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Chainsmoker Cat: Japanese Fans React to the Fryer Clip — "The Only One Allowed to Smoke While Cooking Is Sanji"

ヤニねこ バーガー店フライヤー回に日本ファンの反応

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Chainsmoker Cat: Japanese Fans React to the Fryer Clip — "The Only One Allowed to Smoke While Cooking Is Sanji"
“The only one allowed to smoke while cooking is Sanji.”

料理中にタバコ吸ってイイのはサンジだけなのよ

— @Troy-b4h

The new Chainsmoker Cat (Yani Neko) clip has her working the fryer at a burger joint with five cigarettes going at once, and a butt ending up in the food — and across 364 comments, the top one (1,516 likes) sums up the whole show in two lines: "'the discrimination is awful' and 'honestly, fair enough' both being true at the same time." The thread escalates in exactly the way a Japanese comment section escalates over food safety: a butt in the fries is "national news territory," then it's "the store gets suspended and every branch nationwide gets inspected," then someone simply writes "the health department…" The second-most-liked comment (1,448 likes) asks the obvious question — why did a restaurant hire her at all — and the answer that gets 169 likes is a joke about companies collecting a government subsidy for filling a beastfolk quota. Under the gags, commenters keep pointing at how dark the beastfolk discrimination in this series actually is, citing the earlier episode where the landlord went to complain about a rude convenience store clerk, saw how low beastfolk wages were, and called to demand they be paid more instead. The rest is pure Yani Neko fandom: fans identify the fryer beep as a certain golden-arches sound, catch that the background melody has been nudged up in pitch (one says a semitone, gets corrected to a step and a half), and note that the little sister remains an angel even while imagining something horrifying. It ends with a viewer writing off every layer of the sketch in one sentence.

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Japanese fan reactions (excerpted from 364)

  • This is a legit case of baito terrorism — the viral employee-misbehavior kind lol

    マジのバイトテロで草

    — @岡目八目-m5t1,108 likes

  • This is just straight-up a crime, isn't it lol

    普通に事件だろこれw

    — @masakisrw8547194 likes

  • A cigarette butt in the food is national-news territory, obviously.

    吸い殻混入は流石に全国ニュース案件

    — @ウルトラナンJ608 likes

  • This is "store gets shut down, every branch in the country gets inspected at once, and fries come off the menu for a while" level lol

    店は営業停止になり全国の各店舗も一斉調査が入り暫くポテトが販売出来なくなるレベルw

    — @CHIHARU88816 likes

  • The health department…

    保健所…

    — @青葉漣-あおばさざなみ47 likes

  • Also, why is a restaurant employing her…

    飲食店もなんでコイツ雇ってんだよ…

    — @アニマルゲンキ1,448 likes

  • I figure there's some beastfolk quota thing where the company gets a government subsidy for hiring one.

    獣人枠みたいなので、雇ったら企業に国から補助金が出るんじゃないかと。

    — @もっちー-d3u169 likes

  • "The discrimination against them is awful" and "honestly, no wonder they get discriminated against" both being true at the same time.

    「差別ひどいな」と 「差別されてもしょうがないな」が両立する

    — @m10nwo491,516 likes

  • The content of that urban legend quietly shows how deep-rooted the anti-beastfolk discrimination is lol

    都市伝説の内容獣人差別が地味に根深くて草

    — @dilaxy-b2t712 likes

  • Right? Every now and then there's someone in here saying something that's basically beastfolk discrimination.

    わかる、時々獣人差別っぽいこと言ってる人いるよね

    — @tashin.3341 likes

  • There's literally an episode where the landlord is about to file a complaint about how terrible a beastfolk convenience store clerk is, looks at the company website, sees that beastfolk wages are far too low, and calls to say "pay the beastfolk more" instead.

    大家がコンビニの獣人店員の対応の酷さにクレーム入れようとしてホームページ見たら、獣人の時給があまりに低すぎて「獣人の給与上げてやれよ」って電話する回とかあるしな

    — @m7.56786 likes

  • She's got to be the final boss of the smokers-who-harm-others category.

    他人に害をなすタイプの喫煙者の最上位だろコイツ。

    — @樹-r1j528 likes

  • Five at the same time is genuinely too much lol

    5本同時は流石にヤバいw

    — @けほきち-4hi16 likes

  • Smoking at a deep fryer full of hot oil is next-level bravery. Though since it's Yani Neko, I can forgive it a little…

    油で揚げてるフライヤーで、煙草は流石に猛者。 ヤニねこだから、多少許せるが…

    — @ほっけみりん-CS11 likes

  • No, seriously — smoke over hot oil and you'll start a fire.

