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Austin Wood

If you're tired of romance anime about school kids afraid to hold hands, I've got good news: one of my favorite manga is getting an anime, and the main characters are exhausted adults

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Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You.

Assuming I'm not an underwater skeleton by this point, I suspect I'll still be smiling at cute romance anime when I'm 90 years old. But with age, I have admittedly become less tolerant of high school rom-com protagonists who redden like steamed lobsters at the mere thought of holding hands. We have series like Wotakoi and A Sign of Affection, but adult romance anime are in short supply. The good news is that the supply is about to get bigger: the Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You manga is getting an anime adaptation in 2026.

As Anime News Network reports, the Square Enix-published series by creator Jinushi will air next year. That is... basically all we know right now. But that's enough for me.

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