The Crab and the Monkey

Night of Wishes (Yoru No Negai) is a 2024 Japanese Fantasy film based on the Manga series by Fujiko J Fujio (which in turn is based on the 1989 German book by Michael Ende).

Synopsis
Maurizia di Mauro and Jakob Krakel are both pets of Beelzbub Irrwitzer and his aunt Tyrannja Vamperl who are both secretly spies of the "High Council of Animals" but after they learned that Beelzbub and Tyrannja are going to concoct the Satanarchaeolidealcohellis Notion Potion, which would grant wishes to anyone who drinks from it and give them unimaginable powers for evil, Maurizia and Jakob, with the help of Silvester 1, must find a way to reverse it before their owners gets unimaginable powers.

Reception
While generally well liked by fans of the original book, this movie, along with the Manga series, faced backlash mainly focusing on Maurizio being a female cat called "Maurizia", even to the point were they said that Fujiko J. Fujio is pandering to the "wamen" and even gave him and Maurizia's voice actress Wasabi Mizuta death and sexist threats. It currently has a 7/10 in IMDB and a 79% in Rotten Tomatoes.

In response to the backlash, Makoto Tezuka defended Fujiko and Wasabi Mizuta by saying via Twitter "For everyone criticizing Fujiko for genderswaping Maurizio, I just want to say that I'm care about Gender Equality and Wasabi is a great actress and I think it's harsh to hate on something based on someone's gender also Feminisim is not about women, it's about Gender Rights and Anti-discrimination. If you are sending Wasabi and Fujiko sexist messages, then you are clearly a misogynist pretending to be a fan and you are clearly ignorant to the sexism that existed since the dawn of mankind".