Neko is an animated short film set in Feudal Japan in the dream sequence and in an Alternate History Paris outside of the dream sequence. It stars a cat ninja who chases a samurai robot throughout a palace, village, and farm field to get their mouse back.
The short can be seen
on YouTube.
This Work Contains Examples of:
- All Just a Dream: The cat/robot chase scene turns out to be just a dream and the girl witnesses a destroyed vacuum cleaner bag with a cat beside it and toy mouse in mouth.
- Alternate History: This cartoon is set in a version of 1940s Paris in which WW2 and the Nazi-run Vichy France didn't occur for the "real" world scene.
- Ambiguous Gender: The cat is said to be this. The cat's gender isn't readily apparent to either male or female.
- Bilingual Bonus: "Neko" is the Japanese word for "cat."
- Ninja Cat: The main character is a stocky, dark grey cat who imagines themself as this in the dream sequence.
- Hollywood Medieval Japan: The dream sequence.
- Katanas Are Just Better: The ninja cat protagonist and samurai robot antagonist both wield cool katanas. The title's font show a silhouette of the cat with the tail forming an "o" and wielding a katana.
- Ninja: The main character in their dream sequence is a slim black cat wearing a eye mask.
- Ninja Fiction
- Samurai: The robot is a samurai that sucks in the cat's toy mouse. They turn out to be an ordinary non-sentient vacuum cleaner.
