{"id":460510,"date":"2026-06-04T11:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T11:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/460510\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T11:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T11:11:08","slug":"crunchyroll-debuts-12-mini-episodes-of-smoking-behind-the-supermarket-with-you-anime-ahead-of-july-premiere-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/460510\/","title":{"rendered":"Crunchyroll Debuts 12 &#8216;Mini-Episodes&#8217; of Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You Anime Ahead of July Premiere &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" alt=\"smokingbehindthesupermarketwithyou-kv-2x3-2000x3000-copyright-en-us.png\" border=\"1\" src=\"\/thumbnails\/max300x600\/cms\/news.9\/238124\/smokingbehindthesupermarketwithyou-kv-2x3-2000x3000-copyright-en-us.png.jpg\" class=\"lazyload\"\/>Image courtesy of Crunchyroll<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9\u5730\u4e3b\uff0fSQUARE ENIX\u30fb\u300c\u30e4\u30cb\u3059\u3046\u300d\u88fd\u4f5c\u59d4\u54e1\u4f1a \u00a9Jinushi\/SQUARE ENIX<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=7606\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crunchyroll<\/a> added the first 12 mini-episodes of\u00a0the television <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2025-07-18\/smoking-behind-the-supermarket-with-you-manga-gets-tv-anime-in-2026\/.226795\" data-pasted=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">anime<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=232302\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jinushi<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=37088\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/manga.php?id=26722\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Super no Ura de Yani S\u016b Futari<\/a>) manga on Wednesday. Each episode is 10 minutes long and together they present episodes 1-6 of the anime in &#8220;chronological order.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Crunchyroll&#8217;s debut of the episodes corresponds with the anime&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2026-03-28\/smoking-behind-the-supermarket-with-you-anime-new-video-unveils-staff-theme-songs\/.235850\" data-pasted=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">limited<\/a> advance streaming on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=23437\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABEMA<\/a> streaming service in Japan, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2026-04-27\/smoking-behind-the-supermarket-with-you-anime-reveals-4-more-cast-members-june-3-limited-advance-\/.236842\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">debuted<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The anime will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2026-01-15\/smoking-behind-the-supermarket-with-you-anime-teaser-reveals-its-studio-july-debut\/.233130\" data-pasted=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">premiere<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=552\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TBS<\/a> and 27 other channels in July and will air every Thursday at 11:56 p.m. JST. Crunchyroll is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2026-04-27\/crunchyroll-to-stream-smoking-behind-the-supermarket-with-you-4-more-2026-anime-reveals-english-dub-\/.236806\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">streaming<\/a> the anime in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, CIS, and India.<\/p>\n<p data-pasted=\"true\">The anime stars:<\/p>\n<p data-pasted=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=104320\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tadato Suzuki<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=27415\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gushing Over Magical Girls<\/a>) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=151552\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aoi Mori<\/a> (Gushing Over Magical Girls, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=32649\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Teogonia<\/a> episode director) are directing the anime at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=184\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Asahi Production<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=65666\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mio Inoue<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=31611\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A Mangaka&#8217;s Weirdly Wonderful Workplace<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=34182\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My Awkward Senpai<\/a>) is in charge of series scripts, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=222905\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yasuka \u014ctaki<\/a> (Gushing Over Magical Girls, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=25580\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A Galaxy Next Door<\/a>) is designing the characters. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=108834\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shin K\u014dno<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=19487\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=22338\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arte<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=26399\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Revenger<\/a> theme song arrangement) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=207922\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sayaka Aoki<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=24807\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">I&#8217;m the Villainess, So I&#8217;m Taming the Final Boss<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=23918\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Girlfriend, Girlfriend<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=34273\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Water Magician<\/a>) are composing the music, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=123180\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">K\u014dhei Yoshida<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=26147\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dark Gathering<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=38019\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Killed Again, Mr. Detective?<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=34655\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A Star Brighter Than the Sun<\/a>) is the sound director.<\/p>\n<p>The rock band <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=222872\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ZUTOMAYO<\/a> is performing the anime&#8217;s opening theme song. Musician <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=245064\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">imase<\/a> performs the ending theme song &#8220;Fiction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-pasted=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=23078\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manga UP! Global<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2023-04-03\/manga-up-adds-when-i-tried-strengthening-a-rusty-sword-smoking-behind-the-supermarket-with-you-more-\/.196744\" data-pasted=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">added<\/a> the manga in April 2023 and describes the story:<\/p>\n<p>Meet Sasaki, an overworked, middle-aged office worker. His days are marked only by the passing of more unrewarding corporate drudgery. Smoking helps take the edge off, but other than that, the only bright spot of his day is when he goes to the nearby supermarket and sees Yamada&#8217;s smiling face. So, one evening after yet another exhausting day, he heads to the supermarket to find he missed Yamada&#8217;s shift. Dejected, he decides to go find a smoking area but discovers there isn&#8217;t one to be found. Just as he&#8217;s about to leave, a girl in a biker jacket named Tayama asks him to join her at a secret smoking area!<\/p>\n<p>Jinushi launched the manga on X\/Twitter in March 2022, and the series then began serialization in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=1998\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Square Enix<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/manga.php?id=19739\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Big Gangan<\/a> magazine in August 2022. Square Enix shipped the eighth compiled book volume of the manga on January 23.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=19069\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Square Enix Manga &amp; Books<\/a> began <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2023-07-01\/square-enix-manga-and-books-reveals-final-fantasy-books-new-manga-licenses-including-the-angel-next-\/.199837\" data-pasted=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">releasing<\/a> the manga in English in February 2024. The company willl ship the manga&#8217;s seventh volume on July 7. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=22121\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Comikey<\/a> also began <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2023-05-22\/comikey-licenses-peppe-endo-manga-12-more-square-enix-titles\/.198282\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">releasing<\/a> the manga in English digitally in May 2023. The manga is also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2024-01-05\/bookwalker-adds-the-amazing-village-creator-the-6th-loop-100-more-titles-from-square-enix\/.205916\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">available<\/a> in English on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=15246\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BookWalker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The manga <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2023-03-27\/minoru-toyoda-kore-kaite-shine-manga-wins-16th-manga-taisho-awards\/.196170\" data-pasted=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">won<\/a> eighth place in the 16th Manga Taisho awards in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Press release<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image courtesy of Crunchyroll \u00a9\u5730\u4e3b\uff0fSQUARE ENIX\u30fb\u300c\u30e4\u30cb\u3059\u3046\u300d\u88fd\u4f5c\u59d4\u54e1\u4f1a \u00a9Jinushi\/SQUARE ENIX Crunchyroll added the first 12 mini-episodes of\u00a0the television anime of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-460510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}