Smoking Behind the Supermarket With You Episode 9 Puts a Marriage Rumor in Play
The episode uses a potential marriage reveal to test Yamada's true feelings, marking a direct turn from the series' usual long-distance miscommunication about Sasaki's dual identity.
Reporting from 1 source: Beneath the Tangles.
Episode nine of Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You spends its full runtime on miscommunication, as chief Maezawa presents solid evidence that Sasaki may be married. The story works to convince both Yamada and the audience that Sasaki might not be single, while the B-side has Tamaya and Sasaki discussing his Mie dialect and the past.
Episode nine of Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You devotes its entire story to miscommunication, a shift for a series that has so far kept the gap between Sasaki's identity and his secret hero persona at a distance. The episode's central gambit is a claim from chief Maezawa, backed by evidence she considers solid, that Sasaki is already married.
The review calls the episode one of the weaker entries so far, but finds its real strength in how it handles smoking itself. A scene where the four supermarket girls talk over drinks, and Sasaki's own reasoning that his health is fine so he will keep smoking, get more romanticized treatment than usual. The reviewer notes the show's 2026 setting carries an uncomfortable weight that it would not have had decades earlier, and credits the series with resetting a cultural attitude toward smokers.
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