Chainsmoker Cat Vol. 1

by Nyan Nyan Factory

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?

192 pages, Paperback

Published December 9, 2025

Reviews

[Mark · Rating 1 out of 5]

This manga joins the rarified ranks of those that I hate-read to the end and then happily deleted permanently from my Kindle library, safe in the knowledge that I would rather waste my money than ever think of it again (update: I returned it instead, which made me feel somewhat better, just not about the book).

I do not like to think of myself as a prude. I have watched South Park, I love Clerks and Mallrats, etc etc. I read and enjoy some thirsty manga. Those, however, had (to me) actual redeeming qualities, whether it was satire or sharply written dialogue or a little humanity underneath.

Yani is a degenerate loser who also happens to be a cat. She clearly exists to make the reader who buys into this feel better that they’re in a better place than that. There is a good idea here that is executed so poorly it might as well be using a rusted guillotine.

In its first twenty-odd pages, this hilarious manga decides to make straight for the poop jokes when Yani defecates in the middle of her apartment because she can’t find a magazine. Hilarious.

This is the start of nothing but fart, piss, blowjob, masturbation, hardcore drug use, and sexual assault “jokes” that land about as well as a dead mime doing open-mic. Which is to say, very poorly.

If you wanted to see two people hold a third down and agitate them until they urinated in their pants, have I got a book for you. And you can have it.

The problem is not that you have a failure of a lead character. The issue is that she is completely reprehensible and without any remorse or desire to be anything less than awful. And that blows over onto everybody around her.

It’s one thing to destroy your own life, but another when you’re ruining the lives of everybody you come into contact with. Yani brings literally nothing to the world and takes from it and does not care. She’s so unpalatable that it boggles the mind.

What’s even worse are the times when it isn’t bad. There are a couple brief flashes of better things here. One joke about a museum that is straight out of classic ‘wealthy dowager’ gags made me chuckle.

There’s also a bit at the end with Yani’s actually put-together sister and her friends that is so sweet it feels like it was brought over from an entirely different manga altogether. I rather wish I could have read that one.

If this sort of gross-out humour sounds fun, you will be served until your plate is heaping. Again, I remember the first time I watched Mr. Creosote explode in Monty Python’s Meaning of Life and laughing so hard I cried. That, however, was sixty seconds. This went on forever and didn’t stop.

1 star - I think I’d rather step on a rusty rake than subject myself to another volume of this. A vile lead with no redeeming qualities, like pretty much every other character, bar one. Somebody really thought that was a great idea.

[crowsden · Rating 3 out of 5]

This manga is about an absolutely disgusting loser neko girl who smokes all day. She's gross, her friends are gross, and they're all cat girls who speak in nya puns. I liked it.

[Anna Frohling · Rating 3 out of 5]

I hope chainsmoker cat gets eaten by roaches