A Man and His Cat, Vol. 1

Pages: 148
Published: 2018
Language: English

Fukumaru, a large and homely Exotic Shorthair, is passed over again and again at the pet shop in favor of younger, cuter kittens. Then Kanda, a world-famous classical pianist and recent widower, unexpectedly buys him. What follows is a gentle, episodic slice of life as two lonely souls — a grieving man and an overlooked cat — find quiet companionship together.

Prose complexity: 1/10

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Umi Sakurai

Umi Sakurai is a Japanese manga artist best known for A Man and His Cat (おじさまと猫), the story of an aging widower and the unwanted shorthair cat he adopts. She debuted in 2014 with The Vampire Called God (神とよばれた吸血鬼), serialized on Square Enix's Gangan ONLINE until 2017. Later that year she began posting A Man and His Cat as a short comic on Twitter; it was picked up for serialization on Gangan pixiv and, from 2019, in Monthly Shonen Gangan, going on to place in the Next Manga...