MrAJCosplay
Rating:

I read the synopsis for this book and genuinely did not expect some of the rather interesting creative choices it took. We have a typical nice guy who is very much a pushover and only feels relaxed when a cat is present. So let's put him in a situation where he is paired up with a girl who is human by day and a lovely black cat by night. There's a lot of comedic potential as our male lead prefers cats over people. However, as they spend more time together, it's clear that a budding romance is blossoming between the two.

That's all fine until the story randomly introduces plot points that genuinely make the relationship dynamic more uncomfortable than I think it needs to be. The major issue is the age difference. The main lead is close to his thirties, and our titular cat girl is only seventeen. The story even constantly makes jokes about how young and immature she is, and that makes many of the moments with other background characters, who seem proud of the relationship, come off as creepy and uncomfortable.

I imagine this was done to create a sort of barrier between our two leads, since our cat lover treats her like the young runaway that she is, more or less. However, the story wants to have its cake and eat it too by still setting up this romance. There are even plot points that specifically draw attention to the age gap, which makes the humor and a lot of the scenes come off as more tonally confused than they were meant to be. There's no shortage of stories that revolve around young men caring for cat girls, for both wholesome and perhaps not-so-wholesome reasons. I would sooner recommend any of those than this one.