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Chainsmoker Cat Episode 9 Preview Is Mostly Shizue Making Drum Noises
『ヤニねこ』第9話予告がほぼ静江の声だけと日本のファン反応
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The official Chainsmoker Cat channel released the preview for Episode 9, "Nya's Little Sister Is Super Popular," following a week off for a TV special. By the comment section's account the clip devotes most of its runtime to one character, Shizue, vocalising — the little sister on the thumbnail barely features.
Across 1,147 comments, the top one (1,789 likes) is a straight transcription of the landlord cracking her knuckles, and the second (1,377 likes) points out that the "drum voice" alone eats half the video. A separate thread turns the missed broadcast week into the obvious joke for a show about addiction.
The readers in the section, meanwhile, are watching for something the preview barely shows.
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The official Chainsmoker Cat channel posted the preview for Episode 9, "Nya's Little Sister Is Super Popular," and it landed after the show sat out a week for a TV special. Going by the comment section, the clip is not really about Nya's little sister at all. It is mostly Shizue, and it is mostly noises.
The drum-voice alone takes up half the video lol
ドラム声だけで動画の半分あるの草
That is the joke the whole thread is built on. The preview apparently hands a large chunk of its runtime to one character vocalising, and the top-voted comment in the entire section is not a reaction at all — it is just a transcription of the landlord doing it, spaced out character by character. Nineteen hundred people looked at that and hit like.
The landlord: "K-N-U-C-K-L-E-C-R-A-C-K-C-R-A-C-K-C-R-A-C-K"
大家さん「ボ キ キ キ キ キ キ」
And then there is the thumbnail, which is a perfectly innocent drawing of the little sister. Several people say they clicked for exactly that and got something else entirely within the first few seconds. This is a recurring experience with this show, and the comment section has stopped pretending to be surprised by it.
The thumbnail's adorable but the contents are savage huh ww
サムネ可愛いのに内容えげつないんだなww
Came in lured by that cute thumbnail of Imoko, and five seconds in, it's Yani Neko's toilet scene.... That's genuinely too brutal....
妹子ちゃんのかわいいサムネに釣られてきたら、 開始5秒、ヤニねこのトイレシーン.... さすがに鬼すぎるて....
The gap in the broadcast schedule is doing something funny to this fanbase, too. This is a show about people who cannot stop smoking, and it made its audience go two weeks without an episode. Somebody worked out the obvious punchline.
A rare anime that made its viewers experience nicotine withdrawal for real, by losing a week of broadcast to a TV special.
特番で1週放送を欠いたことにより、ヤニ切れを視聴者に疑似体験させる稀有なアニメ
There is a music bit in there as well, and it produced the one line the comment section decided was the powerword of the week. It also produced the only mildly wounded people in the thread: bass players, who are taking the slander personally and, in at least one case, volunteering for the job anyway.
"The bass is trash" — what a powerword
「ベースは屑よ」ってパワーワード
What almost nobody is arguing about is whether any of this is good. The section is unusually united for a preview that is largely one character making sounds, and the handful of comments actually discussing the episode's plot are looking past the noise to a meeting the manga readers have been waiting on.
So it's finally the episode where the writer cat and Imoko meet face to face. Really looking forward to it.
ついに字書きねこと妹子との対面回か、めっちゃ楽しみ。
Oji's showing up... that's the dangerous woman who shook both Imoko and the readers in a single chapter.
王寺出るんかよ…たった1話で妹子にも読者にも衝撃を与えたやばい女だ
So the preview sells the episode on a joke, and the readers are quietly buying it for a completely different reason. Nobody in the thread seems to mind the mismatch. That tracks for a show that has spent nine episodes hiding a fairly bleak premise behind cat noises.
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- What is Chainsmoker Cat Episode 9 about?
- The official episode title is "Nya's Little Sister Is Super Popular." The preview itself shows little of the plot — commenters say most of its runtime goes to Shizue vocalising. The manga readers in the thread say the episode covers the writer cat meeting Imoko face to face, and that a character they call Oji appears.
- Why did Chainsmoker Cat skip a week?
- Commenters in this thread say a TV special took the slot, leaving a two-week gap between episodes. Several of them turn that into a joke about the show itself — one comment (174 likes) calls it a rare anime that made its viewers experience withdrawal for real.
- What is the "bass is trash" line people keep quoting?
- It is a line from the preview that the comment section latched onto as its standout phrase — the most-liked reaction to it (581 likes) simply calls it a powerword. A couple of commenters who play bass themselves respond in mock injury.
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