The Awkward Cat Belongs With An Awkward Human

My Roommate is a Cat Episode 6 Review

There’s been no doubt that Subaru is a fairly socially awkward human being (or rather he has never tried to engage socially so hasn’t the faintest idea of how to do so). And they do say that owners and their pets resemble each other. I found it hilarious this week in My Roommate is a Cat where Subaru is sitting facing Nana’s brother in awkward silence and Haru, is in the shot staring awkwardly at Nana’s cats. While we later see what was going on from Haru’s perspective, the parallel between Subaru and Haru has never been clearer.

That said, I found this episode a little less engaging than normal, and part of that is because at only eight minutes in we go to Haru’s perspective. And while Haru’s thoughts on what is happening in the apartment are kind of sweet, we get an extended flash back of Haru and her siblings learning to live on the streets. The thing is, that we’d already pieced most of this together from existing flashbacks so this kind of felt like filler and it dominate most of the second half of the episode.

It doesn’t stop Haru from being utterly adorable. She’s now giving Fuzzy from The Morose Mononokean a good run for being cutest character of the season and I have a long standing love of Fuzzy. Apparently adorable is enough because while very little else of note occurs in the second half, I didn’t really dislike it.

One human development is that we learn Nana and her brother are both reading Subaru’s story as it is published in a magazine and it is perhaps his first time meeting people who read his work. Unable to figure out how to respond he ends up fleeing, but there is definitely a slow change occurring in his personality and I’m looking forward to seeing if that goes anywhere.

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• My Roommate is a Cat Series Review
• Episode 1: Adopt a Kitten, It Could Save Your Life
• Episode 2: If I Sit On It, It’s Mine – So Says The Cat
• Episode 3: The Beginning of the Journey For The Cat and The Writer
• Episode 4: From One Person To Another – Must Be A Conspiracy
• Episode 5: This Week Witness Happy Sparkles From Pet Ownership
• Episode 6: The Awkward Cat Belongs With An Awkward Human
• Episode 7: Finding Value In The Unexpected and Uncontrollable
• Episode 8 and 9: Dreaming of the Past and Protecting the Present
• Episode 10: The Quiet Joy of Sharing a Meal
• Episode 11: The Overnight Trip That Awakens Emotions
• Episode 12: You Don’t Know What You Got Til It’s Gone
• Images from: My Roommate is a Cat. Dir. K Suzuki. Zero-G. 2019.