Mameneko

I decided to take the plunge this season and watch a children's anime that hadn't been subtitled with my minimal knowledge of Japanese, so take this review with a grain of salt. I'm sure there are subtleties and jokes in Mameneko that I missed completely, but one of the nice things about the series is it manages to be simple enough that most of it can be grasped between the animation and knowing a few basic Japanese phrases. Anyways, Mameneko is a charming little short series about cats being cats, and is the most realistic of the three cat-related short series we got this season.Nothing really insane happens in this series; it's just a relaxing romp about silly cats being silly cats. If you enjoy watching cats, you'll like it. If the average cat video on Youtube bores you to tears, you won't find much of interest here. All in all, the show is fine for what it does, although there's nothing about it that really makes it stick out from the horde of cat-related shorts that exist. In the end, it was a fun - if forgettable - little series to spend 3 minutes a week on.