The Artificial Liminal Hands are one of the many aids in the Monster Musume manga series developed by private companies to make life in human society easier for Liminals. They debut in the manga series in Chapter 48 at the Inter-Species Cultural Exchange Exposition, albeit only as cameos, as more specific information about them was revealed just later in Chapter 50.
The artificial Liminal hands structurally resemble human hands with five fingers and were specifically developed for Liminal species with wings, such as Harpies or Vampires. The background of this idea is based on the fact that many of these winged Liminals, due to the fact that they just have one opposable thumb, have very limited hand motor skills, which can lead to problems in everyday life, as they struggle to properly grasp objects or perform other everyday tasks that require hands. The artificial Liminal hands are worn as an aids, like gloves, over the Liminals' wing fingers and can be used just like regular hands due to a built-in mechanism in them, making it much easier for winged Liminals to perform everyday tasks.
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- In the official translation of Chapter 50, Mero refers to the artificial hands as prosthetics, but that is inaccurate because the artificial hands were not created as replacements for lost limbs, but rather as aids that are worn like gloves over the wing fingers of winged Liminals.
- As Mero, Centorea and Miia noted in Chapter 50, it is very difficult to notice that a winged Liminal even has wings when it is wearing the artificial liminal hands. This led to the protagonists not noticing for a long time during Volume 12 that Curie was in fact the Vampire they were looking for all along, because the artificial hands, combined with the cloak that Curie wore, covered her vampire wings and made it look like if she had human-like arms with hands, a feature that Vampires in Monster Musume do not have.
- Although the artificial Liminal hands are useful aids for winged Liminals in performing everyday tasks, they are a hindrance to flying, since due to the fact that they are worn like gloves over the wing fingers makes it impossible for winged Liminals to fully spread their wings. For this reason, Curie took off her artificial hands in Chapter 50 before flying out the window.