In the spirit of full disclosure, you should know that I’m a cat owner and animal sap, both of which make it impossible for me to offer an objective assessment of A Man and His Cat. As someone who’s suffered a lifetime of embarrassment over my tendency to cry at movies and books about animals—even ones with happy outcomes—I realize that that my reaction to this manga may not, in fact, be warranted by the quality of the storytelling or artwork. I should also probably tell you that I’m almost 50, so I’m hungry for stories about people old enough to have a few grey hairs and wrinkles. Reader, I loved it. There’s no real plot to speak of; the most dramatic event unfolds in the opening pages, when Fukumaru, a...
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