スーパーの裏でヤニ吸うふたり

SMOKING BEHIND THE SUPERMARKET WITH YOU

ANIME

STATUS
COMPLETE
EPISODES
12
RELEASE
September 24, 2026
LENGTH
24 min

DESCRIPTION

Sasaki is an overworked salaryman drifting through the corporate grind, sustained by cigarettes and the cheerful service and smile of Yamada, the clerk at his favorite supermarket. But one night after a grueling shift, he arrives late to find Yamada nowhere to be seen. With nowhere left to smoke, his spirits sink—until a pierced young woman calls out to him: “You can smoke here.”

(Source: Crunchyroll)

Note: Episodes 1-6 had an early release by ABEMA and Crunchyroll on June 3rd, 2026 in a mini-episode batch format that splits 6 episodes into 12, ahead of the TV broadcast which started on July 10th, 2026.

CAST

Yamada
Seena Hoshiki
Sasaki
Takuya Satou
Gotou
Toa Yukinari
Obata
Rikuya Yasuda
Oono
Megumi Toyoguchi
Maezawa
Youko Hikasa
Suzuki
Shinya Takahashi

Episodes (12)

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MANGA ComedySmoking Behind the Supermarket with You

MUSIC Fig Smoke

REVIEWS

mikaeil
100/100
A heartfelt romance about finding peace, connection, and beauty in the small moments of everyday life.
Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You

YaniSuu

One of my favorite romance anime from the new generation.

Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You, or simply YaniSuu as I will call it throughout this review based on its Japanese title, has become one of my favorite romance anime from the new generation that I have watched recently.

The Romance of YaniSuu

When people talk about romance anime these days, school based romances are often considered cliché. Personally, I do not think that way at all. I can enjoy ordinary romance stories because despite all their similarities, I believe they also have many differences between them. However, even though I enjoy conventional romance, I naturally have a lot of respect for romance stories that use newer or less common themes, and YaniSuu belongs to this group.

This is not simply because YaniSuu has adult characters who have jobs. Anime with adult working characters are not unusual. However, when you pay attention to other romance anime with adult characters, you can notice that many of them are actually similar to school based romances in several ways.

This is not because these anime portray their adult characters like children or give their stories childish themes. Rather, it comes from a certain way of designing characters that can be seen in both types of romance.

In school based romance anime, younger characters are sometimes portrayed with a more mature mindset, while still being given childish behaviors. It is almost as if the characters are designed with an adult understanding of their personalities, and then additional childish behaviors are given to them in order to make them feel younger.

In romance anime centered around adults, something surprisingly similar can happen. Even though the characters are designed with an adult mindset, childish behaviors can sometimes be added because the story wants to create a more comedic or engaging atmosphere. These behaviors help the story achieve the comedic or engaging tone that it is aiming for.

I understand the reasoning behind both approaches, and I understand why stories are designed this way. Younger people can behave in mature ways, while adults can also behave in childish ways. There is nothing strange about either of these things.

But when I compare ordinary romance anime with adult working characters to YaniSuu, I feel that YaniSuu does many things differently, and in some cases even does them better than other anime within the same genre.

Work, Life, and Romance

When YaniSuu focuses on the working lives of its characters, it is able to show a surprisingly deep and honest side of that life that many anime with working characters struggle to portray.

In many anime of this type, the two main characters are coworkers. Because of that, the way the story portrays their working lives often becomes closely tied to the interactions between the two characters. If something happens to one character and the other helps them, that situation can then be used to develop the romance between them.

Because of this, the actual experience of working and the characters' professional lives can sometimes be pushed into the background and receive very little opportunity to be explored on their own.

YaniSuu avoids this problem through one very important aspect of its setup: Yamada and Sasaki are not coworkers.

Because they work separately, the anime can focus on their professional lives independently. It can show the difficulties they experience, explore their individual working environments, and portray more realistic relationships between them and their respective coworkers.

At the same time, the story still has to find a way to bring these two characters together and create a meaningful connection between them.

And I think YaniSuu does this in the best way possible.

The Beauty of Small Things

Beyond these differences and similarities, YaniSuu is a story about enjoying the small things in life. It is about finding peace after a difficult day at work. It is about listening. It is about comforting someone. It is about building connections behind a supermarket.

