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Jun 17, 2024 7:03 AM
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How do you feel about smoking characters in anime? Do you have favorite smoking scenes?
Jun 17, 2024 7:04 AM
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It's ok in anime but not in real life. Anyway, Itou Nobue from Ichigo Mashimaro is my favorite smoker.

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I don't really like smokers and smoking, but it's alright in fiction.
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Always looks cool, at least in anime.


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Jun 17, 2024 7:09 AM
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Perceived A bit more sensitively then what I would like but I think its cool and enhances the appeal and personality if its the antagonist. to be honest I like smoke breather better
Jun 17, 2024 7:12 AM
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As someone who smokes, I don't really think anything about it, it's just normal... My favorite characther who smokes tho might be Hirotaka from wotakoi, but I don't really have a favorite scene.

Jun 17, 2024 7:16 AM
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I don't mind them at all,
I think it may makes them more handsome
Jun 17, 2024 7:28 AM
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There seems to always be a type of character that smokes which is disappointing tbh. Lately it's always the down and poor drunks that are smoking which is fine but gets a bit boring. It's mostly older women, homeless or the guys trying to act intimidating that are shown in anime as smokers which is a tired trope. It would be nice to see more main characters smoking. I think smoking can add a nice aesthetic to a scene.
Jun 17, 2024 7:33 AM
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I don't like smokers in real life, but it looks great in anime.

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Jun 17, 2024 7:37 AM
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i know a certain gun girl called revy that smokes a lot.
Jun 17, 2024 7:41 AM

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How do you feel about smoking characters in anime?
I don't care because the smoke isn't real, otherwise I would never watch Anime with smoking characters =)

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Do you have favorite smoking scenes?
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Jun 17, 2024 7:55 AM

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I like Reki and Revy. They both fit the description.

Jun 17, 2024 8:11 AM
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I feel neutral, although when I see a character smoking it make me "hungry" to smoke, as I am smoker myself x)

Jun 17, 2024 9:04 AM

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Smoke effects generally look cool in art, so it looks very aesthetically pleasing in animation, but irl smokers are gross af.
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Jun 17, 2024 9:08 AM

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The Gintama ep where Hijikata can't get hold of any smokes so has to go off planet to find a smoke is my fave smoking related anime. Only issue I have is that watching chars smoke makes me want to smoke and find myself picking up a rolly.
Jun 17, 2024 9:15 AM
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Smoking is bad. In anime, it's influential so please see former sentence. lol
Jun 17, 2024 9:29 AM

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I don't like watching people smoke. Period.
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Jun 17, 2024 10:45 AM

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Don't like watching a character smoke. Cause its often a lame attempt at portraying a character as serious.

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Jun 17, 2024 12:26 PM

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I don't really like smokers and smoking, but it's alright in fiction.
Mayahuel said:
I don't really like smokers and smoking, but it's alright in fiction.


Same here as it generally looks cool in art and aesthetically pleasing in animation, but you get used to it in anime.
Jun 17, 2024 12:31 PM
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In FLCL one character was a smoker and I remember it making her character a little more interesting, so I guess it can be good for a show if it tells us something about the character
Jun 17, 2024 12:40 PM

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In real life it is stinky, but it is still sensual in a way, but it is very stinky and causes numerous health problems... Smoking scenes in anime are charming.


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Jun 17, 2024 12:42 PM
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I don't really care. Not a fan of smoking.

I remember while watching Cowboy Bebop I kept thinking how hard it was trying to appear cool with all the smoking, wow.
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It makes those I would be inclined to already find attractive and alluring even moreso, the same in anime as in all other mediums of film and television, and in regular daily life.
Jun 17, 2024 1:04 PM
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I like the smoking characters in anime. They have their own unique aesthetic and atmosphere.
Jun 17, 2024 3:54 PM
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I can't judge people who smoke/drink in real life, so I can't do the same for anime characters.
Jun 17, 2024 4:06 PM

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I'm just waiting for the day anime characters start vaping. Won't look so cool then.
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Luckily, none of the smokers in anime are underaged characters.
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Jun 18, 2024 10:32 AM

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Not a huge fan, but if it's part of their character I can accept it.
Jun 18, 2024 10:44 AM

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As someone who smokes, I don't really think anything about it, it's just normal... My favorite characther who smokes tho might be Hirotaka from wotakoi, but I don't really have a favorite scene.
@weebtoge yeah
Most of the people who romanticise smoking are the ones who never smoked themselves
Jun 18, 2024 1:10 PM

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I don't particularly like or dislike seeing it in fiction, but it tells you things about the character and can add to the show's ambiance.

In real life: huge turnoff. I've already barely survived one deadly cancer, I don't need another. Very unhealthy, expensive habit, I'll just stick stick to my caffeine addiction.
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Jun 18, 2024 6:31 PM

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Neutral it's whatever, smoking does look cooler on the screen than in real though lol
Jun 18, 2024 6:43 PM

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Funnily enough, yes I do have a favourite smoking scene, its the one where Revy a d Rock share a smoke.
Jun 18, 2024 6:46 PM

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Neutral it's whatever, smoking does look cooler on the screen than in real though lol
@Zayvex I think thats arguable.

In anime and movies, most smokers are some bad ass mafia boss or some cool ass guy. At worst its a tired adult smoking in a moody setting.

In real life, Its Jimmy from work who smokes 3 packs a day and talks about quiting constantly but never even tries to do it.
Jun 18, 2024 6:56 PM

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Ginko probably. He was at least given a good reason for it. He smokes some kind of herb, they show it in one of the episodes.
In RL I hate smoking and never once thought it looked cool. And most of the people who do it are chavs, and thus smoke terrible cheap cigarettes that stink.
Jun 18, 2024 6:56 PM

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I don't really care for it, smoking doesn't make a character cool in my eyes. But it doesn't ruin them for me.

The only smoker i really enjoy is Revy from Black Lagoon
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Jun 18, 2024 8:34 PM

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Smoking is extremely unhealth irl, but I'm not personally against it or for it in anime. Some anime directors (like Makoto Shinkai) always have at least one character who smokes, and a lot of ppl involved in anime like Hayao Miyazaki smoke as well, so I can understand why it is included sometimes.

As for my favorite smoking scene, it would probably be the one between Rey and Rock in Black Lagoon, but plenty of ppl have already mentioned that, so I'll go with the next best thing, which is my favorite scene of someone quitting smoking, from Kimagure Orange Road:

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