Chainsmoker cat manga series

On July 3, 2026, Netflix welcomed what might just be its weirdest anime in years in Chainsmoker Cat, a brand-new series by Bibury Animation Studios adapted from the manga of the same name by NyanNyanFactory. Immediately, the series caught the eye of many through its gorgeous backgrounds, sharply juxtaposed against the anime’s many shockingly disgusting visuals rendered with meticulous detail.

It was announced that Nyan Nyan Factory’s Chainsmoker Cat manga series will receive a television anime in July.

Chainsmoker Cat is an upcoming Japanese anime series and an adaptation of the Japanese manga Yani Neko by author and illustrator NyanNyanFactory. The series is animated by Biburry Animation Studios and directed by Taku Kimura and Takashi Aoshima.

Most media tends to swing between two extremes, from the seductive mythology that surrounds films like Blow and Trainspotting, where addiction becomes entangled with the allure of living fast, to the redemptive arcs of Flight and 28 Days, where confronting the problem becomes the story’s climax. Chainsmoker Cat lands somewhere far messier. The series allows Yaniko to be funny, but never enviable. Every cigarette makes her life smaller. Every shortcut digs the hole a little deeper. That ugliness is what makes the series ring true for those who know the decrepit lifestyle of existing solely for your next high.

Beneath the perils of addiction, however, Chainsmoker Cat is hiding another debilitating factor of life many people struggle with that few take seriously: poverty. An excellent writeup from argues that the series is secretly about Japanese poverty and the precarious work, social stigma, and invisible arithmetic of barely surviving. Yaniko’s addiction doesn’t just exist alongside her poverty — it feeds it, while her poverty, in turn, feeds the addiction. The two become impossible to separate, a never-ending cycle of depression, temporary relief, and inevitable regret.