Maneki Mania: Lucky Cat Idle

Maneki Mania is a kawaii incremental set in a lucky cat shrine. You pet the cat, koban pop out, and the shrine grows around you.

THE LOOP
Pet, charge, spin, upgrade. Tap the lucky cat and koban pop out, a gold number and confetti on every touch. Pets also charge the fortune meter, and one pet never fills more than a third of it, so a spin is always earned. Fill the bar, the lever lights up, and you pull it yourself until a cat paw starts pulling it for you. Spend the koban on the upgrade tree any time, then come back to the cat with better numbers.

CHARM SLOTS
The machine starts at three reels and grows to eight. Pairs pay, three of a kind pays five times a pair, and every extra matching reel pays more still. The top prize is a full board of koban, the rarest symbol at the start, and it lands with a jingle and a rain of coins. Payouts scale with the shrine, so the same win pays better later. You never buy a pull: you charge them by petting, and a triple or better can add a free one.

TEN LUCKY CHARMS
Ten lucky charms are collected along the way. Each one arrives at a fixed milestone of upgrades bought, in the same order every time, and every charm you own raises what the whole shrine earns. You do not pick them and you cannot miss one.

SHRINE RANKS
The shrine climbs through ten ranks, and a rank is never bought. One arrives on its own when the levels you paid for add up to the next threshold. Each rank multiplies every coin the shrine makes and shortens the meter, down to its minimum. More koi swim in the pond with every rank.

SIX MACHINES
Gachapon, pachinko, coin pusher, omikuji, roulette and slot machine. Six machines fill your collection and you never buy one. Each opens by itself when the koban you earned playing passes its mark. The capsules in the gachapon glass are a free toy: tap one and it drops.

HELPERS
Every machine brings a helper. Four of them pet the cat on their own timer: real pets that pay out of your paw power, can crit, keep your combo alive and charge the meter. The roulette crane speeds up the other helpers instead, and the koi makes your own hand hit harder. The upgrade tree holds a second cast: a kitten, a kitsune priest, a tanuki treasurer and a ryu dragon.

FORTUNE WHEEL
Every two levels you earn one ticket, and a ticket spins the wheel once. It lands on a random talent and adds a rank to it, one of twelve permanent boosts that stay on your save. You never pick the prize.

NO BETTING, NO REAL MONEY
The slots and wheel are charm machines: no real-money bets or prizes. Every pull is earned through play. On Android, ads only show in the menus, never while you play; an optional video multiplies a milestone's koban by 1.5, and one optional purchase removes the rest.

A QUIET SHRINE
Soft shrine art, paper lanterns, cherry wood and a cat that blinks back at you. No violence. Short bursts or long sessions, nothing is lost either way.