Genre: Anime
Region: Japan
Title: The Capable Cat is Melancholic Today
Personal Rating:
- Plot: 7.0
- Visuals: 7.0
- Overall: 7.0
The whole story mainly revolves around the female protagonist finding and adopting a stray cat during winter. The female protagonist herself is not very capable of taking care of herself, whether it's clothing, food, housing, or transportation. Surprisingly, the stray cat she picked up turned out to be very big, bigger than the average person, and was able to skillfully take care of household chores, cooking, laundry...
The main storyline of the whole story is a bit cliché, it's a story that everyone is familiar with, rescuing an animal and being repaid. If it were only that, then this anime would only receive a score of 5. So the story takes a different approach and doesn't make the cat the female protagonist's boyfriend or husband. To some extent, Yuji (the cat) is positioned as a pet. It's just that the roles of this pet and its owner have been reversed, somewhat like a "cat that takes care of humans"?
The concept of a "cat that takes care of humans" is quite unique. On one hand, even if many people have pets, they occasionally find the job of being a "pooper scooper" troublesome. This concept solves that problem well: this cat can take care of everything on its own. On the other hand, many young people nowadays are single and they keep small pets to pass the time, but some of them can't even take care of themselves properly. This concept meets the needs of these young people: they can have a companion and also take care of themselves in the process.
An excellent film or TV show must reflect the current situation or fulfill people's fantasies of an ideal life... Only in this way can it attract people.