Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You 07

スーパーの裏でヤニ吸うふたり [Super no Ura de Yani Suu Futari] #7

by Jinushi

An overworked salaryman and a mischievous cashier with a dual personality form an unexpected bond in this sweet-and-sour comedy!

Sasaki's rivalry with Kawakami over Tayama stirs up an unexpected realization as well as doubt for the overworked office drone. As he tries to get to know both Tayama and Yamada better, his suspicions grow... Meanwhile, a problem customer unsettles Yamada. Sasaki then reels in shock to hear Yamada is missing. He's forced to face his past and decide whether to step in during the store employees' crisis.

Genres: Manga, Romance, Slice Of Life, Contemporary, Graphic Novels, Fiction, 漫画

Kindle Edition

First published July 25, 2025

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Reviews

[Zuli]

3.5✨

[keyra]

i'm on the fence. like, on one hand, conceptually, a 45 year old man with a crush on a 24 year old cashier is bad. but is that even what this guy has going on ??? i can't be sure. okay, no, he probably does. even with that, though, the power dynamic of their relationship is enjoyably reversed, what with sasaki being pathetic. like, you never feel like it's as creepy as most might assume, because mostly it's yamada's initiation. and yeah, i enjoy a pathetic man. sasaki is like, diabolically pathetic. i feel bad how much i enjoy it. the problem, though, i think, is that yamada is kind of full of shit? there's no woman (i know) who would behave like this. it almost reads like a man's fantasy, but it's surprisingly not as annoying as most things with that problem are. maybe. most of the time. sometimes. i might have rose colored glasses on because the creator shares my admiration for the intimacy and aesthetics of smoking, which is an immediate +5000, i'm afraid? i don’t even necessarily enjoy the romance between the two, i just like the working class vibe of everything. plus, sasaki is old. and that’s comforting, because there isn’t a lot of manga that allows you to feel okay about being old. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand yeah okay yes okay yeah? yes. i like it. but don't ask me to explain it. i don't like feeling like i need to defend myself.

[Sarah]

I love weirdness

[edy]

i read up to chapter 53 so i'm all caught up now, and i'm!! losing!! my!! mind!!

[Madeleine]

I don’t know how I can wait for the next chapters🧍‍♀️

[Mark]

This story does love to move at its own pace and I would argue that there is a tighter version of this that is much closer to excellence. Still, manga does love a storyline that goes for ages, so there’s not much point complaining.

Plus, I think this volume is overall quite good as a rule. I also firmly believe that the central conceit of the story, that Sasaki has been so oblivious to Tayama and Yamada being the same person, is ridiculous. Therefore it was nice to see that mostly hit the fan.

In contorting its narrative into knots over this, it becomes a lot more clear that this isn’t just Sasaki leaning on Yamada for emotional support via a friendly ear. Yamada’s got her own issues and neither of them is very good at asking for assistance.

These are two people who don’t want to bother others with their problems, but they’ve consequently done it so much that they not only wound up withdrawn, but also avoidant to a certain extent.

Thus the two of them want to end the charade, but neither of them is quite able to muster up the strength. I’ve always been a sucker for broken people who find one another and become something better, so this worked reasonably well for me.

It doesn’t hurt that it’s very funny at the start, as last volume’s high drama slowly resolves, but not before a great joke about bounty hunting. It’s one of my favourite gags in the series.

I like the way that Yamada sticks to that deception, even when she’s being incredibly open about everything else. While the pretence may not be believable, the justification totally is. The way she describes her relationship with Sasaki is also very cute, yet also quite guarded, which feels about right for her.

Generally my problems with the story and this volume boil down to the narrative contrivances. It’s one thing to keep this secret rolling, but another when these little drama bombs keep going off. It never quite gels with what the story is best at for me. It reminds me a little of Call of the Night in that respect.

