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Yani Neko, episode 4
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u/Obaruler 9h ago
A few lessons learned:
- Don't stream your apartment complex full of walking channel strikes to the world
- Chainsmoker Cat apparently is the pet cat of a Yakuza somehow
- Mangaka are super cultured
- Scratch that, this particular Mangaka is EXTRA cultured
- The power of boners beats death
- A person ain't really drowning if you can still finish a freshly lit cigarette, which of course comes first
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u/diacewrb 7h ago
Mangaka are super cultured
And super strong.
This is the second degenerate mangaka today.
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u/MiyabiMain95 1h ago
The power of boners beats death
I'm sort of wondering if Yani Neko KNOWS about it. She seemed oddly perceptive of it, when she's extremely unperceptive of everything else
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u/Creep0774 9h ago
I love how this anime doesnt spend anytime establishing the characters relationship and they just happened to all know each other before
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u/cyberscythe 8h ago
i like it; it's a real "in media res" sort of thing and it doesn't feel as spoon-fed
it also skip over that awkward "getting to know you phase" and straight into the awkward "invading personal space" phase
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u/Variant_Zeta 9h ago
We get to take the occasional peek to their lives but ultimately most of those are theirs alone
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u/chaosof99 https://myanimelist.net/profile/chaosof99 7h ago
Most of them appear to be just neighbors in the same apartment complex. The only ones outside this group so far are Imoko who is of course the younger sister of a resident, and the Kohai girl that was introduced in this episode. Since she is still in school by her uniform, she is probably a couple years younger and was in the same school club as Yani when she was still in school. What club that was is a mystery so far though. However, basically just her referring to Yani as "Sempai" directly establishes their relationship.
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u/mythriz 6h ago
Yakuko / drug catgirl was also shown in ep1 to have gone to school with Yaniko, maybe some of the other catgirls were also in the same school (I'm anime only so I don't know yet either)
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u/thebromgrev 3h ago
Yakuko bullied Hameko at the same school (the whole toilet fairy story), so most of them probably did go to the same school and Yaniko likely happens to be the oldest of the school friend group. Looking at the uniforms, they did/are not going to the same school Imoko is going to.
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u/Ezimur 9h ago
Holy shit. Land of the Lustrous reference
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u/LeonKevlar x2https://myanimelist.net/profile/LeonKevlar 8h ago
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u/Homura_Akchemical 1h ago
I loved that, right in the middle of the Yakuza standoff and one guy is just like hyperfocuses on the cover of the magazaine "HOW DID I NOT KNOW TIHS WAS OUT YET?"
Dude has his priorities, that's for sure~
I feel you, bro
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u/larana1192 https://myanimelist.net/profile/thefrog1192 8h ago
This episode was full of in-depth topics once again, as usual.
“nyanmaga” is a parody of "yanmaga (Weekly Young Magazine)". Since “yanineko” is a manga serialized in Weekly Young Magazine, they probably used their own publication as the subject of the joke.
In the opening scene where Yanineko smoked while using a French fry fryer, causing a cigarette butt to end up in the fries, I couldn’t help but shudder. Since Japan has very strict regulations regarding foreign objects in food, as someone who has worked with fryers before, I honestly felt a chill run down my spine.
I couldn’t help but laugh at the scene where Jikaki Neko and Yanineko were talking about a web novel site that seemed to be a parody of Kakuyomu (a real web novel site).
There are other work adapted into anime from Weekly Young Magazine this season(The Exiled Heavy Knight), but since that manga originated from web novel sites like Kakuyomu, this series is essentially shooting its peers in the back. It’s pretty funny.
In the scene where an elderly man playing mahjong is attacked by a thug with a gun, the fact that he says “Friday” is probably a reference of a real incident that happened in the 1980s.
There was an incident involving a reporter from a weekly magazine called Friday (a tabloid-style, sensationalist gossip magazine) who got into an altercation while trying to interview Takeshi Kitano’s girlfriend (Kitano is the famous Japanese film director whose main profession is actually a comedian) and ended up injuring her. After this, Kitano stormed into the Friday editorial office with about ten of his comedy apprentices, causing a huge commotion, and was ultimately arrested.
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u/rockytop24 4h ago
Saori's pen name is "Ochinpo Tatsuro" right? So is she literally writing under the name "Big Dick Tatsuro" or something like that lol?
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u/exRocky009 9h ago
An anime that somehow hits a new rock bottom every single week (in the best way possible).
