I'm happy to be watching anime again after a slump so here is another 80s title.

What's Michael is broken down into two story styles. The first is Michael's daily life at the apartment building in which everything happens through tabby cat Michael's point of view or sometimes other animal characters, the other is an anthropomorphic series of stories of whatever Japan was into at the time featuring the animal cast in everything from a crime thriller to a simple baseball game, often with the punchline of cats failing to control their instincts. Each segment is about five minutes long through a 45 minute run time per episode, an hour if you include commercials.
Hold on, this sounds an awful lot like Garfield? Actually that's a surprisingly accurate reaction; Michael even has a cartoonist for an owner who dresses in the same colours and the fact that he's a ginger tabby creates some close comparisons to Garfield. The biggest difference is that the humour relies on Michael's reaction to his environment as a regular cat. Even when he does talk for the Anthro sections it's broken by the long running joke of Cat's lol instincts.
With a lengthy run time and very limited scenarios, What's Michael runs out of steam quickly making it a chore to finish.
It was never dubbed and I'll be surprised if it made DVD as all I could find were VHS recordings.
Final Verdict: It's basically Japanese Garfield that has more grounded rules while the Anthro shorts are standard Japanese animal anime series. It's long run time wears the series out fairly quick and with over 40 episodes you'll be lucky to finish five.