Cats of the Louvre

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Oct 25 Yearning Teens, Frustrated Romance, Pretty Skies — Is There Anything Else to Makoto Shinkai? Marcel's tragic past becomes the catalyst for the slowly paced but highly intriguing story: 50 years ago, he lost his sister at the museum, and he believes her saw her walk into a painting where she might still be living to this day. The kitten Snowbebe, meanwhile, is discovering his own ability to wander in and out of paintings, and his misadventures might very well end up being the key to Marcel finally finding some sort of resolution. The world-renowned Louvre museum in Paris contains more than just the most famous works of art in history. At night, within its darkened galleries, an unseen and surreal world comes alive—a world witnessed only by the small family of cats that lives in the attic. Until now…

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Unsurprisingly, the story is set in the Louvre Museum in Paris. We have two main groups of characters: several tour guides who work in the museum, and a colony of cats who live in the attic. Certain rare individuals--both human and feline--possess the ability to enter certain paintings, and it all figures into a story that's more about emotional action than physical. It's a quiet, magical delight. To start with, this is an absolutely gorgeous book! The hardcover has a nice, solid heft to it. And the use of contrasting textures between the stripe across the top and the rest of the cover is a tactile delight. If you're reading a digital copy of this book, I feel sorry for you. Its beauty as a physical object is, in my opinion, a significant part of the experience of reading it. Favorite characters: the long-lost little girl and the young cat, who share 1) a propensity to age slowly and 2) a yearning to escape into a painting (the funeral of Love, aka Cupid, image below; the elderly caretaker (yes, the little girl’s brother. We’re toying just a bit with time here); the disillusioned museum guide (whose story I would’ve liked more of). Oh and the cats of course, and their anthropomorphized versions. Least favorite characters: the feline-ized humans. Very few of those, thankfully. Basically? Guys in cat suits. Like, I don’t know … a certain B’way production or filmed version thereof that no amount of money or xxx-rated favors could ever in this life induce me to attend? Very well executed. Simple and to the point. Hardly drags at all. Seeing the cat perspective for a few chapters was quite nice and really kept the momentum of the story rolling. Story was a bit darker than I was expecting. A couple of cat deaths were shown in the manga which I found surprisingly gory. Nothing too crazy but definitely not aimed towards kids. Cats of the Louvre ( Japanese: ルーヴルの猫, Hepburn: Rūvuru no Neko) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Taiyō Matsumoto. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Big Comic Original magazine from June 2016 to July 2017.The art is pretty avant-garde, which allows for wide variety of emotions, ambience and the overall feel of the story. It goes really well with the story and it's setting, as well as characters' personalities and experiences. It creates this impression of the museum itself being alive and quite literally being intertwined with everything and everyone inside of it, making you think how everything in life is related as well. It is thanks to this art that we get to experience not only the emotions of one character, but of every single one inside the panel, as well as the overall emotion that the situation evokes in us, making some of the moments that more relatable. Taiyo Matsumoto effortlessly crafts a moody atmosphere for the Louvre at night for Cats of the Louvre. You sense right away that all is not right in the museum never suspecting that at the center of it all is a small white kitten. As we get to know Marcel, the night caretaker, we learn that the art hanging on the walls can be dangerous to those that can hear them. Snowbebe has those kinds of ears and spends all of his time concentrated on the paintings that he's become quite estranged from his little cat family. Minpuntje is de titel die het boek kreeg. The Cats of the Louvre is natuurlijk heel duidelijk voor een Louvre-uitgave, maar vind ik veel te zoet en een mismatch qua inhoud, te vlak. Van mij had het vernoemd mogen worden naar het schilderij in de hoofdrol 'the funeral procession of love', dat beschrijft perfect het verdriet van verloren liefdes, een rode draad in het boek, waar kunst een troost is zodra je er alleen mee kunt zijn in de nachtelijke eenzaamheid. manga and one of the saddest scenes in the manga involves these two. But in contrast, there's a few cats that got hit with the ugly BIG time. That's not to say that's a completely bad thing though as they start to receive their own charm as you get to know them. However, they are still awkward to look at. Each of the human characters were enjoyable to read. They got the plot moving along at a good pace and were fun to see interact with each other. The cats are obviously the stars of the show and each of them were interesting. Snowbebe especially was delightful to read about.

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Natalie (in Japanese). July 20, 2017. Archived from the original on July 25, 2020 . Retrieved July 25, 2020. Ongrijpbaar op een bepaalde manier, zodra je het wilt beetpakken is het verdwenen, maar als je erin meegaat verdwijn je in het boek net zoals je in een schilderij kunt verdwijnen. Taiyo Matsumoto is one of the more unpredictable and unusual manga creators out there. Past titles like Tikkonkinkreet and Ping Pong suggest his ideas are outliers in manga canon. They don't have the usual codified cute faces or awkward teen dramas of many series. Cats of the Louvre might be his most unexpected story yet. Een manga die Taiyo Matsumoto in opdracht voor het Louvre maakte, het op sommige momenten surrealistische verhaal speelt zich vooral af tijdens de nachten in het Louvre, waar op de zolder een paar katten leven en een meisje ooit in een schilderij verdween. Het is een echte Matsumoto qua thematiek, het belang van kunst, de surreële elementen die erin verwerkt zijn, maar ook de outcasts die worstelen met hun eenzaamheid, pijn en het zoeken naar een eigen plek in deze wereld. Het zijn elementen die onlosmakelijk met zijn hele wezen verbonden zijn en altijd in meer of mindere mate in zijn werk terug zijn te vinden. De gebroken dromen en de hoop zijn in wezen die van Matsumoto zelf die als kind opgroeide in een gezinsvervangend tehuis en dat zijn leven lang met zich meedraagt. Ik ben er in elk geval altijd door geraakt en hou erg van zijn werk. Het is niet altijd even toegankelijk, en als je van een flitsend verhaal met vaart houdt moet je dit zeker niet oppakken, het is traag, en, ik heb een boek nog niet eerder zo genoemd, een erg introvert werk. Twiggy, one of the other cats, worries over Snowbebe in Cats of the Louvre and totally wins my heart for it. There is quite a startling event with him that totally had my heart in my throat. Actually I was quite surprised at the powerful events at the heart of this quietly paranormal story. We have a little girl who isn't lost, a missing painting, a rabid dog, an assassin cat, a philosophical spider and a family of cats that take on human personas when they are alone.

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Along with Kamome Shirahama's Witch Hat Atelier, the series won the 2020 Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material in the Asia category for Viz Media's English release. [8] Not every story needs to be filled with 3-dimensional characters, but for me, as well as trying to get used to the bizarre personalities of some of the cats, this manga didn't excite me like others in its genre. I might be biased towards the author's other work as well, but I enjoyed Tekkonkinkreet so much more for its complexity and characters that were a lot more memorable.

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In my opinion, some of the artwork especially towards the middle and end is especially breathtaking and surreal. My two favorite (and in my opinion most interesting) designs are the cats Snowbebe and Sawtooth. Some of my favorite art in the Natalie (in Japanese). March 10, 2016. Archived from the original on July 4, 2020 . Retrieved July 25, 2020. The book is part of a series of graphic novels centered in and around the museum that have come out in recent years. I’ve only read a few of them, but I would have to say that Cats of the Louvre is the best and most memorable of those. Rather than rely upon the museum’s reputation to justify an artily oblique series of images, this book contains an actual story.Cats of the Louvre". Viz Media. Archived from the original on July 30, 2020 . Retrieved July 25, 2020.