Nyanko Days

Average high school student Yuuko Konagai tends to be rather shy and socially awkward. Due to this, besides earning rather mediocre grades, she barely has friends inside her class. However, after a monotonous day at school, she returns to her long-awaited haven—home with her cats Maa, Shi, and Ro! With their unique personalities, the three possess bodies similar to those of humans, retaining the ability to speak and communicate. Every day, the adorable bunch awaits their owner's return to shower her with much-needed companionship.

Nyanko Days highlights the life of Yuuko and her cats as they brighten up each moment and make new friends in the passing days.

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Maa Main

Kido, Ibuki Japanese

Shii Main

Yamazaki, Erii Japanese

Rou Main

Komatsu, Mikako Japanese

Konagai, Yuuko Main

Uehara, Akari Japanese

Shiratori, Azumi Supporting

Oozora, Naomi Japanese

Elsa Supporting

Udono, Mayu Japanese

Iketani, Ran Supporting

Aranami, Kazusa Japanese

Yuuko's Mother Supporting

Kawasaki, Natsuko Producer

Miyamoto, Hideaki Producer

Hiraike, Yoshimasa Director

Abe, Nobuyuki Sound Director

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Jan 17, 2025

lycoping

Recommended

It will probably take less time to watch the anime than to read this review, and quite frankly, that's the WORST thing about this anime.

Cats? Little girls? How about BOTH?

To me, there are several different kinds of anime. This is the type of anime that builds a world that you just want to live in. A middle school (I think) student and her three cats - but the three cats are little girl cats who all have different, extremely cute personalities, and I swear, if cats were like that, I'd have like ten and dress them up in cute little outfits ... and make sure they had lots of fun toys and take them everywhere with me and... and... *ahem*.

Here, have my man card. I don't care.

The only thing wrong with this anime - for what it is (no accounting for taste) - is that it wasn't long enough. The episodes could have been seven or twenty-two minutes long and that would have only made it better.

Don't expect anything more than what it is - a short, cute slice of life with adorable characters who give you just the kind of sweet escapism anime is made for, and it's completely safe for all audiences too, which is even better.

Recommend from me. Don't overthink it. Just succumb to the furry cuteness.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Sep 13, 2025

Brookie_Brookie

Mixed Feelings

I thought that this anime was.... Pretty cute.

Sure the episodes might only last for a minute, or a minute and a half (I think), but it's short and sweet. I wish that this wasn't a series wasn't really like a short series thingamajig, even though technically in the manga the stories were a bit short, but hey. Maybe it's just me and I think that there should be more to explore. Especially with the friendship of Yuuko and Azumi.

Also, I know I shouldn't test the laws of anime but can somebody tell me why Yuko's cats are also human like hybrids? Were they some kind ... of experiments that escaped from a science lab wanting to live a normal life in a safe household? Can somebody tell me please?

Overall, sure. The episodes were short. But they were pretty enjoyable to watch. And by how they executed the short episodes overall, I was not disappointed. It was actually good and brought me the whole cute factor. But that still doesn't mean that I don't have mixed feelings and how I would and wouldn't recommend this.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Nov 18, 2017

Decibelle

Not Recommended

Lasting the length of a single standard episode, Nyanko Days is cute and fluffy, and gets by entirely on being cute and fluffy. In fact, there's so little substance that it's a struggle to even talk about the show beyond its substance.

It's not really that it's bad per se. It's mindless and cute stuff to turn your brain off to for about a half-hour, so it's perfectly serviceable in that regards and serves its function in that way. It's also incredibly cute which no one can deny. It's hard to criticize because it effectively serves its function and arguing against that function just feels like ... it comes off as weird and nitpicky. But one can afford to be nitpicky over a series that is, effectively, nothing.

When you really get down to it, Nyanko Days is the most anime thing an anime is. Anthropomorphized cats, big eyes and cute faces with characters fitting nicely into archetypes, constant sugary cuteness, loner girl starts to hang out with non-loner girl... it manages to be incredibly exhausting in the very short time it runs, because it feels so much like other similar anime. I don't need originality, but I need something that's derivative with something to offer, and there's nothing here. Not even the cats are cats I can care about. Basically the visual equivalent of "in one ear and out the other".

Part of this is definitely due to the fact that every episode is two minutes long, with only about 70% of it being actual content due to a five-second long opening slate and a 30-second long ED (approximately). There's almost literally no time to even absorb anything is happening, because everything is so rapid-fire that it washes over incredibly easy. Even multi-part episodes suffer from this. It would have honestly been better to split it up into four-minute episodes, or even eight-minute episodes, because at least then you can realize an episode is happening. Even poor slife-of-life anime get by with so-so paced 24-minute episodes; two-minute episodes where a thing happens is beyond the pale.

It does some things serviceable at least, in a way that doesn't make this anime feel like an actual waste of time. Yuuko Konagai and Azumi Shiratori may not be great characters, but they're done fine enough with at least a bit of interest that it's fine (and also have cute interactions together, more cute than anything else in the show). The, uh, arc with Ran Iketani, the girl who's scared of cats, is amusing while it lasts. The ED should be annoying but it ends up being catchy (I still have it stuck in my head even now) and at least has serviceable visuals for it. Aurally, it has a bouncy and bubbly sound design (but especially when the cats are the focus) that it makes up for the lackluster art. Two of the four cats are distinctive. The anime is so short that even if you find it dreadful, you won't have even spent half-an-hour on it. The voice acting was okay.

Really it's hard to name what I like about it when there's so little to care about that I have to stretch myself to name positive aspects. But it's enough to not make it a bad anime, just really mediocre. A lot of it comes down to its awful pacing of two-minute episodes, but even if that were fixed, it'd still be really unmemorable and nothing more than a blip in my memory to remember to possibly check out the manga, if I could ever find the time to do so. So it has some benefits, just not many. If you're that into slice-of-life that you need to watch as much as you can from the genre, or have a spare half-hour you can't spend starting/continuing another anime, then you at least have this. Otherwise, there's too little of value to even passingly recommend. But hey, cats.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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