A talent show hosted by cats doing increasingly absurd acts, played completely straight. The comedy lives in the gap between the precious framing and the chaos unfolding on stage, where a cat's "magic act" is exactly as competent as you'd expect from a cat. This is comfort television dressed up like a variety show, six episodes of pure premise executed with the kind of deadpan precision that makes silly things feel oddly profound.

Imagine a talent show where every contestant is a cat, each one stepping up to show off a special skill. Across six ONA episodes the acts include scratching, ventriloquism, magic, snake charming, a cannonball stunt and a black cat tied to bad luck. A weak performance earns a gong strike, and the gong itself is fashioned from the lid of a cat food tin. NekoNeko Gong Show is a light comedy made as a collaboration between artist Yousuke Kihara and studio dwarf.