I Am Maru: Famous YouTube Cat’s Book Gets American Release

The blogger owner of famous YouTube cat Maru is releasing an English language version of her I am Maru Photo book and DVD:

…here comes an American version of the book I Am Maru, by owner/personal videographer mugumogu, previously published in Japan. It’s due Aug. 23 from William Morrow ($15.99). The U.S. version also features “a special edition inside jacket poster.”

If you’re unfamiliar with Maru, here are a recent videos:

And an NHK news report about Maru:

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11 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - July 10, 2011 at 11:17 am

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http://nihonburp.com Michael Warren

Such a cute cat :3
Jack

‘A book’? C’mon now.

Katya514

I’d rather read a book about Maru than those offered by a lot of human celebrities. ^_^

Greg

As tiring as the whole Internet/cat thing can be at times, I’m totally cool with Maru.

And believe it or not, Jack, there are a ton of significantly crappier books published on a regular basis in Japan. I remember seeing mindless tarento daily blog entries compiled into books when I last checked the book store. And I can’t stress the “mindless” bit enough – entries like what they had for lunch that day.

Not that the Maru book isn’t very silly.
lovely

a true star
KMG

Maru: Great Cat or The Greatest Cat?

Discuss.
http://www.facebook.com/rallegretti Rob Allegretti

I don’t know if you can capture the awesomeness of Maru in a book…
http://forums.mangafox.com/members/42950-Getsu Getsu

Anyone bought the DVD? Is it worth it? Ie, not just a collection of Youtube vids?
Anonymous

He also did a CM for an internet provider it was really surprising to see him there~

Nou

Hah, yeah, last year I remember seeing it on the train to work.

Anonymous

Funny that’s where I saw it too.

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