![]() ![]() That’s a very interesting judgement call. ![]() The book’s Amazon page adds a further “If you liked…” pointer, to The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arakawa. Instead, Penguin chooses to highlight the book’s translator, Ginny Tapley Takemori, who translated a bestselling single-female Japanese novel, Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata. Penguin could have imitated the cover of the She and Her Cat manga, published several years ago by Vertical. There’s no “From the director of Your Name” cover tag, nor any attempt to suggest anime in the cover picture. It’s published in English by Penguin, which has decided not to play up its links to a feted anime film director. Now the film has a “novelisation”, more precisely a novella building on the film’s starting point. The film shows the close relationship between a woman and her cat, narrated from the cat’s adoring viewpoint. It’s on Anime Limited’s edition of Voices and Place Promised in Our Early Days. She and Her Cat was one of the first animated films by Makoto Shinkai, five minutes of software-aided monochrome that he made mostly by himself, three years before Voices of a Distant Star. ![]()
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