The Internet predicted it, a manga proves it. Cats wish us harm, even causing Catpocalypse in the first volume of Nyaight of the Living Cat. Experience this catastrophe in our text.
Cat Power
In the future of Nyaight of the Living Cat, a new epidemic has decimated humanity. Nothing to do with covid because this virus spreads through cats and therefore very quickly because most families have or adore these pets. Only a few survivors remain forced to struggle to feed themselves. On the first boards, a band of resistance fighters dressed in a motley way flees a horde of cats in the sewers. Among them, Kunagi sees his companions disappear little by little. He runs away but the worst thing is that he loves cats! However, these felines are formidable predators because humans can not resist their gentleness and their gestures too cute, too cute but it is a hypnotizing tactic.
The publisher Mangetsu begins to accustom us to the series "what the fuck" with a rooster fighting monsters giant or a gorilla playing ping-pong but, with Nyaight of the Living Cat we take a new step in the absurd. How could we imagine that beautiful hairballs could cause global collapse? Screenwriter Hawkman and cartoonist Mecha-Roots, however, succeed brilliantly. With such a pitch, the reader expects claw strokes but Nyaight of the Living Cat offers licks. When the slowest is grabbed and dragged into the dark, it is not devoured but licked. The licks of the tongue transform him into a feline.
We are therefore worried when we see a cat getting closer to humans. The police are overwhelmed because no trap stops them. Anxiety rises when seeing packs of cats impose themselves in the city but claustrophobia manifests itself in the enclosed space of a shop. However, Kunagi's sentimental handicap escapes Nyaight of the Living Cat from Manichaeism. The resistance fighter screams that he cannot pet the kittens and must make them suffer to survive. However, he dreams of a world where cohabitation between the two species will be possible again.
Although not the main goal, Nyaight of the Living Cat gives biology lessons. At the end of each chapter, a short illustrated text introduces a new species of cat. In the midst of the fighting, Kunagi's texts provide scientific inputs. It is understandable why cats do not like water. In addition, they move their internal organs to sneak everywhere.
A feline smile
Despite humanity's decline, Nyaight of the Living Cat is not just a horror tale. The reader laughs more than he worries. Indeed the series is a genre manga in the same way that one could talk about a genre film. The screenwriter Hawkman takes up the codes of horror to revisit with humor the zombie. This game starts with the title coming from George Romero's zombie movie. Everything starts from an experience creating a mutant cat carrying the virus. The frames of the action come directly from his films: a metropolis, a deserted supermarket… Like the undead, felines attack quietly and stick their faces to the windows. The dialogues often make you smile: humans "are made like rats and cats love it". It may sound strange but we laugh as we listen to a man describe the first steps of his metamorphosis. He wants to lick himself to do his toilet. Face expressions reinforce humor. Indeed, the drawing of Mecha-Roots is very simple and lacks dynamism, but it succeeds beautiful scenes. We see cats raining because of the many metamorphoses. It captures Kunagi's strangeness well.
Nyaight of the Living Cat is also a post-apocalyptic tale. From the first chapter, the world is screwed. The resistance no longer have uniforms but outfits made of bits and pieces. The reader then thinks a lot about Mad Max especially when the resistance fighters leave the city to sink with a Jeep into the plain. After a first chapter of presentation of the world after, the rest goes back in time to describe the characters and the course of the global collapse. We discover the source of Kunagi's passion for cats. When he worked in a cat bar, he preferred cats to humans. It must be said that he has totally lost his memory since the day he woke up in an alley.
Many series start from an original premise but boredom points after a few pages. This is not the case of Nyaight of the Living Cat because these invading cats seduce us with the successful fusion between horror and humor. We can't wait to read more even if Kunagi's secret is pretty obvious.
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