- Epileptic Trees: The restaurant is called "Wildcat House", and "cathouse" is a euphemism for a brothel. This interpretation probably makes the story even scarier: the heroes might have almost been tricked into sexual slavery.
- Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory:
- Poet Tarō Yamamoto made a case that this story is an allegory for the Eat the Rich mindset.
- The story has also been interpreted as an anti-animal cruelty Aesop – the heroes display callousness about the deaths of their dogs, so they are given a taste of their own medicine by having their lives disregarded and treated as food and entertainment by random creatures in the forest.
- Fanon: Going off the Gainax Ending, the whole story has been interpreted as All Just a Dream.
- It Was His Sled: The restaurant kills and eats its customers (and may or may not even exist). Many cover illustrations for the story straight-up give this plot twist away (with huge hungry cats waiting behind the building and whatnot) and have a scary art style.
- Nightmare Fuel: Being tricked into preparing yourself as food. No wonder the protagonists never recover from this.
- What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: This is a horror story about a man-eater hideout masquerading as a restaurant, and it's published in a children's anthology.
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