Smoking Behind the Supermarket With You Anime Plush | Yamada Plushie, Tayama Plushie & Sasaki Plushie | 10cm

Choose your favourite character from one of anime’s most beloved slice of life romances. Select the Yamada plushie and Tayama plushie variant to bring home the dual identity supermarket worker in her adorable soft form, or go for the Sasaki plushie to add the weary, warm hearted salaryman to your shelf. Each smoking behind the supermarket plush stands at a compact 10cm, making it ideal for desk displays, shelf collections, or gifting to a fellow fan.

The Tayama / Yamada variant captures the charm of a character who is two people in one: the bright and cheerful cashier her customers adore, and the cool, pierced, punk styled smoker that Sasaki bonds with behind the store. The Sasaki stuffed toy variant, meanwhile, perfectly embodies the tired but earnest salaryman at the heart of the story. Pick the one that speaks to you.

About the Characters

Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You (known in Japanese as Super no Ura de Yani Suu Hanashi) is a manga series by Jinushi, serialised through Square Enix’s online manga platform. It was later adapted into an anime television series that aired in 2023, quickly winning over audiences with its warm, understated storytelling and its quietly compelling leads.

Yamada and Tayama are the same person, a 25 year old supermarket worker leading a quietly double life. Inside the store, she is Yamada: polite, bright, and disarmingly cheerful, the kind of cashier who genuinely makes your day better. Step around to the back alley during a smoke break and she becomes Tayama: relaxed, pierced, effortlessly punk, and completely herself. The Yamada plushie and Tayama plushie variant honours both sides of this one unforgettable character.

Sasaki is a mid 40s corporate salaryman grinding through his days on autopilot. His one real reprieve is the smoke break behind the supermarket, where he strikes up an easy friendship with the cool stranger he knows as Tayama, while inside developing feelings for the sunny cashier Yamada. He has no idea they are the same woman. The Sasaki stuffed toy captures that quiet, exhausted earnestness that made him one of the most relatable male leads in recent anime memory.

The series resonated widely for its honest, unglamorous portrait of adult working life and the small, unexpected warmth that can appear in the middle of an ordinary day. The dual identity conceit sparked significant discussion online, and the characters quickly became fan art favourites and anime plush collectible staples after the anime aired in 2023.

Product Features & Highlights

Size Guide

Variant	Height	Material	Style
Tayama / Yamada plushie	~10cm	Soft Plush	Dual identity character: cheerful cashier and punk alter ego
Sasaki plushie	~10cm	Soft Plush	Tired salaryman, warm hearted lead

Please note: measurements are approximate and may vary slightly between individual pieces due to handcrafted production.

Care Instructions

Who Is This For?

The Yamada plushie and Tayama plushie variant is for fans who felt the quiet brilliance of a character who never stops performing, yet finds one unguarded space behind a supermarket where she can just exist. The Sasaki stuffed toy is for anyone who has trudged through a long week and found unexpected comfort in a small, ordinary moment. Both are deeply earned favourites from a series that understood adult life better than most.

Whether you reach for the smoking behind the supermarket plush as a personal keepsake or a gift for a fellow fan, this slice of life anime plush is one of the few pieces of merchandise that genuinely reflects what made the characters worth caring about. A manga plush collectible this thoughtful deserves a permanent spot on the shelf.

Why Fans Love This Series

Unlike most anime driven by dramatic stakes or fantastical settings, Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You earned its audience through restraint. The quiet rhythm of Sasaki’s days, the gentle irony of the Yamada/Tayama double life, and the slow burn warmth between the leads made it a word of mouth favourite that spread rapidly through anime communities online. Fan art, clip compilations, and forum discussions kept the characters visible long after the season ended.

The Yamada plushie, Tayama plushie, and Sasaki plushie are among the few physical collectibles that honour the full emotional texture of the series, making whichever variant you choose a meaningful addition to any anime plush or manga plush collectible shelf.