>Welcome to Yani’s apartment. Please don’t mind the smell. Yani is a catgirl with a seriously bad smoking habit. Every time she tries to quit, she becomes weak to the cravings and gives in almost instantly.
>Behind on her rent and unable to hold down a job, her friends and sister rally around to help her out. But when she’s using her pee to put out cigarette fires, they may just have their work cut out for them.
>Will she ever get her life together, or is she doomed to live as a chainsmoking slob forever?
>Behind on her rent and unable to hold down a job, her friends and sister rally around to help her out. But when she’s using her pee to put out cigarette fires, they may just have their work cut out for them
Immediately sold
Viktorv222026-02-01 16:25
Goddamn, the animation and artstyle is really good!
baquea2026-02-01 16:31
>catgirl
From the visual I thought that the MC was a man lol
tofzilla862026-02-01 16:37
This animation goes pretty hard for a silly gag manga
alotmorealots2026-02-02 02:36
It really, really does!! Absolutely worth clicking play on the PV, it's quite reminiscent of the Aki SoL sequence from CSM.
TheBlasphemerAmon2026-02-01 16:52
> Chikara Matsuura
Riki Matsuura
-Mr_Hollow-2026-02-01 17:29
I have never seen a more beautiful shitty apartment. Why does it make me feel nostalgic?
lordover12342026-02-02 05:40
Welcome to Kowloon i guess
EmmyWeeeb2026-02-01 17:48
Tf is this?
Emi_Ibarazakiii2026-02-01 18:42
> she’s using her pee to put out cigarette fires
[](#drool)
mosenpai2026-02-01 22:37
I usually hate smoking in anime because they just use it to try and make the character look cool, but this actually looks like something that show's it as the harm that it is.
Time_Fracture2026-02-02 02:12
Let's see.
>Taku Kimura
Assistant director at 6 episodes of A Place Further Than the Universe, also worked on Goodbye Don Glees and Drifting Home
>Takashi Aoshima
Worked on 100GF as well, another Bibury anime.
>Bibury Animation Studios
I'm interested. TQQ, Witch Watch and 100GF are nothing like this one.
alotmorealots2026-02-02 02:41
> Assistant director at 6 episodes of A Place Further Than the Universe, also worked on Goodbye Don Glees and Drifting Home
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=213252 list some additional credits of note:
* Star Wars: Visions (ONA) : Director (Tattooine Rhapsody), Storyboard (Tattooine Rhapsody)
* Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction (TV) : Storyboard (eps 8, 12), Episode Director (ep 8)
* Goodbye, Don Glees! (movie) : Storyboard, Unit Director - (I know you mentioned this, just adding in the roles)
* Kairyū to Yūbinya-san (ONA) : Director (Studio Lemon), Storyboard (Studio Lemon)
Gold-Doctor-39692026-02-01 15:59
CSM sure looks different
Kilerie2026-02-01 16:00
Such a laid back manga, love it.
Thoraxe4742026-02-01 16:01
Why does the head look pasted onto the body
Aerodynamic412026-02-01 16:17
LMAO I can't unsee it now!
LockOk51742026-02-01 16:55
It’s like they just slapped a cat sticker on a random body lol.
KenDrakebot2026-02-01 18:24
This is how people censor their faces nowadays lol
Skylahh_2026-02-01 19:56
Brutal
Amer27032026-02-01 16:23
probably drawn over a picture reference
shadowlich2026-02-01 20:02
I'm pretty sure this is actually a 3d render with cell shading. The outlines all have a perfectly equal thickness, and more tellingly, the way they switch between colors looks very automatic. Just look at the line corresponding to the mouth, there's a bit of pink outline inserted on the left side.
Not that there's anything wrong with 3d cg, I just have some experience with 3d myself and am more familiar with the tells.
Querez2026-02-01 22:34
Hm, I don't think it's 3D. I'm pretty sure the equally thick lines are just an artistic choice. If you look at the character's left foot (to our right), you can see the outline around the toes look like chicken scratch strokes, which I don't believe a 3D render with cel shading would do. I do also feel the face has a slightly uneven/flat look to it that I don't think a 3D model would have. I am definitely aware of the capabilities of 3D these days though, so it's *possible* it's 3D. I'm not convinced it is though.
