If Cats Disappeared From The World By Genki Kaw... Jun 2026

Removing the concept of time itself, which ironically highlights how much of it he has wasted.

Deleting the stories that shaped his first love and his understanding of the world. If Cats Disappeared from the World by Genki Kaw...

Kawamura uses the feline species as a symbol of the things we cannot control or own. As the narrator famously muses, "Cats and humans have lived together for thousands of years, but it’s not that humans kept cats; it’s just that cats kindly agreed to hang out with humans." Themes of Grief and Gratitude Removing the concept of time itself, which ironically

Kawamura, who is also a film producer (known for The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Wolf Children ), has stated in interviews that the novel was born from his own fear of death after a close friend passed away young. He wondered: What would I be willing to lose to live just one more day? The answer, he discovered, was nothing. As the narrator famously muses, "Cats and humans