Cat + Gamer

Yet another cute cat manga series. This one is about a woman who works in an office, and is literally just there for the job. She does it efficiently and immediately goes home to dive into her favorite passtime- video gaming. Especially online role-playing games. She rarely socializes at work, doesn’t talk about her personal life, always refuses offers by co-workers to have drinks or go to events. Nobody knows her. They’re all shocked- herself included- when she spontaneously adopts a stray kitten found in the office parking lot. Riko doesn’t know anything about taking care of cats. It’s a steep learning curve. The kitten is adorable and energetic, and often interferes with her game time- whether distracting her, or actually stepping on buttons- sometimes loosing all the work she’s done. She finds it really frustrating, but can’t help herself falling in love with the kitten. Even starts taking photos of him and shares them online- and then is appalled to discover one of her co-workers follows her kitten’s social media account! I thought that was one of the funniest parts in the book. I don’t know why she didn’t tell them it was her cat, but maybe she’s just so used to keeping everything private, or was embarrassed at the “cat talk” she came up with to narrate the photos. It was also really odd when she started referring to things with gamer terminology in the pet store- I was right alongside that employee, baffled. Funny, though. Not much to the plot- it’s the two of them getting used to each other, daily life kind of thing. I’m not a gamer but my kids and my ex are, so I was familiar with aspects of Riko’s passion. This was a nice lighthearted read. And the drawings of the cat are very well done- especially his face and expressions.

Borrowed from the public library.