JamesJason19962026-02-01 22:41
This is a very simple digital illustration. Doing this in 3D is far more time-consuming and expensive than making one digital illustration by a single artist.
Anyone with clip studio can pump out that character key art in half a day.
diacewrb2026-02-01 16:32
Yep, the MC is suppose to be a woman but it looks like a man's body.
Nickthenuker2026-02-01 16:50
That pose/posture lol
dimyo2026-02-01 16:36
The tilt angle looks uncanny.
fieew2026-02-01 16:43
Smoking may be horrific for you. But NGL is does look rad AF in anime.
Take Sanji for example 4Kids replaced his cigarette with a lollipop and it was terrible.
ShinjiArakawa2026-02-01 17:02
I can take it or leave it but imo I'll always have a preference to 'leave it'.
Except Shizuka Hiratsuka, I dont know why (we all know why).
HellspawnWeeb2026-02-01 16:47
That’s what I was going to say 😭😭😭
flybypost2026-02-01 17:02
Probably because the body looks to regular human proportioned while the face/hair have anime/manga stylisation going on. That probably also makes the torso/chest in the shadow (which would otherwise look normal) feel like it doesn't fit with the head.
mythriz2026-02-01 21:44
Just cat things
Shantotto112026-02-02 04:22
I had to check to see if this was r/Animemes for a sec…
thisisdropd2026-02-01 16:01
Are Big Tobacco involved in the anime industry? This is not the only smoking series that's set to air this year.
Ekillaa222026-02-01 16:10
Smoking is pretty big in Japan
ruralgaming2026-02-01 16:15
Yep! It is. I think the US is one of the only countries where cigarette companies have to put a cancer warning on the side of the box
Well, I learned something!
mugiwara_no_Soissie2026-02-01 16:17
All of europe and Australia too lol
Dur_Gwana2026-02-01 16:29
In the EU it's not the side of the box. It's in the front tho.
Super_Fightin_Robit2026-02-01 16:17
Hardly, and our warnings suck compared to say, Hong Kong or South Korea's.
caiusto2026-02-01 16:24
Brazil has some nasty photos
Super_Fightin_Robit2026-02-01 16:28
I can't remember which was which, but one had warnings about limp "cigarettes." The other had the photos.
All the convenience stores of the world (besides the states) kind of blur together because they're pretty consistent in a good way. (Not that I don't like the American model, but factoring well run stores, your rural community mom and pop gas stations, urban South asian family run stores, and Buc ees all are radically different.)
Hhalloush2026-02-01 16:18
Why would you think that?
ruralgaming2026-02-01 16:19
Something my father told me. Guess he was wrong
Dur_Gwana2026-02-01 16:29
Sounds just like my dad.
Talking about things he has no clue about. Like, how people live in the US, despite never even being there.
Skullfurious2026-02-01 16:19
Lol. Lmao even.
There are countries where they can't put anything besides company letters on the packaging. Pure white.
But sure, only in the US.
Ekillaa222026-02-01 16:21
Dog nah, there’s a warning but that’s it. In Canada they got pics of black lungs on the packs to scare ya away
RelativeMundane90452026-02-01 16:21
>I think the US is one of the only countries where cigarette companies have to put a cancer warning on the side of the box
If you ignore the 139 other countries that do this, it is indeed very rare
ruralgaming2026-02-01 16:24
Okay, okay. So I was wrong. I get the point. No need for Reddit to continue to downvote me into oblivion just because I was wrong about something
dakilpp2026-02-01 16:21
Ours puts gore in it
Lordy_De2026-02-01 16:26
Cool, the same in Brazil
TheLittleGinge2026-02-01 16:23
My man has traveled all the way from the US to the... US.
ruralgaming2026-02-01 16:27
Alright already, I get the damn point.
PiotrekDG2026-02-01 16:48
NZ was set to ban cigarettes completely (from certain year of birth) until a right wing goverment bribed by tobacco industry came along.
baquea2026-02-01 16:25
Way less than it used to be. The smoking rate in Japan lags about a decade behind the US, but is still trending downwards all the same. Less than 15% of Japanese adults are smokers these days.