YaniSuu is an anime filled with peace, funny moments, and heartfelt advice between its characters. There is something incredibly comforting about watching these people simply spend time together, talk to each other, support one another, and gradually build connections in such a simple place.

Sasaki and the Humanity of Its Characters

Speaking of advice, Sasaki is the kind of character that might make someone watching the anime think, "How can a character possibly fail to notice something this obvious?" If you have watched the anime, you know exactly what I mean. You might even find yourself thinking, "How can Sasaki possibly be this dense?"

But beyond all of that, Sasaki is a character with a lot of life experience. He is extremely kind, honest, and warm hearted, and the anime makes it very clear that Sasaki is someone who has genuinely experienced life. Sure, there are moments where he behaves in a more childish way, or moments during conversations with new people where he struggles to express exactly what he means, but I think all of these things actually make Sasaki feel more real.

And when I say that Sasaki is a character with life experience, the most important moments are when his kindness leads him to give advice to Yamada and Obata, or when the way he talks to them allows him to recognize their hard work and remind them of it, praising their efforts simply through the way he understands what they are saying.

Of course, this also comes from Sasaki's kind nature. But being able to recognize the hard work of people even when they do not explicitly talk about it, simply by understanding the way they speak, is one of the things that makes Sasaki such a kind and genuinely mature adult character.

Every character in the story adds a sense of reality to it and makes the story more engaging. Even characters such as Oono and Maezawa, who we do not get to see nearly as much as some of the others, still create genuinely enjoyable moments, especially from a comedic perspective.

Although the main focus is on Sasaki and Yamada, followed by Gotou and Obata, all of these characters can be examined through the way they are written, and I genuinely enjoyed the beauty and realism in their characterization. The way the characters support each other also makes this anime incredibly heartwarming.

The "I Wish" Category

I absolutely love the story and characters of YaniSuu, but there is a category of anime that I personally think of as the "I Wish" category. These are anime where many people say, "I really love this anime, but I wish this particular thing was not in the story," or "I wish this never happened," or "I wish this genre element was not part of the story," or "I wish the characters were not like this."

First of all, I want to make it very clear that I do not put YaniSuu into this category at all. I genuinely love everything about this story, or at the very least I understand and appreciate why everything that exists in it is there.

There is one particular element that has caused a lot of people to put YaniSuu into that category, but I do not want to directly discuss that specific subject here. What I will say is that this is something that exists in the real world, and there are people connected to it who live happy lives. It does not harm other people, and it does not harm the people involved either. It also happens after a certain stage in life, so from an ethical perspective I do not see a problem with it.

Because of that, I feel that if I complained about this particular element in fiction, I would almost be disrespecting real people who live perfectly happy lives with it. That is why I do not want to bring this subject into my discussion of YaniSuu at all.

Beyond all of this, the way a particular subject is portrayed is extremely important, and YaniSuu never presents this aspect with a sense that something is inherently wrong about it. That was all I wanted to say about this part.

Production

When it comes to the production quality of YaniSuu, we have been getting many high quality romance anime from different studios in recent years, with strong animation, character movement, directing, camera angles, and many other aspects. YaniSuu is also a genuinely high quality production, and by placing particular focus on the elements I am about to talk about, the anime manages to make almost every conversation feel engaging and visually appealing.

Direction and Storyboarding

The most important production aspect of YaniSuu for me is the storyboarding and direction of its episodes. Most of the episodes in this season were either directed by the series directors, Aoi Mori and Masato Suzuki, or had their storyboards handled by them. There were also other storyboard artists and episode directors who worked on one or two episodes, but overall, the anime had a surprisingly wide variety of visual approaches when it came to storyboarding and direction.

During dialogue scenes, especially during more important moments, the imaginary camera often moved slowly instead of remaining completely static, which prevented the scenes from becoming visually tiring. The anime also made use of Effect Backgrounds, Emotion Icons, and in some moments Wide Angle Distortion. In particular episodes and scenes, the lighting was also used extremely well.

All of this, combined with the excellent character designs, creates a very complete visual package. I especially love how realistically beautiful the characters are designed, from the way their facial lines are drawn to their clothing, as well as the chibi designs used during comedic moments. You can genuinely feel that both passion and talent went into the visual presentation of this anime.

