A July 7 premiere date has been announced for the GoHands-produced The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today anime adaptation. A trailer previewing its characters and visual style has been released as well.
Additional cast members were also revealed, including:
• Ai Kakuma as Yuri Shibasaki
• Katsuyuki Konoshi as Kaoru Orizuka
• M.A.O as Rio Nishina
• Miyu Irino as Tenchou
• Ayana Taketatsu as Yume
• Youko Hikasa as Yume’s mother
• Tamie Kubota as Yume’s grandmother
• Satomi Satou as Saku’s mother
• Jun Fukuyama as Saku’s father
• Aoi Inase as Oshiro
• Kotoe Taichi as Mei the neighbour
The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today is based on the manga by Hitsuji Yamada, which first began serialization on Kodansha’s Suiyoubi no Sirius web manga page on Nico Nico Seiga in 2018. Serialization in Monthly Shonen Sirius followed in October 2021. Seven tankoubon volumes have been released as of February 2023.
Seven Seas Entertainment describes the manga as:
Saku is an ordinary young woman who works long hours and lives alone with her cat, Yukichi. Yukichi, however, is not an ordinary house cat. For one, the temperamental feline towers over Saku and walks around on two legs. Instead of playing with toy mice, he scours supermarket flyers for good deals and keeps the house spotless. With a pet like that, it’s hard to tell who’s taking care of who!
Hiroki Yasumoto is providing the voice for Yukichi while Yui Ishikawa is voicing Saku Fukuzawa. The anime’s staff includes Susumu Kudou (Joran: The Princess of Snow and Blood director) as chief director with Katsumasa Yokomine (Scar on the Praeter, W’z episode director and stroyboarder) as director, Tamazou Yanagi (Scar on the Praeter, W’z) as scriptwriter, and Takayuki Uchida (W’z) as character designer. GoHands is credited for the series composition.
Kudou, Yokomine, Yanagi, and Uchida are also involved in the adaptation of The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses, another GoHands production that is set for a July premiere. The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today and The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses are the studio’s first new projects since Tokyo Babylon 2021 was cancelled over plagiarism issues in March 2021.
