Manga Planet: The Shop Cats of Tokyo: A Manga From Cat Avenue chapter 1 Review

The first chapter of The Shop Cats of Tokyo: A Manga From Cat Avenue depicts a cat businessman’s delightful everyday life as a restaurant he frequents closes down. I liked the focus on the surrealist mundane of anthropomorphized cats going about everyday human lives. It was nice to see a narrative focus not focused on romance or adventure but on the everyday in an unusual setting. It was a heartwarming vignette that reinvigorated my spirits. Cat manga is all about a celebration of the mundane and everyday creatures who inhabits the space around us and The Shop Cats of Tokyo: A Manga From Cat Avenue lives up to the pedigree of the genre.