It’s about a girl named Miyu, who didn’t even have a name in the original OVA. If you end up watching the short after this series, it’ll tie everything together, which is pretty cool. The story of She and Her Cat is very, very simple, but what many won’t know is that this is a prequel to the 1999 short OVA. So as an epilogue to my 2015 Makoto Shinkai series, it’s time to take a look at the OVA and the anime Kanojo to Kanojo no Neko, better known as She and Her Cat: Everything Flows! While the episodes were still very, very short, I believe it gave enough material to give this a proper review. Now, here in 2016, that five minute short was given a four episode anime. However, there was only one thing I didn’t touch upon because I thought it would be difficult to review something that only lasted five minutes.

Everything from 5 Centimeters per Second to ef – A Tale of Memories/Melodies, up to his latest work, The Garden of Words. A whimsical short story anthology unlike any other, it effortlessly demonstrates that even in our darkest, most lonesome moments, we are still united to this wonderous world-often in ways we could never have expected.Last year I went back and re-watched and reviewed every work that Makoto Shinkai has produced.

With clever narration alternating between the cats and their owners, She and Her Cat offers a unique and sly commentary on human foibles and our desire for connection. So begins the first story in She and Her Cat, a collection of four interrelated, stream-of-conscious short stories in which four women and their feline companions explore the frailty of life, the pain of isolation, and the limits of communication. Just as he fears that the end is near, a young woman peers down at him, this fateful encounter changing their lives forever. With his mother long gone, his only company is the sound of the nearby train. Lying alone on the edge of the sidewalk in an abandoned cardboard box, a nameless narrator contemplates the indifferent world around him. She and Her Cat By Makoto Shinkai and Naruki Nagakawaįor fans of Mieko Kawakami’s Breasts and Eggs and Murata Sayaka’s Earthlings, this Japanese bestseller from renowned anime director Makoto Shinkai features four inspirational and heartwarming vignettes following women and their cats in their quests for love and connection.

She and Her Cat by Makoto Shinkai