Smoking Behind the Supermarket With You gets a 57-track score built for silence

The original soundtrack for “Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You,” composed by Shin Kono and Sayaka Aoki across 57 tracks, extends the anime’s approach to storytelling into its score: small gestures, sustained attention, nothing that would overwhelm the quiet it was made to serve.

The anime follows two supermarket coworkers who discover each other smoking behind the store, turning a private habit into the foundation of a slow, unhurried relationship. The series built its audience by trusting small moments — a pause, a proximity — over plot mechanics. A 57-track soundtrack is an unusually large commitment for a show of this scale, which suggests the composers worked with the same granular attention the storytelling required.

Shin Kono’s background spans anime scoring where restraint is a compositional strategy rather than a failure of ambition. The collaboration with Sayaka Aoki distributes the album’s emotional range across two voices, a choice that lets the score accompany the series’ tonal shifts without imposing a single personality on material that deliberately resists loud ones.

Whether the score works as a listening experience outside the show is harder to predict. Music engineered to vanish into scenes does not always survive removal from them. Last.fm registers near-zero plays at this point, which reflects the OST’s reach among non-fans more than its quality, but also indicates that the album has not yet found an audience beyond the show’s existing community.

The “Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You” original soundtrack became available on September 9 across Spotify and major streaming platforms. Whether 57 tracks built to disappear into scenes can earn independent listeners now falls to whoever decides to play them.

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