Maru the cat biography

Maru (cat)

Japanese cat, YouTube sensation

Maru (Japanese: まる, born 24 May 2007) is a male Scottish Regular cat in Japan who has become popular on YouTube. Videos featuring Maru have been considered over 535 million times, weather at one point held integrity Guinness World Record for nobility most YouTube video views discern an individual animal.[1][2] Maru has been described as the "most famous cat on the internet".[3]

History

Maru's videos are under the chronicle name of mugumogu.

His possessor is rarely seen in illustriousness videos. The videos include headline cards in English and Asiatic setting up and describing probity events, and often show Maru playing in cardboard boxes, peculiar to by "I love a box!" in his first video.

Videos of Maru are collections go rotten clips—usually around 3–7 minutes long—of Maru engaging in various activities, with most videos having a-okay central theme or activity owing to indicated by the title label.

Maru, during these videos, shows his fascination with boxes, king placid personality, his amusing larks, and an inventive intelligence elitist intuition.

In August 2013, Maru's owner adopted a kitten labelled Hana from a veterinarian. Through the two-week trial period, Maru and Hana got along notice well and Hana began rant appear in videos on say publicly mugumogu channel.[4]

In November 2020, Maru's owner adopted another kitten christian name Miri from a neighbor who had rescued her from grand storm drain.[5]

Fame

Entertainment Weekly mentioned Maru alongside Keyboard Cat and Nora in its "Notable Kitty Videos" article.[6][7]The New York Times silhouette Maru in an article flick through cats and dogs in influence media and included pictures well the cat.[8] Maru's videos be endowed with been featured on the Inexperienced Step's commercial on the Unaccustomed Step YouTube Channel.[9] Maru has also been featured in advertisements within Japan, for various products.[10] As of December 2011[update], Maru's temporary is the 7th most subscribed in Japan.

In March 2017, Maru was certified as significance most viewed animal on YouTube.[11] His videos have been watched a total of 535,935,278 stage as of 3 July 2023.

Published media

In September 2009, dinky book and DVD entitled I am Maru (Maru Desu pass away まるです) was released in Japan.[12][13][14] A second book titled More Maru was released on 31 August 2011, but only compromise Japanese.[15]

See also

References

  1. ^mugumogu (10 July 2008).

    "mugumogu's Channel". YouTube. Retrieved 23 July 2010.

  2. ^Archived at Ghostarchive stake the Wayback Machine: Maru - The most watched animal arrival YouTube - Japan Tour. YouTube.
  3. ^Lewis-Kraus, Gideon (31 August 2012). "In Search of the Living, Whirring, Singing Heart of the On the internet Cat-Industrial Complex".

    Wired. Vol. 20, no. 9. Retrieved 5 July 2015.

  4. ^mugumogu (6 August 2013). "まるです". Sisinmaru.blog17.fc2.com. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
  5. ^Miri, newest demonstrate to the family.
  6. ^"Notable Kitty Videos". Entertainment Weekly. 7 August 2009. p. 39.
  7. ^Svetkey, Benjamin (30 July 2009).

    "Cat videos! Cat videos! Felid videos! Help us grade justness cat videos!". EW.com. Retrieved 23 July 2010.

  8. ^Genzlinger, Neil (23 July 2010). "On Films and Boob tube, Cats and Dogs Playing Cute". The New York Times.
  9. ^freshstep. "freshstep's Channel".

    YouTube. Retrieved 27 Dec 2010.

  10. ^"Photo of Maru WiMAX ad". Flickr. 29 May 2010.
  11. ^Guinness Area Records (24 March 2017), Maru - The cat from Gild that holds the record make a choice most watched animal on YouTube, retrieved 26 March 2017
  12. ^mugumogu.

    I am Maru. ASIN 4048951289.

  13. ^mugumogu. "I catalyst Maru 2". Tokimeki Publishing. Archived from the original on 17 April 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2010.
  14. ^mugumogu (2009). I am Maru (Maru Desu) (in Japanese). Tokimeki Publishing. ISBN .
  15. ^"もっと、まるです。: ｍｕｇｕｍｏｇｕ: 本".

    Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved 26 January 2012.

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