Yet the story makes the point that accepting kindness is okay and we don’t always have to be alone, which isn’t the worst message (I’m okay with stories that have ‘okay’ messaging). That part I like, but it does convey that message rather bluntly at times.

Even the flashbacks make sense here, since these are two people who are held back by past mistakes that they’re only now beginning to move on from. I wouldn’t call them necessary, but they certainly flesh things out.

It’s good. I sometimes think these volumes are a bit long and could do with a chapter less, since they often cover very similar ground repeatedly, but I’ve come to terms with what this series offers and I don’t dislike it.

3.5 stars - rounded up because I generally think it’s very well done, but I still don’t love the aforementioned contrivances and dramatics that it sometimes employs. Still a worthwhile read.

[Kelli]

he knows

[The_BookAce]

4.25/5 stars

Hallelujah that Sasaki finally knows they’re the same

[Kimberlyyyreads]

Damn it Sasaki, the fact he’s willing to wait on her even when he knows the truth 😩.

He really did lock in.

[Seher]

Mich freut es, dass es auch Mangas gibt bei dem die Storyline sich bereits in Vol. 7 weiterentwickelt und nicht erst in Vol. 29

[Maggie]

I'm anti-smoking, but pro-whatever these freaks have going on, so ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[Bear Mcbearington]

I need these two to fuck already.

[Regan Johnston]

God they're just so cute

[Cat]

Can they make out already

[juuls]

omg… he finally did it…

[Ebony]

I adore this series sooooo much. They are both so kind and funny and the burn is sooo slow. Why couldn’t I discover this series once it was finished😭

[Danielle]

This was a good volume. I liked seeing the main characters become closer and share more of themselves with each other. I really can't wait for the next volume.

[Heather D-G]

In a series distinguished by giving us the slowest of slow burns, this volume nudges us gently and checks to see if we are paying attention.
If you’ve become as used to the status quo as Yamada and Sasaki, then be warned that there’s a tremor rippling through the pages. Change is in the air.
I find it difficult not to read these volumes in one sitting and that was especially true for this one.

[Noa Seishu]

Este tomo lo ha tenido todo! Por fin una tónica mas seria y mas verdades ocultas desveladas. Me encanta como va avanzando su relación! Estaremos pendientes cuando llegue por fin la revelacion oficial🫣

[Greg Sheppard]

Just absolutely brilliant.

[Abril Roldán]

I feel like this is one of the best volumes yet! I like how Sasaki is already catching up to Yamada's lie, and I loved getting more backstory for these two.

[K]

Hmmm. I'm not convinced this was actually plotted out that carefully in advance.

Things I loved in this volume: Sasaki being dense, but not actually stupid. I'm surprised that the storyline didn't take a traditional "big reveal" route, and I'm glad that it's Sasaki putting the pieces together on his own and spending time sorting through his feelings. He's embarrassed, yeah, but - in typical Sasaki fashion - more concerned about not hurting Tayama's feelings or making her feel bad about the lie she's been stringing along all this time.

Tayama's confession was also the weirdest I've probably seen, but also so appropriate for them. I loved that concept - of him being in the weirdest corner of her heart, where even she doesn't understand why she's so drawn to him.

Also interesting that the Yamada/Tayama divide isn't an entirely new concept...while she didn't go to such elaborate lengths in the past, she's always had a private vs public persona. Even when the people at work see her in her "Tayama" self - less polished, more honest - she always hides away some of her weaknesses. Those layers have only been slipping around Sasaki, because while he's protective of her, he also doesn't try to trample over her by trying to "fix" things. He just listens, quietly and mostly without judgement, while she sorts through things on her own. And that's a really important person to have in your life.

The bits near the end were the parts I had more of an issue with, because some of it just...didn't make sense. There is absolutely zero way Yamada wouldn't remember the TWO TIMES (in addition to the one from years earlier) that he'd stepped in to protect her from a pushy customer. Yeah, she's more used to dealing with this nonsense now, and she's self-confident enough now to be more irritated that a man stepped in to help her, when she wanted to take care of herself. But she'd still remember it happening, especially when Sasaki became a regular customer right after that.

