A humanized animal(you can say 擬人化[gijinka]). Like above image, it’s like a hybrid of a young boy and an animal. In real life, a musical, Cats can count. This is a fundamental form of ケモショタ.
b. Obviously a human part and an animal part of his body should be separated. Like a merman or Centaur. But this is absolutely less popular.
c. Even though it is totally an animal, it speaks or walks like a human being. For example, Rakushun in Twelve Kingdoms or all the characters in Keroro Gunsou. Deep kemoshota fans love this.
d. A dressed shota-looking boy as an animal. If he wears cats’ ears or doll, it could count as a kemoshota. Some people might count the Suzaku in a cat doll. But actually this is less recognisable as ケモショタ.
e. If the animal has a shota-looking or is merely childish, it could be. Shamisen in the Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi doesn’t count because the way it speaks is too old.
Although shota fans are everywhere, kemoshota fans are not so. Even in doujin comic markets, there’s not much kemoshota stands though there are kemoshota fans on the net. Umm, this is because they are too shy to come out of the closet? Also in BL circles, this kind of genre exists as ケモホモ[kemohomo]. Ugh, I don’t want to think about it. orz
Japanese words of anime fans, by anime fans, for anime fans 
Soshi said,
May 5, 2008 at 3:55 am
Hmm.. so a ケモショタ would be like Tails (Miles Prower) from Sonic the Hedgehog??
bangin said,
May 5, 2008 at 4:09 am
Ah it is! It should be type c. ^^
Fritzs said,
May 5, 2008 at 4:41 am
It’s like zoophilia meets pedophilia…
bangin said,
May 5, 2008 at 5:09 am
That’s well put.^^ There are quite a few small animal characters in anime. So fujoshis wanted to create something new using them.
Neohybrid_kai said,
May 5, 2008 at 5:12 am
kemohomo? ouch ouch ouuch.. ^^;;
the only hybrid animal character that I like is only Kenrou Horo from Okami to Kyoushinryou (Spice and Wolf) and that’s because of her tsundere character, not her kemonomimi or tail
bangin said,
May 5, 2008 at 5:14 am
I was actually thinking about making a post on mimi-moe.
If Holo was a shota boy, she would have been a bait for fujoshis. lol
William said,
May 29, 2008 at 11:55 pm
Is Inuyasha as a child* a kemoshota? If he is; since a boy with cat/dog ears is cuter than one without, kemoshota is obviously a good thing. ＼（＾ ＾）／
* http://animemoon.moonmage.net/iy-child.jpg
Good blog btw, seems to be information here which can’t be found anywhere else in english.
bangin said,
June 2, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Yes, Inuyashiya is a kemoshota as a child. As an adult one, it should be kemomimi(ケモミミ). This is in the mainstream and the latest boom.^^
Nice to meet you, please visit anytime.^^
Tomcat said,
March 7, 2010 at 5:40 pm
Hey guys^^
Do you know a website that sells Kemoshota comics? …And ships them worldwide?
thx
bangin said,
March 8, 2010 at 12:57 pm
Well, I don’t know because I can buy it here in Japan. I am sorry.
Kitsune_Lover said,
July 14, 2010 at 5:01 am
Is Klonoa considered kemo-shota? He is very cute.
Here in America, there is a large and diverse fandom built around anthro characters.
It is called “furry.” Here are two very good websites which have many images of furries.
http://e621.net/
http://wildcritters.ws/wc/
bangin said,
July 14, 2010 at 10:46 am
Yes you’re right. Klonoa is sure kemoshota.
Zeno said,
April 10, 2016 at 9:40 pm
What is BL circles?