English Dub Review: Nyaight of the Living Cat “Cats in Prison”
OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)
The cats infiltrate the grocery store, terrorizing the humans inside with how they can’t pet them!
OUR TAKE
It’s weird how, despite this being a natural continuation of last week’s bit of story about the main group taking shelter in the grocery store, there’s not a whole lot of new plot to really talk about. As hinted at the end of last week, the cats did indeed get inside the store and the brief peace everyone seemed to get only lasted for so long. And like the last couple of episodes, Kunagi is weirdly knowledgeable about cats and oddly sympathetic to them despite them being the cause of society’s ongoing collapse, while everyone else just has a normal amount of knowledge and are using that to just barely survive. So, the main thing that this episode adds isn’t so much progression of the plot as it is random cat related facts, such as a very sudden segue into the history of a meal called “Cat Rice” that is actually a human dish that could be served to cats back in ancient Japan, but apparently has been learned in modern times to not be very good for cats, making the name for it an ironic anachronism. And hey, that’s a pretty neat bit of trivia, I’m not going to deny that. I guess I just wish I had more to talk about this week since, while more stuff happened, it isn’t exactly stuffed with details that show how themes are developing or characters are being fleshed out.
But hey, we’re a quarter of the way through the show now, for whatever that’s worth. With the nine episodes that are left, I don’t exactly expect us to get to the bottom of why the Nyandemic happened or how to stop it, but we’re surely going to pick up the pace here and get some major goals set up for these characters, right? These past three episodes, we’ve gotten some backstory hints about what might have been in the background causing this, and then a sign of how this is even affecting major politicians and turning them into cats. But also, I worry that I’m actually taking this too seriously and thinking about it too hard, since it’s clear that the worst thing to these people being impacted is simply that they can’t pet the sweet and fuzzy kitties. Which, hey, understandable to an extent, but I would suggest you pick a tone and stick with it as well. Ah well, let’s see what next week brings.