ReXiriam2026-02-01 17:33
Hmm... How does Japan look at Vapers? Depending on the answer, I can celebrate.
abandoned_idol2026-02-01 17:59
These anime are looking to increase sales it seems.
iguanacatgirl2026-02-01 18:18
Probably a generational thing, from what I gather smoking in Japan was popular due to older generations seeing it as a way to socialize better in the workplace. But now that younger folks are joining the workforce, with much bigger information about the harm of smoking(+ a lot of smoking parents actively telling their kids not to smoke), they're probably less prone to doing so. And also, the alternatives to smoking(vapes mainly) reduce smoking people(although idk how much of a factor that is for Japan specifically)
(I'm no expert though, I'm mostly speculating based on cultural trends in my own country+my limited knowledge of Japan's work culture. If anyone has any insight supporting/disproving anything I said, please say so)
notFREEfood2026-02-01 18:41
> Less than 15% of Japanese adults are smokers these days.
This feels low based on my experience
pancakeQueue2026-02-01 16:33
You’d be surprised how much it isn’t now. Went in October and it’s not as prevalent as you would believe.
Ekillaa222026-02-01 16:49
Well hell yeah awesome to hear that
SmileyTheSmile2026-02-01 16:18
The US is lobbying for babies' access to vaping.
Japan is lobbying for cats' access to smoking.
Fascinating cultural divide.
Kadmos12026-02-01 18:32
Then, are otaku advocating for baby cat people having access to either?
qishibe2026-02-01 16:30
I feel like the dragon of dojima when i do
Jk
separation_of_powers2026-02-01 16:49
I mean, as late as the 1970s the tobacco industry was state-controlled in Japan
NeighIt2026-02-01 16:55
At least the manga is not a good look on smoking, the protagonist is pretty much 90% of the time disgusting and pathetic which is directly related to her hardcore addiction to cigarettes. The only cat character that is normal is also the only one that doesnt smoke, is an alcoholic or takes harder drugs.
If the tabacco industry was involved with anime production... this is not the one they would like to see.
Rustic_Professional2026-02-01 18:26
So the ~~anime~~ story is about smokers, alcoholics, and drug addicts who just happen to be cat people? Thanks, sounds like an easy pass.
Tblue2026-02-01 20:38
Yeah. The manga is a train wreck. In a... good? sense.
comics00262026-02-01 22:40
In that it's about a train wreck rather than the product being a train wreck?
Tblue2026-02-01 23:34
Yeah!
CT-962026-02-01 18:31
Sounds like they'd rather get behind Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You than this one.
FrozenHaystack2026-02-01 16:59
Somehow I get the feeling each year the anime industry draws 2-3 topics from a huge box and then they look among the manga and light novel what series these topic cover.
BuckeyeBentley2026-02-01 17:25
Yeah but *Smoking Behind the Supermarket With You* absolutely rules so people better keep their mouths shut and not whine about it. Tayama is unironically best girl.
bravetailor2026-02-01 21:39
I think smoking is often used as a lazy signifier for an anime/manga being more "adult" nowadays, rather than being intended as ads for smoking.
The_commonest_plant2026-02-01 16:02
Huh, though it was anime_iel for a second
zool7142026-02-01 16:02
Amazing concept. I’m sold already
mahoushyounen2026-02-01 16:02
this visual makes it look like someones oc
despairiscontagious2026-02-01 16:12
Every character is someone's OC
CrAzY-GEMU-OKAMI962026-02-01 16:16
🤯
mahoushyounen2026-02-01 16:26
true 🙏🏾
Queue_Jumping_Quack2026-02-01 16:02
Another smoking anime?
>using her pee to put out cigarette fires
Ok, I can see it will be a big hit on this sub already.
Skullfurious2026-02-01 16:18
Where are you getting this quote from lmao I almost don't believe it because it's so random
baquea2026-02-01 16:30
The synopsis that OP posted
Skullfurious2026-02-01 16:35
Oh I didn't see that
Grak472026-02-01 17:15
Gross Kitty supremacy!!!
abandoned_idol2026-02-01 18:00
Anime sure does make me say "what?" pretty often.
