September 17, 2023

Cute cats and the dragon they raised

猫と竜 features a series of short story, slice-of-life looks at magical cats (called cat-siths in the book, mercifully straightforwardly transliterated as ケットシー) and their guardian dragon during their day-to-day lives in 初心者の森 and the neighboring fantasy kingdom. The cat art is the real highlight here; the mangaka is clearly a cat fan, and each cat is drawn as cute/cool as possible. Lots of fluffy tails and fur.

As nice as it was to read along the adventures of cute cats, the lack of an overarching narrative kept me from getting truly invested. Only one or two characters have names, and besides the final two chapters there's not much expansion of the world itself. Not a bad little manga, but not one I'll likely continue unless there's nothing else at hand.

No furigana, but if you've got standard generic fantasy vocab™ under your belt you'll likely be fine. Grammar was pretty N3 if I remember correctly.

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on December 21, 2024
similar in difficulty to平成妖物始末人 1L26
eefara graded
on October 19, 2024
similar in difficulty to光が死んだ夏 1L27
eefara graded
on September 23, 2024
similar in difficulty to赤髪の白雪姫1L27
eefara graded
on August 28, 2024
eefara graded
on December 28, 2023
eefara graded
on December 27, 2023
eefara graded
on December 6, 2023
easier than幻惑の鼓動 1L29
eefara graded
on December 3, 2023
similar in difficulty to夏目友人帳 1L25
eefara graded
on November 28, 2023
eefara graded
on October 27, 2023
eefara graded
on October 27, 2023
similar in difficulty to魔法少年なつき×らびっツ 1L24
eefara graded
on September 17, 2023
similar in difficulty to宇宙の人-柿崎椋短編集-L25
eefara graded
on September 17, 2023
harder thanD.Gray-man 1 L25
eefara graded
on September 17, 2023
eefara graded
on September 17, 2023
eefara graded
on September 17, 2023
easier thanG・DEFEND 1L26
eefara graded
on September 17, 2023