Yokai Cats Vol. 1

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This sea creature is usually described as having a huge dark head that just appears out of the water. It’s said that when it appears, it will break through any boat that is nearby and kill its passengers. The bakeneko is one scary monster, but it has an even more evil form: the Nekomata. If you see a cat with two tails, run the other way, because this is the Nekomata, a yokai that has the ability to throw fireballs and devour human flesh on top of haunting households! 12. Kasa-obake The next level of Nekomata; when a cat reaches 30 years of age, it is said it will transform into a Nekosho. Nekosho are described as having 3 tails, with the intelligence of humans. Not much is known about the Nekosho as cats that can live till the age of 30 are rare. Kasha 火車 Even in the kaidan collections, the "Tonoigusa ( 宿直草)" and the "Sorori Monogatari ( 曾呂利物語)," nekomata conceal themselves in mountain recesses; and there are stories that deep in the mountains they shapeshift into humans. [5] [6] In folk religion there are many stories of mountainous nekomata. [1] In later literature, the mountain nekomata tend to be larger. In the "Shin Chomonjū ( 新著聞集)" nekomata captured in the mountains of Kii Province are as large as a wild boar; in the "Wakun no Shiori ( 倭訓栞)" of 1775 (Anei 4), their roaring echos throughout the mountain, and they can be seen as big as a lion or leopard. In the "Gūisō ( 寓意草)" of 1809 (Bunka 6), a nekomata that held a dog in its mouth was described as having a span of 9 shaku and 5 sun (about 2.8 meters). [2]

During the Edo period (1603–1867), tales about bakeneko began to appear in essays and kaidan collections in various areas. Tales of cats transforming into humans and talking can be seen in publications like the Tōen Shosetsu ( 説), [19] the Mimibukuro ( 嚢), [26] [27] the Shin Chomonjū ( 集), [28] and the Seiban Kaidan Jikki ( 記). [29] Similarly, tales of dancing cats can be seen in the Kasshi Yawa ( 話), [30] and the Owari Ryōiki ( 記). [31] In the fourth volume of "Mimibukuro", it is stated that any cat anywhere that lives for ten years would begin to speak as a human, [32] and that cats born from the union of a fox and a cat would begin speaking even before ten years had passed. [33] According to tales of cats that transform, aged cats would very often shapeshift into old women. [4] The Edo period was the golden age for kaidan about bakeneko, and with shibai like the "Nabeshima Bakeneko Disturbance" being performed, these became even more famous. [25] The floors all follow a simple pattern, as far as I've noticed. Cat's Paw floor, 2 normal floors, and one boss floor. The two normal floors of each "set" seem to pull from the same pool. Because of that, if you're cat or yokai hunting, it's more time-efficient to do your reroll the second you get into the first normal floor, instead of thinking your second normal floor will have a different pool.

Bakeneko. (n.d.). Academic. Retrieved October 9, 2020, from https://enacademic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/2775702

The bakeneko ( 化け猫, "changed cat") is a type of Japanese yōkai, or supernatural entity; more specifically, it is a kaibyō, or supernatural cat. [2] It is often confused with the nekomata, another cat-like yōkai. [3] The distinction between them is often ambiguous, but the largest difference is that the nekomata has two tails, while the bakeneko has only one.Davisson, Z. (2021). Kaibyo: The supernatural cats of Japan (2nd ed.). Mercuria Press: Portland, OR. I've seen some people try to get the yellow ether floor nekomata jobs out of the way through RNG. Don't do this. You are wasting your time. You will spend more than enough time getting the job catalog done that the yellow ether floor jobs will clear on their own. Though nobody believes in Kasha (or Yokai) anymore, the belief is still entangled in culture. Some funeral practices influenced by the past belief in Kasha include keeping cats away from funerals and wakes.