Animators finally get to draw what they want instead of being chained to their desk to animate the 5th Shonen with 11 overly anticipated fight scenes of the year
It doesn't hold back in its depiction of addiction and mental health. Surprise someone that struggles to find time to bathe between cigarettes lives a gross life. Not romanticizing addiction is honestly my favorite part about it, if you've ever dealt with addiction yourself you know nothing portrayed was beyond reality, albeit exaggerated for comedy.
People are pissed off cause when they say they want a depressed gf they dont actually want a truly depressed gf and are disgusted with how depression actually works
What a load of crap, I'm addicted to nicotine but I don't pick up cigarettes off of littral feces, my room and house are clean, I take a shower daily and my life is quite functional, the idea that addiction is used as a facade for this weird fetish and kink anime is such a massive cope
@MercuryMarsyいいね 32
俺の評価は50/50。sick(ヤバくてカッコいい)だし、sick(気分が悪い)でもある
I'm like 50/50 on it looks sick and it looks.. sick.
Wow at first people mock this for its name but the story is actually amazing and really showed poverty, addiction, success, and how to deal with racism properly. Unlike other people.
@KleinerGuterWolfいいね 22
主人公を見て終始「これは完全に私だ」って思わされた作品、初めてかもしれない T-T
First MC where I thought the whole time "She is literally me" T-T
As a former alcohol addict for 8 years and still a heavy smoker, I can confirm this anime is on point. And yes, the sound design is 100% accurate — not only the cheap lighter, but that lip pop after the first drag as well.
this airing at the same time as smoking behind the supermarket with you is so funny because one romanticizes smoking so much and the other shows you how awful and life-ruining an addiction it can be lmao
Landlord continues to be the best guy in the series. The only person to stop the apartment building from burning down and doesn't kick out Yani Neko for starting a damn fire. Drives to another city to pick up the resident alcoholic cat after her friends just let her wander off alone while drunk. Man is single-handedly supporting his community.
That awkward drive to Enoshima is a type of scene in anime that I would simply describe as a "vibe" scene. There's a whole genre like that called "iyashike" which means 'healing', but basically a chill or mundane slice-of-life moment that only works if you can relate to that feeling or that moment on a very self aware level. Similar to how comedy typically relies on you being familiar with the situation or context to really hit, those types of oddly specific scenarios are supposed give the viewer an "Oh yeah, this feeling is reminiscent" or "I've been in a similar situation". It's a very subtle expression of "art imitating life".
Learning this entire anime is one giant PSA about addictions is pretty clever. As someone who works in Corrections (Prison) I can say that there are real life equivalents to these characters, male and female alike! Addiction is crazy and no joke. I've seen poor fools who would literally rob their grannies if they could get money to feed their next fix, it's awful.
The fact that so many people refuse to watch this anime is ironically the entire point of the anime. Becoming addicted to substances, drugs and horrible habits will make you fall to rock bottom. Not many people want to see others who have fallen that low because they tend to live lives that are genuinely that disgusting due to their addictions. It would be weird if they showed addictions are being mild.
Most of the articles that claims Japan is dropping it over it being gross are just western journalists lying. From what I’ve seen online Japanese anime fans are mostly fine with the show, some enjoying it and some just have little opinion so it’s not nearly as hated as the claims make it out to be. Not the first time western journalists push their narrative onto the Japanese and make claims like this. It’s literally part of why Japan is starting to get fed up with our western media and the new audience who seek to over criticize and change Japanese media and anime.
A few Japanese people on X say they are dropping the anime means.... ALL OF JAPAN IS DROPPING IT! Jeez, then explain why there are cosplays all over the place, the MV for the OP theme reaching over 4.8 million views, and the manga series needing to be reprinted because it is out of stock everywhere. Yeah...
There's a moment in the story where it seems Yaku might end it from depression, and the only reason she doesn't is because Yani spent the day with her.
I may not personally be the right person to ask, because while I quit cigarettes, I exchanged it for vaping. The main reason I miss the combination of coffee and a cigarette isn't really the chemical combination of caffeine and nicotine, but the way the cigarette smoke changes the flavour profile of the coffee.
I seriously suspect that despite all the jokes about this show being the one that gets people to pick up smoking while Chainsmoker Cat is the one that gets people to quit, I strongly suspect the latter show is many times riskier for people who quit, but still get the urge to smoke from watching other people smoke in media.
