Cat + Gamer
by Wataru Nadatani
Genres: MangaPages: 186
Series: Cat + Gamer #1
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Synopsis:Riko, a twenty-nine-year-old office worker with an obsession for video games, finds her quiet life upended when she takes in a stray cat in this adorable manga series!
Her coworkers can’t quite figure her out—she never talks about her personal life, she never works overtime, and she never joins them for happy hour. Is she antisocial? Nope, she’s rushing home to play video games! One day, a stray cat is found in the office parking lot, and before Riko knows it, the cat has moved in with her! Having no experience with pets, Riko uses lessons drawn from video games to guide her in cat care, while her cute companion tries to understand her behavior through a cat's worldview.
Volume one of Wataru Nadatani’s Cat + Gamer is pretty fun: an office worker who clocks off right on time and goes home to play video games at night impulsively adopts a cat. She knows little about taking care of pets, and eventually decides to view it in a gamified sort of way.
Sometimes that’s kinda cringe (rushing the cat to the vet with fleas, talking about it having a debuff), but it mostly comes out cute. I especially like the interludes between chapters, showing events from the cat’s point of view.
Overall it’s silly light fun, and a nice palate cleanser.
Rating: 3/5 (“liked it”)
Sometimes a silly, light cleanser is just what we need before we dive back into the heavy stuff!
Definitely! Cat + Gamer was great for that.
I just finished this series and I became more and more attached to it as it went on. Glad you liked it!
I was a little sad when I got to the end of the series (I’m way behind on posting the reviews, though they all sit in my backlog ready).
Manga does slice of life better than any other medium I’ve seen. Prose and Film and American Comics can all manage to create great slice of life content, but Manga consistently puts out my favorites. I’m excited to try this one!
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It’s a fun series! I didn’t get on as well with the author’s other, but this was nice.
Sorry you didn’t like it that much. I devoured the whole series, so loved it! Reading now the other series, Cat + Crazy, but I much preferred Cat + Gamer
I’m not sure where you got that impression! I rated it 3/5, defined as “liked it”, and called it cute and fun… I have also read the whole series.
I’ve heard that this series is pretty cute! Do you plan on continuing with it?
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I did! I’ve already read the whole series.