Grim Crew Presents: Dead Future

The reason I bring this up is because during this panel, I found out that according to Japanese Folklore, zombies are created when a spirit named a Bakeneko jumps over the body of a corpse. And according to the panelists giving the panel, these catspirits are extremely efficient at creating the zombies. Like Apocalypse efficient. Not to mention the spirit does a lot of trickery too, like devouring people, then shape shifting into them and living their lives as these people. And you thought your grandmother’s cats were bad for crapping in your suitcase.

Yep, Japanese zombie is just as scary. {1}

Luckily, the people of Japan have a sure fire way of preventing the zombie end that seems inevitable. They will stop cats from ever becoming Bakkenekos. The Bakenekos  are created once a cat get’s too old (100 years to be precise), or if it reaches a specific weight. The third way the Bakendos are created is if a cat has a long tail. Due to these 3 ways the cats can become a Bakkenkos, the Japanese have a history of cutting tails short and killing their cats when the reach a specific age or weight. They will also tend to feed their cats very little food so it wouldn’t get fat. They are usually better about these practices now and days as people are more informed about the truth about cats, but Japan is a superstitious country so it’s not uncommon for these practices to be in place in the parts of the country that are less populated.

In a country where cremation is the most common practice when it comes to disposing of remains, this is pretty scary. {2}

I have not found any documentation on how to deal with the zombies after they are created. It seems the Japanese are more worried about the cause of the problem instead of it’s solution. In the mean time I would dispose of them the same way you would deal with another zombie.