Now that she's all moved in to the mysterious mansion, Flora discovers Creepy Cat's incredible secret! And what will become of Flora's dreams and loves? Nothing good, probably! Mayhem abounds in the second volume of this scary-cute Gothic comedy!
Woraya Chotikul, or Cotton Valent, was born in an ordinary village with normal villagers. With a boring childhood, Woraya looked for exciting things such as 90's horror manga. She had started drawing stick figures and undead creatures since preschool also enjoyed thinking up stories and wished to be a horror cartoonist someday. These days she is a freelance illustrator and draws comics during her free time. She loves drawing strange figures and creepy scenes. Woraya is the author of Glitch and the creator of Creepy Cat.
The gag manga adventures of Creepy Cat continue, with nary any character development for the main human characters to be had. There are more creepy cats though, and that alone remain the draw for this series.
I'll be honest, these books are so all over the place at times and the cohesion to the storyline is nearly nonexistent... but they're hilarious and adorable and I love them anyways. I'm loving seeing other cats like Creepy come into the plot!
Sophomore slump as the creator flounders around for a direction for the Goth girl and her supernatural cat. And that means the introduction of lots of new characters, most of whom are not as interesting or funny as the characters that were already present.
I'm thinking I might try one more volume if it comes to my library, but I won't miss the series if I don't see it again.
I am really enjoying this series! Flora is weird and she has weird friends. Oscar can be really creepy sometimes but we are getting more of his story. Flora is just so chill about things Creepy Cat does.
A paranoid goth girl named Flora moves into a decrepit mansion haunted by creepy supernatural shapeshifting cats. Whacky hijinks ensue.
This is a really goofy slapstick comedy series where each chapter is a single page joke with a ridiculous concept. The series pokes fun at classic gothic horror cliches and tropes with wholesome cat-themed humor. Some of the concepts and subplots revolving around the main characters aren't that good admittedly, but all the stuff revolving around the creepy cats just doing crazy cute stuff is great.
Overall I enjoyed the gothic ghost story aesthetic combined with the funny cat jokes.
I love that there is simultaneously a story and no story in this work. I feel like I’m bouncing around, expanding and shrinking, floating away and multiplying reading this… just like creepy cat!
I definitely think this volume had a more cohesive structure than the first one. There was definitely a better flow between the chapters. It started to feel like the author was genuinely trying to tell a story and not just like random snippets about Flora and Creepy.
This still definitely has a slice of life feel (which I enjoy). I just like my slice of life to still feel a bit like it’s purposeful looks into the lives of the characters and not just random ones.
Anyway.
I find it funny how Creepy is trying to get in the way of Oscar making romantic progress with Flora 😂 The interactions between those two are hilarious. Creepy always looks so pleased with himself.
I also liked having our first intro to Flora’s friends! I thought the whole aesthetic of the beach chapters were really pretty. I also loved how attached the three of them are to their weird little pets 😂💖
Creepy Cat can do no wrong. It's just such a fun time, super wholesome while still giving great goth vibes. This is kind of becoming a comfort read for me.
I love Flora’s style so much and I love creepy cat and all the cats. I think going to a gothic hotel like she did would be so fun. The only part I didn’t like was when the animals swallowed them to keep them from drowning it reminded me of furries or something😭
Three stars for the aesthetic and that it holds my reluctant reader daughter’s attention. Love the creepy cats and want to fill my home with plush versions of them! At the same time, the plot is lacking. Just cute creepy cats doing cute creepy things.
I still have no clue how I feel about this series. It’s weird. Doesn’t always have a good flow. But has some parts that are quite funny. I still find myself smiling at parts. I was at one point convinced I would not get the next one. But after finishing, I think I need to get at least one more. It’s so odd I just need to continue. At least for now.
Au rayon des mangas avec chats tant à la mode, s'il y en a un qui se démarque par son originalité et son ton, c'est bien Creepy Cat, atypique manga à la croisée avec l'univers de Tim Burton. Amateurs de drôles de lectures halloweenesques, il est pour vous !
Malgré un schéma classique qui se répète de tome en tome, il y a toujours un certain plaisir à retrouver les aventures de Creepy Cat et de sa maîtresse Flora. Sur le modèle des petites BD qu'on retrouvait hebdomadairement en magazine, le temps d'une page, l'autrice taïwanaise nous amuse beaucoup. Le ton est volontairement décalé et joue sur les codes connus du gothique et des maisons hantés. C'est savoureux.
