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What's Michael?
First tankōbon volume cover
ホワッツマイケル?
(Howattsu Maikeru?)
Manga
Written by
Super Manga Blast
DemographicSeinen
Original run1984 – 1989
Volumes9
Original video animation
StudioKitty Films
Released 25 November 1985 – 25 July 1988
Runtime55 - 60 minutes
Episodes2
Anime television series
Written bySatoru Akahori
Music byKōji Makaino
Michiaki Katō
StudioVarious[a]
Original networkTV Tokyo
Original run 15 April 1988 – 28 March 1989
Episodes45

What's Michael? (ホワッツマイケル?, Howattsu Maikeru?) is a Japanese

Weekly Morning magazine. The manga shows Michael, an orange American Shorthair tabby cat, his feline friends, and other domesticated pets in a series of humorous episodes. Michael is not a specific cat, but rather a feline version of the everyman
as he appeared in drastically different settings across chapters: he's a normal cat in some chapters (with different owners in different chapters), an anthropomorphic cat in others, and he even dies in some chapters.

Dark Horse Comics released the series in the US as eleven volumes between 1997 and 2006, and in 2020 released the first volume of a "Fatcat Collection", which spanned the first six volumes.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] The manga was presented in the standard left to right American reading format.[clarification needed]

In 1986, What's Michael? received the Kodansha Manga Award for general manga.[14]

The manga was adapted into two

OVA
films in 1985 and 1988, and a 45-episode TV series in 1988–1989.

Story

Most episodes of the series fall into one of two kinds of stories. The first portrays the cats in a realistic way, living out normal lives with their owners. It finds humor in how humans observe their pets' naturally quirky behavior. The second type of story is complete fantasy in which all the animals are given anthropomorphic characteristics such as walking on two legs, wearing clothes, and being able to talk to each other; these episodes place the animals in a storyline that mixes up their human personae with normal animal behavior.

Chapters

No. Release date ISBN
1 18 January 19854-06-176507-8

Chapter 01-21

  1. Michael's Intro‼ (マイケル登場‼)
  2. Beauty and Kitty (美女と子猫)
  3. Terrorist (テロリスト)
  4. A Day in Michael's Life (マイケルの１日)
  5. Suspicious Niboshi Case (疑惑のニボシ)
  6. Michael VS. Rocky (マイケルＶＳ.ロッキー)

See also

Notes

  1. ^ No single studio is responsible for the work. Various were subcontracted for each episode, including but not limited to Daume and Shaft.

References

  1. ISBN 978-1-56971-247-4
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  2. ISBN 978-1-56971-248-1
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  3. ISBN 978-1-56971-249-8
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  4. ISBN 978-1-56971-250-4
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  5. ISBN 978-1-56971-557-4
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  6. ISBN 978-1-56971-744-8
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  7. ISBN 978-1-56971-914-5
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  8. ISBN 978-1-56971-972-5
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  9. ISBN 978-1-59307-120-2
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  10. ISBN 978-1-59307-337-4
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  11. ISBN 978-1-59307-525-5
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  12. ISBN 978-1-50671-414-1
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  13. ^ Dark Horse comics (12 February 2020). "What's Michael? Fatcat Collection Volume 1 TPB :: Profile :: Dark Horse Comics". Retrieved 5 July 2020.
  14. ^ Joel Hahn. "Kodansha Manga Awards". Comic Book Awards Almanac. Retrieved 21 August 2007.

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