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A Slacker Smoking Anime, 'Yanineko,' Reportedly Tops the Charts in China
'Yanineko,' a Japanese gag anime full of chain-smoking, slacker characters and other underground humor, reportedly topped a Chinese streaming ranking — beating out Mushoku Tensei and BanG Dream! — according to a Japanese aggregator. Given China's famously strict content controls, Japanese commenters puzzled over how such a show could win there, floating theories about the 'lying flat' youth mood and doubting the ranking's legitimacy.