Because for all that Chainsmoker Cat is disturbingly accurate in depicting how far people will go to get their fix and how disgusting smoking can be, at least Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You doesn't feature any prolonged, lovingly animated close-ups of a cigarette slowly but surely burning up a little more with every drag until it reaches the filter and you Yaniko stubs it out to light the next one.
Unlike the disgusting catgirl show that absolutely revolves around smoking and (nicotine) addiction, this show could, without too many changes, be retooled into Stimming with a Fidget Spinner Behind the Supermarket with You without meaningfully affecting the core appeal.
That said... No show that features characters actively smoking is ever going to be 100% safe.
Personally, I enjoyed the humor, but the fact that it feels like the people making this show actually cared AND were having fun with it is what gives it the quality. The subject matter is abhorrent. 8/10.
The investment in terms of resources and craft to take what is, as you said a degenerate gag manga, with such detail in the animation and characters is really amazing. There was no filler episode or Gainax style "we ran out of money here" low quality animation scenes - the quality was really quite consistent across the entire show. They definitely put some great effort into this last episode with the Hame-Landlord-Yani brawl but it didn't lead to the rest of the episode's quality suffering.
I definitely had the same reaction as Yaniko when Yaku made herself dizzy by spinning on the baseball bat and started drinking alcohol to get drunk faster.
Honestly I felt relieved after that, because every episode I'm afraid Yaku's gonna relapse. She's my favorite and I'd rather she binge alcohol for a bit (with plot armor protecting her from death) than go back to using hard stuff.
I thought it was going to be a dealbreaker because of the drugs, but I liked it a lot.
It being practically a PSA of the danger of all of their addictions is helping a lot, the show not glorifying any of their addiction as something "cool" but showing them as the terrible thing that addictions are.
Man, this is such a special show. Through its run, I've seen so many people calling it a cautionary tale (tail) but I really don't see it. It's a show about hanging out with friends, and being a fuckup together. And isn't that beautiful! Life is best lived lived, we all deserve a little hedonism now and then.
It's a bit of a shame they didn't use the full cast Nanmonee, I'd love to hear it show up in Anime Music Quiz(zes).
Here's to a Season 2!
IMO this blows Shikanoko out of the water in every possible way. While it had unhinged lunacy, it balanced that by having surprisingly human and deep moments. This show made all of these characters feel tragic while also making you laugh. Shikanoko had a few funny moments, but overall I didn't enjoy it nearly as much.
RyouBestGirlいいね 0
しかのこは後半で勢いが落ちたけど、ヤニねこは最後まで安定してた。
Shikanoko lost it's momentum in second half, while Yani Neko was consistent for the whole run.
I was really thinking she might text him or something. Just to initiate a smidge of contact outside their regular meetings. But thinking about each other at other times is a step in that direction, I suppose.
I was really thinking she might text him or something. Just to initiate a smidge of contact outside their regular meetings. But thinking about each other at other times is a step in that direction, I suppose.
6:58 I'm sure you guys have looked this up but that material is called a toner, manga and even western comic artists use them to create shadow or dark shading effects. The joke here is that she made a large extract from the middle instead of say maybe from the corners. Hence "wasteful"
Funny that a show as disgusting as this is the one doing the right thing showing how bad smoking is, i legit seen so many people watching smoking behing supermarket and saying it convinced them to start smoking, sad.
Jaduugar literally means & translates to witch/mage in Persian; the anime is based on real history & as a persian I've really liked how it has portrayed our culture & Iran in general so far (rn there are 3 episodes out) & I really like the background music & sound design as well, they're using Santur, a traditional persian instrument (it sounds kind of like a softer guitar, u can hear it in the opening scene of the trailer) anyway, hope this show continues to deliver & more people enjoy it.
some people just dont know what they sign up to when they watch anime its like a parent watching a rated M game for a 10 year old but the difference is that theres no rating on anime to warn people unless you read summaries maybe but to me if your a anime viewer you should expect wierdness and at times its not for us so leaving it alone is the better choice
I thought it was going to be a dealbreaker because of the drugs, but I liked it a lot.
It being practically a PSA of the danger of all of their addictions is helping a lot, the show not glorifying any of their addiction as something "cool" but showing them as the terrible thing that addictions are.
Yeah, everyone seems to be obsessed with the "shock factor" comedy but they seem to be missing the more subtle actually important aspects of it like the dead-end lifestyles that the catpeople are forced to lead and the utter poverty that they live in with no hope for anything better.
It's a show that is making a social statement, its not just a mindless distasteful comedy like people seem to be writing it off as