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A short, simple, nice and warming story presented from a cat's point of view. I always wanted to watch something like this. It's interesting because it makes you think "what could be in a cat's/animal's mind?"

There are four episodes, without the short opening and the ending we have ~25 min. in total (6-7 min. per episode). It's not really much and it's difficult (not impossible) to present a complex story in such a short time.
With only 4 characters (a few more are just passing by) it's a pretty decent development. We get some flashbacks and we can see how the ... relationship between Miyu and her mother changed and why she moved alone with her cat. She was presented as a lonely girl, more like an introverted person, therefore she had some troubles finding a stable job. In the end we see her like a new person who finally "could grow up".
We can talk about the relationship between Miyu and her cat too. While she said in the past to Daru that she'd rather be alone, asking him "you wold too, right?", now she wouldn't want lo live apart from her precious cat.

This story is also narrated by the cat. I think the voice acting was very good, Daru's voice was fitting perfectly and together with the music it was a very relaxing four-episode show.

The things I didn't liked about this short anime are some moments that could have been explained better, I found them a little bit confusing and maybe the fact that they could have added just a few more details about the characters. But because it's a short story, this little things seem like a bigger minus point.

In general, it was a nice "little" anime. I'm happy I watched it. 8/10




Personal enjoyment/off-topic

I have a cat and I always thought: "What could animals think about?", "How and what do they feel when they are with us, humans?", "Are we giving them enough attention?" "Are they happy with us?"

There was something Daru said in this anime : "I live in my own time and she lives in her own time. So these moments when my time and hers intersects are more precious to me than anything."

Most of the pets we own are alone, they do not have any other animal friends. They might be, sometimes, just a little part of our life, but for them, we are everything they have. I feel like that's what this anime wanted to highlight. And that was, also, what I liked the most about it.