So that just feels kind of messy. Plus, it's kind of odd that Sasaki's first encounters with Yamada were in her Tayama personality - angry and outspoken and not at all the perfect, cheery cashier she's assumed all this time Sasaki admires. And it doesn't fully align with how Sasaki's been treating Yamada all this time.

And we still don't know what happened with Sasaki's job! Why is it such a big secret, 7 volumes in? Does Jinushi not actually know what happened? Now it's been two years since Sasaki moved back, instead of one, so he spent a year being Yamada's regular before he started hanging out with Tayama. And he took a 2 year leave of absence prior to that, after his boss refused to accept his resignation.

The storytelling is just getting a little bit messy now. Still, loved the relationship progression in this volume, and how interesting Sasaki is as a character. He's not just the tired, overworked salaryman we and Yamada first encountered...he's genuinely traumatized by work and forced to face his failures every day. He got a big promotion, messed it up somehow, disappointed the people he cared about, and had to return to his previous town, his old apartment (somehow still available to rent), and his previous workplace - with a boss who hates him so much specifically because of grudges held against the guy who'd taken Sasaki away to the head office.

I just really want to dig more into that part of the story, and it's so veryyyyyy slowly getting there. For now, Sasaki's decided to patiently wait for Yamada to be ready to reveal her truths, although I don't see how she's not going to realize he knows, after that whole rescue incident...

[Arianna]

Le urla di gioia che ho tirato per le scene di questo volume >>>

Parlando seriamente, per il suo genere, questo manga è una genialata!
Chiunque lo inizi lo fa piu per divertimento per la questione Tayama/Yamada, ma chi lo continua si trova davanti ad una crescita personale sia di Sasaki che di Yamada, sia del sentimento tra loro... possiamo chiamarlo amore? Non lo so, ma si sta facendo strada in me la convinzione che non finirà tutti felici e contenti... Forse non è questo lo scopo del manga? Credo che gia dall'inizio è stato messo in secondo piano una questione importante, la grande differenza di età, e nonostante le scene sempre più importanti che ci sono, mi sembra poi come se entrambi in cuor loro sanno che non sarà mai nulla di più di una conoscenza straordinaria, e quindi cercano di cogliere il meglio di ogni momento; ammetto che non mi dispiacerebbe sbagliarmi, ma differentemente da altre volte, non riesco ad immaginare loro che costruiscono un futuro... pero forse è appunto questo il senso!
Fatto sta che questo manga va oltre un semplice sentimento, c'è una crescita di entrambi, Yamada che cerca il suo posto nel mondo, e Sasaki che forse lo ritrova, forse proprio lui ha una crescita maggiore, emtrambi comunque comprendono che, in un mondo ormai frenetico, anche nella semplicità di fumare una sigaretta è possibile trovare la felicità!

Vabbe in pari con il capitolo 58 ora fissero il muro in attesa dei nuovi capitoli 🫠

[Turmawen]

I love how Sasaki is generally awkward but more sure he is in his love for Tayama, the calmer he gets in their interactions, while Tayama is the right opposite, she loves messing with him but the more she falls for him, the more erratic she gets. I think it nicely shows their age without it being weird or creepy, because Sasaki deep down knows that he's moving from "pick-up pill" appreciation to the dangerous deep feelings waters and aware of the age gap as he is, he gets more serious. Yamada on the other hand was first testing him if he was a creep, then appreciating his class, and finally detesting(?) his reserved politeness creating a sense of agitation in her character we're not used to as readers but is very much in tune of her being only 25 yo in my opinion.
There was a slight tonal change to this volume for a bit more serious overall and I think it nicely fits the fact we're comfortable with the characters in their routine and they are comfortable with each other enough to leave the surface territory of nice smoking breaks with jokes and teasing. Will I miss it? Yes. But it makes sense to make way for some character deep dive as far along in the relationship as they are.