Animation and Visual Presentation

The amount of detail in the character animation can sometimes vary depending on how much production importance a particular episode or scene received. Some moments can be extremely detailed, while others can be much simpler. However, the direction and storyboarding do a fantastic job of compensating for those differences, especially in scenes with more limited animation.

Even when the story naturally requires the anime to repeatedly use the same location as a place where the characters spend time together, the visual direction and the music, which I will talk about next, prevent those locations from ever becoming boring. Instead, they remain enjoyable and engaging throughout the story.

Music, OST, and Sound Direction

The music of YaniSuu is another aspect that I absolutely loved. The background music fits the type of story, the conversations, and the way each scene is being presented extremely well, and it makes the different scenes even more enjoyable.

When it comes to the way the anime directs its music and OSTs, there are two approaches that particularly stood out to me. The first is when a happy scene is happening and a certain background track is playing, only for that happy situation to suddenly turn into an embarrassing one. Instead of simply changing to an entirely different piece of music, the anime sometimes changes the way the existing background music is mixed so that it matches the new situation.

The second is the way the anime uses silence before a particular event, allowing an OST to begin exactly when something happens, or sometimes using silence after an event so that the scene itself has time to sink in. When the scene is comedic, that silence can also make the comedy even stronger.

All of this, combined with the excellent voice acting, the fantastic opening and ending songs, and the fact that I personally enjoyed the ending song a little more, gives YaniSuu an extremely complete musical package.

Final Thoughts

And that was my review of Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You.

I genuinely fell in love with this anime, its story, its characters, its atmosphere, and the way it finds beauty in such small moments of everyday life.

A huge thank you to the creator of the work, Jinushi, the directors Aoi Mori and Masato Suzuki, everyone at Asahi Production, and every other person who worked on this anime.

I hope that everyone who watches YaniSuu gets to enjoy this anime as much as I did.
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melamuna
90/100
Love is like a cigarette; It's addictive, intentional, and keeps you puffed for more.

I've always wondered about the question, _ __“When do people fall in love with each other?”_ __because it confused me, as if love were an exclusive byproduct of time. Two people can spend a lot of time with each other, but they don't necessarily fall in love. But what I do see is that, if people “click,” they can hang out with each other comfortably, but that's not the same as “falling in love.”
With that, I shifted the question a bit. Instead of asking, “When do people fall in love?” I asked, “How do people fall in love?” And it opened up an important lesson about love. ***
Taste, looks, and preferences change from person to person and across the decades, but it always leads to the cardinal factor of love, and that is connecting with someone. Sure, you can have deep conversations with someone consistently for weeks, with beliefs intertwined and healthy disputes, but it doesn't necessarily result in a romantic relationship.
For love isn't just something you “do” because the person just so happens to be there, but something that begins when you crave the solace that person brings as you develop a connection. Thoughts begin to surround the person, and the craving to just be with them begins to cloud your mind. Before you even know it, you unconsciously walk towards the person you love.
It's almost instinctual, which is the nature of love, but for the body to choose whoever they want to love beyond infatuation underpowers next to the love of connection.
_Because love is not something that just naturally develops, but an active process._
_Love is an escape from reality, an escape from undesired monotony into a preferred monotony._
_Love is to be with a person who pauses time in a world where the clock ticks fast._
__Because love is like a cigarette.__ It's addicting, and you have to be careful because it kills you slowly, yet that craving never leaves.
This is why the recent Summer 2026 anime Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You isn't about two characters whose cigarettes somehow tangled them together, allowing time to pass until they eventually fell for each other. Rather, it's about intentionally smoking so that they can step away from the fast-paced nature of time and simply take a pause with each other.
Even with the apparent differences in their habits, interests, and work, they still grow closer with each puff of a cigarette. Even when the topics are absolutely mundane, willingly and enjoyably sharing that mundanity in each other's company while the world moves fast is what people who seek love would ask for. ***
If you want to enjoy a cozy, laid-back romance anime, Smoking Behind The Supermarket With You is one of the best romance anime that have come out not only this year, but a stand out of the decade.
It didn't reinvent the slice of life romance genre or anything, but by focusing on adults taking a break on adulting is more than enough to be relatable for a lot of people, and it constantly reminds people that love doesn't always be a factor of time, patience, and a roller coaster ride, but love is you willingly being present for someone who does the same to you, and you and each other's world will eventually entangle. ***
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Keima1987
92/100
A quiet, heartfelt story about two people who slowly become an important part of each other's lives.

