1,843 likesChainsmoker 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.
