It’s a classic Hollywood story: an assassin on a job can’t go through with it when he meets his would-be victim, then the two form an unlikely friendship against their common enemy. It’s a pretty reliable trope, although it can be hard finding new ways to keep it fresh. But that not a problem for one JapaneseOpens in a new tab show, which had the greatest version of this story we’ve ever come across:Â the amazing tale of the friendship between a samurai and the adorable cat he refused to kill.Neko zamurai (translation Samurai Cat), which we only just learned about at RedditOpens in a new tab, was a Japanese TV mini-series that ran for two seasons from 2013 to 2015. It followed Madarame Kyutaro, known as Madara the Devil, a “humorless samuraiOpens in a new tab, nearly desperate for work” who agrees to kill Tomanojo, the cat “accused of possessing a man’s soul.” One problem, though: when he actually saw the adorable little kitten, his Katana became a Kan’t-ana, so he took Tomanojo home with him.
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