A Fairy Tale to Watch

"The Cat Returns": an anime coming-of-age in which cats walk, mazes move, a fat white cat jumps into a bowl of catnip jelly, and a young girl learns to like herself just as she is.

A nod to "The Wizard of Oz," "The Prisoner," and other twentieth-century fairy tales.

Haru's mom is voiced by Kristen Sutherland, the mom from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."