Red Cat Ramen – The Summer 2024 Anime Preview Guide

What is that this?

Tamako, a human, arrives at Ramen Akaneko, run solely by cats, for a part-time job interview. Her honesty about being a canine particular person will get her employed, and he or she turns into the caretaker of the cats on the restaurant. A narrative of each cat and human relationships, advised by means of the interactions with each feline workers and clients Get pleasure from your extra-large serving of heartwarming and endearing moments at Ramen Akaneko.

Red Cat Ramen is predicated on the manga collection by ANGYAMAN. The anime collection is streaming on SERVICE on DAY.

How was the primary episode?

Rebecca Silverman
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That is a type of reveals I really feel imply for score so low. It is simply so good-natured that it hurts – downtrodden human Tamako applies for a job at a ramen store run by cats (and a tiger), is soothed by how variety they’re to her, and spends many of the episode brushing kitties. It is nearly too healthful…and I’m 90% sure that if this had been a five-minute brief, or perhaps a half-length episode, I’d have loved it far more.

However actually, how a lot time are you able to spend watching another person brush a cat? I like cats, I’ve six of my very own (three of whom are orange, or “pink”), however the pleasure of brushing them comes not from watching my sister do it, however from the tactile sensations and emotional bonding of doing it myself. I can completely relate to the way it calms each the kitties and Tamako down, and it makes a variety of sense that they are in a position to have good conversations whereas doing it. It simply is not terribly attention-grabbing from the opposite aspect of the display. I do, nevertheless, very a lot admire how prickly white cat Hana instructs Tamako about which brushes and combs she prefers. Grooming is a reasonably private exercise, and he or she’s inside her rights to need Tamako to do issues her approach. Even her chilly perspective is smart in that context…and in the truth that she’s a white cat. Should you’re to imagine the idea {that a} cat’s fur colour influences their character, white cats are usually held to be aloof – and Wonderful Precure!‘s Yuki definitely helps make the case for that being a standard notion. (White cats typically have listening to issues, which most likely contributes to the concept they’re stand-offish.)

On the draw back, this does not look excellent. The best way the cats stroll and transfer in usually is a little bit too near the uncanny valley for my liking, and even hissing faces do not present fairly sufficient expression. The voice actors are doing an important job, particularly Krishna the tiger’s, however as a full-length episode, this misses the mark. There’s simply not sufficient content material to justify the runtime, and that makes me very unhappy.

Nicholas Dupree
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Have you ever ever imagined what it might be like if cats did human issues, like run a restaurant? If that’s the case, you may have nearly definitely provide you with extra attention-grabbing, memorable, and humorous concepts than something on this episode. Throughout a stultifying 22 minutes, our human heroine discovers the extremely uninteresting eccentricities of working at a enterprise run by anthropomorphic cats, equivalent to: brushing them to maintain hair out of the meals, cleansing up cat toys and treats, brushing them some extra, and filling out employment paperwork. Riveting stuff, I do know.

It is bizarre, truthfully. Work comedies with a supernatural twist are a dime a dozen, and nearly all of these perceive that you have to promote your hook arduous and quick. Whether or not your anime is about aliens promoting insurance coverage or fantasy creatures making donuts, it’s a must to provide you with bizarre and humorous issues that may occur when crossing uncommon characters with grounded work issues. But this episode appears to expire of concepts instantly, and by no means manages to mine “cats working a restaurant” for any actual gags. The closest factor to a gag is that one of many staff is a bashful tiger, however even that’s disconnected from the remainder of the setup.

So alright, if we’re not taking the low-hanging fruit, what are the jokes on this present? Properly, our predominant character, Tamako, is type of shy, and one of many cats does not like her initially, and will get choosy about how she needs to be brushed. There is a scene the place a buyer yells about cat hair in his meals. When Tamako cleans up the workplace she finds cat treats and toys stashed away. That is it. As a cat lover, I used to be at the least hoping for some observational humor about how cats may behave in knowledgeable setting – possibly a gag about taking too many naps on the clock, or unloading a field of provides after which sitting in it. These aren’t superb jokes, however they’re at the least the type of humor someone accustomed to cats would acknowledge and possibly relate to.

As a substitute there’s simply…nothing. Simply stiffly animated CG cats strolling on their hind legs and serving meals. If that singular picture is sufficient to amuse you for half an hour, then I assume that is value trying out. In any other case, there are numerous cat and work comedy anime that supply greater than this bland fusion delicacies.