The upcoming Chainsmoker Cat TV anime has received a key visual featuring the titular cat girl and several other beastfolk, apparently having a gathering in an alley. It was also revealed that it will begin airing on July 2 at 24:30 JST (effectively July 3 at 00:30 AM JST).
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Additionally, more cast members were announced:
• Misato Matsuoka as Yaku Neko
• Yurie Funato as Hame Neko
• Ayaka Shimizu as Kansai Neko
• Shiori Izawa as Aru Neko
• Riko Akechi as Ochinpo Tatsuro
• Tetsu Inada as Landlord
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Chainsmoker Cat (Yanineko) is based on the manga by Nyan Nyan Factory and follows a disastrous chainsmoking catgirl. Seven Seas Entertainment describes the manga’s synopsis as such:
Where there’s smoke, there’s a catgirl chainsmoking in this comedy manga! A look at the daily troubles of one catgirl and her attempts to get her life together.
Welcome to Yani’s apartment. Please don’t mind the smell. Yani is a catgirl with a seriously bad smoking habit. Every time she tries to quit, she becomes weak to the cravings and gives in almost instantly.
Behind on her rent and unable to hold down a job, her friends and sister rally around to help her out. But when she’s using her pee to put out cigarette fires, they may just have their work cut out for them.
Will she ever get her life together, or is she doomed to live as a chainsmoking slob forever?
Studio Lemon’s Taku Kimura (Dragonite and the Special Delivery) is directing the anime at Bibury Animation Studios with Takashi Aoshima (The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You series composer) as scriptwriter, Riki Matsuura (Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc Devil designer) as character designer and Keiichi Suzuki as music composer. Yuko Natsuyoshi is the voice of Yani.
The manga started serialization in Kodansha’s seinen manga publication Young Magazine in 2023 and has 11 volumes as of February 2026. It was originally a Twitter comic.
Source: @yanineko_anime (1), (2)
