Anime Profile: Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You

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Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You is a 2026 slice-of-life romance from Asahi Production, adapting Jinushi's award-winning manga. Worn down by decades of corporate life, forty-five-year-old salaryman Sasaki finds his only relief in a quiet cigarette on his smoke breaks and in the warm smile of Yamada, a cheerful young cashier at his local supermarket.

What Sasaki doesn't realize is that the polished store clerk and the scruffy fellow smoker he keeps bumping into out back are one and the same person. A gentle, understated story about small kindnesses and an unlikely connection, it began streaming as a run of ten-minute mini-episodes ahead of its July television premiere.