Have You Seen This Cat?

Music used:
Perdula – Justnormal
Floating Door – Pugachev's Cobra (Severed Steel OST)
Coauctor – The Signal [Babylonian Drum Edit] (Into the Radius VR OST)
Martin Landh – Cyllene
Atlus Sound Team – Phantom (Persona 5 OST)
Cristobal Tapia de Veer – Layers
Yuko Araki – Mac's Shop マックの店 (Phantom Dust OST)
Lama House – The Road to Odessa
Lama House – The Voice of the Father

[panqueque]

"I understand the mystery of cats"
That man reached enlightenment

[TannovandeKamp]

I love how Futatsugi put proper effort into figuring out the background of this cat.

[SickSticks]

50 years from now Nick is going to get a chance to interview a President and his first question will be about an obscure photo of them in a Mario costume as a child and the answer will unravel a decades old Japanese mystery

[jordonbrewer]

Nick is the only person that can get me to care deeply for a cat I never met owned by a person I've never heard of featured in a game I've never played.

[_just_a_lil_dud_]

“I understand the mystery of cats”
Yukio futatsugi
Truly inspiring words.

[Mojomay]

Okay I don't believe I've ever played anything worked on by Yukio Futatsugi, but I have a lot of respect for him actually making such an effort to "solve the mystery of cats". What a legend.

[gabrielferreira]

Surely Nick would be the only person on the face of the Earth who would look for a cat from a random photo of a game produced more than 15 years ago

[thisorthat]

I hope that Junko Mimori somehow finds this video (hopefully through Yukio) and feels overjoyed that someone out there noticed and appreciated her little easter egg which she probably just left there not thinking that someone would actually be able to see it, and feels touched by how this stranger who is a huge fan of the game cared so much about her cat and went to such lengths to identify and memorialize it. i love that you brought closure to yourself and all of us of how much this cat was loved and how it lived a long happy life full of love and that we have the evidence for it. R.I.P Hyanyan. and thanks for solving this bittersweet mystery, kudos to you ♡

[RhythmThiefDS]

Can't wait for Nick to make me care about something that I otherwise wouldn't have cared about at all yet again.

[karablues]

"I understand the mystery of cats." -Yukio Futatsugi
This man has surpassed godhood.

[Darxide]

I knew the cat wouldn't still be around, so I thought I was prepared. But to hear that it only died two years ago. It hit me.

[JustKet]

I genuinely love that Yukio was so excited to help you solve this mystery. He really seemed to care so much that *you* cared so much. 🥺

[MrYang]

The name Zyoko was in the credits. It was the map 3d artist SATO Joko. Sometimes Japanese people use Z instead of J when referring to the characters じ, じゃ, and じょ (ji, ja and jo)

[UmbraSanguinis]

Dude, I cried. I knew there was a chance Hyanyan wasn't around anymore, but hearing she wasn't just sent a pain through my heart. May she always be remembered ❤️

[copjing]

Massive props to you choosing to respect Mimori-san's feelings and not bothering her about her dead cat. I know I personally wouldn't mind, and I would love to share any stories I had, but most people aren't like that. Pets are loved just as much as family, because they are family. And when they're gone it's just as sad.

Rest in peace, Hyanyan.

[calelkestifer]

Hyanyan is made immortal by the easter egg, the remaster, and your investigation.

We all LOVE you, Hyanyan.

[glenngriffon]

Sad and sweet. Hyanyan's picture is indeed everywhere. Not just all over that shop but it's in every copy of this game, everywhere. And thanks to Nick we know Hyanyan was loved and well cared for and her memory will remain for generations.

[warleykins]

i’m naming my cat i’m getting in ~1 week hyanyan now, as a salute to mimori. i hope mimori is recovering, and i hope hyanyan is feeling well in heaven 💞

[SenshiSunPower]

I'm imagining Mimori having a long day at work and putting Hyanyan's photo in the game to make herself and her coworkers smile. Now that photo is making all of us smile. Look at that expression! What an excellent cat!

By the way, for those who don't know Japanese, "Hyanyan" is a bit like naming a cat Yeowmeow.

[JCurry]

Yukio is a legend. A random stranger asks him a question that he could easily give an answer that is "probably true" and be done with it. No, he took the time to find the true answer to the question.