The project Maneki Neko is focused on a lucky cat charm called the “Maneki Neko.” I observed how the superstitious and consumerist desires associated with “Neko” are derived from the same phantasmatic search for comfort—creating a talismanic image, as an extension of the imagination, to compensate for the deficiencies existing in reality and consuming the commodified image in an effort to improve your mood, rather than any practical purpose. This quest may just be a momentary illusion, but it has accumulated over time into a collective obsession. The object becomes something that the subject attaches to, worships, and feels fulfilled by. Thus, creating a cheapened idolatry, and transient addictive euphoria protects people from harm by removing them from sites of contestation.