What's Michael?
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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. 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.
What's Michael? | |
ホワッツマイケル? (Howattsu Maikeru?) | |
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Manga | |
Written by | Makoto Kobayashi |
Published by | Kodansha |
English publisher | |
Magazine | Weekly Morning |
English magazine | |
Demographic | Seinen |
Original run | 1984 – 1989 |
Volumes | 9 |
Original video animation | |
Studio | Kitty Films |
Released | 25 November 1985 – 25 July 1988 |
Runtime | 55 - 60 minutes |
Episodes | 2 |
Anime television series | |
Written by | Satoru Akahori |
Music by | Kōji Makaino Michiaki Katō |
Studio | Various[lower-alpha 1] |
Original network | TV Tokyo |
Original run | 15 April 1988 – 28 March 1989 |
Episodes | 45 |
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 anime OVA films in 1985 and 1988, and a 45-episode TV series in 1988–1989.