[Othy]

This volume continues the slow burn romance, but we've passed the point where there characters have truly connected and realize their feelings. This part of a manga rom-com can become drawn out and frustrating, with both characters just nearly about to confess their feelings but holding back, usually for a joke. This manga avoids this, though not perfectly. Jinushi is still spinning out both Sasaki and Yamada's pasts and how they are growing through them, reflecting on them (sometimes alone, sometimes with one another), and how they live their own lives. This keeps the story interesting instead of just pulling on the heart strings. Yamada saying what she did to "dream Sasaki" was a little contrived, but it's one of the mainstays of manga, so I just chalk it up to being in-genre.

Altogether, this continues to be a great manga.

[Jan Gre]

Selten habe ich in meinem Leben so schnell alle verfügbaren Bände eines Werkes nicht einfach sondern doppelt durchgelesen.

Jinushi gelingt es, in mittlerweile sieben in Deutschland verfügbaren Bänden eine wundervolle Geschichte zweier Menschen zu erzählen, die einerseits auf den ersten Blick unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten und andererseits eine tiefe innere Verbindung haben.

Mit einer fast schon sarkastisch plumpen und sympathisch selbstironischen Grundprämisse startend, die Futter für viele gute Gags war und vermutlich auf den Start als Webnovel bei Twitter zurückgeht, überzeugt Smoking Behind The Supermarket mit einer dezenten und ergreifenden Charakterentwicklung der zwei Hauptfiguren.

Ich hoffe auf einen guten Abschluss in naher Zukunft und freue mich darauf, weiter dran zu bleiben! :)

[Cassandra]

The pacing of the stories can feel a bit slow sometimes but I love this series. I love pathetic middle aged men. It is my favorite kind of man and Yamada has got herself one. He is willing to always make sure she is comfortable first and foremost?

I don't mind the age different in anyway here cause they are both firmly adults and very much on equal footing. The relationship feels deep and has been growing for a while. This volume focuses on how both try to go out of their way to make others not worry or feel obligated to them, that they end up avoiding situations to grow closer and open up to people.

5/6 stars Not enough smoking for me which I miss everyday of my life and when AI takes over I am gonna smoke 30 packs a day cause why not.

[madeline]

I love the slow burn, but the author refusing to come clean about the events of the characters' pasts is really started to damage the clarity of the narrative as a whole. They can't keep referencing the past with such vague platitude-style declarations and expect me to grasp what's going on. This is honestly a narrative choice I really despise, but it hasn't been very egregious until now. In previous volumes, the purposeful omission seemed fair as they were waiting for the right moment to reveal, but now its just getting stupid and dragging on. I adore these characters and this narrative, so its a shame to see it tripping itself up like this.

[Anna M.]

I'm not usually into romance or slice-of-life anime/manga, but this series attracted me through its sheer title, and I've been hooked up since the first mini-episode of the anime. Since I couldn't wait for the full-length episodes to be released, I got started on the manga, and it's absolutely become a comfort read for me. It's so refreshing to see a simple and wholesome relationship bloom between two normal adults, peppered with charismatic side-characters. This series portrays everyday life with a stark sincerity, with all its mundanity and hardships, but also in all its beauty.

[Sandra]

Endlich, wir haben ENDLICH Plot-Development! Und ein richtig schöner. Ich war zuerst ein wenig unsicher, weil wieder das Thema unangenehme Kunden auftaucht, aber das wurde sehr gut gelöst, gleichzeitig kommen Sasaki und Yamada endlich mal irgendwie voran - auch nicht wirklich *snort*, aber wir haben Bewegung drin und es ist schön mal ein wenig mehr Gedanken zu ihrer ganzen beziehung zueinander zu lesen.

(und kawa kam auch wenig vor, glücklicherweise)