Nakitai Watashi wa Neko wo Kaburu

Miyo Sasaki is an energetic high school girl who comes from a broken family consisting of her unconfident father and an overly invested stepmother, whose attempts at connecting with Miyo come across as bothersome. Seeing Kento Hinode as a refuge from all her personal issues, she cannot help herself from forcing her unorthodox demonstrations of love onto her crush.

While Miyo is unable to get Kento's attention as herself, she manages to succeed by interacting with him in the form of a white cat, affectionately nicknamed "Tarou" by Kento. But Miyo soon realizes that she cannot help Kento with the various problems she overhears in her cat form and is now caught between two tough choices. Will she continue her relationship with him as a cat, or will she reveal her identity and risk what they have in order to help him as her human self?

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Sasaki, Miyo Main

Shida, Mirai Japanese

Hinode, Kento Main

Hanae, Natsuki Japanese

Cat Store Owner Supporting

Yamadera, Kouichi Japanese

Kinako Supporting

Kitamura, Eri Japanese

Fukase, Yoriko Supporting

Kotobuki, Minako Japanese

Kakinuma Supporting

Miki, Shinichiro Japanese

Tamaki Supporting

Sakuma, Rei Japanese

Isami, Masamichi Supporting

Ono, Kensho Japanese

Sasaki, Youji Supporting

Chiba, Susumu Japanese

Sugita Supporting

Yoshida, Oolongta Japanese

Takei, Katsuhiro Producer

Kannae, Masahiro Producer

Suzuki, Kousuke Producer

Kumamoto, Norio Assistant Producer

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Dec 27, 2024

MidniteAndBeyond

Recommended

This film could've very, VERY easily been a lot more inappropriate or obnoxious with the specific story it wanted to tell and the characters that were leading it. But the writers really seemed to try and avoid that as much as they could. And for that, I applaud them. Some people may still have problems with this film, but as someone whose seen this type of story done SO much worse, I was just relieved that it didn't ever end up there. Its a really sweet and innocent film that I'm glad to have finally gotten around to watching.

8/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Apr 8, 2025

KiracTodd

Mixed Feelings

I had high expectations before watching the movie. That's why I expected something big but it wasn't very good except for the art design. The characters are very ordinary, the anime suddenly turned into a romantic comedy and then a drama, I was surprised at what I missed, I couldn't warm up to any of the characters. The story felt like it was written in 1 day, and the time skips suddenly happen and end suddenly, which is a very bad feeling in terms of watching pleasure. In short, it can be watched but there is not much going on except for the design, the ... characters are boring, the events happen and end suddenly.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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May 22, 2025

1stDecame4Danime

Not Recommended

It's a really great fantasy premise, but a really terrible execution on top of being used as a macGuffin vehicle for a terribly cringeworthy kiddy-romance.

It's really rough kiddyschool SoL for much of the first half. The FMC is portrayed in such a 'child-oriented person writing little girl' way, the 'romance'(nonromance) is absurdly forced for the entire movie. She's somehow all at once just a typical idiot who's suicidal, bipolar, autistic, narcissistic, cringe butt-bumping her crush and declaring her love to him constantly despite barely knowing him only through stalking as a cat, etc. She's a lunatic with zero ability to read the room or display ... any competency for the entire movie. This alone entirely robs it of any fantastical charm, somehow being all of the worst aspects of The Cat Returns cranked up to 100, (Watch that instead).

The story is just silly contrivances for the mask macGuffin, and the characters love each other in the end (despite still having almost never actually had a conversation together about anything) just because they're the MCs and she smells nice or whatever (he literally knows nothing about her except in the end that she loves him for (to paraphrase her explanation) 'being a typical guy who pet a cat' and was creepily stalking him as a cat).

The other human characters are all normal (aside from an excess of annoying bully comedic relief non-characters), like shockingly so compared to FMC. Unfortunately none of them actually have any real significance in the story. Her biomother is just as bipolar as the FMC for pointless drama trying to get the FMC in 2 brief instances (and 1 text). This went nowhere in the end, could've just had her die/never come back (and had a theme of FMC dealing with trauma of rejection rather than 'wahhh I'm such a perfect selfless person and everyone else is only thinking about what they want when they try to be nice to me!' goddamn this narcissist) rather than waste time on characters that go nowhere. (They were definitely trying for the theme of 'other's expectations force me to wear a mask to behave how they want me to be rather than how I want to be' but it more just came out as 'communicating what I want is such a pain' the FMC literally wanted to wear a mask to be a cat rather than just be herself and use her words(the opposite of the theme) to take advantage of the Halo Effect and avoid having to actually talk to her crush... The desire of the crush to do pottery, the FMC's crush and relationship with her parents, all of them resolve immediately upon communicating what they want, literally all they had to do was say what they want because these people aren't forcing them to wear masks, they're bending over backwards to try to give them what they want, the main conflict was literally 'ugh why can't they just read my mind about what I want' (but sure, 'wearing a mask is bad, be true to yourself' is close enough to that since both involve doing what you want. except one is narcissism).

The art/animation is okay, but character movements/designs and the settings are all really uninspired. It really lacks any emotional weight.

The ending was also really contrived that the antag didn't easily overpower them and it was so pointlessly drawn out with nothing happening. (They could've actually done something interesting like pull a mask off the mask salesman's face to beat him or something but no, just uninspired macGuffining).

3/10 (where 5/10 is average)

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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	Poll: Nakitai Watashi wa Neko wo Kaburu Episode 1 Discussion ( 1 2 3 4 ) KANLen09 - Jun 18, 2020	191 replies	by yeeenreally »» May 12, 8:35 PM
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