Red Cat Ramen
Red Cat Ramen (ラーメン赤猫, Ramen Aka Neko) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Angyaman.
It began serialization as an independent comic published on Shueisha's Shōnen Jump+ app and website in March 2022. It later became a full-fledged series in October 2022. An anime television series adaptation produced by E&H Production is set to premiere in July 2024.
| Red Cat Ramen | |
 First tankōbon volume cover | |
| ラーメン赤猫 (Ramen Aka Neko) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Angyaman |
| Published by | Shueisha |
| Magazine | Shōnen Jump+ |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Original run | March 14, 2022 – present |
| Volumes | 7 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Hisatoshi Shimizu |
| Written by | Toru Kubo |
| Music by | Hirotaka Matsuoka |
| Studio | E&H Production |
| Original network | JNN (TBS) |
| Original run | July 4, 2024 – scheduled |
Plot
Red Cat Ramen centers around the titular establishment, a ramen shop established and run by talking cats. Focusing on Tamako Yashiro, a human woman who is working as a part-timer behind the scenes, the series focuses on the day-to-day antics of her and her fellow feline employees: Bunzo, the head chef; Sasaki, the owner and finance/business expert; Sabu, the sous-chef; Hana, the customer service manager; and Krishna, a tiger in charge of making the base ramen noodles in-house.
Characters
- Bunzo (文蔵)
- Voiced by: Kenjiro Tsuda
- Sasaki (佐々木)
- Voiced by: Noriaki Sugiyama
- Sabu (サブ)
- Voiced by: Michiyo Murase
- Hana (ハナ)
- Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya
- Krishna (クリシュナ, Kurishuna)
- Voiced by: Saori Hayami
- Tamako Yashiro (社珠子, Yashiro Tamako)
- Voiced by: Kurumi Orihara
Media
Manga
Written and illustrated by Angyaman, Red Cat Ramen was originally published on Shueisha's Jump Rookie website from November 26, 2021, to February 20, 2022. It later began serialization as an independent comic published on Shueisha's Shōnen Jump+ app and website on March 14, 2022. It later got promoted to a regular serialization on October 2, 2022. Its chapters have been collected in seven volumes as of March 2024.
The series is published digitally in English on Shueisha's Manga Plus platform. The series is also published in France by Kurokawa.
| No. | Release date | ISBN |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 4, 2022 | 978-4-08-883279-1 |
| 2 | December 4, 2022 | 978-4-08-883398-9 |
| 3 | February 3, 2023 | 978-4-08-883402-3 |
| 4 | June 2, 2023 | 978-4-08-883619-5 |
| 5 | September 4, 2023 | 978-4-08-883713-0 |
| 6 | December 4, 2023 | 978-4-08-883811-3 |
| 7 | March 4, 2024 | 978-4-08-883859-5 |
Anime
An anime adaptation was announced on November 27, 2023. It was later confirmed at Jump Festa 2024 to be a television series produced by Good Smile Company and E&H Production and directed by Hisatoshi Shimizu, with Toru Kubo overseeing series scripts, Michinori Chiba designing the characters, and Hirotaka Matsuoka composing the music. It is set to premiere on July 4, 2024 on TBS and its affiliates. The theme song is "Akaneko" performed by Wednesday Campanella, while the ending theme song is "Honjitsu no Osusume" performed by Rikon Densetsu.
Reception
The series was nominated for the eighth Next Manga Awards in 2022 for the web manga category and was ranked fifth out of 50 nominees. The series was also ranked fifteenth in the Nationwide Bookstore Employees' Recommended Comics of 2023. It ranked nineteenth on Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! list of best manga of 2024 for male readers.
References
External links
- Official independent manga website (in Japanese)
- Official manga website (in Japanese)
- Official website at Manga Plus
- Official anime website (in Japanese)
- Red Cat Ramen (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
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