Miscellaneous: Cats dressed up as sushi to brighten your Monday

Date
29 July 2013

Before you laugh, this isn’t just some stupid internet-friendly cats Photoshopped on to rice, it’s much more than that. Neko-Sushi is “an extremely unusual life-form” the website tells us, “although several references have come down to us through history from various researchers and witnesses, their existence is still shrouded in mystery and actual sightings remain rare.”

The oddly sincere tone that creators Tange & Nakimushi Peanuts have taken when describing the cats is at once unnerving and hilarious. For once someone has actually created a meme with a creative backstory rather than just aesthetically-funny-Twitter-fodder to pander to our scrolling tendencies. Rice to meet you sushi kitties!

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Tange & Nakimushi Peanuts: Neko-Sushi: The Sushi Cats from Japan

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Tange & Nakimushi Peanuts: Neko-Sushi: The Sushi Cats from Japan

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Tange & Nakimushi Peanuts: Neko-Sushi: The Sushi Cats from Japan

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Tange & Nakimushi Peanuts: Neko-Sushi: The Sushi Cats from Japan

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Tange & Nakimushi Peanuts: Neko-Sushi: The Sushi Cats from Japan

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Tange & Nakimushi Peanuts: Neko-Sushi: The Sushi Cats from Japan

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Tange & Nakimushi Peanuts: Neko-Sushi: The Sushi Cats from Japan

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Liv Siddall

Liv joined It’s Nice That as an intern in 2011 and worked across online, print and events, and was latterly Features Editor before leaving in May 2015.

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