Artistic Forces/Kemonomimi

The Kemonomimi, officially referred to as the Theocratic Principality of Kemonomimi, is one of the factions in Artistic Forces.

Name
The Japanese term Kemonomimi (kanji: 獣耳, hiragana: けものみみ, furigana: ) is a combination of two meaningful words: kemono (獣), which means "animal", "critter", "creature", "brute" or "beast", and mimi (耳) is translated to "ear" as a body part with the sense of hearing. This term is also translated to "animal ears", and culturally became a popular trope in anime and manga, describing the humanoid characters that possess animal-like features, usually a pair of ears and a tail.

Description
The military of this faction is a unique blend of Japanese mythology, folklore, tradition and technology. the Theocratic Principality of Kemonomimi is a theocratic entity that involves the use of Japanese historical and modern military arsenal, classical technology, traditional weaponry and mythical powers as their common military tactics to fight their certain ways against enemies. In addition to that, they maintain religious order under Shintoism, the Japanese folk religion, with its cultural aspects of Japanese mythology and folklore, including various types of Youkai like Tanuki, Yuki-Onna, Tengu and Crow Tengu.

History
TBA

Strategy
TBA

Tactics
TBA

Technological level
TBA

Veterancy ranks
The following veterancy ranks are the inspirations of those of the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces, including the Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Japanese Navy.

Commanders

 * Niyanko Kimura Nekohime (木村にゃん子猫姫): Princess of Kemonomimikoku and the commander-in-chief of the Kemonomimi
 * Okami Kitsune Shogun (狼キツネ将軍): Shogun of Kemonomimikoku
 * General Nekoko Tokugawa (徳川猫子): Supreme Commander of the Kemonomimi Military
 * Lieutenant General Inumi Kamakura (鎌倉犬美): Kemonomimi Industrial Commander
 * Colonel Nezumi Musashi (武蔵禰豆美): Kemonomimi Rangaku Commander
 * General Kazuko Momoyama (桃山和子): Kemonomimi Feudal Commander
 * Admiral Shio Wakizashi (脇差汐): Kemonomimi Sea Commander
 * Air Commander Tengumin Kaidou (街道天狗民): Kemonomimi Air Combat Commander

Agents

 * Raiden Nekomi (猫美雷電): Kemonomimi Terrain Agent (hero unit)
 * Nekoyumi Tsushin (通信猫由美): Communications officer (announcer)

Factional theme
The Kemonomimi only utilizes the traditional Japanese theme songs.

Trivia

 * Every dialogue of the Kemonomimi units ends with a Japanese onomatopoeic animal sound.
 * The culture and architecture of the Kemonomimi is inspired by the Japanese folk religion of Shintoism as well as the aspects of the Japanese culture, mythology, and folklore.
 * The Kemonomimi is one of the few factions in Artistic Forces that keep their original Japanese names untranslated, the other ones are Josei Guntai, Yami Musume, and Kaijin Gundan, with the next two being Kyoudai Gundan and Zaibatsu Teikoku.
 * The Kemonomimi is one of the 3 factions whose factional personnel are all-female only. However, since they have their original Japanese names, these factions are all monolingual, with Japanese as their officially factional language, as well as some factions, like the all-American U.S.S.D.A. or A.D.A, with English as their dominantly official and de facto language.