One day on my way home from work I picked up a cat. It was still small and weak, but it was doing its best to stay alive.
 I&#8217;m not used to taking care of cats, but I did my best to take care of him, and he is slowly recovering. Good, I hope it will continue to grow up healthy. &#8230;&#8230;
 But it seems that this cat, which I picked up thinking it was a cat, is not a cat at all.
 &#8211;There is an unusual pet manga that begins with such a shocking turn of events.
 The manga &#8220;The Story of Picking Up a Cat&#8221; is a story about the shared life of an unidentified giant creature and its male owner.
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 The story is serialized on &#8220;HuPele,&#8221; the website of Miyarisan Seiyaku, a company that develops health supplements for animals, and the fourth volume of the book was released on December 14. The manga, which was posted by Ataro Terada on SNS, caught the attention of Honda Hachijuni, who is in charge of the original story, and was the impetus for the serialization.
 The main character, Igai, is an ordinary salaryman. He has been averse to animals in general since he was a child, doesn&#8217;t know how to touch them, and doesn&#8217;t understand the point of having contact with animals if he likes them. He is so busy with his work and life that he has no time to pay attention to animals, and he is proud to say, &#8220;I am not the kind of person who would pick up a cat.
 One rainy day, he comes across a kitten soaking wet on the side of the road. He ignores the kitten at first, but then he hears the schoolchildren yelling at the shabby kitten. He is so angry that he can no longer stand still and takes the kitten into his care. He takes responsibility for the kitten and keeps it, but there is something wrong with the cat.
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 It looks like a cat and its fur is soft and fluffy, but within a month of picking it up, it grew to be bigger than a tiger. It has three legs, the tip of its tail is finely branched like a finger, and it has one huge eye in the middle of its face.
 He has three legs, a finely branched tail, and one huge eye in the middle of his face. Although he is not a cat by any stretch of the imagination, he still behaves like one.
 What have I picked up?&#8221; &#8220;Am I really a creature of the earth? But the creature that had come to trust him was so cute that he named it &#8220;Cat&#8221; and poured his affection into the giant creature. &#8230;&#8230;
<figure id="attachment_281869" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-281869" style="width: 1128px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-281869 size-full" src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2022/12/i_0008-2.jpg" alt="" width="1128" height="1600" data-expapp-watermark-gravity="none"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-281869" class="wp-caption-text"> The &#8220;cat&#8221; is so attached to the mussel that it is munching on it. The cat&#8221; is a cat that is so cute that it is named &#8220;Neko&#8221; by the manga artist, Terada-san.</figcaption></figure>
 Mr. Terada, who is in charge of the manga, said, &#8220;I used to like living things in general, and I also liked science fiction in the sense that it was &#8216;a little mysterious,&#8217; and I thought, &#8216;I&#8217;m scared that something I picked up will become something unidentifiable,&#8217; which is what inspired me to draw this manga.
 He has also long been a fan of the &#8220;Cthulhu Mythos,&#8221; which has influenced many entertainment works and has gained popularity in TRPG (*Abbreviation of Table Talk RPG) in recent years, and the SCP Foundation, a collaborative creation site where ordinary users submit stories related to supernatural objects and beings with urban legends and modern fantasy themes. He has always loved the Cthulhu Mythos and the SCP Foundation, a collaborative creation site where ordinary users submit stories related to paranormal objects and beings on the theme of urban legends and modern fantasy.
 I left the story basically up to the original author, Mr. Honda, but I wanted the story to have a horror element of the unknown, in addition to the sympathy that cats have,&#8221; says Terada.
 Indeed, the giant but adorable &#8220;cats&#8221; are both &#8220;adorable! and &#8220;Cute!&#8221; at the sight of the huge but adorable &#8220;cat,&#8221; while at the same time feeling a little creeped out by the occasional &#8220;non-cat&#8221; part of the cat&#8217;s face. The charm of this work is that the viewer alternates between feeling &#8220;cute!
<figure id="attachment_281868" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-281868" style="width: 1128px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-281868 size-full" src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2022/12/i_0014-2.jpg" alt="" width="1128" height="1600" data-expapp-watermark-gravity="none"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-281868" class="wp-caption-text"> The &#8220;cat&#8221; relaxing next to Igai. The cat&#8221; relaxes next to Igai, and we are moved by his affectionate gaze (but then things take an unexpected turn: &#8230;&#8230;) / &#8220;The Story of Picking Up a Cat.</figcaption></figure>
 In addition to the interesting fictional aspects of the story, the film also describes the actual ecology of cats, the tips for cat owners, and the responsibility of picking up and keeping a living creature.
 I myself love living creatures, so as long as I am borrowing the pet manga style context, I feel it is a good idea to depict the proper conditions that are currently considered &#8216;good&#8217; in terms of protection and biodiversity. I am very happy that Mr. Honda, who actually protects many cats, is involved in the original story, which is very encouraging.
 Living with a mysterious creature, a &#8220;cat. Another mysterious creature, &#8220;Suneko,&#8221; also appears in the series, and the number of characters has increased, making the latest volume (volume 4) even more lively.
 The &#8220;cat&#8221; is loved by its owner and seems to be living a happy life, and Igai is healed and cheered up by the &#8220;cat. We would like to continue to watch their heartwarming life together.
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 A manga about life with a mysterious creature that looks like a "cat" but isn't one. (manga by Ataro Terada, original story by Yajuni Honda). How did this cute and a little scary, yet heartwarming and mysterious pet manga come to be?

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