What's Michael?, Vol. 4: Michael's Mambo

What's Michael? #4

by Makoto Kobayashi, 小林まこと

Everyday cat and human interactions mingle with fantasy stories featuring the fat cat Michael and other felines.

Genres: Manga, Cats, Comics, Humor, Graphic Novels

117 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Makoto Kobayashi (小林 まこと, Kobayashi Makoto) is a Japanese manga artist.
Kobayashi's professional career in comics started in 1978, when he won the 'Shōnen magazine New manga artist' award for his work Grapple Three Brothers.
Over the years Kobayashi has published a number of sport manga, specifically about Judo, starting from his first serialised work Sanshiro of 1, 2 (1981-1984), winner of the 1981 'Kodansha Manga Award'. However, his best known comic book, especially in the West, is What's Michael? (1984-1989), a humour strip about an orange cat, for which Kobayashi won another 'Kodansha Manga Award' in 1986.

Reviews

[Shin Donghae · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wajar menjadi pemenang KMA 1986.
Ringan namun penuh komedi pintar.

[B · Rating 5 out of 5]

Japanese cartoons about Michael the cat, the other human and cat residents of one home and all the other cats in the neighborhood. Very funny, obviously illustrator knows cats well, and Japanese culture interesting too. Loved all of the volumes

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am currently reading the Chinese 中文 version

[Molly · Rating 2 out of 5]

*Edited*

Kind of like Garfield- got a bit old over time. Nice for cat people, but probably not in large doses.

[Karolina · Rating 1 out of 5]

WHAT WAS THAT?! I was reading first two comics on boring lessons, and didn't actually pay attention to its stupidness... But why the hell in this one, they were promoting dog's violation?!

[Caroline Eising · Rating 4 out of 5]

Adorable comic about a cat named Michael and his adventures. Not a continuous story - Michael has different owners and is in different situations from sequence to sequence, as you would expect form a comic that was published in a newspaper, and sometimes Michael himself does not appear at all, but there are always cats in all forms, fat and skinny, tame and wild, and their behaviour is much the same as cats all over the world.