Les aventures sont certes on ne peut plus banal dans ce quotidien digne de l'Etrange noël de Mister Jack, on suit Flora chez elle avec son chat envahissant, à la place avec ses amis qui ont aussi de drôles de créatures, au cours d'un rendez-vous avec le policier du coin, ou à sa porte quand de drôles d'olibrius viennent lui rendre visite, et à chaque fois Creepy Cat fait des siennes ! C'est ce comique de répétition simple mais efficace qui fait mouche à chaque fois et nous donne le sourire. Rien de compliqué mais un je ne sais quoi de vraiment amusant et décalé.
Il faut dire que les dessins de l'autrice ont vraiment un quelque chose de cartoonesque anguleux qui fonctionne bien. J'aime sa manière gothico-kawaï de peindre ce décor, ses personnages et créatures. C'est d'ailleurs un plaisir d'avoir sous les yeux ses planches en nuances de mauves et de gris grâce à leur impression toute en couleur.
Petit objet anecdotique, c'est également un très bon divertissement qui prête à rire et où on détourne avec saveur les codes du gothique et des maisons hantés pour mieux nous amuser du quotidien de quelqu'un qui vivrait avec l'une de ces créatures sans trop le comprendre. Décalé, Creepy Cat l'est assurément, amusant, également. Avis aux fans de chats qui cherchent un peu de nouveauté ;)
Flora moves into a mysterious mansion and finds it inhabited by the weirdest, creepiest cat she's ever met.
The positive: The art is great. With spindly-limbed characters reminiscent of a Tim Burton movie, it perfectly conveys the often-gloomy and foreboding (though nicely-illustrated) settings, and the contrast to the round blob that is Creepy Cat adds a layer of humor.
The Negative I just could not enjoy Creepy Cat. I mean the cat himself: the heart of the entire story is that Creepy Cat is super weird--growing, shrinking, cloning himself, eating inedible materials, flying--and also an obnoxious cat, while humans react, finding him strange but not "leave-the-haunted-mansion-and-its-haunted-cat-and-move-away" levels of strange.
You can definitely tell this originated as a webcomic, and I suspect I would have found it more tolerable in that form, instead of reading 200 pages between the two volumes of one-note, fairly repetitive plots, in a sitting.
The main cast is established fairly early on: Creepy Cat, his new owner and illustrator Flora, local policeman and continually-thwarted would-be suitor Oscar, and his only-slightly-less-weird cat Kokoro. There's a ghost that haunt Flora's mansion occasionally but who hasn't gotten any character development in the first two books, and a handful of other people who show up without enough characterization for me to remember.
And then the story is pretty much the same: Creepy Cat does something weird/creepy, Flora reacts to and either finds peace (Creepy Cat is huge and broke her bed!...Creepy Cat is now big enough to act as a nice soft bed himself) or finds a way to get back to the status quo. Oscar wants to spend time with and/or ask out Flora but gets thwarted by Creepy Cat. Creepy Cat does something extremely weird and the humans never notice.
Flora and Creepy Cat's adventures continue in Volume Two, with the introduction of several new - potential? - side arc characters! I do wish we had seen more of outside of the few little cameos they made! I think I prefer the one or two-page story arcs to the several page ones, the short, sweet, spooky just does it for me!
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Another fun Creepy Cat collection. This one follows much of the same slice-of-life style as the first, while slipping in a few more details about Creepy Cat and hinting that there's more to Flora and Oscar's past.
Fun to meet some of Flora's friends and see all new Creepy Cat antics. But oh my gosh I need a backstory on that ghost guy living in the mansion.
As with the first book, the artwork is great. Loved the cutesy, Gothic style. Definitely delivers on the humor, cuteness, and creepiness that I enjoyed in the first volume.
J’ai été ravie de retrouver le second tome de Creepy Cat. Je l’attendais même avec impatience et je n’ai pas été déçue. Le fil rouge est plus marqué que dans le premier. J’aime toujours autant le personnage de Flora. Elle est attachante, j’apprécie sa relation avec son chat, ils sont touchants ensemble. Et puis, elle est tellement belle. J’ai adoré ce second tome et j’attends le prochain avec impatience qui sort à la mi-mars. https://psylook.kimengumi.fr/2023/01/...
In my opinion the comic book is poorly drawn and the story is nearly unreadable. Obviously, this series has a lot of followers, but the style of art is far from what I enjoy because it is not detailed and lacks adherence to the traditional rules of perspective and picture organization, etc.
What is a deal killer for me isn’t the artwork or style of art, it is the story. It is nearly incomprehensible. I really can’t tell what is supposed to be going on.
It was a delightful reading experience that kept my attention until the very last page. It's clear why this enchanting novel has stood the test of time - it brings together seemingly disparate elements into something harmonious. From beginning to end, this remarkable literary work captivated me with its unique blend of gothic themes and adorable cat antics. The contrast between light and dark created a scene so beautiful one has to continue reading onward.