Chainsmoker Cat Faces Platform Pulls Over Drug And Tobacco Scenes
The pull shows platforms enforcing conduct rules that the broadcasting ethics body itself declined to apply, leaving the show's regional availability in the hands of distributors rather than regulators.
Reporting from 1 source: Japan Powered.
Ani-One Asia and Bahamut Animation Crazy pulled Chainsmoker Cat after a scene showing Yakuko injecting a vaccine and concerns that the smoking may violate tobacco-use prevention policies. Japan's Broadcasting Ethics & Program Improvement Organization reviewed the anime, focused on Yakuko's self-injection scene, and decided the work was within acceptable limits in terms of freedom of expression.
Two regional outlets removed the series while Japan's Broadcasting Ethics & Program Improvement Organization reviewed it, and the organization closed that review in the show's favor. The withdrawal tracks two separate triggers: a scene in which Yakuko injects what the series calls a vaccine, and the volume of on-screen smoking, which the platforms weighed against tobacco-use prevention policies.
The show's comedy is built on addiction across the apartment's beastfolk residents, Yaniko's smoking chief among them, alongside drug, alcohol, and attention fixations.
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- Japan Powered Chainsmoker Cat: Controversy, Commentary, and Censorship