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Two episode impression
When the words ‘cat’ and ‘anime’ usually cross paths, the result is more often than not a cat girl of some sort. I’m the odd man out when I say they’ve always weirded me out, even before furry awareness hit our stream of consciousness. Ugh… Creepy… Disgusting… Cat girls. At any rate, anime do feature cats in some way or another with regularity, but very few have actually put them in a starring role. There’s Chi’s Sweet Home and Nyan Koi… And that’s it. Before I get distracted even more, let’s move on to the Nyan Koi impressions.
The premise of Nyan Koi is that a guy named Junpei that is allergic to cats. He breaks a statue of a local Cat God and subsequently falls under a curse that will turn him into a cat, and he must now grant the wishes of 100 cats to undo the curse. Do I smell an episodic series as Junpei gets into all sorts of hijinks and meets new friends, with early rumblings of a love triangle, while helping all those cats? I think I do! Not like that’s bad or anything. It’s a pretty safe (if transparent) set up, and it works well enough.
The characters are pretty interesting, human and feline alike. The humans and cats share the spotlight equally, and neither dominate all the screen time. Junpei is a sufficient stock male lead, and the supporting cast around him do their jobs. The runaway favorite character will no doubt be the bubbly airhead and main love interest, Kaede. She’s far too moe for her own good.
All in all, Nyan Koi looks to be an average to above-average show. Nothing about it is bad, but on that same note nothing about it is great either. Yeah, it’s predictable. Yeah, you can name the tropes as they come along. It’s pretty good regardless because it’s done well, with some really funny comedy acting as the initial draw. I guess I’ll go ahead and recommend this to everyone that likes romcoms with cats thrown into the equation. You don’t have to love cats to enjoy this, but it sure wouldn’t hurt.
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Cats? Guy and I are interested!
Actually the series I watch rarely have a cat or a catgirl, the only cat girl that comes to mind is from Escaflowne. Although I have every intention of trying out Chi’s Sweet Home someday.
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Starring roles catgirls? Well, I’m currently watching Kyoran Kazoku Nikki (spelling from memory, so I hope it’s right), but that’s about it. Catgirls in say, Escaflowne had mainly “main supporting role”, heh. And there was the small Bitey McBitey in Code Geass… there was that white lion anime, or perhaps it was not an anime? Something.
As for nekomimi, they’re not really furries.
BTW, when you give first impressions of an anime, you might want to link to a youtube version of the OP or something?
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Started Chi’s Sweet Home. Since each episode is like 3 minutes I watch a couple every day on my breaks at work! It’s cute and gives you warm fuzzy feelings. You definitely have to be in the mood for this series to enjoy it though.
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“You don’t have to love cats to enjoy this, but it sure wouldn’t hurt.”
I don’t like real-world cats. Evil, manipulative beasts.
On the other hand, the cats in this show are a real treat. The twintails don’t hurt either, but it’s all about the cats.
Cheerio.
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