is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Yuzo Takada. It was serialized in Weekly Manga Action for only three issues in 1991, with the three published stories later compiled in a single volume collection 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. Discotek Media has since received the license to the OVA, TV Series and its Dash!! spin-off.
Plot
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.
Episode List(All purpose cultural cat girl nuku nuku OVA 1992-93)
Episode 1
Ryunosuke finds a kitten in an alleyway while relieving himself. Then taking that he gets on a car with his dad, fleeing his mom's deadly aerial onslaught. While they survived that attack, the kitten got hurt. Trying to save that kitten Kyusaku apparently implants the kitten's brain in a prototype robotic framework, which after some time would appear to function as a work maid in their house. Sometime later, when Akiko again sends an attack force in the school where the feline brained bot named, ''Nuku Nuku'' studies along with her husband Kyosaku, as a teacher, in the same class. There a battle ensues, fairly quickly resulting in the defeat of the attack vehicle. Lastly it cuts to Akiko, the mom, wanting to scheme again to get back her son to stay with her.
Episode 2
Ryonusuke goes to a beach with his friend and nuku nuku, where, of course again, his mom, tries with subterfuge get her child back. For that she first gets the friend shimino hypnotized and brainwashed in sleep time to make her go on aboard Akiko's ship. Then use the child, to lure her son out. Nuku nuku, this time can't perform as earlier because of her lack of swimming gear, which Kyosaku, shortly after provides, and with that she reaches the boat, defeats the episodic bot and in the ensuing chaos Akiko decides to not take her son, just for this time.
Episode 3
After a call and tea time with nuku nuku, Akiko decides to try her hand at being a housewife and the family start living in her family mansion/estate. Although Kyosaku wants this to make her rich wife responsible for once, she changes her mind angrily after receiving a wake up call from her confidante and henchwoman, Arisa, that she's not getting what she wants from this. Following this, the usual bot v cat/furry android fight ensues which results in things going back to how they were before.
Episode 4
It's about a tragic bot named eimi yoshikawa who plots to steal nuku nuku's body to have a much desired upgrade. In the end, they fight, the whole of tokyo gets decimated and they resolve their issues.
Episode 5
The two henchwomen, arisa and kyouko, decide to sabotage nuku nuku's job at a local restaurant out of pure spite borne out of the fact that they're not financially well off anymore.
Episode 6
Because of a fight between Eimi Yoshikawa and Nuku nuku, a brand new highly weaponized, atomized military satellite's controlling system got ruptured and it has now out of control. To stop it from targeting the wrong people, nuku nuku and eimi take it upon themselves to venture into space to destroy it.