About Tails, some say he's a fox but technically, he's a Kitsune... I think that's what I wanted to say... Yup that's it.

Kitsune = Japanese for "fox".
There, mystery solved without Horatio or Scooby Doo! :lol:

But I thought a Kitsune is a fox with multiple tails! D=

That´s a Japanese legend =P

Oh ok Thanks for the info. <.<'

It was also mythed that they could have up to nine tails(Hence NineTails the pokemon) And they can also grow tails at will, and generate tails when they wish...

ah myths...

but yea I think that's also a bit like how they invented the nine tailed demon fox of Naruto.
Any way... Kitsune = a Japanese legend of a Fox which had 1 or more tails. end of story or do I need to say: Question solved?

I think Japanese or Asian people will rather refer Tails to a Kitsune, then us American and European folks calling him a two tailed-Fox.

Kitsune=Fox
Harinezumi= Hedgehog
Neko=Cat
Inu=Dog
Torii=Bird

Another Mystery solved by That Meddling Hiroko_K xD

You solved nothing more than a pratically closed case O.o

I thought a kitsune was a fox spirt that could change appearance between human and fox(if tails is modeled after a kitsune he could just count easily as hal human bein anthro like he is) (usually female) and the amount of tails it had reflected along the lines of how powerful they were in fact have a ghost story book with one form asia about a kitsune
9 being the most powerful

and in AoSTH in the sonic says about computers theres a pic of tails on the screen and it says mobious two tailed fox so in the STH universe could two tailed fox just be a separate race of fox?
(ex. arctic fox, red fox)

as for legend a two tailed fox would not be impossible if an animal can be born with two heads due to a mutation than having a extra of something unimportant like a tail could be completely possible

I just realized I know more useless info than a encyclopedia i;ve edited this thing twice to add more :TailsHeadSpin:

Kitsune - Fox in the Japanese language.
Kyuubi - Nine tailed fox in the japanese language.

It's true. Although we already had a definition for Kitsune.

"Bi": I'm not certaine, I'm fairly sure it means "tailed beast" though...

So, it's actually not necessarily "nine-tailed fox" since(not sure) Kyuu is "nine" Because kyuubi actually means "Nine-Tailed Beast"

basically everything I just said is up there
kyūbi no kitsune
so it would still a kitsune thats just the name of its new form once it gains its ninth and final tail like "super" form for sonic or 'hyper" form for shadow their still shadow and sonic but those the names of their ultimate forms

But still in saying that, a kitsune is still nothing more than a multi-tailed fox. Seeing as it has to obtain it's ninth tailed to be called kyūbi(or Kyuubi) no kitsune. :/

so even thou there not ghost/spirts their still a spiritual entity rather then a regular fox so the use of the word is just used differently in some cases just like a komodo dragon isn't really a dragon but is still called that along with other reptiles we call a type of dragon ex. frilled dragon

I believe it can mean that legendary beast thing, but at least in that Japanese version of Full Metal Alchemist, I remember the characters clearly calling foxes kitsunes. So, kitsunes are just foxes or characters that have something to do with foxes for me :p

But still, "kyūbi" is more of a title than an actual thing. O.o

Kyuubi would mean Nine tailed beast...

Then Nibi would then mean two tailed beast!

I'm sorry if I'm wrong. ^^;

its kinda like the kitsune's level/rank I couldn't find nibi thou

it also says 1 5 7 and 9 are the commonly used amounts of tails

and they gain one every 1,000 years

so the fact that he's 8 and has two tails already make it very unlikly that hes a kitsune so two tailed fox is probably just a species in the STH universe

I love wikipedia if you can tell I know alot about paranormal/legend related stuff:)'and with all that I just learned more

Go to google image for Nibi...

I beleive nibi refers to any two tailed beast

that was the closest of what I skimmed through

Nibi might be refered to as a two-tailed demon cat, [Sorta Naruto Spoiler]because it is refered to be one in Naruto, and also I think it was in some old Japanese folk legend...

Anyway, they all would be in order:

(I forgot one tail)
Nibi
Sanbi
Yonbi
Godbi
Rokubi(I think)
Seven I'm not sure of.
Eight, I forgot, but is an eight-tailed Ox of some sort.
And Kyuubi.

I highly doubt it ever went any higher than nine....

exactly with mean even know you could be describing a kitsune the word isn't for kitsune specificity its for any two tailed beast:)
I've seen a couple Naruto, not bad:)

Uhm O.o I didn't understand what you meant exactly...

He/She mean's it's not just the word for kitsune. It can be any 2 tailed beast.

(Am I following you right?)

yep and it would be he:)
I have no idea what makes people unsure what pronoun to use

Its the same thing, but when I was younger I thought it was a fox with two Tails also! :lol:

I think that you misunderstood what I meant... Or vise versa O.o;;

Well it's a nice conversation going on here. =D

What I think Tails is a Kitsune to me. A cute and anime one. ^^

What if there was one higher than 9?

10: Zyuubi
100: Hyakubi
1000: Senbi
10,000: Manbi
100,000,000: Okubi (a 100,000,000 tailed beast. OMG... O_o)
100,000,000,000: Tyobi (that's even worse...)

And one tailed is Itibi and seven is Sitibi or Nanabi and eight is Hatibi.

I should go learn japanese. xD

100,000,000,000 tailed beast is even worse than the 100,000,000 tailed beast. o_O O_o

Surely no beast can maintain that many tails, and the size of the beast itself would be absurdity. Not even in a myth is that possible...

I know but what IF there was one?

It would be larger than a continent...

which continent do think exactly?

If there was an animal with that many tails, it wouldn't be an animal, it would be a pile of tails with the body of an animal attatched =|

Tails is a fox. I've never heard any official statement in game manuals or otherwise that he's anything else.

To me he looks more of a Kitsune... but yeah that's your opinion of tails as a fox.

I have another question. How is Tails be able to turn his tails in one direction while he is flying? I mean how can you turn your tails around. Robots can do that cause they are functioned to do that.

I don't even know what Tails looks like anymore >.<

Also, it would be Asia.

I always wondered that to I figured he would turn them so far they'd rip outta socket or break trying to do that

Why would he do that?

Because when they're twisting like that they look like they're on the edge of their tether. I looks like they are about to fall off...

But still, It is confusing how he flies without them stopping, Passes my logic, Helicopters can fly like that because their rotors are both one stick-if you think about it-connected to another stick which makes them spin. How Tails' flies is past any logical answer I know.