She and Her Cat

She and Her Cat
Cover art for She and Her Cat.
彼女と彼女の猫 (Kanojo to Kanojo no Neko)
Genre	Drama
Original video animation
Directed by	Makoto Shinkai
Music by	Tenmon
Released	1999
Runtime	5 minutes
Manga
Written by	Tsubasa Yamaguchi
Published by	Kodansha
English publisher	NA Vertical
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Monthly Afternoon
Original run	February 25, 2016 – May 25, 2016
Volumes	1
Anime television series
Kanojo to Kanojo no Neko: Everything Flows
Directed by	Kazuya Sakamoto
Written by	Naruki Nagakawa
Music by	To-Mas Soundsight Fluorescent Forest
Studio	Liden Films
Original network	Tokyo MX
Original run	March 4, 2016 – March 25, 2016
Episodes	4

She and Her Cat (Japanese: 彼女と彼女の猫, Hepburn: Kanojo to Kanojo no Neko^?), subtitled Their standing points, is an independent five-minute Japanese original video animation created and directed by Makoto Shinkai in 1999. It is about the relationship between a male cat and his female owner told from the cat's perspective. In 2016 it was adapted into a television anime series and a manga.

The story occurs over the span of a year. On a rainy Spring day, She finds Chobi outside and brings him home with her. Chobi falls in love with his owner because of her kindness and beauty. During the summer Chobi gets a girlfriend, Mimi. Mimi loves Chobi and wants to marry him, but he refuses because he is in love with Her. On an autumn day, She has a long conversation over the phone. When it is over She cries and becomes depressed. Chobi does not understand what the conversation was about or what happened but concludes that it was not her fault. He stands by Her and comforts her. Time goes on and it becomes winter. She continues going to work and moves on with her life. In the end, She and Chobi are happy with their life together and say in unison, "This world, I think we like it."

She and Her Cat was wrote and directed by Makoto Shinkai, who also provided the voice of the cat. He had the idea in 1997, but started it in 1998 while he was working as a graphic designer at Falcom, a video game company. Because he experimented with computer graphic animation during his work, he wanted to minimize complex procedures. So he opted to do a black and white film since a colored-one would use three times as much space in the computer and it would also make the process three times slower. He was working on a role-playing game, whose genre is known to have "very rich and detailed" surroundings, and this influenced the film's background details. He also took pictures of cityscapes and the streets, and used them as a basis for his hand-drawn animations. The composition of 3D scenes was done with Adobe After Effects and for other effects Shade, Illustrator and LightWave were used.