![]() ![]() ![]() Nakari calls after her not to bring back any bugs or small birds, and Plum cheerfully meows over her shoulder, “Kyah!” as if she understood. ![]() One day when Plum leaves to do her rounds, Ms. ![]() Nakarai is a little ditzy and not nearly as knowledgeable about cats and their behavior as Taku is. Plum is the tiger-striped cat of the title, an extremely intelligent and surprisingly obedient indoor/outdoor cat who lives with high school boy Taku Nakarai and his mother, who teaches traditional Japanese dance in a studio attached to their home. It’s just a comic about some cats and the human beings they live with. The cats aren’t magical and they don’t talk there’s nothing supernatural or sci-fi going on. Yes, it’s a situation comedy about the family dynamics between a pair of cats. More specifically, it is about an ordinary house cat and how her home life is irrevocably altered when a second cat is introduced. Plum Crazy is a pretty good example of an “about anything” sort of manga: It is about a house cat. Long before the manga boom of yesteryear, when the shelf space devoted to translated manga in big-box book stores first began to dwarf that allotted to American comic book collections, it was fairly common to hear worldly comics aficionados speak admirably of Japan, where popular comics could be about anything. Plum Crazy: Tales of a Tiger-Striped Cat, Vol. ![]()
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