Yes, that's right, be grateful and kneel before me. Because, after all, my goal is to defeat you! I'm determined to expose the dirt on her, close the Deer Club, and steal not only her place as president, but also her status as the school diva!
Nekoyamada to herself, about Koshi
Neko Nekoyamada (猫山田 根子, Nekoyamada Neko) is a third-year student and is the vice-president of the student council at Hino Minami High School.
She is the self-proclaimed rival of the Deer Club members, whose goal is to overthrow Koshi at everything and to get the club disbanded.
She is one of the supporting characters of the Shikanoko Nokonoko Koshitantan series who made her unofficial debut as a non-speaking cameo in "Girl Meets Deer".
She makes her official debut alongside the other two student council officers in Chapter 20 of the manga and "The Deer Club in the Crosshairs" of the anime.
Appearance[]
Nekoyamada has expressive, big eyes that seems to be maroon-colored with a large note of brown, she has delicate, fine eyelash that subtly frame her eyes and dot eyebrows.
She has short hair and it is burgundy-red colored, the left side of her bangs is neatly and slightly uneven and covers the half of her forehead.
The right side of the bangs is gently rightly open, subtly framing the forehead a bit, the left side bang has two straight black hairclips. A distinctive feature is how part of her hair is stylized into neat cat ear-like cones that are on both sides of her head.
Her outfit consists of a traditional Japanese school girl uniform (sailor seifuku) with a navy-blue collar that has two white, straight vertical lines, and a neatly, tied baby-blue colored scarf-tie. Her sleeves are noticeably longer than her arms and hands due to her petite stature, measuring 132 cm (4’3 ft) in height, rendering her the shortest out of all the other characters.
Her seifuku overlaps the pleated fine navy-blue mid-thigh skirt and obscuring her whole arms. There is a red tight band on her left arm that says '生徒会' (student council).
Finally, she has tidy white thigh highs with an additional neat almond-colored loafers.
Personality[]
She is known to be hot-headed and competitive. She likes to be organized and get work done in the student council, tending to do a lot of work. She is easily influenced by praise, completely forgetting her goal in mind and becoming very happy and gloatful about it.
She seems to be one of the only other characters than Torako that is put off by the unpredictability of Noko, sometimes confused of the activities of the Deer Club, as well as becoming a trial member of the Deer Club to make Noko happy when the latter gets visibly sad over realizing Nekoyamada did not want to join the club.
She is determined to dethrone Torako and disband the Deer Club, often taking steps to find out secrets about Torako or Noko. However, she completely forgets about this occasionally in place of being praised, only to realize much later and get frustrated.
She is also extremely attached to Tsuchi despite her initial shock. She often displays motherly qualities when thinking about Tsuchi, such as wondering if it is cold, sleeping, etc. Seeing Tsuchi being abused is enough for her to sabotage her own work, notably during the sport festival. Furthermore, she is implied to come to Tsuchi for comfort.
Abilities[]
- Wide intelligence - She is shown to be extremely smart, placing the second highest in test scores, below Torako.
Skillset[]
- Leadership skills - She has the leadership skills to be elected as the student council vice-president.
- Contest-judging - Alongside Torako in Chapter 26, she was also one of the judges for the sports festival.
Trivia[]
- Her first name means cat, while her surname is a combination of the word "cat" (neko) and "mountain rice field" (yamada).
- Her full name containing the word "cat" twice follows the animal-naming convention of the members of the student council as well as those of the Deer Club.
- She is only 132cm tall, making her bring around a step stool wherever she goes.
- Her design is reminiscent to that of Jinpei Jiba from the animated series, Y School Heroes.
- Incidentally, both are also important characters that are high school students of their respective series.
- Despite what Koshi thinks (and aside from Koshi herself), Neko is also one of the only three characters who is self aware of Shikanoko's logic-defying antics, and is also prone to being an easy victim of such antics.
- In the English dub, Nekoyamada meowing in frustration is changed to her groaning "Damn!".
- She is the only character to have made the most cameos before her official debut.
- In "Girl Meets Deer", during one of the split second frames of cameo Nekoyamada has in the episode, it is shown that she scored the second highest (next to Koshi herself) when the final test scores are displayed.
- During Nekoyamada's brief flashback montage in "The Deer Club in the Crosshairs", it is revealed that she ran against Koshi during the presidential student council election and lost, and was instead picked by Koshi herself to be her vice-president.
- In "Summer Deer Festival", Nekoyamada is the only main cast member not to wear a summer variation of her uniform.
- However, Chapter 31 reveals that her summer uniform is exactly the same as her winter one.
- One of the posts promoting "Goodbye Old Deer, Hello New Deer" on the show's official Twitter is an exclusive picture of the three other student council members dressed as shrine maidens.[1]
- "Blame It On Spring..." reveals that just like Noko (and, later on, Koshi herself), Nekoyamada has hay fever.