Wataru Nadatani

From fighting the zoomies, to taking a photo worth a million, Volume 5 of Cat + Gamer is bond to have your cracking smiles with every page turn.

I think I enjoyed this volume most out of all of them I’ve read. I read it all in one setting, in bed right before going to sleep, and I laughed out loud so many times I’m honestly shocked I didn’t wake my sleeping partner in the process.

One of the things I enjoyed was the inner thoughts of the cats and how their lives also revolve around show more gaming and gaming terms. It honestly used to annoy me a lot when Kozakura would compare everything they did to gaming, but now that the cats are also “in on it”, it makes it all the more better in some weird way.

Another thing I really enjoyed was the simple things that you do as a cat owner, that others just won’t get unless you have cats - example: giving your cats a bath. It’s not as simple as it sounds and the facial expressions that Wataru Nadatani gave Soboro had tears in my eyes as I tried not to laugh so hard while reading.

Overall, this is still a series I’ve been handing recommendations out with left and right. I’ve also been getting them from the library as they become available but have decided, after reading this volume, that I need to just physically own the series. So, now I’m in that process.

Seriously, if you have cats, read this book. If you have cats and love gaming, really read this book. You won’t regret it! show less

This is another adorable installment in the Cat + Gamer series, and a very sweet conclusion. In some ways, this one is the most reminiscent of book one, since the finale section deals with Kozakura's life at work more again, the way the first one did. I also really liked the solution to her moving troubles (and the cat translation app).

This is a fun series with an interesting perspective on sharing one's life with a cat. The protagonist inadvertently adopts a stray kitten found in her office parking lot but plunges into the challenge by comparing looking after the cat to fulfilling video game quests. I like A Man and His Cat better for cute emotion-filled stories, but this series is an amusing treat as well.

Okay, apparently three volumes is as long as I can tolerate a cutesy, slice-of-life look at a woman playing video games and loving on her cat. I perked up a little bit when a Minecraft parody popped up, but I was frustrated to see it serve as a basis for a dream sequence (I hate those things!) and get dropped after a single chapter.

So, yeah, I'm calling "Game Over" on this series.