This Anime is about "Mikazuki Subaru", an introverted mystery writer who one day finds a stray cat while giving his prayers to his deceased parents. He takes in the stray cat & starts living together with it, and thus checks out the title, "My Roommate is a Cat".
There's really nothing great or unique about this anime, if I'm being honest. It's your same old introverted protagonist not being able to form a connection with the outside world supported by a generic one-dimensional, uplifting cast of characters who help him get through his troubles & motivates him to become a better person in this overly kind world. BUT what this Anime does well is, how it conveys it's message without any unnecessary sugar coating or overblown melodrama and that is;
Our main character Subaru, is an introverted, 23 year old man who fear to step into the outside world, so he closed himself in the realm of books and imagination. But by the end of the show, you see him being more accepting and outgoing because he started to show some courage, not the type of courage you've to earn with unnecessarily long monologues or dramatic moments, but the courage that came out with just a simple thought of "I have to...". And for that little courage, he's rewarded with a simple yet beautiful connection to the outside world. And this beautifulness is shown through his heartwarming interactions with his cat, "Haru". Licking his tears when crying, staying by his side when he falls ill, sleeping beside him to numb his exhaustion that came with his everyday life and through all sort of these cute interactions, this Anime showed how uplifting it would be to have a pet (I have a cute doggo btw (✿❛◡❛)) and how warm the outside world can really be. The supporting cast, as I said are really one dimensional & uninteresting but helps the plot to conveys it's message.
On the technical side of things, the art style is your generic shoujo art style, not much to write about except the cat scenes looks really adorable & believable. Animation is bare minimum but not bad. The background score is a little too soothing, so much so that I ended up falling asleep while watching it (twice actually). It has an interesting story telling method where it shows half of the episode in Subaru's POV and repeating the same events in other half of episode but from the cat's POV, which really helped it a lot to connect with the main characters and understand their 'pet & owner' relationship. The occasional flashback scenes of Subaru's and Haru's are kinda generic but sets the tone for the episode pretty well.
A well explored plot of a relationship between a cat & an introverted writer, and the theme of connecting to the outside world, with a rather uninteresting supporting cast.
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