{"id":64363,"date":"2026-03-30T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=64363"},"modified":"2026-03-30T14:45:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T05:45:50","slug":"award-winning-animator-atsushi-wadas-vr-film-if-you-see-a-cat-coming-to-steam-in-april-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/award-winning-animator-atsushi-wadas-vr-film-if-you-see-a-cat-coming-to-steam-in-april-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Award-winning animator\u00a0Atsushi Wada\u2019s VR film If You See\u00a0a\u00a0Cat\u00a0coming to steam in April 2026\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On March 27, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/4458990\/IF_YOU_SEE_A_CAT\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Steam page<\/a>&nbsp;for&nbsp;award-winning animator&nbsp;Atsushi Wada\u2019s VR film&nbsp;<strong>If You See&nbsp;A&nbsp;Cat<\/strong>&nbsp;went live. Developed by Kodansha and published by Komodo, the 37-minute&nbsp;movie combines hand-crafted animation, voice performances, and&nbsp;a&nbsp;unique VR setting to tell a personal story about loss and mental illness.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"If You See a Cat - Trailer | IFFR 2026\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mj7uoqBB7g8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If You See&nbsp;A&nbsp;Cat revolves around Naoki, a young boy who claims to&nbsp;still&nbsp;be able to see his cat&nbsp;Nyago&nbsp;even after its death.&nbsp;Concerned for her son\u2019s mental health, Naoki\u2019s mother takes him to a psychiatric hospital, where he is diagnosed with a mental illness because he sees cats that&nbsp;aren\u2019t&nbsp;there. Though Naoki is \u201ccured\u201d and released three months later, he finds himself hollow&nbsp;inside&nbsp;and&nbsp;is&nbsp;unable to connect with others. What follows&nbsp;is&nbsp;a series of small events that&nbsp;allow Naoki to slowly reconnect with his mother and friends, and to eventually come to terms with&nbsp;Nyago\u2019s&nbsp;passing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though Naoki is the protagonist of the story, you view it through the eyes of&nbsp;Nyago, his deceased cat.&nbsp;Given&nbsp;Nyago\u2019s&nbsp;connection to Naoki and the fact that others cannot&nbsp;perceive&nbsp;them, you&nbsp;see things through a unique perspective, one that cannot be experienced by&nbsp;the human&nbsp;characters&nbsp;nor fully understood by&nbsp;Nyago.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Featuring voice performances in Japanese and English, as well as Simplified and Traditional Chinese subtitles, If You See A Cat delves into the state of Japan\u2019s mental health care system, which&nbsp;faces challenges&nbsp;related to&nbsp;historical&nbsp;circumstances, the&nbsp;inherent&nbsp;complexity of mental health treatment, as well as structural&nbsp;issues&nbsp;within the system.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If You See&nbsp;A&nbsp;Cat is set to release in April for&nbsp;PC&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/4458990\/IF_YOU_SEE_A_CAT\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Steam<\/a>).&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published by Kodansha, Atsushi Wada&#8217;s If You See\u00a0a\u00a0Cat explores, grief and mental health through the story of a boy who hallucinates a cat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":64370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-64363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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