Warriors is a series of OEL Manga based off of the book series of the same name. It's about groups of feral and stray cats as they live on their own.
The series tells the side-stories of various cats from the franchise. Some take place inbetween books, while others tell of things that happened offscreen or in the past.
Arcs
- Graystripe's Adventure
- The Lost Warrior
- Warrior's Refuge
- Warrior's Return
- Tigerstar and Sasha
- Into the Woods
- Escape from the Forest
- Return to the Clans
- Ravenpaw's Path
- Shattered Peace
- A Clan in Need
- The Heart of a Warrior
- Ravenpaw's Path
- SkyClan and the Stranger
- The Rescue
- Beyond the Code
- After the Flood
- Warrior Cats: The Rise of Scourge
This manga provides examples of:
- All Animals Are Domesticated: Zigzagged. Though Graystripe is friendlier than an actual feral cat, he still clearly isn't tame. He doesn't bond with his owners and just wants to get back to the forest.
- Animesque: Despite being labeled as manga, they're not Japanese.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing:
- Sasha meets some cats on a farm Pine shows her. They pretend to be nice, but as soon as Pine leaves, they attack Sasha and her kits.
- Willy and friends from Ravenpaw's Path.
- Drowning Unwanted Pets: In the second volume of the Warriors: Tigerstar and Sasha manga, Sasha notices a bag floating in the river that she draws the Captain's attention to; inside is a kitten that she nurses back to health and raises.
- Lighter and Softer: The books lack the large amount of Family-Unfriendly Violence and Family-Unfriendly Death from the source.
- A Pet into the Wild: In The Lost Warrior, Millie is a kittypet who falls for Graystripe and leaves to join ThunderClan with him.
- From Stray to Pet: In Graystripe's Adventure, Graystripe is taken by twolegs and forced to live as a kittypet. He hates it and ends up escaping with Millie's help.
- Shout-Out: The magazine Cat Fancy
makes an appearance in the first volume of the SkyClan manga, on page 82. - Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Being a feral cat, Graystripe isn't tame enough to be a good pet (at least without a lot of taming). He doesn't understand toys and won't let his owners touch him much. Graystripe runs off as soon as he can.
- Unsuccessful Pet Adoption: Graystripe's Adventure is centered around Graystripe being "kidnapped" by humans. He's a feral cat and doesn't take too kindly to being kept as a pet, so he ends up running away with the help of a pet named Millie. Graystripe convinces Millie to leave with him and become his mate in ThunderClan.
