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My Roommate is a Cat (2019)
7.7/10on IMDb
First aired
Start here if you want to see how far apart a pet and its person can be while trying to solve the very same problem. A withdrawn novelist takes home a stray named Haru. You get scenes from both sides, which means one creature’s loving gesture can look like a household emergency to the other.
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Chi's Sweet Home (2008)
7.9/10on IMDb
First aired
A lost kitten moves in with the Yamada family, and you get the world at roughly the height of a food bowl. The short episodes make a new sound, a trip outside, or an unexpected box the size of an adventure. Try the hand-drawn series for a gentle place to start with a very young viewer.
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The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today (2023)
7.2/10on IMDb
First aired
The animal in this apartment is the one who knows how to cook and keep things tidy. Yukichi, an enormous black cat, has to look after Saku, who manages to hold down a job without much luck running her home. You get the familiar judgmental cat stare from someone who also has dinner in hand.
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The Cat Returns (2002)
7.1/10on IMDb
Released
Choose this film when you want the cats to have their own etiquette, hierarchy, and bad ideas. Haru rescues a cat and gets drawn into the Cat Kingdom, with the elegant Baron and the much less polished Muta coming to her aid. You get a full fantasy adventure with three very different attitudes toward being feline.
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Ghost Cat Anzu (2024)
6.6/10on IMDb
Released
Anzu is a big, rough-mannered cat who has lived long enough to forget any obligation to act cute. When Karin comes to stay in the countryside, he’s given responsibility for her, with predictably uneven results. Pick this if you want a funny friendship with grief and an unruly spirit world in the background.
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Nights with a Cat (2022)
7.1/10on IMDb
First aired
Come for Kyuruga if you want a cat drawn more like a cat than a small person. Futa starts living with him and suddenly has to account for what a cat can do to a sleeve, a resting place, or a careful plan. The small episodes make you notice the animal’s own way of moving through a room.
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She and Her Cat: Everything Flows (2016)
7.4/10on IMDb
First aired
Daru narrates the time he spends with Miyu, who’s trying to find her footing in adult life. His priorities are simple enough that you can feel how much he understands about companionship even when human worries don’t make sense to him. The story has more melancholy than the usual short pet comedy.
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She and Her Cat (1999)
7.3/10on IMDb
Released
Makoto Shinkai’s black-and-white short puts the cat Chobi in charge of telling the story of life with his owner. You hear ordinary changes in the household filtered through an animal who knows the rhythms better than the reasons. Choose it for a very compact, more spare companion to Everything Flows.
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Ramen Akaneko (2024)
7.2/10on IMDb
First aired
A human named Tamako takes a job at a ramen shop run by cats. She spends time brushing the staff as well as seeing how the shop works, while the cooks and servers have distinct ideas about service. Choose it when you want a workplace comedy that takes its cat logic as seriously as its broth.
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Tonari no Yokai-san (2024)
First aired
Buchio has been a family cat for twenty years when he becomes a two-tailed cat spirit. His family welcomes him back, and he has to figure out what his new life means in a town where humans and spirits get along. Watch it for a gentler kind of supernatural coming-of-age story.
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Natsume's Book of Friends (2008)
8.1/10on IMDb
First aired
Nyanko-sensei accompanies Natsume in the form of a round, impolite cat and makes no secret of his interest in the book Natsume inherited. You get a loud, snack-minded companion in a series that is often very quiet about loss and loneliness. The cat’s grumbling makes the tender parts land harder.
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A Whisker Away (2020)
6.7/10on IMDb
Released
Miyo gets a mask that lets her spend time as a cat near a boy who keeps his distance from her at school. You get to see the comfort of being received as a stray before the film asks what it costs to be understood only in disguise. The supernatural world gives the cats an agenda of their own.
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Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
7.8/10on IMDb
Released
Jiji has plenty to say when a young witch moves away from home and starts delivering parcels by broom. Try this if you want a cat whose reactions tell you how alone Kiki feels in a new city. In one comic detour, he has to pass for the toy cat that she was supposed to deliver.
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Too Cute Crisis (2023)
6.4/10on IMDb
First aired
An alien arrives on Earth prepared to judge the planet, then sees a cat. The comedy lets Liza’s encounter with Yozora scramble her priorities, with time left for other pet owners to explain what rules their households. You get the joke of an interstellar visitor learning to approach a very ordinary animal.
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Nyaight of the Living Cat (2025)
6.6/10on IMDb
First aired
Choose this if you’ve ever had to resist petting a cat and want a show that pushes the stakes to an absurd extreme. A spreading condition turns people into cats after contact, and the survivors have to keep their hands to themselves. It plays the affectionate impulse against the rhythms of an outbreak story.
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Poyopoyo (2012)
First aired
Poyo is a nearly round orange stray adopted by Moe and her family. The shape is part of the joke, but you also get a cat who can make one family member fiercely loyal and another furious within minutes. Try it when you want brisk household episodes with a little more bite than their running time suggests.
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Bananya (2016)
6.2/10on IMDb
First aired
These little cats live inside bananas, which gives you a very different kind of feline movement to watch. Bananya’s curiosity about everyday objects is enough to carry a short episode, and the other banana cats each have their own habits. Try it in small doses between longer shows.
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Nyan Koi! (2009)
7.0/10on IMDb
First aired
Junpei is allergic to cats, which makes his new ability to understand them particularly inconvenient. After damaging a cat statue, he has to do favors for the neighborhood’s cats to avoid becoming one. You get a different feline demand driving the school comedy once the curse starts making rules for his life.
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Yo-kai Watch (2014)
6.2/10on IMDb
First aired
Keita meets spirits everywhere after getting a special watch, and Jibanyan is one of the regulars. The ghost of a cat, he can send out a barrage of paw punches, but he's also a fickle companion who loves an idol group. Pick the 2014 series for a louder, goofier take on a cat spirit.
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Chi's Sweet Adventure (2016)
8.1/10on IMDb
First aired
Try the 3D CGI series if you want Chi’s household and neighborhood adventures in a different animation style. The kitten’s point of view still guides small discoveries, with family, a bigger cat, and all kinds of objects to investigate. It’s an easy next step when you’ve already seen the earlier shorts.
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What's Michael? (1988)
6.3/10on IMDb
First aired
Choose the 1988 TV adaptation for Michael, an orange tabby whose ordinary cat behavior can turn into the punch line of a sketch. The series shifts between everyday observation and playful exaggeration. You can dip in for a few jokes without needing to follow a long story.
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