Character Licensing — Cat × Anime Style, Starting at JPY 10,000 / Month
Have you ever faced challenges like these?
✓ You want to try character licensing, but don’t know where to start
✓ You created original characters, but they didn’t gain much attention
✓ You’d like to collaborate with well-known characters, but the licensing fees are too high
✓ You’d like to explore character-based business even at a small scale
If so, our cat characters at iwemon store may be the perfect fit.
Our work centers around a “Cat × Anime Style” concept — creating familiar yet fresh cat characters called Nekowemon, designed to feel nostalgic, approachable, and shareable across social platforms.
Nekowemon is a character series centered around its core character, “Neco,” a white cat, and is created in a unique style that combines a Unified Cat-face Design Identity with expressive elements of Japanese animation.
For small and medium-sized businesses and individual entrepreneurs who are considering character-based business opportunities, we invite you to make use of the Nekowemon IP.
We offer flexible licensing plans to support your needs.
How You Can Use Our Characters
🧸 Product Development
Cat characters can be used for merchandising across a wide range of categories, including toys, stationery, general merchandise, apparel, product packaging, games, and digital goods.
🎮 Roblox (Game Development)
By utilizing Roblox-ready models, you can develop games and content for Roblox. They can be used to create game experiences for users around the world, build communities, and support promotional activities.
🐱 Company Original Characters
You can create unique characters such as corporate mascots, local mascot characters, product characters, and service characters. These characters can be used for a variety of purposes, including social media communication, merchandising, advertising, and Roblox content development.
📢 Advertising & Promotion
Cat characters can be used in social media posts, posters, packaging designs, and other promotional materials to effectively communicate the appeal of products and services.
🎪 Events & Campaigns
Perfect for stamp rallies, exhibitions, photo spots, and other event activities. Cat characters can help create memorable experiences and eye-catching displays that encourage visitors to share photos and content on social media.
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Q： Is Nekowemon a copy of an existing anime?
A：
No.
Nekowemon is not a copy of any existing anime or character.
Nekowemon is an original character IP centered around its core character, the white cat Neco. All Nekowemon characters are created based on the brand’s original Core Design Concept, which combines Unified Cat-face Design Identity and Expressive Elements of Japanese Animation.
“Expressive Elements of Japanese Animation” refers to general visual expression elements that have become familiar across many works over time, such as hairstyles, costumes, color schemes, accessories, and poses. These elements are not specific to any particular work or character, but are part of a broader visual language shared by many creators.
The human brain naturally responds to familiar visual expressions with feelings such as “I’ve seen something like this before,” “this feels familiar,” or “I want to see more.” This kind of natural recognition and emotional response is also understood in psychology and cognitive science.
Nekowemon uses this natural human response while avoiding imitation of existing works. By combining its own Unified Cat-face Design with original character settings, Nekowemon creates a new and original character experience.
Therefore, even if people feel a sense of familiarity or nostalgia, it does not mean Nekowemon is copying a specific work. Rather, Nekowemon is designed to make use of the way people naturally feel familiarity and emotional connection toward general visual expression elements.
Nekowemon also respects third-party copyrights and intellectual property rights, and is created and managed with care to avoid infringement. Nekowemon is an original character IP designed to feel both familiar and fresh, while continuing to protect and manage its intellectual property responsibly.
© Nekowemon
All copyrights of the characters belong to iwemon store.
