Smoking Behind the Supermarket Episode 11 Review Lands on Sick Days and Rest
The review reads the episode's sick day and New Year's structure as the show tying its characters' off-hours lives to their jobs, with the closing family vignettes drawing the least praise.
Reporting from 1 source: Anime News Network.
Episode 11 of Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You follows Tayama, also known as Yamada, through a sick day that she resists taking, then shows Sasaki and Tayama each spending New Year's Day with their families. The episode aired to a community score of 4.1. The reviewer says the opening act captures workplace anxieties about rest and burdening others, and calls the closing act the weaker part.
Sasaki's end of year holiday is one of his few breaks from an overbearing job, and it lands on the grocery store's busiest stretch. He gives up on seeing Yamada at the checkout, then finds Goto shouting into a phone in the smoking area behind the market. The caller is an ailing Tayama, who gets patched through to Sasaki, and he tells her not to feel bad about the sick day because her coworkers want her to recover.
The episode's last third moves to New Year's Day with each of them at their own family's home. That closing act drew less praise than the opening, though the community score settled at 4.1.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.
Sources
- Anime News Network Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You Episode 11