Webtoon is on a roll with hits lately, with beautiful and beloved manhwa headlining an expansive library of vertical scroll comics daily. One of the most impressive achievements and a testament to its keen appeal to a worldwide reader base is how new series emerge to get its hooks into readers who may have otherwise ignored entire genres. But with Want to See My Cat? Webtoon taps into a market of pet parents, reincarnation enthusiasts, and romance enjoyers as it follows the story of Chayeong Mun, sent ten years back in time to before she got married.
Want to See My Cat? boasts a savvy premise with typical self-aware quirks of the reincarnation genre, with this Webtoon series tossing the usual plot beats aside in favor of a wholesome one. Chaeyong Mun has a perfect life, with Ju Hong as her loving husband and an adorable assortment of cats and dogs the pair rescued together. All Chayeong wants after being resurrected is to reassemble this perfect life and rescue her pets again, and in Want to See My Cat? she retains her memories, complicating the surprisingly intriguing web of plot elements.
Want to See My Cat? Is a Fun Foil to Typical Reincarnation Manhwa
Proving Pet Parents Would Do Everything Again for Their Loved Ones
Within the first chapter of the Want to See My Cat? webtoon, Chayeong goes from having a perfectly comfortable life with her husband, Ju, to dying by saving an innocent bystander from being hit by a truck. It’s a typical isekai premise, but when she meets a god in her afterlife, she learns that the intent was to hit the student she saved and send her to another life. Chayeong uses this to bargain with the god for her old life back, with a twist: she’ll retain her memories but be sent back ten years to reassemble what she once had.
Want to See My Cat? mocks typical otome isekai and reincarnation tropes like getting rich, finding their first love, preventing a tragedy in the family, or getting revenge in favor of getting Chayeong’s life back and potentially gaming the stock market.
This means Chayeong also returns to her younger self, but it also means she must toil to restart her relationship with Ju while finding her cats, Guwol, Bokdeul, Bokhul, and her dogs, Bokman and Bokdeong. She shows passing interest in other reincarnation tropes like getting rich off the stock market, remembering that Ju could be an asset in this, but she is predominantly interested in rebuilding her life in Want to See My Cat?.
Romance and Feel-Good Webtoon Want to See My Cat? Is a Must-Read
By a Pet Lover, for Pet Lovers
Want to See My Cat? is a romance manhwa by artist/writer Samtae, who, as her Instagram indicates, is as much of a pet enthusiast as her webtoon’s characters. The story details the surprisingly complicated moving parts of one’s life, such as knowing how it occasionally feels like the stars must align to bring an adorable fur baby to their forever home or romancing one’s first love. Want to See My Cat? has occasionally painful moments, including near-misses as Chayeong initially struggles to get what she once lost. Still, soon, the story develops into a complicated and charming drama.
Part of a recent wave of exciting new reads to be localized on LINE Webtoon for readers in the West, including thrilling mystery manhwa with possible serial killer protagonists, Want to See My Cat? is a perfect feel-good manhwa. Given the approachable and sweet premise, the series would transfer well as a K-drama, but for now, with nearly two million reads and over 112,000 subscribers who would eagerly watch it brought to live-action. But for now, Want to See My Cat? is available on Webtoon with new chapters every Thursday.
Sources: Samtae on Instagram
