Haven't seen this and i have no desire. Smoking is often romanticized and sexualized. It's sold to the people under the guise of looking cool or something you do after fucking. Also i've seen it in movies that smokers are often doing it in public too and they don't care.
At least society encouraged people to congregate around others smokers and away from everyone else. Vapers just get right up to you and breath sugar air in your face.
I really enjoyed it an I'm looking forward to the second half of the season. It should be noted that Kowloon Generic Romance is very much a psychological/sci-fi anime, whereas Smoking Behind the Supermarket has none of that. It's very much a 'two adult strangers form a bond through shared happenstance' romance anime, with no fantastical elements whatsoever.
I would personally say it's much closer to Catch Me at the Ballpark! in a lot of ways. The male MC is a salaryman who is beaten down by his job and seeks to unwind via some pastime, where he meets basically anime-manic-pixie-dreamgirl and they keep ending up in close proximity and eventually bond as friends and then as more. Ballpark! has a much larger extended cast and doesn't just focus on the two leads, and the overall story about the baseball team is actually really interesting and fun, and I don't even care about baseball or sports at all. In Smoking, the MC and the main girl keep ending up smoking together behind the grocery store and sharing more about their lives and getting closer, and in Ballpark the MC keeps getting served by a bubbly blonde gyuaru beer-girl at the ballpark, but in each case the strangers to friends to more progress is slow, but very enjoyable. And unlike Kowloon, there isn't some greater plot at work. It's just enjoyable adult-romance slice of life.
If you're into romcom anime that isn't about high schoolers and has adults that actually act like adults, another absolutely fantastic one is Crush at Work. In that one, the story actually begins with the couple already dating and just being together. All three anime are very comfortable and enjoyable, without all the love-triangles, misunderstandings, manufactured drama, and on-the-nose tropes you get from high school romcom anime.
misunderstandings, manufactured drama, and on-the-nose tropes you get from high school romcom anime.
If you want the middle ground, The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague. Mature adult characters and more reserved, but with some of the the apprehension and cluelessness you'd expect from a first-time romance.
Normally I'd be all over this one? But I have way too many shows lined up already.
Yani Neko is too adorable! A chain-smoking catgirl who is lazy, dirty and stupid. I love her already! She's really a slave to tobacco, it's beyond funny.
Neko means cat obviously. Yani apparently sounds like a slang word for tobacco... so she's "tobacco cat" 😺 The English version of the name for the show is "Chain-smoking Cat".
I hate smokers, i hate big tobacco, i hate the stench and i hate the smoking propaganda
Good for you.
Can't say I've seen any smoking propaganda in a long time, in fact the opposite. Would you consider this anime to be propaganda?
Haven't seen this and i have no desire. Smoking is often romanticized and sexualized. It's sold to the people under the guise of looking cool or something you do after fucking. Also i've seen it in movies that smokers are often doing it in public too and they don't care.
So you didn't watch any of it and just blindly assumed it was a Marlboro ad? Holy fuck you are goybrained.
At least society encouraged people to congregate around others smokers and away from everyone else. Vapers just get right up to you and breath sugar air in your face.
You'll just love Yani Neko for sure! 😉
Begone Judas, i already chanced upon it. Awful.
I really enjoyed it an I'm looking forward to the second half of the season. It should be noted that Kowloon Generic Romance is very much a psychological/sci-fi anime, whereas Smoking Behind the Supermarket has none of that. It's very much a 'two adult strangers form a bond through shared happenstance' romance anime, with no fantastical elements whatsoever.
I would personally say it's much closer to Catch Me at the Ballpark! in a lot of ways. The male MC is a salaryman who is beaten down by his job and seeks to unwind via some pastime, where he meets basically anime-manic-pixie-dreamgirl and they keep ending up in close proximity and eventually bond as friends and then as more. Ballpark! has a much larger extended cast and doesn't just focus on the two leads, and the overall story about the baseball team is actually really interesting and fun, and I don't even care about baseball or sports at all. In Smoking, the MC and the main girl keep ending up smoking together behind the grocery store and sharing more about their lives and getting closer, and in Ballpark the MC keeps getting served by a bubbly blonde gyuaru beer-girl at the ballpark, but in each case the strangers to friends to more progress is slow, but very enjoyable. And unlike Kowloon, there isn't some greater plot at work. It's just enjoyable adult-romance slice of life.
If you're into romcom anime that isn't about high schoolers and has adults that actually act like adults, another absolutely fantastic one is Crush at Work. In that one, the story actually begins with the couple already dating and just being together. All three anime are very comfortable and enjoyable, without all the love-triangles, misunderstandings, manufactured drama, and on-the-nose tropes you get from high school romcom anime.
Underrated.
If you want the middle ground, The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague. Mature adult characters and more reserved, but with some of the the apprehension and cluelessness you'd expect from a first-time romance.
I should start smoking.
This is an entirely organic and independent personal decision and is in no way influenced by my media consumption.
Normally I'd be all over this one? But I have way too many shows lined up already.
Yani Neko is too adorable! A chain-smoking catgirl who is lazy, dirty and stupid. I love her already! She's really a slave to tobacco, it's beyond funny.
Neko means cat obviously. Yani apparently sounds like a slang word for tobacco... so she's "tobacco cat" 😺 The English version of the name for the show is "Chain-smoking Cat".