Chainsmoker Cat's 'Anti-Smoking Senpai' Is Also a Monster, Fans Say

Chainsmoker Cat's official YouTube channel posted a short clip finishing off a side character billed as the show's "anti-smoking senpai" — and instead of playing as a clean moral contrast to the chain-smoking heroine, the reveal has fans calling him a second monster in the same body of work.

Across 504 comments, the most-liked reaction (3,184 likes) singles out one line from the clip — that secondhand smoke is basically assault — as its best joke, while another highly-liked comment (1,118 likes) points out that without the smoking gimmick, the show's own protagonist would just be an ordinary cat.

Chainsmoker Cat's official YouTube channel posted a short clip this week finishing off a side character the show bills as its "anti-smoking senpai" — a foil meant to stand opposite the chain-smoking heroine. The joke, going by the 504 comments underneath it, is that the contrast didn't land the way anyone expected: instead of a wholesome counterweight who makes the smoking heroine look worse by comparison, fans have decided the show just introduced a second monster wearing a completely different theme. It's the kind of bit that only works if the audience already trusts the show to undercut its own setup, and this comment section clearly does.

That's his own self-introduction, quoted straight back by a commenter, and the reaction underneath it is immediate — and not the kind of impressed the character was probably going for.

Once the thread has decided he's a monster, it doesn't take long for someone to drag real-world law into the bit — and the joke that gets the most traction is aimed at the clip's own dialogue.

Plenty of comments compliment the delivery of that one line specifically, and a few even reach for a comparison to how bluntly certain corners of the Japanese internet talk.

But the pile-on doesn't stop at the new character — it loops back around to the show's own premise, too.

Even the show's usual comic relief gets pulled into the discussion, with fans arguing about which register actually gets the biggest laughs.

• It's funny how Kansai's comebacks land better when he's not the one setting the pace.2,747 likesJPカンサイ自分のペースじゃない時の方がキレいいの面白い@よしを-d8q · 2,747 likes
• Calm, composed Kansai is the funniest version of him.633 likesJP冷静なカンサイはいっちゃんおもろい@じろ-s4r · 633 likes

By the end of the thread, the show's own cast gets the last word — and it's a line that sums up the whole joke better than any comment could.

That's the whole bit in one sentence: the show swapped the vice for a virtue and got the exact same character back. Chainsmoker Cat didn't need to give its heroine a foil so much as a mirror, and the comment section noticed immediately — the running joke isn't really about smoking at all anymore, it's about how every character this show introduces ends up on the same unhinged spectrum, habit or no habit.