The second episode of the TV anime "Night of the Living Cat," based on a cat manga serialized in "Monthly Comic Garden" (Mag Garden) and other publications, titled "Tonight the Cats Steal the Stars," will begin airing on TV Tokyo and other networks from July 14th.
Gaku, infected with the NN virus that turns him into a cat when he touches a cat, leaves him behind and entrusts his sister to Kunagi to escape. The town that has fallen into the "Meowdemic" is filled with cute cats, and before they have time to mourn their loss, Kunagi, Kaoru, and Tanishi search for a safe place. The three manage to escape to a supermarket, where they find Kaoru's classmate Tsutsumi.
The series 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 the story follows humans trying to resist the temptation to touch cats and survive in a world full of cats. The anime will be produced by OLM, which also produced "Pokemon," with Miike Takashi as general director and Kamiya Tomohiro as director.