Spoiler warning: I’ve tried to keep spoilers to a minimum, but read at your own risk.

#__1. Introduction & Core Premise__ --- I honestly didn't expect this show to become one of my absolute favorite things I watched this season. When I first started it, I liked the premise well enough, but I genuinely had no idea how much I was going to end up enjoying it. On paper, two people meeting behind a supermarket to smoke together doesn't exactly sound like the kind of gripping hook that would have me eagerly waiting every single Thursday for a new episode. Yet, somehow, that is exactly what happened. I usually gravitate toward action and more intense, plot driven series, but just like *Akane-banashi* last season, my favorite show right now ended up being something completely different. It was a massive breath of fresh air, providing a quiet escape that I didn't even know I was looking for. --- #__ 2. Characters & Dynamics__ --- A huge part of why this series works so well is Sasaki. It's not that I think we are incredibly similar as people (we actually have pretty different personalities) but what I deeply related to was the specific point in life where he currently is. The heavy weight of work, the endless responsibilities, the grinding routine, and the reality of spending most of your time dealing with obligations while having less and less time for yourself. That part felt incredibly familiar and grounded. Then there's Yamada, who I ended up completely loving as a character. I really liked both sides of her, but the moments where those two distinct sides kind of met were where the writing truly shined. There was something genuinely beautiful about watching Sasaki and Yamada slowly become more comfortable around each other without either of them forcing it or making a big deal out of it. Their chemistry is built on mutual comfort rather than dramatic tension. --- #__ 3. Pacing, Narrative & Worldbuilding__ --- The absolute greatest strength of this series is that it never once seems to be in a hurry. It didn't need to constantly feed me massive romantic moments or dramatic cliffhangers to keep me interested. Sometimes they were literally just sitting around talking, smoking, or complaining about the weather, and I was still sitting at my screen with a stupid smile on my face. The episode where they were soaking their feet in a basin to beat the summer heat is a perfect example of this. Nothing particularly "important" to the plot was happening, but it took an entirely ordinary moment and made it incredibly engaging to watch. The show also handles its worldbuilding beautifully by slowly expanding its scope. Episode 10 was a fantastic change of pace because the focus shifted to show more of the supporting cast. After spending so much time in this little bubble with the main duo, it was incredibly rewarding to see that the world around them had its own little relationships, stories, and dynamics that naturally intertwine with Sasaki and Yamada's lives. --- #__ 4. Style, Atmosphere & Presentation__ --- The atmosphere of this show perfectly nails a very specific, isolated feeling, especially when it comes to the smoking aspect, which ended up meaning a lot more to me than I initially expected. I used to smoke, so some of those quiet scenes hit me on a deeply personal level. The scene in episode 9 where Sasaki wakes up around 5:30 or 6:00 in the morning and steps outside into the quiet dawn to smoke really got to me. I remember those exact moments from my own life, when everything is perfectly still, nobody else is awake, and you're just sitting there looking at nothing in particular. Even though I don't smoke anymore, I still deeply understand that feeling. Sometimes I wake up early and have a mate or a coffee before the rest of the country is awake, just sitting in the silence doing absolutely nothing for a while. The cigarette might be gone for me, but that sensation of having a few stolen minutes completely to yourself is identical. The show's presentation captures that meditative, therapeutic quietness flawlessly. --- #__ 5. Climax, Resolution & Final Impact __ --- The final episodes are where the entire season's slow build really paid off. At the beginning of the show, Sasaki and Yamada were just two strangers who happened to share a smoking spot behind a store. By the end, without any forced drama, they have become an actual, essential part of each other's daily lives. I really loved how the finale handled this evolution. Seeing them naturally support each other (done completely in their own unique ways) was such a touching resolution. Neither of them suddenly became a different person or delivered some grand, sweeping speech; they were just there for each other exactly as you'd expect them to be. It was subtle, but it was more than enough to show how deep their bond had become. I am genuinely going to miss this Thursday routine more than I expected. Twelve episodes flew by, and I got way too attached to these characters to leave them behind just yet. So yeah, I guess I'm officially reading the manga now. --- __ Final Score: 92/100 [█████████░]__
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