CatBread / Nekopan

CatBread / Nekopan

Updated Aug 12, 2015 at 01:51AM EDT by Brad.

Added Dec 05, 2010 at 08:27PM EST by Trick Lobo.

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About

CatBread (also known as "Kitty Loaf", "Kitty Bread", "Cat Loaf" and "Neko-Pan") is a character from a Japanese children's book which is often used as an avatar in discussion forums online. The character became widespread on the English-speaking web in 2004 after a GIF animation of the character was featured in a YTMND page created by the site’s founder Max Goldberg.

Origin

The character “Neko-Pan” (猫パン) was first introduced through the Japanese children's book Catbread and Cardboard Box (猫パン と だんぼーる君)[8], written and illustrated by author Hirose Takuro[1] and self-published via his webpage in 2000. According to Takuro[9], the book was originally made using a web application by the printer corporation Hewlett-Packard.


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In the following years, Takuro continued to showcase various icon files and illustrative artworks based on the character.[24][25]

Spread

On December 23rd, 2002, the earliest known discussion about the character on the English-speaking web was posted in a Neo-Geo forum[2] thread titled “What is the Origin of Kitty Loaf?” by user MegaDrive20XX. In the post, the user referred to the character as "Kitty Loaf," which became adopted as its unofficial name in English language. One of Takuro's icons was posted to the website e-thug.net[4] as early as May 24th, 2004, before making its way to the to the Magic: The Gathering website MTGNews.[23] On March 6th, 2004, an Urban Dictionary[12] definition was submitted for "Kitty bread" by user Penny, noting e-thug.net as its origin.


1. Kitty bread 14 up, 15 down A loaf of bread with a cat face on it that has the innate ability to sing Known from www.e-thug.net When Aaron heard the Kitty bread, he got on some girl faster than a Catholic priest on a choir boy! buy kitty bread mugs & shirts share this add a video by Penny Mar 6, 2004 s

On April 23rd, 2004, the YTMND page "CuppyCake"[5] was created by YTMND founder Max Goldberg, which featured the Cat Bread animated GIF accompanied by the song "Cuppycake Gumdrops". On January 9th, 2005, a thread was posted on the MTG Salvation[6] forums by sneakyhomuncolus, which inquired about the cat's origins and included several photos of Catbread and Cardboard Box promotional toys.


だんぼーる君 だんほーそ君 猫パン

On February 16th, 2006, the techno-culture blog BoingBoing[18] published a post titled "Cuppycake Gumdrops Snookums" about the original YTMND site and mentioned Nekopan's Japanese origins. On March 25th, 2007, the domain was registered for the Nekopan web comics site Nekopan Bakery.[19] On November 16th, 2008, a photo of a kitty loaf t-shirt (shown left) was uploaded to the photo sharing website Flickr.[20] On March 31st, 2009, a Nekopan bead sprite image (shown right) was submitted to a thread in the pixel art forums Pixel Gasm.[21]



On December 27th, 2010, Nekopan was featured in a post on the art blog Awesome Robo[17], which included several fan arts of the character. On January 26th, 2011, the cat enthusiast blog Catsparella[22] published a post titled “Cat Bread AKA Real Life Kitty Loaves” which featured several photos of bread decorated to look like cats.


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The meme has since spread to sites like I Can Has Cheezburger[7], Tumblr[14][16] and deviantArt.[15] As of April 2nd, 2012, the original YTMND site has received over 25 million views, and a Facebook[3] page for Nekopan has received 85 likes.

Derivative YTMNDs

The original "CuppyCake" YTMND page spawned a series of imitations.

For more, read Cuppycake Gumdrops/ The Cuppycake Song entry.

Fan Art



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External References

[1] Hirose Takuro – Officlal Website

[2] Neo-Geo forums – What is the Origin of Kitty Loaf? / Posted on 12-23-2002

[3] MTG News – User Profile: Sneakyhomunculus

[4] E-Thug.net – Web Arhchives / Launched on 10-4-2003 (now defunct)

[5] YTMND – CuppyCake / Posted on 4-23-2004

[6] MTG Salvation – Help me find the Kitty Bread!!! / Posted on 1-9-2005

[7] - I Can Has Cheezburger – Kitty Loaf Alert / Posted on 1-12-2007

[8] Kanikuma – Nekopan

[9] Kanikuma – ehon-in

[10] MTG Salvation – Kittybread

[11] YTMND Wiki – Cuppycake

[12] Urban Dictionary – Kitty Bread

[13] Facebook – Nekopan

[14] Tumblr – #catbread

[15] deviantArt – catbread

[16] Tumblr – #nekopan

[17] Awesome Robo – Cat Bread aka Nekopan

[18] Boing Boing – Cuppycake Gumdrops Snookums

[19] Nekopan Bakery – Nekopan Maid Cafe and Bakery

[20] Flickr – Kitty loaf

[21] Pixel Gasm – Bead Sprites by AnimeFur

[22] Catsparella – Cat Bread AKA Real Life Kitty Loaves

[23] MTG News – Magic the Gathering News

[24] Kanikuma – work index

[25] Kanikuma – e index

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