Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You OP: The 'Clean' Nicotine Anime

When Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You's official channel posted the TV broadcast version of its opening theme the day after Episode 1 aired, the 451 comments underneath turned into a running joke about which of this summer's two nicotine-themed anime Japanese fans actually preferred — the single most-liked comment, written in a cat's voice envious of this show's "cleaner world," pulled in 920 likes before three separate replies told it to go home.

From there the thread kept escalating the same bit: one commenter played dumb about there being any "dirty" nicotine anime out there at all, another spelled the contrast out directly, and a few people admitted the show's smoking scenes make them want a cigarette again — right up until they remember what airs immediately after it. Underneath the running gag, plenty of comments were genuinely about the music, with listeners picking apart how different this arrangement sounds from the version that circulated before the show's TV premiere.

By the end, nobody was debating the song anymore.

The night after Episode 1 of Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You aired on Japanese TV, the show's official channel posted the broadcast version of its opening theme, "Ichijiku Kemuri" ("Fig Smoke") by ZUTOMAYO. By the time the comment section settled into the hundreds, though, people weren't just talking about the song anymore. Summer 2026 happened to serve up two completely different anime built around characters who smoke, airing the exact same season, and Japanese viewers wasted absolutely no time picking a side between the two of them.

That single line ended up setting the tone for the entire thread, and it was far from the only person thinking it. Even the single most-liked comment on the whole video — written entirely from the perspective of a cat, of all things — was making the exact same joke.

• “Please, absolutely do not.”👍200⇄絶対やめてください— @体調不良な600族 · 👍200
• “Please go back home.”👍141⇄おかえりください— @イェーイイェーイ-k2j · 👍141
• “I'm begging you, stop.”👍114⇄頼むからやめてくれ— @足湯-p3x · 👍114

The bit had legs from there, and nobody involved ever bothered naming the other show out loud — the running gag worked precisely because everyone already knew exactly which cat-adjacent title they meant. Someone spelled out the contrast between the two shows more directly, and someone else tried playing dumb about the whole thing, as if the last several comments hadn't already made it obvious.

• “@yuki-mc1zc Just which cat, from which show, could you possibly mean...”👍72⇄​@yuki-mc1zcいったいどこの何ねこなんだ…— @nonononononononononononononono · 👍72

It wasn't purely bit-based, either. A few people admitted the show's smoking scenes genuinely make them want a cigarette again — right up until they remember what airs directly after it.

Underneath all the cross-show ribbing, plenty of comments were just there for the music. One listener zeroed in on how different this arrangement sounds compared to the version that had already circulated before the show's TV premiere.

• “This version's great too.”👍150⇄こっちのバージョンも良いね— @daikichi1739 · 👍150
• “I was hooked from episode 1.”👍51⇄1話で激ハマリした。— @未完の少年 · 👍51

By the end of the thread, nobody was arguing about the music anymore. The entire comment section had turned into one long inside joke about which nicotine habit they'd rather watch for twenty minutes a week, and going purely off the like counts stacked under every single dig at the competition, this show won that argument by a landslide.