The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today
The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today is a Japanese web manga series written and illustrated by Hitsuzi Yamada. It began serialization on Kodansha's Suiyōbi no Sirius online manga section on the Nico Nico Seiga website in August 2018, and is also published in Monthly Shōnen Sirius since October 2021. An anime television series adaptation produced by GoHands aired from July to September 2023.
Plot
The young employee Saku lives alone with her cat Yukichi, a feline as big as it is special. Yukichi is in fact extraordinarily intelligent, doing his utmost to take care of the house and of his mistress, who on the contrary is far from conscientious and has a habit of neglecting herself and her house.Characters
;Saku Fukuzawa;Yukichi
;Yuri Shibasaki
;Oshiro
;Kaoru Orizuka
;Rio Nishina
;Shop Manager
;Yume
;Yume's Mother
;Yume's Grandmother
;Saku's Mother
;Saku's Father
;Mei
Media
Manga
Written and illustrated by Hitsuzi Yamada, The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today began serialization on Kodansha's Suiyōbi no Sirius online manga section on the Nico Nico Seiga website on August 22, 2018; it also started publication in Monthly Shōnen Sirius on October 26, 2021. Kodansha has collected its chapters into individual volumes. The first volume was released on April 9, 2019. As of November 7, 2025, twelve volumes have been released.In North America, the manga is licensed for English release by Seven Seas Entertainment.
Anime
In May 2022, it was announced that the series would be adapted into an anime television series. The series is produced by GoHands, who supervised the scripts written by Tamazo Yanagi, with Katsumasa Yokomine directing, Susumu Kudo serving as chief director, and Takayuki Uchida designing the characters. It aired from July 8 to September 30, 2023, on the Animeism programming block on MBS and other affiliates. The opening theme song is "Ureu Kado niwa Fuku Kitaru" by. Crunchyroll is streaming the series.Medialink licensed the series in South, Southeast Asia and Oceania, streaming it on its Ani-One Asia's YouTube channel. Netflix added the series to its catalog in India in December 2023.