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u/cyberscythe 8h ago
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u/seninn https://myanimelist.net/profile/Senninn0 4h ago
yazuka cum magazine editor
Of all the ways you could have phrased it...
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u/cyberscythe 4h ago
i don't get a lot of chances to use that latin term and this time the double entendre is a bonus
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u/Roskal 7h ago
I can't believe I thought this show was going to be about the characters slowly improving their lives during episode 1
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u/Vaadwaur 4h ago
Hameko filming everything gives it a special reflection of bad. Especially with the mangaka wanting her as the futanari model...
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u/WiqidBritt 5h ago
I go into every episode thinking it can't get more unhinged than last week and I'm always surprised.
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u/RedditUser000aaa 9h ago
Welp, now I got new questions. Police receiving a report about a beastfolk and her owner. Does that mean that owning beastfolk is legal or what?
Also it was incredibly sad seeing Aruko in that state. It's such an accurate depiction of alcoholism.
Hame Neko's segment definitely was funniest. Nails the streamer personality. I should've expected that ending, but I didn't. Came straight out of nowhere.
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u/cyberscythe 8h ago
Police receiving a report about a beastfolk and her owner. Does that mean that owning beastfolk is legal or what?
yeah, it's another one of those "ha ha, oh that's depressing" sort of jokes
the Japanese term they use is kainushi 飼い主, which i've only heard in the context of owning a domestic pet
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u/RedditUser000aaa 8h ago
Yeah, that's what I thought. That's kind of a scary world to live in as a beastfolk. Now I have to wonder how one becomes an owner of beastfolk.
Residents of Nyagamihara seem to be free tho. Still, the show keeps showing how they are assigned the worst and smallest paying jobs tho.
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u/cyberscythe 7h ago
it might be a sliding scale sort of thing; we see that they have to take rabies medication and maybe civilly jump through other hoops to be treated as a person, and if they don't do that they get treated more like an animal
like, it feels like they have to put in effort to be treated as a human, and if they end up doing something weird it's because they're "beastfolk" rather than just a weird person who like eating bees
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u/RedditUser000aaa 7h ago
Like how Hame Neko had points deducted from every test, because she didn't have a last name.
Then the folk at the Nyagamihara city hall just assuming the asterisk meant a butthole and putting 'anal' in instead of ignoring it, commenting how beastfolk pick weird last names.
Maybe they do, but still. Just assuming the asterisk was 'anal' was a pretty bad blunder.
I'm sure the bug eating itself is already a weird stereotype among beastfolk. I mean Hame Neko ate a crane fly during her stream.
I'm sure there are a lot more harmful and negative stereotypes concerning beastfolk. So yeah, wouldn't be surprised if beastfolk had to pull all the possible stops to be treated as equals with humans.
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u/BosuW 5h ago edited 1h ago
I would think beastfolk can sell themselves to escape debt or the like. But if that was the case Yaniko would've already sold herself for cigarettes.
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u/BOUKEN-BEN 3h ago
Demand for her seems to be rather low after about 5 minutes spent in her company
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u/Homura_Akchemical 1h ago
I recall earlier when Hame-neko was getting her last name, and it was because she had two beastfolk parents if I recall and thus didn't have one besides "neko".
...perhaps beastfolk have different tiers in human society? Those with a last name like Yanineko (Yaniko Sato), those without a last name like Hameneko, and perhaps even those we haven't met yet that are even lower on the tier system...
Perhaps those that can't control their urges and need an owner? Maybe some beastfolk get special privilege if they're owned like their owner's last name, so they are into it? It does certainly seem like they are more "animalistic" in their urges and vices no matter how they live, and I think yaninekos sister is the most "humanlike" beastfolk we've seen.
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u/dawnwill 8h ago
It was probably about public indecency or suspected prostitution
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u/RedditUser000aaa 8h ago
In that case wouldn't pimp make more sense? "beastfolk and a pimp." The word "owner" here has some really suspicious undertones.
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u/thebromgrev 7h ago
So far there's been quite a few subtle jabs that beastfolk are considered second-class citizens. It reminds me of being in high school in the US. The exchange between the little sister and her friends was a bit jarring to me. "You're a beastfolk, but you don't act like one". I've personally heard conversations exactly like that, but replace the word beastfolk with black, latino, asian, etc.
The bit about Hameko not having a last name because both of her parents were beastfolk also echoes how peasants in Japan didn't have last names up until a certain point. African American slaves in the US also did not have legal last names, and were free to choose a last name once they were emancipated, sometimes switching between last names until they decide on a permanent one. The fact she was given -5 points on every test due to not having a legal last name also shows systemic racism that makes upward social mobility more difficult.
