Maru (Japanese: まる, born 24 May 2007) is a male Scottish Straight cat in Japan who has become popular on YouTube. Videos featuring Maru have been viewed over 535 million times, and at one point held the Guinness World Record for the most YouTube video views of an individual animal.

Maru （日语： まる，意為圈或圓，2007年5月24日－ [1]， 雄性），是 日本 的 达人 猫 [2]，在 影片分享網站 YouTube 上聞名於全世界，現今有在擔任 CM 演員以及 雜誌 的封面人物。 其影片在YouTube上的累計觀看次數已超過2億次 [3]，平均每條影片均錄得80萬次的觀看次數，不時於國際性的印刷及電視媒體都有報導 [4][5]，跟美國的 鍵盤貓 和 Nora 齊名 [6]。 其主人將Maru平時鑽入狹小的紙箱內歇息或玩耍的動作 錄影 後上傳至YouTube網站，其滑稽的動作往往都能讓觀眾 …

2025年1月29日 · Maru (まる, Japanese: circle or round) is a male Scottish Fold cat from Japan who has become well-known in the YouTube community for the videos of him playing in a childlike fashion, mostly lying around, jumping into small cardboard boxes and sliding across his owner's wooden floor. Maru was born on May 24th, 2007.

As of 22 September 2016, the nine-year-old Scottish Fold cat who loves climbing into boxes, had been watched a staggering total of 325,704,506 times.

2017年3月24日 · Since posting his first video in 2008, the mischievous feline has won the public over thanks to his love of cardboard boxes and his living room swing. Maru (which means "Round" in Japanese) now has over half a million subscribers, but “despite his fame, remains as aloof and as chilled out as ever,” says his owner.

2024年8月24日 · Maru cat, a Scottish Fold from Japan, gained fame for his love of squeezing into small boxes. His playful antics made him one of the most-watched cats on YouTube. What does Maru mean? What type of cat is Maru? Who owns Maru the cat?

2010年4月5日 · Remember the Japanese cat who has won millions of people's hearts on YouTube with his silly antics and obsession for boxes? Maru, a perk-eared Scottish Fold, has become an internet meme and even appeared on Ellen DeGeneres' show and various other TV shows in the US and many other countries.

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Maru (born May 24, 2007) is a male Scottish Straight cat in Japan who has become popular on YouTube. Videos featuring Maru have been viewed over 479 million times, and at one point held the Guinness World Record for the most YouTube video views of an individual animal.

2021年3月20日 · Whatever happened to Maru? Well, the pudgy Japanese Scottish Fold cat has his own Wikipedia page, which informs us that his owner, “mugumogo”, has adopted to additional cats: Hana in 2013 and Miri in 2020. Maru is now 13—a Senior Cat—and still loves to climb into boxes of any size.