What's Michael?
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Cover art of the North American release of volume 4, Michael's Mambo
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| ホワッツマイケル? (Howattsu Maikeru?) |
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| Genre | Comedy |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Makoto Kobayashi |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| English publisher | |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Weekly Morning |
| English magazine | |
| Original run | 1984 – 1989 |
| Volumes | 9 |
| Original video animation | |
| Studio | Kitty Films |
| Released | November 25, 1985 |
| Runtime | 55 minutes |
| Anime television series | |
| Written by | Masaaki Sakurai |
| Music by | Kōji Makaino |
| Studio | Daume |
| Network | TV Tokyo |
| Original run | April 15, 1988 – March 28, 1989 |
| Episodes | 45 |
| Original video animation | |
| What's Michael? 2 | |
| Studio | Kitty Films |
| Released | July 25, 1988 |
| Runtime | 60 minutes |
What's Michael? (ホワッツマイケル? Howattsu Maikeru??) is a Japanese manga series created by Makoto Kobayashi. In 1984, it began its serialization in the 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. It is currently released in the US by Dark Horse Comics. The manga was presented in the standard left to right American reading format.
In 1986, What's Michael? received the Kodansha Manga Award for general manga.[1]
The manga was adapted into two anime OVA series in 1985 and 1988, and a 45-episode TV series in 1988–1989.
Contents
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 clichéd storyline, and mixes up their human personae with normal animal behavior.
See also
References
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- What's Michael? (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- "Translated Manga Pick of the Month"—J-pop.com
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