Tag discussion: New tag group: anthropomorphism

To be used for characters with non-human traits, including animal parts as well as mechanical parts.

Subsets would be

kemonomimi_mode
mecha_musume
monster_girl
dragon_girl
...

This could help to cleanup kemonomimi_mode by moving all images without animal ears to anthropomorphism.

To me, anthropomorphism sounds like animals with humanoid anatomy such as fox_mccloud.

We have well defined borders between ( animal_ears OR tail ) (10%), monster girl and furry: post #113417. And these groups have completely different target audiences. Why would we group them together under an umbrella?

And isn't anthropomorphism pretty much just personification? (wiki: "any attribution of human characteristics (or characteristics assumed to belong only to humans) to animals, non-living things, phenomena, material states, objects or abstract concepts, such as organizations, governments, spirits or deities.")

S1eth said: To me, anthropomorphism sounds like animals with humanoid anatomy such as fox_mccloud.

I'd tend to think of it this way, yes.

Anthropomorphism is defined as giving human traits to non-human things, so it's pretty much the exact opposite of kemonomimi_mode, which is giving a few select animal traits to humans.

Notes:

• tag group:ears tags already has a good list of ears, like dog ears, sheep ears and kemonomimi mode
• but it wouldn't be the optimal place to list tags of full bodies, like monster girl and furry

To clarify,if the anthro tag is introduced it would be in the context of the definition;i.e. human traits to non-human objects/concepts?

Anthropomorphism

• furry
• kemonomimi
• subsets of kemonomimi (animal_ears + animal_tail)
• mecha musume
• monster girl
• personification
• os

And the inverse (i.e. animals given non-human qualities;still tagged as anthro?):

mechanization
objectification
animalization (zoomorphism)

FoxMcloud would be tagged as furry,or anthropomorphic,going from his features

Rampardos said:
Anthropomorphism is defined as giving human traits to non-human things, so it's pretty much the exact opposite of kemonomimi_mode, which is giving a few select animal traits to humans.

That's why I wanted to use zoomorphism first, but under moe anthropomorphism you can find things like kemonomimi and mecha musume. I thought that's exactly what we need here.