‘Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You’ series review: The sweetest nicotine fix of 2026
The article reviews the 2026 anime series 'Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You,' praising its tender exploration of metropolitan loneliness. It highlights the show's unique premise involving a salaryman and a cashier who meet in secret.
Why it matters
The review provides cultural commentary on how modern media uses specific tropes to address themes of urban isolation and corporate exhaustion.
If I had a rupee for the number of anime around smoking that also happen to be among my favourite anime of 2026, I’d have two rupees. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.
This hyper-specific Dr. Doofenshmirtz joke may not be nearly as funny as I’d initially convinced myself it was (probably even less so to my lungs), but Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You is the second, and exponentially less disgusting of those two little miracles 2026’s anime calendar has coughed up.
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