Tanukis are not raccoons

This is like saying a black cat tail needs a seperate tag from a tabby cat tail or a white cat tail. They're still the same shape and size roughly. Though all our animal part tags suffer from canon tagging so you could put a pink polka dot tail on a girl, call her a tanuki and people would tag it as such.

Here's a raccoon tail post #7548833
Here's a tanuki tail post #7490567

You're pulling whataboutisms but not addressing that for the most part they are visually cohesive, way moreao than cat or dog tails.

It is very hard to find canon Raccoon girls as opposed to Tanuki, I think there's a discussion to be had, just not on the ears and tail.

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The tanuki is called raccoon dog because it looks like a raccoon. The ears and tails of these characters all look the same, if you saw any of these posts without context you would not be able to tell them apart.

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remove alias tanuki_boy -> raccoon_boy
remove alias tanuki_girl -> raccoon_girl

People expressed they had no issues with these two for people who want to see tanuki (or actual raccoon, for that matter) characters but they kept getting attached with the unnecessary tail and ear tags.

This would line up with hedgehog girl being kept but hedgehog ears being removed.

nonamethanks said:

The tanuki is called raccoon dog because it looks like a raccoon. The ears and tails of these characters all look the same, if you saw any of these posts without context you would not be able to tell them apart.

tanuki don't look raccoons at all though. tanuki look closer to foxes than to raccoons, including a different ear and tail shape. tanuki tail are gradient, rather than ringed, and ears are larger, with a more gradual taper than raccoon. while tanuki in folklore commonly have raccoon-like features including the ring tail, this is not accurate to how an actual tanuki looks like. michiru kagemori is the most accurate depiction of a tanuki girl we've gotten in modern anime having correct ear and tail shape.

"Tanuki vs. raccoon" gives a ton of Google Images search results, whereas "tanuki vs. fox" gives very little. The difference is even harder to tell in art.

If anything, you're thinking of a red panda (bear cat), not a fox.

Though raccoon and tanuki should stay separate, I think the kemonomimi human versions are too similar to tell apart.

LQ said:

"Tanuki vs. raccoon" gives a ton of Google Images search results

How many of those only exist because of the alternative name 'raccoon dog' though?

Typing in that search gives a top suggestion of 'tanuki vs. raccoon dog', and adding -dog to the search reduces the number to just a handful, although that may go too far the other way.