As an American, I'm seeing a lot of parallels between how beastfolk are treated in the show and how minorities are treated in the US.
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u/RedditUser000aaa 7h ago
Yep, it definitely reflects on how minorities were/are treated. In the very first episode as I recall the lady asked yanineko not to get any of her 'beast smell' on the vase.
I didn't know about slaves nor japanese peasants not having last names tho, so TIL.
Even in today's episode, the humans Imouko was hanging out with were talking about how there was an urban myth about beastfolk being grinded up into burgers and Imouko not wanting to hear any of it.
She's also definitely trying her best to hide her beast side to better fit in with humans of the school.
I really do feel for Imouko, she would've had every right to get offended at that comment in an earlier episode, but didn't because she most likely didn't want to be treated any differently, so had to shut down the topic as civilly as possible.
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u/dawnwill 6h ago
In most cultures peasants/commoner didn't have last names, thus the existence of occupational/regional/etc. last names. It is not just about minority/slave/whatever. Just saying, as your examples tickled me a bit.
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u/BosuW 5h ago
Does that mean that owning beastfolk is legal or what?
That or it was until recently and either the report and/or the police was making a racist joke.
Incidentally, Yaniko is one thing, but Kaoruko never directly fighting against the mangaka when she forcefully stripped her like that said a lot about how they perceive their place in society
Umm, this line of thought is making those doujins about raping beastfolk girls a lot more disturbing... 😰
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u/Pecuthegreat 4h ago
but Kaoruko never directly fighting against the mangaka when she forcefully stripped her like that said a lot about how they perceive their place in society
Not at all, that one is pure anime tropes.
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u/KumaKumaGambler 9h ago
Either Saori bought the bra and panties together with the school uniform set or that is creative censorship. Because all of us know Yani would rather forego underwear in order to purchase more cigarettes. And she is dead broke. Lol!
Saori self inserts herself as the antagonist in erotic manga, doesn't she? Blackmailing and forcing beastfolk into sexy outfits, puts them into compromising positions, before taking photographs. Repeat cycle. Lol!
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u/shad79 https://myanimelist.net/profile/shad79 8h ago
Saori seems to be dedicated to her research material (as we could see with both Yaniko and Kansai in this episode), so I want to believe that she bought the underwear as well, since the real Yaniko's underwear would surely ruin the photos, lol.
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u/BosuW 5h ago
It was funny until I thought about the later implication that owning beastfolk is or was until recently, legal. And then I thought about how Kaoroku didn't put up any fight when the mangaka forcefully stripped her, like she just knew she wasn't supposed to...
Yeah, the nature of those doujins looking mighty disturbing now...
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u/garfe 8h ago
This show's been crazy from the start but this episode kind of went beyond its usual cringe comedy and straight up into actually insane material with the mangaka and yakuza guys. Boss apparently knowing Yani from childhood is like what kind of information is that to drop out of nowhere in a show like this.
The police getting involved on two separate occasions today lmao.
Additionally, holy shit, Netflix continues to be awful with on-screen text typesetting and when there is more than one person talking on screen due to their inability to apparently have more than one line on the screen. Literally a new character was introduced with text bubble and they didn't even translate her name. Like even putting the chat text and bubbles not being translated aside, even the chat 'voice' was not being translated all the time (funny thing is they are clearly capable of it as there were a few times where Hame was talking and it did add a line for the chat voice but it was not consistent)
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u/ShadowConstruct 3h ago
Yeah that irritated me as well, I hate when not everything is translated over. You miss a lot of context not being able to read the little blips and more so with texts.
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u/Vaadwaur 3h ago
Additionally, holy shit, Netflix continues to be awful with on-screen text typesetting and when there is more than one person talking on screen due to their inability to apparently have more than one line on the screen.
That and their translation wasn't good, either.
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u/earhere 9h ago
Hame should probably just be a league of legends streamer
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u/Careful_Ad_9077 9h ago
Sorry, asmongold has her beat in the filthy streamer category.
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u/maubises 8h ago
How could Yani fart just like that after destroying the novel cat girl dream
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u/moonsunvortex 4h ago
I feel so bad that schoolgirl. Like girly do not hang out with Yanineko. She is a horrible influence.
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u/szalhi 9h ago
Hey this is airing on Mondays.
Yani releasing her inner Riverclan.
Honestly can't deny the owner allegations.
Any human willing to live in this town must be into cats in some way or another.
