Chainsmoker Cat Episode 10 Preview Has Japan Begging for Season 2

Chainsmoker Cat's official channel dropped the preview for Episode 10, "Even Nya Enjoys the Event, Nya" — and true to the show's usual style, it barely shows anything. What it did do was remind everyone how few episodes are left, and that's what actually got people talking.

Across the 595 comments underneath, the top one (1,082 likes) is just disbelief that the season is already this close to ending. From there the section turns into a full campaign for a second season, with fans pledging to buy the source manga, buy stock in the tobacco company the whole show is a joke about, or anything else that might tip the odds.

Nobody's arguing about whether it deserves more episodes anymore — just how many they can talk the studio into.

Chainsmoker Cat's official channel dropped the preview for Episode 10, "Even Nya Enjoys the Event, Nya," and true to the show's usual style, it barely shows anything. A single line of dialogue was enough for the comment section to work out exactly which monster is about to turn up, and there's a glimpse of what looks like a side-story about Penguin trespassing somewhere, tucked in as well. None of that scene-spotting is what actually got 595 people talking, though. It's math: with the season visibly running low on episodes, the comments have turned into something closer to a campaign.

The single most-liked comment in the section — 1,082 likes — is nothing more than plain disbelief that the countdown is already this far along, and nearly everything below it reads like the opening argument of that same campaign.

From there the requests get specific fast. Buying the source manga is the obvious, practical ask — more sales, better odds. Buying stock in the tobacco company whose product basically doubles as the show's entire premise is the less practical one, and it doesn't take long for someone else in the thread to talk that idea back down to earth.

By the time the thread moves on to arguing about the show's cultural weight, the jokes stop being about personal withdrawal symptoms and start being about legacy — the kind of claim usually reserved for anime that have already run for decades, made here about a show that's ten episodes deep.

There's a quieter beat near the end, too — someone doing the actual math on how fast ten episodes have gone, staring off into the distance about it, right before somebody else lays out the single most detailed request in the entire comment section.

Whether Kodansha or Netflix actually take the hint is a separate question. But going by sheer volume of pleading alone, Season 2 already has a fully staffed, extremely motivated campaign team — one that's willing to buy stock in cigarettes to get there.