Synopsis of "Night of the Living Cat" Episode 1 "Everything Becomes a Cat"

The TV anime "Night of the Living Cat", based on a cat manga serialized in "Monthly Comic Garden" (Mag Garden) and other publications, will begin airing on TV Tokyo and other networks from July 7th (Meow Meow Day). The original is a cat manga written by Hawkman and illustrated by Mekarouts, which has been serialized since 2020. In the year 20XX, a virus that turns humans who touch cats into cats suddenly appears, causing the "Nyandemic", and humans try to survive in a world full of cats by resisting the temptation to touch cats. Takashi Miike, known as the "master of violence", will serve as general director.

In the first episode, "Everything Becomes a Cat," a man with amnesia named Kunagi (a cat lover) is found collapsed on the street and is picked up by Gaku (a cat lover) and Kaoru (a cat lover), who start working at the cat cafe "Megokoro Nekome" run by the brother and sister. One day, a regular customer at the cat cafe suddenly turns into a cute cat. A "Nyandemic" occurs all over the world, where people turn into cats when they touch them, and the city falls into chaos.

◇Cast (titles omitted)

General Director: Miike Takashi▽Director: Kamiya Tomohiro▽Series Composition: Irie Shingo▽Character Design: Maki Takao▽Music: Endo Koji▽Animation Production: OLM

◇Cast (titles omitted)

Kunagi: Suichu Masaaki▽Kaoru: Reina Ueda Reiji Kawashima ▽Arata: Kawashima Reiji▽Tsutsumi: Yu Serizawa ▽Ren: Subaru Kimura ▽Masaki: Nakajima Yoshiki▽Tanishi: Hiroki Yasumoto ▽Gaku: Ryota Takeuchi ▽Grandma: Miyadera Tomoko▽Keisuke: Okitsu Kazuyuki▽Suou: Atsumi Tanezaki ▽Mitsuru: Tsuruoka Satoshi▽Kouji: Naka Hiroshi▽Gunslinger: Toshiyuki Morikawa ▽The Last Samurai: ? ? ? ▽Translator: Tessho Genda ▽Narration: Chiba Shigeru