    ​いや、そもそも油の上でタバコ吸ったら火事になるぞ

    — @のわる-りんど35 likes

  • It still doesn't sit well with me, but Yani Neko has five cigarettes in her mouth while cooking, so that's a completely different dimension……

    それでもあまりいい気はしないが、ヤニネコは料理中に5本タバコ咥えてるから次元が違う……

    — @そろそろ海王類の中から出よっか15 likes

  • That fries-are-done sound is McD*nald's…

    このポテトの揚げ上がりの音はマ〇ド･･･

    — @ss6x9tt7731 likes

  • The fact that it's Nyam Nyam Burger is adorable ❤

    ニャムニャムバーガーなのが可愛い❤

    — @浄門道場7 likes

  • The BGM sounds like "tou-tou-tou ma chérie, ma chérie" to me lol

    BGMが トゥートゥートゥマシェリー マーシェーリーに聞こえる（笑）

    — @ピンクのミニリュウ23 likes

  • The fact that they raised it a semitone from the real melody is so cheeky it's funny.

    本物のメロディから半音上げてるの小賢しくて笑う

    — @あのこのこのこかわいいね252 likes

  • It's not a semitone, it's a step and a half.

    半音じゃなくて1音半上っすね

    — @renapson42 likes

  • Lucky for Yani Neko that it happened to land in her little sister's order.

    たまたま妹ちゃんとこに入っててよかったなヤニねこ

    — @絶望ボス298 likes

  • The fact that a cigarette makes her think of her big sister first says everything about how much she trusts her lol

    タバコで真っ先に姉を思い浮かべるの信頼の低さ草

    — @ストロベリーコーヒーおいしい77 likes

  • That "Onee-chan…" — the fact that even in the mental image where her sister gets turned into ground meat, she's still smoking, is unhinged lol

    「お姉ちゃん…」って お姉ちゃんひき肉にされる時もヤニ吸ってるイメージなのヤバいなww

    — @nipper88824 likes

  • The little sister's mental image of her sister being turned into mince is pretty unhinged too.

    姉をひき肉にする妹ちゃんの想像も、結構ヤバいぞ。

    — @manpowerdtank90 likes

  • Talking about beastfolk meat in front of a beastfolk who's eating is absolutely wild.

    飯食ってる獣人の前で獣人肉の話するのヤバすぎる

    — @Anonymous-ter25 likes

  • And the fact that she's eating it is properly awful too.

    食べちゃってるのがまたちゃんとひどい

    — @gorilla-1.06 likes

  • The little sister is an angel, as always.

    妹ちゃん相変わらず天使やな

    — @ganzinn-u1g36 likes

  • The fact that it's only ever "confiscate them" is so gentle of her.

    あくまでも「取り上げろ」なの優しい

    — @blossoming11032 likes

  • Her singing "maa-maa-maa-maa-maa" is adorable.

    「まーまーまーまーまー」歌ってるの可愛い

    — @ああ無情-お嬢最高10 likes

  • For some reason I found a chain-smoking deadbeat humming maa-maa-maa weirdly soothing lol

    まーまーまー口ずさむヤニカスに何故か癒やされたｗ

    — @mutsuki77720 likes

  • It's impressive that you can tell it's Yani Neko from the thumbnail alone.

    サムネだけでヤニねこってわかるのすごい

    — @rittoritto-t8l10 likes

  • Stop digging up corporate scandals lol There are so many reasons this could get banned from broadcast that I'm confident I'd just nod along whenever it gets cancelled.

    企業の闇事件掘り起こしてやるなよw 放送禁止になる理由が多すぎていつ打ち切られても「まあ、そうだよな」ってなる自信がある

    — @hsieijssuhdcytpwjd6285 likes

  • The small talk, the little sister's mental image, this episode's punchline — every single part of it is deranged.

    日常会話も妹ちゃんの想像も今回のオチも何もかも終わってる

    — @バルファルク-d1j8 likes

FAQ

What happens in this Chainsmoker Cat clip?
According to the comments, Yani Neko is working the fryer at a burger place with five cigarettes in her mouth at once, and a cigarette butt ends up in the food — which, one commenter notes with relief, happened to land in her little sister's order.
Why do the comments keep talking about discrimination?
Beastfolk discrimination is a running undercurrent in the series, and commenters noted it here in both directions: jokes about a company collecting a subsidy for hiring a beastfolk, and a reference to an earlier episode where the landlord set out to complain about a beastfolk convenience store clerk, saw how low beastfolk wages were on the company's website, and called to say "raise their pay" instead.
What's the joke about the background music?
Commenters noticed the BGM is a recognizable melody shifted in pitch rather than the real thing — one called it "raised a semitone, which is cheeky enough to be funny," and was corrected by another commenter to a step and a half.
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