Nyanko Days

Nyanko days while it does have flaws, and it is like every other slice of life anime it is a guilty pleasure of mine.
Usually slice of life moe anime are usually hit or miss, so why did I like this one? The story is calm, and heartwarming it doesn't have any drama or horror which is a popular element in anime. The soundtrack is a bit annoying, but you'll get used to it. I really like the character's design. The characters are sweet and likable. I overall enjoyed it, but just like all anime there are cons. Do to it being a slice of life ... anime, and not having any real plot it does get a bit boring, and full of fluff. Also the animation is generic it could do better. But I would still recommend it to slice of life moe fans as it's cuteness will put a smile on anyone.

The anime is about a friendless girl called Yuko, who is in love with their three humanized female cats: Roo, Shii and Maa. With the developement of the story, Yuko achieves make a new friend called Azumi, a rich girl who also has a female cat called Elza. The episodes only have a 2 minutes duration, but actually, the real duration is 1' 30'' because the ending/opening (yes you read right, opening and ending are the same), last 30 seconds of the episodes which make a total of 2 minutes.

When i looked for further info about the anime i discoverd that it was labeled as ... a "seinen" because it's first appearance was in the seinen magazine "Monthly Comic Alive" but this is more a shoujo than a seinen.

The anime ended as a "non season 2 anime" (at the moment), it is worth to watch it but is such a shame that the entire season can be watched in half an hour, the story could be much better and the plot is enough to make a good shoujo, but i guess that the imagination or the budget was very low. Anyway, if your doctor says you only have 30 minutes to live i highly recommend to spend that 30 minutes watching this anime, you can thank me in the next life.

Nyanko Days is both addictive and ridiculous at the same time.

There were moments where I found myself laughing not at the story, but at the way how the characters (cat girls) look. What’s even strange to me was that it was all mini-episodes to see what it was like to explore the world as the kittens, but wonder why the show isn’t based more on them than the supporting characters.

I’m not suggesting that this is not “MOE” by any means, but the only reason to watch this show is just to admire the slapstick of the cats as a whole. To focus this as just ... an exhilarating story would be like trying to suggest that a show about kittens should be “Stranger Levels” type-storytelling. There is not much to say about this anime, except it should be enjoyed for thinking what it would be like if cats could talk.

I’ll still be waiting for the dog version of this show, if they ever create it.

Nyanko Days is a slice of life comedy series about a first-year high school student and her three adorable little catgirls. The story isn't much to write about, it's you can probably predict how it goes early on, and while there technically is a story here it's rather insubstantial, which is further exemplified by the much shorter than usual episode length with its 2-minute episodes means that the entire series is about the same length as an episode in most animes.
However, that's not necessarily a bad thing since the episodes are well paced and never outstay their welcome and in all honesty, the cute ... aesthetics, adorable characters, and humor make the anime worth watching despite any shortcomings.

If you want something to go "Aaaawwww" over in 2-minute burst this anime is for you, but if you're looking for a deep story with lots of action scene and drama you're better off looking else were. Overall I give this anime a 6/10.

Yeah, so I probably shouldn't write too long about something that you will finish in about the same time you finish reading this.

I watched this anime today, on Christmas day, and have no current show I am watching. Then comes along an anime about a cat owner who owns the kind of cats that most anime fans wish they could own, literally being little girls that have some cat features and like the same things they do. No sense in going over a character synopsis this time around, since there's not that many things going on.

The cat girls are adorable, the length of the anime ... allows you to not get annoyed by it mostly being them acting like cats and being adorable and the main girl lead is comical to watch as well. The soundtrack is calm, but I do wish it was a released one so I could listen to a certain song from it again. Most anime seem to have a problem with keeping their soundtracks closed off these days, which really sucks since there are so many songs I want from certain ones. Your best bet is to usually splice them out manually, but I digress.

I found this, watched it and wrote a review for it all within a half-hour. This anime is indeed bite-sized and I'm surprised no websites just bundle all the episodes into a single watch, since you could finish all of it in sixteen minutes and having to click for the next episode every minute is annoying. A lot of them do this with Miyakawa-ke no Kuufuku, which is also another bite-sized anime, so I don't know why Nyanko Days has them separated everywhere.

You will most likely enjoy this if you love anime having cute things, but even if you don't like that, it's only little over fifteen minutes in length, so you won't really be saving much time avoiding it anyway. You might as well watch it if you haven't found anything in a while, since I'm sure this one could brighten up anyone's mood.

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.

There isn't really much of a story to Nyanko Days, but it centers around this one girl that has these three different cat/human cats, unless of course she's just imagining them to be able to talk & all of that. Each episode pretty much just has the main character hanging out with her three cat/human cats & then again there's a few episodes where all three of the main characters cats are just making a mess of things in the main character's bedroom, like trying to draw on a piece of paper with a pen, but forgetting to click the pen so they'd be able ... to use the ink in it. Nyanko Days is of course one of those cutiesy animes that was enjoyable to watch.

Do you like cats? Would you like to see kittens anthromorphized into cute anime girls? Then Nyanko Days is the short anime for you! And by short, I don't mean it's just twelve episodes long, but that every episode runs for two minutes. That's it. Moe anime tend to get a bad reputation, mostly for putting too much emphasis on cuteness over substance, and that's understandable. Especially if they drag on for much longer than they need to. But twelve episodes of cute kittens having fun, with every episode only being two minutes long is the perfect length to digest something of this caliber. The ... story centers on a girl, Yuuko Konagai, who is shy and doesn't have friends at school. But she has three kittens at home, named Maa, Shii, and Rou, and they're all the friends she needs. She loves cats, and later, she befriends another girl, Azumi, because of their shared love of cats. Sometimes the anime focuses on the girls, and sometimes it dedicates time to the cats and their shenanigans.

With this show being as short as it is, both in its episode count and how long the episodes run (Only two minutes, including the ending song), there really isn't much to talk about. The animation is bright and colorful, and the cats are all adorable little toddler girls. The soundtrack isn't really memorable in any way, and the ending song is so moe, squeaky, and saccharine that I think any diabetic who listens to it will die from a sugar overload. Actually, the whole show is super sugary sweet, but its episodes running for under two minutes actually manages to be its saving grace. If Nyanko Days had its episodes go on for half an hour, or even ten minutes, it would just seem dragged out, making it dull and boring.

That said, its short length gives it other issues as well. All of the characters are little more than moe blobs with very little personality other than one basic character trait. Yuuko is the shy girl, Azumi is the popular rich girl, Ran is the hot-blooded rival who wants to one-up Azumi for no reason (We never learn why), and so on. Ran in particular doesn't really have a reason to be in this show, as she only appears in two episodes and that's it, and all she wants to do is one-up Azumi. She's literally a complete waste of space and animation, and she's not even given any sort of character arc at all, so there's no reason for the audience to care about her at all. Also, Yuuko's naming choices for her cats are uncreative as hell. They're literally the first syllables in their breed names! Were you really too lazy to give them more distinct names? Furthermore, the author seems to think having the cats do things like know how to read, watch TV, draw, and use a remote control will make them cuter, but this just goes against the fact that they're...y'know, cats! Giving cats human traits doesn't make them cute, it's just lazy writing.

Eh, even with those flaws, Nyanko Days is a cute little time killer for if you want to waste half an hour. But it doesn't have much to offer other than cuteness and moe cat girls, and I can recommend several anime about cats that are much more substantial, such as Chi's Sweet Home, She And Her Cat: Everything Flows, and My Roommate Is a Cat. But if you do want to watch this, just have some insulin at the ready.