Smoking Behind The Supermarket With You Anime Explained: Story, Release Date & Why It Has A Perfect Rating

Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You anime featuring Sasaki and Yamada — Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You Main Visual By ©Jinushi/SQUARE ENIX/”Yanisu” Production Committee
©Jinushi/SQUARE ENIX

One such anime which has got a perfect 5 star rating is Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You (Super no Ura de Yani Suu Futari). This anime is based on slice of life romance and comedy. This anime is made by Asahi Production Studio which is known for its previous hit series Gushing Over Magical Girls (Mahou Shoujo ni Akogareto), A Galaxy Next Door (Otonari ni Ginga), Peach Boy Riverside. The anime is directed by Masato Suzuki and Aoi Mori. who are known for their high energy humor. Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You (known in Japanese as Super no Ura de Yani Suu Futari) is an anime based on the manga of the same name.

Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You Anime Manga Origin and Success Story

This manga has been created by a guy named Jinushi. Till now 8 Voulmes of this manga have been released and season 1 of the series totals 35-40. The chapter will cover Jinushi first drew a short independently drawn manga/webcomic and posted it on his personal Twitter account on March 9, 2022. The interesting thing is that initially the name of this series was not Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You (known in Japanese as Super no Ura de Yani Suu Futari), but it was titled “Super no Ura de Yani Suu Hanashi” (A Story About Smoking at the Back of a Supermarket).

This small webcomic became so famous on Twitter that the post got 2.5 million likes, which was a huge achievement for Jinushi. When many people started following this series, some major entertainment publisher Square Enix entered for the license and after just 5 months the series was professionally debuted and the series started selling officially from August 25, 2022. And after some time, when people started liking the series globally as well. So Square Enix also released an English dubbed version of the webcomic in 2023 and the manga became so popular that by January 2026 the manga had sold over 3 million copies and in the meantime

Manga won major awards like

Next Manga Award (2022): Won 1st place in the web manga category
Kono Manga ga Sugoi! (2023):The manga ranked 7th in this award in the category Best Manga for Male Readers

Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You Anime Story

The story of the Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You (known in Japanese as Super no Ura de Yani Suu Futari), anime follows middle-aged office worker named Sasaki, a corporate employee who is hard working but gets tired after being overworked the whole day and he has only one way to relieve the tiredness of the whole day in which he feels a little relaxed and that is smoking. Sasaki likes to smoke after office work and it ends with the friendly smile of Yamada, who is a cashier of a supermarket, this is his daily routine.

Now one day it happens that Sasaki is not able to find Yamada, then a woman named Toyama invites him for a smoke behind the supermarket. Now Sasaki feels that he has An alternative smoking buddy has been created but the twist was that the girl named Touma is actually Yamada, which means that both Touma and Yamada are same-sex couples. Now, to know what happens in the story after this, what was Sasaki’s reaction and how can Yamada and Touma be together, you will have to watch Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You ( Super no Ura de Yani Suu Futari).

Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You Anime Release Date

Yamada and Tayama character from Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You — Yamada’s alternate persona Tayama plays a major role in the story’s emotional and comedic moments.

The first episode of the Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You ( Super no Ura de Yani Suu Futari). anime has been released on June 3, 2026 on Crunchyroll and the studio has done a very interesting thing. The studio has decided to release the first six episodes in 12 shorter episodes i.e. mini episodes and the duration of each episode will be only 10-15 minutes. Now your question may be that

Why The Studio Did This?

Then the answer is that this was a marketing stunt, and the studio released high quality short episodes so that The show went viral on social media, people liked the show and because of this the series got perfect 5 level user ratings, so it can be said that the studio’s talent worked, this is what i think not officially confirmed. but the good thing is that regular TV broadcasts will start in a normal way, like normal anime episodes are of 20-25 minutes, that will start from July 2026, a new episode will be released every week on Thursday in Japan.

Most Asked Question :-

1. Is Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You complete? No. The manga is still ongoing. As of 2026, multiple volumes have been released and the story has not officially ended.

2. How old is Sasaki from Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You? Sasaki is 45 years old

3. Do they get together in Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You? As of the current manga, Sasaki and Yamada/Tayama have developed a close relationship, but there has not been a final confirmed ending showing them officially together. The romance is a slow burn You Know.

4. How old is the girl in Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You? Yamada/Tayama is 24 years old.

5. Is there romance in Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You? Yes. It is officially categorized as a romantic comedy and slice-of-life series.

6. Do Sasaki and Yamada end up together? Currently, no final official ending has confirmed this. The relationship continues developing.

7. How old is Yamada from Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You? 24 years old

8. What is the age gap in Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You? Sasaki is 45 and Yamada is 24, creating a 21-year age gap.

9. How many volumes of Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You will there be? We Don’t Know Yet. The manga is still ongoing, and no final volume count has been announced. As of 2026, eight volumes have been released.