Chainsmoker Cat Episode 11 Opening: Japan Debates a Censored Lyric

Chainsmoker Cat's official channel posted the non-credit opening video for Episode 11 on September 17, and the cover of the OP theme "Nanmo Nee" ("Nothing At All") by the band Nekurai Talkie swaps in a different singer than usual, with one line cut out to a censor beep partway through.

The video has passed 700,000 views and pulled in over 700 comments in under two days. The top comment (1,843 likes) notices the show swapped its OP and ED vocalists for this cover and guesses the beep exists because the line isn't considered acceptable for a woman to sing, and a heavily-liked reply (951 likes) jokes the beep was the bare minimum "decency" required. Not everyone agrees with the read, though, and a smaller thread pushes back with a rival theory before the section moves on to just enjoying how far the joke goes.

By the end, several commenters are less interested in the gender debate than in how committed the production went with the gag, right down to a visual censor bar that appears over the singer's eyes for the exact same stretch as the beep.

TVアニメ『ヤニねこ』公式【ハメちゃんねる】, the show's official channel, posted the non-credit opening video for Episode 11 on September 17, featuring the OP theme song "Nanmo Nee" ("Nothing At All") performed by the band Nekurai Talkie. In under two days the video passed 700,000 views and pulled in over 700 comments, and most of that attention is fixated on one detail: partway through the song, a line cuts out to a censor beep.

The theory that took off fastest is about who's singing it. Commenters noticed the show swapped its usual OP and ED vocalists for this cover, and more than one reads the beep as the show working around a line that's fine coming from the male vocalist but gets bleeped out now that a woman is the one singing it. Not everyone in the section buys that read, and the pushback turns into a small argument of its own.

Whichever theory is right, what people actually can't stop talking about is the fix itself, and how far the show went to sell the joke. It's not just the audio, either. A visual censor bar shows up over the singer's eyes for the exact same stretch as the beep, and several commenters say the effort to obscure the line ends up drawing more attention to it than the original, unbleeped version by the male vocalist ever did.

The line itself has already picked up its own nickname in the replies: fans keep calling the beep "sealing away the evil dragon," a joke that gets repeated often enough to become its own running gag in the section.

A few viewers trace the gag back to other anime built around the same style of censorship humor, treating it less as something new for this franchise than as a genre joke they already know how to read.

By the end, the debate about gender and lyrics has mostly given way to something simpler: pure appreciation for how committed the joke is, right down to how safe the result would sound in the least likely setting imaginable for a show about a pair of chain-smoking cats.