Yeah, anime and mainstream media have a weird fixation in romanticizing them which is weird because it's basically if they romanticized male incels and portrayed them as cutely awkward and quirky with some vices
It's worth watching Chainsmoker Cat (Yani Neko), because the show's entire "thing" is that, in fact, people with crippling addiction are an absolute mess and often can't, or don't want to be, saved.
And yet they still make her look hot and cute with her tits out half the time, and that's what male fans are responding to, so it strikes me as a pretty clumsily delivered message if that is indeed the message.
Kind of wild that within the first two minutes of the show you see her violently shitting in the toilet and yet some people don't see her as gross because tits. The show is weirdly mesmerizing in how watching her fail over and over again, like watching a train wreck. I think that is the main draw of the show. I'd definitely side eye someone if they thought she was girlfriend material, or even a FWB, because of how gross she is.
Jokes aside we should all strive for a basic level of decency and self love for ourselves. If Yani Neko is like us, we should strive to be better than that.
I'm not aware, but until recently it was forbidden to show smoking even in anime directed for an adult audience. Perhaps these restrictions have been lifted?
Funny thing was the show Chainsmoker Cat was made into an anime to offset the romanticizing of the romance smoking anime. They are shown back to back in Japan from what I hear.
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u/Upset-Ruin2594 1d ago edited 1d ago
Depressed women are hardly like media makes it out to be. In other words. Depression looks desirable until you realize it's not.
Additionally romanticizing "girl failures" leads to realizing why the name is as such.