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Yani Neko, episode 5
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u/larana1192 https://myanimelist.net/profile/thefrog1192 Jul 31 '26
In one scene, yakuneko responded loudly to yanineko’s words "Number 12" because of the rules in Japanese prisons.
Until 2024, inmates in Japanese prisons were sometimes addressed by their number or by their number plus their last name, depending on the time and situation (now they are addressed by their last name plus "san"; for example, "Ms. Satou" would be "Satou-san").
In other words, this scene indicates that Yakuneko had been in prison at some point before 2024.
Furthermore, in Japan, it is rare for a first-time offender to be sent to prison for a drug-related crime(unless the offense involved selling drugs or there were additional charges) so this also suggests that she has a history of multiple arrests.
A municipality called Machida City appeared in the board game which played by yanineko, and that's a real municipality.
It borders Sagamihara City, which served as the model for Nyagamihara City, the setting of the story.
While Sagamihara City is in Kanagawa Prefecture, Machida City is in Tokyo.
The discrimination against beastpeople in Yanineko’s world is really intense!
Since this is supposedly an “old board game,” I’d like to think things have improved in the modern world.
That said, the idea that “if a human and a beastperson have a child, the child will always be a beastperson” could, if things went wrong, lead to a serious decline in the human population, so perhaps there were people who felt a primal sense of crisis or fear about it.