Nyaight of the Living Cat
ニャイト・オブ・ザ・リビングキャット
In the 21st century, humanity's love for cats grew so deep that nearly everyone owns one as a pet. However, selective breeding of cats results in an extraordinary individual who carries a strange virus. The outbreak—dubbed the Nyandemic—turns any human who makes contact with an infected feline into one themselves. Kunagi, a man who has lost all of his memories, is forced to flee mid-shift from a cat cafe. With him are siblings who run the place, Gaku and Kaoru, and a customer named Tanishi. But Gaku confesses that he is already infected and pleads with Kunagi to protect his sister. After experiencing the danger firsthand, the remaining three begin searching for a way to survive the very animals they adore. Despite the government's best efforts to halt the feline hordes, the Nyandemic uncontrollably spreads. Human extinction seems more probable by the hour—but Kunagi, Kaoru, and Tanishi refuse to surrender their humanity without a fight! [Written by MAL Rewrite]
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In the 21st century, humanity's love for cats grew so deep that nearly everyone owns one as a pet. However, selective breeding of cats results in an extraordinary individual who carries a strange virus. The outbreak—dubbed the Nyandemic—turns any human who makes contact with an infected feline into one themselves. Kunagi, a man who has lost all of his memories, is forced to flee mid-shift from a cat cafe. With him are siblings who run the place, Gaku and Kaoru, and a customer named Tanishi. But Gaku confesses that he is already infected and pleads with Kunagi to protect his sister. After experiencing the danger firsthand, the remaining three begin searching for a way to survive the very animals they adore. Despite the government's best efforts to halt the feline hordes, the Nyandemic uncontrollably spreads. Human extinction seems more probable by the hour—but Kunagi, Kaoru, and Tanishi refuse to surrender their humanity without a fight! [Written by MAL Rewrite]
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SomeMage
October 7, 2025
Just another zombie apocalypse story - but it's cats instead. Ingenious, isn't it? Well, at least the idea was good. Long story short, this awesome premise of parodying zombie genre with cats was mostly wasted by weak everything else. They kept the heavy atmosphere that you'd expect from a survival horror, which obviously was getting broken all the time by talk about cute cats, non-lethal methods and generally much lower stakes (becoming a cat isn't THAT bad, is it?). That much is fine, although I felt like parody went in a wrong direction: instead of laughing at the premise, it took itself too seriously. As a result,the story wasn't engaging or deep enough, while there was no reasonable comedy either. I often felt simply bored. One thing that saved it from being a complete disaster, and in a way saved this whole anime for me, was cat trivia. I mean it: it was surprisingly accurate and made good job at showing feelings of cat owners. I'm sure the writer has or had a cat of their own. Now, who cares about story when you have a solid cast of characters that you love you love to watch? Yeah, no. No such thing here either. I actually have trouble to even write anything about characters, because they were so flat. Like, each one had a one trait that defined them and even that was very superficial. No fun interactions between characters. No waifu or husbando material. No shipping material. Nothing. Their whole role was to comment things that cats did and throw some corny lines at us. The worst part? Protagonist was being actively annoying at times. His shouting and way of speech, at least for me, was unbearable. On the bright side, some lines were meme worthy. So, bad story, weak cast... maybe at least action was good? Nope. Basic animation and art, no noteworthy music. Even cats, the main topic and whole point of this anime, were often made in a low quality CGI. I don't even... Anyway. I'm going to say it: in my opinion this is actually a bad anime. It failed at everything and wasted the big potential of perfect premise. The only reason I'm rating it so "highly" is because I'm biased, being a cat person myself. It feels like this anime was made for people like me - details about cats resonated with me and I even watched all the trivia segments after credits. Shame that's all there is to it, because it could've been a big hit otherwise.