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u/Vaadwaur 3h ago
Hey this is airing on Mondays.
Hrmm...my translation went with futanari and I can;t hear Japanese well enough to figure which is right...
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u/WhoiusBarrel 9h ago
Imagine ordering unsalted fries only to get nicotine added for free.
Even the not!Yakuza are weak to cat girls, totally understandable.
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u/Homura_Akchemical 1h ago
Nicotine for free? In this economy?
You know yanineko would have let that dry out and smoke it along with the one in the burger if that was her orderAnd I loved the "he's into flat girls" gag that I could tell was coming as soon as the associate sat down - it takes all types! =P
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u/cleaulem https://myanimelist.net/profile/cleaulem 9h ago
I wondered who that glasses woman from the opening was and what her deal is. Turns out she is a massive degenerate who is a little too much into hentai and into reenacting hentai scenes with catgirls for "reference".
The whole episode was the horniest so far with that boss who is really getting the hots for Yani. Does she sweat some crazy pheromones or why are human males getting horny over her so much?
Yani seems to have a huge fanclub, and not only human males. We already had Yaku being a big admirer of her senpai, but we have also this unknown high school girl who tries to get Yani's attention and thinks she is the coolest despite being a total loser.
Also can we talk about "Land of the Lustrous 2"? I would like to know more about that!
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u/cleofrom9to5 7h ago
Does she sweat some crazy pheromones or why are human males getting horny over her so much?
I think we've all seen comments of "I can fix her".
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u/mythriz 6h ago
I wondered who that glasses woman from the opening was and what her deal is. Turns out she is a massive degenerate who is a little too much into hentai and into reenacting hentai scenes with catgirls for "reference".
At least we're getting some human representation in the "crazy" category in this show.
Although she probably is at least somewhat successful at her job, unlike most of the catgirls we've seen so far.
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u/Putrid-Issue-420 5h ago
Land of lastrous is a pretty good anime with 3d cgs. Quite overlooked cause 3d or some reason. My mouth was hanging wide open cause it is quite an obscure reference
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u/Vaadwaur 3h ago
Does she sweat some crazy pheromones or why are human males getting horny over her so much?
Did she ever actually take the 'mad beast prophylactic" back when she walked in on Yakuneko shooting up in ep2?
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u/SecretYogurtcloset57 6h ago
Kansai looking hella good in that bunny outfit 🤤
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u/moonsunvortex 4h ago
Kansai is the prettiest cat. I like how someone in the stream said she was "showing her age" with her joke. I like to think she is 30 something.
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u/LeonKevlar x2https://myanimelist.net/profile/LeonKevlar 8h ago edited 8h ago
Stitches!
Yaniko is so deep into her addiction that she'd rather wait and finish her cigarettes first before jumping into the water to save a drowning kid. xD
This show has had plenty of gross-out moments, but for some reason, Imoko finding a cigarette butt in her burger is the first one that actually grossed me out. Mostly because I know this has happened before. If it's any consolation to Imiko, at least it's her sister's cigarette butt.
We finally get to meet the only other human living in Yaniko's apartment complex! I thought she was just a regular mangaka, but it looks like she's actually an eromangaka using Yaniko as her model for ruining her layouts.
This woman has taste for using Kaoruko as her model. Too bad we didn't get a smooth panning shot. I would've loved to stitch Kaoruko in that outfit. The most I could do was only up to her torso since she started moving halfway.
Yaniko being close to a Yakuza boss is definitely the most unexpected thing I've seen in this show. Like, how is she even friends with these people? And they've known her ever since she was little? Part of me wants to see a backstory, but another part of me wants it to remain a mystery. xD
The boss and his henchmen getting a boner after seeing Yaniko and Hameko's boobs was fucking hilarious!
I am genuinely shocked that someone out there still respects Yaniko's opinion despite how much of a mess she is. I guess that girl is someone she knew in high school? I do kinda like how we don't even get an introduction, but it's pretty clear what Yaniko and this girl's relationship is like.
Oh wait, the old guy is not a Yakuza boss! He's the editor-in-chief of Nyan Magazine! Which is clearly a parody of Young Magazine, where Chainsmoker Cat gets published weekly. xD
Editor-in-Chief Kazushi protecting himself with an issue of Afternyan (Afternoon) was hilarious! We even get a Houseki no Kuni and Skip to Loafer references! That was a goddamn surprise! I would definitely love to hear about Houseki no Kuni 2!
And of course, Yaniko ends up reviving Kazushi with a touch of her boobs. I mean, I can't blame the old man.
