Nyaight of the Living Cat

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]

Kunagi Main

Mizunaka, Masaaki Japanese

Kaoru Main

Ueda, Reina Japanese

Tanishi Main

Yasumoto, Hiroki Japanese

Gaku Main

Takeuchi, Ryouta Japanese

Ward, Masaki Main

Nakajima, Yoshiki Japanese

Tsutsumi Main

Serizawa, Yuu Japanese

Arata Main

Kawashima, Reiji Japanese

Ward, Len Main

Kimura, Subaru Japanese

Mercury, Freddy Supporting

Jones Supporting

Maeda, Aki Producer

Miike, Takashi Director

Kamitani, Tomohiro Director

Nitta, Norio Storyboard

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Oct 18, 2025

Rickcir

Recommended

OK, this is one of the most bizarre anime I have even seen - and I've watched close to 1,000 series. It's basically a George A. Romero fever dream if he had an obsession with everything cat. It's hilarious. It takes every single zombie movie and trope and turns it on its, er, tail. The series embraces its absurdity and runs with it. Climbs with it and plays with it. Even the title of the final episode is an homage to Richard Matheson's zombie novel - and the plot obviously revolves around an Umbrella like corporation. Instead of guns, we have super-soakers. In this alternate ... universe, people love cats to an almost unhealthy extreme - so much so, that even when facing a choice - harm a cat or change into one, nobody can harm the furballs. If you've ever been adopted by a cat, you'll really get a kick out of this series. If you're a dog person, it's still fun, but not as much.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Oct 10, 2025

Chamin99

Mixed Feelings

(Spanish review on my list)

Zombie anime, but where the zombies are cats... I like cats, and here it could be considered a comedy anime because instead of being scary, they try to make everything seem quite cute thanks to the fact that, well, the infected people end up turning into cats. Only I have some problems with this anime, actually.

And the thing is that NO ONE... I mean, seriously, NO ONE hates cats or treats them badly... that's why I say it's a comedy anime...
I'm a cat lover, seriously, and in an apocalypse like this, I would jump at the chance to turn into a ... cat at the first opportunity. I'd be delighted.
But there's a lot of variety in the world, and I'm sure many people would easily hurt these animals in an apocalypse like the one we're facing... I mean, they're still cats. No matter how cute they are, if your life is in danger and cats are somewhat irrelevant to you, a kick is enough :v

And seriously, I don't have a problem with many illogical things.
I accept that Cats have mind-control powers toward other species. I accept that in some strange way (which they do mention in the series) cats don't need to eat or go to the bathroom. I accept the fact that cats have silly costumes and personalities based on their lives as humans. I accept that since "cat material" is a danger, it's the black market of this world... seriously, I buy all that, but I can't conceive of NON-violence in a world like that.

I don't like it when everyone in zombie stories is bad, but I also don't like it when everyone is saintly and only attacks with water guns and catnip bombs... I mean, at least you can take the typical bat and attack animals that aren't cats or something... I don't know if I'm making myself clear...

It's kind of annoying that they're so powerless. It's bad enough dealing with how OP cats are without even the surviving humans being SO docile. I don't like that extreme...

For all that, I consider it a curious comedy series, for cat lovers... although they leave it halfway, so it's still meh until it ends, and if nothing else happens, it remains a somewhat average series due to the lack of evil hahaha

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Oct 13, 2025

patkarunungan

Not Recommended

'Nyaight of the Living Cat' has a great concept. Unfortunately, I dislike it. Your mileage may vary.


§ Overview

One day, a virus spread that, for some reason, turns people into cats. If a cat is infected, it only needs to touch and lick a person to turn it into a cat.

The remaining humans are trying to fight back, and this includes Kunagi and Kaoru.


... § Notes

1. 'Nyaight of the Living Cat' is a parody of zombie movies. The clue is in the name, a wordplay on the film franchise, 'Night of the Living Dead.'


2. Despite expressing my dislike for it, I would have to commend the producers for coming up with something out of the ordinary.


3. Let's talk about the studio and the staff:


⚫ The studio is OLM, formerly known as Oriental Light & Magic. It's a big studio whose first entry is Wedding Peace. It animates Pokémon and other children's shows. Its recent projects include The Apothecary Diaries, Komi Can't Communicate, Odd Taxi, and Welcome to the Outcast's Restaurant!


⚫ Miike Takashi is the chief director, and I haven't seen his two other works where he served as director.

The other director, Kamitani Tomohiro, served as key animator for Episode 1 of Cheer for You, an anime I didn't like; he was also animation director for the Fruits of Grisaia, whose animation is fairly average.

Overall, the animation is serviceable.


⚫ If there's anything about this anime I can offer high praise, it's the OP and ED as well as the OST.

The OP, 'Cat City' by The Yellow Monkey, offers a catchy rock song with cute lyrics.

The ED, 'Matatabi' by Wanima, is another good rock song. This time, the lyrics are bleak, as is the tone of the song.

Both OP and ED have lyrics that are relevant to the story.

The background musick by Endou Kouji provides the necessary tension.

⚫ The anime's character design by Maki Takao is arguably better than the usual slops. I'm not attached to them, but I can see how they are different to the usual.


4. Let's talk about what I dislike about this.


⚫ I love cats, and watching this is extremely uncomfortable. Again, YMMV. The anime is effective at this horror despite no gore and despite being infused with comedy.


⚫ The narrator interrupts the action with cat trivia. If you're interested in such, you won't mind. But to be honest, scenes feel slower because of that, as I am not that interested in knowing these.


⚫ Another aspect that slows down the pacing is how every human is fawning at how cute the cats are, thereby again slowing the pace of the scenes. It's fine because of the comedy, but if you just want to finish the episode, you might get turned off by these.


⚫ The surviving humans are shown to be battling cats with water guns and other stuff. They are not trying to kill cats but merely stop them.

There are probably a number of reasons why they do these. 1) They love cats, so it would pain them to kill them. 2) These cats were formerly humans. I can imagine them returning to their human form down the road once they reverse-engineer the virus. 3) Perhaps government censorship for gore.

I can't say I dislike this per se, but it makes dealing with cats much more difficult than they already are.


⚫ Much of the episodes show them trying to survive. It's a shame that Season 1 doesn't deal with our characters trying to get to the bottom of this pandemic and how to reverse it.


§ Conclusion

By marking it as 'not recommended,' I'm not saying that you would have a bad time with it. Give it a chance. But as far as I'm concerned, watching this anime is such an ordeal, not because the show sucks, but because of the subject matter — cats as a proxy to zombies.


NOTA BENE: A grade of 3 out of 10 means that I did not enjoy watching this anime despite being either well-regarded or at least popular, or perhaps I happened to rank them below my 4's but above my 2's.

My enjoyment spectrum lies from 4 to 10. If I have scored an anime below 4, I actively dislike it.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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