After finding a small black kitten in a snow storm, office lady Saku brought it home. However, she never expected that the little kitten would start taking care of household chores, shopping, and cooking. She also didn’t expect him to grow up to be taller than her either.
More the size of a bear than a cat, Yukichi is the most masterful of all cats, and it is a good thing he is. Saku, although a working adult, isn’t too masterful at taking care of herself just yet.
This series hit all the overwork iyashikei notes just perfectly while also appealing to all the reasons that people love cats despite following a giant more humanoid one. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today, head on down below.
Anime Like The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today
For Fans of Taking Care of Office Ladies
The Way of the House Husband
The Immortal Tatsu is an legendary yakuza name, but after taking down a rival gang single-handedly, he disappears.
Now he has reappeared as an apron-wearing, laundry-doing, bento-lunch-making househusband for his office-working wife.
Both The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today and The Way of The House Husband are about dark and serious guys that play house husband to their office ladies. One just happens to be a cat, though to be fair, the other is an ex-yakuza legend.
Both series are comedies about serious and unexpected men that are doing all those cute stereotypical house-spouse things. Both series are meant to be rather wholesome comedies.
Meddlesome Kitsune Senko-san
Nakano is a salaryman that works for a company that greatly exploits him. He returns to home each day exhausted, and one day, returns home to find an 800-year-old fox girl has invaded his home.
She cooks, she cleans, and she states that she will heal his exhaustion with her occasionally questionable care.
Both The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today and Meddlesome Kitsune Senko-san feature fluffy creatures that take care of their tired office workers that are somewhat bad at adulting. While The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today is about a giant male cat, Meddlesome Kitsune Senko-san is about a humanoid female fox spirit.
As the roles between each anime are gender-swapped, it is very clear that both series are somewhat targeted at different gendered audiences. That said, both are soothing iyashikei anime, it is just that the strategies for soothing are different.
For Fans of Cats
My Roommate is a Cat
Subaru is a novelist, and not very good with people. He’s been alone since his parent’s death, but one day while praying at their grave, a cat comes and eats his offering.
Deciding to take it home, he now is shouldered with a cat, and this stray is shouldered with caring for a human who can barely care for himself.
Both The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today and My Roommate is a Cat are essentially about the same thing – single people who are bad at taking care of themselves getting a cat. Furthermore, they not only get a cat, but the cat is taking care of them – or, at least thinking they are.
While The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today is more fantasy with its large, actually helpful cat, My Roommate is a Cat is more realistic. The cat tries to take care of their owner in their own cat ways, but it is still just a cat so it can’t do much.
The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today is iyashikei fantasy, but My Roommate is a Cat is a wholesome and fun look at new cat ownership, though not without a bit of drama since both parties have abandonment issues.
Too Cute Crisis
Liza Luna is part of a destructive race of aliens, and when seeing Earth, she determines it should be destroyed. However, upon further inspection, Liza discovers a number of pleasures on Earth – primary among them, our pets!
After visiting a Cat Cafe and adopting a stray cat of her own, Liza spars Earth from destruction and gets caught in too cute pet shenanigans.
Both The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today and Too Cute Crisis are anime about cat ownership with a fun fantasy spin to it. In The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today, the cat is large and capable of housework while Too Cute Crisis focuses on an alien invasion thwarted by the cuteness of Earth’s pets.
While many different cute pet types are covered in Too Cute Crisis, ultimately the alien starts living with the world’s most needy cat that she found on the street.
I, Tsushima
One day, an old lady meets a stray cat rummaging through the trash for food. She decides to take him home and is surprised to learn that the cat’s name is Tsushima, and also that he can talk.
She adopts him nonetheless, but she is constantly at the mercy of his whims.
While The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today is about a helpful large cat that takes care of his owner, I,Tsushima is about a comical fat cat that talks shit to the owner that picked them up off the street.
These are different experiences, but both are good comedies and a must for general cat fans.
For Fans of Living With a Large Creature
Gal & Dino
After a night of drinking, Kaede wakes up to find that she had inexplicably brought home a giant blue dinosaur. Deciding to just go with it, the pair start living together and enjoying slice of life adventures. Although Dino can’t talk, he still has plenty of ways to communicate with this fashionable girl.
Both The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today and Gal & Dino follow women who live with large, mute creatures. In The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today, she is an office lady that lives with a giant cat. In Gal & Dino, she is a gyaru who lives with a dinosaur.
Both series are comedies, but Gal & Dino is more just slice of life shenanigans compared to The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today and its iyashikei elements.
Jingai-san no Yome
After being called to the principal’s office, high schooler Tomari Hinowa is delivered the shocking news that he is to be married. What’s more, his new wife is a mysterious fluffy creature called Kanenogi.
Although he is initially unsure about marrying, let alone marrying a creature, he accepts and tries to embrace his newlywed life.
While both series are about single people that live with giant creatures, Jingai-san no Yome is a little bit more weird.
Instead of a giant cat, Jingai-san no Yome is about a boy told he is going to be married to a giant fluffy creature of less clear origins. However, instead of playing the role of house-spouse, this creature is more mysterious and affectionate, but equally mute.
Kuma Miko – Girl Meets Bear
Young shrine maiden Machi Amayadori has spent her whole life in a small town with her talking bear guardian. However, as she turns fourteen, she decides to take a chance and attend high school in the city. This is the story of her preparing for city life in a small town.
Both The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today and Kuma Miko are pleasant comedy anime about a giant creature taking care of their more lackadaisical family members.
In Kuma Miko, the comedy comes from the talking shrine bear fearing for the safety of the shrine maiden who wants to move from their rural area to go to high school in a city.
Unlike The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today where a mute giant cat is taking care of an office lady, Kuma Miko is about a giant talking bear giving comically flawed advice to a teen.
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