Doukyonin wa Hiza, Tokidoki, Atama no Ue.


My Roommate is a Cat

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Synonyms: My roommate is sometimes on my knees, sometimes on my head, Hizaue
Japanese: 同居人はひざ、時々、頭のうえ。
English: My Roommate is a Cat
German: My Roommate is a Cat
Spanish: My Roommate is a Cat
French: My Roommate is a Cat
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Type: TV
Episodes: 12
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Jan 9, 2019 to Mar 27, 2019
Premiered: Winter 2019
Broadcast: Wednesdays at 23:30 (JST)
Licensors: Funimation
Studios: Zero-G
Source: Web manga
Genre: Slice of LifeSlice of Life
Themes: Adult CastAdult Cast, PetsPets
Duration: 23 min. per ep.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Statistics

Score: 7.721 (scored by 9287592,875 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #12272
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #1249
Members: 200,720
Favorites: 1,277

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Synopsis

Subaru Mikazuki is a 23-year-old mystery novel author, major introvert, and an awkwardly shy person. He would much rather stay home to read a book than go outside and interact with others. Further exacerbating this life of solitude, his parents tragically died in an accident many years ago, leaving him alone in the world.

One day, while giving offerings at his parents' grave, Subaru runs into a small grey and white cat named Haru, which he ends up taking home with him. Subaru, however, has never taken care of anyone else in his life—can he even take care of a cat? Haru is grateful toward Subaru, as he gives her all the food she wants—a luxury for a cat who is used to a rough life on the streets. But she notices that Subaru can't even seem to take care of himself! Will she be okay with this dunce?

Doukyonin wa Hiza, Tokidoki, Atama no Ue. tells the story of an unlikely friendship between a human and a cat who try to foster an understanding with each other.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Roku

Supporting
Tsuda, Kenjirou
Japanese

Hachi

Supporting
Murase, Ayumu
Japanese

Yasaka, Nagisa

Supporting
Toujou, Hisako
Japanese

Oukami, Yuugo

Supporting
Nakajima, Yoshiki
Japanese

Tarou

Supporting
Sugita, Tomokazu
Japanese

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"Unknown World (アンノウンワールド)" by Schrodinger's Cat adding Kotringo

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Sep 5, 2024
My Roommate is a Cat is a slice-of-life anime that tells a heartwarming story about the connection between a socially withdrawn writer, Subaru Mikazuki, and a stray cat, Haru, who unexpectedly becomes his roommate. The anime skillfully blends light comedy and emotional moments as both characters gradually learn to open up and understand one another.

Plot:
The show’s central theme revolves around mutual growth and healing. Subaru, a socially awkward and introverted author, struggles with grief and human relationships after the loss of his parents. By chance, he adopts Haru, a street-smart stray cat. What makes this anime stand out is its dual perspective: the story alternates ...
Jul 1, 2024
Mixed Feelings
With a very somber backstory for the MC, the show never really picks up - it lacks the courage to investigate its own MC's 'complex' profile (the MC, in view is too shallow even though he should have been 'deep and complex').

The anime offers an interesting story telling technique of retelling the same instance of the story once from each side of the human-cat relationship, thus showing the human's perspective as well as the cat's perspective.

The writer's choice to spoon-feed the MCs' (both the human's and the cat's) conclusions and explanations regarding the show's events of both past and present, is disappointing.

Over-the-top ...
Jul 4, 2020
FunnyFunny
Preliminary (2/12 eps)
I like cats and i like slice of life genre, that's why i was interested in this.
Expecting both combo of interesting slice of life and cute cats but what i found is bad story and trash depiction of cat.

Story:
It's like written by socially awkward author that has no common sense and never interacted and know anything about cats, only written with bare minimum imagination about cats after some half-ass online research and a walk in pet store.

Art:
Terrible quality for today's standard. It's like I'm watching some old 2000-ish anime.

Sound: Ok sound
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