Talk:Monster Girls/@comment-38965165-20190722145732/@comment-27950421-20190723225104

Yes and your research is half done:

"Nekomata are often misconceived as being "a cat that lived a long time and obtained demonic energy, thus becoming a monster." In the eyes of the men who were assaulted by nekomata it looks like their pet cat suddenly changed into a nekomata one day, but the truth is that their cat was a nekomata from the beginning"

-Also from the Nekomata page. KC added that ability as a reference to the origins of Nekomata in myth, the Nekomata being a normal cat who had lived for a very long time. It makes no mention anywhere in the profile that their cat form has two tails or any sort of fire around them, which would be a requirement for it to be the form Nekomata's had in the age of the previous Demon Lord. The form is that of a normal, unmonsterized cat. This isn't a primal form, it's just a magical disguise. It's not really comparable to what happens with dragons.