Emi_Ibarazakiii2026-02-01 18:41
> using her pee to put out cigarette fires
[God I wish that was me](#itsnotfair)
AppleDemolisher562026-02-01 19:17
Holy shitter anime
Obaruler2026-02-01 23:31
Purr cinema
Lodju2026-02-01 16:03
I've seen some manga panels posted about this.
Never would have thought it would get an anime.
RGBdraw2026-02-01 16:04
What the hell, sure
Weak_Season_Of_Anime2026-02-01 16:04
More smoking anime? At least this MC has 9 lives.
kingfirejet2026-02-01 16:45
Is it 9 times the lung cancer tho? 🚬🧐
Mr_Zaroc2026-02-01 18:07
But they only have one kidney
Pls dont ask me how I know... 😭
Zolo492026-02-01 18:13
We need an episode where he develops a hacking cough and thinks it might be lung cancer but it turns out to be hairballs.
IGarFieldI2026-02-02 01:07
Nah, gotta add at least a couple of deaths by asphyxiation from COPD exacerbations in there for realism.
ZealousidealOffer2552026-02-01 16:05
The design looks cute
Mr_Rock-haley2026-02-01 16:06
That's so strange to look at
I liked
SirRedtheIII2026-02-01 16:07
chainsmoker cat implies the existence of a serial vaper dog
SmileyTheSmile2026-02-01 16:19
The official term is serial vapist.
Red_thepen2026-02-01 18:39
UwU
The_walking_man_2026-02-01 16:38
Don’t forget alcoholic penguin
furculture2026-02-01 17:23
Does the dog drive a WRX?
DirectionExact312026-02-01 16:09
Heard this would get an anime announcement soon. Never thought they’d go for “realistic” backgrounds, it’s making me think of Chainsaw Man S1
Insta-watch lol
Porko_Chono2026-02-01 16:09
We've gone from Gunsmith Cats to Chainsmoker Cats. Sums up the state of the anime industry, really.
diacewrb2026-02-01 16:28
They need the big tobacco money.
Elevatorisbest2026-02-01 16:09
AOTY
1000-MAT2026-02-01 16:11
One day we'll have anime about everything you can imagine...
sarokin2026-02-01 16:15
No fucking way this is getting an adaptation 😭
I'll absolutely watch this fuckery of a show
On another note, I recommend the Manga... If you can handle slightly heavy stuff, considering it's basically a strong and visceral warning against smoking, drugs, and all it's consequences, disguised as a comedy.
detarameReddit2026-02-01 16:15
This got adapted? I run across this manga every once in a while, so I'm sort of intrigued.
HFwhy2026-02-01 16:16
You people are about to find out what “girl failure” really means.
IntroductionBest19622026-02-01 16:16
Literally anything will be an anime and yet the plots are always the exact same thing that don't capitalize on the premise at all.
SkandraeRashkae2026-02-01 16:57
Well, you'll like this one. At no point does it ever devolve it a generic slice of life; it's pretty much all in on the premise.
IDrawCopper2026-02-01 16:17
I feel like I'm being pranked
Falx19842026-02-01 16:18
Hard pass.
Ow_you_shot_me2026-02-01 19:33
I can smell this anime through the image...
I fuckin hate the smell of cigarettes, fuckin reeks.
Lunchb0xx872026-02-01 16:19
This should be fun
honhonhonhonho2026-02-01 16:21
the cat is smoking zaza
tofzilla862026-02-01 16:23
There aren't many manga that make me full on belly laugh, it's like this and Golden Kamuy. I'm fucking psyched.
dyslipidemia2026-02-01 16:23
Linia has really fallen into hard times, huh.
Admmmmi2026-02-01 16:24
Imagine a cat girl but she is an actual animal with how she acts, a filthy one, this is the anime about that.
Kazuma_Megu2026-02-01 16:25
Must be some kinda sequal to Gunsmith Cats, eh.
ZandeR6782026-02-01 16:27
I'm almost impressed. They really will make an anime about anything.
I will be there.
only_cricketz2026-02-01 16:27
Literally me
famaki_2026-02-01 16:31
Don't let me down
Relative-Initial11412026-02-01 16:33
This looks like the type of show that will either be an absolute masterpiece of the season or a complete fever dream with no in-between. im seated.
