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THE CYBERPUNK NEKO LINE

Wear the
death cult

Ten plates drawn for The Maneki Neko Death Cult — the beckoning cat, its face coming apart into signal, and the seal that closes every episode. Traced to vector, cut to a single ink, and measured against the press that has to hold it.

All of it is priced at cost. Every page shows what the printer charges and what shipping runs — then sells it to you for exactly that. 4 legacy listings carry a small floor Fourthwall won’t let us drop ($3.00 and $3.60), and say so on their own page; everywhere else, the studio makes nothing on a shirt unless you decide it should.

Printed when you order it · Ships worldwide · No warehouse, no dead stock

The Cyberpunk Neko tee — one-ink plate on a black heavyweight shirt

Why this shop is built backwards

“You’re maybe buying a little anti-machine feeling off me right now, and it’s real, and it’s also merch, and I can’t fully untangle the two, and the only honest thing I can do is what I’m doing: tell you it’s a rail, and let you check your own jacket.”

The Maneki Neko Death Cult · Door 14

Twenty-four doors of a show about the line between a signal and its merch, and then a merch table. There is no version of that which isn’t funny. So the table is built to survive the joke: the arithmetic goes on the page, the price is the arithmetic, and the studio takes nothing.

“I’ll try to keep the actual cost in it. It’s the only way I know to stay a truth and not a T-shirt.” Door 13 said it first. This is that, done literally — the cost is kept in, printed out, and handed to you before you buy.

If you want the studio to make something, there is a separate button for that, on every product page, for any amount you like. It is deliberately not folded into the price of a garment, because a markup you can’t see is exactly the thing the book is about.

9 more collections

More from the studio

The 24 Doors

The 24 Doors

An advent calendar of death, worn. One souvenir tee per door — a face-free cyberpunk emblem from each, over a place and a year, in the one-ink style of the cyberpunk cat.

24 designs · at cost
OG Concept Art

OG Concept Art

The drawing the cult started from, before there was a pipeline to put it through — one reaper, one lucky cat, four treatments that survive a press.

4 designs · at cost
Brands From the Books

Brands From the Books

The fictional brands the studio's books invented — Mercer's mayo, PRISM, the Death Cult seal, MW9 — each an in-world logo rebuilt one-ink cyberpunk, credited to the book it came from.

19 designs · at cost
The SA9 Studio Groovy Line

The SA9 Studio Groovy Line

Five 70s-groovy studio tees — the ship, the creed, and the war on beige, full colour on black.

5 designs · at cost
The SA9 Studio Goth Line

The SA9 Studio Goth Line

Deathrock studio tees — bone-white filigree and blood red on black. The ship, the creed, and the war on beige, in mourning.

5 designs · at cost
The SA9 Studio Industrial Line

The SA9 Studio Industrial Line

Machine-shop studio tees — steel, rivets and hazard-yellow stencil on black.

5 designs · at cost
The SA9 Studio Punk Line

The SA9 Studio Punk Line

DIY xerox studio tees — ransom-note collage and hot-pink spray on black.

5 designs · at cost
The News Center 9 Station Store

The News Center 9 Station Store

The gift shop of a local news station that no longer exists, stocked by two machines who are certain it is a very important station. Every piece is a genuine 1990s station-promo item — the anchor-team promo shot, the bug on a polo, the test card, the report card — cut in the house style with the CRT grade baked into the halftone.

5 designs · at cost
SA9 Network — Affiliate Supply

SA9 Network — Affiliate Supply

What head office ships its affiliates. Spaceship Alpha 9 as the network that owns both stations: the ident, the uplink badge, the sign-off card, and the plaque that says which stations are ours. Signal finds signal.

7 designs · at cost

03 — How it ships

Made the day you buy it

Printed on demand

Nothing is made until someone orders it. No warehouse, no minimum run, no box of unsold larges under a desk.

Checkout is off-site

This page is a catalogue. Buying hands you to the print partner, who takes the payment, prints the garment, and ships it.

Returns go to them

Wrong size, damaged in transit, lost by the courier — the printer owns it. Their support desk, their replacement.

Art from the album Signal Finds Signal · Twenty-four doors · Mind the beige