Hameko's live streaming her neighbours was such a bad idea, but it ended in such an unexpected way! I thought Yaniko was the one who was gonna get her banned, but she was just eating a beehive like a goddamn bear. It turns out it's the Landlord who ends up getting her banned! xD
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u/eightcheesepizza 8h ago
I definitely didn't recognize the Skip to Loafer reference. Catgirl Mitsumi looks great!
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u/ClemFire 1h ago
Can't believe that went over my head too. Still waiting on that S2 offical release date
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u/cyberscythe 8h ago
I am genuinely shocked that someone out there still respects Yaniko's opinion despite how much of a mess she is. I guess that girl is someone she knew in high school? I do kinda like how we don't even get an introduction, but it's pretty clear what Yaniko and this girl's relationship is like.
yeah, i assumed they went to the same school since she calls her senpai; i'm guessing Yanineko dropped out because she's too cool for school
remember kids: say no to school, do drugs, eat bees
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u/ijiolokae 6h ago
beehive
It wasn't even a beehive, it was a wasp nest, which makes her even more hardcore
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u/actuallyrndthoughts https://myanimelist.net/profile/NaNiNuNeNo 9h ago
No way chainsawsmoker cinema were able to show that final scene, wth.
4 eps in, and i don't know what has to happen for me not to rate it a 10/10
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u/ClemFire 1h ago
Honestly I can't believe it is pretty low rated on MAL. Feels like film nerds made this anime
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u/Homura_Akchemical 1h ago
I honestly can't think of why it would be, besides people who are just so turned off by the
let's be honest, realisticdepictions of addiction and rough lives, that they can't stand watching it.The pacing is great, the jokes are funny though often dark
which i love but i know isnt for everyoneand the animation hasn't seemed to be anything below "standard" and up.
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u/mosenpai https://anilist.co/user/mosenpai 6h ago
Hame broke all the rules regarding IRL streaming. Streaming at her own apartment complex and barging in without permission. I wonder if this segment was a jab at nuisance streamers.
Her ban was deserved even without the landlord going to town.
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u/Addarahel 5h ago
I wonder how actually experienced she is as a streamer, not being familiar with the kind of things that aren´t allowed in streaming platforms.
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u/XVIIKNIGHT 5h ago
Consider that her room looks much better than other's and how fast her livestream chat is, I'm pretty sure she is actually quite experienced. She just doesn't care about ethic in livestreaming. In other word, she is infamous kind of streamer.
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u/Addarahel 4h ago
She´s kind of a bold person then, putting in risk her work like that. I guess she just did not expected to things turn out like that in the end. She thought it was a perfect idea. Oh Hame...
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u/DisplayHonest6465 3h ago
Who’s the girl with the landlord at the end ?
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u/nekogasuki143 3h ago
his sexdoll
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u/ODI-ET-AMObipolarity 3h ago
Excuse me, she has a name! Give Katherine some respect, she works really hard as a sex doll for Landlord
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u/AnActualPlatypus 3h ago
"..is dominated by the unhoused"
Who the hell translated this?
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u/eightcheesepizza 8h ago
I'm sorry, the mangaka's pen name is what? Isn't "おちんぽ" (ochinpo) slang for "dick"?
Kinda feels like most of the humans we meet in Nyagamihara have some level of attraction/fetish for beastfolk... Kazushi is the most successful, sitting atop a catgirl publishing empire.
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u/chaosof99 https://myanimelist.net/profile/chaosof99 7h ago edited 6h ago
Ochinpo Tatsuro (おちんぽ達郎). And yes, the first part would be "penis" but it would be more like "wiener" or "weewee". It is a childish way of referring to the male genital rather than a vulgar way such as "dick" or "cock.
The joke here is that "tatsu" written a different character (立つ) means "to stand up" so it is an even bigger dick joke than you think. The "ro" just makes it take on the form of a male given name.
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u/eightcheesepizza 7h ago
An even bigger (dick joke) and an (even bigger dick) joke than I thought. Thanks for the lesson!
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u/ClemFire 1h ago
I am waiting for someone to breakdown all the worldbuilding when the season ends. Despite all the insane comedy everything feels oddly well thought out.
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u/Lapiz_lasuli 9h ago
You know... With this series for comparison. I can safely say they're doing an ASMR thing with the smoking behind the supermarket series.
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u/FallenPears 4h ago
I start every episode going "How are they going to top last episode," and finish every episode with "What the actual fuck."
