Chainsmoker Cat Mini Anime #18: The Landlord Gets Nicknamed 'Hage-chan'

Chainsmoker Cat's official channel posted Mini Anime #18 on September 6, and the whole short is built around Aru-neko handing out new nicknames — the perpetually unlucky Landlord becomes "Hage-chan" ("Baldy"), while fellow tenant Penpen gets tagged "Boro-chan" ("Raggedy"), a jab that lands harder once you remember his liver is already wrecked from years of drinking. Across the clip's 324 comments, the top reaction — 667 likes — just calls the Landlord's new nickname straight-up hilarious, and the rest of the thread mostly agrees.

From there, commenters worked through the short's other running bit: the Landlord lending manga to his tenants no matter how badly the last loan came back, this time handing over a volume of beastfolk pin-up art without hesitation. A side thread briefly argued over a fan-written exchange referencing an off-screen "centaur incident" — someone had to clarify it wasn't actually from the source material, just a bit they made up on the spot — while others traced a shot of Aru-neko drying out a borrowed book back to an identical scene in the show's "Nanmonee" music video.

By the end, the thread lands on one verdict: after two different tenants have already trashed books he's lent out, the Landlord keeps doing it anyway — which more than one commenter says makes him basically a saint at this point.

Chainsmoker Cat's official channel posted Mini Anime #18 on September 6, and it's built entirely around Aru-neko finding new nicknames for the show's put-upon side characters. She starts calling the perpetually unlucky Landlord "Hage-chan" ("Baldy"), and pins "Boro-chan" ("Raggedy") on fellow tenant Penpen — a jab that lands harder once a reply points out his liver is already wrecked from years of drinking. The short also revisits a running bit about the Landlord lending manga to tenants no matter how badly the last loan came back.

The nickname landed hard enough that it even collided with the channel's own name, which some commenters mistook it for at first.

Penpen didn't get off easy either, and the reason for his new nickname came out almost immediately.

From nicknames, the thread moved to the short's other recurring gag: the Landlord's habit of lending manga to tenants no matter how the last loan came back. This time it's a volume of beastfolk pin-up art, handed over without much hesitation.

One reply turned into its own small debate. A commenter posted a made-up exchange between Aru-neko and the Landlord referencing an off-screen “centaur incident,” which immediately raised a question about whether that scene actually existed.

Elsewhere, sharp-eyed viewers connected one shot in the short to a scene they'd already seen somewhere else — the show's own "Nanmonee" music video.

Underneath all the running gags, a good chunk of the thread was just there for Aru-neko herself. Several commenters speculated — without full certainty — that she shares a voice actor with a well-known character from a different franchise, and others ran down exactly what they loved about her personality on screen.

That warmth is a big part of why the mini-anime segments have their own separate following. More than one viewer called it the most relaxing part of the week, and at least one admitted it mattered even more this time because Aru-neko hadn't shown up at all in that week's main broadcast episode.

By the end, the thread had mostly circled back to one running observation: the Landlord's manga collection keeps getting wrecked, and he keeps lending it out anyway.

At this point, calling him a saint might be underselling it.