Update: Crunchyroll<\/a> announced<\/a> it will stream the second season. <\/p>\n Amara and the anime’s co-character designers Chiaki Kurakazu<\/a> and Rie Nishino<\/a> each drew an illustration to celebrate the news:<\/p>\n \u00a9\u30a2\u30de\u30e9\u30fb\u5b9d\u5cf6\u793e\uff0f\u300c\u732b\u3068\u7adc\u300d\u88fd\u4f5c\u59d4\u54e1\u4f1a<\/p>\n \u00a9\u30a2\u30de\u30e9\u30fb\u5b9d\u5cf6\u793e\uff0f\u300c\u732b\u3068\u7adc\u300d\u88fd\u4f5c\u59d4\u54e1\u4f1a<\/p>\n In the story, deep in the forest, a fire breathing dragon lost its parents before it was born. By happenstance, a mother cat encounters the dragon and decides to raise it. The cat family welcomes the dragon, who is seen as a “slightly weird cat who can fly and breathe fire.” The dragon, to repay the favor to the mother cat for raising it, decides to stay in the forest and watch over the other cats. The cats affectionally call the dragon “winged uncle,” and the dragon is known among humankind as the “cat dragon.”<\/p>\n The anime stars:\n<\/p>\n Jin-Koo Oh<\/a> (Tonbo!<\/a>) directed the first season at OLM. Mitsutaka Hirota<\/a> (Edens Zero<\/a>) handled the series scripts. Rie Nishino and Chiaki Kurakazu designed the characters. Takahiro Obata<\/a> (The Promised Neverland<\/a>) composed the music, and Noriyoshi Konuma<\/a> (The Dangers in My Heart<\/a>) was the sound director.<\/p>\n Singer suis<\/a> from the band yorushika<\/a> performed the first season’s opening theme song “Nekohi” (Cat Day), and vocalist lia’s band shallm<\/a> performed the ending theme song “Tadaima no Basho” (A Place to Call Home).<\/p>\n The first season streamed first on the d Anime Store<\/a> and ABEMA<\/a> services in Japan on June 27 at 9:30 p.m. (8:30 a.m. EDT), one week before its television broadcast and streaming on other services. The anime began airing on the Tokyo MX<\/a> channel on July 4 at 9:00 p.m. JST, before running on BS NTV<\/a>, Yomiuri TV<\/a>, Nagasaki Culture Broadcasting, and AT-X<\/a>. <\/p>\n Amara debuted the web novel on the Sh\u014dsetsuka ni Nar\u014d website in September 2013. Takarajimasha<\/a> published the first light novel volume in hardcover with illustrations by Mai \u014ckuma<\/a> in April 2016. The ninth light novel volume shipped in November 2025. The number of copies in circulation exceeds 1.4 million.<\/p>\n Izumi Sasaki<\/a> launched a manga adaptation on Kono Manga ga Sugoi! web in September 2017, and it also began serialization on Manga Box<\/a> in April 2020. The 13th compiled book volume shipped on July 24.<\/p>\n Sources: The Cat and the Dragon anime’s X\/Twitter account<\/a>, Comic Natalie<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Announced after first season ended on Saturday The television anime of Amara‘s Neko to Ry\u016b (The Cat and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-629728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"hslfxdvbiaa1tyu\"](\"\/thumbnails\/max600x600\/cms\/news.9\/241986\/hslfxdvbiaa1tyu.jpeg\")
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