Competitive-Gold2026-02-01 16:34
Not to sounds rude but why does the head look like it was copy and pasted to the visual poster 😭😭
Riverflowsuphillz2026-02-01 16:35
Will he get lung cancer?
dimyo2026-02-01 16:37
Ughhh, barefoot on that disgusting balcony?!?
Mangobonbon2026-02-01 16:40
Out of all the silly anime ideas of the past few seasons, that is one of the more reasonable ones :D
Eskwire2026-02-01 16:41
Sakamoto is that you?
Entire_Reserve_96252026-02-01 16:42
Finally, an anime protagonist i can actually relate to. can't wait to see how they manage to make a cat smoking 20 packs a day look "aesthetic" and depressing at the same time. let’s hope the animation budget doesn't go up in smoke too.
Nickthenuker2026-02-01 16:51
Animation budget spent on cigarettes as "research" lol
jacobfrantzen622026-02-01 16:43
Does this have romance?
FarCritical2026-02-01 16:45
I'll give them credit if they actually make her meows sound raspy
NonSupportiveCup2026-02-01 16:46
Phew, that looks bad. Look at those feet. Weird head over awkward shoulders.
I guess fetish smoking content is back in or something. Gross.
Look how weird that elbow is.
HaHaBear2026-02-01 16:50
Close enough. Congrats on getting an anime, Shirakami Fubuki
Zoulogist2026-02-01 16:50
Life got tough for Seiun Sky after the Twinkle Series
IkebeDaBest992026-02-01 16:52
I thought it was Neferpitou for a moment
theEvilQuesadilla2026-02-01 16:54
Fucking disgusting
Maleficent_Shoe_6522026-02-01 17:07
MAPPA saw this and realized they forgot to animate the stress of their own animators, so they just turned them into a cat. meta.
AntaresNL2026-02-01 17:09
This is going to be great fun. Manga is pretty funny too. Don't really care about the animation quality.
I'm happy for the author, getting an anime after that whole thing with the insane mangaka sending death threats over an award ranking, must feel pretty nice for them
helloquain2026-02-01 17:55
Some manga/anime seem to exist solely because the author has a very specific kink and found out they weren't alone.
artistic-ant252026-02-01 17:55
Yesterday I was thinking about random manga that could get an anime adaptation and this was on my list.
And today, it gets an announcement. Funny 😆
WolftheLionheart2026-02-01 17:59
Wasn’t this the manga where another mangaka was harassing the creator of this series, got found out, and committed suicide?
So he harassed them, government went to release the IP they tried to pay them not to, IP got released, got found out and their manga axed then took their life a year later. And seems like harassed his exs brother and impersonated him too.
Waddlewop2026-02-01 18:16
You know how a good visual tells you what the work wants you to know about it immediately? Like here we have the filthiest balcony I’ve ever seen in an anime and a cat girl in baggy lounge clothing that exactly makes the :3 face. I can perfectly picture the vibes of this anime and the trailer confirms it. What a work of art.
Torque-A2026-02-01 18:18
The biggest thing I remember about this series is how another mangaka got arrested for sending death threats to the author of this because Yani got an anime and theirs didn’t
secret_tsukasa2026-02-01 18:25
setting back the anti-tobacco ad campaign -20 years
Emi_Ibarazakiii2026-02-01 18:40
It's funny how (in some other thread few days ago) people were joking about BigSmoke sponsoring anime because we're getting more and more smokers in anime....
It might not just be a joke after all
[](#flustered)
Revo_Gap5562026-02-01 19:35
Pitou reincarnated as a chainsmoker
_heyb0ss2026-02-01 20:47
we really running out of ideas huh
Sincityutopia2026-02-02 00:01
I'd take this over sloppy embarrassing isekai-adjacent power fantasy any day.
Kiboune2026-02-01 21:17
What...
NocandNC2026-02-01 22:49
Fuck all the nonsmoking neighbours wanting to enjoy their patios I guess.
SamuraiDDD2026-02-01 22:52
My mouth was agape seeing that this is getting an adaptation but I'm not mad lol
CyonHal2026-02-01 23:11
The smoking lobby in japan is going CRAZY on anime lately.
