Cat Wars

<p><strong>When animals go to war the world watches from the shadows.</strong></p><p> In <em>A Journey on All Fours</em> Ryusho Nemoto transforms a whimsical cat-and-dog rivalry into a sweeping allegory of loyalty survival and the strange innocence that lives even inside conflict.</p><p>The second volume of this cult-favorite Japanese indie series follows <strong>Nyajiro</strong> a former yakuza-cat trying to live a quiet life and <strong>Nyannu</strong> the sharp-tongued stray who refuses to leave his side. When political tensions between animal nations ignite into a proxy war for the human world the two are pulled into a battlefield far larger than themselves. Dogs march as soldiers cats act as spies birds deliver encrypted messages and the entire ecosystem becomes a living war map.</p><p>Yet beneath the humor and chaos the novel asks a disarming question:</p><p> <strong>If animals wage war like humans who among them will protect the small joys-food naps friendship-that make life worth fighting for?</strong></p><p>Blending <strong>satire adventure martial-arts action and quiet philosophical depth</strong> Nemoto crafts a story that is both wildly entertaining and unexpectedly moving. Fans of <em>Beastars</em> <em>Ginga Nagareboshi Gin</em> and allegorical war literature will find themselves at home in this world where courage is measured not by strength but by compassion.</p><p><strong>A fierce funny and heartfelt animal-war epic-from Japan's most imaginative independent storyteller.</strong></p>