Is Neko no Ongaeshi good to watch with a friend?
One sitting. Neko no Ongaeshi (The Cat Returns) is a film from Summer 2002 by Studio Ghibli Inc.: 1 episodes, about 1.2 hours in total, finished, 7.72/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: one sitting. It is a film (about 1.2 hours), so the whole thing fits one evening — the easiest kind of anime to agree on. Rule: type MOVIE → one sitting.
This verdict comes from rules over the title's format, length and tags, not from a review — the rule that fired is named above.
The facts
- Type
- Film
- Episodes
- 1
- Episode length
- 75 min
- Total time
- about 1.2 hours — one evening
- First aired
- Summer 2002
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Studio Ghibli Inc.
- Score
- 7.72/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- adventure, manga adaptation, comedy, coming of age, urban fantasy, drama, family-friendly, fantasy, school, isekai, magic, shoujo, swordplay
Data from anime-offline-database (ODbL) as of 2026-07-04; the score is the median of the scores the anime listing sites give it, on a 1–10 scale. Also listed as: The Cat Returns the Favor.
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More like this: adventure · manga adaptation · comedy · coming of age · urban fantasy · drama · family-friendly · fantasy · school · isekai · magic · shoujo · swordplay.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Neko no Ongaeshi?
- About 1.2 hours — one sitting.
- How many episodes does Neko no Ongaeshi have?
- 1 episode of 75 min.
- Is Neko no Ongaeshi finished?
- Yes, Neko no Ongaeshi is finished (1 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Neko no Ongaeshi good for a group?
- Yes. Neko no Ongaeshi is tagged comedy, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen. It is a film, so nobody has to commit to a schedule.
- Where is Neko no Ongaeshi listed?
- Neko no Ongaeshi is on AniList (id 597) and MyAnimeList (id 597); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
Queue Up is a free tool: enter two AniList usernames and it ranks the anime you both want to watch, rolls one for tonight, runs a bracket to settle it and finds new anime that fit both of you. List data from AniList; title data: anime-offline-database (ODbL), dataset of 2026-07-04; page updated 2026-07-04. Not affiliated with AniList or MyAnimeList. Queue Up is a Somebody Decide program. How it works · Legal & privacy · All lists