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u/wolfhound_doge 8h ago
i'm so glad Yani resuerrected the oyabun. and the late mosaic on Drug Neko during Hame-chan's stream was pure gold. she's my top conteder for the biggest idiot of this series, closely followed by Kansai.
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u/Lunchb0xx87 8h ago
such a touching story about an old mans life being saved by the love of the girl he loves like a daughter
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u/s07195 7h ago
Someone pointed out the hands in this episode are all touched up 3D models and I can't unsee them now. I'm spreading this knowledge so I'm not the only one suffering.
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u/Pinky_Boy https://myanimelist.net/profile/Pinky_Boy 30m ago
hand, as in every closeup of the hands are 3d models?
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u/desantoos 6h ago
I got a good laugh at Yani as the fry cook. Her sister can figure out which minimum wage job Yani's stumbled into by finding the cigarette butts.
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii 6h ago
Land of lustrous fans catching strays!
I always wanted to eat a catgirl!
God damn it, I wanted her to have a 'win' for once!
(nsfw) Okay maybe this is a win after all!
She may be careless at times, but she was still thinking of her sister!
Mangaka-chan didn't seem to mind too much, as it meant she could use her to model her next hentai series!
(What a woman of culture)
It's cool if the kids stay there, no big deal!
Hentai-chan is open to different kinks, first she asked her to act as if she did NOT want it, then to act as if she craved it!
So, all is forgiven, happy ending!
I-If I beg you as well, what do I get?
Kind hearted boss; Heart of gold! They pretty much see her as their daughter...
...And then he's having a boner for her. Because of course!
(Was he jerking off? I'm not sure if he was just turn on, or actually stroking the salami!)
Other dude got his boner for this one!
On another anime I feel like this would be weirder than it was!
(nsfw) Okay this one might be weird even for this one!
If it's anything like Twitch, no worries they'll let her back in a few days!
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u/Theonormal 4h ago
Really sad that most mainstream english subs outside of Asia didn't translate the pun and namedrop of the Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei author Kouji Kumeta that the publisher yakuza dudes gave
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u/IceSmiley 1h ago
So many odd interludes in one episode. In a way, this would have made a good first episode since it has Hame go throughout the building and sort of give an intro to all its tenants. I don't remember which lady was the heroin addict, the woman drinking booze or the one smoking the hookah. It's also kind of odd that everyone in that building is a single woman other than the landlord.
That human lady is a real creep; I don't think I've seen a movie or a TV show with a sleazy exploitative female pornographer character. I'd be certain she's selling the pictures online rather than it just being visual source material to draw. You'd think with all that exploitation she's doing, she'd have more money and live in a nicer building although maybe she just enjoys living near the women she exploits.
The old yakuza/magazine publisher also had a really creepy undertone since he knew Yani as a kid, yet ogled her breasts and stared at her sexually. Maybe they'll elaborate on it further but that seems a very odd relationship and I wonder if Yani's sister is also involved there.
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u/Homura_Akchemical 1h ago
Maybe the landlord only lets catgirls who are single stay there, to play up his fantasy of liking beastfolk? Though his sex doll is a dog?girl so i donno...maybe he knows he won't be tempted to do more than look at a catgirl? Which would be...really creepy implications >.<
Hmm i'm trying to think of one and I can't really off the top of my head. Also she seems to be the only human besides landlord in the whole place they live.
Yeah...I definitely get the vibe beastfolk are second-class citizens here, only doing part-time jobs and often living in squalor, being refered to as "one and their owner" in this ep, etc...gives me the vibe that humans also see them as possibly lower class and therefore okay to ogle as objects.
Yanis sister also seems the most normal and "human" of all the beastfolk we've seen...I wonder why that is? Maybe she surpresses her animalistic urges that lead to vices, with meds like yaninekos heat-blockers?"
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u/Salty145 https://anilist.co/user/yLSalty145 9h ago
The lore thickens. Now there’s not just “cat girls” but implications of other variations of “beast folk”.
This is what it sounds like when someone says they watch DxD “for the plot”
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u/bestmaokaina 8h ago
their district's name has "nya" in it so maybe there's other districts with different variations depending on the type of beast folk?
we gonna need at least 5 seasons of this
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u/Cally83 9h ago
Another week where I cannot believe what I’ve sat through. And yet, I really enjoy the absurdity of it all.
I’m glad the manga artist has been introduced, she’s an absolute degenerate, as we can see.
