Dark Horse Comics (published 22 June 2005). Dark Horse Comics (published 14 April 2004). Dark Horse Comics (published 17 September 2003). Translated by Lewis, Dana Hernandez, Lea Smith, Toren. Dark Horse Comics (published 19 February 2003).
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Translated by Lewis, Dana Hernandez, Lea. Dark Horse Comics (published 16 January 2002). Translated by Kotobuki, Hisashi Gleason, Alan Lewis, Dana Winkler, Erin Smith, Toren Hernandez, Lea. What's Michael? - Michael's Favorite Spot. Dark Horse Comics (published 28 January 1998). Translated by Lewis, Dana Sather, Jeanne Smith, Toren. Dark Horse Comics (published 29 October 1997). Dark Horse Comics (published 1 April 1997). The second type of story is complete fantasy in which all the animals are given anthropomorphic characteristics such as walking on two legs, wearing clothes, and being able to talk to each other these episodes place the animals in a storyline that mixes up their human personae with normal animal behavior. It finds humor in how humans observe their pets' naturally quirky behavior. The first portrays the cats in a realistic way, living out normal lives with their owners. Most episodes of the series fall into one of two kinds of stories. The manga was adapted into two anime OVA films in 19, and a 45-episode TV series in 1988–1989. In 1986, What's Michael? received the Kodansha Manga Award for general manga. The manga was presented in the standard left to right American reading format. Michael is not a specific cat, but rather a feline version of the everyman as he appeared in drastically different settings across chapters: he's a normal cat in some chapters (with different owners in different chapters), an anthropomorphic cat in others, and he even dies in some chapters.ĭark Horse Comics released the series in the US as eleven volumes between 19, and in 2020 released the first volume of a "Fatcat Collection", which spanned the first six volumes.
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The manga shows Michael, an orange American Shorthair tabby cat, his feline friends, and other domesticated pets in a series of humorous episodes. In 1984, it began its serialization in the Weekly Morning magazine. What's Michael? ( ホワッツマイケル?, Howattsu Maikeru? ) is a Japanese manga series created by Makoto Kobayashi.