Anime 51916 Dekiru Neko Wa Kyou Mo Yuuutsu Reviews Filter Check 3

Initially, I did found the premise cute but as someone who has her own cat, it didn't take too long for me to be pissed off at the storyline.

I hated every single character in this anime. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. Save for the cat. However, if there's anyone who takes the cake, it'd be the other main character, Saku, the cat owner. She is SO irresponsible that I cringe at any scene of the cat picking up BASIC HUMAN SKILLS because his owner is so incompetent they'll literally die if he didn't pick up the slack. I mean, she literally lives in a dump.

One thing ... I learned from watching anime and reading manga over the years is to never take anything too seriously, so there's a fault in my part 'cause now I am too invested and I am mad AF. There are rarely any moments I found adorable because I don't find cats picking up after their thoughtless owners adorable.

Not to mention, most of the scenes were repetitive and some of them could've been cut and we still would've gotten the point of the plot. There's also some inconsistency with certain plot points, and the pacing is so bad. The only reason why I pushed through this was for some semblance of a character development which I never really got. Instead, Saku's laziness and inability to live life was justified. Look, I don't care if she's earning six digits per month or putting a roof on the cat- this girl couldn't even crack an egg like I am so mad right now I can't even. Between that and the old school conversations her co-workers share, I cry for my dead expectations for this series because I love cats. I really do.

Might change my score to a four later but for now I'm going to give it a five just because I feel sorry for that poor cat.

(TL;DR, it's really not that serious but I took it seriously anyway so now I'm mad but ultimately who cares?)

Dropped it after 5 episodes, even that was too many! This is really REALLY bad. It's boring, with detestable characters, a plot that is non-existent and it's an absolute miracle it didn't make my bottom 5 of 2023, the only reason being I dropped it, it would be unfair to include something I have not finished but I simply could not finish this.

I think some people may enjoy the slow pace, the fact that nothing really happens, the cat etc... but let me ask you something? Do you think your time is infinite so you waste it or would it be better to spend it ... more wisely, watching actually good things?

Personally I have never understood series where almost nothing happens, where every episode is instantly forgettable. Like you could watch them completely out of order and still not miss anything. I avoid such things like the plague.

The animation is good and the characters designs looks great, BUT if there is not going to be a specific plot, at least there should be a character relationship development. However, here we have woman that is a total loser, acts like a spoiled teen, can't hold her drinking and is completely stupid and irresponsible. How is that cute? I don't get these clumsy immature characters at all. People must think that every Japanese person is like this, if this is the message they are portraying on their art. Therefore, if you have time to waste, the art is good, but other than that there ... is nothing else. No plot, no good message, no growth, no value.

when you don't have a plot for your story, it means that you have room to develop chemistry between your characters, but this anime is only about a clumsy woman who comes back from work and eats her cat's food.
the pacing is tragic btw, I've never seen a story with a worse pacing.

now, the reasons I'm not giving this a 1/10:
1. the animation: it's a little uncanny but it's still good.
2. Fukuzawa (the mc): her personality made the show bearable for 3 episodes. but keep that in mind that it's only her raw personality bc she never ends up being in an interesting situation ... where she would have a meaningful interactions with anything or anyone. she also sometimes acts beyond clumsy which just makes everything unrelatable .

overall, it's really bad. a 4/10 is almost too generous.