Necchi is a big, long cat who enjoys napping, lazing around, and finding new ways to get attention from his human. Stretched out in a sunbeam or curled up in a box, Necchi is never picky about where he lounges! This sweet boy never scratches or knocks things over if he's displeased--he simply extends a paw in refusal. And he always knows when his human needs cuddling.

Catnaps, Catnaps, Everywhere! has a story and art by PANDANIA. Translation by Minna Lin and lettering by Carl Vanstiphout. Published by Seven Seas Entertainment (July 14, 2026). Rated A.

Rebecca Silverman
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It's only fitting that cat manga master Pandania should create a manga about their own cat. (At least, the afterword seems to indicate that Necchi is their cat.) While most of their cat 4-panel books are on the fantasy side (Yokai Cats, Monster Cats), Catnaps, Catnaps, Everywhere! is firmly in the “real life with kitties” subgenre of cat manga. It works just as well as their other series (although the amazing Cthulhu Cat is still my favorite), and readers of their work will recognize how Necchi seems to have influenced some of their depictions of fantasy felines.

We don't learn how the narrator met Necchi until late in the volume, and that actually works well. By the time we discover that he was a microchipped stray (whose microchip contained no information), we're already fully aware of Necchi's personality and quirks. We know that he's a happy cat now, and we can just be happy that the narrator has him safely at home. That takes a lot of the sting out of discovering his origins and the reasons why he might have been on the street (abandoned, elderly owner couldn't care for him, other sad things), because we know he's landed in clover. The angst is defanged before it can derail the story's overall happiness.

Most of the book follows the narrator as they reveal silly things about their giant cat. Most of these are comfortably familiar to cat owners: the way he takes up the whole bed, how he likes to play with used tissues (and the ingenious workaround the narrator comes up with for that), the variety of meows he uses. Reading it feels like having a conversation with Pandania, the sort where you want to chime in with your cat stories, too – “Oh, my Carmine does that! He has a specific meow that means Ellery, and when he uses it, I know Ellery wants something!” “My Sammy likes to sleep under the covers, too!” It's a real cat person book.

My only complaint is that there's just not enough of it. At just over 100 pages, I was left wishing there was more, and the lack of a volume number on the cover implies that this is all we get. But fortunately, Seven Seas has been religious about releasing Pandania's cat manga, so you have plenty to read, seeing Necchi in every feline to grace their pages.