The TV anime adaptation of Hitsuji Yamada’s The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today will start airing in July 2023. It also revealed a key visual, main cast, and staff. Yui Ishikawa is voicing the office worker Saku Fukuzawa while Hiroki Yasumoto is playing the cat, Yukichi.
Susumu Kudou is the general director, while Katsumasa Yokomine is the director. The animation production is handled by GoHands studio, with a screenplay by Tamazo Yanagi, and character design by Takayuki Uchida.
The manga is an everyday comedy about the lives of Saku Fukuzawa, an office worker with devastating non-work-related life skills, and Yukichi, a large anthropomorphic black cat that perfectly handles the housework on her behalf.
▍About The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again
The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hitsuji Yamada. Began serialization in Kodansha’s Suiyōbi no Sirius online manga section on the Nico Nico Seiga website in August 2018, also published in Monthly Shōnen Sirius since October 2021. The manga has been licensed in English by Seven Seas Entertainment.
Saku is an ordinary young woman who works long hours and lives alone with her cat, Yukichi. However, he 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!
▍The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Anime Staff & Production
Original Work: Dekiru Neko wa Kyou mo Yuuutsu by Hitsuji Yamada (Serialized by Kodansha’s Suiyōbi no Sirius)
General Director: Susumu Kudo
Director: Katsumasa Yokomine
Series composition: GoHands
Screenplay: Tamazo Yanagi
Character design: Takayuki Uchida
Animation Production: GoHands
▍The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Cast
■ Saku Fukuzawa – CV: Yui Ishikawa
■ Yukichi – CV: Hiroki Yasumoto