For me it was because of Boulder dash EX
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He's name is alex and he's,,,, uhhh, a cat? A dog? Let's say a fox because he has traits of both
And yes, i know he kinda looks like sonic (I'm pretty sure it's just the hair colour doing the work)
But, his design is so damn cute
And there's the other characters 
Sonya, she's my favourite and she's Alex's girlfriend

Nick, he's Alex's best friend (also,,, why is he only shirtless)
Emily, she's Sonya's best Friend and she's also my favourite (authentic y2k catgirl)
So,,, you can notice that they all (expect Nick) are kinda humanoid faced type of anthro and they all (partially expect for Nick) have hair(-looking fur)
You know what else have humanoid shaped faces AND hair-looking fur? KIGURUMI FURSUITS (not to be confused with kemono, they do have overlap though)
(All fursuits made by makers working to a fursuit company called "doki doki fursuits")
(I think doki doki fursuit is more of fursuit middleman? They seem reputable though, crediting every maker that works for them)




Although tbf, i had interest in fursuit + animegao hybrid masks before, even before they had surge in popularity,,, but i started to like them even more after staring to like the Gameboy advance game
These characters (expect for Nick, sorry the little rodent guy, you would look better as traditional fursuit) would look awesome