Chainsmoker Cat: Japanese Fans React to Kansai's Jokes Bombing — "It's a Miracle 'Cute' Excuses Everything"

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Japanese fan reactions (excerpted from 758)

• Pretty peaceful, compared to her usual antics.

  いつもに比べりゃだいぶ平和。

  — @樹-r1j1,484 likes

• The most peaceful scene in the show so far.

  今のところ作中で1番平和なシーン

  — @満腹は腹15分目438 likes

• Well, when your usual baseline is puking and flicking cigarette butts everywhere, sure, this looks peaceful by comparison.

  そらぁゲロ吐いたりタバコの吸い殻捨てたりする日常と比べられちゃあねぇ

  — @タイレーーーーーーツandレジドラゴ37 likes

• An amazing cat with zero flaws, except for a fatally terrible sense of comedic timing. Even her crying face is cute.

  致命的にボケのセンスがない以外は欠点ない凄いねこ 泣き顔も可愛い

  — @のっぽ-n182,011 likes

• Since when was 'the girl who broadcasts fart noises across the whole neighborhood' considered flawless?????

  町内に屁音を流すようなやつがまとも?????

  — @ラルセイ愛好家98 likes

• Nobody said 'flawless' meant 'normal' — we're safe.

  まともとは言ってないからセーフ

  — @gonzaburou_tanak53 likes

• For anyone actually from Kansai, this scene might genuinely hurt worse than dying.

  関西人にとって死ぬより辛いシーンか

  — @鈴木土下座右衛門-v7t4,338 likes

• Ugh, here comes another unfunny one, huh.

  おもんないやつ湧いとるて

  — @Tein_KUN54 likes

• I honestly love how spectacularly Kansai's jokes bomb.

  このクソほどスベり倒すカンサイが逆に好き

  — @Spark2012666 likes

• Lol, she's doing a double peace-sign pun using two 'Peace' cigarettes.

  ピース2本でダブルピースもかけてるの草

  — @まきしん-g9f2,074 likes

• Oh — it was a pun on the cigarette brand 'Peace.' My bad, I get it now.

  ピースにかけてたのかスマン

  — @isonokatsuwo2281105 likes

• Wait, you typed 'lol' — does that mean Kansai's joke actually landed on you?

  え？草って事はカンサイさんのボケで笑ったって事？

  — @friends561987 likes

• Still cracking unfunny jokes no matter how badly they land — at this point that's basically love.

  さぶくてもボケ続けるのはもはや愛。

  — @takamikami5395761 likes

• The resolution on portraying a genuinely unfunny person is scarily precise — hard to follow, drags on too long, exactly this type.

  面白くない人を再現できるの解像度高すぎる 伝わりにくい、長いんだよなこういうタイプ

  — @トボ-z5d142 likes

• Kansai's setups are so subtly confusing that they cut every punchline's impact in half. Impressive, in a way.

  カンサイの絶妙に伝わりづらい前振りのせいで面白さ半減し続けるのほんと凄い

  — @takerukobayashi23834 likes

• She literally just said 'only close family gets to see my ugly face,' then went full desperation mode by the end, lol. The dirty joke plus ugly-face combo is such a cop-out laugh, and her 'how about THIS' line is so bad it loops back around to being funny.

  直前に「変顔晒して良いのは二親等まで」って言ってたのに最後ヤケクソ過ぎて草 下ネタ×変顔も逃げの笑いだし 「これでどうじゃ」も最悪過ぎて一周回っておもろい

  — @隙を見つけては語らねばなるまい67 likes

• I love Kansai's fun, easygoing-older-sister energy.

  カンサイのノリがいいお姉さん感すき

  — @いそかぜ53 likes

• I genuinely love Kansai. She cracks herself up so easily that I just want to laugh along with her.

  カンサイマジで好き ゲラだから笑ってあげたい

  — @銀狼-g5e18 likes

• Kansai being gorgeous and yet such a disappointment comedically is the best combo.

  カンサイ、美人なのに残念なのが最高にいい😂

  — @Pachi-Kin7 likes

• Kansai, you're adorable. Just adorable, Kansai.

  カンサイ可愛いよカンサイ

  — @kルシオラ76 likes

• Over on Niconico they're getting merciless waves of 'is that a joke?' comments flooding across the screen — hilarious.

  ニコニコの方は容赦なく「は？」の弾幕やられててワロタ

  — @ISHIMIYATomoya668 likes

• Angry Yani is way too cute.

  怒ったヤニ可愛すぎる

  — @user-qk4rs8mp2l93 likes

• Yani Neko getting mad is hilarious and adorable.

  ヤニねこが怒ってるところ可愛いw😂

  — @牛ノ龍98 likes

• Yani Neko getting mad and smacking her is adorable.

  怒ってどつくヤニねこ可愛いわ

  — @アルトバイエルン25 likes

• As always: Yani-ko is cute, as long as she just stays quiet.

  やっぱヤニ子は、黙ってれば可愛い

  — @sameko-k9e282 likes

• The character who makes you think 'please, just stay strong' the hardest.

  ｢強く生きて…｣を最も感じるキャラ

  — @なえ-n6n39 likes

• That final 'nya nya nya nya nya' at the end is way too cute.

  最後のにゃにゃにゃにゃにゃ😾が可愛すぎる

  — @ぷりちゃん-f2v33 likes

• And by the way — if you DO actually laugh, she just goes 'aaand THEN, aaand THEN!' and keeps piling on more material. It's an eternal hell loop either way.

  因みにこれ、爆笑したらしたで「ほんでなほんでな！」と続きのネタをされる無間地獄

  — @comments_only0145 likes

What scene from Chainsmoker Cat are Japanese fans reacting to here?

A clip from the anime's official channel showing the character Kansai attempting a run of comedic bits that repeatedly fall flat, including a pun on the "Peace" cigarette brand paired with a double peace-sign gesture — with fans debating just how bad her comedic timing really is.

Why do commenters say the scene is "the most peaceful" one in the show?

Commenters note that compared to the show's usual chaos — vomiting, flicking cigarette butts, general mayhem — a scene of a character just bombing some jokes reads as comparatively wholesome, hence "the most peaceful scene so far."

What's the joke about Niconico in the comments?

One commenter mentions that on Niconico (a Japanese video site with scrolling "danmaku" comments), the same clip was met with a merciless wave of "is that a joke?" comments flooding across the screen — underlining just how badly the jokes landed there too.

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