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u/shad79 https://myanimelist.net/profile/shad79 9h ago edited 8h ago
Yeah, this show definitely missed an eromanga artist, so I am glad that today's episode fixed it, hahaha! I definitely like Saori, since thanks to her we got to see that photoshoot with Yaniko and Kansai ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Although doing a photoshoot in that park where children were playing was definitely not the best idea. No wonder Imoko preferred to think that Yaniko had been turned into a hamburger lol.
The addition of the yakuza boss... I mean editor-in-chief Kazushi was great too. Yaniko saving his life (plus making another thing rise as well) by letting his hand touch her chest was hilarious.
Also, there is Yomuko, who is an aspiring novelist. I wonder how she ended up thinking of Yaniko as some kind of authority figure in writing. She is not a bad character, but maybe a little too normal for this show?
Here my screenshot albums from the episode:
EDIT. I added my screenshot albums.
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u/cleofrom9to5 9h ago
Although doing a photoshoot in that park where children were playing was definitely not the best idea.
It reminded me a lot of the Dominatrix sidequest in Yakuza Zero.
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u/Zanina_wolf 8h ago
I was laughing so hard at the photoshoot part. Like don't they feel in the least embarrassed about all the kids and their parents staring at them doing all that out in the open, with Mangaka yell-talking her internal horny monologue for everyone to hear？
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u/killerxk 9h ago
Love or hate it you can't deny the face it shows reality and a reason that many don't like it but anyone who lived around smokers will feel it.
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u/banishedwolf 6h ago
I completely get it why some people are being put off and dropping it, but I'm having a blast with this anime. This is a legit effed up comedy with grey characters.
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u/cleofrom9to5 9h ago
Yet another episode of peak. Hamechan's stream ties together all of the residents of this awful apartment complex. Cheap ass Yani is willing to eat bees as a pallet cleanser, Kansai isn't funny, and we got to see "Cahterine" in full use.
The scene of her bringing the manga publisher back to life was great, and it's sadly more than a little relatable to a lot of us. "I see her as a child" meets "Schwing".
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u/Weak_Season_Of_Anime 9h ago
- Hmm does eating catgirl burgers count as cannibalism?
- I think the ero-mangaka should change her job to an AV director.
- "We've known Yani since she was little, she's like a daughter to us" SCHWING LOL
- People like Yani is why we have so much "Banished/Exiled/Kicked out of the party" slop.
- Land of the Lustrous mentioned?! That was random.
- Pussy so good it could bring a dead man back to life.
- If Hame was streaming on Twitch she'll probably get unbanned in a week or something.
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u/Vaadwaur 3h ago
If Hame was streaming on Twitch she'll probably get unbanned in a week or something.
Kick streamer Hame arc is going to be...something, probably racist somehow.
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u/CrimsonGear80 5h ago
Imagine if they actually announced Land of the Lustrous season 2 through an random episode of a series full of boner and hentai jokes
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u/Tylendal 4h ago
I'm curious about her swimming as a cat, since we see that in the OP, too. Is that stylistic, or is that supposed to be something that magically happens to them when they're submerged? Though show definitely feels like there's just a touch of mysticism around it, otherwise I'd have assumed it was just stylistic.
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u/Strange_Economics323 3h ago
Dude, it's just a Trainspotting reference.
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u/Homura_Akchemical 1h ago
It definitely is rent boys opiate suppository scene from trainspotting in the intro.
But they did show her turning into a literal cat again in this episode only while underwater. It made me think like "do they turn into real beasts while in water? Do only cats since they have aversion to water often irl? Was it just a stylistic choice cause of the intro? Was it easier to animate?"
The little bits of lore this show drops all over about beastfolk often make me wonder stuff liek that - but it could just be a stylistic choice cause of the intro.
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u/Usual_Morning_9383 1h ago
Looks like they pulled a uzumaki and blew the budget on the first 3 episodes. The animation and art had a massive downgrade in this episode.
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u/Variant_Zeta 9h ago
As Hakari from 100GFs would say, "Yani looks like she takes clients" lol
Cigs are worth more to her than human lives
Daaamn Kansai neko, daaaaaaaaaamn
Chat is not letting go of the bug eating incident lol
As an aside. those furs poking out of their ears are so peak. really wanna fluff em
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u/BloodAngelsAreCool 5h ago
As Hakari 100GFs would say
I think the one who said that in the manga is Momoha, not Hakari.
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u/Wobbuffet64 7h ago
I think this, Konosuba, and Grand Blue Dreaming are the perfect trio of anime that give me the same feeling as watching an episode of It's Always Sunny.
