Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You
Oshimeter
Synopsis
At 45, salaryman Sasaki has his entire day held together by one thing: the smile of Yamada, the cashier at his local 24-hour supermarket. That's it. That's his lifeline. After getting chewed out by his boss for the hundredth time, he drags himself to the store, only to find her shift already ended. Defeated, he wanders out back looking for a spot to smoke and meets a woman named Tayama, blunt, relaxed, and nothing like the polite cashier he's used to seeing. Except she is the cashier. Yamada off the clock is a completely different person, and Sasaki has no idea. This TV series based on the seinen manga leans into something that doesn't get explored enough in anime: the gap between who people are at work and who they actually are. It's a quiet, grown-up romance between two adults who are both kind of stuck in life, and the smoking spot behind the supermarket becomes this weird little sanctuary where they can just be themselves. The pacing is slow and warm, not dramatic. If you liked the adult relationship dynamics in Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku or the gentle melancholy of Recovery of an MMO Junkie, this hits a similar frequency. It also shares some DNA with After the Rain in how it handles an age-gap setup with actual care instead of making it weird. Asahi Production is adapting it for 2026, and honestly, the premise alone earned its spot: the original webcomic won the 2022 Next Manga Award for good reason.
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This season covers Chapters 1-20 of the manga. Continue reading from Chapter 21.

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It’s a beautiful and inspiring anime in some parts. The reason I’m not giving it five stars is that you’d expect more progress, but a few times it goes in circles a bit over the same thing. Still, it doesn't happen very often.
Rasanya ini adalah anime romance yang sangat dewasa dan membumi. gak ada adegan yang menye menye. tampil sederhana dan hangat. aku suka
Alright alright, where's the juice? Not seeing much progress here, huh? And like in every anime, we just had to get the inevitable 'I have a cold, I'm so vulnerable right now' moment. I really wanted to see more progress between the main characters—it's high time they start telling each other the truth. I want action! I want a kiss! I want confessions! haha Let's see if they show us any of that in the last episode.
Sasaki-kun giving advice to the younger ones again is a 10/10. Obata's personality? Hmm, I didn't really like it, I felt it was a bit overacted, like it was a little bit too much to my liking. We didn't see Tayama in this episode 😭 so at least from what I saw, this might have been a bit of a filler episode. I think you could easily skip this chapter. Let's see what they show us in the next one, since we're almost finishing the story.
We have reached the end. The end frame focusing on the FMC was soo cute and I'm gonna miss this anime 😭😭
This is the proper series I'm rating though!(Not the min episodes). Good season, slow burn- loving the slow story build up around the MCs and slow world building with other charcters as well. Tayama's charcter design impressed me alot- her outfit, her attitude everything. Animation was good- especially when the smoke disappear into thin air! Definitely lot better than high school rom-com. 8.5/10(ED is soooo good)
Really sweet that both of them are so dense in their own way lmao. Yamada/Tayama is more aware ofc but the fact that she doesnt recognise sasaki from her past (´ε` ). Dense-saki frfr
Suprising their end with pretty dramatic tension. with Sasaki that cannot commit to see his formal senior coworker make Tayama force him to kick him out until he meet his former coworker. That a brave decision by Tayama/Yamada to do and encourage Sasaki to meet and not cheerish his moment there in Hokkaido which is satisfying to see, But pity to see Tayama not see him for a while. But In the end their meet again and tell story like how been in Hokkaido for Sasaki. For me its great entry to end this season, which feel concluded enough to see their progress until now. Hopefully this get Season 2 and we meet them again beside supermarket again.
Very chill anime to watch. Lot of "romance" thing that makes you wanna keep watching and hoping. Story is light and visual is great.
Didn't really like how it ends with no reveal of who is Tayama is. I was hoping she'll tell or atleast Sasaki confess 🥲
Grean tension
Damn, waking up at that hour? To smoke? I don't know how healthy that is, but hey, anything for the power of LOVE. Honestly, when Yamada opens up to the cashier grandma, I was right there with the old lady: 'What the hell do you expect me to reply to that? haha' I really liked the episode, I'd say I laughed quite a bit lol
When the credits rolled, I gasped bc ain't no way its gonna end without him knowing yamada is tayama. But then I realized oh theres more, but then they still didnt make him realize that, its like opening a fridge when ure hungry and see nothing 💔 however i think its still a very cute and chill series, their interactions overall js doesn't feel like its too much, js hope to see more developments soon 🥹
Lovely, plot and romantic progression. Very lovely. Just get married.
Such sweet moment that Sasaki worried about Tayama sick and give encouragement to rest and and recover, ofc thanks to Gotou as a good manager that care about their well being of theri staff (unlike Sasaki boss which pratically useless). Plus it end with meet again with Tayama and talk about winter clothes their use. Really sweet eps to see, Now one eps to see how thier warp it up these anime
i was expecting more to happen in 240 minutes bruh
I liked the episode, although sometimes it crosses my mind that it's still a potential relationship between a guy in his 40s and a 24-year-old girl. I don't know, if I were 40 or older, I wouldn't go for someone that age. But well, what do I know, maybe it's different in Japan lmao. But putting that aside, this episode was soo slow-burning, and honestly, both of their feelings just keep blooming more and more.
Tayama is increasingly—I don't know if in love, but definitely growing very fond of Sasaki—and you can see it in her eyes during their interactions. The eyes, the eyes never lie! I think it's about time she tells Sasaki the truth, because this man really needs things to be spelled out VERY DIRECTLY, haha.
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