Anime Like Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You

The only thing that gets overworked salaryman Sasaki through his day at his soul-sucking office job is the chance to see the cheerful smile of Yamada, a cashier at his local supermarket. All it takes is one smile and he is rejuvenated.

After one particularly bad day, Sasaki is disappointed to learn that Yamada’s shift ended already. Disappointed, he ends up having a smoke behind the supermarket where he meets a bold and playful woman doing the same. Introducing herself as Tayama, she is quick to call out Sasaki’s attention to her co-worker and a bond forms between them.

Now, even if Yamada isn’t working, Sasaki starts to visit the store to see if his favorite smoking friend is on shift. Yet, Tayama’s mischievousness may be more than what it seems.

After college, unsure of what to do with his life, Rikou gets a job at a convenience store.

There, he becomes visited by a high school dropout with a pet crow as well as has rekindled feelings for a senpai that visits the store one day.

This is the story of the growth of several individuals as they take their first steps into adulthood.

The Second Kowloon Walled City is a lawless city of squalor that was cobbled together over the ruins of its previously demolished predecessor. However, for its residents that live there, they find the squalor and the nostalgia that it brings endearing.

Amidst the flickering streetlights and moldy alleys is Reiko Kujirai, a 32-year-old real estate agent who has fallen in love with her co-worker, Hajime Kudo. While they get along, Kudo keeps her at an arm’s length. One day, when Kudo sleepily wakes up and kisses her, she is thrilled, only to be told that he mistook her for someone else.

After discovering they work at the same company, a gaming otaku and a fujoshi rekindle for the first time since middle school.

After some good old-fashioned after work drinks, they decide to start dating, but dating an otaku as an otaku is more difficult that one would think.

Nicoletta is on her first trip to Rome with a mission – to ruin her mother’s life after she walked out on her 15 years ago. She tracks her mother down to a restaurant, but as soon as she enters, everything changes.

She becomes enamored by the place, and one waiter in particular. Suddenly, her urge for vengeance fades and her desire to cook starts to grow.

After rejecting a confession from a girl at school because he doesn’t understand love, Kou stops going to school and starts wandering the night with insomnia.

One night, he encounters a mysterious girl who believes people that stay awake at night are dissatisfied with the way they spent their days.

Following her into the night, she brings him back to her place and suddenly starts to suck his blood. Discovering her true nature, Kou now seeks to be a vampire, but to become one, you need to make a vampire fall in love with you.

Office worker Yoshida finally worked up the courage to ask his boss out, only for her to swiftly reject him. On his way home from getting completely drunk to drown his heartbreak, he sees a high school girl sitting outside by herself late at night.

After discovering that she was a runaway, he ends up taking her home while constantly shutting down her efforts to pay for her stay with her body. Talking to her further, he discovers that she traveled for six months from Hokkaido trading sexual favors for what she needed.

While trying to figure out what to do, he puts her to work cooking and cleaning instead so she can have a place to stay.

Oniisan is a standard salaryman. However, every Monday he ends up protecting student Ai-chan on the Monday morning train commute from gropers.

Though their time together is short, they begin to learn to know more about each other. She also goes to great lengths to remove his Monday morning blues as a way of saying thanks.

Nakano is a salaryman that works for a company that greatly exploits him. He returns to home each day exhausted, and one day, returns home to find an 800-year-old fox girl has invaded his home.

She cooks, she cleans, and she states that she will heal his exhaustion with her occasionally questionable care.