Blanket Cats is a show about Nishijima Hidetoshi trying or rather being very difficult about giving away the 7 cats left by his late wife. He wants people to adopt the cats for the right reasons and gives them a trial period of 3 days before he gives his approval.
Blanket Cats is a sob story/feel good collection of stories that just happen to have cute cats in them. They also have Renbutsu Misako in episode 1. However at 50 minutes, the stories are way too long and drag on way too much. Imagine if Shinya Shokudo episodes were 50 minutes instead of the usual breezy 25.
Watching episode 1 I was thinking there's so much fat in the story and its trying way too hard to wring out tears from the audience that the only thing I could think of was when would this story end.
It doesn't help that the relationship between Nishijima Hidetoshi and Kichise Michiko is the most boring childhood friend relationship I've ever seen. It goes through the motions of some of the tropes but it falls completely flat and there is nothing to Hidetoshi's character besides being grumpy and stale.
If you want human stories, watch the four seasons of Shinya Shokudo. If you've seen them already, rewatching them is better than watching Blanket Cats. If you really want a show with cats, watch Neko Samurai. Blanket Cats could have been decent if they had cut the runtime in half but otherwise, avoid.
1 comment:
Awww :( I was hoping it'd be good since it's cats! and Nishijima! Sigh.
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