However, when she moves in, she comes with two cats, Yon, a strange-looking white cat with a ghastly fur pattern on its back that resembles a skull, and Mu, Yon's cute counterpart and playmate. This story is about cat loving, it's about becoming a cat person - a true one, believe me, and about how these little furry assholes change everything when they arrive in our lives. For example, one scene in which J-kun attempts to play with the cats starts within Ito's realistic style, only to have J-kun quickly devolve visually into a monster as he becomes more upset that the cats respond to his wife's attempts at playing with them but not his; his features become exaggerated and horrific, while the cats, however, lose their sense of motion and activity from earlier and become "stiffly realistic" at his failed attempts to play with them. Publisher Kodansha compiled the ten installments of the manga into a bound volume and released it in March 2009. It's very funny and it's actually authentic, because you will also get a bonus gallery of Ito's real life cats, who look exactly like Yon and Muu.

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it's a pretty adorable, and very accurate account of the monsters that inhabit those little scraps of fur we spend all day feeding and catering to. I'm giving 4 stars because I think some ink may not have dried properly, leaving a mark on some of the text where it was hard to read. Previously, Ito had drawn cats as frightening but had recently drawn a "very cute" cat in a way that appeared to capture the "essence" of cats, thus convincing the editor. You may have run into the little bit where Yon almost eats Junji Ito's dinner back when we were all waiting for this to get translated already. his blushing bride-to-be has some unexpected company in tow - Yon, a ghastly-looking family cat, and Mu an adorable Norwegian forest cat.

Other than that, this is perfect and if you want to explore more of Junji Ito's work, but you're finding the horror hard to get into, this is the book for you! Junji Ito's Cat Diary has also been translated into French by Tonkam [16] and Italian by Panini Comics.

I've read almost everything of his that has been released in America (still waiting for my bf to finish one anthology so he can lend it to me). It's amazing how Junji Ito can take a rather mundane book about his new family getting two cats and turn it into horror.