International-Bed8052026-02-02 01:32
You’ll have a simple concept like this and the author will make it into a thought provoking series
CandusManus2026-02-02 03:59
At some point they must be fucking with us.
reg_panda2026-02-02 08:27
where is slowed down eastern european doomer music
Commentaires
>Welcome to Yani’s apartment. Please don’t mind the smell. Yani is a catgirl with a seriously bad smoking habit. Every time she tries to quit, she becomes weak to the cravings and gives in almost instantly.
>Behind on her rent and unable to hold down a job, her friends and sister rally around to help her out. But when she’s using her pee to put out cigarette fires, they may just have their work cut out for them.
>Will she ever get her life together, or is she doomed to live as a chainsmoking slob forever?
[Seven Seas](https://sevenseasentertainment.com/series/chainsmoker-cat/)
Director: Taku Kimura
Screenplay: Takashi Aoshima
Character Design: Riki Matsuura
Music: Keiichi Suzuki
Animation production: Bibury Animation Studios
Yuko Natsuyoshi as Yani Neko
PV: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tfxuLFVu7o](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tfxuLFVu7o)
[https://yanineko-anime.com/](https://yanineko-anime.com/)
Immediately sold
From the visual I thought that the MC was a man lol
Riki Matsuura
[](#drool)
>Taku Kimura
Assistant director at 6 episodes of A Place Further Than the Universe, also worked on Goodbye Don Glees and Drifting Home
>Takashi Aoshima
Worked on 100GF as well, another Bibury anime.
>Bibury Animation Studios
I'm interested. TQQ, Witch Watch and 100GF are nothing like this one.
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=213252 list some additional credits of note:
* Star Wars: Visions (ONA) : Director (Tattooine Rhapsody), Storyboard (Tattooine Rhapsody)
* Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction (TV) : Storyboard (eps 8, 12), Episode Director (ep 8)
* Goodbye, Don Glees! (movie) : Storyboard, Unit Director - (I know you mentioned this, just adding in the roles)
* Kairyū to Yūbinya-san (ONA) : Director (Studio Lemon), Storyboard (Studio Lemon)
Not that there's anything wrong with 3d cg, I just have some experience with 3d myself and am more familiar with the tells.
Anyone with clip studio can pump out that character key art in half a day.
Take Sanji for example 4Kids replaced his cigarette with a lollipop and it was terrible.
Except Shizuka Hiratsuka, I dont know why (we all know why).
Well, I learned something!
All the convenience stores of the world (besides the states) kind of blur together because they're pretty consistent in a good way. (Not that I don't like the American model, but factoring well run stores, your rural community mom and pop gas stations, urban South asian family run stores, and Buc ees all are radically different.)
Talking about things he has no clue about. Like, how people live in the US, despite never even being there.
There are countries where they can't put anything besides company letters on the packaging. Pure white.
But sure, only in the US.
If you ignore the 139 other countries that do this, it is indeed very rare
(I'm no expert though, I'm mostly speculating based on cultural trends in my own country+my limited knowledge of Japan's work culture. If anyone has any insight supporting/disproving anything I said, please say so)
This feels low based on my experience
Japan is lobbying for cats' access to smoking.
Fascinating cultural divide.
Jk
If the tabacco industry was involved with anime production... this is not the one they would like to see.
>using her pee to put out cigarette fires
Ok, I can see it will be a big hit on this sub already.
[God I wish that was me](#itsnotfair)
Never would have thought it would get an anime.
Pls dont ask me how I know... 😭
I liked
Insta-watch lol
I'll absolutely watch this fuckery of a show
On another note, I recommend the Manga... If you can handle slightly heavy stuff, considering it's basically a strong and visceral warning against smoking, drugs, and all it's consequences, disguised as a comedy.
I fuckin hate the smell of cigarettes, fuckin reeks.
I will be there.
I guess fetish smoking content is back in or something. Gross.
Look how weird that elbow is.
We finally have an answer to Rem's question.
And today, it gets an announcement. Funny 😆
For those who TLDR
So he harassed them, government went to release the IP they tried to pay them not to, IP got released, got found out and their manga axed then took their life a year later. And seems like harassed his exs brother and impersonated him too.
It might not just be a joke after all
[](#flustered)