Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You Finale Trailer Drops — Japan Wants Season 2

The official finale trailer for Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You is out, and it's less a preview than a eulogy. Across 307 comments on the Asmik Ace channel, Japanese viewers aren't hyping the last episode so much as mourning that it's already here — the top comment (608 likes) opens with "ugh... the healing is about to end" before immediately demanding a second season.

What follows is a genuinely charming flood of loyalty: fans promising to buy the manga and the Blu-rays specifically because that's what actually convinces a production committee to greenlight more episodes, alongside a running debate over why a show this loved isn't a bigger hit.

By the time the thread gets to the jokes about outliving Sazae-san, nobody's really talking about the finale anymore.

The official finale trailer for Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You just went up on Asmik Ace's channel, and judging by the 307 comments underneath it, nobody watched it as a preview. They watched it as a countdown. The healing slow-burn about a tired salaryman and a cashier who bonds with him over cigarette breaks is about to end its first season, and the comment section reads like a going-away party for a coworker everyone genuinely liked.

That's the first comment, and it sets the entire tone. The show clearly landed for people not as a plot-driven anime but as a weekly dose of comfort, and a huge share of the replies are just variations on "please don't take this away from me."

What makes this thread stand out from the usual "we want more" pile-on is how specific people get about how to actually make that happen. This isn't just wishing into the void — commenters are trading real information about how anime production actually gets funded.

It's a small, distinctly Japanese-fandom moment: viewers coordinating their spending like a support campaign rather than just posting sad emojis. And the loyalty isn't performative — several people say they binged the entire back catalog of the manga the moment they got hooked on the show.

• “Just watching the finale trailer already gave me withdrawal symptoms 😢😢 Their feelings and kindness toward each other are so lovely I can't even put it into words ❤❤ We'll get to see them again someday, right? 🌠😃🚬”👍11⇄最終回の予告みただけでもヤニロスしてる😢😢 ふたりの気持ちと優しさが素敵すぎて、言葉にできない❤❤いつかまた、逢えるよね？🌠😃🚬— @katsuya8086 · 👍11
• “I genuinely want this smoking-break show to run forever.”👍43⇄ヤニすうはホントに永遠に続いて欲しい— @せいらん-k5h · 👍43
• “I want it to keep running forever, like Sazae-san.”👍2⇄サザエさんみたいにずっとやっててほしい— @tt9236 · 👍2

Sazae-san is the country's longest-running anime, still airing new episodes decades in — so wishing a niche two-hander about a cashier and a salaryman the same fate is either a joke or the sincerest compliment on the site. Either way, not everyone in the thread is convinced the love is universal, and that's where the one real disagreement shows up.

So the thread ends up doing two things at once: campaigning for a Season 2 and quietly explaining, to itself, why one isn't guaranteed. Nobody's actually pessimistic about it, though — the last word goes to someone treating it as a done deal.

For a trailer that's ostensibly about an ending, the comment section spends almost no time on goodbyes. It spends it on a plan — buy the discs, buy the volumes, and treat the finale less like a season finale than a fundraising pitch.