A Man & His Cat, book 3, by Umi Sakurai. Square Enix Co Ltd

The third volume of this delightful series shows us more vignettes of Kanda and Fukumaru interacting: Kanda trying to read and Fukumaru laying on his book, Fukumaru demanding more food right after eating, Fukumaru trying to get Kanda’s food. And, then, a horrifying event! Fukumaru must go to the vet and, as the woman at the pet store says, get his cherries picked! Which proves to be more stressful to Kanda than to Fukumaru. We see more of Kanda’s past, and why he no longer performs on stage. There are some panels where the characters… over emote? Over react emotionally? that seemed kind of strange. Kanda’s lifelong friend, Kobayashi, turns out to be a deeper human being than he first seemed. And we see Fukumaru’s childhood, which about broke my heart. Then there is a kind of soap opera-ish interaction with one of Kanda’s old competitors- who also suddenly ends up with a cat. Altogether another (mostly) sweet story. The “mostly” part being the weird emotional over reacting.