The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today
デキる猫は今日も憂鬱 (Dekiru Neko wa Kyou mo Yuuutsu)
- Comedy
- Adult Cast
- Anthropomorphic
- Episodes
- 13
- Duration
- 23 min per ep
- Aired
- Jul 8, 2023 to Sep 30, 2023
- Status
- Finished Airing
Synopsis
Maine Coons are known for their size and smarts, but Saku Fukuzawa still can’t quite account for how her rescued black cat ended up towering over her. An ordinary office worker with long days and rushed mornings, Saku returns home to a living situation that’s anything but typical.
Yukichi isn’t content to lounge around like a pet—he’s effectively running the household. While Saku hurries to catch trains and works late, the oversized, highly capable cat handles the daily routine: preparing her lunch, cooking, cleaning, and even taking care of the grocery shopping.
Otaku Consensus
The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today earned a solidly warm reception, with its 7.63 MAL score and 75/100 AniList score reflecting a comedy that succeeds less through big narrative swings than through precise domestic rhythm. GoHands’ direction gives the adaptation a distinct visual identity, and the episodic iyashikei pacing turns adult exhaustion, food prep, and household routines into repeatable comic comfort. The most consistent limitation is baked into that same design: viewers resistant to GoHands’ CGI-accented look or low-stakes episodic structure may find the series more pleasant than essential.
Why You Should Watch
Watch this if you want adult-life comedy without workplace melodrama, romance escalation, or fantasy quest machinery. It scratches the same decompression itch as Laid-Back Camp, but replaces travel and scenery with bento boxes, grocery runs, and the tiny humiliations of office-lady survival; it also has a domestic absurdity that can appeal to fans of The Way of the Househusband, though with a softer, more iyashikei pulse. The pleasure is in the routine: GoHands treats cooking, cleaning, commuting, and exhaustion as comic set pieces rather than background noise. If you like anime where the joke lands because the adult details are recognizable, this is a tidy 13-episode comfort watch with a very specific household rhythm.
Key Characters
- SSaku Fukuzawa
Saku stands out as a rare anime office-lady lead whose comedy comes from adult burnout, rushed mornings, and the gap between professional competence and private helplessness.
- YYukichi
Yukichi became the show’s defining hook because his deadpan household mastery turns anthropomorphic-cat humor into a running critique of how much invisible labor keeps everyday life functioning.
What Makes It Stand Out
- 1
GoHands produced the series with its recognizable glossy digital finish, and AniList’s CGI tag reflects how visible the studio’s hybrid visual approach is compared with more conventional slice-of-life comedies.
- 2
The structure is strongly episodic, matching AniList’s 86% episodic tag: the show is built around repeatable domestic situations rather than a single escalating conflict.
- 3
Its adult-cast focus is unusually high for a comfort comedy, with AniList tagging it Primarily Adult Cast at 95% and Office Lady at 82%, keeping the humor tied to work fatigue, commuting, and home management.
- 4
Food is not just incidental decoration; AniList’s Food tag at 66% points to how meal prep, lunch planning, and grocery logistics function as recurring comic engines.
- 5
The tonal blend is specific: Iyashikei at 84% sits alongside Surreal Comedy at 55% and Slapstick at 53%, so the show alternates calm domestic recovery with exaggerated physical and visual gags.
Fun Facts & Trivia
- Fun fact 1
- The anime adapts the work of original creator Hitsuji Yamada, whose concept is classified as shounen despite its strong adult-cast and office-life emphasis.
- Fun fact 2
- Direction was split between Susumu Kudou as chief director and Katsumasa Yokomine as director, a production structure that gave the series both oversight and episode-to-episode execution leads.
- Fun fact 3
- Takayuki Uchida served as character designer and also as one of the main animators, alongside Shingo Suzuki and Hiroshi Ookubo, tying the character look directly to the animation staff.
- Fun fact 4
- The series ran for 13 episodes from July 8, 2023 to September 30, 2023, placing it squarely in the Summer 2023 broadcast season.
- Fun fact 5
- Its sound side was handled by sound director Hisashi Muramatsu with sound effects by Yui Andou, an important credit pairing for a comedy dependent on kitchen noises, footsteps, timing, and reaction beats.
Studios
- GoHands
