Yani Neko Episodes 1-6 Get Free ABEMA Marathon Broadcast
The free marathon gives new viewers a low-barrier entry point into the anime, which is already airing weekly on ABEMA with the same one-week free window.
Reporting from 1 source: Denfaminicogamer.
ABEMA will air the first six episodes of the Yani Neko anime in a free marathon starting August 13 at 10:00 a.m. All episodes remain free to watch for one week after broadcast. The anime, based on Nyan Nyan Factory's manga about a chain-smoking slacker cat, began airing in July.
The marathon airs on the ABEMA Anime Channel, with the full run available at no cost for seven days afterward. ABEMA also continues to stream each new episode weekly, keeping the same one-week free viewing window.
The anime adapts Nyan Nyan Factory's manga, which follows Yani Neko, a cat beastman who chain-smokes and lives a slothful life, and his neighbors. The manga gained attention on X and moved to regular serialization in Young Magazine in April 2023. The anime adaptation was announced in February 2026 and premiered on TOKYO MX and other stations on July 2.
Nyan Nyan Factory, on seeing the scripts and character designs, said they were surprised the adaptation could be done so faithfully and felt the production team's resolve.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.
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- Denfaminicogamer アニメ『ヤニねこ』ABEMAで1話から6話まで無料一挙放送が決定。8月13日10時から。放送から1週間は無料で視聴できる