Tired of working for everyone else, Maneki-neko decided to take a vacation far from humanity. He just couldn’t put up with everyone taking advantage of his kindness and good luck. At one point they even used his patented wrist movement to open bottles of beer in a cheap dive on the outskirts of Shanghai. How humiliating!

He retired to a paradisiacal island in the middle of nowhere to escape the stress and think about his future. After pondering long and hard, he decided that he would be the one to take advantage of people. He’d use popular belief to lure people to enter into his domain, and once in, he’d dissolve them in a watery liquid to form an enormous wave, in hopes of creating a gigantic tsunami and put an end to everyone who took advantage of him sometime in the past. So now you know, if you’re one of those who have put a Maneki-neko in your house or office, you’d do well to get rid of it or assume the consequences…