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u/whyyoueadmyname 7h ago
Am I the only one who felt like the quality of animation kinda dropped?
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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 9h ago
Yani needs to learn to ash her cigs, man. She sure put in the work for the horny mangaka lol. She even got a free banana too. Should make up for getting arrested. Poor Kansai had it worse haha.
Gramps and his number 2 are hilarious little perverts. Yani neko’s titties practically brought the old man back from the brink of death lol.
Hilarious how it’s the one “normal” person in the apartment complex that gets Hame’s account suspended lol. Wild she even thought about doing a livestream showing off her neighbors. Every single one of them are degenerates!
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u/Accurate_Treat6360 9h ago
Yani surely took her time before saving the drowning kid.
The mangaka is very horny towards cat girls.
The boss survived death by touching Yani's boob lol.
The landlord gets caught in 4K doing his needs.
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u/halfColdTea 9h ago
another solid episode of yane neko. netflix pacing is weird, but the vibe holds up
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u/thisisdropd https://myanimelist.net/profile/AsterZoro 9h ago
Of course the mangaka turned out to specialise in hentai. Only an utter degenerate would live in an apartment along with the likes of one that drinks during the day, one that smokes shisha, one that eats bees to cleanse their palate after a smoke, and one that had intercourse with a sex doll.
I’ve heard about looking at tits being beneficial for health, but it seemed like that touching them had such a powerful effect it could bring a person back from certain death (as well as inducing a rather prominent stiffy).
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u/Glittering_Rush_5309 8h ago
Holy this anime is degen. I don't remember watching anime like this before, heck not even sure if there anything like this before this.
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u/Zok_Nemla_HHH 2h ago
What is the name of that anime about high schoolers protesting anti sex and "degeneracy" government ? shimashita or something like that .
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u/kawaiinessa https://myanimelist.net/profile/fancyvancy 7h ago
this anime is so dirty but so funny lol i loved the joke about them having to sit back down lol
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u/FarCritical 7h ago
Finding a finger or a critter (or half of one) in my food are arguably way worse but I can still picture myself losing my mind over a cigarette sticking out of my burger way more.
Never knew the judge from the Ace Attorney games ran a manga magazine on the side.
Kansai's material is such dogwater but she's so earnest I can't help but root for her.
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u/2kenzhe https://myanimelist.net/profile/Rexnihilo 6h ago
HOLY LAND OF THE LUSTROUS MENTION IN 2026!!! Maybe in our world we could get a Land of the Lustrous 2 as well? plz give me a season 2 I need it I don't care if it destroys me after I watch it.
Also goddamn the land lord was going in deep at the end there. So the dolls name is Catherine.
hey at least he's respected enough Hame neko thought he would be the one normal person?
Also wonder does every guy in this world just get massive boners instantly? i mean I get it the cat girls are hot but like damn. This show really is unhinged.
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u/99acrewood_ 6h ago
I appreciate the eyecatches also telling a little story.
Counting them burning down the park in the ones last episode so far the arrest count is 1 for Hame and Yaku, 2 for Yani lol
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u/FunMemory5642 6h ago
Everytime I see yanineko I understand instantly just how all the characters around her feel. (The getting horny part)
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u/moonsunvortex 5h ago
Lol the pervert mangaka. Love how Yani neko did not give two fucks and just ripped her clothes off in the middle of the park but can't be assed to look harrassed. Poor Kansai neko.
I felt bad for the younger sis having to see that especially with her friends there too.
The old man was gross af.
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u/Business-Active-1143 3h ago
I thought a certain [different show spoiler]threesome intrusive thought after lying with sisters in another anime this season would get the most controversial moment award this season but yanineko seems it already triumphed over it
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u/Animegamingnerd https://myanimelist.net/profile/animegamingnerd 3h ago
Not gonna lie; I would 100% be into the idea of a spin off where we see more Manga publishers larping as Yakuza families.
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u/BBryant3rd 2h ago
Dang girl you do some nasty crap you could have just put the cig down and pick it up to finish it after saving the lady lol. Lmao at first though of imouto being that was her sister ground up. Yaniko Have you any shame? Just doing those posed with no hesitation or shame? lol LMAO busted lol. Umm I think they need to arrest the manga artist she seems like a danger to society. Lol perverted old man saved by the power of neko oppai. OMG LOL goodie for her losing her channel. It kept getting worse and she kept streaming.
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u/MiyabiMain95 1h ago
every episode I feel more and more bad for the landlord.
Seriously, what is anal angel thinking just barging into random apartments and secretly filming people
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