the kicker is he was being asked if his work was coming from the approach of man vs. nature aka “THE ENVIRONMENT STRIKES BACK” but no. his literal words were along the lines of “sharks are not very scary if you are never in the water so i had to make them scarier, and now they have legs.”
So that feels-laden comic about the “ugly” cat getting adopted by the older gentleman is called Ojisama to Neko. As far as I can tell, Ojisama to Neko is an ongoing online comic that’s mostly posted to the artist’s twitter account, @sakurai_umi_. You can even see the original of the adoption comic.
A physical manga is going to be released on February 22nd, which is Cat Day in Japan. Until then (and until we get a translated version) you can see lots more of them here.
